Jenna Lord, a 23-year-old who vanished from a train station(Body Found)

[SunnyinTX]

Cops Search for Pa. Woman Missing From Train Station

Updated: 3 hours 18 minutes ago
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(July 15) -- The search is on for Jenna Lord, a 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman who vanished from a train station in Camden, N.J., on July 5 after attending a holiday barbecue.

Police are searching for Lord as her family fears the worst. The young mother has a tough past, but her mother says she always calls home.

"It's not like Jenna not to call. No matter what, she always calls," Lord's mother, Desiree Caruso, told Philadelphia KYW 1060, a CBS affiliate.

In an interview on HLN's "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell" on Wednesday, Caruso said her daughter called her from a stranger's phone while waiting for the train that day. Caruso missed the call, and when she called back, the man who answered said he had let Lord use his cell phone and told her that daughter had "looked a little scared."

Caruso said her daughter never made it onto the train.
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Jenna Lord went missing from a train station in Camden, N.J., on July 5 and has not been heard from since.

Lord, a resident of Collingdale, Pa., has been in trouble before. In June, she spent a few weeks in jail in Delaware County, Pa., on charges of aggravated assault, according to court records obtained by The Philadelphia Daily News.

Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams alleged Lord has also had a drug problem, according to the Daily News.

But her boyfriend, Ed Steele, told HLN that Lord was sober when he last saw her, and her family told CNN they believe authorities have been unresponsive because of Lord's troubled past.

Multiple news outlets have reported confusion over who is leading the investigation into Lord's disappearance, but three police departments in the Philadelphia area say they are working together to find Lord.

Chief Richard Sarlo of the Collingswood, N.J., Police Department told AOL News today his department is doing "everything they can" to help out. He explained that while Lord's family filed the missing-person report in Collingswood, where she attended the barbecue, the young woman was last seen in Camden.

The Camden Police Department could not be immediately reached for comment today, but CBS reports that it is investigating as well.

Adams confirmed that his department is involved in the case and denied there was any confusion over jurisdiction. "Everyone has been cooperating since the beginning," he told AOL News today.

Lord's family just wants her home.

"She has a 3-year-old son and this is just not like her," Caruso told NBC Philadelphia. "She's not a wanderer. She doesn't like to be by herself."
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[Nut44x4]

Family Finds Body of Delco Mom in Vacant Lot
Family says they found the body of 23-year-old Jenna Lord while searching in Camden Sunday

By TERESA MASTERSON
Updated 6:16 PM EDT, Sun, Jul 18, 2010

The body of the 23-year-old Delaware County mother who went missing at a PATCO train station July 5 was found in a vacant lot in Camden Sunday, according to family members.

Family members were searching for Jenna Lord Sunday and contacted NBC Philadelphia after they found the young mother’s body in a lot at 6th and Royden in Camden Sunday.

Though the family says they found and positively identified Lord’s body by the tattoo on her arm and her clothes, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office says that they are waiting to confirm the person’s identity. They said the body is extremely decomposed.

Lord disappeared after she was dropped off at a PATCO train station in Camden after a family 4th of July barbecue in Collingswood, N.J.

According to Lord’s aunt, Kimmy McArdle, family members had been searching in Camden for about two hours Sunday when her uncle discovered her body in the vacant lot. McArdle said that Lord’s body appeared burned and she was wearing the same outfit she had on the night she went missing.

The family called 911 and the police arrived at the scene soon after Sunday afternoon at about 3:30 p.m.

McArdle said that before family members found the body, they spoke to several people who had seen Lord. 

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Family-Finds-Body-of-Delco-Mom-in-Vacant-Lot-98711889.html

[melisb]

You gotta b kidding me Nut...the family just happened to wander up on her body and the cop couldn't do it?  What gives?  Guess they were never looking for her for real!  So sad.  You don't give up looking for people because of their past or present situation because they all are someone's daughter, son, friend, mother, father, brother, etc..  My heart goes out to the family.

[SunnyinTX]

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Family Finds Body of Missing Mother Jenna Lord
Updated: 7 minutes ago


By Mara Gay
AOL News
(July 19) -- The search for Jenna Lord ended in tragedy when a family search party found the body of the missing 23-year-old in a vacant lot in Camden, N.J.

"As soon as I moved the bushes, there was no mistaking," one of Lord's uncles, Kevin Fetrow, told The Philadelphia Inquirer after she was discovered Sunday. "She had on the same outfit, the bracelets, the shoes."

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The family had been searching for the young woman, a mother of a 3-year-old boy, since she vanished over the Fourth of July weekend from a train station in Camden after attending a barbecue.

Her family members, unimpressed with the police investigation, organized a search on Facebook and took to the streets themselves. Sunday, a force of about 50 of her family and friends scoured Camden, desperate for signs of Jenna.

"Them cops didn't find nothing -- not a damn thing," Lord's grandfather, Vincent Caruso, told The Philadelphia Daily News.

From the beginning, the family had complained that police in Camden, Collingdale, Pa., and Collingswood, N.J., had been reluctant to search for Lord because of her rough past.

