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WHARTON COUNTY, Texas – Twenty-five years to the day after 15-year-old Rosemary Diaz went missing, investigators in Wharton County say they believe they have found the remains of her body in a shallow grave.

"The main thing is closure for the Diaz family," Sgt. Scott Grosser of the Wharton County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference Wednesday morning. "That's a family that has kept the memory of Rosemary alive for 25 years. They never let her memory die. They never gave up. It's all about bringing Rosemary home now."
Grosser said investigators were led to the location of human remains in a rural area in Matagorda County based on new evidence provided by members of the family who owned the property.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?37526-Rosemary-Diaz-(15)-Danevang-TX-1990
 
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?145772-NC-Al-quon-Flowers-18-Wilmington-19-July-2011

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20151125/ARTICLES/151129793

NC_Wilmington - Al'quon Flowers Disappeared in July 2011-Remains Found

BOLIVIA -- Human remains found Nov. 5 in Leland are confirmed to be those of Al’quon Flowers, a Wilmington teen who went missing in July 2011, according to the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office.

The remains found in the woods at the end of Hooper Road were confirmed to be Flowers after a pathology report from East Carolina University in Greenville.
 
bessie said:
DNA positively identifies 'Grateful Doe' as man missing from Myrtle Beach
Posted: Dec 09, 2015 3:40 PM CST
Updated: Dec 09, 2015 3:40 PM CST
By WMBF News Staff

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – A man who was killed in a car crash in 1995 in Virginia has been positively identified as Jason Callahan, a man who was reported missing from Myrtle Beach 20 years ago. New DNA samples submitted this year confirmed the identity of “Grateful Doe,” months after efforts on social media led investigators to connect the two cases.

The Virginia Medical Examiner’s office and a representative for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS) confirmed that Callahan is “Grateful Doe,” a young man who died in a car accident in June 1995, but was not identifiable due to his extensive injures.
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Link to Grateful Doe Forum: Grateful Dead Fan
 
Ex-Police Chief of Suffolk County Is Accused of Beating Man and Trying to Cover It Up
The New York Times
By SARAH MASLIN NIRDEC. 9, 2015

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James Burke, center, was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of civil rights violations
and obstructing a civil rights investigation. Credit Newsday

The former police chief of Suffolk County was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that he walked into an interrogation room three years ago, badly beat a man who was suspected of having stolen items from his police vehicle, then coerced fellow officers to cover up the act, prosecutors said.

The former chief, James Burke, 51, who left the force recently as a federal investigation into the episode mounted, faces charges that he violated the man’s civil rights and later obstructed an investigation into the matter.

“No one is above the law,” Robert L. Capers, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said while outlining the allegations at a news conference at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, on Long Island.


Gilgo Beach: FBI to aid investigation, Suffolk police say
Updated December 10, 2015 10:02 PM
Newsday
By Tania Lopez


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Suffolk County Police Chief Stuart Cameron listens as Police Commissioner Tim Sini speaks during a news conference at Yaphank Police Headquarters on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, as he announces that the FBI will join the investigation. Photo Credit: James Carbone


Suffolk police top brass assured families of victims of the Gilgo Beach murders Thursday that, even after five years, the investigation remains active and the department has asked the FBI to assist in the probe.

“As we approach the [five-year] anniversary, on behalf of the Suffolk Police Department, I want to convey to the loved ones and the families of all the victims that we are dedicated to do everything we can to solve this case,” Deputy Police Commissioner Tim Sini said. “Rest assured, this case remains active.”

“Anniversaries create opportunities,” Sini said. “We’re here today because we think it’s important to let the public know we are doing everything we can to solve these murders.”

