Posted on 04/10/2009 9:48:08 PM PDT by Chet 99
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- An illegal immigrant working maintenance at a West Knoxville motel has been indicted on charges he broke into a guest's room, raped and killed her, and dumped her body into the Clinch River in September of 2009.
A Knox County grand jury indicted Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 20, Tuesday on charges of first degree murder, felony murder, aggravated burglary, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, and abuse of a corpse in connection with the murder of Jennifer Lee Hampton, 21.
Hampton was staying at the Days Inn on Lovell Road on September 20th last year when according to documents filed by police in the case, Miranda, who was a housekeeper for Days Inn, allegedly used a key card to gain access to the room.
He allegedly raped Hampton, strangled her, then dumped her body into the Clinch River. Her body was found a week later.
Hampton had been in town to help open a restaurant in West Knoxville. She was from Alabama.
Miranda was arrested on the day police were called to the hotel to investigate Hampton's disappearance. He was in possession of what police said was a fake social security card.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents did not charge the motel's managers with employing an illegal immigrant saying the managers acted in good faith in hiring the man.
Miranda is being held on a $1,000,000 bond. New court dates have not yet been set.
Stay connected to Volunteer TV News and VolunteerTV.com for continued coverage of this developing news story.
huh?
Ping!
Motel worker accused in Jennifer Lee Hampton's slaying
I agree with comments at that link. If they're handing out master key cards to employees, why don't they have background checks?
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
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Ping me if any of the illegal alien apologist on this site step forward to comment.
Handing out master key cards to employees without any background checks... material ripe for a lawsuit. IMO.
September 2008. This area has a bad illegal allien problem.
He was caught by a special unit of the police force known as Precrime, which uses future visions generated by three "precogs", mutated humans with precognition abilities, to stop murders.
Very interesting post!
So let us act in good faith also.
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