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« Reply #200 on: June 07, 2009, 03:49:00 PM »

This article regarding the location where Neveah was found is just eerie......

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For me, the location is ironic.  I had just completed a story about this very area for the latest edition of Monroe Magazine.  My focus was on good biking routes in Monroe County and I traced a route from the Village of Dundee, along Plank Road, across the Ida-Maybee Road bridge, west along Dixon and then back to Dundee.

That, of course, is the area in which the body of Nevaeh Buchanan was found.  While researching my story, I even stopped at the fishing spot in question and snapped some photos of the nearby railroad bridge.  It chills me to think that just a few weeks after the photos were taken that someone visited the same location with sinister motivations.

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« Reply #201 on: June 07, 2009, 03:55:29 PM »

Re: Post # 157 from Bearlyhere -

Thank you for the kind welcome, Bearly - and, no, don't believe we have 'met' yet. I just joined when Sandra Cantu was missing, as I live near Tracy CA - and have enjoyed this cage full of lovely monkeys ever since! Thank you for having me - a wonderful group, indeed. (My avatar has changed a couple of times, so might be difficult for others to 'recognize' me - LOL. Think I'll stick with this one - a cartoon I did of myself feeling overwhelmed a while back . . .)



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It is the perfect avi for this case.  The facts, as they come in, are overwhelming!

 

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« Reply #202 on: June 07, 2009, 04:06:20 PM »

This article regarding the location where Neveah was found is just eerie......

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For me, the location is ironic.  I had just completed a story about this very area for the latest edition of Monroe Magazine.  My focus was on good biking routes in Monroe County and I traced a route from the Village of Dundee, along Plank Road, across the Ida-Maybee Road bridge, west along Dixon and then back to Dundee.

That, of course, is the area in which the body of Nevaeh Buchanan was found.  While researching my story, I even stopped at the fishing spot in question and snapped some photos of the nearby railroad bridge.  It chills me to think that just a few weeks after the photos were taken that someone visited the same location with sinister motivations.

http://www.blogsmonroe.com/expatriate/2009/06/nevaeh-case-and-the-river-raisin

This article reminded me of the two fishermen that found Nevaeh's little body. I am sure that that river provided countless people recreation in various ways, if nothing more than to drive down the road and sit and look at the river's flow. Forever more it will be a reminder of a very sad and evil thing that happened to their community. The man and his father will probably never fish that river again as probably untold numbers of people will not be able to seek refuge for a while from the stresses of life by going to or viewing it's banks and the meandering of the murky water. It is sad for the whole community.   an angelic monkey
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« Reply #203 on: June 07, 2009, 04:14:33 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I think the carpet condition might have been the reporter's observation. My thought on it though was Jennifer could have gotten off the couch, rented a carpet cleaner, and cleaned the carpet while her Mom was working. But then, there was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch.
To me that shows where her priorities were. No time for cleaning up your child after an accident, making sure Nevaeh had on shoes, or going outside so she could watch her properly riding her scooter. There was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch........Ugh!
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« Reply #204 on: June 07, 2009, 04:19:03 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I think the carpet condition might have been the reporter's observation. My thought on it though was Jennifer could have gotten off the couch, rented a carpet cleaner, and cleaned the carpet while her Mom was working. But then, there was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch.
To me that shows where her priorities were. No time for cleaning up your child after an accident, making sure Nevaeh had on shoes, or going outside so she could watch her properly riding her scooter. There was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch........Ugh!
The carpet really bothers me.  Why bother pointing it out and going into detail about it unless there is more to the stains she is nervous about?  Is she pointing it out to cut them off at the pass to hide something? 
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« Reply #205 on: June 07, 2009, 06:52:15 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I think the carpet condition might have been the reporter's observation. My thought on it though was Jennifer could have gotten off the couch, rented a carpet cleaner, and cleaned the carpet while her Mom was working. But then, there was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch.
To me that shows where her priorities were. No time for cleaning up your child after an accident, making sure Nevaeh had on shoes, or going outside so she could watch her properly riding her scooter. There was a Jon & Kate rerun to watch........Ugh!
The carpet really bothers me.  Why bother pointing it out and going into detail about it unless there is more to the stains she is nervous about?  Is she pointing it out to cut them off at the pass to hide something? 
Yes, that's what I was wondering about, otherwise why talk about it, unless like Fanny said, that was the reporter's observations.
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« Reply #206 on: June 07, 2009, 08:13:55 PM »

Hello monkeys -

When I read the article, I personally just took the description of "going down the stairs to the dingey apartment with dirty, stained carpet" to be setting the scene, so to speak - which was very effective in making me, the reader, feel even more sorrow for the conditions that this child has had to live in & the slovenly laziness of her mother . . . not the desired or typical family environment for a little 5 year old . . .

