VIDEOPosted on 09/22/2005 8:06:43 AM PDT by newgeezer
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(Cedar Rapids – KCRG) --Investigators still have not named any suspects in the murder of Evelyn Miller.
The five year-old-disappeared from her Floyd County home July 1st.
A kayaker found her body six days later in the Cedar River.
In the past few weeks, investigators once again searched the apartment complex where she lived but they won't say what they found.
Evelyn's father Andy Christie has spent the past few months grieving for his daughter.
He has not spoken to a television station since her murder.
Wednesday, Christie and his wife, Lindsey broke their silence.
The last time the Christies saw Evelyn was on their wedding day back in June. Then, the day they were supposed to pick-up Evelyn from her Floyd apartment, she disappeared.
Days later, police told the couple Evelyn was dead.
"As soon as he told us, I was mad. Mad as hell. I wanted to get up to Charles City to find out anything I could. I couldn't get up there fast enough."
Since that moment, Andy Christie and his wife Lindsey have spent most of their time thinking about Evelyn.
"You just really feel that something is definitely missing."
Investigators haven't released much information about the case but that doesn't bother them.
"I have the utmost faith in the abilities of the investigators from the DCI to the Floyd County Sheriff to the County Attorney Marilyn Dettmer. I believe they're doing the best they can do."
But Evelyn's mother, Noel Miller has always said she does not think investigators are doing a good enough job.
Andy says he hasn't had a good relationship with Noel for years. He hasn't spoken to her since Evelyn's memorial service.
"For her, it was just her daughter. It was her way or the highway. We couldn't see eye to eye on a lot of things. We called DHS on them and DHS never believed anything we said. They always believed everything Noel said.
"It's their job to protect kids and remove them out of homes that are neglectful. I don't understand why they get a paycheck if they're not doing their job."
The Christies say they filed those DHS reports after Evelyn said some unusual things.
"Evelyn had known things about drugs that no five-year-old should know.
"She came over one day and we were watching Comedy Central. They had a water pipe on there, and she said, 'I know what that is. That's for smoking weed.'"
Even though the Christies did not like Evelyn's life at this Floyd apartment, they still hope Noel and Casey are innocent.
"I pray that Noel and Casey have nothing to do with it. I hope they're cooperating with the authorities as much as they can."
While investigators search for answers, the Christies cling to memories of their daughter.
Evelyn's room is just the way she left it.
The little girl always wanted to be a princess but she never realized that she already was.
"Every day, I wake up, and I pray that I'm in a bad dream.
"The thing that makes me the saddest is all the things that she's missing out on. Just her not being able to grow up and experience life."
The Christies have asked DHS to give them all the reports filed about Evelyn, but they still have to fill out more paperwork.
The couple says they believe investigators will solve this case, so Evelyn can finally rest in peace.
Last week, Noel Miller and her boyfriend, Casey Frederiksen, told us people in the Charles City area are treating them poorly. The couple say they did not do anything wrong, and they do not understand why anyone would be mean to them.
Miller and Frederiksen also said they hope investigators find Evelyn's killer soon.
A memorial fund in Evelyn's name is at the First Security Bank in Charles City. A third party is managing the fund. The money will be used for a college scholarship fund.
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I am such a doof. I remember now ... it wasn't "tender mercies," it was the "tender years" doctrine, the idea being that kids needed to be with their moms during their tender young years. The ol' memories a little rusty!
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All you have to do is take that part back!
That reveals more than anything you've written. Condescending, patronizing, interpreting concepts by emotion rather than reason -- and then demanding an apology! |^)
You sound like a typical woman. I'm a woman, too, just not typical. Men are easy to understand because emotional manipulation, semantics, and mind games aren't typically their MO in romance or debate; with them, it's usually what you see is what you get -- indeed the problem is often with women who don't want to see what it is they're getting. Typical women generally cook-up the kind of mental gumbo you've served up here so well. Lady, I feel kind of sorry for your husband.
Funny, I don't see the word "apology" in my post.
I have been responding to you in a calm and reasonable manner. You are taking everything to the extreme. You seem to have issues with women.
Btw, that little Freepmail you sent to me constitutes "abuse" on this forum. I have never reported anyone here for abuse, and I don't want to start. So I think I'll just laugh at your message and pity you instead. If you post to me again, I will report it.
Or, what if Evelyn's maternal grandparents had adopted her (practially, if not legally)?
Sorry, but that's the biggest joke I've heard all day! LOL. Have you SEEN Noel's mother (Evelyn's maternal grandmother)? She's nuttier than a fruitcake. She stumbles around town drunk and/or high (or acting like it) half the time. Not exactly a stable woman. Noel's father is dead, and he was never married to her mother in the first place.
Yes, but not until a few days after I posted that "what if" comment which you quoted. I see what you mean.
Noel's father is dead, and he was never married to her mother in the first place.
Well, how about that. Guess it runs in the family.
Show of hands how many of us regular posters live right here in Charles City?
I hope this isn't a case of the system/DHS letting the child down. I also hope that her mom and/or her boyfriend didn't kill her. To go through what this child did, let alone at the hands of someone who was suposed to be trustworthy, would be even more horrible. I pray that justice is done.
unfortunately, it is another case of DHS letting the child down. Over 12 reports!!!!How in the world could someone just walk out of that house without taking those children with them.
Have any of you actually MET Noel?? like I said, I am a good friend of the Christie's and at a point in time the Miller's. Lindsey would take me with her to pick Evelyn up (when Andy was working 2nd shift) so that she would have a witness to everything she saw in the Miller/ Fredriksen home. Andy and Lindsey were building a case to get Evelyn out of that terrible enviroment. I had seen their two youngest being ignored while standing on cluttered kitchen counters, inches away from a full knife rack. Evelyn's bedroom, toys all over the floor with bugs crawling on them, her bedroom walls with pot leaves, mushrooms, and flames drawn on them (by adults) with a few of Evey's masterpeices. I've listened to Noel and Casey SCREAM acroos the apartment at each other the worst names in the book, them throwing stuff at each other, Noel hitting Casey. Then moments later them making out in front of adult, children whoever was there, like they were not just at eachother's throats, marijuana sitting out in children's veiw/reach, "bongs" and pipes sitting around anywhere, and everywhere. yes, this was defiantly a case of DHS leaving children in an unfit home.
Show of hands? I am originally from Charles City. I have moved away to attend college.
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