Kimberly "Kimmie" Daily 16, Puyallup, WA-Last Seen 8/17/10 Disabled(Body Found)

[MuffyBee]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/21/1309073/search-for-missing-girl-turns.html
Search for South Hill teen Kimmie Daily becomes investigation
The search for a 16-year-old developmentally delayed girl last seen Tuesday on her bike near the South Hill Mall moved Friday from a search-and-rescue operation to an investigation.
August 21, 2010


 The search for a 16-year-old developmentally delayed girl last seen Tuesday on her bike near the South Hill Mall moved Friday from a search-and-rescue operation to an investigation.

There’s been no sign of foul play in the disappearance of Kimberly “Kimmie” Daily but there’s been no sightings of her either, authorities said. “There’s been no substantive tips today,” Pierce County sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair said.

Sheriff’s detectives returned to Daily’s neighborhood Friday, knocking on doors and interviewing residents about the area and asking if they’d seen or heard from the girl. They also began checking on the registered sex offenders in the neighborhood.

Searchers looked in garbage cans and backyards, handed out 200 fliers with information on Daily along the Meridian Avenue corridor and sent faxes to 2,500 businesses. The fliers included Daily’s information and asked businesses to search their property for any abandoned bicycles, Blair said.

“We are waiting for any leads to come in,” Blair said.

The department has not issued an Amber Alert because, so far, Daily’s disappearance doesn’t meet the criteria. Investigators have no suspect, no suspect information and no vehicle information, Blair said.

“We have nothing like that,” he said.

Daily, whose family said has the mental level of a 9-year-old, was last seen about 1 p.m. Tuesday at her home in the 12700 block of 106th Avenue Court East. She told her family she was going to a friend’s house and would be back by 3 p.m. She hopped on her green BMX bike and left.

When she didn’t return home, her family reported her missing to the Sheriff’s Department at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Deputies went to her home, took a report and then searched common areas where Daily is known to frequent.

They also talked to her friends to see whether they’d seen or heard from her, Blair said.

The search was expanded Wednesday morning. On Thursday, searchers covered a 3-square-mile area around the family’s home. Volunteers knocked on doors and handed out fliers. Aircraft searched from the air.

Daily didn’t take extra clothes, money or her wallet with her. She has no history of running away.

Stacey Mulick: 253-597-8268 stacey.mulick@ thenewstribune.com
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Kimberly “Kimmie” Daily is asked to call 911.



(Edit to add "Body Found" to subject title.  MuffyBee)

[MuffyBee]

This article is from yesterday (a day older than OP), but it has additional information:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/20/1308203/disabled-girl-missing-since-tuesday.html
Search for South Hill teen Kimmie Daily fruitless
August 20, 2010

By Peter Haley; The News Tribune   The Olympian
Janis Hardy works with her bloodhound, Follie, on Thursday, searching for a missing developmentally disabled teenager. Kimberly Daily was last seen riding her bike two days earlier near her South Hill home. A possible sighting of the girl occurred in this area along 31st Avenue Southwest in Puyallup.



 Cecil Daily is not sleeping much, wondering where his developmentally challenged teen daughter is after she disappeared more than two days ago.

He was at work Tuesday afternoon when 16-year-old Kimmie Daily hopped on a green BMX bicycle, promising her grandma that she would return to their South Hill house by 3 p.m.

Kimmie still hasn’t come home.

“Right now, I’m thinking something has happened,” said her father, who said he raised her as a single parent. “I’m trying to hold up. The more time goes on, the harder it is.”

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department continued its search for the teen Thursday, covering a 3-square-mile area around the family’s home on 106th Avenue Court East .

About 40 search-and-rescue volunteers knocked on doors, her friends passed out fliers, four canine teams were deployed and various aircraft scoured open fields for any sign of Kimmie.

A call went out to thousands of residents, notifying them of the missing girl and asking for any information.

Daily walked the streets until 3 a.m. the night his daughter didn’t come home, slept fitfully for a while and rose again at 6 a.m. to keep looking.

Now, he is leaving the search to the professionals and holding vigil at home.

“I’m trying to stay here for her to be coming home,” Daily said. “I’m trying to hold out hope.”

Kimmie did not take extra clothes, money or her wallet . She has no history of running away and has never been in trouble.

Her family says she operates at about the mental level of a 9-yearold.

She briefly visited a friend’s house two blocks away on Tuesday morning and was supposed to be returning there when she left home about 1 p.m.

