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

[Brandi]

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.1stplacesports.com/somer.html

Somer's Sunshine Run
May 22, 2010

    *  5K • 8:00 AM
    * 1 Mile Fun Run • 9:00 AM
    * Orange Park Town Hall

To Benefit: The Somer Thompson Foundation
Registration Information
Entry Fees

Until May 21st
    5K: $20.00
    1 Mile: $12.00
Day of Race
    5K: $25.00
    1 Mile: $15.00

    * Make your checks payable to: 1st Place Sports Running Club and mail to: 3931 Baymeadows Road Jacksonville, FL 32217

Sorry, No Refunds! 
» Register Online  http://www.active.com/event_detail.cfm?event_id=1844345
» Download a Registration Form  http://www.1stplacesports.com/images/sommer_ent.pdf
Packet Pickup

Be sure and check the box on the entry form where you plan to pick up your packet. If you do not check a location, your packet will automatically be at the Baymeadows store. Packets will be available at your selected 1st Place Sports location on Thursday, May 20th and Friday, May 21st from 10 AM until 6 PM. All packets that are not picked up at the above location will be moved to the Race Site for race day pick up.

    * 3931 Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville, (904) 731-3676
    * 2016 San Marco Blvd., Jacksonville, (904) 399-8880
    * 424 South 3rd Street, Jacksonville Beach, (904) 270-2221
    * 2186 Park Avenue, Orange Park, (904) 264-3767
Race Timing

The race will be timed using the ChampionChip (chip must be worn on your shoe during the race). Your entry fee covers the cost of the chip rental. If you have your own chip, you need to enter your chip number on the entry form, and deduct $2.00 from the entry fee. You must cross the timing mats to be included in the results. Do not wear your personal chip if you sign up on raceday!
Course

The 5k starts and finishes across the street from the Orange Park Town Hall. It is an out and back course along River Road.
Post Race Celebration

A post race celebration and fundraiser will be at the Orange Park town hall after the race until noon!

[Brandi]

If my records are correct, Jared Harrell appears in court tomorrow, April 8 for his pre-trial hearing.

Gonna keep my eyes open for news about it tomorrow.

[Nut44x4]

Man pleads not guilty to slaying 7-year-old girl
4/8/10

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. -- The unemployed restaurant worker accused of sexually assaulting and killing 7-year-old Somer Thompson has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Jarred Harrell entered the plea in a brief hearing Thursday morning. He is being held without bail.

Somer's body was found in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished walking home from school in October. Authorities say Harrell lured Somer into his parents' home, where she was asphyxiated and tossed into a trash bin.

Harrell was charged March 26 in Somer's slaying.

He was already being held on child pornography charges in a separate case.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/08/1569414/man-pleads-not-guilty-to-slaying.html

[Nut44x4]

bump

[Brandi]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/23090274/detail.html

Harrell Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
24-Year-Old Accused Of Kidnapping, Killing 7-Year-Old Girl In October

POSTED: Thursday, April 8, 2010
UPDATED: 1:33 pm EDT April 8, 2010


(Image from firstcoastnews.com)

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- The man accused of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson in October pleaded not guilty to those charges on Thursday.

Jarred Harrell, 24, was arraigned on the first-degree murder charge he was dealt last month.

Harrell appeared visibly thinner after spending nearly two months in jail.

Harrell is also accused of sexually assaulting the 7-year-old girl, who disappeared on her way home from her Orange Park school.

Somer's body was found days later in a Georgia landfill, where Orange Park's trash is dumped.

Harrell has been in jail since February when investigators said they tracked a computer containing dozens of images of child pornography back to him. He was arrested in Mississippi on those charges unrelated to the Somer case.

Investigators said Harrell lived just a few doors down from the area where Somer was last seen walking home from school.

Harrell will return to court later this month. If convicted on the murder charges, he could face the death penalty.

