Somer Renee Thompson #2 10/29/09 - 4/26/10

[Heart]

_Trinity__ tweeted:

Just looked at the report on J. Harrell. Last known address in Jacksonville. Prior to that, Orange Park in Clay County. Moved to Clay from Mississippi in July of '08. 24 years old. Last JAX address has listed phone # under STEPHANIE & CORY CURTIS.

Last residence in MS was in VANCLEAVE, MS 39565-8908, JACKSON COUNTY. Prior to that, GAUTIER, MS 39553-4342, also in JACKSON COUNTY And just prior to that, he was in LUCEDALE, MS 39452-2400, GEORGE COUNTY.  Harrell drove a 2001 Suzuki Vitara at the time of Somer's death. Prior to that, a white 2001 Camaro.

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[Brandi]

_Trinity__ tweeted:

Just looked at the report on J. Harrell. Last known address in Jacksonville. Prior to that, Orange Park in Clay County. Moved to Clay from Mississippi in July of '08. 24 years old. Last JAX address has listed phone # under STEPHANIE & CORY CURTIS.

Last residence in MS was in VANCLEAVE, MS 39565-8908, JACKSON COUNTY. Prior to that, GAUTIER, MS 39553-4342, also in JACKSON COUNTY And just prior to that, he was in LUCEDALE, MS 39452-2400, GEORGE COUNTY.  Harrell drove a 2001 Suzuki Vitara at the time of Somer's death. Prior to that, a white 2001 Camaro.

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...and when did he live at 1152 Gano Ave. in Orange Park, FL?

Man, he moved a lot if that tweet is correct.

[Brandi]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021104445.html

Man named person of interest in Fla. girl's death
   
By TAMARA LUSH
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 11, 2010; 9:53 PM

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school.

Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, who had lived in the girl's neighborhood was arrested in Mississippi Thursday on 29 charges of possession of child pornography. Harrell has not been charged in the death of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. The arrest warrant said he was being held on $1 million bond. Officials at the Lauderdale County Detention Facility in Mississippi said they didn't know if he has a lawyer.

Harrell, who was arrested in Meridian, Miss., had lived until recently in a home near Somer Thompson's. Authorities searched that house Thursday. Deputies and an FBI forensics team were seen searching its front yard with rakes and shovels. The sheriff's office restricted access to at least a block around the home, which is in a neighborhood filled with tidy, ranch-style houses.

Beseler, who announced the arrest during an evening news conference, said a vehicle had also been searched.

Somer vanished Oct. 19 as she was walking home from school, sparking a search that lasted for two days. Investigators sorted through more than 225 tons of garbage at a landfill some 50 miles away, across the state line in Georgia, before their worst fears were realized: Sticking out of the rubbish were a child's lifeless legs.

Authorities have checked into thousands of tips in the case in the nearly four months since, but no one has been charged in the killing.

According to Harrell's arrest report, in August he was kicked out of an Orange Park apartment after a roommate thought he had stolen a cell phone. Harrell left behind a computer, and the roommates said they searched it because they thought Harrell had been using it to look at child porn, the report says. The roommates said they did find porn involving young girls and turned the computer and discs over to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office on Aug. 10. The materials were sent to state investigators, who confirmed the contents.

It is unknown when Harrell moved into the Orange Park house that was searched Thursday, or when he left the neighborhood.

Dawn Nuss, 39, whose 8-year-old daughter Christina used to walk home with Somer, said her daughter told her that Somer used to stop at the house and pet a white dog. No one would ever come out of the house. Sometimes Somer would run ahead of the children walking home and hide in a ditch.

"I thought this was the safest place to allow my children to walk home," she said.

Before the arrest was announced, the girl's mother, Diena Thompson, said she didn't want to get her hopes up that a break had been made in the case.

"I'm not speculating on anything. I don't want to get my hopes up and I don't want to get my hopes down," she told The Florida Times-Union. "I'm going to put my faith in God."

After the news conference, Thompson's attorney, Michael R. Freed, released a statement that said Thompson and her family are "monitoring the latest developments in the investigation." The statement said that she was not prepared to speak publicly about the case Thursday.

P.J. Simms, who has lived in the neighborhood 17 years, said she hopes authorities find what they are looking for.

"I just hope they find what they were looking for because it has been a long time coming. This is the first time anything like this has ever happened. It's broken our hearts," she said. "You used to see 40 to 50 kids out here every day, now there's always somebody with them."

Simms said she knew Somer because she used to baby-sit for the girl's friend.

"She was a sweetheart, just very loving. She always wanted to be a part of everything. I hope and pray to God that this is it so we can finally let the kids play."

