Zina Linnik 12yr old Washington State - AMBER ALERT 7/4/07(BODY FOUND)

[bleachedblack]

OMG even when you try and brace yourself for what is dreaded, it still seems to come as such a horrible horrible thing. Poor sweet little girl. Strength to her family, peace to them all.

[Elaine]

OMG even when you try and brace yourself for what is dreaded, it still seems to come as such a horrible horrible thing. Poor sweet little girl. Strength to her family, peace to them all.

BB, I know exactly what you mean!  

[klaasend]

Detained Man Leads Police to Body of Missing Washington Girl
Friday , July 13, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289165,00.html

Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell says police have located the body of a 12-year-old girl snatched from the alley behind her home during July Fourth fireworks.

Ramsdell says information provided by a man in custody on an immigration complaint led police to the Pierce County site where the remains of Zina Linnik were recovered.

He said crime scene investigators were processing the scene.

There is no immediate word on whether the man in custody will be charged in the little girl's death

[Sleeks]

Detained Man Leads Police to Body of Missing Washington Girl
Friday , July 13, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289165,00.html

Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell says police have located the body of a 12-year-old girl snatched from the alley behind her home during July Fourth fireworks.

Ramsdell says information provided by a man in custody on an immigration complaint led police to the Pierce County site where the remains of Zina Linnik were recovered.

He said crime scene investigators were processing the scene.

There is no immediate word on whether the man in custody will be charged in the little girl's death

OH NO!!! Klaasend thank you for the very sad and unfortunate update.  I was so hoping (again as usual) that they would find this little girl alive.  

[MsVada]

[pdh3]

It seems that this is an almost weekly occurance now. No one is taking action. We need to do something ASAP. Maybe SM could start a letter-writing campaign to Congress to ask them take action. What is wrong with us as a nation, that we continue to allow these predators to roam our streets and harm our children?

Another beautiful child, and all the promise of her life, gone to satisfy a monster. Another family plunged into grief and the nightmare all parents dread.

I am just sickened, and disgusted, and angry.


God Bless Zina, and her family, and may He bring them some measure of peace. I feel terrible for them, and I can't imagine what they are going through right now.

[mrs. red]

I have often wondered what it would take to get Congress involved beyong voting...

the more important thing is judges, the judical system is failing miserably in this respect..

[San]

I have often wondered what it would take to get Congress involved beyong voting...

the more important thing is judges, the judical system is failing miserably in this respect..

I agree mrs. red.  The system failed this little girl.  He should have been deported years ago and they didn't.  They didn't even know where this guy was for petes sake we need to get our act together.

No trial just execute this POS.

They said on Greta last night they were looking into other crimes in other states that he might have been involved in.

[pdh3]

I have often wondered what it would take to get Congress involved beyong voting...

the more important thing is judges, the judical system is failing miserably in this respect..

We need to legislate tougher, mandatory sentences to keep these people off the streets. And immigration? Don't get me started. We have enough of our own sickos without letting in perverts from abroad.

[Red]

Is Zina Linnik’s Death by Suspect Terapon Dang Adhahn Related to Other Girls Deaths (Welch, Bastian, Jones, Lewis & Jackson)

However, because Adhahn traveled one could only imagine all the places he visited and lived that girls went missing or were murdered. As we know, there is no such thing as a one time child sex offender. Only those who have not been caught.

http://tinyurl.com/233b52

[San]

I have often wondered what it would take to get Congress involved beyong voting...

the more important thing is judges, the judical system is failing miserably in this respect..

We need to legislate tougher, mandatory sentences to keep these people off the streets. And immigration? Don't get me started. We have enough of our own sickos without letting in perverts from abroad.

I agree pdh3.

[Red]

Thousands Gather To Remember Zina at her funeral

http://www.kirotv.com/news/13684537/detail.html

Thousands of people gathered at the Slavic Christian Center in Tacoma Sunday to remember and honor 12-year-old Zina Linnik, who was found dead Thursday after being kidnapped on the Fourth of July.

This is just so sad.

[pdh3]

It is heartbreaking.

I am so angry that this keeps happening over and over....

[Sleeks]

It is heartbreaking.

I am so angry that this keeps happening over and over....

pdh3 - I agree - it is beyond frustrating.   I have stated in earlier posts, back in the days of George Washington, this country would have NEVER put up with this crap.  I love our country but it has become way too liberal or to quote myself 'full of conformist marshmallows.'  "ooo let's don't upset this group or that group."  Meanwhile it is truly the innocent who suffer for this nonsense.

