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26 Year Old Elementary School Teacher Terrilynn Monnette Missing Since March 2, 2013 in the Lakeview section of New Orleans

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/03/08/26-year-old-elementary-school-teacher-terrilynn-monnette-missing-since-march-2-2013-in-the-lakeview-section-of-new-orleans/

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New Orleans Schoolteacher Missing After Leaving Bar

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/03/new-orleans-schoolteacher-missing-after-leaving-bar/


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Bar Manager Talks About Missing Teacher

http://wgno.com/2013/03/04/bar-manager-talks-about-missing-teacher/#axzz2Mt3Um76r


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Could it be that Terrilynn Monnette may have passed out and her vehicle left the road? Think about the incident involving Jessica Marie Rath of Astoria, Washington who fell asleep while driving.

Janet

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Hunch drives Washington fishermen to discover crash, 2 girls injured, mother dead
February 21, 2013
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/02/hunch_drives_washington_fisher.html

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/NOPD-downplays-rumors-of-Russian-mob-connected-to-missing-teacher-195659501.html (http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/NOPD-downplays-rumors-of-Russian-mob-connected-to-missing-teacher-195659501.html)

NOPD downplays rumors of Russian mob connected to missing teacher



Posted on March 6, 2013 at 1:44 PM

Updated Wednesday, Mar 6 at 1:44 PM

WWLTV.com
Email: webteam@wwltv.com | Twitter: @WWLTV

NEW ORLEANS -- In response to rumors on social media that Russian mobsters were responsible for the kidnapping of a school teacher in Lakeview and other women in the area, police released a statement debunking the rumor.

"We cannot substantiate this rumor," said Officer Frank Robertson, an spokesman for the NOPD, "there are no prudent facts or evidence to support this claim. We are in in touch with other local law enforcement agencies and the federal authorities to make them aware of this hoax."

New Orleans police, Lakeview residents and colleagues have been looking for Terrilyn Monette, a Harvey school teacher who was last seen Saturday morning outside the Lakeview bar, Parlay's.

Wednesday morning the following rumor began circulating on social media sites, speculating that the Russian mafia had moved into New Orleans was responsible for Monette's disappearance:
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Now that's just bizarre.

Facebook page for her return:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Terrilynn-Monnette/131527543693754 (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Terrilynn-Monnette/131527543693754)

As teacher's disappearance nears one-week mark, NOPD releases details on investigation
March 08, 2013

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NOPD detectives have identified and interviewed the man who was the last person seen with Monette around 4 a.m. last Saturday at Monette's car in the parking lot of Parlay's bar in the 800 block of Harrison Avenue in Lakeview, Williams said. Monette reportedly told acquaintances whom she had been drinking with at Parlay's that she planned to sleep in her car before driving home, because she had had a few drinks.

Monette's cell phone stopped working four hours before she disappeared, while she was at Parlay's, Williams said. The phone has not been turned on since, making it difficult for detectives to track her possible location.

Detectives have reviewed surveillance footage from nearby businesses, but Wiliams said she could not comment on the contents because of the ongoing investigation.

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/03/as_teachers_disappearance_near.html

Case Archive for Terrilynn Monette:

http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/mm166/crankycrankerson/Terrilynn%20Monette%20%20-LA-/

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/03/nopd_still_no_suspects_in_teac.html#incart_river_default (http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/03/nopd_still_no_suspects_in_teac.html#incart_river_default)

NOPD: Still no suspects in teacher's disappearance as search continues

By Helen Freund, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on March 11, 2013 at 2:05 PM

The search for missing school teacher Terrilyn Monette continued Monday, even as aerial and marine searches were put to a halt due to inclement weather. More than a week after the 26-year-old California native disappeared after leaving a Lakeview area bar police say they still have no suspects in the case.

A small group of concerned residents and members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, of  which Monette is a member, began a search in eastern New Orleans on Monday morning in the hopes that traveling through some more remote areas might turn up clues that the ongoing investigation has not.

"We know the NOPD has been working around the clock looking for her, but we figure if we continue to help out the search it will only better our chances of finding her," said 62-year-old Terry Brown, who was part of the group that met outside of a Winn-Dixie in the 9700 block of Chef Menteur Highway on Monday at 11 a.m.

"We're looking for any abandoned cars that might belong to her or anything else that might just not look right," said Brown.

On Sunday, police said, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office searched by boat through Bayou St. John for four hours in an attempt to locate Monette's vehicle but turned up empty-handed.

JPSO also deployed helicopters to search through City Park, Lakeview and parts of the lakefront over the weekend, police said.
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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/03/nopd_still_no_suspects_in_teac.html

NOPD: Still no suspects in teacher's disappearance as search continueson
 March 11, 2013 at 2:05 PM, updated March 11, 2013 at 3:57 PM
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JPSO also deployed helicopters to search through City Park, Lakeview and parts of the lakefront over the weekend.


