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Family Of Missing N.Y. Woman Suspects Foul Play

POSTED: 6:59 pm EDT June 8, 2007

MIAMI -- The family of a New York woman who has been missing since Memorial Day weekend is holding out hope she will come back home alive.

Stepha Henry, a 22-year-old honor's graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, was in South Florida to celebrate her younger sister's 16th birthday. She was last seen at Peppers Cafe in Sunrise on May 29.

Miami-Dade County police are focusing their investigation on a dark-colored Acura that Stepha Henry rode to the club.

Investigators said they have questioned the man who picked up Henry at her aunt's house in Miami Gardens. He reportedly said he and Henry separated at the club and she was there with other friends. He is not a suspect but police are trying to figure out why the Acura is missing.

Authorities, family members and Henry's friends at John Jay College said they suspect foul play. They said Henry is not the type of person to just run off without telling anyone.

Henry was preparing to apply to law school, while working as one of two interns with the president of the college.

Police told NBC 6's Amara Sohn that the last cell phone signal from Henry's phone came from the area of the club at around 4:13 a.m. Tuesday.

Anyone with information about the dark-colored Acura or Stepha Henry is asked to call Crimestoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

http://www.nbc6.net/news/13471433/detail.html

Edit to add to subject line : "Man chgdw/murder waiting for trial

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Such a beautiful young lady.  I found her myspace site but it's set to private.  Looked for a facebook site with no luck.  I was hopeing to see if there was anyone leaving her messages about meeting in Miami.  I'll keep looking.

I was thinking the same thing that Klaas posted:  What a beautiful young lady...And it appears she has worked hard to get an education, and it doesn't seem she would be the type to just take off on a lark.

http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/

Can't find any updates on Stepha  :(

But I wanted to make sure that you all are aware that this extremely large and somewhat 'wild' event was beginning to get underway at the same time.

(It was really horrible the first year, has calmed down a bit in subsequent years. Good ol' Miami Beach :roll: )


Posted on Sat, May. 26, 2007

URBAN BEACH WEEK
On the beach, a hip-hop holiday

ALTHOUGH SMALLER CROWDS ARE EXPECTED, MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WILL DRAW CAREFUL SCRUTINY FROM POLICE, ACLU

BY JOHN W. COX
jcox@MiamiHerald.com

As the daylight slipped behind the hotels, restaurants and neon-lit clubs in Miami Beach, Naomi Martin and Tamara Scott sipped at what remained of their strawberry daiquiris, eager for this weekend's swell of Urban Beach Week.

Scooters and policemen on bicycles zipped by, while the occasional Rolls Royce or Ferrari rolled down Ocean Drive. Instead of the salsa music that normally trickles out of Rumba Palace near Seventh Street, a disc jockey blasted hip-hop tracks from Jay-Z and Lil Jon.

''I've heard it's a wild weekend,'' said Martin, a graduate student at the University of Houston. She and Scott are among the throngs expected for the annual Memorial Day weekend that celebrates primarily hip-hop music and culture.

This year's partying is being closely scrutinized after last year's events resulted in more than 1,000 arrests -- most for misdemeanors.

Martin and Scott said they knew about Urban Beach Week's reputation but still decided to make their first trip to Miami Beach for Memorial Day weekend.

''Our friends said you haven't lived until you come here,'' said Scott, a nurse in Atlanta.

''We just came here to relax and have fun,'' she added.

As evidence of the city's efforts to avoid a repeat of last year, new police signs warn visitors to not double park, play loud music or carry open alcoholic beverages.

Although Miami Beach officials say they are still expecting perhaps as many as 200,000 Urban Beach Week visitors, crowds may be somewhat thinner this year.

''According to a survey conducted earlier this week, we're just a little behind last year at the same time,'' said Ginny Gutierrez of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Unlike in past years, when Miami Beach has tracked more than 100 events at dozens of venues connected with Urban Beach Week, this year only nine clubs have reported related bookings.

While most hotel managers said they were booked for the weekend, some have noticed a slip in business.

Marvin Sifontes, a manager at the Waldorf Hotel on Ocean Drive, said for the first time in five years the hotel isn't full for the weekend. He said he heard the area might have lost some of its usual urban crowd due to activities in Las Vegas.

Because of past issues, Sifontes said when the hotel is full they normally bring in extra security for the holiday weekend. Some hotels have taken the unusual step this year to offer free lodging to police officers as a visual deterrent to rowdy crowds.

''We usually have problems,'' Sifontes said. ``The crowd is very demanding. The volume of people has been ridiculous up to now.

``It's very common to see fights, and it's very common that people run out of the restaurant without paying.''

Arrests during last year's weekend nearly doubled from 2005 -- and represented 10 percent of Miami Beach arrests for all of 2006.

Some visitors last year charged that the increased arrests were also related to the largely black makeup of the crowds and alleged police engaged in racial profiling. Most early visitors this year seemed either unaware of the issue or were unconcerned.

Because of last year's arrests, the American Civil Liberties Union made several suggestions to the city about better ways to deal with this weekend's crowds.

ACLU members will observe police activity in the areas where most of the arrests took place last year, said Carlene Sawyer, president of the Greater Miami Chapter of the ACLU.

''We've had an experience over and over that when we show up as objective observers, police on the street check back with their managers and make sure that everything's being done right,'' Sawyer said. ``It's kind of like a watchdog type thing.''

Miami Beach will spend more than $1 million on programs that include about 100 Goodwill Ambassadors -- volunteers to serve as conflict buffers between visitors and the city -- said Miami Beach Assistant City Manager Hilda Fernandez. The city also eliminated street parking in the busiest parts of South Beach to give pedestrians more room and extended the hours of the city's answer center.

''Our priority is making sure that nothing happens and that people come and have a good time,'' Fernandez said.

Leon Williams, a middle-school teacher from Buena Vista, Ga., said he was here during last year's Memorial Day weekend, and he wouldn't change a thing. This year he flew down with seven of his friends on Wednesday and plans to stay for a week.

''I came down because I work hard hours,'' Williams said, ``and this is the perfect way to end my year in paradise.

Foul play likely in missing NYC girl's case

(Miami - WABC, June 12, 2007) - As the parents of a missing New York woman search for clues in Florida to find their missing daughter, a family pastor arrived their today to lend his support.
Police say 22-year-old Stepha Henry was last seen getting into a car outside of a club over the Memorial Day weekend.

Eyewitness News reporter Kemberly Richardson is in Miami with details.

Investigators now tell Eyewitness News everything about this case wreaks of foul play, that Stepha Henry would not simply get up and take off. And there's another big missing piece to this puzzle -- something deeply troubling to her family.

During these trying times, Pastor Jeffrey Hayslett is a pillar of support for the Henry family. He came here to Miami from Heavenly Ministries in Brooklyn where he regularly holds service.

He's known Stepha's parents for years and watched her grown into a confident young woman -- a 22-year-old now missing for 15 days.

"She's very persistent. She would never give up faith, she would never give up hope," Pastor Jeffrey Hayslett said.

The investigation now involves dozens of officers from Miami-Dade County and areas north. Detectives from the aviation and homicide units are canvassing a several hundred square mile splice of South Florida.

"This is any parent's nightmare," Miami-Dade Police Commander Linda O'Brien.

Commander O'Brian says because of the circumstances surrounding Stepha's disappearance, foul play is likely.

"We have a tremendous amount of water in southern Florida so we're checking the canals and lakes and those sorts of things," she said.

The John Jay College graduate was last seen leaving her aunt's home with a male friend around one in the morning on May 29th. They came to a club in Ft. Lauderdale. An image was captured of Stepha inside.

She did check her cell phone voice mail around four that same morning. Her male friend told police he left the club early without Stepha.

As for the four-door dark colored Acura Integra they came to the club in, Commander O'Brien says "Their origination of the car they came in was unclear to us. The gentleman who picked her up, who is an acquaintance of hers, tells us that the car was borrowed, so we are still trying to get information on that."

For now, friends say it's not if Stepha comes home, rather when.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5390027

Family Hopes Missing N.Y. Woman Will Be Found

POSTED: 4:07 pm EDT June 13, 2007

http://www.nbc6.net/news/13497571/detail.html

This is a sad case, yet has not been covered much in the news.

Stepha's been added to America's Most Wanted:

http://tinyurl.com/2vdge6

Car sought for clues to woman's Florida disappearance
POSTED: 1644 GMT (0044 HKT), June 16, 2007

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/15/florida.missing.woman/

Item in bold refers to previous post I made about 'hip hop weekend' on South Beach.


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cstepha15jun15,1,2368860.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Miami-Dade homicide unit enters search for missing New York woman

By Sofia Santana
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted June 14 2007, 9:33 PM EDT

 
As one of the biggest tourism weekends for South Florida wound down last month, Stepha Henry disappeared, likely after leaving a Sunrise nightclub.

Two-and-a-half weeks later, the search for the young Brooklyn woman has grown grim.
 
Miami-Dade homicide detectives recently took over the case from their missing persons unit, which began investigating after Henry's aunt in North Miami-Dade County reported her missing since the end of the Memorial Day Weekend on May 29.

Detectives have looked at cars that have been dumped in canals and traced the signal on the 22-year-old's cell phone.

But the widespread effort has yet to lead to Henry or clues to her whereabouts.

"I'm trying to stay positive," her tired mother, Sylvia Henry, said by cell phone while posting missing-person fliers in Broward on Thursday night.

She has temporarily relocated to South Florida from Brooklyn to look for her daughter, who is known for her big smile and bright attitude.

Stepha Henry had recently graduated from John Jay College in New York and was preparing to enter law school, relatives said.

"She is a happy person," Sylvia Henry said, meaning to explain that to her, happy people like her daughter just don't run away.

The case is very slowly beginning to garner national attention, with police saying it's possible that tourists who have since left South Florida may have valuable information without even realizing it.

Sylvia Henry has appeared on the Today show with a Miami-Dade police spokesman and the case also has been featured on MSNBC.

The crime show America's Most Wanted this week posted the details of Stepha Henry's case on its Web site and news outlets in New York are following the situation.

Still, police say all they have to go on is bits and pieces of information, including:

She was at Pepper's Café, in the 3800 block of North University Drive, Sunrise, on May 29, the night she vanished, wearing a black dress with a white T-shirt underneath.

She left with a man in a dark-colored Acura Integra.

Someone checked her cell phone voicemail around 4 a.m. the next day.

The cell phone now goes straight to voicemail, the signal practically untraceable.

Stepha Henry is black, about 5-foot-2 and 110 pounds. She has brown eyes and red hair that falls just past her shoulders.

Anyone who remembers seeing her on May 29, who has seen her since or who knows what happened to her is asked to call Detective Tom Romagni at 305-471-2400. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can dial Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

Brooklyn woman prays for niece gone missing on Fla. family visit

http://tinyurl.com/2o3fsa

http://www.miamiherald.com/772/story/143857.html


No clues in missing NYC woman's case
By MARCUS FRANKLIN
Associated Press Writer

Miami-Dade Police Dept. / AP Photo

This undated flyer provided by the Miami-Dade Police Dept. shows Stepha Henry. Henry, was last seen by relatives at their South Florida home on May 29 getting into a black sedan with a man. Henry, who was visiting the area with her 16-year-old sister, said she was going to a nightclub. Miami-Dade County police have said they don't know if foul play is involved and Henry's case is under investigation.


NEW YORK -- Police have tracked cell phone signals and examined abandoned cars, yet there's no trace of a woman who vanished last month after going to a Florida night club.

Miami-Dade County police have said they don't know whether foul play was involved in Stepha Henry's disappearance, but family members think something happened to the 22-year-old honors graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Henry was visiting relatives in the area with her 16-year-old sister and made plans for a friend's brother-in-law to pick her up on May 29, her aunt Daffodil Samuel said Sunday at the family's home in Brooklyn.

Relatives saw Henry get into a black sedan with a man. There is video of Henry at a Sunrise nightclub and police have said they have questioned a man who told them he left her at the nightspot.

No one has seen or heard from her since. Her cell phone goes straight to voicemail.

"She was a fighter," Samuel said of her petite niece. "I know they didn't take Stepha easily."

Samuel, who is the sister of Henry's mother, said her niece is fascinated by criminal cases and aspires to be a lawyer.

"She always wanted to be the lady Johnnie Cochran," Samuel said, referring to the late attorney who became nationally known after winning an acquittal of murder charges for O.J. Simpson.

