If you have a source that says something that contradicts the information below, please post it with the source. If it is a video, if you could give an estimated mark at which the statement is made, that is a tremendous help.
2008
August: Just after Rod Buchanan's stepson turned 17, stepson sees *advertiser censored* on Jarred's computer (see video, 5:46 mark). This was at GLD II's house on Gano.
Source Buchanan said his own stepson was playing on Harrell's computer last year and found some pornographic pictures. He told the adults in the family, but it was "kinda brushed under the rug," and no one reported it, Buchanan said. Source
August 1-November 1: Estimated Date. LE believes that on or between these dates, Jarred Harrell is guilty of committing the offense Lewd & Lascivious Molestation of a Child Under 12 and Producing/Performing Sexual Performance of a Child (12 counts).
Source (page 8) (Note: Based on entry above that it was August 2008 and he lived at home and the comment below, that in June 2009, he was asked to move out of his parents' house, it appears that during August 2008 to November 2008, he lived at the house on Gano. JMO)
2009
June: Estimated Date. Jarred Harrell is asked to move out of his parents' house. They want him to be on his own, be a man, and take care of himself. They call Rod Buchanan's stepdaughter and ask if he can move in with them and be a roommate; they say sure. Jarred moves in with Buchanan's stepdaughter and her fiancé. (Explanation is that Buchanan states, in response to how long did JH live with your stepdaughter, and says a couple of months, so JustyThoughts estimated at June 2009). Source RB is talking about stepson finding *advertiser censored* last year (which would be 2009 since interview done in 2010): Later that year, Harrell moved in with Buchanan's stepdaughter and her fiancé at an apartment a few miles away. Source
August 4: Roommates kick Jarred Harrell out for stealing, specifically their iPod.
Source According to Rod Buchanan, he asks if they can keep his computer until he finds somewhere to go.
Source (Note: Any idea where he went? Sister's? Thoughts, anyone?)
August 10: They do not hear from him, and the discussion comes up about there having been child *advertiser censored* found on his computer about a year ago by Rod Buchanan's stepson (a minor at the time). They get on the computer and find *advertiser censored* on computer.
Source Roommates bring computer to Jacksonville Sheriffs Office, who determined it was out of their jurisdiction.
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August 13: Computer then turned over to CCSO by JSO.
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September 25: Computer turned over to SAG Cyber Crimes Unit. They were not able to begin taking it apart to do forensic testing on it until October 9.
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October 5: Jarred Harrell's mom (AD) and stepdad (GLD II) move out of their house on Gano, to Callahan, FL.
Source It is believed they took the dog and the shed with them.
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October 9: SAG Cyber Crimes Unit begins forensic testing on Jarred Harrell's computer.
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October 19: Somer Thompson disappears.
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October 21: Somer Thompson's body found in GA.
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October 23: Rod Buchanan and his wife drive by Gano house and see Jarred Harrel's vehicle in the drivway. They stop a CCSO deputy, explain their concerns and he brings them to the lead detective, who has the deputy go back and run the tags; it is Jarred Harrel's vehicle, and he has been living there.
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November 12: Analysis completed November 10; SAG returns computer to CCSO with report.
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Unknown Date: Jarred is asked to provide DNA. He is uncooperative, and in January, FBI visits his father in Mississippi.
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2010
January 6: Estimated date. FBI asks Harrell for DNA. (I believe article was posted on 2/17; that is date comments began.
LUCEDALE, Miss. — Loretta Harrell answered a knock at her ranch-style home in the deep Mississippi woods six weeks ago to find two strangers standing outside. Source
January 24: Estimated date. Jarred Harrell moves to Meridian, Mississippi.
"His family said Harrell just moved back to Mississippi a few weeks ago." Source (I read that it was 2 1/2 weeks before his arrest, which was on 2/11, so I estimated that he moved around January 24.)
February 11: Jarred Harrell arrested in Meridian, MS, on child *advertiser censored* charges.
