Ryann Bunnell Crow 23, CA Missing 1/30/10 Husband Jesse Crow Arrested (REMAINS FOUND)

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Father of Ryann Bunnell Crow mourned
Family patriarch kept everyone's spirits up
June 21, 2010

Rod Bunnell, father of Ryann Bunnell Crow and the man who family members say kept everyone's spirits up despite four months of heartbreak, died Friday after suffering a stroke about three weeks ago.

"I would have loved for him to still be here," Shelley Bunnell said Sunday of her father. "But to know that [he and Ryann] are together, that does give me some comfort."

The 53-year-old electrician was born in Oregon. He was also a Eucharist minister at Madonna del Sasso church. His wife describes as a "happy-go-lucky" man with always a smile on his face.

"Rod had a great personality," said Teresa Dorney Bunnell of her husband. "Despite the past few months, he always came through with a smile. He lifted everyone's spirits."

Rod Bunnell's death comes about a week after the Monterey County District Attorney's Office announced on June 10 that remains found on the East Bay shoreline of Alameda County are those of Ryann Bunnell Crow.

Jesse John Crow, Ryann's husband, was arrested on suspicion of her murder on Feb. 16. The 23-year-old Ryann Bunnell Crow was reported missing Feb. 2. She was last seen alive Jan. 30

Shelley Bunnell said her father suffered the stroke a day after officials first found Ryann's remains. He had gotten better over the next couple of weeks.

On Friday, however, she said, his condition turned for the worse.

Bunnell said her father will be buried Saturday in Coos Bay, Ore. Locally, a rosary is set for Wednesday and a funeral service on Thursday at Madonna del Sasso.

On Father's Day, Shelley Bunnell said her family remembered her father through prayer and reminiscing of their favorite memories.

"He coached [Ryann and me] in softball. He called us 'kiddo,' " she said. "He was just a wonderful person."
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100621/NEWS01/6210317/Father-of-Ryann-Bunnell-Crow-mourned

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Jesse John Crow found dead in jail cell
By MIKE NEMETH • mnemeth@thecalifornian.com • August 7, 2010

Jesse John Crow, the Prunedale man accused of killing his wife and dumping her body, was found dead this morning – hanging in his jail cell from a makeshift rope, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Jail deputies with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office found Crow, 33, hanging about 3 a.m.

Deputies entered the cell, removed Crow from the rope and started CPR.

He was rushed to Natividad Medical Center but could not be revived.

Authorities have told Crow’s family and his defense lawyer about his death.

Crow was in county jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on charges he murdered his wife, Ryann Bunnell Crow, and left her body on the East Bay shoreline of Alameda County.

Crow was arrested Feb. 16, two weeks after his wife was reported missing.

In April, the District Attorney's Office filed a special circumstance to an existing murder charge against Crow, accusing him of committing the crime intentionally and carrying it out for financial gain.

Crow also faced charges of using a firearm to commit a crime, being a felon in possession of a firearm, cultivating marijuana, attempted solicitation to commit a crime, and possession and transportation or sale of marijuana.

He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was being held on $3 million bail.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100807/NEWS01/100807002

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I would rather him rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life but all I can say now is justice served!

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Most convicts do not 'rot in jail' anymore.  Many prisons are nearly as nice as a Holiday Inn Express. They tend to have more benefits than the average Joe...education, medical treatments, dental visits, exercise rooms...the list is endless. All paid for by you and me.

I say fry them all, immediately 

Jesse John Crow murder case would have proven guilt 'beyond any reasonable doubt,' prosecutors say
August 10, 2010

Jesse John Crow strangled his pregnant wife, shot her and hit her with a hammer on Jan. 30 out of fear that she would report his marijuana-growing operation, prosecutors revealed Monday.

Details of the murder were released nearly eight months after Ryann Bunnell Crow was last seen alive, and two days after investigators say Crow killed himself at the Monterey County Jail.

"We have no doubt that, if we had gone to trial, we would have prevailed," Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said at a news conference at his Salinas office.

Officials said Crow hung himself early Saturday with a bed sheet in his jail cell. The Sheriff's Office announced Monday that he died from asphyxiation through hanging. His manner of death was deemed a suicide, the sheriff's coroner's office said.

Crow had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing, in which a judge decides whether enough evidence exists for a case to go to trial, in September.

Argument before death
Investigators said they had plenty of evidence for the case to proceed, including the presence of Bunnell Crow's blood in her husband's truck, videos and photos of her car in the East Bay area near where it was eventually found abandoned, and witness accounts.

