NC NC - Isabel Calvo Palacios, 20, Wilson, 31 July 2015 G. Parks guilty

KateB · Oct 16, 2015

Isabel has been added to NamUs.
Case Information
Status Missing
First name Isabel
Middle name Calvo
Last name Palacios
Nickname/Alias Chaveli
Date last seen July 31, 2015 00:00
Date entered 09/01/2015
Age last seen 20 to years old
Age now 20 years old
Race White
Ethnicity Hispanic/Latino
Sex Female
Height (inches) 62.0
Weight (pounds) 100.0 to 110.0
Dental Status: Dental information / charting is available and entered
DNA Status: Initial inquiry underway
Fingerprint Information Status: Fingerprint information is currently not available
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/show/30039

cvaldez1975 · Oct 27, 2015

he is seeking bail. she still has not been fond, but LE found "evidence" so im assuming maybe a large amount of blood somewhere within the house or car. they have not said. knives are his weapon of choice in the past.

http://www.wilsontimes.com/News/Feature/Story/38816250---Gregory-Parks-seeks-release-on-bond

JerseyGirl · Nov 11, 2015

Bond was raised to $1 million Monday.

Read more at http://www.wral.com/bond-raised-for...ng-wilson-woman/15073159/#lqDX87J8Xx1I8jFi.99

Parks was convicted by a Wilson County jury in 2013 on two counts of participating in the prostitution of a minor. He was released from prison after the North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned the convictions, citing lack of evidence.

He has several other previous convictions, including manslaughter and attempted first-degree and second-degree rape.

infamous.rider · Dec 13, 2016

Court Date for Parks, body still not recovered/found

cvaldez1975 · Dec 13, 2016

I was thinking about her the other day. what can he have done w her? I really wish they could find her. her family needs closure.

infamous.rider said:
Court Date for Parks, body still not recovered/found

noctilucent · May 5, 2017

There's a new court date listed: June 5, 2017. I couldn't find any other info on Isabel's case or Parks' previous court date.

borndem · May 6, 2017

I was just about to post/paste what you posted for us above. Thanks for posting it! We've been looking all over for something, anything about this for weeks.

Although it is "Superior Court" -- the arena of trials in NC Courts, it does not always mean a trial will occur on that date. Sometimes it is just an on-the-record session for discussing motions, evidence, scheduling for a trial, etc., etc. We'll see. The timing is about right for a trial, however -- it usually takes about 2 years between arrest & actual trial. Let's hope this is the real thing.

cvaldez1975 · Oct 3, 2017

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/p/palacios_isabel.html

bump this up. I always wonder where he put her. anything on courts? there is NOTHING in the media.

noctilucent · Oct 13, 2017

Pretrial motions heard in Gregory Park murder case: http://www.wilsontimes.com/stories/pretrial-motions-heard-thursday-in-wilson,98888

Gregory Parks’ attorney argued Thursday [Oct. 5] that multiple statements his client gave to police prior to his 2015 arrest in the killing of 20-year-old Isabel Calvo Palacios shouldn’t be admissible in court because his client’s constitutional rights were violated.

But prosecutors say Parks wasn’t under arrest at the time he voluntarily gave statements to police, so they weren’t required to read him his rights.

Parks, 58, will stand trial in a Pitt County courtroom Oct. 23 for the 2015 first-degree murder and kidnapping in Palacios’ disappearance. He is accused of killing the young mother on July 31, 2015, according to arrest warrants.

There's more info about the hearing and the charges against Parks in the article.

(I can't figure out how to delete the thumbnail -- I went straight to the court site, not expecting to find any coverage, and was initially just going to mention the upcoming court date, but then I saw the article.)

JerseyGirl · Nov 2, 2017

Police recount search for woman’s body

Palacios’ family, including her mother, aunts and sisters, have attended each day of the trial, which is in its second week. State crime lab officials are expected to testify Thursday.

http://www.reflector.com/Crime-and-Rescue/2017/11/02/Police-recount-search-for-Palacios-body.html

noctilucent · Nov 4, 2017

Parks murder trial: DNA tests paint grim picture
http://www.reflector.com/Crime-and-...urder-trial-DNA-tests-paint-grim-picture.html

Over the course of the past two days, jurors in the Gregory Parks first-degree murder trial have listened to testimony from state crime lab experts in blood and DNA analysis.