[Brandi]

Harrell pleads not guilty in Somer Thompson case [/b]

April 8, 2010
By Stephen Kindland, Staff writer
GREEN COVE SPRINGS – The man investigators say kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered 7-year-old Somer Thompson has entered a plea of not guilty after being arraigned before Circuit Judge William Wilkes.

Twenty-four-year-old Jarred Harrell, who was charged on March 26 in the death last October of the second-grade student at Grove Park Elementary School in Orange Park, stood with his attorney in a Clay County court room for about one minute shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 8.

Harrell is being held in an isolated Clay County Jail cell without bail. He is being represented by public defender Kate Bidell. His next court appearance is scheduled for April 26.

Harrell also faces multiple child pornography charges in two other cases.

Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said during a recent news conference that the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder charges are based on “admissions” of information given by Harrell during interviews, DNA samples, statements from witnesses and other evidence.

He said the crime is believed to have occurred in a home owned by Harrell’s stepfather, just blocks away from the school that Somer attended.

The child disappeared while walking home from school on Oct. 19. Her body was found two days later at a landfill near Folkston, Ga.

http://www.claytoday.biz/content/2146_1.php

[Bearlyhere]

Forever Somer!

[Nut44x4]

‘20/20′ to devote full hour to Somer Thompson
April, 13 2010 5:01 PM
posted by halboedeker
This week’s edition of ABC’s “20/20″ will devote its full hour to an investigation of the disappearance and murder of Somer Thompson.

Chris Cuomo, anchor of “20/20,” is the reporter. The program airs at 10 p.m. Friday on WFTV-Channel 9.

Somer, a 7-year-old from Orange Park, was reported missing in October on her way home from school. Two days later, her body was found in a Georgia landfill.

Last month, Jarred Mitchell Harrell was charged with premeditated murder in her death.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/04/2020-to-devote-full-hour-to-somer-thompson.html

[Brandi]

‘20/20′ to devote full hour to Somer Thompson
April, 13 2010 5:01 PM
posted by halboedeker
This week’s edition of ABC’s “20/20″ will devote its full hour to an investigation of the disappearance and murder of Somer Thompson.

Chris Cuomo, anchor of “20/20,” is the reporter. The program airs at 10 p.m. Friday on WFTV-Channel 9.

Somer, a 7-year-old from Orange Park, was reported missing in October on her way home from school. Two days later, her body was found in a Georgia landfill.

Last month, Jarred Mitchell Harrell was charged with premeditated murder in her death.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/04/2020-to-devote-full-hour-to-somer-thompson.html

Thanks, nut!

I am going to mark this on my calendar!

[Missiontoconvict]

‘20/20′ to devote full hour to Somer Thompson
April, 13 2010 5:01 PM
posted by halboedeker
This week’s edition of ABC’s “20/20″ will devote its full hour to an investigation of the disappearance and murder of Somer Thompson.

Chris Cuomo, anchor of “20/20,” is the reporter. The program airs at 10 p.m. Friday on WFTV-Channel 9.

Somer, a 7-year-old from Orange Park, was reported missing in October on her way home from school. Two days later, her body was found in a Georgia landfill.

Last month, Jarred Mitchell Harrell was charged with premeditated murder in her death.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/04/2020-to-devote-full-hour-to-somer-thompson.html

Thanks, nut!

I am going to mark this on my calendar!

Me too - Thank you.

[Brandi]

Somer’s suspect: I was home at time
Newly released records touch on case of Orange Park girl’s death
Posted: April 15, 2010 - 5:03pm
By Jim Schoettler

The man charged with killing Somer Thompson told police he was at his mother’s Orange Park home the afternoon investigators said Somer died there, according to 125 pages of police reports and other records released Thursday.

What Jarred Harrell may know about the 7-year-old’s slaying will likely remain secret until his trial, since authorities redacted portions of his statements to police. The State Attorney’s Office cited several public records exemptions for the redactions, including one that protects details of confessions.

