Shaniya Nicole Davis, 5 Fayetteville, NC Missing #1 11/10/09 - 11/17/09

[luvmyboys]

Hey you how are you doing? I asked a couple of ?  Last night don't know if anyone know's the answer it is back on page 9. And my cable is out so I can not pick up any local news stations. So I can't watch the noon news. I live about 2hours away from fayetteville. I don't no what is going on with my internet I am not able to get on and I can't click on the links that are posted. So if you kind monkeys will please give me an update I will be forever thankfull.

[MunkeyMunk]

Any word on the news conference???

[Jerseygirl345]

Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said three registered sex offenders live in the neighborhood but were not suspects in the investigation.

Police served a warrant at the residence and searched the house for clues as well, Chance said.

A previous warrant had been served at the same residence July 21. In that search police uncovered narcotics.

Chance also said the girl's father was out-of-town and not a suspect.

Two other children lived in the residence, a 7-year-old male and another child whom police would not identify.

Shaniya's mother and the 7-year-old boy spent most of Tuesday at the police station being interviewed by investigators.

Police, firefighters and Cumberland County deputies are helping in the search.

The Highway Patrol and UNC Hospitals are making their helicopters available for the search, the release said.

http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2009/11/10/950973

[HopeForAll]

 ::MonkeyNoNo::Our local news at 12pm stated they have a clue. They found a blanket in a neighbors trash can. It "appears" the police have much more then their saying.

[no rose colored glasses]

::MonkeyNoNo::Our local news at 12pm stated they have a clue. They found a blanket in a neighbors trash can. It "appears" the police have much more then their saying.

      I don't know if this has been posted?   http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7109962

[Jerseygirl345]

::MonkeyNoNo::Our local news at 12pm stated they have a clue. They found a blanket in a neighbors trash can. It "appears" the police have much more then their saying.

OMG.. This doesnt look good..

[Jerseygirl345]

Is there a candle lite room for Shaniya?

[4getUnot]

I have a ?  If something happen to shaniya. Let's say 2 or 3 days ago. Would the dogs pick up a scent from that long ago. From outside the house. And another thing. Would the dogs pick up a scent if she were taken out of the house wrapped in a blanket?

GOOD MORNING Monkeys!!!

I  snipped the following from an article I found on tracking dogs that I thought might answer your question.  There is a lot of info in the article so I just snipped part of it.  It was very interesting.  I hope this answers your question, it sure answered alot for me and I'm glad you brought it up. 

"Dogs that follow an odour trail may be broadly divided into three types, determined by their behaviour on the trail (Bryson, 1984; Johnson, 1997). Air scenting dogs follow the odour trail with their head up in the air and are considered to be following the airborne scent rafts emanating directly from the individual providing the odour and being carried away by air currents. It would follow that these dogs can only follow a trail up-wind. Trailing dogs follow the trail with their head up when moving into the wind and head down when following the trail in the same direction as the wind. They often do not follow directly on the path trodden by the individual laying the odour and at bends may overrun before turning. It is considered that these dogs are following the individual scent deposited by contact with the ground surface. Tracking dogs follow the trail with their head down and noses on the path and follow very closely the footsteps of the individual. It is assumed that tracking dogs are following the odour deposited on the ground and may be detecting contact or disturbance odour. It should be noted, however, that these three characterizations are based on the behaviour observed in the dog and as yet there is little experimental evidence to confirm or deny these observations; in particular there are few studies to determine what cues dogs actually employ."


"Kalmus (1955) suggested that the dog detects and follows cues of individuality and found that dogs remain on the trail of a specific individual even when it is crossed by other individuals. Furthermore, when individual odours were prevented from being deposited through covering of the shoe (Romanes, 1887) or by the wearing of a whole body suit (Pearsall and Verbruggen, 1982) dogs were unable to follow the trail. However, others have observed that dogs were unable to track a trail of body odour cues, and could only follow a trail when there had been ground contact (Budgett, 1933)."

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/4/291

[Jerseygirl345]

Fayetteville, N.C. — Fayetteville police battled the rain Wednesday as they continued to search for a 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her home early Tuesday.

WRAL News has confirmed that investigators recovered a blanket that is believed to belong to Shaniya Nicole Davis from a neighbor's garbage can. The neighbor, Andrea Moore, said she doesn't know how the blanket wound up in the bin and said police told her the blanket belonged to the missing girl.

WATCH VIDEO

Garbage can yields clue in girl's disappearance

Antoinette Davis said she put Shaniya on the couch in their home, at 1116-A Sleepy Hollow Drive in Fayetteville, at about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. When she went to check on her daughter about an hour later, the girl was missing, Davis told police.

An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya several hours later.

Police said Tuesday that they suspected foul play in the case, noting that they doubted she would have walked off on her own at that time of day.

Police dogs searched the neighborhood and some nearby woods late Tuesday and didn't pick up Shaniya's scent. Investigators said the dogs would have picked up her trail if she had been walking around the area.

