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Thursday, July 18, 2013

License plate scanners and the Jessica Heeringa abduction

JESSICA HEERINGA IS STILL MISSING

Fixed or on police cruisers, license plate scanners are being used to track millions of  unsuspecting Americans, it's been revealed this week. Broad illegal searches which have civil libertarians rightly up in arms.
 
That recent disclosure, coupled with revelations of the government's nonstop internet peeping, made by ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden in early June this year, shows that indoors or outdoors Big Brother is now watching all of us 24/7.
 
And yet on the night of April 26, 2013, when underpaid Exxon Mobil-mart employee Jessica Heeringa was abducted as she closed up shop for the night, there where no cameras in her place of business and, allegedly, no license plate scanners along the route that the suspect and his silver minivan took...
 
Or was there?
 
A baffling abduction with no searches
 
Alerted by would be customers who found the Exxon station in Norton Shores Michigan curiously deserted, police were on the scene within minutes of Ms. Heeringa's April kidnapping.
 
Still, they say they found no clues, except a tiny droplet of blood which later through DNA analysis proved to belong to the 25-year-old blonde mother-of-one.
 
Fuzzy surveillance video of the suspected vehicle leaving the area that night was obtained from nearby businesses and that silver minivan singularly hunted for in the days, weeks and months since Heeringa has been gone without a trace.
 
Indeed, so sure was law enforcement about this aspect of the case, that they became fixated on the elusive van, refusing to launch any official ground searches for the victim, and further urging no one else to do so either.
 
But today stumped investigators worry that what and who they sought for so long may be a red herring in Heeringa's abduction. After all, no one has seen this vehicle ever since that date, nor a 30-something man who supposedly resembles the police sketch of its driver.
 
Never too late
 
Of course, as the Cleveland kidnappings have clearly shown us, it's not too late to organize search teams to scour the Norton Shores suburb for a missing woman. In fact, it's a darn good idea because most people who are abducted are taken by men they somehow are acquainted with.
 
Yes, men.
 
Generally, though, if a woman or child isn't found within 72 hours, the odds are they've met up with foul play, but, still, that shouldn't prevent folks from hunting for Heeringa, nonetheless.
 
One way or another, a family in Michigan needs closure now, even if all that is returned to them is their missing loved one's remains.
 
In the meantime, maybe local police agencies should just man up about their own warrantless surveillance of innocent motorists and cough up their license plate scans for that evening.
 
Sadistic stranger, fiendish friend, or even a corrupt cop, it couldn't hurt to see who actually was in the vicinity of the crime at that particular hour.
 
You know? 
 
 

6 comments:

  1. I have said from the very beginning of this case, why were there no ground searches done. the person could of thrown out evidence in the area or worse yet they could of did what they wanted and now she has met with foul play. The odds are not in her favor which is sad but I think they need to be doing ground searches and need to reevaluate witness statements and start thinking outside this freaking silver van and sketch. I have seen on different forums where the person who gave this sketch and description is shady or so the theory goes. It just seems to me that they have let this case go very cold when it might should not have. I have my own thoughts on it but will keep them to myself for now

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  2. The witness is a fellow co worker! Noticing something strange happening at the gas station.... Her & her husband pulled in to the adjacent plaza and watched! Supposed abductor was seen leaving in this exact vehicle. Then seen on area cameras. So, odds are the vehicle is a 99% positive in this case. 2003-2006 town & country to be exact! I think they should guestion their witnesses a little more. As they show no remorse in watching but not checking inside. Not getting a license plate. Not calling authorities?! Even said they are sick of helping police! Really? Cause a 3yo needs his Mommy! I would help! People care so little about each other. Just sad

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    1. THE WITNESS/CO-WORKER SAID & I QUOTE "IF WE ALL KNEW THE REAL JESSICA WE WOULDNT CARE SO MUCH"

      SHE DOES NOTHING BUT DOG JESSICA. JESSICA WAS DATING THE WITNESS'S BROTHER N JESSICA BROKE IT OFF TO MAKE IT WORK WIRH HER SONS FATHER. THE WITNESS'S BROTHER WAS WITH JESSICA FOR 3 HRS AT THE EXXON THE NIGHT SHE WENT MISSING..HMMM

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  3. Vehicle could either be put away, or was borrowed, getting repaired, etc! I have a feeling the van owner is not aware their vehicle was used. Maybe, out of town. Family vehicle...... Elderly owner! So many what ifs

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  4. This case, and another Michigan case- that of the abduction and death of Dearborn Dollar Store worker Brenna Machus- are mind boggling. I know the two cases happened on opposite ends of the state, and that one involved a Dollar Store employee vs. a gas station employee, but the women were similar in appearance. No suspects in either case, but rough description-type info in both. The persons of interest don't resemble each other in the two cases, but since authorities have no idea who the perps actually are, who knows how accurate one or both descriptions really are?

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  5. After reading several web articles about this case, this abduction might be the work of a serial killer because I read an interesting article that included comments from an experienced private investigator from Florida named Bill Warner and he believes there is another Ted Bundy on the loose in the Midwest. Warner has maps on his web site showing locations in the Midwest of too many unsolved cases of missing short light haired young females who have all vanished off of the face of the planet leaving law enforcement officials in states like Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania baffled. Some of these women were engaged to be married and young mothers and no charges have been filed against anyone for any of these missing young women because there is very little evidence except for a few drops of blood from some, but not all, of the women. There were quite a few serial killers all working at the same time several years ago and there a new ones working now because there are more people in the US now than there were 30 years ago. I think Bill Warner has a good point and that anyone who reads this article from the Midwest should check out his web site to see what they think afterward.

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