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February 11: Homes on Gano Avenue, Orange Park, FL, in Callahan, FL, and in Meridian, MS, were searched along with a vehicle in Meridian, MS.
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February 18: Florida Governor Charlie Crist asks Mississippi Governor to extradite Jarred Harrell.
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February 20: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour agrees to extradite Jarred Harrell.
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February 23: Jarred Harrell extradited from Mississippi to Florida.
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February 24: Jarred Harrell appears before judge. Arraignment set for March 10. Bond $1 million.
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February 24: Jarred Harrell new charges added:
Lews and Lascivious Molestation and Direct/Promote Sexual Performance by a Child plus original charge of Possess Photograph of Sexual Performance by a Child (
CCSO Inmate inquiry indicates Total Bond as $1,600,003.00) Media reports indicate that Harrell is being held
without bond.
For lack of a better place to put it for now, here is my version of Rod Buchanan's TV interview: (working on)
REPORTER: Well, start from the beginning. This goes back to August. What happened in August?
R. BUCHANAN: Um, back in August, or actually a little before August, Harrell was asked to move out of his parents’ home on Gano. Um, they used the excuse that they wanted him to get out on his own, become a man, and take care of hisself.
(Coughs) Excuse me. He didn’t have anywhere to go, and, uh, so they had called our daughter and asked if he could move in with them, be a roommate, and they said sure. While he was there, some things came up missing.
Um, they went out one night while he was asleep, searched his car, found their iPod that he had stolen, woke him up in the middle of the night and told him he had to get out or they were gonna call the police. And, uh, he left his computer and a bunch of disks and asked if they, you know, would keep hold of it until he could find a place to go.
During that time, about a week passed, since they hadn’t heard from him, uh, conversation came up about the possibility that child *advertiser censored* being found on his computer by our, at the time, minor son a year prior to this.
So they went out and turned the computer on and saw things nobody should have to see. At that point they became very emotionally upset, called her mother at work, told her about it.
And we took it to JSO (Jacksonville Sheriffs Office) thinking that was where we needed to take it. Once we handed everything over to JSO, they then sent it back to Clay County to be processed, and Detective Eckert took over from there.
And then when the little Somer girl came up missing, uh, didn’t really think too much about it because we didn’t know that he had moved back to his parents’ house on Gano. And, uh, somebody called, and I don’t remember who had told us that he had moved back there with his parents, and then somebody called and said his parents had actually moved out of the house about two weeks before Somer came up missing.
And on our way up to Orange Park, my wife said “Let me take you by and show you where the house is.” And when we went by, his vehicle’s in the driveway and it was right across from the athletic field. Right where she had to walk every day.
Um, we went down and we found – the whole detective squad was still working the area since this was like two days after they found her – and we found a deputy on the side of the road and we told him our concerns and showed him the house. He took us around to, um, the lead detective. We filled him in on everything, told him. He sent the deputy back around, he ran the tag on the vehicle, found out it was his, and that he had been living there. Um, and I guess his parents moved to somewhere in Calahan prior to that happening . Um, and yeah, they did have a white dog, a little white dog. So …
REPORTER: Are you surprised – because you brought this to the attention of authorities back in August – and are you surprised that by October, when Somer went missing and was ultimately her body was found, are you surprised that he hadn’t been arrested on these child *advertiser censored* charges?
R. BUCHANAN: A little bit. But at the same time, you know, I know there’s a process. And I see so many of these sick perverts they get off with a slap on the wrist or probation because some slick lawyer finds a technicality to get ‘em off on. So, you know, hats off to the Clay County Sheriffs Office for doing their job and doing it the right way and taking their time to make sure they got him.
And I am so sorry about little Somer and her family and what they are going through. I can’t even begin to imagine that, but at the same time, there’s no guarantee that had they had rushed in and arrested him that it would have prevented this from happening.
REPORTER: You know him. Would you have ever have thought that anything like this could have happened?
Stopped 3:37 (will get to rest tomorrow)