Neighbors spotted her riding her bike about that time, but Kimmie has not been seen since.

“She very well could be a runaway, but based on her being special-needs, we don’t think she is,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair. “My hope is that she’s staying with a friend and doesn’t realize she’s missing.”

There is no evidence of foul play.

Janis Hardy, a volunteer with the Northwest Bloodhounds Search and Rescue, said she hopes using dogs will narrow the search area.

She and her bloodhound, Follie, walked more than 3 miles Thursday looking for any scent of Kimmie. Hardy is using an eyeshadow brush from the missing teen’s makeup bag as a “scent article” for the bloodhound to track.

After walking a 100-foot stretch on a Puyallup street where somebody reported seeing Kimmie early Thursday, Follie sniffed for several moments, then stopped.

“There’s nothing here,” Hardy said.

Kimmie is 4-feet-9, weighs 100 pounds and has short brown hair and brown eyes. She last was seen wearing a light blue T-shirt and “Spider-man” shorts colored red, white and blue. She may have had a red backpack.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911.

[Tracygirl]

Oh gosh I hope they find her and she is ok. These poor kids are so vulnerable out in the world. I pray nothing bad has happened.

[Sister]

Oh gosh I hope they find her and she is ok. These poor kids are so vulnerable out in the world. I pray nothing bad has happened.

Tracygirl, I know -- I pray she is at a friend's house and has merely "forgot" to go home.  I know I don't watch tv or listen to the radio for days on end, so "it could happen" (from Angels In the Outfield).

[MuffyBee]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/22/1310335/search-resumes-today-for-puyallup.html
Search resumes today for Puyallup teen
August 22, 2010
Dogs will be searching and people will be knocking on doors again today in the investigation into the disappearance of a Puyallup teen.

 Dogs will be searching and people will be knocking on doors again today in the investigation into the disappearance of a Puyallup teen.

There has been no sign of Kimberly “Kimmie” Daily, 16, since she was last seen Tuesday, Pierce County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair said Saturday.

Her family reported her missing about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Teams of dogs and search-and-rescue crews were out Saturday checking “hot spots, places where she would normally hang out,” Blair said. They found no clues .

They planned to continue running scent-tracking dogs and knocking on doors today , he said.

There has been no sign of foul play and no substantive tips, Blair told The News Tribune on Friday.

Daily, who is developmentally delayed, has the mental level of a 9-year-old, according to her family.

She last was seen about 1 p.m. Tuesday. She told her family she was going to a friend’s house and would be back by 3 p.m.

The family lives in a neighborhood on 106th Avenue Court Eas

Read more: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/22/1310335/search-resumes-today-for-puyallup.html#ixzz0xNg7hXj8

[MuffyBee]

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2010/08/22/search-for-missing-south-hill-girl-on-hold/
Search for missing South Hill girl on hold
August 22, 2010

The search for a missing South Hill teenager is suspended today while Pierce County sheriff’s investigators assess the situation and their resources.

“We’re going to regroup tomorrow,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair. “We hit it hard the last few days but we have no leads and we haven’t turned up anything.”

More than three dozen volunteers, four dog teams and various aircraft have been looking for Kimmie Daily since she disappeared Tuesday afternoon.

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[Tracygirl]

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2010/08/22/search-for-missing-south-hill-girl-on-hold/
Search for missing South Hill girl on hold
August 22, 2010

The search for a missing South Hill teenager is suspended today while Pierce County sheriff’s investigators assess the situation and their resources.

“We’re going to regroup tomorrow,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair. “We hit it hard the last few days but we have no leads and we haven’t turned up anything.”

More than three dozen volunteers, four dog teams and various aircraft have been looking for Kimmie Daily since she disappeared Tuesday afternoon.

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I can only think that someone pulled her into a van along with her bike? People had seen her around that afternoon so it is not like she didn't leave. This is so sad...Where is she? Hey were is her mom? She lives with her dad, is her mom alive?

[Edward]

Without a trace..
Just like a couple of others in this area of our nation over the last year or so..

[MuffyBee]

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/08/23/1344500/search-for-girl-suspended.html
Search for girl suspended
August 23, 2010

 The search for a missing South Hill teenager was suspended Sunday while Pierce County sheriff's investigators assessed the situation and their resources.

“We’re going to regroup (Monday),” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair. “We hit it hard the last few days but we have no leads and we haven’t turned up anything.”

