Missing boy's foster parents skip town, stop talking to reporters
Posted: Tuesday, 02 February 2010 10:39AM
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Hassani Campbell's foster parents have disappeared themselves, and no one knows exactly where they are. The Oakland Tribune reports the pair have ended their relationship, and may have moved out of the Bay Area.
Campbell's foster father, Louis Ross, is reportedly living in Arizona.
Today, their house in Fremont is vacant and up for sale.
That's not stopping a dedicated group of volunteers, who say they'll be organizing another vigil for Campbell later this month.
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http://kliv.com/pages/6268060.php?
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Searchers Scour New Area for Hassani
Updated 6:06 PM PST, Tue, Feb 2, 2010
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Sherri-Lynn Miller tells NBC Bay Area a well known psychic told her that Hassani Campbell is somewhere in Mt. Diablo Park.
The word from a psychic was enough for a group of dedicated people, most who have never met the little boy, to stop what they were doing and hit the road late Tuesday afternoon.
Oakland police say they are not taking part in the search. Miller and her search party are only armed with flashlights Tuesday night and they say they won't let darkness stop them.
Miller said they will search an area off Marsh Creek road. She said the psychic gave her a very specific location and surroundings where the boy's body would be found. Miller said the pyschic called them out of the blue with the tip.
The news media just learned Monday that the foster parents, Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, recently moved out of the Bay Area.
Article:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Searchers-Scour-New-Area-for-Hassani-83403592.html
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Editorial: Keep going with Hassani Campbell's investigation
Posted: 02/05/2010 12:01:00 AM PST
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WE NOW approach six months since 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell vanished without a trace. The Fremont boy has not been seen since Aug. 8.
Yet there are a number of things about the case that have never added up. No one has reported seeing the child in the busy commercial area. Police dogs taken to the scene found no trace of Hasanni's scent anywhere near the parking lot.
Then, there has been the highly unusual behavior of the foster parents. They quickly disappeared from public view. They have made no public pleas in months for the child's safe return. They have invoked their right not to talk to the police and have made no efforts to keep Hasanni's disappearance in the media.
They have not helped the volunteers — complete strangers who have kept the search for the child alive. In fact, volunteers say that when they tried to post missing fliers near the foster parents' Fremont home, Ross ordered them to get out.
Now, it appears that the foster parents have packed up and left their Fremont house. Ross is reportedly in Arizona. The whereabouts of Campbell and the couple's newborn daughter are unknown.
That Hasanni's foster parents have moved away does not mean they are guilty of a crime. But their overall behavior has been, in our view, a bizarre way of demonstrating concern for their missing foster child.
It's pretty clear that whatever police uncover will be without the help of Hasanni's foster parents. After his arrest, a defiant Ross told reporters, "As long as I have breath in my body, we will search for Hasanni."
Last we heard, Ross was still breathing. Why has he skipped town rather than help the police and volunteers find his son? It is imperative that police keep the Hasanni investigation on the front burner until this child is found.
Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/sanmateo/ci_14334884
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Foster Parents Of Missing Child Leave Bay Area
Posted: 10:01 pm PST February 1, 2010
Updated: 10:48 pm PST February 1, 2010
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There was a new twist Monday night in the case of missing Fremont five-year- old Hasanni Campbell who disappeared last August. His foster parents -- who were once suspects in the case -- have moved away from the Bay Area.
KTVU has also learned that there has been new police activity at their former home in Fremont.
“Don't let him be a picture on a milk carton,” said Ross in an interview last August not long after the boy disappeared. Almost six months after that interview took place, the Fremont house Ross rented with Jennifer Campbell stood vacant and for sale.
A neighbor who didn't want to be identified said the couple packed up with their new two-month-old baby two weeks ago. “There was a lot of stuff being thrown away,” said the neighbor. “There was a couple of people who came to help with the move.”
At about the same time, another neighbor said she saw police come around and seize one of the couple's cars. “I saw a cop and they had a tow truck,” said neighbor Joey Ann. “They towed a BMW, I think. It was a white car.”
Monday night, Oakland police did not confirm any new turns in the case.