 . . . For what that's worth, anyway!

It was, however, IMO, yet another scenario that proves JB was an unfit parent, and neglected her child. I am still looking for proof that she was using drugs again since she was released - so far I have seen only speculation about that. It would not surprise me in the least if she was high or getting high when Nevaeh supposedly came in to change.
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« Reply #207 on: June 07, 2009, 08:25:49 PM »

Burial site, vigil draw mourners to pay tribute to Nevaeh Buchanan
Tributes for victim left near river

DUNDEE, Mich. - Sharla Patterson took her children to a spot along the River Raisin - the place where 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan is believed to have been buried - because she was heartsick about the murdered child.

She also wanted to send a message to her four children, ages 7 through 13, about the danger of talking to strangers.

"I hope, out of all of this, that parents have learned to not let their children go outside unsupervised," Mrs. Patterson said Saturday. "I want parents to enjoy their children to the fullest and teach them to be cautious and aware. It's important for kids to know what happened."

A memorial of flowers and stuffed animals to Nevaeh, whose body appears to have been found Thursday after an 11-day search, sprang up along the guard rail that protects vehicles from going into the river.

The Pattersons of Raisinville Township were among mourners who drove to the overlook 20 feet above the site where the body of a girl matching Nevaeh's description was recovered from the shallow grave of dirt and concrete.

The tributes continued to grow as the day got warmer. Cars and trucks stopped and parked along Dixon Road's edge and their occupants went to the ridge to peer down the bank.
A bouquet of roses, daisies, carnations, and baby's breath adorned the hole that been excavated by criminal-evidence specialists.


"We are really sad because she got kidnapped and died," said Jessica, Mrs. Patterson's 7-year-old daughter.

Saturday night, scores of people turned out for a prayer vigil for Nevaeh at the conclusion of the Gathering Praise Festival at St. Mary's Park in Monroe.

Organizers said participants prayed that the person responsible for the tragedy would be found.

Among those attending were Bill and Debbie Shaw. The Shaws said that although they didn't know the girl's family, they took part in the search after Nevaeh was reported missing on May 24.

The body found by two fishermen - a Newport, Mich., man and his stepfather who had never fished from that bank before - was sent Friday to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office in Detroit for an autopsy and DNA testing to confirm the girl's identity.

Nevaeh was reported missing about 8:30 p.m. May 24 by her mother, Jennifer Buchanan, 24, from the parking lot of their North Macomb Street apartment in Monroe.

Nevaeh's father, Shane Hinojosa, 22, clung to hope that the DNA comparison would show the child is not his daughter and the search could continue.

"We are just waiting on the phone call," Mr. Hinojosa of Toledo said.

"We are just keeping hope for right now that it is not her. We are having a lot of hope and a lot of faith."

Brytnea Patterson, 13, Mrs. Patterson's oldest daughter, said Nevaeh's abduction has left her afraid of being left alone outside.

Ed Zubkoff, who went with friends to the riverbank, had joined in the community volunteer searches. He said he felt that he needed to go to the river bank to help bring closure.

"I still can't get over it. The girl was only 5 years old. It is beyond belief," said Mr. Zubkoff, the father of a 12-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son.

The Rev. Jack Quinlan, a Roman Catholic priest, was among Mr. Zubkoff's companions.

Father Quinlan, pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in Monroe, said a prayer for the girl and her family as he stood near where the child was found.

"Even though we can never replace the loss and bring their loved one back to them, our hearts go out to them and embrace them," he said. "I think we should believe that the child is not lost and is now in the hands of God. Our hope is that we will see her again one day."