Samuel said her niece often resisted her mother's tendency to inquire about her whereabouts and who she was with and once asked a relative to ask her mother to ease up.

"We just pray that whoever has her will release her so that she can come home and continue her life," Samuel said just before bursting into tears. "We're trusting in God and believing that He will do what He says He will do."

Henry's mother and father have been in Florida since the week their daughter went missing. Her mother has posted fliers seeking information and plans to stay there to keep searching; her father returned to New York on Sunday night.

"She is not going to leave Miami until we know what happened to our daughter," Steve Henry said of his wife, Sylvia.

New Witness Comes Forward In Case Of Missing Woman

http://www.nbc6.net/news/13534976/detail.html

According to investigators, the honors graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and her friend went to a club where the two were captured in a promotions company video that authorities are now using as evidence in the case.  In the video, Henry is seen interacting with other people in the club who detectives are now interviewing, The Associated Press reports.  As for the man Henry was with, witnesses say at the end of the evening, he left without Henry and the car.

"The car is still missing. He tells us that he borrowed the car. So we're still trying to check the origin of the car, find out where it originally came from, who originally had the car, where the car is registered and, of course, we're still trying to find the car," said Linda O'Brien of the Miami-Dade Police Department.


OK, right now, I'm not liking the acquaintance - I don't get it, it's a borrowed car and it's not known the "origin" of the car - This guy, acquaintance "borrowed" the car, right? so "who" did he borrow it from? that's simple, right? he left without her?? in the car? come on?  and why don't we have a name here? why is he the "acquaintance?

She's missing, car's missing, someone got rid of this poor girl and the car.

Reverand Al wants more help, from the black community - I don't usually see eye-to-eye with him on everything - but he's right, the squeaky wheel gets the grease...you got to keep her name alive
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/06/24/2007-06-24_do_more_to_find_missing_says_rev_al-7.html

I agree with you on that one also Festa.  Rev. Al should FINALLY get involved in something positive!!!  Something doesn't sound right about that 'borrowed' car either.  I am thinking the same thing.  Something happened there.  And really are we talking borrowed or stolen??? :x   I hope they are really looking into this and keep on that individual.  Don't let up for one second!!!

As relating to the case of Stepha Henry, it doesn’t seem that it should be so difficult to solve. She was driven to the nightclub from which she disappeared by a “friend.” When interviewed by police, the “friend” claimed to have left the club without Stepha and without the car. Police have yet to locate the car or determine who owned it. The “friend” claimed that he borrowed the car from a “friend of a friend.” Ok, who believes this nonsensical story??

It should take at most 20 minutes for investigators to trace ownership of the vehicle, assuming the “friend’s” story were true. That they have been unable to do so invites further questions:

1) “If you abandoned the car at the club, how did you get home?”

2) “Having supposedly abandoned the car where you parked it that night, what ever happened to it?”

3) “What did you do with the car keys?”

4) “Who lent you the car in the first place?”

5) “Weren’t you concerned about being unable to return the car to the friend whom you borrowed it from?”

Beyond this, who in the world borrows a car without knowing who owns it??? In all likelihood, this young woman is dead, and the odds are approximately 999 to 1 that the “friend” is either responsible or knows what happened. I don’t know, but it appears as though the investigators in this case are graduates of the Aruban Police Academy.

seems very similar to Immette St Gillen and I agree it has to be something to do with the "friend"....

that story and the fact that the car is missing is completey fishy!

I wonder why MSN refuses to cover this

It's been my observation that the family has to put themselves "out there".  If the family doesn't attempt to get the media involved it doesn't happen.  I'm sure it's very hard for some families to do though.

I still don't get it! - why is the "friend" a mystery - no name here? - huh? - and he left without the car he "borrowed" - What did he do with the keys???? leave them with Stepha? the police aren't all over this guy?

To klaasend's point, AMW will have her as a feature tonight.  Her dad was on Greta, Reverand Sharpton has spoken out regarding this and other cases involving missing black people and the coverage and community support, and the family was out again today with flyers, but it does seem to need more coverage - and more info -

Here's the latest:

Family's Desperate Search Continues

POSTED: 10:49 am EDT June 30, 2007
UPDATED: 10:59 am EDT June 30, 2007


SUNRISE, Fla. -- A family's desperate search for a missing daughter and sister continued Saturday, with volunteers passing out flyers in the hunt for Stepha Henry.

It's been a little over a month since the 22-year-old New York student vanished from a nightclub in Sunrise. On Saturday night, her story will be featured on the popular television show, "America's Most Wanted."

http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/156978.html


Missing woman's family searches, seeks closure
A month after a recent college graduate disappeared in South Florida, the woman's family and friends are keeping the search alive.

BY JENNIFER MOONEY PIEDRA
jmooney@MiamiHerald.com

Sylvia Henry came to South Florida a month ago in search of answers.

But she still hasn't found what she is looking for.

Henry's 22-year-old daughter, Stepha, has been missing since May 29, when she was last seen partying at a Sunrise nightclub.

As Miami-Dade police continue to investigate the disappearance, Henry's family and friends worry that she is going to be forgotten.

''We want to keep Stepha on everyone's minds,'' said Miramar resident Nestor Byer, a friend of Sylvia Henry.

On Saturday, a group of about 50 friends and strangers took to the street and handed out ''missing person'' fliers bearing two photos of the petite woman.

At University Drive and Oakland Park Boulevard, the volunteers knocked on car windows and passed fliers to drivers.

Sylvia Henry was leading the charge.

''I'm in agony, so much pain,'' she said.

``I just want to get my daughter back.''

After learning of Stepha's disappearance, Sylvia Henry left her home in Brooklyn and headed to South Florida. She has been here ever since.

Sylvia Henry said she will continue looking for clues about what happened to her oldest daughter, who recently graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Henry had been visiting Miami for an annual Memorial Day weekend trip. She was staying with her aunt and cousin in Miami Gardens.

The night before she disappeared, Henry told relatives she was getting a ride to Peppers Cafe, 3828 N. University Dr., from someone in a black Acura.

A videotape from the nightclub shows Henry was there. Where she went after that remains a mystery.

Her mother said Henry wouldn't just run off. Something bad happened to her, she said.

''I know that she wouldn't go with a stranger willingly,'' Sylvia Henry said. ``She would not stay away so long.''

Janet Bohair, 68, of Plantation, never met Henry, but feels connected to her because they are both from Trinidad.

Bohair spent a few hours Saturday holding up a T-shirt with Henry's photo and handing out fliers.

''It's a month since this happened,'' she said.

``We need some closure. We need to know what's going on.''

Though Sylvia Henry hopes her daughter is still alive, she knows she may not be.

''God has his way,'' she said. ``Whatever God wants for her and me, He will do.''

Good post. I agree, I can only hope the cops know the answers to the questions you have posed, and are waiting for the guy/perp to return to where he dumped her. Then they will likely have more of a case.

Tim Miller & Texas EquuSearch Helping Search for Stepha Henry in Florida

http://missingexploited.com/2007/07/04/tim-miller-texas-equusearch-helping-search-for-stepha-henry-in-florida/

Tim Miller stated that the family of Stepha Miller asked us if we could not help bring their daughter home. Tim stated, “that law enforcement has been extremely cooperative in mapping a plan of action to search for Stepha”. We just want to bring Stepha home to her family, said Tim Miller”.

Good Evening Red - well I am very happy to hear this.  Anytime Tim Miller gets involved is a huge plus.  Let's all just pray that the family gets answers.

Great news.

I just hate that the media isn't covering this story - it's a cross between Natalee and Immette St. Gillen...

http://tinyurl.com/2zsn8r

Sherri Winston: Where is Stepha Henry?
Published July 4, 2007, 10:18 AM EDT


Where is Stepha Henry?

She is the beautiful 22-year-old college student who came to South Florida for Memorial Day weekend and vanished after being last seen at a Sunrise nightclub.

Her mother, Sylvia Henry, is trapped in an unimaginable chrysalis of hope and fear. Tucked away in a tidy North Miami Beach condo belonging to her sister, Sylvia Henry has resolved not to return to her Brooklyn home until her daughter is found.

"It's my daughter," she says, "I need to know what has happened to my daughter."

It is the middle of the afternoon. Sun streams into the unlit room. Idyllic, it all appears, until you note the grief tattooed on the mother's edges — in her eyes and her body language, in what she says and does not say. "The pain and agony every day. Waking up and not seeing my daughter …" she says before drifting into silence.

I want to reach out and say something — do something. I've been inundated with the horrific story of Jessie Davis, the Ohio single mother who went missing only to be found murdered.

I ask Mrs. Henry if she'd seen the coverage. Quietly, she responds, "Yes."

Did disparity in media attention for her daughter's disappearance and other missing girls concern her?

"Yes, I was … am concerned. I'm calling the media. They call me. But when they call, they ask if there's anything new. They will only do something if there is something new," she says.

Her silent pauses make me cringe. To her this isn't a puzzling mystery, a novelty, a story — it's the life of her little girl. Stepha was a member of step-dancing groups in high school. Stepha was a criminal justice graduate who is supposed to be preparing for her LSAT.

Sylvia Henry rattles off a list of words to describe her daughter:

Spunky, friendly, diverse, responsible and intelligent.

Another word to describe Stepha Henry is missing.

Where is Stepha Henry?

She is not on the cover of People magazine, like the beautiful little British girl who went missing while on vacation with her parents. And she is not leading the 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock … news cycles on cable. She is not among the top items on local news.

Natalee Holloway. Jessie Davis. Laci Peterson. Elizabeth Smart. JonBenet Ramsey. Unless you've been under a rock or in near complete media isolation for the past several years, you know the names. Women, girls, children whose disappearances, abductions, murders or reappearances made national news.

How about some more names:

Kireasha Pam Linkhorne. Marci Crane. Shirley Geanes.

These are women, mothers, daughters who went missing around the same time. Black women whose disappearances did not become household chatter. Women named in an '06 Essence magazine article on the topic of the glaring difference the national and local media makes between the disappearance of black and white women.

"The evidence suggests that there is a clear disparity in the media coverage of black and white women," says Georgia Goslee, a Maryland-based attorney representing the Henry family.

Sylvia Henry is making in-roads. Stepha's photo and information appears on Web sites for Nancy Grace and America's Most Wanted. Stepha's story is due to air at 8 tonight on CNN's Nancy Grace.

Miami-Dade police Cmdr. Linda O'Brien says she is passionate about finding Stepha Henry. "We feel foul play is involved. It's not like she decided without telling anybody to go to some other city and visit friends," she says.

The police continue to search for a four-door, dark-colored Acura Integra. "We keep talking to people, looking for information."

As a mother, Stepha Henry's absence makes me sick. As a black mother, the media's lackadaisical approach infuriates me. As a human being, I join Sylvia Henry, Georgia Goslee and Cmdr. O'Brien in asking the only question that matters:

Where is Stepha Henry?

Sherri Winston can be reached at swinston@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4476.

Trying Process for Families of Missing

Wednesday, July 18, 2007; 7:07 AM

NEW YORK -- Two days after their daughter disappeared during a trip to the Miami area, Steve and Sylvia Henry left their New York home for Florida in search of answers. That was seven weeks ago.

Bills quickly piled up, forcing Steve Henry to return to New York to his job building transit trains. His wife stayed behind in Florida to look for Stepha, 22.
   
"I don't want to think the worst," Steve Henry said. "I want my daughter alive. I don't entertain a thought to say the worst happened to her because I want her back home alive.

"We have to go through this each day," he went on. "It's hard. Very, very hard."

Their experience echoes those of families elsewhere dealing with the endless questions about what happened to their missing loved ones. But the anxiety often goes beyond the grief typically associated with such tragedies.

In the case of the Henrys, Sylvia had to put her bank job in New York on hold while she helps with the search. She lives more than 1,000 miles apart from her husband and their other daughter. Her day consists of handing out fliers, praying and reading the Bible and talking to news media and police.

There's also the financial burden of committing so much effort to finding a missing loved one.

Dave Holloway estimates his family spent nearly $15,000 the week his daughter Natalee disappeared during a 2005 high school graduation trip to Aruba. His first cell phone bill after her disappearance was $2,500, although the cell phone company reduced it to about $1,600.

The family has spent tens of thousands of dollars for lawyers on unsuccessful wrongful death lawsuits against suspects. Although police arrested several men early in the case, including three with whom Natalee was last seen leaving a bar, they were released.

