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Lincoln County looking to close at least 4 cold cases
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LINCOLN COUNTY, Mo. – Residents in Foley, Missouri, lit up social media last week with posts about police investigators searching an area near where Bianca Piper disappeared in 2005.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa,” you could hear one of the residents say as she recorded video driving by the scene Friday.
“Look, they’ve got the crime scene tape up now,” the person said as she drove past the field filled with investigators.
Social media posts suggested the police found something. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said it’s not that simple.
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“It’s human nature. I don’t begrudge anyone for doing it, but it does make it hard, because then people get spun up and worked up about stuff that’s just not factual,” said Captain Dave Hill, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Eighteen years ago, Piper’s mother, Shannon, said she last saw her 13-year-old daughter walking down McIntosh Hill Road near Highway Y. Mom said she dropped off her daughter down the road from home to cool off as they’d commonly done to deal with Bianca’s bipolar disorder.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children generated an aged progression photo of Bianca, who would now be 31-years-old.
Capt. Hill said they’re going back to make sure they’ve covered every angle, even if it’s something earlier investigators previously tackled.
“We did search the septic (tank), but the reason we did it was because it was a box we couldn’t check off,” he said. “We couldn’t find where it had been done, so we decided to do it.”
Shannon told FOX 2 she’s thrilled that Sherriff Rick Harrell is putting new effort into Bianca’s case.
“It’s long past time for our family to know what happened to Bianca,” she said.
Another recent search involved Arlin Henderson, last seen when he was 11, riding his bike in Moscow Mills in July 1991. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a couple years ago, released a photo of what he could look like today. He would be 42.
“We brought out specialized canines and we went, and we searched that area as well, so it’s all kind of the routine of going through cold cases,” Hill said. “You retrace steps to see where it leads you.”
Two other cases involve murder victims not yet identified, including a woman’s body found in March 1978 near the Mississippi River with little to go on, except a tattoo with the name “Dee” on her left forearm.
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Another case involves an unknown man found in 1984, shot execution style in a pump house in near Highway F. He was wearing a Bill Blass grey suit with red pinstripes and a Bill Blass black cashmere pea coat.
“Clearly, somebody who had some money, and he wasn’t robbed,” Hill said. “He was just left murdered. Shot in the back of the head.”
The sheriff’s office believes its work is paying off. While there’s nothing to report yet, investigators say they are generating important clues.
“Everybody deserves closure,” Hill said. “Justice doesn’t just go away.”
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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