Chris Griffor, 32, scaled the rock and dirt bank to take a picture of the shallow grave with his cell phone.

Staring into the empty hole, the LaSalle Township resident suggested putting a stone monument near the guard rail as a permanent memorial to the girl.

"It's so sad to think that somebody took her and did that," he said.

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« Reply #208 on: June 07, 2009, 08:28:45 PM »

Nevaeh's Mother Says She's Innocent
Test Results Could Come Back Monday

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UPDATED: 6:15 pm EDT June 7, 2009


MONROE, Mich. -- As investigators await test results on a child's body found by a southeastern Michigan river, the mother of a missing 5-year-old girl said she's "completely innocent."

Monroe County authorities said Sunday they were pursuing leads as they waited for DNA test results from a state police lab to confirm the body is that of Nevaeh Buchanan. It was discovered Thursday encased in a cement block next to the River Raisin.

"Someone who would take a child ... do what they want with them … bury them in concrete in a shallow grave … you have to have a pretty twisted mind to do something like that," said Nevaeh's uncle Shawn Lawson.

A fisherman made the gruesome discovery.

Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield said the body recovered near River Raisin in Raisinville Township matches the age, size and sex of Nevaeh.

"It's hard to wait. Just standing here and wondering and thinking could it be could it not be," said Lawson.

Test results could come as early as Monday.

"I'm completely innocent," said Jennifer Buchanan. "I didn't have anything to do with my daughter's disappearance. I don't do drugs. I hardly ever drink. I don't owe anybody any money. I have hardly any enemies.

"I don't understand who would come up and take my child."

Police haven't announced any suspects in the disappearance.

"That person, to our knowledge is still out there in the community. In my opinion it is a very sick or disturbed person we're looking for -- a person that is able to abduct and murder an innocent 5-year-old child," said Crutchfield.

Two men, Kennedy and Roy Lee Smith, both convicted sex offenders, were named people of interest in the case.

Kennedy told the Toledo Blade that he met Nevaeh's mother two years ago at the parole office. He said he formed a friendship with her out of loneliness.

Jennifer Buchanan has been criticized for befriending two convicted sex offenders.

"There are a lot of people saying it's her fault -- her fault she should have been better about it…but you learn from your mistakes, and sometimes mistakes you can't really take them back, like this situation here," said Lawson.

Kennedy, 39, is being held on suspicion of parole violation. According to his parole, he is not to date a woman who has a child under the age of 17

To Read More about Kennedy, click here . http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/19662141/detail.html

Nevaeh's grandmother, Sherry Buchanan, got custody of Nevaeh after Jennifer Buchanan was convicted for breaking into homes to support a drug habit.

The three were sharing a Monroe apartment when Nevaeh disappeared May 24.

Sherry Buchanan said the whole ordeal, especially dealing with the family of Nevaeh's father, Shane Hinojosa, has been very difficult on her.

"Hopefully down the road, I can prove I am on the right side of the road and can hold my head up high," she said.

When Local 4 asked her if she felt like she was a suspect, she said no, but that people are always pointing fingers.
"I feel like everyone has a lot of negativity about me," Jennifer Buchanan said. "They don't personally know me. ... I feel like everyone is putting me in the category of ... parents who actually did harm their children. ... It's very frustrating."

Buchanan said she last saw Nevaeh when the girl left the apartment to visit an 8-year-old friend.

"Mom, I'm going upstairs to ... play a game," the mother quoted her daughter as saying.

"I trusted her enough for her to actually go," Buchanan said.

She said she became concerned after two other young girls came by the apartment and she began an increasingly frantic search for her daughter.

She said her heart sank when she found the purple and green scooter Nevaeh often rode.

"My stomach went into knots," Buchanan said. "It's like a nightmare."