While aerial and marine searches were called off on Monday due to poor weather conditions, police said they are still combing through City Park, as the vast green space lies directly between the bar where Monette was last seen and her apartment, and would most likely have been on her route to get home, said officer Hilal Williams, a spokeswoman for the New Orleans Police Department.

Monette, who moved from California to New Orleans to work as a TeachNOLA fellow last year, was last seen around 4 a.m. March 2 in the parking lot of Parlay's bar in the 800 block of Harrison Avenue in Lakeview. She was seen with a man who has since been identified and interviewed by NOPD detectives, police said, and is not considered a suspect. 
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Monette's cell phone stopped working four hours before she disappeared, while she was at the bar police said. The phone has not been turned on since, making it difficult for detectives to track her possible location.
Police do not believe Monette ever made it back to her apartment Saturday, police said.

Police ask anyone with information on this missing person case, including the location of Monette's 2012 black two-door Honda Accord, Louisiana license plate WUN494, to contact NOPD at 504.821.2222

area of search
http://goo.gl/maps/cyvnG

Equusearch to focus on City Park lagoons during missing teacher search

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Eqqusearch-to-focus-on-City-Park-lagoons-during-missing-teacher--197457741.html

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Hundreds search City Park for missing elementary teacher

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Hundreds-of-people-search-City-Park-for-missing-elementary-school-teacher-196698621.html

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Missing: Terrilyn Monette, 26 Yrs., New Orleans, LA, 03/02/13

http://texasequusearch.org/2013/03/missing-terrilyn-monette-26-yrs-new-orleans-la-030213/

Tim Miller and Texas Equusearch to Assist NOPD in the Search for Missing School Teacher Terrilynn Monette in New Orleans, LA

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/03/13/tim-miller-and-texas-equusearch-to-assist-nopd-in-the-search-for-missing-school-teacher-terrilynn-monette-in-new-orleans-la/


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Thank you for the updates Red.  I hope Texas Equusearch can find Terrilynn. 

http://www.fox8live.com/story/21656370/old-cars-in-bayou-st-john-complicate-search-for-missing-teachers-vehicle (http://www.fox8live.com/story/21656370/old-cars-in-bayou-st-john-complicate-search-for-missing-teachers-vehicle)

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Old cars in Bayou St. John complicate search for missing teacher's vehicle
Updated: Mar 15, 2013 4:01 PM PDT
Written by: Nancy Parker - email
 
   

New Orleans, La. -

The owner of a Texas search company says he's bringing in bigger sonar units on Sunday. EquuSearch is combing area waterways for a missing teacher.

Tim Miller of EquuSearch says the same equipment used in the Natalee Holloway investigation in Aruba will be brought here.

Now the company is moving its efforts to find Terrilynn Monette to the bridge by Robert E. Lee, looking for any sign of Monette's black Honda.

So many cars are under the waters of the bayou, though, it's making their job trickier.

"We have seen many cars under the water. They are not all in clusters. Some of them are older than others and actually on the sonar machine you can see barnacles growing off of them," said Caitlyn Garey of EquuSearch.

Crews face challenges as they look for any sign of Terrilynn Monette or her car beneath miles of bayou.  There are so many other vehicles under the water.

"I think we got 11 or 12 in there, all along the bayou," said Tim Miller.

The search crew says the cars may have been stolen, left over from Katrina, or dumped for some other reason.
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6/8/13    Terrilyn Monette's car has been found with her body inside, Rep. Austin Badon says

"The car of missing teacher Terrilyn Monette has been found in Bayou St. John, near the corner of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard, state Rep. Austin Badon confirmed Saturday. Monette's body was believed to be in the car, Badon said.


A Slidell Police Department officer who volunteered to dive in the water and search for the car located it before about noon Saturday. The car matched the license plate, make, model and color of Monette's."
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/terrilyn_monettes_car_has_been.html

 ::MonkeyNoNo::  Sad news.

Yes it is Muffy.

Read the comments from people that know the area;
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/terrilyn_monettes_car_has_been.html

Missing Louisiana Teacher Terrilynn Monette Car Found With Body Inside in a Bayou in New Orleans, Louisiana

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2013/06/08/missing-louisiana-teacher-terrilynn-monette-car-found-with-body-inside-in-a-bayou-in-new-orleans-louisiana/

Just too bad. Its hard to believe that a car could have gone into the water there that some one would have heard something?

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Monetteupdate-210701501.html?gallery=y&img=0&c=y

Thanks for the update alagary.

From the getgo I suspected that Terrilynn may have fallen asleep/passed out at the wheel ... her vehicle left the road and went into one of the waterways on the route to her home.  I wonder why it took so long to discover the vehicle?

I am thankful the family are no longer in limbo wondering the whereabouts of Terrilynn.

Janet

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Search for Terrilynn Monette, missing teacher, ends with discovery of her submerged car
June 08, 2013

On Friday (June 7), 97 days after the disappearance of Terrilynn Monette, Slidell police officer Mark Michaud and state Rep. Austin Badon met at the lawmaker's home in eastern New Orleans, fired up a computer and tried to identify the various routes the West Bank elementary school teacher might have taken to get home the morning she vanished in the vicinity of City Park.