Harrell, 24, was charged March 26 in Somer’s slaying. She vanished Oct. 19 while walking home on Gano Avenue after leaving school. Her body was found in a Georgia landfill two days later. Sheriff Rick Beseler has said that evidence against Harrell includes statements he’d previously made to police.

Harrell was first jailed in Mississippi Feb. 11 on unrelated child pornography charges. The charges stemmed from a case opened in August when Harrell’s former roommates gave police a computer and discs they said he used to store graphic images of young girls. The released records involved that case, but also included new details about Somer’s death.

Harrell once lived with his mother and stepfather at 1152 Gano Ave., which was along Somer’s route home. About a week after her disappearance, police were alerted to Harrell’s use of the home when the parents of one of the former roommates told deputies they spotted his car there.

The parents and roommates knew Harrell once lived at the home. They were suspicious of his possible involvement in Somer’s disappearance because of his connection to child pornography, they told police.

The records show detectives first interviewed Harrell on Oct. 30 in Somer’s case. He allowed them to search the home and property, but they spotted nothing suspicious.

Harrell said he had been with his mother between 3  and 5:30 p.m. on the day Somer disappeared, including time they spent at the home helping her pack for a move to Callahan. Somer was last seen in the neighborhood about 2:45 p.m.

Harrell’s mother, Annis Dailey, told police she was with him, apparently at the home, between 3:30  and 4:30 p.m., the records show. She said they left together, gassed up their vehicles, had dinner at a McDonald’s and split up about 5:30 p.m. In a jail call between them months later in Mississippi, Dailey told her son she would provide him an alibi in Somer’s case.

No other details of the Oct. 30 interview were included in the records.

The records include some exchanges between detectives and Harrell after his Feb. 11 arrest in Mississippi. At one point, Harrell agrees to view a pornographic picture of a girl and said he recognized her from a Web site.

“Jarred Harrell realized that he was admitting to having viewed child pornography and changed the subject,” the records state.

Harrell freely spoke to detectives about the charges he faced during his ride from Mississippi to Clay County and when he arrived, but summaries of those discussions are redacted.

The records offer some insight into work done in the child pornography case, which has been the subject of some criticism since Harrell wasn’t charged in that until well after Somer was killed. Beseler has said plenty of work needed to be done before an arrest could be made in the child pornography case.

The records show that Harrell claimed one of his roommates, who kicked him out over a theft allegation, could have set him up by downloading the pornography onto his computer. One of the roommates gave inexplicably deceptive responses when asked during a polygraph if he transferred pornography onto Harrell’s computer, the records show.

Among the other records released Thursday were entries Harrell and his friends made on his MySpace.com page. Under his profile, he said he drinks, smokes and is undecided about having children. He lists horror flicks among his favorite movies and “CSI” among his favorite TV shows.  Of books, he wrote, “I don’t read much.”

Harrell’s last log-in was on Nov. 12, more than three weeks after Somer’s death. He lists his mood as tired.

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-04-15/story/records-jarred-harrell-tells-cops-he-was-gano-avenue-home-day-somer

[Brandi]

New Documents In Jarred Harrell Case
Harrell Told Police His Whereabouts The Day Somer Thompson Disappeared
POSTED: Thursday, April 15, 2010
UPDATED: 11:48 pm EDT April 15, 2010

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- New documents released Thursday by the state attorney's office reveal what Jarred Harrell told detectives he was doing the day Somer Thompson disappeared.

Harrell, 24, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder one week ago.

Channel 4's lead investigator Jennifer Waugh pored over 119 pages of court papers. Nearly all of them were related to the 29 counts of child pornography charges Harrell is facing. The documents also reveal detectives interviewed him seven days after Somer disappeared.

Somer Thompson was last seen walking home from school around 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19. Detectives asked Harrell where he was between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. that day.

Detectives interviewed Harrell at the home on Gano Avenue in Orange Park where he lived with his mother and stepfather. Months later, that home was searched by federal investigators.