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« Reply #209 on: June 07, 2009, 08:30:51 PM »

Nevaeh's Mother Speaks
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MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- As investigators await test results on a child's body found by a southeastern Michigan river, the mother of a missing 5-year-old girl says she's "completely innocent."
Monroe County authorities said Sunday they were pursuing leads as they waited for DNA test results from a state police lab to confirm the body is that of Nevaeh Buchanan. It was discovered Thursday next to the River Raisin.
"I'm completely innocent," Jennifer Buchanan told the Detroit Free Press. "I didn't have anything to do with my daughter's disappearance. I don't do drugs. I hardly ever drink. I don't owe anybody any money. I have hardly any enemies.
"I don't understand who would come up and take my child."
Police haven't announced any suspects in the disappearance.
Nevaeh's grandmother, Sherry Buchanan, got custody of Nevaeh after Jennifer Buchanan was convicted for breaking into homes to support a drug habit.
The three were sharing a Monroe apartment when Nevaeh disappeared May 24.
"I feel like everyone has a lot of negativity about me," Buchanan said. "They don't personally know me. ... I feel like everyone is putting me in the category of ... parents who actually did harm their children. ... It's very frustrating."
Buchanan said she last saw Nevaeh when the girl left the apartment to visit an 8-year-old friend.
"Mom, I'm going upstairs to ... play a game," the mother quoted her daughter as saying.
"I trusted her enough for her to actually go," Buchanan said. She said she became concerned after two other young girls came by the apartment and she began an increasingly frantic search for her daughter.
She said her heart sank when she found the purple and green scooter Nevaeh often rode.
"My stomach went into knots," Buchanan said. "It's like a nightmare."


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« Reply #210 on: June 07, 2009, 08:36:39 PM »

Discovery of body could lead police to crucial evidence
Experts outline potential profiles


The grisly way in which a little girl's body was disposed of along a remote stretch of the River Raisin in Monroe County could yield important clues to the identity of her assailant, a top criminal expert says.

The body, believed to be 5-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan, was found Thursday covered in cement by fishermen who smelled a strange odor and chipped away at what they thought was a concrete block. Nevaeh had been missing from her Monroe apartment complex and presumed abducted since May 24.

While the average person recoils at such gruesome discoveries, the evidence tends to point to "organized" killers who could pass as average Joes, said Ken Lanning, a consultant on crimes against children and a retired FBI agent.

Mr. Lanning and veteran Toledo Detective Frank Stiles, in separate interviews late last week, cautioned it is too soon to conclude there was a sexual motivation to the killing of the young girl.

"It's a possibility, but there needs to be more evidence," said Mr. Stiles, author of two books on high-profile Toledo homicides and chief investigator for the Lucas County prosecutor's office.

Police have identified two sexual offenders - friends of the girl's mother - as persons of interest. They are not suspects, Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield said.
Detective Stiles and Mr. Lanning said they had no direct knowledge of this case and said they were speaking about such crimes generally.


Sexual assault is the first thing that people think of when they hear about the abduction and killing of a child, Mr. Lanning said. But it is one of many motivations. They can occur as a result of kidnappings gone wrong - either by someone seeking ransom or out of a desire to raise a child. They can be carried out by killers with no sexual interest in the child. They can be revenge killings committed by someone with a grudge against a family member.

Despite public perception, 99 percent of child abductions end in the quick return of the victim, Mr. Lanning said.

But one study of 500 abductions that ended in a homicide found that the child died within three hours of being taken, he added.

"You look at what happened and then you try to evaluate why it happened and hopefully it will lead you to the kind of person who did it," Mr. Lanning said.

Haphazardly discarded bodies found quickly tend to point to killers who are "disorganized" because of drug use, alcohol use, mental illness, youth, or other factors.

In other situations, assailants deliberately "display" bodies along heavily traveled highways where they will be seen. These crimes tend to be committed by perpetrators who are sending a message to the victim's family or society, Mr. Lanning said.

"Organized" killers who seek to conceal remains are generally thought to be more intelligent, more calculating, and calmer than other killers. And it can be a sign that the assailant has killed before. "These are not absolute categories," he cautioned.