On the morning of Day 98, Michaud, the leader of the Slidell Police Department's dive team, went to Bayou St. John on his 17-foot boat during his free time. Scanning the waters with a portable sonar device, he found a submerged car close to a bridge at the corner of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard.

It seemed that the vehicle was pointed the way Monette, 26, would probably have been going on March 2 after she drove away from Parlay's bar in the 800 block of Harrison Avenue about 5 a.m. -- the last time anyone saw her.

Michaud, 49, grabbed his gear, dove in and saw a black Honda Accord - the same make and model as Monette's car. He then studied the license plate. It read, "WUN 494."

It was Monette's car, and there was a badly decomposed body in the driver's seat -- presumably that of the missing teacher.

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/search_for_terrilynn_monette_m.html

Prior to the discovery the vehicle by a police diver working on his own time ... it appears there was an assertion of mismanagement within the investigation regarding the disappearance Terrilynn.

Janet

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Terrilynn Monette investigation stalled because of NOPD mismanagement, police officer's attorney alleges; Serpas denies assertions
June 05, 2013

One of the few NOPD detectives qualified to make forensic examinations of computers was not allowed time to work on the case of missing teacher Terrilynn Monette because his supervisors assigned him to non-investigative tasks, according to the officer's attorney.

Instead, officer Dan Plustache was told to focus on preparing his unit's weekly Comstat report, fixing departmental equipment, handling special-event coverage and patrolling other districts as part of Superintendent Ronal Serpas' Mission Two deployments, according to a letter that Police Association of New Orleans attorney Eric Hessler sent Tuesday to Serpas.

Serpas denied the assertions Wednesday.

Hessler wrote that Plustache repeatedly emailed his supervisors that such routine assignments were interfering with more urgent detective work.

"His numerous emails informing his chain of command of his inability to perform this (Monette) investigation fell on deaf ears," Hessler wrote. "Despite numerous requests and pleas, Plustache was never relieved of any of these extraneous duties to focus on this case."

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/terrilyn_monette_investigation.html

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/photos_of_terrilynn_monettes_c.html

http://fsjna.org/2013/03/8-cars-found-in-bayou-st-john/
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The number of cars they found in there is just unreal imo.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

And unfortunately even if they'd found tracks going in, the car may have traveled in the moving water before it settled.

It's so sad that this is not a happy ending, but I'm glad they finally found her so she can have a proper burial and her family has closure.

Rest in peace, Terrilynn.   ::MonkeyAngel::

Terrilynn Monette's car has been found with her body inside, Rep. Austin Badon says
June 08, 2013

Terrilynn Monette was found Saturday in Bayou St. John, near the corner of Harrison Avenue and Wisner Boulevard, authorities said. Monette's body was believed to be in the car, state Rep. Austin Badon said.

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Monette's family has been flying back and forth from her native California to continue to look for her. Monette's mother, Toni Enclade, watched with Badon from the bank of the bayou as her daughter's car surfaced. Shortly afterward, Enclade was sobbing when she was reached by telephone.

"I don't understand why it took them so long to find her car," Enclade said between tears. "This is supposedly one of the first places they would have checked. I'm just overwhelmed. It doesn't make sense."

Sobbing, she politely excused herself and hung up.

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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2013/06/terrilyn_monettes_car_has_been.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57588567-504083/terrilynn-monette-update-body-idd-as-missing-la-teacher-cause-of-death-is-drowning-coroner-says/
Terrilynn Monette Update: Body ID'd as missing La. teacher, cause of death is drowning, coroner says
June 10, 2013

(CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - The Orleans Parish coroner's office has confirmed through dental records that the body found inside of a car pulled from the bayou in New Orleans is that of missing teacher Terrilynn Monette, CBS affiliate WWLTV reports.
According to the station, the coroner's office has ruled the cause of death drowning.

Monette, 26, had been considered missing since the early hours of March 2 after leaving a New Orleans bar not far from the bayou. She would've had to cross the waterway to get home.
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Monette's disappearance sparked a broad search handled in part by the Texas group Equusearch. A number of cars were pulled earlier from Bayou St. John as part of the search, some of which had been reported stolen.

Monette's family had been flying back and forth from California to look for her. They attended a prayer vigil Friday and appealed for FBI intervention, accusing the New Orleans Police Department of mishandling the case. The department has denied the accusations.

Toni Enclade, Monette's mother, was present when the car was retrieved from the bayou, according to WWLTV.

The discovery was made by Mark Michaud, a diver with the Slidell Police Department. State Representative Austin Badon said he and Michaud want the $20,000 Crimestoppers reward to go towards Monette's funeral costs, the station reports. Crimestoppers says the reward is only distributed if the New Orleans Police Department determines that foul play was involved. If not, money raised by Monette's family will go back to the family.