"Based on all of the evidence that continued to mount over the months ... the case got stronger every day," Flippo said.

He thanked Ryann's family for inspiring law enforcement officers and prosecutors to work tirelessly on the case. Tears streamed down Shelley Bunnell's face at the press conference as Flippo spoke to her about her sister.

On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Hulsey provided an overview of the prosecution's case against Crow, describing details of Bunnell Crow's final hours and her husband's elaborate planning for the disposal of her body in the Bay Area.

About 3:15 p.m. Jan. 30, Hulsey said, Bunnell Crow left her workplace at Swenson and Silacci Flowers in Salinas. She was planning to attend her father's birthday party, she said, but stopped by a home she shared with Crow on Chester Drive in Prunedale. Hulsey said a witness later told police that Crow and his wife began to argue over his infidelities, and that she threatened to expose his extensive marijuana growing operations.
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http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100810/NEWS09/8100310

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Jesse John Crow brutally strangled his wife, Ryann Bunnell Crow, shot her and hit her in the head with a hammer the night she went missing, prosecutors said today.

Monterey County District Attorney officials laid out the case against Crow at a press conference in Salinas.


“We have no doubt that if we had gone to trial we would have prevailed,” said Dean Flippo, top prosecutor.


But that trial will never happen.


Months after Bunnell Crow’s body was found in the San Francisco Bay, officials said Crow hung himself early Saturday with a bed sheet in his Monterey County jail cell, where he was awaiting trial in the killing.


An autopsy shows Jesse Crow, 33, died of asphyxia due to hanging; the manner of death was ruled a suicide.


According to prosecutors, Bunnell Crow was dead by 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30.


At that point, officials said, Crow began calling friends for help. He asked his girlfriend to follow him on the highway, to see if there was blood dripping from his truck, according to prosecutors.


He conned Bay Area friends who worked with him in his pot business into helping get Bunnell Crow’s body to the East Bay, officials said.


One friend, fearful that Crow would kill again, agreed to drive around the state with Crow, making late-night purchases of bleach, a trash can and cement that Crow used to dispose his wife’s body, investigators said.


Over months of investigation, law enforcement said they located several witnesses, found Bunnell Crow’s blood in her husband’s truck, videos and photos of Ryann’s car in the East Bay near where her car was found.


“The evidence continued to mount,” Flippo said.


See video where lawyer explains exactly what happened when he murdered her.

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100809/NEWS01/8090309/Jesse-Crow-didn-t-seem-troubled-defense-lawyer-says

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http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/16/we-want-justice-update-for-ryann-bunnell-crow/
We Want Justice Update for Ryann Bunnell Crow
August 16, 2010

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http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100904/NEWS01/9040308/Family-to-celebrate-life-of-Ryann-Bunnell-Crow
Family to celebrate life of Ryann Bunnell Crow
Memorial service is set for Sept. 11
September 4, 2010
Ryann Bunnell Crow

Ryann Bunnell Crow's mother says she hopes a memorial service to remember her 23-year-old daughter's life can help bring some healing to her family following an eight-month ordeal with her death.

"We didn't really get any closure," Pamela Pipitone said Friday. "I want the community to know what a special person [Ryann] was."

The Celebration of Life ceremony is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the First Presbyterian Church, on 830 Padre Drive.

It will include a musical performance by Ryann Bunnell Crow's brother, Wes Ambrosini, 19, a soldier visiting from Afghanistan.

The public memorial comes about a month after Ryann Bunnell Crow's accused killer — her husband Jesse John Crow — was found hanging in his Monterey County Jail cell.

Prosecutors have said Bunnell Crow was killed Jan. 30 after she threatened to expose Crow's pot-growing enterprise in Prunedale. Her remains were found washed ashore in May in the East Bay.

Along with the chance to tell her daughter's story, Pipitone said, the memorial event will give the family a chance to thank many of the people who helped with the searches organized to look for her daughter.

"There were about 150 people in each of the searches," she said. "Half of them were people we knew; others were just wonderful people who wanted to help."

The memorial event will include music, food, a chance for friends and family to speak about Bunnell Crow, and a reception. Pipitone said her son, along with Salinas musician Tyee Miles, will play guitar.

Ambrosini, a member of the Army infantry 101st Screaming Eagles, was given 10 days of leave to visit his family, Pipitone said.

"It's all going to be positive things about her life. We don't want anything negative," she said. "It's going to be beautiful."

To attend

A Celebration of Life event to remember Ryann Bunnell Crow is set for 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, at the First Presbyterian Church, 830 Padre Drive.

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