There's also the emotional toll. Holloway said he no longer hunts, or swims or tinkers in the yard as much as he did before his daughter's disappearance.

"You get up thinking about it in the morning. It enters your mind all day long until you go to bed at night," Holloway said. "There's not an hour that goes by that it doesn't cross your mind. You think maybe today will be the day."

Although Natalee Holloway's disappearance received much more attention than Stepha Henry's, there are similarities.

>>>>>>The Complete Article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/18/AR2007071800401.html

There is a terrible burden on the families of the missing. It seems like someone could set up a foundation somewhere to help with a family's expenses in times like these. I know people donate money sometimes, but that seems to bring so much criticism down on a family when they really don't need it. There are all kind of foundations to help families of seriously ill children. It's time to do something for the families of the missing. It seems like their numbers are growing week by week.
I just can't imagine having to worry about money when one of my loved ones was missing. I feel so bad for Dave, and for Stepha Henry's family. This is just another way these families are victimized.

Not to mention that old phrase of 'time heals all wounds' I suppose in a situation as Dave Holloway described --- not really.  It is truly sad to hear how he feels every day - EVERY DAY - into words.  So many with no closure or still waiting for closure.  Unthinkable.

And now Stepha's mom is basically putting her life on hold as well.  It is such a strain on the finances, family, emotions, etc.

i agree Sleeks it gets very frustrating. Often the reasons why or why not things are done in so many missing persons cases are hard to understand. This case, Natalee's of course, and even the missing Mccann girl. Now they will not be able to question the main suspect in that case this week, there is not time? WTH?

I am all for preserving  the rights of all possible suspects in any case. But the victims have rights too.

Today is July 30th, 2007 and still no news on Stepha Henry... :-(

 :(

No MuffyBee. And since I'm in the area, I check frequently.

There was a prayer vigil in Kendall about 2 weeks ago (which is in west MiamiDade County and no where near where Stepha was last seen). Her mom and family (an aunt, I think) have been on the news and said they are just going everywhere -- and anyone or anyplace that will help them pray and get the word out and help them find Stepha is fine with them. They have passed out fliers and anything else to keep Stepha's name out there.

This didn't sound like it should be that hard in the beginning (sound familiar?). Just find the guy that picked her up to take her to the bar.

There is nothing on the news about him. There is NOTHING on the news about the car.

All I've heard is that 'no one saw her leave the nightclub'.

When it was reported that TES was coming to help, there was a comment made that the investigation was leaning towards harm or foul play -- and they were in recovery mode rather than rescue. I don't know why.

We have many, many canals and waterways here. It is not uncommon, unfortunately, for a car to end up in one. Many times, accidentally. Sometimes not so much. It was said on TV that grids were being setup for canal searching. I don't know why.

I don't know what to think about the lack of 'reported' news. Is it being held back? Or do they not know?

Whenever her mom is on tv I cry :sad: No one should have to go though this. The not knowing.

I could not agree more Sharon.  And Sharon it does sound all too familiar.

Waiting for 'The View'

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

By Greta Van Susteren

>>>>>SNIPPED

If you watched last night and the night before, we have driven home a common point: Police need to be in closer contact with families of crime victims. Two nights ago, missing Stepha Henry's mother was on our show and she is in enormous pain of not knowing about her missing daughter. The pain seeps through the camera. The pain is bad and we should look towards trying to help this woman and others similarly situated. One easy — but not perfect — way is for the police to have more contact with the families. I am not suggesting that police tip their hands about investigations - it is important to keep matters close to the vest in an investigation - but rather to stay in constant (even daily) contact with families. I keep pushing this: Assign a rookie cop to call the family once a day for 2 minutes. It will help the family (they will realize the police do care and they do) and it will create a life long empathy in a young police officer that will enrich his or her performance on the job. Two minutes is not going to take away from the other responsibilities of a police officer — in fact, it could be done while drinking a cup of coffee (called multi tasking!) Not all crimes can be solved, but there are simple ways to help ease the pain. Showing you care is one of them. It also eliminates what we see often — people getting mad at the police and being a police officer is a tough and important job.

>>>>>>>>The Full Commentary

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291728,00.html

Clearly the friend knew that the car would be of forensic interest and hid it somewhere because he knew the evidence would be used against him. I wonder about the cell phone signals: why did they end at the club? Was she carrying a purse that night? Many women go to clubs without any handbag: if so, the cell phone would always be with her. Why were the signals not investigated by the police more carefully?

This cavalier attitude of 'I borrowed a car from somebody and didn't worry about returning it and just walked away from it' is clearly the attitude of someone who was involved in a murder.

I hurt right along with this poor woman. Her pain is so evident, and it makes me cry when I see her on TV.
I cannot imagine the hell she's going through, and it seems that if a small thing -  like a phone call -could ease her pain in any way, then that's not too much to ask.

God Bless this family, and Stepha.

Parents Get Help In Fight To Find Stepha Henry
(CBS4) SOUTH FLORIDA The Stepha Henry Fund received $5,000 from a South Florida car dealership and radio station to help in the search of Sepha Henry who went missing last May.

Police say Henry was visiting South Florida with a friend spending time with relatives and taking advantage of the activities surrounding Hip-Hop weekend. She and an acquaintance visited Peppers club in Ft. Lauderdale, and while she was seen inside the club, she dropped out of sight afterward.

The grad student did not contact her family, and police do not know where she is.

Henry’s parents have relocated to South Florida from New York to continue the search . Esserman Nissan and 99 JAMZ have stepped up to help. A Nissan Altima has been loaned to the family for two months, including fuel, and the two companies contributed $5,000 to the Stepha Henry Reward Fund to help the Henry’s with their search.


Syliva Henry said, " I'm not losing hope. The good Lord will help?"

Anyone with information on Stepha Henry can contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS

http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_214183211.html

I heard on the evening news last night that 2 of our local radio stations are doing something to help Stepha's family....I saw it scroll by the screen very quickly again this morning.

I can't get a handle on what they're doing, though :sad:

Hot 105 is one of the stations.

I'm not finding anything in the papers (Sun Sentinel or Miami Herald) or on the HOT 105 site --

I don't have a lot of spare time at the moment, but I will look again this evening to see if I can find out the 'specifics'.

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

muffybee! Thanks!

I'm so glad that some wonderful people have stepped up to help this family. That has to help ease the pain somewhat. God Bless those businesses for helping this family when they need it most.

Parents Of Stepha Henry Get Help In Their Search
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_218104206.html

I hope they find her soon, how sad for this young woman.  I am glad the family is getting help...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/194817.html


MIAMI
Family seeks help finding daughter

Local radio stations have teamed up with Esserman Nissan in Miami to spread the word about a missing 22-year-old woman.

Posted on Tue, Aug. 07, 2007Digg it del.icio.us reprint or license print email
BY ROBBYN MITCHELL
rmitchell@MiamiHerald.com

Sylvia Henry prepared small mountains of curry chicken and roti to encourage someone to come forward with information about her missing daughter, Stepha.

Henry, along with her husband and younger daughter, spent Monday at Esserman Nissan in Miami talking to the media and residents, taking donations and serving food to radio listeners who were drawn by the family's pleas.

''The best thing is that this will increase the reward for information,'' she said. ``That will really help because somebody out there knows something.''

So far the family and community organizations have raised $11,000.

Stepha Henry, a 22-year-old Brooklyn resident and a graduate of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, disappeared on May 29 after being seen at Peppers Cafe in Sunrise about 1 a.m.

During her annual Memorial Day visit to her aunt's home in Miami Gardens, she told her mother she was getting a ride from a friend's brother-in-law.

The 5-foot-2, 110-pound woman with auburn hair was picked up in a dark four-door Acura Integra that night.

That was the last time her family saw her.

Sylvia Henry left her Brooklyn home to try to find her daughter in early June and has been in South Florida since then trying to find ways to reach out to the community to aid in her search.

She did a radio interview on Cox Radio's WHQT-FM 105.1 and caught the attention of Chris Assmar, general manager of Esserman Nissan and a longtime advertiser with the radio station.

''After I heard the interview, I went and Googled Stepha and was disturbed about how little media coverage she had been given,'' Assmar said.

So he contacted the station and set up a fundraiser for reward money at the dealership, which also donated $5,000 to the Stepha Henry Fund. Esserman also vowed to donate $200 to the fund from every vehicle sold during the event.

But the main objective of the event was media coverage, to keep Stepha's name on the mind of the public.

''When Natalee Holloway went missing in Aruba, I felt like I knew her because her family was on TV every night talking about her it seemed,'' said Jerry Rushin, vice president and general manger of WEDR-FM and WHQT-FM, which co-sponsored the event. Both stations broadcast live at the dealership from 1 to 8 p.m.

''We're just trying to get that kind of exposure for Stepha,'' Rushin said. ``I've seen it a 1,000 times. Once you put the call out on the radio, the community will respond.''

''It's good to see so many different types of media in one place,'' said Steve Henry, Stepha's father. ``It should help us bring her home.''

Has there been any kind of information regarding questioning the person she went to the party with that "lost" the car he drove to the party?  Seems like that person holds the key to where she is or what happened.

NOTHING that they are saying on the news, jennifer34.

So I don't know if they're withholding reporting about it, or if they haven't asked him yet :roll:

I'm local to the area so I do a search every few days on our local news sites -- plus what is braodcast on our local news.

Nada. Zero. Zilch. :-?

Surely they have Sharon.  That has to be the obvious place to start.  Seems like they would have been able to get something on this person by now. 

How frustrating for her family.  I bet her dad would like to have a heart to heart talk with that guy.  KWIM.  I know my dad would.

I tell you what fellow monkeys - it is too much like Natalee.  They first knew to look at Joran and what happened???

Same thing here, who is this person, a relative of LE or what??? 

Oh, I agree jennifer. They MUST have.

They're just not reporting anything about it. At least not here in Miami on the local news. There is a 'blurb' on the local news almost everyday about Stepha. But more about what the community can do and is doing to help her family get the word out.

NOTHING about the guy who picked her up -- and NOTHING about the car.

Other than what they reported in the first few days. Wasn't his car. He borrowed it. He doesn't know where the car is. He lost track of Stepha in the Ft Lauderdale club.

If you are hearing or reading anything else, please post it.

ITA!   This guy knows what happened. He isn't telling anyone anything, to save his own neck.

And they haven't EVER released his name. That I have found.

Or I would go visit him and ask him myself  :D

I mean -- wtf -- you picked the young woman up in a borrowed car, lost track of her in the club -- and you don't know where the car is???

Is that Ft Lauderdale speak for 'I left her sleeping on the beach'???

So True Sharon.  How ridiculous.  Maybe LE will just wait for this nut to leave the country too. :lol:

Stepha Henry Reward Increases to $15,000

http://tinyurl.com/36739q

"The mother of Stepha Henry has moved to Miami to find her daughter."

Bump

They were supposed to hold a vigil for Stepha the other night in NYC.

I bet Stepha's family knows the name of that guy.  :wink:

I wish I could go down there and help her look for her child. She is living every parent's nightmare, but she seems to be strong like Beth. I hope she gets the answers she needs.

Not a great article -- just another 'Stepha's not white and blond' opinion.

But there was a statement in there I had not read before --- interesting  :shock:.

(I have not seen any updates about the decomposed body found in Southwest Ranches -- I rhink I may contact the paper or the writer next week)


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorial/sfl-editajjcolumnnbsep02,0,4747877.story


The case is in the hands of an "incredible team " of investigators, said Commander Linda O'Brien, of the Miami-Dade Police Department, the agency handling the case. They have searched canals and interviewed a number of people, including the man who Stepha drove off with. But he's not a suspect, O'Brien said.

sharon ~  I'm glad you read through the article I posted and gleaned an interesting tidbit of information from it.  Sharp eyes and good memory :) sharon.  Perhaps the media likes the rich, white girl stories, but so many of us care about all the missing, no matter their race or background.  I find that there are just so MANY missing people.  And how to keep the message out there for them, day after day.  I'm thinking using the internet like this is the answer, plus good folks like you Sharon that keep on working the cases.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/09/2007-09-09_mom_cooks_for_fundraiser_to_find_daughte.html


Mom cooks for fund-raiser to find daughter missing in Florida

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BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, September 9th 2007, 4:00 AM

 
 
Stepha Henry


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Standing at the stove in her Brooklyn apartment yesterday, Sylvia Henry prepared white rice and thought of her daughter.

