The Glendale Police Department have finally set a date to search for Jhessye Shockley. The search in the Butterfield Station Landfill will start on 6 February and there will be about 40 people on site until they get through the area they will be searching.
Investigators have set the area they will search. Its about 1800 feet by 200 feet, the area is more than 20 feet deep and contains about 6,000 tons of trash.
According to Monster Mom Jerice Hunter’s attorney, she is innocent and not involved. Jhessye was reported missing on 11 October 2011, but it is believed she was missing before the reporting.
If she would have been white , the landfill wouldve already been done. I think its a bunch of crap they waited so long. She deserves justice. Just like everyone else.
Jerice Hunter needs to be on death row, and doing HARD LABOR! She is a SADISTIC monster!
if they find her,,(doubtful) will there be anything left of her??
Wow they sure are taking their time aren’t they. I agree if she was “white” the search would be much sooner.
Why did they wait so long to do a search? According to what her sister said, Jhessye has been dead since September! This is crazy!
GLENDALE, AZ (CBS5) –
The search for 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley begins Monday morning at Butterfield Landfill in Mobile.
Beginning at 7 a.m., a search team of more than 40 people, include the FBI and the Child Abduction Response Team, will pull together in search of the Glendale girl who was reported missing Oct. 11.
Crews will be searching daily from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday thru Friday, according to Sgt. Brent Coombs of the Glendale Police Department.
“Our agency’s hope is that we are successful in finding Jhessye’s remains, allowing her a proper internment, and ultimately bringing to justice the person or persons responsible for her death,” Coombs said in a statement.
Investigators said they’ve narrowed their search to a roughly 180 by 200 feet area that’s more than 20 feet deep. Police said it’s the equivalent of one day’s waste, which amounts to 6,000 tons of trash.
“We’ve tried to do everything humanly possible so that there is the most probability for success,” said Glendale police Sgt. Brent Coombs.
Glendale police announced Dec. 21 that they believe Shockley’s body was placed in a trash receptacle in Tempe and dumped in a landfill prior to her being reported missing.
“We know a specific date that we believe the body was removed from the apartment made it’s way over to a Tempe trash receptacle then removed on a specific day by a specific truck went to a transfer station was picked up by another specific truck and went to a specific location within the landfill,” said Coombs.
Investigators say the girl’s mother, Jerice Hunter, is the focus of their investigation into her disappearance.
Hunter’s attorney, Scott Maasen, has blasted Glendale police for their handling of the case.
“Why didn’t you start a long time ago. We know if you’re looking for something in a landfill the longer you wait the harder it is you can find something,” said Maasen.
Glendale police said planning for this kind of massive undertaking is time consuming. They had to secure the heavy equipment that will help with the dig, train investigators and they consulted with experts in this kind of operation both locally and nationally.
“We’ll be looking for any evidence of Jhessye, evidence that could shed some light on how she might have been transported over and just evidence that would show us the specific area that we believe she was removed from,” said Coobms.
Regardless of whether they find evidence or not, Glendale police said they will turn their case over to the county attorney’s office for review and prosecution.
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