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Here is wesh story and video of JVH's 7/16 court appearance; wftv video and article; and Sentinel. Not much new, but the search continues.

http://www.wesh.com/video/20075384/index.html

Meanwhile, the Ocoee Police Department was back out searching for the missing Orange County woman on Wednesday night.

The search focused on a field on Franklin Street -- not far from a cell phone tower that received a ping from Ocasio's phone the morning after she disappeared.


http://www.wesh.com/news/20073809/detail.html

http://www.wftv.com/countybycounty/20075257/detail.html

http://www.wftv.com/video/20073222/index.html

Ocoee police will be conducting another search in the coming days to look for clues in the woman's disappearance. Searchers have not found any sign of Ocasio since she disappeared.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...,2843561.story

Reposting--guess these belong here (old habits die hard, not used to having a whole forum) :crazy:

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Judge: April trial possible for man last seen with Tracy Ocasio
March 17, 2010
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James Virgil Hataway, the man at the center of the high-profile Tracy Ocasio missing person's case, won't go on trial in a separate attempted murder case in Seminole County until late April, at the earliest.

At a routine pre-trial conference Wednesday, attorneys told Circuit Judge Donna McIntosh that the only major work yet to be done in the Seminole case is taking the sworn statement of the woman he's accused of attacking here nine months before Ocasio disappeared. The woman told authorities that she had driven Hataway, 29 of Ocoee, home Aug. 7, 2008, and was dropping him off when he choked her, tried to snap her neck and banged her head into the ground.

Hataway could go on trial April 26, at the earliest.

He was arrested in the Seminole case after he was named a person of interest in a similar but much higher-profile case in Orange County last year.

Tracy Ocasio disappeared May 27 from a sports bar in Metrowest during an Orlando Magic NBA playoff run. She was last seen leaving the bar with Hataway. Her car was found a half mile from his home. She has not been found. Hataway has not been charged.


Article:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...acy-ocasio-james-virgil-hataway-seminole-case
 
Last Man Seen With Tracy Ocasio Awaits April Trial
Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:12:15 AM
<snipped>
The only person of interest in the disappearance of Tracy Ocasio will go on trial late next month in a separate case in Seminole County.

James Hataway, 29, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, false imprisonment and two other crimes.

Hataway was the last person seen with Ocasio.

She vanished in May of last year after the two left a MetroWest bar.


Video: Hataway Trial Set For April
http://www.cfnews13.com/MediaPlayer...xHataway_031820101044&cat=Local&title=Hataway Trial Set For April

Article:
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/...ed_for_person_of_interest_in_ocasio_case.html
 
Father Of Tracy Ocasio Says Police Have New Tip
Ocoee Woman Last Seen On May 27

POSTED: 12:14 pm EDT July 30, 2009
UPDATED: 2:54 pm EDT July 30, 2009
<snipped>
The father of an Ocoee woman who disappeared in May said Ocoee police are working a new tip with a possible witness.

Joe Ocasio said police are working with a man who says he saw a small, yellow car parked on the wrong side of Binion Road in the Apopka area on the morning Tracy Ocasio went missing.


Images: Search For Missing Woman
http://www.wesh.com/slideshow/news/19722946/detail.html

Article:
http://www.wesh.com/news/20225344/detail.html
 
http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2010/4/20/report_tip_in_ocasio_case_sparks_new_search.html

Report: Tip In Ocasio Case Sparks New Search
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:44:39 AM
ORLANDO -- A new search is planned for missing Ocoee woman Tracy Ocasio.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, a new tip in Ocasio's disappearance has sparked an upcoming search.

Joe Ocasio, the missing woman's father, said he and volunteers with a local chapter of the Central Florida Search and Rescue will mount a search in Ocoee and MetroWest on May 8.

No details were given about the tip.

However, the group will search the area near the Taproom in MetroWest, which was the last place Ocasio had been seen with James Hataway.

Hataway is being held on unrelated attempted first-degree murder charges in a 2008 attack.
 