But instead of making a joyful family dinner, Henry was cooking for a fund-raiser to increase the reward offered for 22-year-old Stepha Henry, who disappeared May 29 while visiting relatives in Florida.

"I'm still hoping to see my daughter alive," said Henry. "It's been more than three months, and we have no answers."

Later yesterday, friends and supporters of the Henry family gathered at the Church Ave. Youth Culture Center in Flatbush to raise money by selling homemade Caribbean food.

"We decided to do something to increase the reward and to create a day of awareness in the community that she is still missing," Henry said.

"New Yorkers should care. She was a resident here and she loved this city."

Since the John Jay graduate's disappearance, her mother has quit her job as a banker and spends most of her time in Florida, raising money and handing out missing-person flyers.

Dozens of people turned out at the center yesterday, paying $15 for a tray of steaming food and hoping that the money will help in finding the young woman who was studying for her LSATs and working at John Jay before she vanished.

"I will always come to anything that can put more emphasis on finding Stepha," said co-worker Rulisa Galloway-Perry, 37. "You just can't help yourself but wanting to help."

vbelenkaya@nydailynews.com

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flb3bdigest09143nbsep14,0,6083599.story

$17,000 reward offered in woman's disappearance at Sunrise club

September 14, 2007
Students, faculty and staff at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York have raised $2,000 to help find Stepha Henry.

Henry, 22, a recent graduate of the college, disappeared May 28 after last being sighted at Pepper's Cafe, a reggae club in Sunrise.

The funds will be awarded to anyone who comes forward with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person involved in her disappearance.

The Henry family is also offering a reward of $15,000.

Contributions may be made to the John Jay College Foundation, Inc: Stepha Henry Reward Fund and mailed to John Jay College Foundation, 899 10th Ave., Room 623T, New York, NY 10019.

Anyone with information should contact Miami-Dade CrimeStoppers at 1-866-471-TIPS(8477).

Sharon  This is just one of the many strange cases to date.  I know (as the rest of you) there is something really wrong that the last person known to have seen her, supposedly has no answers about Stepha or the car.  :-x

I agree Sleeks.

And the information is so hard to come by. But I keep looking  :-?

No real update on Stepha. I'll keep looking.

They mention Stepha in this article because last night, 2 were killed outside of the same club that Stepha disappeared from in Ft Lauderdale.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbdouble0923nbsep23,0,1397235.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout


Two men shot, killed outside Sunrise nightclub Pepper's Cafe
Homicide rate on track to set a record


By Brian Haas South Florida Sun-Sentinel
September 23, 2007

SUNRISE - Two men were shot and killed Saturday morning after an argument outside the same Jamaican bar and nightclub thought to be the last place a missing Brooklyn woman was seen.

The homicides were the 88th and 89th reported this year in Broward County, where murders have been occurring at their fastest pace in more than a decade and a half.

Slain following a parking lot altercation were Jonas Joseph, 24, and Enold Antenor, 30, both of whom were last known to have lived in Fort Lauderdale. Police did not release information on possible suspects.

The trouble began inside of Pepper's Cafe, said Lt. Robert Voss, spokesman for the Sunrise Police Department.

He said an argument broke out about 4 a.m. inside the nightclub at 3828 N. University Drive, then spilled outdoors. There, at least one person pulled a gun, opened fire and shot Joseph and Antenor.

Joseph died in the parking lot, Antenor died after being rushed to Broward General Medical Center, in Fort Lauderdale.

Neither of the victims had a criminal record, according to records obtained from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

A woman at Pepper's Cafe, who claimed to be the owner, said the incident had nothing to do with her business.

"What happened, happened out there," she said, pointing to the parking lot.She declined to give her name.

In May, the nightclub was the last place that Stepha Henry, a 22-year-old Brooklyn woman staying with relatives in Miami-Dade County, was seen before she went missing.

Henry had just finished an undergraduate degree at New York's John Jay College and was planning to attend law school. Authorities said she left Pepper's Cafe with a man in a dark-colored Acura Integra and hasn't been seen since. There was no indication that Henry's disappearance had any link with the slayings.

Miami-Dade police suspect foul play in the Henry case, and have assigned homicide detectives to investigate it.

John Jay College has offered a $2,000 reward and Henry's family has put up an additional $15,000 for any information that helps crack the case.

The club sits in a strip mall between a check-cashing store and All Ages Preschool. Workers at another nearby nightclub, Sophia's Ballroom, were unable to leave work until about 8 a.m. Saturday because of the investigation intothe double homicide.

With Saturday's deaths, Broward County remains on track to experience its greatest number of homicides since 1990: 123 if the current rate continues.

Anyone with information about the double killing should call Sunrise police at 954-746-3559 or 954-746-3569.

Anyone with information about the disappearance of Henry should call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

I  too have been searching  for any updates.  If I find anything I will post it, and I know you all will do the same.  Sometimes it seems there is initial information, and then nothing for long periods.  It just drops off...this has to be so hard for the family and friends of the missing.  And there are so many more missing each day. :sad:

This not an update, but it is a very touching article, and may contain a few more snippets of information about Stepha that could be of help. 

Brooklyn girl missing since May trip to Florida

BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA

Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/brooklyn/2007/09/18/2007-09-18_brooklyn_girl_missing_since_may_trip_to_.html
(snipped)
The John Jay graduate took the fateful trip to Miami Gardens, Fla., to visit relatives in May - a gift for her sister Shola's 16th birthday.

The night before her flight back to New York, an acquaintance picked her up in a black sedan to go to the Peppers Cafe in Sunrise, Fla.

He later told cops they parted ways inside the club. Stepha Henry checked her cell phone voice mail at 4:13 a.m. on May 29 and hasn't been been heard from since.

"Certainly we feel she's met with foul play," said Miami-Dade County Police Commander Linda O'Brien.

"This is totally out of the norm for her behavior. She's very close with her family, getting ready for law school," O'Brien said.

In Brooklyn, Stepha Henry's life awaits her. She will turn 23 later this month.
(snipped)

I am going to post this here...it is the only place I saw fit because of the 'missing car' info in Ft. Lauderdale.
Divers comb Southwest Ranches canal, search for clues in missing persons cases
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
December 9, 2007

Southwest Ranches - Jeanie Naylor has yet to mourn her father. It is impossible when there is no body or clues showing how he vanished two years ago.

"I think he was hallucinating on Parkinson's drugs and drove off into one of these canals," said Naylor, who works for the Broward County Schools' finance department and lives in Fort Lauderdale. "It would mean closure to find him."

Fourteen search and rescue divers worked to grant her wish Saturday, braving alligators and near black-out conditions to feel around for cars and missing people in an inky canal along Griffin Road in Southwest Ranches.

The so-called Dive Tournament, organized in part by the Missing Children International Ministries, a Pembroke Pines nonprofit group committed to finding missing people, found two vehicles, one with a Texas license plate, the other bearing a Florida plate. Organizers hoped to trace their license plates to missing persons cases.
Joining Saturday's dive effort was the Matthew Stirling Foundation, named for an 18-year-old who disappeared for six months before investigators retrieved his body in a pickup truck from a canal along U.S. 27 in May 2006.

"If we found Matt in there, who knows who else is down there," said Stirling's aunt, Alison McManus, 40, of Sunrise.

The diving group included retired police officers as well as aspiring ones.

"It will help give me experience in how to deal with crime scenes," said Shay Johnson, 23, a junior majoring in criminal investigations at Everest University in Pompano Beach. "It makes me feel good to help other people."

Sgt. John Barbuto, who oversees the Hollywood Police Department's dive team, said Florida's canals serve as a wasteland of submerged crime scenes.

"It's a dumping ground for stolen cars, and someone could have driven off the road," Barbuto said. "We can help to relieve someone's mind. If your daughter was missing, would you want them to be found? I know I would."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbdive1209sbdec09,0,7331147.story

It seems as though Stepha's case has gone stone cold.  I feel terrible for her family, especially with the holidays being here. I know it must be very hard for them.
I'm praying that this family finds their daughter, and gets some answers.

Nut44x4 On page 6, I think, of Missing Persons, Sharon started a thread about a body found. It was in Southwest Ranches. Is this related to the article you posted? TIA

I do not know...I can't find the thread you are speaking of. The link in post above is recent.

 :smt102

Under Decomposed body found in Broward County. Not sure whether to put the article over there or not. Please see what you think. Have tried to follow up on that thread a few times and found nothing. TIA

I found the link but I don't see a connection. That body was found along side of the road and the article mentioned above talks of canal searches.....
Am I missing something?? I do have NATALEE on the brain BIG TIME and could just be missing your point?

No, you're not missing anything. That's why I wanted you to look at it. Not enough sleep or coffee here and a lot going on. Thanks Nut.

The Miami Herald (Florida)
 
December 24, 2007 Monday 
 
Missing woman's family struggles
 
Dec. 24--In the seven months since Stepha Henry disappeared during a visit to South Florida, her family blanketed the area with fliers, made tearful pleas on national news shows and observed holidays with heavy hearts.

Christmas will be no exception.

"It hasn't been easy," said her mother, Sylvia Henry, in a phone interview Sunday from her home in Brooklyn. "All of the things that were fun, that Stepha made fun -- buying gifts, decorating the house, cooking -- have been very difficult this year."

The John Jay College honors graduate went missing Memorial Day weekend. She was last seen at Peppers Cafe, a nightclub in Sunrise.

Stepha Henry, 22, born in Trinidad and Tobago, but raised in New York, had flown with her 16-year-old sister Shola to Florida just before the holiday to celebrate Shola's birthday. They stayed with relatives in Miami Gardens.

The sisters, who their mother said were more like best friends, spent their time visiting relatives, shopping and going to the beach.

On May 29, the night before Henry was scheduled to return home, she spoke to her mother and told her she was going to a nightclub.

Hours later, she left her aunt's place with a male acquaintance in a black Acura Integra, headed to Peppers.

VIDEOTAPE

A camera crew taping a promotional video at the club that night captured footage of Henry inside the club.

The male acquaintance left without her, police said. At 4:13 a.m., Henry checked her voice-mail on her cellphone. The next morning, her aunt and sister noticed she had not come home.

She was reported missing, and her parents, mother Sylvia and father Steve, flew down to Miami.

After very publicly setting up camp in South Florida -- urging the local media to cover her daughter's disappearance -- Sylvia Henry eventually returned to New York in November. She calls Miami-Dade police officers every morning, every afternoon and every night, she said.

While investigators continue following leads, the family has had to resume their daily routines.

Sylvia Henry and her other daughter, Shola, have been in counseling.

Shola's grades have dropped and she has become withdrawn, said her mother.

"She doesn't talk to us," Sylvia Henry said. "They were very close. She blames herself because they had gone down there for her birthday."

Stepha's name has slowly faded from news broadcasts.

Youtube videos about the young woman have cropped up on the site. One called "Stepha Henry -- Who is She?" accuses the media of incessantly playing up the disappearances of young white women like Natalee Holloway and the antics of Paris Hilton and mostly ignoring Stepha.

Another one plays P. Diddy's remake of The Police's Every Breath You Take over still photographs of the missing woman. Her case is also on America's Most Wanted's website.

SAD BIRTHDAY

When Stepha's 23rd birthday came in late September, the family celebrated with a Mass at their home.

John Jay College, where she had excelled in criminal justice courses and aspired to be an attorney, also held a birthday celebration for her. Candles were lit and students read poems, her mother said.

Thanksgiving was also a somber event.

"Normally, we have music, we have lots of friends coming over, but this year, we cooked the food and we just ate together. There was no celebration," Henry said.

Christmas will be the same.

"Stepha always got us in the mood," said Henry. "She was the first one to buy gifts, she was always the one that got us excited. It's sad. I can't even be happy. I'm trying to do some laughing. It's not easy."
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:720445778&start=1

http://www.nbc6.net/news/15051937/detail.html?dl=mainclick

Man Arrested, Charged In Disappearance Of Stepha Henry

POSTED: 9:23 am EST January 15, 2008
UPDATED: 10:13 am EST January 15, 2008


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Miami-Dade police have arrested a man in connection with the disappearance of Stepha Henry.

Police said that 32-year-old Kendrick Williams was arrested in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is charged with second-degree murder.

Henry, 22, has been missing since May 29, 2007. The New Yorker was on vacation in South Florida when she disappeared.

She was last seen at Pepper's nightclub in Sunrise. Miami-Dade police said that Williams took Henry to the club. After her disappearance, Williams told police that he left the club without Williams.

