Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan 5 Michigan, Missing-Last seen 5/24/09 #1 (BODY FOUND)

[Catbert]

Nevaeh Buchanan Body Found
By Dan Sevigny, Community Contributor -- Published: June 05, 2009


The body found in River Raisin in southeast Michigan is likely that of Neveah Buchanan, a 5-year-old who went missing almost 2 weeks ago.

A news conference will be held this morning at 10:30 AM in Monroe (This article will be updated with the details of that broadcast).
A fisherman is said to have found the body and called the police in the small town just 35 miles outside of Detroit.

Naveah Buchanan’s grandmother who had legal custody of her confirmed that the girl’s clothing matched what Neveah was wearing when she disappeared.

Investigators are still waiting for DNA results from the lab to confirm whether or not the body is Neveah.

The cause of death is not set in stone, but authorities suspect it may have been a murder: George Kennedy and Roy Smith are both being held in relation to the death – Kennedy is a convicted sex offender.

http://www.alternativehealthjournal.com/article/nevaeh_buchanan_body_found/3461

There was a wonderful picture of Nevaeh with this one but I don't know how to post it here

[Dolce]

Nevaeh Buchanan Body Found
By Dan Sevigny, Community Contributor -- Published: June 05, 2009


The body found in River Raisin in southeast Michigan is likely that of Neveah Buchanan, a 5-year-old who went missing almost 2 weeks ago.

A news conference will be held this morning at 10:30 AM in Monroe (This article will be updated with the details of that broadcast).
A fisherman is said to have found the body and called the police in the small town just 35 miles outside of Detroit.

Naveah Buchanan’s grandmother who had legal custody of her confirmed that the girl’s clothing matched what Neveah was wearing when she disappeared.

Investigators are still waiting for DNA results from the lab to confirm whether or not the body is Neveah.

The cause of death is not set in stone, but authorities suspect it may have been a murder: George Kennedy and Roy Smith are both being held in relation to the death – Kennedy is a convicted sex offender.

http://www.alternativehealthjournal.com/article/nevaeh_buchanan_body_found/3461


There was a wonderful picture of Nevaeh with this one but I don't know how to post it here

[pink angel]

Did anyone catch last night that Police were with Nevaeh's Father and in touch with her grandmother?

No mention of where her Mother was? I smell an arrest announcement this morning-

Keeping my fingers crossed.
B

I took special notice of that Blink. I think Shane was contacted by LE when he was on live with JVM because his interview just ended, like he was cut off. I do know that Shane was the one following up with all the missing children organizations and filling out paperwork for TES and KlaasKids, along with some others.

I read one article where JB was huddled in the apartment with her friends.

[Northern Rose]

Autopsy today may shed light on missing Nevaeh's fate
By AMBER HUNT AND TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 5, 2009

Officials from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office are set to address media this morning with information about the grisly find last night of a body along the River Raisin in Raisinville Township.

The body is likely that of 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan, said members of the girl's family Thursday night.


The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office, which received Nevaeh's body overnight, expects to complete an autopsy by noon today, a spokesman said this morning.


Two fishermen discovered the girl while fishing along a bend of the river on Dixon Road west of Sullivan Road. Guy Bickley, 52, and his father, Lowell Kirk of Tennessee, told the Free Press they'd been standing atop concrete that seemed to be crumbling away. They pushed at it, then saw human flesh.

Nevaeh disappeared May 24 from outside her Monroe apartment complex.


Hundreds of volunteers had searched for her daily, marking off with black marker areas they'd covered on a tattered map.


Three men, each with sexual assault backgrounds, have been questioned. At least one has been eliminated as a person of interest; no one has been arrested in the disappearance and death.


Late Thursday, police wouldn't confirm their find to the media, but rather announced a morning press conference.


http://www.freep.com/article/20090605/NEWS05/90605028

[Catbert]

TY Dolce   It is such a nice picture

[Northern Rose]

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[pink angel]

Thank you Dolce, I love that picture and snagged it. Her eyes so big and smile so bright. She was happy with Grandma, Kathy and Uncle Mike. So sad her mom was let back into her life. (jmo)

Good morning everyone and ((((Hugs to Jess))))

[Dolce]

Just "Google Mapped" it for my own personal information.

