Jenna Lord, a 23-year-old who vanished from a train station(Body Found)
pinkbanana:
Damn, I was hoping she would be found alive.
So sad to know this was not taken seriously because of her past. ::MonkeyNoNo::
Keeping her baby and family in my prayers. ::MonkeyAngel::
Rest In Peace Jenna. ::MonkeyAngel::
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:
Quote from: pinkbanana on July 19, 2010, 07:30:16 PM
Damn, I was hoping she would be found alive.
So sad to know this was not taken seriously because of her past. ::MonkeyNoNo::
Keeping her baby and family in my prayers. ::MonkeyAngel::
Rest In Peace Jenna. ::MonkeyAngel::
pb
ditto pink!
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