Missing and Murdered Children

Update: Wednesday May 7, 2008:

It was a fear I had with this case that Morgan Leppert was involved in the murder of James Thomas Stewart. I had hoped that Toby Lowry had been the one to murder Stewart, steal his truck, and then pick up Amanda and make a run for it.

All that hoping and wishing was dashed today when I read that Toby Lowry and Amanda Leppert have been charged with murder. Also, it is still possible for Amanda to be charged as an adult. According to authorities this is what happened:

For two nights, they were in the woods behind Stewart’s mobile home, Kelly said, until the afternoon of April 25, when Leppert went to Stewart’s door to make a phone call. Kelly said Leppert told Stewart she needed to make a call because her vehicle was disabled down the road.

The call she made was to her own cell phone, which investigators found at Lowry’s home that same day. The call from Stewart’s place was in the cell phone’s memory.

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Update: May 4, 2008:

First of all I want to say that initially police thought Charles Ray Norris, III was the male involved in the abduction of the two Herrera children. Later they changed the suspect involved to Raymond Richard Bowen.

The suspects were located at about 2 p.m. this afternoon and the children were located unharmed. CPS returned the children to their temporary foster home.

There was a little more information give regarding the history of this case. Apparently Jennifer Simmons is the mother to 5 children with the last name of Herrera. Also, she had not been caring for the children for at least the past year - the grandparents and other neighbors had been caring for the children. Recently the grandparents abandoned the children according to the temporary foster parent, Andrea Smith.

Smith has been working with CPS to obtain custody of the 5 children. The children were recently removed from their mother’s care.

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