"This case is definitely priority," said Sgt. Tracey Bass-Caine of the Fayetteville Police Department. "Anytime you have a child of this age (missing) or a child where the circumstances (of her disappearance) are questionable, then of course this takes precedence."

Bass-Caine said the rain that started falling across central North Carolina late Tuesday and continued Wednesday was hindering the search effort. Evidence in the case could be washed away, she said.

"We had to close down the extensive search we were doing (Tuesday night) because of the inclement weather," she said.

Antoinette Davis spent much of Tuesday at police headquarters answering questions, and investigators said they expected to continue questioning her Wednesday. Shaniya's father flew in from out of state Tuesday afternoon and also spoke with investigators.

Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said the family has a history with the Department of Social Services as far as custody of Shaniya and other children in the house.

Chance said police also have been called to the home before. Officers served a search warrant at the home over the summer and found a variety of drugs inside.

Shaniya is described as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue T-shirt with pink underwear. She is thin and has a scar on her foot

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6397519/

[Jerseygirl345]

I did a white page search for Moore the neighbor where the blanket was in the garbage can  just to see the distance from the home....



Andrea J Moore

1119 Sleepy Hollow Dr Fayetteville, NC 40-44

[4getUnot]

 

If the dogs didn't pickup her scent it stands to reason that  they have put her in something or taken her out of the area.  The blanket is a very sad clue.  None of it adds up.  Didn't the child have a bed to sleep in?  Shaniya looks so pretty in her picture like she was well taken care of but that picture might have only been taken at a special occasion such as a wedding.  It breaks my heart and I'm frustrated.  Too many children going missing and their own mothers seem to be involved.  This one is only 3.5 hours from where i live.  I wonder if there is anything on the blanket and if so, why was it stashed so close by? Doesn't make any sense.

[burkieandemme]

Is there a candle lite room for Shaniya?

I just started one.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=snd

[Wyks]

Shaniya's mom says she last saw (or put?) Shaniya on the couch at 5:30a.  This seems kind of early for Shaniya to be awake, unless the mom or someone had to get ready to go to work.  Wonder what was going on at 5:30 for the mom to have been awake.  Did Shaniya wet her bed, could that have been why she was on the couch at that early hour? 

The mom called police at 6:53a.  Wonder what the mom was doing between 5:30 and 6:53a?  Also am wondering what her boyfriend was doing, and where the 7 yr old was at that time. 

Wonder when Shaniya was last seen by someone not living in that home. She was 5 yrs old last February, so am wondering if she was in school on Monday.

LE used scent dogs, which did not pick up Shaniya's scent outside.  She could have been carried out of the home, wrapped in the blanket that was found in the dumpster.  Wonder if they have used cadaver dogs yet.  Am hoping that LE and/or any scent/cadaver dogs checked out the mom/bf's car.  It's a lot of time between 5:30 and 6:53a.  The engine might still have been warm early on.

According to the news reports, authorities aren't buying the mom's story.  Why isn't much being said about the boyfriend? 

News reports have said there was 'raw sewage'.  In the comments section from one of the news reports, it was said that, "The home had been condemed and not fit to live in yet they were still living it in with sewer backed up in the tub." 

Raw sewage in the tub??????????  Am wondering if LE has anyone out there to check if the outside sewer system was clogged by...... something. 

Poor Shaniya.  I hope to gosh not!!!!! 

[no rose colored glasses]

Wyks, oh my God. I have never heard of sewage in a tub.

[no rose colored glasses]

Is there a candle lite room for Shaniya?

I just started one.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=snd

Thank-you

[Jerseygirl345]

Is there a candle lite room for Shaniya?

I just started one.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=snd

Thank-you

Thank You..

[Tracygirl]

Wykes good thought about wetting the bed, that could explain why she was put on the couch. I was thinking she was sleeping with her mom in her room but was being restless which could have angered the BF? But the bed wetting makes sense and could lend itself to a motive. God knows people get upset at kids for wetting the bed like they can stop from doing it. 

Funny, when I did an adress search Antoinette didn't come up. I wonder if she was living with relatives?

[Wyks]

Wyks, oh my God. I have never heard of sewage in a tub.

Yeah..

When my sons and I moved into a house in rural NE Nebraska, it had an old sewer system thingy outside.  First day one of my sons flushed the commode, and sewage came up into the tub and sink. Called a plumber, who skedaddled out there, and climbed down into the sewer.  Said there was a possum who had managed to find it's way in there, had been in there for some time.  Ugh.  Poor thing.  Plumber said sewage will back up like that into the tub and sinks when something is clogging the sewer thingy outside. 

[burkieandemme]

Is there a candle lite room for Shaniya?

I just started one.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=snd

Thank-you

Thank You..

No, You are the ones who should be thanked. Your dedication to all missing children is truly inspirational. 

[luvmyboys]

4getunot if you are still here. I just really would like to thank you for snipping that article for me about the dogs. Ty so much. I hope that le find he soon