In a news release, Miami-Dade police said that investigators conducted a forensic analysis of Williams' Acura Integra and found substantial evidence linking Williams to Henry.

No body has been found, and no details were being released on the exact nature of the evidence found in the car, Miami-Dade police spokesman Robert Williams said. It was not immediately clear when Kendrick Williams would be transferred to Florida.

Henry's family came to Florida after her disappearance, but returned to New York in November. Henry would have turned 23 in September

Wow, this is something....though still sad for her family that Stepha has not been found.  Again, this guy was the last seen with her, at least at the time she left for that nightclub.

I hope they keep the creep in NYC. I have faith the cops here will make him talk. That family deserves to know where Stepha's remains are.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I check all the time on news of this and FINALLY!!

First time I'm near the news all day! And I came here to post it :lol:

Thanks Nut and klaasend.

I'll keep an ear to the local news to see if I hear anything interesting.

http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/380013.html


Police: Henry's blood found in suspect's car

Posted on Tue, Jan. 15, 2008
By ERIKA BERAS, DAVID OVALLE AND EVAN S. BENN
eberas@MiamiHerald.com

MIAMI DADE COUNTY
Stepha Henry, an aspiring attorney and a recent John Jay College honors graduate, had been in South Florida over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate her 16-year-old sister Shola's birthday.

JAN. 15

Police announce the arrest of Kendrick Williams, 32, who will be charged with second-degree murder. He is picked up in New York and will be extradited to South Florida.

Miami-Dade police on Tuesday afternoon explained what led them to arrest a New York man on charges of killing 22-year-old Stepha Henry almost eight months after she was last seen at a Sunrise nightclub: Blood.

Investigators said they found a large amount of Henry's blood in an Acura Integra driven by suspect Kendrick Lincoln Williams, 32. The volume of evidence pointed to a homicide, police said.

''No one could survive with that loss of blood,'' Miami-Dade Assistant Police Director Jim Loftus said at a 4 p.m. news conference.

Williams and Henry were seen together in a video taken inside Peppers Café in Sunrise early on May 29 -- the last time she was seen alive.

Her family expressed mild relief upon hearing news of Williams' arrest Tuesday, but they remain hopeful Henry will be found alive.

''We've been looking for Stepha for so long,'' her father, Steve Henry, said. ``They say they have this guy. We are sad but we are happy. Maybe he will lead us to her.''

Miami-Dade detectives and New York authorities arrested Williams as he slept in a car at Brooklyn's Canarsie Pier early Tuesday.

He was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Police did not explain the evidence-tampering charge.

Henry, an aspiring attorney and a recent John Jay College honors graduate, had been in South Florida over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate her 16-year-old sister Shola's birthday. They were staying with relatives in Miami Gardens.

Henry spent several days shopping and going to the beach. On the night of May 28, a few hours before she was heading out, she called her mother and said she was going to a nightclub.

Williams picked her up in a dark-colored Acura Integra at her aunt's home. He had purchased the car in New York and driven it down to Florida, Miami-Dade police said.

The pair -- described by police as acquaintances who also hung out at a barbecue on May 28 in Miami Gardnes -- went to Peppers.

A camera crew taping a promotional video at the club that night captured footage of Henry inside the club, wearing a black dress with a white tank top underneath.

Williams initially told investigators he had left the club early and that Henry had decided to stay behind.

At 4:13 a.m., Henry checked her voice mail on her cellphone.

The next morning, her aunt and sister noticed she had not come home. Her mother, Sylvia Henry, flew down from New York and set up camp for five months. She returned to New York in September when Shola started struggling with her classes at school and was having personal problems.

Detectives had said for months that Williams was not a suspect.

In September, detectives located the Acura Integra driven by Williams on the night Henry was last seen. They found the car in South Florida.

''Once they found the vehicle, they were able to determine that she had been in that vehicle,'' said Detective Mario Rachid of the Miami-Dade Police Department. ``They were able to get a warrant and arrest Williams.''

Investigators said they have other evidence in addition to what their forensic analysis determined.

Williams, who splits his time between New York City and South Florida, has no permanent address.

Williams was arrested at 8 a.m. without incident by members of the New York Police Department Intelligence Division Fugitive Task Force and Miami-Dade detectives.

He spent the day being questioned by detectives in New York.

Williams has a short criminal record. In October 2006, he was spared a trespassing conviction but was required to pay $26 in court fees, Florida state records show.

It is unknown how Williams and Henry knew each other. Police initially said they were acquaintances. Sylvia Henry told The Miami Herald several weeks ago that the two were not a couple.

Detectives have not yet located Henry's body.

The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan issued a statement late Tuesday morning, offering its condolences to Henry's family.

``As a student, an alumna and a staff member, Stepha embodied the values we hope to impart to all of our students -- a thirst for knowledge, a commitment to excellence and a desire to ensure fairness in the pursuit of justice. She was full of hope and promise. We mourn the fact that she was unable to fulfill her dreams.''

Henry would have turned 23 in September.

Larry Camp, the pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Brooklyn, where the Henry family worships, was processing the news Tuesday afternoon.

``Ms. Henry always believed she would see her daughter again. She has always had that hope.''

Miami Herald staff writers Jennifer Mooney Piedra, Roberto Santiago and Trenton Daniel contributed to this report.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flbstepha0117sbjan17,0,725585.story

Miramar mother on disappearance of Stepha Henry: 'I blame myself'

She says she would not have let girl ride with slaying suspect

By Macollvie Jean-François | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
January 17, 2008

Miramar - One of Angela Bodie's daughters was close friends with Stepha Henry. An older daughter had a long relationship, and two children, with Kendrick Williams.

Bodie said that's how Henry met Williams. And after Henry disappeared last May, Bodie bought the younger daughter a plane ticket to New York so she would be far away from whoever was responsible.

On Tuesday, Williams, 32, was arrested in New York and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. He is accused of killing Henry, who was reported missing after attending a barbecue at Bodie's house in Miramar and a party at a Sunrise nightclub last Memorial Day weekend.

Henry's body has not been found, but police say blood found in Williams' car confirms she is dead.

"It's like a nightmare," Bodie said from her Miramar home Wednesday, tears flowing down her face. "It's heart-wrenching. A lot of lives have been torn apart."

Bodie's oldest daughter, Kamesha Kallia Roye, 29, has two children with Williams. Another daughter, Tamara Williams (no relation to Kendrick Williams) is 23. Neither could be reached for comment Wednesday.

Henry and Tamara Williams met at Metropolitan Corporate Academy High School in Brooklyn in the late 1990s. The two both had charismatic, ambitious personalities, Bodie said. They became inseparable, and met each other's relatives and friends. They kept in touch throughout college.

About the same time that Tamara Williams and Stepha Henry's friendship solidified, Kendrick Williams and Roye were dating in Brooklyn. The couple had a child.

When Bodie's family moved to Florida years later, Henry and Tamara Williams stayed in touch. Pictures of the two and a third friend have lined the walls of Bodie's home for years.

When Henry flew to Miami last year, it was only natural for her to attend the May 28 barbecue at Bodie's house in the 8800 block of Southampton Drive. That's where the decision was made for Henry to ride to the nightclub with Kendrick Williams. Bodie was out of town at the time.

"I blame myself," Bodie said. "I feel like if I was here, I wouldn't have let her go to the club with him."

Bodie said although Kendrick Williams and her older daughter eventually married, she had issues with him. He used her address, where Roye lives now, but Kendrick Williams was not allowed at her home. Not even the driveway, she said.

"I don't approve of him. As a mother, I have my reservations. But that doesn't make him a killer," Bodie said.

In May 2005, after Kendrick Williams was accused of breaking into Roye's home in Miramar, Roye, a nurse, told investigators that Kendrick Williams stalked her because he refused to accept that their relationship was over. She said she woke to find he'd broken into her house about 5 a.m. that morning, although she had a temporary restraining order against him, and told him to leave. According to police records, he asked her for money. The burglary came after various acts Williams had done that scared Roye because they were not "normal," she said.

"'I'm afraid that he wants to harm me,'" Roye said then, according to police records. She added Kendrick Williams had "a pattern... [of] showing up and doing these erratic things."

Arrested on simple stalking, burglary and resisting arrest, Williams pleaded the charges down to trespassing and was fined $26, court records show.

Earlier this month, Miami-Dade police traveled to New York and worked with authorities there to find Kendrick Williams. Police sources in New York told Newsday they tracked him down using cell phone technology, and he remains there while fighting extradition to Florida. He is being held without bail until a Feb. 15 hearing.

In the meantime, he is still being questioned. Miami-Dade police said the car Kendrick Williams used to drive Henry to the club was recovered in September, but they would not say where. Agency spokeswoman Detective Nelda Fonticella said the department's forensic lab processed it and got a lot of evidence out of it, though Kendrick Williams "did try to clean up the vehicle."

"We're hoping he'll lead us to a body," said Fonticella.

To Bodie and others who loved Stepha Henry, that's what matters now.

"To think that somebody close to us would do this is very hurtful," Bodie said. "It's not about him. It's really about her."

Staff Writer Mike Clary, Newsday Staff Writer Rocco Parascandola and Sun-Sentinel Staff Researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.

Macollvie Jean-François can be reached at mjfrancois@ sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7922.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/387404.html

MISSING STUDENT
Missing woman's mom clings to hope
The mother of a missing woman is not giving up hope that her daughter is still alive, despite evidence to the contrary.

Posted on Mon, Jan. 21, 2008

BY ROBERTO SANTIAGO
rsantiago@MiamiHerald.com

Stepha Henry was last seen May 29 at Pepper's Cafe in Sunrise.Although the alleged killer of Stepha Henry was arrested and charged with murder in New York City last week, the victim's mother, Sylvia Henry, won't believe her daughter is dead until a body is recovered.

''I know they have someone in custody, but until they find my daughter I am not giving up. I believe in the Lord and will continue praying until they locate my daughter, Stepha,'' Henry said on Sunday afternoon while being interviewed on the Andre Eggelletion radio show, WFTL-AM (850), from her home in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Henry said she was pleased with the work the Miami-Dade and New York City police departments were doing. And she is convinced that Kendrick Williams, 32, is responsible for her 22-year-old daughter's disappearance.

Last Tuesday, Miami-Dade detectives and the New York Police Department Intelligence Division Fugitive Task Force arrested Williams as he slept in a car at Brooklyn's Canarsie Pier.

Williams was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Police did not explain the latter charge.

Police believe Williams killed Henry on May 29, 2007, after picking her up from her aunt's North Miami-Dade apartment in his black Acura Integra and taking her to a nightclub.

A videotape taken at Peppers Cafe in Sunrise shows Williams and Henry at the club.

Police said the Acura Integra, which was recovered in September in South Florida, contained a substantial amount of the victim's blood. ''No one could survive with that loss of blood,'' Miami-Dade Assistant Police Director Jim Loftus said last week during a news conference.

The victim's mother said Sunday that she could not discuss the blood evidence, noting that police are still investigating, but she stressed -- as she has since her daughter's disappearance -- that she hopes that her daughter is still alive.

Previously, police have said that the suspect and the victim had been acquaintances. During the radio interview Sunday, Sylvia Henry agreed that Williams was no stranger to her daughter and that the two knew each other through mutual friends.

Henry was disappointed when she came to Florida last spring shortly after her daughter's disappearance and saw little media coverage about the crime.

When Henry returned to New York and told officials at John Jay College -- where her daughter had just graduated with honors -- about the lack of media coverage, the college stepped in. She credits John Jay for having contacted every print and television media outlet in sight, which helped spur national media interest in the case.

''The media did a good job,'' said Henry, who says she gets lots of calls from the media for updates. ``They [even] camped out around my house to get the story.''

Henry urged listeners to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 if they have any information, no matter how minor, about her daughter.

 

Police Charge Man With Murder Of Stepha Henry
Stepha Henry's Body Has Not Been Found

Jan 15, 2008 11:16 pm US/Eastern
 MIAMI (CBS4) ―  Detectives arrested Kendrick Williams,32, in Brooklyn, New York and have charged him with the murder of Stepha Henry.

Henry, a grad student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was visiting South Florida, spending time with relatives and taking advantage of the activities surrounding Hip-Hop weekend in May of 2007, which is Memorial Day weekend.