Lord was a drug addict, and she served a few weeks in jail for aggravated assault earlier this year. But in an interview with HLN's "Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell" last week, her boyfriend said she was clean when she disappeared on July 5. And her aunt, Frenchie Caruso, said her trouble with the law doesn't make her niece's life less valuable.

"That shouldn't matter. Everybody deserves a future," Caruso told the Inquirer. "It doesn't matter who they are. Everybody counts."

There were multiple reports of confusion over jurisdiction in the case, but the three police departments had maintained that they were working together to find the missing woman. Friday, Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams told AOL News that "everyone has been cooperating since the beginning." Camden police told The Philadelphia Daily News that they were helping the family search Sunday for Lord.

The woman's mother, Desiree Caruso, spoke to news outlets last week to plead for her daughter's safe return. She said last week that she knew something was wrong when Jenna didn't call home.

"It's not like Jenna not to call. No matter what, she always calls," Desiree Caruso told Philadelphia KYW 1060, a CBS affiliate, last week.
Sunday, the family's worst fears were confirmed when her uncles found a dead woman with a Mickey Mouse tattoo on her arm. That's how they knew it was Jenna, her family told reporters.

The body appeared burned and had decomposed in the intense heat. Police said an autopsy will be performed today to confirm that the body is Lord's, according to the Inquirer.

It's unclear how Lord, who was from Collingdale, Pa., ended up dead in an area of Camden known for rampant drug use and violence. But another uncle, Ariel Morales, said he's sure his niece wasn't looking for a hit.

"She's not going to come out here to do drugs," Morales told the Daily News. "She knows Philly really, really good so she didn't have to come to Camden to find drugs, and even at her worse, she never goes without calling."

Her aunt, Kimmy McArdle, said the family was "devastated" by the news. "We just didn't want to believe it," she told NBC Philadelphia.

Surveillance video of the train station in Camden where Lord was last seen shows her being followed by two men. Police have made no arrests. Lord's family could not immediately be reached for comment this morning. Calls to the Camden Police Department were not immediately returned today.


Rest in Peace Jenna.......

[SunnyinTX]

You gotta b kidding me Nut...the family just happened to wander up on her body and the cop couldn't do it?  What gives?  Guess they were never looking for her for real!  So sad.  You don't give up looking for people because of their past or present situation because they all are someone's daughter, son, friend, mother, father, brother, etc..  My heart goes out to the family.

I was following this one facebook.....what a shame....the family should not have had to discover her.....not like that....

[pinkbanana]

Damn, I was hoping she would be found alive.

So sad to know this was not taken seriously because of her past. 

Keeping her baby and family in my prayers. 

Rest In Peace Jenna. 


pb

[cw618]

just sad, wonder how many women have been murdered in that area

Posted on Tue, Jul. 20, 2010


No cause of death yet for Collingdale woman found in Camden lot
By Darran Simon

Inquirer Staff Writer

An autopsy performed Monday on the badly decomposed remains of a young Collingdale woman missing for two weeks was unable to determine a cause of death, Camden County authorities said.

The condition of Jenna Lord's body made it impossible to identify how she died or to perform toxicology tests, said Jason Laughlin, a spokesman with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. There were no obvious signs of foul play, he said.

Investigators are looking into whether other tests could reveal how Lord, 23, died, he said.

Lord's remains were discovered Sunday in a vacant lot in Camden, where the body was likely exposed to the heat and rain for some time, Laughlin said.

Family members found her body at Fifth and Division streets, blocks from where surveillance video captured Lord boarding a PATCO train bound for Philadelphia on July 5. Subsequent videos showed her on a return train to Camden.

"I just want to see her beautiful face one more time," Lord's mother, Desiree Caruso, said Monday.

Lord, who had a 2-year-old son, attended a barbecue at her grandmother's Collingswood home on July 4. Early the next morning, she left Caruso a voice mail from the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden, using a phone borrowed from a man family have described as a U.S. Marine. Lord's cell phone was dead, her mother said.

The man bought a ticket for Lord, but his train arrived first, Caruso has said. When Caruso later spoke to the Marine, he said that Lord had looked "a little scared."

Authorities and family members don't know what Lord did after she left her grandmother's. In Philadelphia, she got off the train at the Gallery at Market East in Center City. Video there shows Lord talking to a woman and two men. Lord took what looked to be clothing from the woman, then boarded a train back to Camden, according to police.

"It appears that she was coming and going from Philadelphia of her own free will," Laughlin said.

Members of Lord's family have blasted some local authorities, who they say didn't do enough to find Lord.

"They thought she was some junkie. That's how it felt to me," Caruso, with whom Lord lived, said Monday.

Lord, who had dropped out of Strath Haven High School in the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District, pleaded guilty to marijuana possession in 2007 and was given 30 days' probation and community service in Delaware County, according to court records.

In April, she was arrested in Darby Township on charges of robbery, aggravated assault, theft, simple assault, and terroristic threats, records show. A July 6 preliminary hearing had been continued to Tuesday.

Caruso said her daughter had been off drugs for a few months. She has no idea, she said, what cost Lord her life.

"Even if she relapsed, she would have called," Caruso said. "We would have yelled at her. . . . [But] she knows she was always welcome home, no matter what."