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« Reply #211 on: June 07, 2009, 09:27:44 PM »

NORTHERNROSE, Thank you for all of your updates. Nothing gets any clearer though, does it? I am afraid we are going to have some really upsetting details in the next few days......
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« Reply #212 on: June 07, 2009, 09:30:10 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I'm sorry I have to  at your comment.... when I was five I started sneaking cigarettes and playing spin the bottle! Our neighborhood was jam packed with kids in N Hollywood CA.... and we didn't come in til supper and then back out til dark. Was my mom lazy ( not that I am defending JB here), no she wasn't. That is how it is in some neighborhoods I think...or how it used to be anyway in the early 80's. What if the whole "community" allows their kids to run about or play in the courtyard? Than does that make JB worse than any other mother there? Just food for thought. I really don't like the way she's changed her stories nor hung out with SO's ( something my mom never did anyway... like they even had a name back then, but no I was never preyed upon). I'm not directing these questions at you NRCG... I just had to laugh at what I had bolded based upon my own life history.
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« Reply #213 on: June 07, 2009, 09:31:51 PM »

Fanny I think that the autopsy results will be what really moves this case along.  I am praying that she was not molested either recently or signs from previously.  I think the Sherriff said results would be early in the week but I am sure if they find any DNA that matches what they had collected from suspects that they will delay the release until they can circle their wagons so to speak.
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« Reply #214 on: June 07, 2009, 09:35:10 PM »

I am also concerned that the profiler in the article points out that a burial is generally done by  an organized person and perhaps someone who has done this before.
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« Reply #215 on: June 07, 2009, 09:40:25 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I'm sorry I have to  at your comment.... when I was five I started sneaking cigarettes and playing spin the bottle! Our neighborhood was jam packed with kids in N Hollywood CA.... and we didn't come in til supper and then back out til dark. Was my mom lazy ( not that I am defending JB here), no she wasn't. That is how it is in some neighborhoods I think...or how it used to be anyway in the early 80's. What if the whole "community" allows their kids to run about or play in the courtyard? Than does that make JB worse than any other mother there? Just food for thought. I really don't like the way she's changed her stories nor hung out with SO's ( something my mom never did anyway... like they even had a name back then, but no I was never preyed upon). I'm not directing these questions at you NRCG... I just had to laugh at what I had bolded based upon my own life history.
I grew up in the 60's, and we also were out running around, and only came home for meal time, and out again. I lived in a small town, and there also was a ton of kids, we were always at the park, beach and woods. I'm just saying that in this time period, who does that? Mother has so many changing stories, it's ridiculous. Sneaking cigarettes and spin the bottle  at five, not me, I was so naive, I didn't know a lot of things till I left home at 18, I kid you not 
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« Reply #216 on: June 07, 2009, 09:41:43 PM »

I am also concerned that the profiler in the article points out that a burial is generally done by  an organized person and perhaps someone who has done this before.
I am too, part of it seemed organized, part of it seemed very sloppy.
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« Reply #217 on: June 07, 2009, 09:43:46 PM »

Fanny I think that the autopsy results will be what really moves this case along.  I am praying that she was not molested either recently or signs from previously.  I think the Sherriff said results would be early in the week but I am sure if they find any DNA that matches what they had collected from suspects that they will delay the release until they can circle their wagons so to speak.

I am hoping the same thing. But the signs are there. If she didn't have clothes on, acording to the reports, and was practically thrown away in that fashion, you can't hardly not let your mind go down that road. I really wish her mom had been more vigilant and had not associated herself with the kinds of people that this child should not be around. I wish Nevaeh had had a better life. If it is true that as a five year old she had such freedom to roam and her mom thought she was 10 yrs old in her mind, what must we be dealing with here?

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http://www.freep.com/article/20090607/NEWS05/906070501/Jennifer+Buchanan+denies+killing+daughter+Nevaeh

June 7, 2009


Amid suspicion and public scorn, Jennifer Buchanan denies killing daughter Nevaeh

BY JEFF SEIDEL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

In a cramped apartment, a portrait of a little girl is propped up on an old TV set, framed by candles.

It is a darling picture, taken at preschool.

Jennifer Buchanan faces the makeshift memorial, saying she can't imagine why anyone would have taken Nevaeh Buchanan, her 5-year-old daughter.

She begins to tell the story of the final moments when, she says, she thought Nevaeh went off to play with a friend.

And then was gone.

It's a story Buchanan has not told in so much detail before. And it's a story investigators are still scrutinizing.

Nevaeh's disappearance, for now, remains a mystery -- two weeks after she was last seen outside her Monroe apartment, just three days after a body, whose identity still is unconfirmed, was found encased in a concrete grave along a riverbank.