The documents showed that detectives said Harrell told them he was helping his mother pack up that day because she was moving to Callahan. He said that she was with him between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. that afternoon and that she left for their new home in Callahan.

The papers revealed the same detective that interviewed Harrell also called Harrell's mother and that she gave him the same information. She said Harrell was with her between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. that day. She also said they left her Gano Avenue home together, got gas for the car, and had dinner at McDonald's before she drove to her home in Callahan. She said she left her son around 5:30 p.m. that day.

According to the court documents, Harrell continued to live at the Gano Avenue home for at least a week after Somer disappeared. Sheriff Rick Beseler of the Clay County Sheriff's Office said there is evidence that links Harrell to Somer's death.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/23167253/detail.html

[Brandi]

‘20/20′ looks at Somer Thompson case, problems with predators in society
20/20, ABC, WFTV — posted by halboedeker on April, 15 2010 1:13 PM

ABC’s “20/20“ devotes its full hour this week to the tragedy of Florida girl Somer Thompson and its larger ramifications.

The program is “a window into a really big problem with predators in society — I don’t think we know how to deal with them,” “20/20″ anchor Chris Cuomo said. The program airs at 10 p.m. Friday on WFTV-Channel 9.

Somer, 7, of Orange Park disappeared in October on her way home from school, and her body was found two days later in a Georgia landfill. Last month, Jarred Mitchell Harrell was charged with the girl’s premeditated murder. He was in jail on child-pornography charges.

Cuomo says the program explores why 162 registered predators and sex offenders were within five miles of Somer’s home.

“The only reason we know this number is because Florida is good at registering and monitoring,” Cuomo said. “I do too many stories about sexual predators who are known to the system but wind up doing something terrible again. How we deal with these people after they’re incarcerated isn’t working. We’ve created a system that’s more forgiving than it needs to be. Registration is very important, but is it enough?” (Cuomo cited Colorado as one state having some success in dealing with predators.)

But Harrell wasn’t in the system, and “20/20″ takes a close look at him. “There are things that I believe haven’t come out in detail that we reveal about his past and his family,” Cuomo said. “How did they find this guy? Why did it take the time it did? We tell the story.”

Cuomo talks to Rod Buchanan, who went to police and told them about child porn found on Harrell’s computer. “If not for the vigilance and concern of other citizens, they [police] may never have caught this guy,” Cuomo says. “He was under the radar.”

Diena Thompson, Somer’s mother, also will be featured in “20/20.”

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/04/2020-looks-at-somer-thompson-case-problems-with-predators-in-society.html

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.abcactionnews.com/content/news/local/story/New-details-in-Somer-Thompson-case/0F-9ZxDk2USYdOQBNXoyyA.cspx
New details in Somer Thompson case
Reported by: Kennedra McDonald
Email: kmcdonald@abcactionnews.com
Last Update: 8:13 am
ORANGE PARK, FL -- Newly released records in Somer Thompson's murder investigation reveal there are holes in her accused killer's alibi.

According to documents released Thursday, Jarred Harrell told police he was with his mother the day 7-year-old Somer died. But Harrell's mother told police she was with him in the hours after Somer disappeared.

Harrell is being held without bail. He pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting and killing Somer in October. Her body was found in a Georgia landfill.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/23171614/detail.html
New Records Released In Somer's Death
Suspect Says Was With His Mother At Time Of Girl's Death

POSTED: Friday, April 16, 2010
UPDATED: 10:40 am EDT April 16, 2010
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- The man accused of killing Somer Thompson, who vanished while walking home from school in north Florida, told police he was with his mother at her home the afternoon investigators say the girl died there, according to police reports and other records.

But the records also show that Jarred Harrell's mother told him she'd provide his alibi during a jail phone call, The Florida Times-Union reported.

The records released Thursday mostly involve unrelated child pornography charges against Harrell, but also included new details about the 7-year-old girl's death.