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon Jim Loftus, Assistant Director of Investigative Services at the Miami Dade Police Department, explained that on Monday, May 28th, Henry went to a bar-b-que in Miramar at a friend's house where she met up with Williams.  Loftus said the two made plans to go to Peppers Café Nightclub, 3828 N. University Drive, in Sunrise the following night.  During their night out, she was seen inside the club, but she dropped out of sight afterward.

Police said Williams and Henry arrived at the nightclub in a dark colored Acura Integra. Initially, Williams told investigators he had left the club early and that Henry had decided to stay there and she was never seen again.

Investigators say they have enough evidence to try Williams, even though Henry's body was never found. Eight months later, her mother Sylvia is still mourning.

>>>>the complete article>>>>

http://cbs4.com/local/Stepha.Henry.Murder.2.630015.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/420134.html

STEPHA HENRY SLAYING
Murder suspect fighting extradition to S. Florida
Kendrick Williams, accused of murdering aspiring attorney Stepha Henry, will appear before a judge Friday in New York.

BY TRENTON DANIEL
tdaniel@MiamiHerald.com

A drifter accused of killing an aspiring attorney visiting family in South Florida is scheduled to go before a New York judge Friday to fight his extradition to Miami-Dade.

Kendrick Williams, 32, was arrested Jan. 15 in Brooklyn and charged with the second-degree murder of Stepha Henry, a Trinidad and Tobago native who disappeared last Memorial Day weekend after going to a club in Sunrise with Williams.

Her disappearance drew national attention. Friends and relatives contended that 22-year-old Henry, a 2006 honors graduate from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, was not a runaway but a crime victim.

Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Abbe Rifkin said she was confident Williams would eventually be brought here to face charges.

Defense attorney, Lawrence Siry, could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

MEMORIAL DAY

Henry came to South Florida with her sister, Shola, then 16, for the Memorial Day weekend and to celebrate Shola's birthday. They stayed with an aunt in Miami Gardens. The young women spent the first days of their vacation getting pedicures and going to a reggae concert.

At a barbecue on May 28, Henry chatted with Williams, described by relatives and police as an acquaintance but not a boyfriend. They made plans to go to the Sunrise nightclub Peppers Café later that night.

At 1 a.m. on May 29, Williams picked up Henry in an Acura Integra. Investigators said he bought the car in New York and drove it to Florida. The pair left Henry's aunt's house for the nightclub.

Henry and Williams were seen together in a video recorded inside the club, police said. Williams, whom police had interviewed after Henry's disappearance, told investigators he left the club at some point and that Henry decided to stay.

Investigators released few details in the case for months. As the case grew colder, Henry's friends and family were critical of the media for letting her disappearance slip from the spotlight.

Last September, the same month Henry would have turned 23, police found the Acura Integra in South Florida. Inside, forensic tests revealed a large amount of Henry's blood. Police said the volume of evidence pointed to a homicide.

Williams was arrested early on the morning of Jan. 15 when members of the New York Police Department fugitive division and Miami-Dade detectives knocked on the window of a Nissan Maxima he was sleeping in at a Brooklyn, N.Y., pier.

BODY NOT FOUND

Police have not found Henry's body and are not sure she was killed, but Miami-Dade police took the lead on the investigation because it originated as a missing-persons case in Miami Gardens.

Prosecutors have said they will be able to litigate the case without finding her.

Williams, a native of the Virgin Islands, had fled to New York after Henry's death, police said.

Henry's mother Sylvia, has said she won't believe her daughter is dead until the body turns up.

Miami Herald staff writer Susannah A. Nesmith contributed to this report.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale)
 
February 21, 2008 Thursday 
 
 
Extradition in disappearance of Stepha Henry not yet filed: Governor's Office to review Stepha Henry suspect's case  

Feb. 21--MIAMI -- More than five weeks after police made an arrest in the disappearance of Stepha Henry, the man charged with murdering the South Florida visitor remains jailed in New York because a request for his extradition has not yet been filed with the Florida Governor's Office.

Prosecutor Abbe Rifkin said the delay in bringing Kendrick Williams back to Miami-Dade County to stand trial is "not unreasonable."

But, she added, efforts to gain custody of Williams, 32, have been slowed because the case against the suspect is sealed and the only judge who could unseal it was out of town for part of the last month.

In New York, Sylvia Henry, Stepha Henry's mother, on Wednesday said, "My goal is to find my daughter and get information about her. They have arrested someone, and I know the case is making progress.

"I'd like to see this [move forward] as soon as possible. But I know there are legal proceedings and we have to wait."

Prosecutors asked Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Stanford Blake to seal the case against Williams so details of the investigation would be kept secret, since the suspect was not in local custody, Rifkin said.

Only Blake could then unseal the case file, which he did Tuesday, so that it could be copied and forwarded with an extradition request to Gov. Crist's office in Tallahassee. Blake was gone much of January because of a teaching assignment.

If a review by the governor's staff determines the case is legally sufficient, the request then will be forwarded to the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, for another review. From there a warrant for Williams' removal to Florida could be issued.

Williams, who is fighting extradition, was arrested Jan. 15 in Brooklyn and charged with second-degree murder in the disappearance of Henry, 22, last seen on Memorial Day at a Sunrise nightclub. Williams and Henry were acquainted, met up at a barbecue May 28, and he took her to the club.

Henry's body has never been found, but police said they are sure she is dead because of the blood evidence found in Williams' car.

Williams, who told police he left Henry at Peppers Cafe, is next due in court March 13 for a rescheduled extradition hearing. His attorney, Manhattan Legal Aid Society lawyer Lawrence Siry, could not be reached for comment.

Meanwhile, Sylvia Henry said that she holds out hope that her daughter will be found alive. "I am still hoping because she is my daughter," she said. "God is in charge of the whole thing."
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Posted on Sat, Apr. 05, 2008
Suspect in Sunrise slaying arraigned in New York
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/484041.html

The East Coast drifter accused of killing an honors college graduate, was arraigned in a New York court Friday, said a spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

Kendrick Lincoln Williams, charged with the second-degree murder of Stepha Henry, refused to be extradited, a spokeswoman from the District Attorney's Office said.

Williams was arrested in New York in connection with the slaying of Henry, 22, who disappeared last Memorial Day weekend after she went to a club in Sunrise with Williams.

Her disappearance drew national attention. Friends and relatives contended that Henry, a 2006 honors graduate from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, was not a runaway but a crime victim.

Williams, a native of the Virgin Islands, is scheduled to go before a New York judge on April 25.

http://www.nbc6.net/news/16308825/detail.html

Suspect In Stepha Henry Case Extradited To S. Fla.

POSTED: 10:37 pm EDT May 16, 2008
UPDATED: 11:37 pm EDT May 16, 2008


Authorities in New York extradited the suspect in the disappearance and slaying of Stepha Henry to South Florida on Friday.

Kendrick Williams, who is accused of murdering the South Florida tourist, tried to fight extradition in New York. He was brought to a county jail in northwest Miami-Dade County Friday night.

The 32-year-old was arrested on Jan. 15 in Brooklyn and charged with second-degree murder.
 

Henry was a college graduate who met Williams while she was vacationing in South Florida in May 2007, police said.

Her disappearance drew national attention. Family and friends said she was a 2006 honors graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

Last Memorial Day, Henry and Williams were seen together in a video recorded inside Pepper's Café, a Sunrise nightclub. It was the last place Henry was seen alive, police said.

Henry's mother and loved ones rallied together week after week, passing out fliers in hopes of finding Henry alive.

In September, authorities said they found the vehicle in which Henry and Williams left the club. Police said they found a large amount of Henry's blood inside the car.

Four months after recovering the car, authorities apprehended Williams in New York and charged him with Henry's slaying.

Police have not found Henry's body, but they said they will be able to litigate the case without it.

Henry's mother, who lives in New York, said she wasn't aware that Williams was back in South Florida. She said she was happy to hear that the proceedings are moving along, and she said she will be in South Florida when the trial takes place.

Thanks for the update sharon hope they take him DOWN!

Fry him...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/539559.html

STEPHA HENRY CASE
Suspect in Stepha Henry's slaying moved to S. Florida
A year after a Brooklyn woman disappeared in South Florida, the man charged in her murder is behind bars in Miami awaiting trial.
Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2008

BY JENNIFER MOONEY PIEDRA
jmooney@MiamiHerald.com
The man accused of killing Stepha Henry is in a Miami-Dade jail, following his long-anticipated extradition from New York.

Kendrick Williams, 33, was arrested in January in New York and charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of Henry, a 22-year-old college graduate who disappeared nearly a year ago while visiting relatives in South Florida.

Though Henry's body has never been found, police have said they have enough evidence tying Williams to the crime.

Williams was one of the last people Henry was seen alive with on May 29. A few months later, police found her blood inside his black Acura Integra.

Still, Steve and Sylvia Henry continue to hope that their daughter will be found alive.

''We don't want to think that the worst happened to her,'' Steve Henry said Monday.

The couple plan on traveling to Miami for Williams' trial. His first court appearance is scheduled for June 6.

Williams was extradited from New York on Friday. It's unclear why his extradition took so long, but Williams had fought it following his arrest.

It has been almost a year to the day since Henry and her younger sister, Shola, traveled to South Florida to celebrate Shola's 16th birthday with relatives.

They spent the long weekend shopping, pampering themselves and attending a reggae concert at Bayfront Park in Miami.

At a barbecue in Miami Gardens, Henry met Williams.

AUNT'S APARTMENT

At 1 a.m. May 29 -- the day Henry was supposed to return home to Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Williams picked up Henry at her aunt's apartment in North Miami-Dade.

The two went to Pepper's Cafe in Sunrise, where Henry was seen on videotape by a promotional crew filming in the nightclub.

Henry, a graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, was never seen again.

SEVERAL LEADS

Police from Miami-Dade and Sunrise immediately got on the case and followed several leads.

They interviewed Williams, who told them he left the club without Henry.

As the investigation continued, Henry's family made it their mission to find Stepha.

Her mother moved to South Florida and worked round-the-clock, making pleas on TV and radio, hosting prayer vigils and distributing fliers on street corners.

DAD `FRUSTRATED'

Steve Henry said he is relieved that Williams is behind bars, but he still wants to know what happened to his daughter.

''I'm frustrated,'' he said. ``It's been almost a year and nothing has come out of this. I just really want this to be over with.''

The lack of updates in this case frustrates me.  The last I can see is articles in May 2008 saying that Kendrick Williams was denied bond. 

May 20, 2008 7:59 am US/Eastern Accused Murderer Of Stepha Henry Held Without Bond
Stepha Henry's Body Has Not Been FoundMIAMI (CBS4) ―  Click to enlarge1 of 2
Kendrick Williams has been charged in the murder of Stepha Henry.

The man accused of killing 22-year old Stepha Henry is being held in a Miami Dade County jail without bond.

32-year old Kendrick Williams was arrested in Brooklyn, New York on January 15th and charged with 2nd degree murder in Henry's death. His first appearance in a Miami court will be June 6. Henry, a grad student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was visiting South Florida and spending time with relatives in May of 2007 when she vanished after visiting a club in Sunrise.

Miami Dade police investigators say Henry met Williams at a bar-b-que at a mutual friend's house in Miramar on May 28th. At the backyard party, the two reportedly made plans to go to Peppers Café Nightclub, 3828 N. University Drive, in Sunrise the following night. During their night out, she was seen inside the club, but she dropped out of sight afterward. Initially, Williams told investigators he had left the club early and that Henry had decided to stay there and she was never seen again.

Several months after Henry's disappearance, police located and impounded the Acura Integra driven by Williams on the night of Henry's disappearance.

Forensic analysis revealed substantial evidence, including Henry's blood, inside the car. No other details of that evidence have been released. Police have also not said where they believe Henry was killed; her body has not been found.


http://cbs4.com/local/Stepha.Henry.Murder.2.728160.html

June 6th it says.  June 6th of when?  No updates after that at all, like the case just fell off the faceof the earth.  Did she get justice?  Are we still working towards it?  I just want to know.

Miami-Dade County
Corrections - Inmate Profile System 
 
In Custody Inmate Data 

Name: WILLIAMS, KENDRICK 
Sex: M Race: B Eye:  BRO Weight: 140 Lbs
DOB: 05/04/1975  Hair: BLK Height:  5'  11"
Booking Information
Jail Number: 080043861  IDS: 2146187 Loc: TGKCC 
Date Booked: 05/16/2008  Time Booked: 21:22 
Case(s) Information
Warrant Case: F07044741  Desc: ARREST WARRANT  Bond: NO BOND **
 Charge: MURDER 2ND DEGREE   
 Charge: TAMPER WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 
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Thank you Nut,  I just hate how some of these cases just take so long.