Nevaeh's apartment complex at 1166 N. Macomb St. Monroe, MI is per Google 10.6 miles from Ida Maybee Rd. Dundee, MI's Raisin River area and takes roughly 20 mins by car to travel.  Per the map its a pretty easy drive.

Mom's alliby is her own Mother....her own Mother was speaking in past tense in reference to Nevaeh from the beginning along with JB. 

Sorry I know I am fishing here, I just can't let this go.

[klaasend]

There's something odd about the way Nevaeh was found and the manner in which she was buried. Not to be on a witch hunt here, but her body was found by Guy Bickley. I don't know if there's a connection, but there's a Guy Ornan Blickley on the SO registry from Cleveland.

 

Wrong age.  The Guy Bickley that found the body is 52 and the S.O. in Ohio is 62.  Plus they don't look at all alike.

[pink angel]

Thank you also Catbert! NoRose and all of you posting articles and updates.

[no rose colored glasses]

There's something odd about the way Nevaeh was found and the manner in which she was buried. Not to be on a witch hunt here, but her body was found by Guy Bickley. I don't know if there's a connection, but there's a Guy Ornan Blickley on the SO registry from Cleveland.

 

Wrong age.  The Guy Bickley that found the body is 52 and the S.O. in Ohio is 62.  Plus they don't look at all alike.

That's good to hear, thanks.

[Northern Rose]

Community somber as news of body spreads
Volunteers gather for vigil outside Nevaeh's home

Firefighters from area departments had mobilized early Thursday afternoon, hoping to reinvigorate the nearly two-week search for Nevaeh Buchanan.

But by the time those firemen assembled, two fishermen had apparently already made the discovery on the River Raisin, about a half hour northwest of Monroe, where the girl was last seen.

News of the discovery sent volunteers back to the Monroe apartment complex, where they held a candlelight vigil and nervously awaited news about the identity.

By 7 p.m., a medical examiner's truck had arrived at the barricaded scene in Raisinville Township. By 9 p.m., somber word that Nevaeh had been found was spreading throughout the area.

Neveah's mother, Jennifer Buchanan, and other family members were holed up in the apartment awaiting word. Police had told them they were 99% sure the body was the little girl's.

Still, as of late Thursday, police had not confirmed the body belonged to Nevaeh. Her grandmother Sherry Buchanan said police were doing DNA testing.

"I'm not giving up any hope until I see the body," she said.

But the Rev. Dale Hayford, senior pastor of Monroe Crosswalk Community Church, said the family had braced themselves for the worst. Police told him the body was clothed in garments similar to what Nevaeh was wearing when she went missing.

"They've pretty well accepted it," he said.

Meanwhile, Guy Bickley, 52, recounted the moment he and his father found the body about 12 miles away from the complex.

Bickley said he felt the ground beneath him give way and knew something was wrong.
He stepped back and realized that he wasn't sitting on normal riverfront soil. Rather, it was haphazardly laid concrete. And it was crumbling apart.

Then he saw what he thought was human flesh.

"To me, it looked like two-thirds of a little back," Bickley told the Free Press late Thursday when he returned to his Frenchtown Township home after spending the day describing his grisly find to police.

Bickley and his father, Lowell Kirk, 72, of Tennessee, decided to fish along Dixon Road, west of Sullivan, because it was too chilly to head out farther.

They'd barely settled in when they noticed the earth "wasn't right."

Bickley said it looked as though someone dug a hole, then poured a bag of concrete mix on top of the body. The men called 911 but had to wait two hours before anyone arrived. They spent much of the day at the sheriff's office filing reports.

Bickley said police wouldn't confirm to them that the body belonged to the missing girl.

"I hope to God it isn't her," Bickley said.

But the body likely belongs to Nevaeh, said officers near the Raisinville Township spot where Bickley and his father stopped to go fishing.

Nevaeh disappeared May 24 from outside her apartment complex. No one has been arrested in her disappearance.

But the mystery of her whereabouts seemed to be answered Thursday.