Authorities redacted portions of Harrell's statements to police, but the documents show he told police he was with his mother at her Orange Park house in the hours after Somer disappeared on her walk home from school. Her body was found in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished.

Harrell's mother told police she was with him at the home for an hour before they left the house, had dinner together and then split up.

But in a jail call between them months later in Mississippi, where he was arrested on the child pornography charges, she told her son she'd give him an alibi in Somer's disappearance, the records show.

The State Attorney's Office cited several public records exemptions for the redactions, including one protecting details of confessions.

Harrell, a 24-year-old unemployed restaurant worker, is being held without bail. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting and killing Somer in October.
Harrell was first jailed in Mississippi Feb. 11 on the child pornography charges. His roommates had told investigators in August they had kicked him out for stealing and they discovered child pornography.

The parents of one the roommates drove by Harrell's parents' home a few days after Somer disappeared and noticed how close they lived to the girl's house. When they saw Harrell's car in his parents' driveway, they told detectives.

According to the records, detectives first interviewed Harrell on Oct. 30 about Somer. They also searched the home and property, but they spotted nothing suspicious. No other details of the interview were included in the records.

A message left for Harrell's attorney through a spokesman for the public defender's office was not immediately returned Friday morning.

[no rose colored glasses]

But in a jail call between them months later in Mississippi, where he was arrested on the child pornography charges, she told her son she'd give him an alibi in Somer's disappearance, the records show.    As far as I'm concerned she is as filthy as he is. One thing to love a child, but a whole other issue to come up with an alibi for a disgusting person who molested and killed a child.

[Brandi]

But in a jail call between them months later in Mississippi, where he was arrested on the child pornography charges, she told her son she'd give him an alibi in Somer's disappearance, the records show.    As far as I'm concerned she is as filthy as he is. One thing to love a child, but a whole other issue to come up with an alibi for a disgusting person who molested and killed a child.

Oh, I totally agree!

Here is new video:

http://www.news4jax.com/video/23167993/index.html

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36589482/ns/local_news-jacksonville_fl/
Documents: Jarred Harrell Home When Somer Disappeared
Clay County Sheriff, State Attorneys Office Releases 119 Pages Of Documents
WJXT-TV
updated 1 minute ago

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - New documents released Thursday by the state attorney's office reveal what Jarred Harrell told detectives he was doing the October afternoon that Somer Thompson disappeared. Her body was found in a Georgia landfill two days after she vanished.

Last week, Harrell, 24, pleaded not guilty to first-degree kidnapping, sexual battery and murder charges in connection with the disappearance and death of Somer.

Harrell also faces dozens of charges of child pornography unconnected to the abduction and homicide case.
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Channel 4's lead investigator Jennifer Waugh pored over 119 pages of court papers. Nearly all of them were related to the 29 counts of child pornography charges Harrell is facing. The documents also reveal detectives interviewed him seven days after Somer disappeared
Somer Thompson was last seen walking home from school around 3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19. Detectives asked Harrell where he was between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. that day.

Detectives interviewed Harrell at the home on Gano Avenue in Orange Park where he lived with his mother and stepfather. Months later, that home was searched by federal investigators.

The documents showed that detectives said Harrell told them he was helping his mother pack up that day because she was moving to Callahan. He said that she was with him between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. that afternoon and that she left for their new home in Callahan.

The papers revealed the same detective that interviewed Harrell also called Harrell's mother and that she gave him the same information. She said Harrell was with her between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. that day. She also said they left her Gano Avenue home together, got gas for the car, and had dinner at McDonald's before she drove to her home in Callahan. She said she left her son around 5:30 p.m. that day.
According to the court documents, Harrell continued to live at the Gano Avenue home for at least a week after Somer disappeared. Sheriff Rick Beseler of the Clay County Sheriff's Office said there is evidence that links Harrell to Somer's death.

[Cappuccino]

glad to see the 20/20 episode was posted, was coming to see if it was, I will be watching