More than three dozen volunteers, four dog teams and various aircraft have been looking for 16-year-old Kimmie Daily since she disappeared Tuesday afternoon.

Kimmie was last seen wearing a light blue T-shirt and red-white-andblue Spider-Man shorts and possibly carrying a red backpack.

She is described as 4-foot-9 and 97 pounds, with short brown hair and brown eyes.

[MuffyBee]

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crime/2010/08/23/reward-offered-in-disappearance-of-south-hill-teen/
UPDATED: Reward offered in disappearance of South Hill teen
August 23, 2010

Tacoma-Pierce County Crime Stoppers is now offering a reward for information on the whereabouts of a South Hill developmentally-disabled teen who's been missing since last week.

Investigators have been searching for Kimberly "Kimmie" Daily since Tuesday afternoon. Volunteers, search dogs and aircraft have concentrated on a three-mile radius around her home on 106th Avenue Court East near the South Hill Mall. They've knocked on doors and handed out fliers to businesses along the Meridian corridor.

Detectives have checked in with sex offenders registered to live in area and are working with the FBI.

They've found no sign of Daily and received no substantive tips as to her whereabouts. And while they have found evidence of foul play, the department is ramping up the criminal investigation.

The department has been consulting with the FBI since Wednesday afternoon, Pierce County sheriff's Sgt. Mike Blair said Monday.

"We are assuming there is something different about this," he said.

Crime Stoppers is now offering up to $1,000 for any information on Daily's whereabouts. Tipsters may remain anonymous.

Reach Crime Stoppers at 253-591-5959.

[Nut44x4]

 

POSTED: Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010
Missing South Hill girl found dead; man arrested

Pierce County sheriff’s deputies found the body of a missing teenage girl Monday night, about six blocks away from her South Hill home.

Kimmie Daily, 16, apparently was the victim of a homicide, said Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer.

An 18-year-old man who lives in the same neighborhood was arrested after allegedly leading detectives to her body, which was found about 7:30 p.m. in a vacant lot, hidden beneath brush.

Detectives first questioned the suspect when they canvassed a three-mile area around Kimmie’s house in the 12700 block of 106th Avenue Court East.

“The things he told us initially didn’t make sense, it didn’t add up, there were holes in the story,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair. “We went back to him (Monday). He agreed to show us where the body was.”

Kimmie did not know the man but would have recognized him, detectives said.

“He is a guy everybody in the neighborhood knows,” Blair said.

Search crews had been looking for the developmentally disabled girl since last Tuesday, when she told her grandmother she was riding her bicycle to a friend’s house two blocks away but never arrived.

Cecil Daily, the girl’s father, said Monday night that he was devastated by the news.

“I am still trying to absorb it,” he said.

Daily had said all along that he believed someone had taken his daughter. The search for Kimmie began almost immediately after her family reported her missing.

Detectives scoured the area for clues and interviewed friends and neighbors; dog teams were brought out to hunt for Kimmie’s scent; and an airplane and a helicopter were used to search from the air.

Friends blanketed the area with fliers, and sheriff’s detectives sent out an automated voice recording about the disappearance to more than 9,000 residents.

“There was nothing anybody could do,” Troyer said. “She was probably deceased before she was even reported missing.”

Kimmie’s body was found near 122nd Street East and 115th Avenue Court East, perhaps a half-mile from the home she shared with her father and her grandmother.

“It’s good that we found her, but obviously it’s not the outcome we were hoping for,” Troyer said.

Deputies were processing the scene late Monday. A cause of death had not been released.

“Our heart goes out to Kimmie’s family,” Sheriff Paul Pastor said in a statement. “This was a difficult case which impacted all of us. In cases like this we see our own kids – especially if we have kids with handicaps. I am grateful for the strong, dedicated work of our detectives, and I appreciate the help of our search and rescue volunteers.”

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/08/23/1583916/missing-south-hill-girl-found.html

[MuffyBee]

      I wonder what happened to this young, innocent girl?  Thank you for bringing the article Nut.  Sad, sad news    I'll move this over to "Missing Found Deceased".  Hopefully we will get more information. 

[melisb]

I know I should not say this but why would anyone let a LD girl with the intelligence of a 9yo leave the home on a bike?  At the least if someone is able to drive she should be escorted everywhere and if she can't be escorted she should be at home.  I know, she's not a prisoner but we shouldn't even let our 9yo's out of our sight anymore.  I'd rather have an overprotected alive child than a deceased one.  God Bless her and her family.  I'm not trying to pick on them just mad that she had to suffer at the hands of evil.