Monday night, KTVU spoke by phone with Hasanni's maternal grandmother. She said she did not know where the couple is, or if they're still together.
A rally is planned outside Oakland Police headquarters on February 10th to show Hasanni Campbell has not been forgotten.
Video: OAKLAND: Foster Parents Of Missing Five-Year-Old Boy Sell House, Leave Bay Area
http://www.ktvu.com/video/22407433/index.html
Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/22407315/detail.html
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Hasanni's parents break up; cut off contact
Monday, February 01, 2010
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Our media partner, The Oakland Tribune, is reporting that Hasanni's foster parents, Jennifer Campbell and Louis Ross, broke up soon after the birth of their daughter in November.
Ross reportedly has moved to Arizona.
Ross and Campbell were arrested on murder charges about two weeks after Hasanni's disappearance, but released when prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to file charges.
Article:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=7252089
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Rally outside Oakland Police next week to mark six months since Hasanni Campbell went missing
Posted: 02/01/2010 06:52:25 PM PST
Updated: 02/02/2010 06:34:55 AM PST
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Organizers are gearing up for a rally Feb. 10 at the Oakland Police Department to mark six months since Hasanni Campbell went missing.
The boy was reported missing Aug. 10, 2009 from the rear driveway of Shuz of Rockridge in Oakland, where his foster father, Louis Ross, 38, has said he left the boy alone while he went to the front of the store to alert Jennifer Campbell, the boy's 30-year-old foster mother and aunt, that he had arrived to drop off Hasanni's 1-year-old sister. The girl has been removed from the couple, who have not been available for comment for several months.
Sherri-Lyn Miller, who has organized searches for the 6-year-old boy for six months, said the couple has split up following the birth of their baby girl in late November.
Ross has reportedly moved to Arizona. Pamela Clarke, Jennifer Campbell's mother, said she does not know where her daughter is or if she remains living in the Fremont house the couple once shared.[/U]
Organizers will hold the rally at 6 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Police Department, 455 7th Street in Oakland. Community and church members will be there and anyone who wants to participate can come to the Citizens for the Lost offices at 15976 E. 14th St. in San Leandro between noon and 6 p.m. Saturday to make signs, pick up fliers and learn more about the event, Miller said.
"This is not to bash the police, we hope that they will be involved and come out and speak to the crowd and let the public know that this little boy is not forgotten," Miller said. Police have said the case is still under investigation.
*On 2/10/10 @ 2pm....Will you all join me in lighting a candle for Hasanni? TIA
Article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14313196
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Missing Boy's Foster Parents Missing
Updated 7:15 AM PST, Tue, Feb 2, 2010
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Organizers and volunteers helping to search for a missing East Bay boy are now having trouble finding his foster parents. Campbell and Ross split up after their daughter was born in November, search organizer Sherri-Lyn Miller said.
But the Fremont home is now vacant and for sale, according to people who live in the neighborhood. A neighbor told KTVU that she saw the couple packing up with their newborn baby girl two weeks ago and that someone was helping them clean up and move out. Campbell's mother doesn't even know where her daughter is now.
Another neighbor said she saw police activity at the house and watched as cops seized the couple's car.
Article:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Missing-Boys-Foster-Parents--83340087.html
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Strange Tip Leads to New Search for Hasanni
Updated 5:10 PM PST, Wed, Feb 3, 2010
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About a dozen people spent a second day searching Mount Diablo State Park for a missing child following a tip from a psychic. Sherri-Lynn Miller tells NBC Bay Area a well known psychic called her out of the blue Tuesday and said she knew where they could find the little boy's body.
That tip was enough to get a small, but dedicated group of people, most who have never met the little boy, to stop what they were doing and hit the road late Tuesday afternoon. They searched into the night armed only with flashlights.
After finding nothing, they stopped the search around 10 p.m. and returned to duty Wednesday afternoon with the psychic in tow.
She said the Mt. Diablo area was too hilly compared to her vision, so the group packed up and decided to search Garin Regional Park in Hayward instead. That is where they searched late Wednesday afternoon. None of the searches turned up any new clues on the child's whereabouts.