Registered members can join the discussion of the Long Island Serial Killer here:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?445-Long-Island-Serial-Killer
 
Websleuths in this article:

How Internet sleuths on Facebook and Reddit solved the 20-year-old mystery of a missing teenager
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...he-20-year-old-mystery-of-a-missing-teenager/
Users on Websleuths, a forum popular with cold-case and true-crime fanatics, had been cross-referencing Grateful Doe’s case against hundreds of entries in the missing persons’ database since July 2005. The search only heated up last December, however, when Reddit took on the case.

That month, an Australian woman with the handle greymetal opened a Grateful Doe subreddit and posted his picture to Imgur.
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Thanks from Reddit to WS here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gratefuldo...leuths_and_phantasytour_deserve_a_huge_thank/

Link to Grateful Doe Forum: Grateful Dead Fan
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...ound-1.3362906
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"The body of Cédrika Provencher, who has been missing since 2007, has been found in Saint-Maurice, near Trois-Rivières, Que.

The Sûreté du Québec announced late Saturday that they had recovered human bones and identified them as the remains of Cédrika.

The girl was last seen on July 31, 2007 near her home in Trois-Rivières. She was reportedly approached by an adult who asked for help to find a missing dog. She was never seen again.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...s-Quebec-31-July-2007&p=12241758#post12241758
 
Electronic threat per live stream.

Los Angeles schools closed due to possible threat

Superintendent Ramon Cortines has asked police to search each of the more than 1,000 schools in the district by the end of the day to make sure they are safe.

http://www.wsfa.com/story/30755058/los-angeles-schools-closed-due-to-possible-threat

Nation’s 2nd largest school system closed for threat

The district, the second largest in the nation, has 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools.

http://wate.com/2015/12/15/nations-2nd-largest-school-system-closed-for-threat/

(spans 720 sq. miles)

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?296668-Los-Angeles-schools-closed-due-to-threat
 
Enrique Marquez Jr., who bought the assault rifles used in a deadly attack here, was charged Thursday with conspiring to carry out two other attacks, federal officials said.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/17/friend-of-san-bernardino-gunman-expected-to-be-charged/

During 10 days of questioning, beginning four days after the San Bernardino attacks and ending Wednesday, Marquez allegedly told investigators that the rifles used by Farook and Malik were originally purchased for Farook as part of the preparations for the college and highway plots.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/12/17/reports-charges-filed-san-bernardino-massacre/77470542/
 
Finally, arrests in the burning murder of Jessica Chambers.

http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article49964750.html

FBI: Jessica Chambers case led to arrest of 17 suspected gang members
Officials say the operation focuses on Panola County and is a byproduct of the deep investigation that has come through the probe into the death of Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old woman burned alive on Dec. 6, 2014, in Courtland.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ear-her-car-Panola-County-6-Dec-2014-12/page4
 
Yannis Koutsomitis ‏@YanniKouts 21m21 minutes ago
Picture of the bomb found onboard Air France #AF463 plane that landed in #Kenya /via @AmichaiStein1

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWqkI4VXIAUjQVD.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/YanniKouts


Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris
Diverts over bomb scare

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan authorities are interrogating several suspects who were on an Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris that was forced to land early Sunday in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa after a device suspected to be a bomb was found in a lavatory.

http://www.king5.com/story/news/world/2015/12/20/air-france-kenya-bomb-scare/77658778/
 
As per CarmelEyesD.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...lows-into-crowd-near-Las-Vegas%92-Paris-Hotel

Las Vegas Strip crowds struck as car intentionally plows into pedestrians on sidewalk

http://www.abc-7.com/story/30797452/...ntentional-act

(CNN) -- A driver veered onto a crowded sidewalk several times on the Las Vegas Strip, injuring more than 30 people in what authorities described as an "intentional" act.

At least one person was killed and 37 others injured near the Paris Las Vegas Hotel on Sunday night, authorities said.

Witnesses said the woman was driving down Las Vegas Boulevard before her car jumped onto the sidewalk and started striking pedestrians.

She allegedly drove the 1996 Oldsmobile sedan onto the sidewalk at different spots and hit more people before barreling down the road.
 
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