                                                               

[Tracygirl]

  oh gosh I was afraid she had been murdered. Her poor dad, my prayers are certainly with him right now.

[MuffyBee]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012712607_girlsdeath25m.html
Puyallup neighbor charged in killing of developmentally disabled teen

Tyler Wolfegang Savage, 18, was charged Tuesday in the rape and murder of 16-year-old Kimberly "Kimmie" Daily, a developmentally disabled girl who had lived in his Puyallup neighborhood. She had been missing since Aug. 17. Her body was found on Monday.
August 24, 2010


Tyler Wolfegang Savage

Tyler Wolfegang Savage, 18, was charged Tuesday in the rape and killing of 16-year-old Kimberly "Kimmie" Daily, a developmentally disabled girl who had lived in his South Hill Puyallup neighborhood.

If convicted of aggravated murder, Savage could face the death penalty, according to a news release from Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist's office. The release said Lindquist hasn't decided whether he will seek that sentence or life in prison without parole.

On Monday, Savage led detectives to Kimberly's body, according to charging documents. She was hidden beneath her bicycle in a large thicket of blackberry bushes and brambles just blocks from her home.

Kimberly had been missing since Aug. 17, when she left her home to bike to a friend's house. The next day sheriff's deputies began a full-scale search, which included going door to door to interview neighbors.

"There's nobody who isn't a person of interest when something like this happens," said Detective Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, about Kimberly's disappearance.

As detectives investigated, "we weren't able to eliminate" Savage as a person of interest "and as we talked to people in the neighborhood, he became a stronger suspect," Troyer said.

According to charging documents, detectives said Savage provided them with the following account:

He saw Kimberly the day she disappeared and persuaded her to cross the street and accompany him more than 50 feet into the brushy area of a vacant lot near his home.

After about 15 minutes, he said, Kimberly told him she needed to leave. When she got up to go, Savage said, he grabbed her around the neck and choked her until she died.

Savage also told detectives he'd had sexual contact with Kimberly. After she was dead, he told detectives, he left her body in the brambles and threw her bicycle on top of her, according to court documents.

By 4 p.m. that day, he said, he was at a neighbor's house playing the Dungeons and Dragons Online video game in an effort to "forget," according to the documents.

Savage told detectives he had known Kimberly for more than two years.

Cecil Daily, Kimberly's father, told detectives the girl was developmentally delayed and three years behind a normal physical growth pattern. He said she had been a Special Olympics participant.

"The rape and murder of Kimberly Daily, an innocent child and Special Olympian, is a horrible crime," Lindquist said in the news release. "This is a tragic loss for Kimberly's family, her neighborhood, and the entire community."

A spokeswoman for the Puyallup School District said Savage is enrolled as a senior at Emerald Ridge High School.

He is being held without bail in the Pierce County Jail.

Seattle Times staff reporter Sara Jean Green contributed to this report.

[Tracygirl]

They need to just shoot him! Dirty SOB!
What a sad, sad story. just tragic! This poor girl, omg I can't take it, it is just too horrible for words 

[Justamama]

There's a lot to be learned from this search.  Thankfully she was found and the 'person' puke who did this is in jail.  So sad.

[Nut44x4]

POS ..... FRY HIM! 


Updated: 08/25/10 1:40 am
Police say man lured South Hill teen into lot, then killed her
Kimberly “Kimmie” Daily may have had a feeling something was wrong. The developmentally disabled South Hill teen didn’t want to go with Tyler W. Savage when he asked her into an overgrown lot near her home last week, according to court records.

Kimberly “Kimmie” Daily may have had a feeling something was wrong.

The developmentally disabled South Hill teen didn’t want to go with Tyler W. Savage when he asked her into an overgrown lot near her home last week, according to court records.

She tried to beg off, telling Savage she wasn’t allowed to cross 111th Avenue East, a street separating them from the lot.

Savage, an 18-year-old neighbor, persisted. Daily relented and spent 15 to 20 minutes with him among the blackberry brambles, court records show.

Then she said she needed to leave.

Savage later told detectives he didn’t let her.

Investigators believe he strangled the 16-year-old girl, molested her body, and then dragged her farther into the brambles to conceal the slaying.