Article:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Strange-Tip-Leads-to-New-Search-for-Hassani-83449872.html
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Volunteers Search For Hasanni Campbell In Clayton, Plan Vigil
Posted: 11:46 am PST February 3, 2010
Updated: 4:00 pm PST February 3, 2010
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A group of volunteers has traveled to Clayton Wednesday afternoon to follow up on a psychic's tip on the whereabouts of Hasanni Campbell, a 6-year-old who went missing in Oakland nearly six months ago, a search organizer said.
San Leandro business owner Sherri-Lyn Miller has been organizing searches, vigils and fundraisers for Hasanni. About a dozen volunteers are conducting another search this afternoon based on a tip from Sam Herbert, a Berkeley-based psychic, Miller said.
The group searched an area in the 13000 block of Marsh Creek Road in Clayton between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday, she said.
After they were arrested, Ross and Campbell stopped attending events and are no longer speaking with the media, according to Miller, who has interacted with other family members since then.
In early January, the foster parents moved out of the Fremont home where Hasanni lived with them, said Ritu Khurana, the real estate agent who owns the home.
"Right now we're very confident in the police," Miller said. "They're keeping everything close to the vest but I know they're on top of it."
Article:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/22423584/detail.html
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**GPS helps police capture, clear suspects**
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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As more and more Bay Area convicts are tracked with GPS anklets, the new stream of information is cropping up in high-profile crime investigations.
In many cases, information from Global Positioning Systems has ruled out suspects. That was the case in the disappearance of 5-year-old Hasanni Campbell, whose foster father reported him missing in August in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
Parole agents ran a simple search before telling police that none of the parolee sex offenders they were tracking had been near the area at the time.
The search also ruled out the same pool of sex offenders in a series of attacks near UC Berkeley in which a man tried to touch women after lifting their skirts.
Both cases remain unsolved, and Hasanni is still missing.
Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/24/MNJ11BKFG8.DTL
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Where did Hasanni's foster parents go?
February 02 2010 at 10:41 AM
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KTVU reports that the home rented by Louis Ross, 38, and Jennifer Campbell, 33, is now empty and up for sale. Ross is reportedly in Arizona. The couple allegedly split up after the birth of their daughter in November.
The latest developments come six months after Hasanni's disappearance. On the afternoon of Aug. 10, Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy and wears leg braces, vanished from the BMW that Ross parked outside a Rockridge shoe store where Jennifer Campbell works, Ross said.
Soon after, Ross and Campbell pleaded for the boy's return. When the investigation focused on the parents, Ross took a polygraph test. Campbell, who was pregnant at the time, did not take the exam because she worried it might hurt her fetus. The couple was arrested. But they were released because prosecutors did not have enough evidence to file charges. Ross and Campbell have maintained their innocence.
The pair did not join a search in September. During another search, Ross scolded two volunteers as they posted a flyer outside his home. The couple is not in contact with volunteers, according to Sherri Miller, founder of Citizens for the Lost, which has organized efforts to find Hasanni. She told KTVU:
"If you care anything about that child, you'd be doing everything in your power; you'd be on every tv station you could, trying to find this child unless you know there's no hope of finding him."
Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/scavenger/detail?entry_id=56487
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Rally set 6 months after Oakland boy disappeared
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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After initially attending vigils and publicizing the search for Hasanni, Ross and Campbell are no longer working with volunteers, said Sherri-Lyn Miller, who is organizing a Feb. 10 rally for the boy in front of Oakland police headquarters. Ross and Campbell split up after the birth of their daughter in November and have moved out of the Fremont home they shared, Miller said.
It's unclear where Ross and Campbell are living now. Ross could not be reached for comment Wednesday and a call placed to Campbell's mother was not immediately returned.
Miller said she's stunned that Campbell, who is Hasanni's biological aunt, is not working more closely with volunteers.
"(Campbell) had a pass while she was pregnant, but an innocent person would help look for, not run from him," she said.
Another volunteer, Celina Carleton, said she hopes next week's rally will inspire more people to join the search for the little boy. "We haven't given up hope," Carleton said. "We are going to find Hasanni."
Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/03/state/n114042S66.DTL
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