[Red]

Is Child Predator Terapon Adhahn Responsible for the Deaths of Adre-Anna Jackson & Amber Hagerman

http://www.scaredmonkeys.com/2007/07/21/is-child-predator-terapon-adhahn-responsible-for-the-deaths-of-adre-anna-jackson-amber-hagerman/

and

Terapon Adhahn Charged with Aggravated Murder of 12 yo Zina Linnik (Did he kill Amber Hagerman also?)

http://missingexploited.com/2007/07/21/terapon-adhahn-charged-with-aggravated-murder-of-12-yo-zina-linnik-did-he-kill-amber-hagerman-also/

[Nut44x4]

http://www.komotv.com/news/17092211.html
Story Updated: Mar 28, 2008 at 11:50 AM PDT

Adhahn to plead guilty in slaying of young girl

TACOMA, Wash. -- Terapon Adhahn, the man charged with kidnapping and killing a young Tacoma girl, will plead guilty to murder, officials said on Friday.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Mary Robnett said Adhahn is expected to change his plea in a hearing April 7 in Pierce County Superior Court.

Prosecutors have been working with Adhahn's attorneys for some time on striking a plea deal, Robnett said.

Adhahn, a convicted sex offender, previously pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, rape and murder charges in the July killing of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.

Prosecutors have already removed the death penalty as an option as part of a deal to get Adhahn to lead them to Linnik's body after his arrest.

"I have no regrets about taking the death penalty off the table in these circumstances," Pierce County Prosecutor Gerald Horne said at the time. "We may never have found the body."

Adhahn is being held in the Pierce County Jail for Linnik's death as well as in the rapes of two other girls - one of whom survived after apparently being left for dead in a remote section of Fort Lewis.

Zina had been missing since twilight on July 4, when she was snatched from an alley behind her family's home in Tacoma during a neighborhood fireworks display. Investigators said her father saw a gray van leaving the scene, and that his partial recollection of the license plate helped them track down Adhahn at a home south of Tacoma.

He was arrested July 8. Four days later, he rode in a police cruiser and directed investigators to the area near Silver Lake where he had dumped the body, according to charging documents.

Detectives said that as they were investigating Adhahn, they discovered his links to two other victims: an 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped on her way to school, brutally raped and left in a remote part of Fort Lewis in 2000; and another who lived with Adhahn as a teen and said he raped her as many as 200 times. Adhahn is charged with rape and child rape in those cases, as well as failing to register as a sex offender. He pleaded not guilty to those counts last week.

He is also a person of interest in the late 2005 abduction and killing of Adre'Anna Jackson, a 10-year-old girl whose remains were found in a Pierce County field last year.

Adhahn came to the U.S. in the 1970s after his mother married a U.S. soldier. He was convicted of incest in 1990 for violently raping a 16-year-old female relative and sentenced to two months in jail, plus five years of counseling. He told his counselors that he had been raped countless times by an older brother while growing up in Thailand, according to a mental evaluation filed in Pierce County Superior Court as part of that case.

His case helped prompt a review of state sex offender laws, and earlier this month Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation to increase surveillance of sex offenders.

[bleachedblack]

What a creep this perp is......I hope they uncover what his past might hold, I am sure there are answers to be found.

http://www.nwcn.com/topstories/stories/NW_071307WAB_adhahn_suspect_description_TP.70d9296b.html

[Nut44x4]

Man pleads guilty in Tacoma girl's rape, murder
4-8-08
TACOMA, Wash. -- Terapon Adhahn, the man charged with killing a young Tacoma girl last summer, pleaded guilty Monday morning to kidnapping, rape and murder.

Adhahn, a convicted sex offender, had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the July 4 abduction and killing of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.

Prosecutors already took the death penalty off the table as part of a deal to get Adhahn to lead them to Linnik's body after his arrest.

Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Mary Robnett said officials have been working with Adhahn's attorneys for some time on striking a plea deal.

The plea Monday in Pierce County Superior Court means that Terapon Adhahn will spend the rest of his life in prison without the chance of parole.

Zina had been missing since twilight on the holiday, when she was snatched from an alley behind her family's home in Tacoma during a neighborhood fireworks display.