The search continues for the person who could have done this to a pretty girl who loved trucks and motorcycles, crayons and macaroni and cheese.

A girl whose life may have ended three days after she raced across a stage and -- all smiles -- grabbed her preschool certificate.

As suspicion swirls, mother tells her story


Down a flight of stairs, inside a dingy two-bedroom apartment, Jennifer Buchanan gave an account of her final moments with her daughter. She spent those precious minutes on a brown couch, watching reruns of "Jon & Kate Plus 8."


In the story Buchanan tells, 5-year-old Nevaeh walked barefoot across the old brown carpet, worn and stained, and headed for the front door.


"Mom, I'm going upstairs to Austin's house to play a game," Buchanan remembers her daughter saying.


It was about 6:30 p.m. on May 24, the day before Memorial Day. Nevaeh walked out, the door shut and that was the last time Buchanan says she saw her daughter.


"I trusted her enough for her to actually go," Buchanan told the Free Press last week in a 2 1/2 -hour interview, discussing everything from her relationship with two sex offenders to how it feels to be suspected in her child's disappearance.


Austin Kuhn, 8, and Nevaeh lived in the same building in the Charlotte Arms apartments and played together nearly every day. A child could probably run from Nevaeh's apartment to Austin's door on the second floor in less than 10 seconds.


She was wearing knee-length jeans and a baby blue, red-and-white striped shirt with a V-neck white collar. Potty trained, but with a habit of waiting until the last second to use the bathroom, Buchanan said, Nevaeh had just had an accident and changed her clothes.


Buchanan didn't get up from the couch to make sure her daughter made it safely up the stairs. She sat there, she said, watching "Jon & Kate Plus 8."


About 20 minutes later, a girl Buchanan described as a tattletale knocked on the door.


"She looked right at me and says, 'Nevaeh is on her scooter in the road,' " Buchanan said. "She said the road, but I knew she meant the parking lot."


Buchanan was angry at her daughter and said she looked for her flip-flops so she could go out to find her. A moment later, another girl knocked.


"Is Nevaeh home?" Buchanan remembers the girl asking. "And I said, 'She has to be upstairs at Austin's, but she is either out back, or out front, or upstairs at Austin's.' "


Buchanan said she poked her head out the building's back door and glanced at the parking lot where Nevaeh used to ride the scooter. She wasn't there. She looked at the sandbox where she often played. Not there. She glanced at the nearby school playground. Nothing.
So the timeline is between 6:30-6:50 according to JB..... but didn't Austin's mom say JB picked her up at 330 to go shopping? So if JB is to be believed Neveah either lied to go play on her scooter ( I don't buy that), or was approached by someone on her way ( or just outside her door) to Austin's. Have these two girls been talked to by the police? We have only heard about these girls by JB...surely the police know the answer to that question

"Nevaeh!" she said she screamed.


Buchanan planned to punish her daughter with a time-out. "I was going to yell at her and to tell her to stay out of the road," she said.


She doesn't believe in spanking. "I'm a time-out mom," Buchanan said.


She said she started knocking on doors. Nevaeh wasn't in Austin's apartment.


"I looked everywhere," she said. "I spent at least 45 minutes looking."


The panic started to grow.


She said she told the apartment manager her daughter was missing, circled the building and came around the other side, where she found the purple and green scooter Nevaeh often rode.


"My heart sank," she said, "and my stomach went into knots."


Somebody called the police, and an Amber Alert was issued.

'It's like a nightmare'


Investigators don't know what happened that day or how Nevaeh vanished. They've questioned Buchanan extensively, and the public has turned its attention to her, the choices she has made, the friends she chose.


Over the last two weeks, Buchanan says she has lived at the epicenter of a horror story.


"It's like a nightmare," she said Wednesday morning, starting to cry. "I can't wait to wake up."


She spent several days with friends searching all over Monroe County -- in the woods, by the quarries, in abandoned buildings -- sometimes returning to the same spot five or six times, whistling, stopping to cry, stopping to scream and wondering what was next.


She yelled her daughter's name until she was hoarse.


On Thursday afternoon, fishermen discovered a body covered in concrete about a foot from the River Raisin in Monroe County.


Though it hasn't been confirmed, the description of the child's body fits Nevaeh.

