Posted on 03/29/2002 6:07:11 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
Nation: Body of abducted Louisiana girl found
The Associated Press
HATHAWAY, La. (March 29, 2002 9:23 p.m. EST) - The body of a 12-year-old girl was discovered Friday in a gully, a day after she was abducted from outside her home in southwestern Louisiana.
Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ricky Edwards would not say where exactly Holli Thibodeaux's body was found, nor how she died. Edwards declined to give any further details.
Dozens of FBI agents had joined the search Friday for Holli. She was abducted Thursday at the Hathaway Village Trailer Park after the driver of a pickup stopped to ask for directions to nearby Jennings, Edwards said.
The man grabbed Holli, threw her into his truck and drove north on Louisiana Highway 26, Edwards said.
Another girl who was with Holli ran and escaped.
The FBI released a composite sketch of the suspect and said they were looking for a light blue, full-sized pickup truck with a new silver toolbox and a red-and-yellow ladder in the back.
FBI agent Kenneth Kaiser said agents had several leads and had gathered evidence from the site, outside the trailer where Holli lived with her mother, Robyn Cormier, and a 16-year-old sister.
Family and friends gathered Thursday outside a high school for a prayer vigil with the family.
"It's not fair," said Halie Blanchard, a friend of Holli's in the fifth grade. "Why'd they have to pick her? I mean she didn't do anything wrong or anything."
Edwards said investigators also are looking into recent reports of attempted abductions in Eunice, 18 miles east of Hathaway, to see if any are similar to Holli's kidnapping.
Hathaway is about 30 miles east-northeast of Lake Charles.
No problems over here. But before death row is "open for business," it will first have to be "under new management." Every first degree murder trial should be on a rocket docket. Appeals exhausted in 5 years max. No commutations or pardons for death sentences -- presidential or otherwise. This last will take constitutional amendments, state and federal.
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