Crews Scour Area Of Ocoee In Missing Persons Cases

Investigators: New Information Could Lead To Ocasio, George

POSTED: 7:50 pm EST November 20, 2010

OCOEE, Fla. -- There was a new push on Saturday in two separate missing persons cases.

Orange County investigators scoured an area along State Road 429 in Ocoee after receiving a new tip.

Investigators said they think the new information could lead them to Tracy Ocasio or Chris George.

The families of the two missing people teamed up with search crews Saturday morning.


more here

http://www.wesh.com/news/25865079/detail.html
 
http://www.wftv.com/news/25893254/detail.html

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/orange_news/112310-possible-new-tip-in-ocasio-case

"ORALNDO Fla. - There is a new possible tip in the case of a missing Ocoee woman Tracy Ocasio.

The woman&#8217;s mother confirmed Tuesday that they have received a letter from a man who claims to have knowledge of several murders.

The letter is from a man who alleges that he once dated Amanda Case who is the mother of James Hataway&#8217;s daughter.

Tracy Ocasio was last seen leaving the Tap Room Bar on Raleigh Street in Orlando with James Hatatway on May 26, 2009. Their encounter was caught on the bar&#8217;s surveillance tape. Hataway is in the Seminole county jail on unrelated charges and has not been charged in Ocasio&#8217;s disappearance.

According to the man concerning the latest tip, he claims he knows of three murders that were committed by Case. He also provided a map that will lead police to evidence in the case.

The letter and a map were sent to a Tampa area TV station as well as Ocsaio&#8217;s parents.

The map purportedly shows two Orlando area lakes, Lake Susannah and Little Lake Barton, where bodies and a gun were disposed of.

The investigation into the latest tip is ongoing."
 
Investigators drain Lake Carter and find human skull

Apopka - Officials confirm they have found a "significant" amount of human bones at Lake Carter, which is just east of State Road 429.

The remains include a human skull and a bone that appears to be from a man's body.
........................
Tests results on the bone should determine whether the bone belongs to one of two people missing from Orange County for about two years.

  • Onda Christopher George, of Apopka, has been missing since Feb. 12, 2009. He was 29 at the time.
  • Tracy Ocasio, of Ocoee, has been missing since May 26, 2009. She was 27 at the time.

more here

http://www.cfnews13.com/article/new...gators-drain-Lake-Carter-and-find-human-skull
 
Mothers hope human bones will bring closure
The mothers of missing Onda "Chris" George and Tracy Ocasio hope the discovery will bring closure.

By Bianca Prieto and Walter Pacheco, Orlando Sentinel
7:35 p.m. EST, February 22, 2011


As law-enforcement officers slogged through waist-deep muck scouring Apopka's Lake Carter for human remains on Tuesday, two mothers with a painful connection waited for word that could bring their respective two-year nightmares to an end.

Rachael George and Liz Ocasio, whose adult children went missing separately under suspicious circumstances in 2009, hope the discovery of human remains at the lake will bring one or both closure.
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An Apopka detective who was searching the area on his hands and knees Monday uncovered a bone in the reeds near the lake's edge. An Orange-Osceola medical examiner confirmed it was of human origin.

Investigators and agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement descended on Lake Carter early Tuesday to search for more evidence. By noon, cadaver dogs hit on several spots and more bones were found. Officials then decided it was time to drain the lake.


more here + video

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...-apopka-chris-george-20110221,0,2816870.story
 
Crews Look To Lake In Search For Missing

Police Continue To Comb Apopka Area

POSTED: 5:46 am EST February 23, 2011
UPDATED: 6:04 am EST February 23, 2011


<snip>

Crews drained Lake Carter overnight so searchers can look for more evidence Wednesday in the area they combed Tuesday after a bone was found there earlier in the week.

Police said the evidence they have uncovered could be important in the cases of two missing people.


more here + video

http://www.wesh.com/r/26963196/detail.html
 

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