[mymonkey]

PERSON OF INTEREST NAMED IN SOMER THOMPSON MURDER
February 11th, 2010


Jarred Harrell (mugshot)
   

Clay County Sheriff Rick Besseler named a ‘person of interest’ tonight in the Somer Thompson case.  The Sheriff says Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, was arrested in Meridian, Mississippi, and is currently being held on a $1 million bail.  Harrell is not only a person of interest in the horrific abduction and murder of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, but he is also charged with 29 counts of child pornography.  Harold formerly resided in the neighborhood where Somer was abducted last fall as she walked home from school.

BACKGROUND: Somer Thompson was abducted on October 19, 2009, and just three days later, her body was found 50 miles away in a Georgia landfill.  Investigators followed the trash from her neighborhood in Orange Park, FL the week she went missing to the landfill.  Since then, more than one thousand tips have poured into “Team Somer,” a unit put together by investigators.  At this point, Harrell has not been charged with murder, but it does seem that investigators are getting closer to finding answers about Somer’s case.

Stay tuned for more information as it develops… 

http://www.michellesigona.com/

I heard a interview with Judd Holloway tonite he is in Meridian as well...O/T

[MuffyBee]

Who is Judd Holloway, mymonkey?

[mymonkey]

PERSON OF INTEREST NAMED IN SOMER THOMPSON MURDER
February 11th, 2010


Jarred Harrell (mugshot)
   

Clay County Sheriff Rick Besseler named a ‘person of interest’ tonight in the Somer Thompson case.  The Sheriff says Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, was arrested in Meridian, Mississippi, and is currently being held on a $1 million bail.  Harrell is not only a person of interest in the horrific abduction and murder of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, but he is also charged with 29 counts of child pornography.  Harold formerly resided in the neighborhood where Somer was abducted last fall as she walked home from school.

BACKGROUND: Somer Thompson was abducted on October 19, 2009, and just three days later, her body was found 50 miles away in a Georgia landfill.  Investigators followed the trash from her neighborhood in Orange Park, FL the week she went missing to the landfill.  Since then, more than one thousand tips have poured into “Team Somer,” a unit put together by investigators.  At this point, Harrell has not been charged with murder, but it does seem that investigators are getting closer to finding answers about Somer’s case.

Stay tuned for more information as it develops… 

http://www.michellesigona.com/

I heard a interview with Judd Holloway tonite he is in Meridian as well...O/T

Sorry that might not be his last name...Natalie step dad..sorry I have had to much cold meds to think straight.

[MuffyBee]

Ohhhh, I see mymonkey.  Natalee's step-father is Jug Twitty and her father is Dave Holloway.   Thanks for letting us know about the interview.  Maybe I can find a transcript or a you-tube of it. 

[cw618]

so hoping this is the guy, how stupid to leave a porno puter behind
the 15 deleted files sometimes can be found
thanks for the documents brandi

harrell not on the radar, link for pic of results,
http://www.nsopw.gov/Core/OffenderSearchResults.aspx

link with pic next to addy, is that somer in the pic, at 42 sec
http://www.clickorlando.com/video/22537812/index.html

somer house jpg, maybe he saw her b4 his move to gano
used some of your map brandi thanks

 
house jpg, car to the right maybe a camaro
i think someone mentioned this area b4
i think something to do with how far the
crossing guard could see
http://consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/2001-chevrolet-camaro-4.htm?photo=358476&perspective=exterior#toptab

[mymonkey]

Ohhhh, I see mymonkey.  Natalee's step-father is Jug Twitty and her father is Dave Holloway.   Thanks for letting us know about the interview.  Maybe I can find a transcript or a you-tube of it. 

Sorry,thats who I was talking about...reminder to self do not post while taking Nyquil....I feel awful. I have not had a cold in ten yrs

[Tracygirl]

Wow finally some movement on this case! This guy is a creep, omg that warrent and what was written in it, I just about lost my supper. Horrible, just horrible.

[Brandi]

http://www.news4jax.com/video/15505198/index.html

Live report coming up after the commercial.

[mymonkey]

Ohhhh, I see mymonkey.  Natalee's step-father is Jug Twitty and her father is Dave Holloway.   Thanks for letting us know about the interview.  Maybe I can find a transcript or a you-tube of it. 

Sorry,thats who I was talking about...reminder to self do not post while taking Nyquil....I feel awful. I have not had a cold in ten yrs

it may have been Dave and not Jug, I now think it was Dave Sorry

[Heart]

_Trinity__ tweeted:

Just looked at the report on J. Harrell. Last known address in Jacksonville. Prior to that, Orange Park in Clay County. Moved to Clay from Mississippi in July of '08. 24 years old. Last JAX address has listed phone # under STEPHANIE & CORY CURTIS.