Investigators said her father saw a gray van leaving the scene, and that his partial recollection of the license plate helped them track down Adhahn at a home south of Tacoma.

He was arrested July 8. Four days later, he rode in a police cruiser and directed investigators to the area near Silver Lake where he had dumped the body.

Adhahn, 43, also pleaded guilty Monday to the rapes of two other girls, including Sabrina Rasmussen, who survived after being left for dead in a remote section of Fort Lewis.

KOMO News usually does not identify victims of sexual assault, but Rasmussen has chosen to speak publicly about her ordeal.

She was 11-year-old when she was kidnapped on her way to school, brutally raped and left in a remote part of Fort Lewis in 2000.

Rasmussen said that after years of worrying about her attacker, she finally feels safe knowing he's behind bars.

"I used to feel like... he hasn't been caught yet, what if he comes back for me? What if he gets me again, what if I don't survive?" she said. "So now I can go home and be safe, and feel safe."

Rasmussen's case remained unsolved until Adhahn was arrested for killing Linnik. A DNA test came back as a match for Rasmussen's attacker.

The other girl Adhahn admitted to raping lived with him when she was a teen. She said he raped her as many as 200 times.

Adhahn is also a person of interest in the late 2005 abduction and killing of Adre'Anna Jackson, a 10-year-old girl whose remains were found in a Pierce County field last year.

Adhahn came to the U.S. in the 1970s after his mother married a U.S. soldier. He was convicted of incest in 1990 for violently raping a 16-year-old female relative and sentenced to two months in jail plus five years of counseling.

He told his counselors that he had been raped countless times by an older brother while growing up in Thailand, according to a mental evaluation filed in Pierce County Superior Court as part of that case.

His case helped prompt a review of state sex offender laws, and earlier this month Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation to increase surveillance of sex offenders.

He is scheduled to sentenced May 2 in Tacoma.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/17357919.html

[Nut44x4]

The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington)
 
August 17, 2008 Sunday
 
More help in child abductions

In the past three years, two young girls have gone missing from the streets of Pierce County.

Search parties were launched and investigators assigned to the disappearances. Both girls - 10-year-old Adre'anna Jackson and 12-year-old Zina Linnik - were later found dead.

Now the county is putting together a team of representatives from the criminal justice community that will be trained to rapidly respond to the next child abduction and assist in the investigation if asked.

"We want to make sure we have every tool available when these types of incidents occur," said Ed Troyer, the team leader and Pierce County sheriff's spokesman.

The 10-member Child Abduction Response Team leaves today for a week of training in San Francisco. The U.S. Department of Justice is paying for the training, airfare, lodging and materials.

The Pierce County contingent will be one of several CART-trained groups throughout the country. If certified by the Justice Department, it will be the only activated and certified team in the state, Troyer said.

The concept was developed after the abduction of an 11-year-old girl in Florida in 2004. Officials working that case discovered they needed trained experts to respond immediately, assist the lead law enforcement agency and bring additional resources to the effort.

The CART training is designed to provide team members with resources and tools that can be useful when a child is abducted. The training includes a tabletop exercise during which the team is evaluated for its response and performance in an abduction scenario.

Pierce County's team is comprised of two sheriff's detectives, a search-and-rescue specialist, a forensics officer, the county's Amber Alert coordinator, two public information officers, a deputy prosecutor, a victim-witness coordinator and a sheriff's supervisor.

Troyer said he's been working on getting a CART team for the county for some time. The effort is tied to the county's Amber Alert planning, which began in 2002. Amber alerts are messages displayed on highway reader boards and broadcast by the media when a child is abducted.

"This is just the natural progression," Troyer said.

Once trained, the team will be able to assist any law enforcement agency that needs help responding to the abduction of a child. The CART team would provide support, pull in other resources and provide expertise to the investigating agency, Troyer said.

"We do not take over the case," he said. "Most of what we will bring is added resources and support that will free up the investigating agency to allocate more manpower towards the investigation."

Law enforcement agencies already might know of some of those resources - such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and a team of retired officers who travel the country helping on abducted children cases - said Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum, a member of the team.

"We should have quicker, easier access to other resources," he said. "It is something that really is needed and it's good training."

Troyer said the hope is that the CART team could be deployed in cases such as those of Adre'anna Jackson and Zina Linnik.

Adre'anna disappeared Dec. 2, 2005, after she left her Lakewood home for school. The fourth-grader never made it to Tillicum Elementary. Her parents reported her missing later that day.