He went to a friend’s home afterward to play an online video game in an attempt to forget what he’d done, court records show. The girl’s family didn’t know she was missing as he logged on, the records state.

A motive remained unknown Tuesday.

“He did not say why,” Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said after he charged Savage with aggravated first-degree murder, the state’s highest crime.

Lindquist also put Savage on notice that he might seek the death penalty.

The prosecutor has 30 days to make a decision, although that deadline likely will be extended. Life in prison without the possibility of release is the only other punishment available for someone convicted of aggravated first-degree murder.

Superior Court Commissioner Patrick Oishi entered a plea of not guilty on Savage’s behalf and ordered him jailed without bond, which is routine for defendants charged with aggravated murder.

Savage’s attorney, Jay Berneburg, did not oppose the no-bail hold but reserved his right to argue the issue at another time. Relatives of Daily did not attend Savage’s arraignment. Her father, Cecil Daily, reportedly was too upset to go to court.

Savage’s parents stood in the back row during their son’s arraignment, craning their necks to catch a glimpse of him. His mother’s eyes misted over several times, and she covered her mouth when Oishi denied bail.

When the hearing ended, they locked arms and hustled for the door. They refused to answer reporters’ questions.

Michael Von Gnatensky, who said he was the Savage family spokesman, said the couple plan to make a public statement in the future but first need to gather more details. They reportedly have been unable to speak with their son since his arrest.

“It’s a tragic, sad day not just for the two families but also for the community,” Von Gnatensky said. “The family is very upset and in shock. They’re not doing well.”

Investigators interviewed Savage on Monday, and he reportedly led them to Daily’s body, which was about 150 yards off 122nd Street East. Her body was naked and covered with her bicycle.

Charging documents state Savage removed Daily’s clothing “to make it appear to be ‘something else,’ ‘like she was raped.’ ” Daily was a Special Olympics athlete and was getting ready to start her junior year at Rogers High School. She was last seen Aug. 17 after she disappeared while on a bike ride to a friend’s house two blocks from her own.

Searchers and detectives had been looking for her since, using aircraft and search dogs. They also interviewed dozens of people in the neighborhood.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Blair said the lot where she was found is in the area where teams searched, but he wasn’t sure whether they scoured the precise area where her body was discovered.

Investigators were back at the lot near 122nd Street East and 115th Avenue Court East on Tuesday, looking for evidence, Blair said. They found a backpack believed to be Daily’s and part of a cellular phone. They still were searching for the other half of the phone.

Savage allegedly destroyed the phone out of fear that authorities would “ping” it and find Daily’s body, Blair said.

Neighbors reacted with sadness to the news Daily was dead.

“I think it’s terrible,” said Joe Owen, 80. “A little girl got murdered.”

Others said they were shocked Savage was charged with the crime.

“He’s like a family member,” said Jenny Berto, 35. “… This is so unexpected.”

Savage and Daily were acquaintances but not close friends. He told investigators the two had known each other for more than two years, charging document state. They were friends on the social website Facebook.

Sheriff’s investigators first talked to Savage on Aug. 18. A witness had reported seeing him walking with Daily the afternoon she disappeared, sheriff’s Capt. Brent Bomkamp said.

Search crews also spoke with Savage, who was in an area they were searching. He told them he’d been with Daily but that they parted ways near his house in the 11100 bock of 122nd Street East.

“He was identified early on as a person who was one of the last to see her, to be with her,” Bomkamp said.

Investigators interviewed Savage a second time and found inconsistencies in his statements, Bomkamp said.

“Red flags started popping up,” he said.

The detectives decided to talk to him a third time Monday. They initially asked him to show them where he’d last seen Daily. He eventually took them to the body, court records show.

After that, detectives took Savage to a Sheriff’s Department facility to be interviewed further and he confessed to killing the girl, Bomkamp said.

“It was basically outstanding interviewing, interrogation, that allowed us to have him eventually lead us to where he had killed her and left her,” Bomkamp said.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/08/25/1313946/police-say-man-lured-south-hill.html

[Nut44x4]

  I always wondered what good a bullet proof vest does....when one could get a clear shot of the freaks head and blow his brains out

[cookie]

I always wondered what good a bullet proof vest does....when one could get a clear shot of the freaks head and blow his brains out

yes....and that would be good enough for him! dirty rotten scumbag!
he knew this little girl and still lured her and then murdered her..that is cold and calculated...he needs to be put to death!