On July 6, family members reported Lord missing to Collingdale police, and the Delaware County department led the investigation, according to Collingdale Chief Robert Adams.

He said Collingdale entered Lord into the National Crime Information Center, a computerized index that includes missing persons and fugitives.

Collingdale notified Collingswood police of the missing-person report on July 6, Adams said. He added that the Marine was not a suspect in the case.

Collingdale and Collingswood detectives searched for Lord in Camden and Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday, Adams said. Collingdale police were given Lord's photo.

The department also followed up on tips that Lord had been seen in Florida and Massachusetts, he said.

Detectives from both locations viewed surveillance of Lord at the Camden transportation center, said Collingswood Police Chief Richard Sarlo. The Collingswood location where Lord was last seen was visited by police at least twice, Sarlo said.

"As much as we try to do what we can, sometimes the end result is not good. It's sad," he said. "I don't care if you're the best person in the world or the worst person, if you're missing, it's a human being."

Adams said Camden police were notified of the investigation during the week of July 5.

Camden Police Chief Scott Thomson issued a statement Monday, the day after family members found Lord's body within hours of launching their own search of the city.

Camden police worked with Lord's family and Collingdale authorities, Thomson said. In addition to making repeated police radio broadcasts about the case, city officers distributed missing-person fliers and searched with about 50 of Lord's family and friends on Sunday, Thomson said.

"I just want to put Jenna to rest, where she belongs," Caruso said on Monday.

 
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100720_No_cause_of_death_yet_for_Collingdale_woman_found_in_Camden_lot.html

pics, pic 16 is the lot where she was found
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/Jenna_Lord_is_Missing.html

[cw618]

just saw this not sure what to make of it, maybe it was and OD,or bad drugs, and not
a murder

Posted on Tue, Jul. 20, 2010


Sources: Man may have known location of young mom's body for nearly 2 weeks
By JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News

narkj@phillynews.com 856-779-3231

As Jenna Lord's family struggled with unbearable questions, sources say a man with answers remained silent for nearly two weeks while the body of the Delaware County mother decomposed in a trash-strewn lot in Camden.

Yesterday, authorities said they were unable to determine a cause of death because of the decomposition and will need additional testing on the 23-year-old Collingdale native's body. The medical examiner did say there were no obvious signs of foul play, but Lord's family thinks the man who tipped them off - and later got punched by Lord's boyfriend - knows more.

"I think he's a piece of crap," said Kimmy McCardle, Lord's aunt. "I absolutely think foul play was involved. We need to know how she died."

McCardle and others at the search said the man directed searchers to the empty lot near 5th and Ramona Gonzalez streets. When the screaming started, he ran away.

Members of the search party, including the father of Lord's 3-year-old son, caught up and struck the man several times before he was taken away in a police car, McCardle said. Law-enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said the man was one of two white males seen getting off a train with Lord in Camden about 9:55 a.m. on July 5 - the last reported sighting of her.

Sources said the man admitted doing drugs with Lord in the empty lot that same day.

When she passed out, the man told police he left her there.

"He got what he deserved," McCardle said. "He knows more. He knows who else was there."

Jason Laughlin, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, said investigators were conducting interviews with people who may have had "contact" with Lord on the day she died. He declined to comment further.

Lord traveled to Collingswood on July 4 to attend a family barbecue. She awoke early the next morning and, according to her mother, caught a ride to the Walter Rand Transportation Center in downtown Camden to return home.

The family contacted Collingswood police on July 5, and officers checked out the apartment where the barbecue was held. According to Collingdale Police Chief Robert Adams, Lord was officially reported missing when family came to the Collingdale police station the following day.

Adams acknowledged yesterday that there were some initial issues about which department would head the case. He said the Delaware River Port Authority and Camden police were involved, but a Camden police spokeswoman said her department was not contacted until July 14, more than a week after Lord was last seen.

After they were notified, Camden police said they were actively involved in the investigation, including looking into tips and helping the family hand out fliers. Officers also accompanied the search party.

Lord's family members blasted police for what they felt was a lack of effort and concern about Jenna's whereabouts. Her mother, Desiree Caruso, and Edward Steele, the father of her 3-year-old son, appeared on national television last week, claiming police had written Lord off as a "junkie" with a criminal record. Adams said that he sympathized with the family's pain and that he didn't know if Lord had fallen through the cracks.

"Have I learned from it? Sure," he said. "Would I approach it differently? Probably."

Adams said it was frustrating that someone who knew of Lord's whereabouts didn't come forward sooner. "If he knew she was there," he said, "why didn't he call us?"

That left the family and the police to look for answers, McCardle said, but it was family members and friends who discovered her corpse.

"In what world would this happen like this?" asked McCardle, who was present when Jenna was born. "The things we saw will never leave us."

 
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100720_Sources__Man_may_have_known_location_of_young_mom_s_body_for_nearly_2_weeks.html

[Sister]

Damn, I was hoping she would be found alive.

So sad to know this was not taken seriously because of her past. 

Keeping her baby and family in my prayers. 

Rest In Peace Jenna. 


pb

ditto pink!