Wilson Police Department forensic analysts took multiple items and blood samples from various areas in Parks Wilson home, including his bedroom where prosecutors contend 20-year-old Isabel Chaveli Palacios was killed.

There were many areas of Parks' home which tested positive for blood (like a bathroom rug, a candlestick, a door frame, the bedroom's interior dead bolt lock, a cutting from the discarded carpet padding) and all the DNA was a match for Palacios, no matches for Parks.

A lamp and a ring of Palacios' that Parks pawned tested positive for blood, but there were two DNA profiles: Palacios and an unknown contributor (not Parks).

A man named Ronald Parker had contact with Palacios at Parks' home before she went missing; Parks' attorney asked if Parker's DNA had been compared against the unknown DNA profiles. Parker's DNA had not been submitted.

Parker, who was at Parks home in the early morning hours of July 31, 2015, testified he had sex with Palacios there and left around 11 a.m. He also testified he received a phone call from her several hours later at 2:46 p.m., where he claimed she was screaming for help and that someone was hurting her.

Parks [I believe this should read "Parker"] didnt report that call to police until three hours later when he and his cousin called 911 for a welfare check at Parks home.

A luminol test in the hallway revealed what forensic experts described as "drag marks" and foot impressions, but the carpet tested negative for blood.

There were some other dead ends: a hair in Parks' trunk that wasn't a match to Palacio or Parks (unknown male DNA); the hallway tub drain tested negative for blood; some black rubbery material and a bungee cord in the trunk of Parks' car tested negative for blood. However, the trunk was damp and had standing water in the wheel well, and the liquid there tested positive for blood, as did the carpet.

JerseyGirl · Nov 15, 2017

Gregory K. Parks, 59, was found guilty of first-degree murder under the felony murder rule by way of the commission of attempted second-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping, first-degree kidnapping and obtaining property by false pretense. He was to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon.

http://www.wral.com/man-convicted-of-killing-missing-wilson-woman/17116467/

noctilucent · Nov 16, 2017

JerseyGirl said:
http://www.wral.com/man-convicted-of-killing-missing-wilson-woman/17116467/

Link has been updated with sentencing info:

A Wilson man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for killing a woman who hasn't been seen in more than two years.

skybluesea · Apr 5, 2020

borndem · Apr 5, 2020

infamous.rider said:
Court Date for Parks, body still not recovered/found

Thanks for the info! And one more thing:

From one North Carolinian to another, along with everyone else here --

Welcome to Websleuths,
infamous.rider !!

borndem · Apr 5, 2020

Now seeing this:

Home ..Court Dates ..
Dist and Sup Court Search

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Case Details
Case Details...04/05/2020
Case Number:...........19CR053555

Defendant Name:.....PARKS,GREGORY,K

County:.....................WILSON

Court Date:...............07/04/2020

Session:..AM.....Court Room:..0GJR

Citation:

Arraigned Offenses

Offense Code Description Statute

0935 Felony-FIRST DEGREE MURDER 14-17

1103 Felony-FIRST DEGREE RAPE 14-27.2(A)
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borndem · Apr 5, 2020

Here is the NC Dept. of Public Safety record for Gregory K. Parks --

NC DPS Offender Public Information

cvaldez1975 · Jul 2, 2021

here is her updated charley project

Isabel Calvo Palacios – The Charley Project

cvaldez1975 · Jul 2, 2021

he was charged in 2019 in another cold case rape murder

Man serving life sentence faces

YaYa_521 · May 31, 2022

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
NamUs #MP30039
Isabel Calvo Palacios
Circumstances of Disappearance - Family filed missing person report on August 4 after not hearing and/or seeing her. This is out of character for her.

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