As he grappled with the news that his little cousin may be dead, Shaun Lawson made a plea to the volunteers who had spent the last two weeks looking for her. He told them to keep close watch on their children.

"Never veer off," he said. "Never take your eyes off them for a second."

He and other family members addressed the crowd of nearly 150, some of whom held candles. Many wore yellow ribbons.

Julie Churchill, 46, of Monroe was one of the volunteers.

"I was hoping they'd find her alive," the mother of three and grandmother of one said. "It breaks my heart someone could do that. She was just a baby. She was innocent."

She said Nevaeh's disappearance has driven home the point that people must always watch out for their kids.

Since her disappearance, police have zeroed in on a few men with histories of sex assault convictions, but no one has been charged in the case, and leads are dwindling.

One man, George Kennedy, 39, told an Ohio newspaper this week that he had nothing to do with the girl's disappearance. In fact, he told the Toledo Blade, he helped the girl's mother search for Nevaeh.

Police said early this week a $20,000 reward would be given to anyone who had information that led them to the girl. Bickley said Thursday nobody had mentioned a reward to him.

"Money aside, I'd rather it wasn't her," he said. "I I'd rather she be alive."

http://www.freep.com/article/20090605/NEWS05/906050389/1007/NEWS/Community+somber+as+news+of+body+spreads

[pink angel]

I hope you are right Blink. I want JUSTICE for Nevaeh, as we all do. Too bad Michigan is not a death penalty state.

I am with you Jess. Too bad it isn't a death penalty state.

Most states with the death penalty don't actually carry it out though, usually they wind up dying on death row waiting for appeals and such. I can live that though. Death Row is no week at Band Camp.

[no rose colored glasses]

So, two men are innocently fishing, and the cement breaks loose, and the man notices flesh    My question is, why would the perp dispose of Nevaeh in an area where people fish quite often?

[pink angel]

They had to WAIT two hours watching over little Nevaeh's body covered in cement while the police took their own sweet time to show up to A BODY BEING FOUND?????

They must have been eating all those free donuts Tim Horton donated for the "searchers". Even though they (LE) had given up the official ground search on Monday. The volunteer searchers kept searching for this little girl, knowing she was out there to be found. They went yesterday morning to Tim Hortons (the volunteer search organizers) to see if they could get some donuts donated for the volunteer searchers and Tim Horton said they have been donating many large boxes every morning. The sheriff's office had just picked them up that morning.

Sorry, not meaning to be petty because it doesn't matter in the scheme of things. It just irks the hell out of me is that man and his son had to sit there with Nevaeh while LE took their time to follow up. Bless the man and boy that found her and watched over her. Bless them both.

[Dolce]

So, two men are innocently fishing, and the cement breaks loose, and the man notices flesh    My question is, why would the perp dispose of Nevaeh in an area where people fish quite often?

They wouldn't unless they wanted her to be found.  (For propper burrial)

[cookie]

can you believe that HLN has not mentioned Nevaeh this morning at all???? not that her body was found..nothing...also, it was not mentioned on GMA either that I saw! I have been flipping back and forth on the news shows and so far, nothing!

[pink angel]

10:30 am ET Monroe County Sheriff News Conference on Body Found on http://www.foxtoledo.com

[pink angel]

can you believe that HLN has not mentioned Nevaeh this morning at all???? not that her body was found..nothing...also, it was not mentioned on GMA either that I saw! I have been flipping back and forth on the news shows and so far, nothing!

Fox News Channel had breaking news last night. Talked about it for about a minute. I haven't seen any coverage this morning but I have the TV off. I am newsed out.

[cookie]

So, two men are innocently fishing, and the cement breaks loose, and the man notices flesh    My question is, why would the perp dispose of Nevaeh in an area where people fish quite often?

They wouldn't unless they wanted her to be found.  (For propper burrial)

.I think that the perp thought that by burying her in that shallow grave and putting the cement over her would keep her from being found? dunno...
also, I read somewhere else that the 2 So s fished in this area...has anyone else heard that ? and that Kennedy  has relatives who live not too far from the area that she was found..don't know how true that is since Kennedy said that he wanted to move closer to his kids and family...