Last residence in MS was in VANCLEAVE, MS 39565-8908, JACKSON COUNTY. Prior to that, GAUTIER, MS 39553-4342, also in JACKSON COUNTY And just prior to that, he was in LUCEDALE, MS 39452-2400, GEORGE COUNTY.  Harrell drove a 2001 Suzuki Vitara at the time of Somer's death. Prior to that, a white 2001 Camaro.

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...and when did he live at 1152 Gano Ave. in Orange Park, FL?

Man, he moved a lot if that tweet is correct.

I don't know when JH moved to Gano, but on one of the warrant docs you posted it had an address of 1517 Rolling River, Jacksonville, Fl. 32901

[MuffyBee]

Ohhhh, I see mymonkey.  Natalee's step-father is Jug Twitty and her father is Dave Holloway.   Thanks for letting us know about the interview.  Maybe I can find a transcript or a you-tube of it. 

Sorry,thats who I was talking about...reminder to self do not post while taking Nyquil....I feel awful. I have not had a cold in ten yrs

I'm sorry you are feeling under the weather.  Sometimes knocking back a slug of Nyquil and going to bed helps, but I can't imagine trying to post under the influence.  I hope you feel better soon.  Keep posting along, your'e doing fine.   

[MuffyBee]

Ohhhh, I see mymonkey.  Natalee's step-father is Jug Twitty and her father is Dave Holloway.   Thanks for letting us know about the interview.  Maybe I can find a transcript or a you-tube of it. 

Sorry,thats who I was talking about...reminder to self do not post while taking Nyquil....I feel awful. I have not had a cold in ten yrs

it may have been Dave and not Jug, I now think it was Dave Sorry

No worries, it's all good.  I can find out in Natalee's thread.   

[Heart]

Trinity__
 
Interesting tidbit-the Harrell guy has a record in MS for BOV. At some point, he "absconded from supervision". 12 minutes ago from web

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[cw618]

Trinity__
 
Interesting tidbit-the Harrell guy has a record in MS for BOV. At some point, he "absconded from supervision". 12 minutes ago from web

http://twitter.com/_Trinity__

http://twitter.com/_Trinity__

This person has protected their tweets.
wonder why

[cw618]

http://www.news4jax.com/video/15505198/index.html

Live report coming up after the commercial.

thanks wish i could post vids here
http://www.news4jax.com/video/15505198/index.html

[cw618]

sorry i did the wrong link try this, sheriff report
http://www.news4jax.com/video/22539125/

[Northern Rose]

Police: Man Is Person Of Interest In Thompson Case
Former Roommate Found Child Porn On Man's Orange Park Computer

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said a man arrested Thursday evening on child pornography charges is also a person of interest in the slaying of 7-year-old Somer Thompson.

Police said Jarred Harrell, 24, was arrested by federal agents in Meridian, Miss., on 29 counts of possession of child pornography. Police said he is also a person of interest in Somer's disappearance and death.

"Investigators from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and FDLE conducted a search for evidence in which a suspect has been arrested for 29 counts of possession of child pornography that occurred in Clay County recently," Beseler said.

Harrell is being held on $1 million bond on the child pornography charges.

Beseler said he could not comment any further as to how Harrell is connected with the Thompson case.

"I cannot comment further about how Harrell may be connected to the Thompson case, as that would require I comment on evidence in an ongoing investigation," Beseler said. "Throughout this entire investigation we have been very careful to protect the integrity of our investigation by not releasing details that could be detrimental to the successful outcome or prosecution of the person responsible for this crime."

Beseler did say that, until recently, Harrell lived in a home near the slain girl's. The Clay County Sheriff's Office and the FBI were searching the home along Gano Avenue in Orange Park Thursday evening.

A man who said he used to live with Harrell at an Orange Park apartment told police he had found nude pictures of children between 9 and 13 years old on Harrell's computer.

"I hope he gets what he deserves," said the man, who only wanted to be identified as Matt. "That's really all I have to say about it."

He said that when he saw the files on Harrell's computer, he "was about to vomit all over, honestly."
Matt described Harrell as a "sneaky" person, capable of putting up a "good front."

Other residents said they did not believe Harrell was capable of murder.

"In my heart, no," said one woman. "His parents are my godparents. That's all I can say."

Neighbors said they hoped Somer's killer would be brought to justice soon.

"I think it's going to come to an end very quickly," said neighbor Rodney Crawford.

Somer disappeared Oct. 19 as she walked home from school in Orange Park. Her body was found two days later in a Georgia landfill.

Investigators have refused to reveal how Somer died. During the four-month investigation, authorities said they pursued thousands of leads.

http://www.wesh.com/news/22535699/detail.html