Nancy Grace Mysteries on HLN covered this last night 11pm (it says first aired 11/23/2012) replaying today (Sunday at 2pm eastern time)

It said the trial will begin Jan 7th 2013.

TY SAM

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/23/ng.01.html
NANCY GRACE

Nancy Grace Mysteries, Stepha Henry

Aired November 23, 2012 - 20:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What a precious, precious, beautiful black angel she was, and her commitment to her community, to her college commitment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, she was a good girl going to school. I don`t know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stepha Henry has not been seen or heard from since that time, prompting a missing persons investigation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The New York native was visiting relatives in south Florida with her little sister. She was last seen leaving Pepper`s Cafe on Sunrise.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Anyone (INAUDIBLE) that hear or know something that happened in the club on that night, any little thing. It may not be looking important to them, but it is important to the investigation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What happened to Stepha?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are pockets of wild areas, and those are areas that if someone were to get into the middle of, no one might find anything in there for months.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NANCY GRACE, HOST: I recall when I first learned that 22-year-old Stepha Henry had gone missing, and what disturbed me immediately is that the stories we were told did not jive. And when that happens, it bodes ill.

And Stepha was a brilliant young girl, and as I said, was 22, had just graduated from John Jay college in New York and had traveled down to the Miami area to be with her sister for her sister`s birthday.

It was kind of a celebration. It was a holiday, and she had a Monday off. She was going to use that to be with her sister. She was excited because she had just gotten out of school. She was planning to go forward to law school and had such a bright future ahead of her.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s very hard knowing that Stepha is not around. Getting up, that`s the first thing I do is think about her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stepha Henry, a beautiful 22-year-old recent graduate of college, graduating with honors -- she wanted to go on to law school. She wanted to either be an immigration lawyer or perhaps a criminal lawyer -- really a bright young girl, had her entire life ahead of her. And then she disappears.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is very responsible. She`s honest. She has her goals set in mind. She has everything in order. She doesn`t think the way that you would expect a young lady to do it. She has fun, and she also do her school work and she works diligently at the president`s internal affairs in John Jay College.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Stepha Henry went down to Miami for Memorial Day weekend. It was her younger 16-year-old sister`s birthday, and they planned to go down to Miami, which Stepha did, you know, almost every year would go down there to spend the Memorial Day weekend with friends and family that lived there.

So she took her sister this time. They were going to do a bunch of just sort of girl stuff. They were going to get manicures. They were going to go shopping. They went to a couple of concerts together. And they also spent a lot of time with Stepha`s best friend, who lived down in the Miami area.

Now, Stepha had just graduated from John Jay College. He`d majored in criminal justice. And she was studying for the LSAT. She planned to take the entrance exam for law school, pursue a career as either a criminal attorney or perhaps an immigration lawyer. So that`s what was ahead of her when she went down to Miami for what she thought was going to be a fun weekend with her younger sister.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At a homemade shrine on a dining room table.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I look to the mountains, where will my help come from. My help will come from the Lord.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sylvia and Steve Henry are praying police will find their daughter alive. Twenty-two-year-old Stepha is still missing after vanishing nearly three weeks ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think she`s being held against her will. That`s what I think it is.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why do you think that, Mr. Henry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because Stepha would never go off on her own like that. Never.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": Stepha Henry was in Florida because her sister had just turned 16, and it was a celebration time. And Stepha normally had gone to Florida during Memorial Day weekend time, but this time it was extra special because she and her sister went together, celebrating her sister`s birthday. And they were involved in Memorial Day activities, barbecues and just fun times with her family members that lived down there shortly before she disappeared.

JOSTAD: Well, Stepha went down there to see her best friend, who had been her friend since high school. They`d stayed in contact even though the friend moved down to Miami. All through college, Stepha stayed in touch with her friend, Tamara. In fact, you know, they got to know each other`s families.

And one of those people that Stepha met through her friend was the friend`s brother-in-law, Kendrick Williams, who later played a big role in the investigation into her disappearance. But Stepha was down there just to have some fun with her sister and to visit some family and friends that were down there in Miami.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The honors grad from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who worked as an alum in the president`s office, was in Florida with her teenage sister for a Memorial Day weekend. Police say Henry left her aunt`s apartment very late at night, told her she was going to a nightclub. Her aunt saw her niece get into a car with a family acquaintance, and that`s the last time she saw her.

CASAREZ: May 29th was a day that should have had a lot of joy and fun for Stepha Henry, but it was the last full day that people spoke with her and even saw her alive.

She started out the day going to a barbecue, and this was a barbecue of a very close friend of hers who had moved down to Florida. And this very close friend had a sister who was hosting the barbecue. Now, the sister happened to be a newlywed. She was married. She was married to a man by the name of Kendrick Williams. But the day turned out just very simply and joyously as a Memorial Day barbecue.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stepha Henry did go to a nightclub`s private party. Luckily, the owners were shooting a promotional video and here`s Henry in a freeze-frame released by police. But what about the friend who took her there?


UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He said that he left the club early, that when she left the club, she was still there and with some people that she did not know.

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GRACE: To this day, she`s never been found alive or dead. But this is what we know about the night she goes missing. She was down in Florida, as I mentioned, to see her sister. She was saying with an aunt. And when the aunt got up that morning, she realized Stepha had not come home.

She did the right thing. She immediately called police. She called police, and she called Stepha`s parents, who immediately hopped on a plane and came straight to Florida to start looking for their daughter and publicizing her disappearance.

And it was in those hours the night before began to unravel. You know, I used to tell juries nothing good happens after midnight, OK? And I still stick by those words. Stepha had gone to a party, was supposed to go to a party, a get-together of friends. She left the party, according to several witnesses, with 37-year-old married man Kendrick Williams.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police say he also told them he drove Henry to the club that night in a borrowed late model Acura Integra.

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GRACE: Now, he tells his wife he went to the party, a party, but he didn`t like the vibe -- those are his words, not mine -- the vibe at the party, so he left and went to a strip club.

Now, let`s just analyze that. You don`t like the bad vibe at a party, so you go to some sleazy strip club? All right, right there, I`ve got a problem with his story. But that`s what he says happens.

Here`s the kicker to Kendrick Williams`s story. He`s photoed in a promotional shot outside a bar later that evening with Stepha Henry, OK? He says that`s not true. But there`s photographic evidence.

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GRACE: Now, police wisely tried to obtain video surveillance. Our reports are that they did not get video surveillance at the bar. But we do have that promotional shot for the bar taken outside the bar, at the bar that night after they`ve been at the party earlier, and here they are at the bar. So we know this married man was with her and that he lied to his wife about it.

What else do we know? We know that he had a business of sorts where he would buy vehicles, cars, in the New York area, then bring them to Florida to fix them up, soup them up, clean them up and resell them at a profit.

We know that at some point, the car he was driving ends up with, when it was processed, Stepha`s blood in it. And according to our reports, the blood was of such an amount that police are convinced that 22-year-old Stepha is dead.

He`s never cracked. He`s never changed his story. But we`ve got her blood in his car. We`ve got a promo shot of him with her in front of this bar in the Miami area the night she goes missing. But where is Stepha?

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police suspect Henry last used her phone to check her voicemail around the time the club closed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stepha, we love you and everyone else loves you, and we would love to see you home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Henry was planning on law school next year and loves legal mysteries.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Will protect you as you come and go now and forever, amen.

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JOSTAD: Law enforcement was very much centered on this car, this dark-colored Acura that Stepha was seen getting into with a man that night, going to the nightclub.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She is well! God bless you and be blessed in the Lord!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They prayed for Stepha Henry today and they comforted her family, and they tried, even as her trail grows cold and the danger signs abound -- they tried to keep hope in their hearts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love you very much and I want you to come home. Your father and I and your sister and all the family are very worried. Please come home to us.

(END VIDEO CLIP)CASAREZ: Stepha Henry`s mother just wouldn`t stop, and she said that she was going to stay in Florida until her daughter was found. She went to a car dealership where there was a radio remote to spread the word to anybody who would listen that her daughter was a young woman who had just graduated from college, had her entire life before her and was suddenly gone from the face of the earth.

The person who was a person of interest in this case couldn`t be found. Police wanted to question Kendrick Williams to ask him what he knew because he was the husband of a very good girlfriend of Stepha Henry.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nobody who knows her thinks she would just walk away from a life that seemed so filled with promise.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She is one who you can always depend on. She was always trustworthy and dependable. You know, she would take charge of the other (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s like my mom to me. We do everything together. She helps me with my homework, social life, academic life, everything, cooks for me when I`m hungry, everything.

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GRACE: There was an extensive search for Stepha Henry. In fact, her mother went -- when the mom came down she left her job at a bank and had spent five straight months in Florida looking. She finally had to take leave from her job so she could do media interviews, radio interviews, handing out flyers -- the whole family, not just the mom.

Waterways were searched. Wooded areas were searched. Ravines were searched. Volunteers searched. It went on and on and on.

It was really about a year, maybe over a year before his car, an Acura, was finally found. And interesting, when Kendrick Williams`s Acura was finally found, another woman had just bought it -- not from him. I don`t know how many hands the car had gone through by the time she bought it, but over a year after Stepha goes missing, police finally track down the car.

Probably one of the reasons they didn`t find it is because it wasn`t abandoned in the airport parking lot, begging somebody to steal it. It wasn`t burned up. It wasn`t left on the side of a road or in a wooded area or down a gulch. It had actually gone through several hands, and a woman thought she had rightfully bought the car. So now here it is parked probably in somebody`s driveway. Police wouldn`t think to look there, but they did, in fact, find the car.

And miraculously, it still had Stepha`s blood in it. Of course, that will be a nightmare at trial to show the chain of custody in the car. But the reality is Stepha Henry`s blood was still in Kendrick Williams`s Acura over a year later.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What a precious, precious, beautiful black angel she was.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And then the phone rings. I`m thinking -- every time the door opens, I think it`s someone coming to say they (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: With her school, education, even her job, she`s very persistent. She would never give up faith. She would never give up hope.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If she goes to that club at night, by the time when she`s -- any time she`s ready to come home, she would usually call me when she`s in New York. She would call me and let me know, I`m leaving now. I`m coming (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Even sometimes, if she was knocked down, she would just raise back right up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She never disappears. She always keeps in touch with us when she`s outside. She always calls. She loves to pick up her cell phone and call me and let me know if she has a problem.

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GRACE: When police first find the car -- and you can find it by the VIN, the VIN number. Every car has one. To the naked eye, to the casual *******, you couldn`t see the blood. The car, in fact, looked like it had been through a professional clean-up job.

But police didn`t stop there. They ripped up underneath the floorboard. They pulled off the seat covers. And there was such a profuse amount of blood that was invisible to the naked eye, but once you put down the floorboard and the carpet, you don`t see what`s under the carpet.

You don`t see what has drenched and trickled and dripped through the carpet, the floorboard carpet of that Acura. You don`t see the blood that has soaked back behind the seat cover. Sure, you can sanitize the seat cover and you can wash the carpet, but you can`t see the blood that has dripped and pooled underneath the carpet and behind the seat cover.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This investigation now involves dozens of officers from Miami-Dade County and areas north, detectives from the aviation and homicide units canvassing a several-hundred-square-mile slice south of Florida.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is any parent`s nightmare.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stepha`s family, once they got word that she was missing, immediately came down to Florida and searched for her. They put posters up, got the word out, did interviews with the media, speaking to anyone to keep the story alive, to keep the search alive for their daughter, Stepha.

As a matter of fact, her mom was there for five months, took a leave of absence from her job at a bank just to search in some hopes of trying to find Stepha.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have a tremendous amount of water in southern Florida, so we`re checking the canals, the lakes and those sorts of things.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If she`s out there (INAUDIBLE) if she`s shopping, she would call and say, Mom, I`ll be coming home now because she know I`m a very worried -- I`m very worried.

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GRACE: In fact, the police were so meticulous, they have reason to believe that 22-year-old Stepha Henry was stabbed in the upper torso because the blood trail starts in the upper third of the passenger car seat in that Acura, in Kendrick Williams`s Acura. So she apparently is stabbed either in the front or the back or somewhere in her upper torso up to the top of her head, and is sitting back, and the blood starts flowing behind the car seat and down.