Adre'anna's body was found four months later in an overgrown lot in Lakewood No arrests have been made in the case.

Zina was snatched from an alley near her Tacoma Hilltop home July 4, 2007. Her body was found eight days later.

Earlier this year, Terapon Dang Adhahn pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and killing Zina and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release.

Deputy prosecutor Grant Blinn also is a member of the CART team. He's been involved in a handful of child abduction cases in his 12 years on the job.

He was the lead prosecutor in the case against Lisa Ann Platz. Platz was convicted of kidnapping her 9-year-old daughter at gunpoint outside a Lakewood home in 2001, then killing her at a campground in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., after a nine-hour standoff with police. She's serving a life sentence for murder.

"I come across them often enough that I want to make sure I have the tools and resources," Blinn said of child abductions. "These cases don't occur every day, but when they do occur, you need to make sure you act quickly to ensure the best interest of the child."
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:838098034&start=6

[MuffyBee]

Zina Linnik's family pushes Lakewood for records
Lakewood is withholding public documents sought by the family of the late Zina Linnik. Officials say their release might jeopardize an investigation into another case.
The family of a 12-year-old Tacoma girl who was kidnapped and murdered in 2007 is squaring off with the City of Lakewood in a battle over documents related to her killer’s past.

Zina Linnik’s parents want to know if more could have been done to prevent her murder, their attorney, Tyler Firkins, said Tuesday. But Lakewood police and the city’s legal department contend that releasing information requested by Firkins under the state’s public records laws might undermine another case.

“It’s active homicide investigation,” police Lt. Heidi Hoffman said. “We don’t want to do anything that might jeopardize it.”

Last week the city filed a motion in Pierce County Superior Court asking a judge to settle the dispute over the records by keeping them closed.

Firkins’ 10-point request was broad, asking for all documents referencing Terapon Dang Adhahn, who killed Zina. Adhahn is considered a person of interest in the death of 10-year-old Adre’anna Jackson, whose body was found four months after her December 2005 disappearance. Her cause of death is unknown.

Firkins claims the city is improperly withholding information unrelated to that case. He especially wants the results of any follow-up to a 2004 Child Protective Services referral alleging that a mother was allowing Adhahn to sexually abuse her teenage daughter.

“Rather than respond to my request, they are dodging based on the ‘continuing investigation,’” Firkins said. Washington’s open records act contains an exemption for investigative records.

Lakewood was not involved with the CPS referral, Hoffman told The News Tribune. Court records indicate the girl lived with Adhahn at two Spanaway addresses from the ages of 12 to 15.

Meanwhile, the Washington Supreme Court has held that police are not obligated to separate sensitive information from nonsensitive in an open file, associate Lakewood city attorney Matthew Kaser wrote in court filings. He quoted from the court’s 5-4 opinion: “This exemption allows the law enforcement agency, not the courts, to determine what information, if any, is essential to solve a case.” Which details are sensitive might only be recognized in hindsight after a case is solved, the justices noted.

In 2004, both the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department and CPS received tips alleging Adhahn was having sex with a 15-year-old girl who was living with him, The Seattle Times and KIRO-TV reported in 2007. Deputies tried to check it out, but couldn’t verify the tip because Adhahn, now 44, wasn’t living at the addresses they’d been given.

CPS officials acknowledged that their agency should have done more.

Firkins said he was trying to find out more about where the system may have broken down, pointing out that Zina wasn’t Adhahn’s first victim.

In 1990, Adhahn was convicted of incest, sentenced to sex offender treatment and diagnosed as a pedophile. He later pleaded guilty to other sex crimes. Adhahn was sentenced to life in prison in May 2008 for kidnapping, raping and killing Zina.

Among other items requested by Firkins were any documents that “discuss the use of the Amber Alert System in the context of the Zina Linnik case.” This part of Firkins’ request was also denied because it might jeopardize Lakewood’s homicide investigation, court records say.

The Tacoma Police Department was criticized for not issuing such an alert in the first few hours after Zina was abducted, waiting until the next morning after a hot lead didn’t pan out.

Firkins said he was still merely conducting an inquiry, but did not rule out the possibility of a lawsuit.

“The family is very interested in why this happened to their daughter,” he said. “And we’re trying to answer that question. Where it goes, we don’t know.”
http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstories/story/709574.html

This is the link for Adre'anna Jackson http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=2119.0