'She was always a good baby'


A tomboy who loved motorcycles and trucks, Nevaeh, whose name is heaven spelled backward, didn't like dresses and was content to watch "The Jungle Book" over and over.


"I'd get a headache from it," said Sherry Buchanan, Nevaeh's grandmother. "I'd say, 'OK, that's enough, Nevaeh.' And she'd say, 'Just one more time, Grandma.'


"I never had any trouble with that kid. She always called me grandma. Sometimes, she'd slip up and say, 'mommy.'


"I'd say, that's OK. Don't worry. She was always a good baby."


Sherry Buchanan was granted custody of Nevaeh after Jennifer Buchanan was convicted in 2006 on a first-degree home invasion charge. She had been breaking into homes to support a drug habit.


For the last 2 1/2 months, Sherry, Jennifer and Nevaeh Buchanan have lived together in the two-bedroom apartment.


Nevaeh named all of her stuffed animals. The black Lab is Tank. Her favorite, a beagle, is named Harley.


"Harley went to school with her," Sherry Buchanan said. "Harley went to bed with her."


Harley still smells like Nevaeh.


When she disappeared, her grandmother got comfort in sleeping with Tank. Jennifer Buchanan slept with Harley.


"I'd give anything in the world to have her come running through that door," Sherry Buchanan said.

'This is horrible'


In the eyes of some, Jennifer Buchanan quickly transformed from a sympathetic figure into a villain as word got out that she was friends with two convicted sex offenders.


The cable TV show "Nancy Grace" focused last week on 24-year-old Buchanan and her relationships with George Kennedy and Roy Smith, both of whom are from Monroe.


Court records show Smith, 48, was convicted of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after a woman said he raped her twice in his car in 1991. Kennedy, 39, was convicted in 2002 of raping a 15-year-old girl behind a gas station.


Grace interviewed Nevaeh's father, Shane Hinojosa, 22, of Toledo, who hasn't seen his daughter in three years.


"What can you tell me about your daughter being exposed by her mother to a registered sex offender?" Grace asked incredulously. "In fact, more than one."


"Oh, I'm furious," he replied.


On another show, Grace asked a psychologist about the case.


"This is horrible," the psychologist said. "The mother's judgment is atrocious. How could she be with a sex offender and have a little girl in the home? It's just horrible."


A short time later, another guest slammed Buchanan: "Mom is a title of honor. She doesn't deserve that honor. She was never a mother."


The voices and opinions screamed an unsubstantiated accusation: Jennifer Buchanan was to blame.

'They don't ... know me'


Back in Michigan, Buchanan said she was being attacked by people who had never met her.


"I feel like everyone has a lot of negativity about me," she said. "They don't personally know me. ... I feel like everyone is putting me in the category of ... parents who actually did harm their children. ... It's very frustrating."


Grace, she said, "is completely wrong. ... I didn't leave her playing outside. She was supposed to be playing upstairs on that day at that specific time."


Both Kennedy and Smith are now in jail on possible parole violations. Neither has been charged in connection with Nevaeh's suspected death, but Buchanan said she doesn't know what to think about them anymore.


"As for the guys, I don't know," she said. "I didn't think it was a crime to have my child around someone. Honestly, no matter who you come across, you don't know who and what they are. You don't know if they are labeled as a sex offender unless you look their name up."


Buchanan said she knew of Kennedy's criminal past.


"I gave him a second chance. I was just befriending him. I confronted him about it. To my knowledge, he was honest to me about it," she said.


"As for Roy, I only knew him for a couple of months. Because he knew George and they had some kind of classes together, I figured Roy had the same offense against him."


She had known Kennedy a couple of years. "If George wanted to do that, he would have done it a little sooner," she said. "That's the way I feel. But I could be wrong."

'I'm completely innocent'


Buchanan said she met with police and the FBI at least four times. One interview lasted about five hours.


"I feel like they are putting me under the spotlight," she said. "I feel like they are pointing fingers at me, like I did something intentionally."


She doesn't have a lawyer and says she doesn't need one.


"I'm completely innocent," she said. "I didn't have anything to do with my daughter's disappearance. I don't do drugs. I hardly ever drink. I don't owe anybody any money. I have hardly any enemies. I don't understand who would come up and take my child."