So they believe with good reason the girl was stabbed in the upper torso and there was a massive amount of blood, Stepha`s blood, that then pooled, soaking through the carpet on the floorboard and pooling beneath the carpet.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A male friend picked Stepha up from her aunt`s house around 1:00 o`clock on May 29th and drove here to this club in Ft. Lauderdale. Once here, that friend told investigators, they went their separate ways.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So I`m just hoping for the best outcome.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On today`s date at approximately 8:00 AM, the subject was located sleeping in a vehicle in the parking lot of Canarsie Pier in the Jamaican Bay section of Brooklyn. He was taken into custody without incident.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Pepper`s was closed tonight, but Stepha`s missing poster is hung at other stores in the plaza. Salvatore Pessani (ph) manages a club there and met Stepha`s dad.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel for the man. You know, he`s out doing what he can. He`s out -- he`s beating the streets, you know, putting flyers up everywhere.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please, if you could even talk wherever you are, tell someone to call your mother or call someone and we come get you.

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GRACE: Very often, a person of interest or a suspect will lie. Now, often, these lies are not directly associated to the crime itself. However, when someone begins lying to police about seemingly innocuous issues, such as what kind of car did you drive, what`s your cell phone number, if you`re lying about something that innocent, either, A, it`s not innocent, or B, you`ll lie about anything.

And that is exactly what 37-year-old Kendrick Williams did. He started off by denying he even drove an Acura. When his wife said, Yes, that`s his car, and another witness, a friend of his, said, Oh, yes, I was with him when he bought the Acura -- all right, busted!

He also denied even knowing or being acquainted with 22-year-old Stepha Henry. He denied he even knew her, but his cell phone records showed multiple cell phone calls to her.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: During an interview, he denied any involvement in Stepha`s disappearance, As well as owning or driving an Acura Integra. The investigation continued now with the homicide bureau at the time as the lead.

Since that time, the Acura Integra involved in this case has been recovered and determined that it had been purchased by Mr. Williams prior to arriving in south Florida.

Forensic analysis of the vehicle revealed substantial evidence that has conclusively been linked to Stepha Henry. An arrest warrant was obtained charging Mr. Williams with second degree murder and tampering with evidence.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We pleaded with you all to please send our daughter back home because we love her. And everyone else who is listening, please, you see anything, please call the police.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, we feel that this is a piece of the puzzle that we`d like to take a look at. We did speak with the acquaintance that took her to the club. He told us that he left her there and that she stayed late. We don`t know at what time she left. We don`t know who she left with.

GRACE: Have you spoken to the friends that she was with in the club?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have spoken to several people at the club. We -- again, there were a lot of people. This was a promotional party. This isn`t a club that they were having a regular night where the regulars might be there. There were people there for this specific party.

So we`re asking people that did attend this party to please give us a call. They might have some information that may not seem important to them but would be important for our case.

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GRACE: He denies ever having spent time with her at all. But then there is the promotional video shot, the photo, the promotional video taken at the bar the night she goes missing, and they`re standing there together. Then he goes, Oh, yes, yes, yes, OK, I did meet her, but I never spent any time with her. I really didn`t get to know her. Everything he said to police, he lied about. And his lies were very easily detected.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sir, a warrant was issued for your arrest for the charge of second degree murder and tampering with physical evidence. The bond amount established in the warrant issued by the judge is no bond, so you will be held no bond on these charges, sir. Do you understand?

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GRACE: Now, we all know that in many jurisdictions, judges, trial judges do not give jury instructions on flight. Flight is when a suspect or a person of interest takes off when police are pursuing them or after a crime.

In this case, Kendrick Williams was in the Miami area when he met Stepha and everything went wrong. He was ultimately found in New York, living in his car surrounded by blankets, clothing and body lotion. Yes, I don`t know what that means, but that`s how he was found. Prosecutors, if this ever goes to trial, would argue that this was flight.
Why would you leave your wife at home in Florida and go live in your car in the New York area surrounded by blankets, clothing and body lotion? I would argue that that was flight. Now, maybe the defense is going to argue he wanted to live in his car. I don`t think a jury`s going to believe that.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just want to say to the public that if anyone was at the club on that night, that Pepper`s club on May 29th, 2007, and saw Stepha Henry and saw anything, any clue that would help the detective to close this case, please call Crimestoppers.

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GRACE: At this hour, as we go to air, Kendrick Williams is sitting behind bars, waiting for trial. Believe it or not, he`s never been tried.

But before you point the finger at the prosecution, they`re still hoping to find Stepha`s body. He`s currently charged with second degree murder and tampering with evidence, that likely being the clean-up of the car.

Why second degree, not first degree, malice murder? We really don`t know how Stepha Henry died. If we could find her body, maybe there could be a prosecution for murder one. Now, he absolutely has a right to a speedy trial under our Constitution.

JOSTAD: Stepha`s family does still hope that she`ll be found alive. They know about the blood in the car. They know that authorities have said they don`t think that Stepha could have survived whatever injuries caused that blood loss in the car. But they`ve said, It`s our daughter. They`re not going to give up hope. They would still love for her to be found alive somewhere, so they haven`t given up.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This began with a trip to the Miami area for a concert with her younger sister to celebrate her younger sister`s birthday. The family is from Brooklyn, New York. They traveled to Miami. They were staying with relatives. They went to the concert.

Stepha decides she`s going to go to a nightclub at night. She leaves the little sister with the relatives. She gets into the car with the acquaintance -- this is -- the acquaintance. This is the black Acura in question or dark-colored Acura in question.

She goes to the club. She`s photographed inside the club, which is closer to Ft. Lauderdale, and the person who drove her there went home early and never saw her again and no one else heard from her, either.
CASAREZ: Prosecutors intend to go forward in this case even though they have not found a body. They found the car and they found massive amounts of her blood. So that is the body in this case. They can prosecute without a body. They don`t need a body. And they`ve got the link because this was the car that not only picked up Stepha, the last time she was known to be alive, but this is the car that was owned by Kendrick Williams.

GRACE: Detective Williams, the photo that was taken of her at the club, Pepper`s, that night, why was that photo taken? What is that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That photo there is a photo from a promotional video that the club was doing. We obtained that video and were able to pull that photo from it to find her there at the club.

GRACE: You know, that was some good police work, Detective. Now, do we have any idea what time? Was it timestamped, that photo?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, the time was not stamped on that photo. It was -- you know, contrary to popular belief there -- people are saying it was a surveillance video, but no, it is a promotional video and there was no timestamp on it.

GRACE: Did she meet friends there at Pepper`s?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The acquaintance or the person that took her to the club in that dark-colored Acura is telling us -- he`s telling us that he left her there at a certain time, but he left her there with other people that she knew, that he did not know.

GRACE: OK, so if she was meeting friends there, didn`t they see her leave?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, he -- like I said, he`s given us that account, and we`re still interviewing...

GRACE: Trying to locate friends.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. We`re still interviewing numerous people, patrons and also employees at that club.

JOSTAD: Kendrick Williams`s trial has been delayed several times throughout the years. It`s been almost four years. It`ll be almost four years from his arrest until he finally goes to trial in January of 2013. There`s been a number of delays, both requested by the state and by -- state and defense. But Kendrick Williams should face charges in the early part of 2013.

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GRACE: Ms. Henry, you have actually gone out on the street yourself trying to get leads and find your daughter. What have you been doing?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have been going around, giving out flyers to people and talking to people who might have seen her on the night. Some said they saw her. Some said they don`t think so. And I`m just still there searching and looking around and trying to find out any information I get at all on my daughter.

GRACE: Ms. Henry, where all have you been?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`ve been to different malls and -- the Miami malls. I went to the hotels and motels on Biscayne Boulevard. I`ve been to Pepper`s more than once. I was there when they had a party on Saturday night, giving out flyers in the park -- the parking lot.

I went to the (INAUDIBLE) parties that they have all of them in Miami here and give out flyers to the people who are going to the party, especially the young folks. And I`m giving it out in public and different -- Walgreen and different areas that I go to whenever I`m outside.

GRACE: Won`t you help us tonight? Here is a mother out beating the streets, handing out flyers, trying to find her girl. This is a good girl, an honor student, wanting to go to law school, her whole life ahead of her.

One night -- one night she goes to a concert at a local bar/restaurant there in Miami and is never seen again. The last clue that we have, around 4:00 AM that morning, 4:13 to be exact, someone, maybe her, checked her own voicemail on her cell phone.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stepha Henry`s body has never been recovered, yet prosecutors are going forward with second degree murder charges here. And they`re going to rely upon the forensic evidence, specifically, the blood that was found inside that Acura.

Trial for Kendrick Williams is now set for January 7th, 2013. Kendrick Williams was arrested in January of 2008 and charged with the second degree murder of Stepha Henry. He`s currently incarcerated on no bond, waiting for his trial.

GRACE: There`s so much that we know that a jury will never know. Under our Constitution, a jury cannot know about a defendant`s previous criminal history unless it is introduced as, for instance, a similar transaction, to prove the case in chief.

But what we know is that Kendrick Williams -- Kendrick Williams had a very long history of domestic violence. Even when his wife had a restraining order, she says he would break into the home. She believed -- believes he slashed the tires of her sister`s vehicle, and we know that there are many allegations of violence on the mother of his children.

Now, does this prove he`s a murderer? No. But when you don`t know a horse, look at his track record.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just, you know, laugh at something that she made (INAUDIBLE) simple things that she used to do on her way home after work, I still remember, and sometimes, it brings a smile to my face, other times a tear.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The New York native was visiting relatives in south Florida with her little sister. She was last seen leaving Pepper`s cafe in Sunrise.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For anyone, again, that hear or know something that happened in the club on that night, any little thing, it may not be looking important to them, but it is important to the investigation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What happened to Stepha?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are pockets of wild areas, and those are areas that if someone was to get in the middle of, no one might find anything in there for months.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not what Henry`s frantic parents want to hear. They`ve been calling their daughter`s cell phone. All they hear is this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) mailbox is full. Please call again later.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She`s very strong-minded. She believes in what she says and what she wants to do. She stays focused on her goals and she work hard to achieve them. And she`s not someone that would be sidetracked easily. She tries to stay focused.

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CASAREZ: Stepha`s family says until the body is found, they will hold out hope that she is alive. Her mother is still dedicated to this case and trying to find her daughter and trying to ask anyone who knows anything about where her daughter could be.

But law enforcement has said that the amount of blood that they found in that car tells them that Stepha Henry was murdered at the hands of someone. They say it was Kendrick Williams.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On June 5th, Mr. Williams was arrested on an unrelated traffic charge. During an interview, he denied any involvement in Stepha`s disappearance, as well as owning or driving an Acura Integra.



The investigation continued now with the homicide bureau at the time as the lead. Since that time, the Acura Integra involved in this has been recovered and determined it had been purchased by Mr. Williams prior to arriving in south Florida.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I heard about this on the -- that happened on the Monday night. She went to the club. And the Tuesday morning, I heard that she didn`t return yet around 10:00 AM.

And knowing that that was not Stepha, I was very concerned at that point, and I started calling her phone and I keep getting voicemail. I left several messages and she didn`t return my call. And then I knew something was wrong because, usually, she would return my call as soon as she get a voicemail from me, especially when she`s not in the house.

So then I realize that something went wrong when my sister called me and said she didn`t come home as yet, and then my younger daughter called again and she started crying and said that her sister didn`t come home. So they all knew and sensed that something was wrong.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Forensic analysis of the vehicle revealed substantial evidence that has conclusively been linked to Stepha Henry. An arrest warrant was obtained, charging Mr. Williams with second degree murder and tampering with evidence.

On today`s date at approximately 8:00 AM, the subject was located sleeping in a vehicle in the parking lot of Canarsie Pier in the Jamaican Bay section of Brooklyn. He was taken into custody without incident by members of New York City`s police department`s intelligence division.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is just unbelievable, very, very hard for me to even think that something like this is happening to my daughter. We prayed a lot. We`re from a religious family, so we got together and do a lot of praying. And we have a lot of brothers and sisters in faith who joined us in prayer every night, whether they were there in person or on the phone or whether we prayed in different churches, a lot of support.

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GRACE: He`s perfectly content to wait for trial because every day he waits for trial is another day he`s innocent in the eyes of the law and has all the protections guaranteed by the Constitution. But one day, her body is going to be found. One day, we will know how Stepha Henry died.

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