Last week, Buchanan gave police permission to search her home.


The detectives took part of her computer and, she said, they asked her what Web sites she has visited recently.


Buchanan also was interviewed by behavioral specialists from the FBI. "They were asking me about my background and what" Nevaeh "was like," she said. "They went all the way back to how I felt when I was pregnant."

'She meant the world to me'


Nevaeh didn't trust strangers. And Buchanan said she didn't think her daughter would have gone silently, without at fight.


Two weeks before her daughter's disappearance, they were at a Relay for Life event at Bedford High School in Temperance.


"We were walking, and people were passing out candy. She would take no candy from anybody," Buchanan said.


Nevaeh must have put up a fight or known the person who snatched her.


"I want to know what happened," Buchanan said. "I'm racking my brains on how this could happen."


Nevaeh's beauty made strangers stop and stare. "Random people would come up to me and compliment me on how beautiful she is," Buchanan said.


She said she has wondered "numerous times" whether her daughter was abducted for her beauty.


Nevaeh finished preschool three days before she disappeared.


"She was very excited to graduate," Buchanan said. "She ran, literally ran like a track runner, across that stage to get her certificate. I was so proud of her.


"She meant the world to me. I adored her. It's hard, just talking about her."


Neighbors described Nevaeh as shy. "She was adorable, a cute little girl with a ponytail," said Haley Jennings, 39, who lived on the second floor of Nevaeh's apartment complex. "Kind of timid. ... Her voice was real soft. She was real fragile, real precious.


"She kind of clutched close. She wasn't one to wander."


Everyone in the apartment complex has grown suspicious, Jennings said. She is upset thinking that the person who took Nevaeh is still out there. "It's petrifying."

Little voices


On Friday morning, the day after the body was found, TV crews gathered in the parking lot, waiting for Buchanan to come out of her apartment.

Neighbors talked about their grief, sharing their fears, showing their anger as police searched for a killer.

At a makeshift memorial in front of the apartment, a candle flickered in the breeze and a pinwheel spun round and round.

Screams could be heard in the distance. Children ran around a school playground, yelling and screaming and laughing and clapping, so full of life. So full of innocence.

Little voices in the wind.

Just like Nevaeh.



My comments in red. Of course her scooter was found on the side of the building. Assuming JB's story is true would mean the "tattletale" saw Neveah, went to tell her mom, and in the time it takes JB to find shoes...she goes missing? Nope. I wanna hear from the "tattletale" that she saw Neveah at that time
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« Reply #219 on: June 07, 2009, 09:52:02 PM »

This is so disturbing, and the little one didn't even have shoes on. And was it necessary for the mother to describe how awful the carpeting was  She also made some comment about even though she was five she was like a ten year old. I don't know about anyone else's children, but when my daughters were five, they sure didn't have any thinking like a ten year old. And when my kids were playing, I wasn't plopped in front of a tv not watching what was going on.

I'm sorry I have to  at your comment.... when I was five I started sneaking cigarettes and playing spin the bottle! Our neighborhood was jam packed with kids in N Hollywood CA.... and we didn't come in til supper and then back out til dark. Was my mom lazy ( not that I am defending JB here), no she wasn't. That is how it is in some neighborhoods I think...or how it used to be anyway in the early 80's. What if the whole "community" allows their kids to run about or play in the courtyard? Than does that make JB worse than any other mother there? Just food for thought. I really don't like the way she's changed her stories nor hung out with SO's ( something my mom never did anyway... like they even had a name back then, but no I was never preyed upon). I'm not directing these questions at you NRCG... I just had to laugh at what I had bolded based upon my own life history.
I grew up in the 60's, and we also were out running around, and only came home for meal time, and out again. I lived in a small town, and there also was a ton of kids, we were always at the park, beach and woods. I'm just saying that in this time period, who does that? Mother has so many changing stories, it's ridiculous. Sneaking cigarettes and spin the bottle  at five, not me, I was so naive, I didn't know a lot of things till I left home at 18, I kid you not 

Ha! I think you grow up fast in California... N Hollywood was no small town btw, and not affluent either. But I know what you mean about small towns... my kids are being raised on the outskirts of a small town
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