Juarez homicide question.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by KimK

I don't even think one parent can legally take their child out of the country without the other parent's written permission. My 25 year old friend can really tell some horror stories about Juarez and how quickly one can just get whisked into circumstances they cannot get out of.

What happened? I have a friend who went over there once as a teen even though her parents forbid her to, and had some drug slipped into a coke, ended up wandering disoriented and lost -- but luckily was assisted by some fatherly type who got a hold of her dad for her and took her to the bridge to wait for him.

And there are Americans who end up in the jails and prisons -- that is a big mess since it's usually a bit of money that will be required to get them out.

[Wheatjones]

Please tell me, is this case still open or is it considered a cold case. I went to school with Melissa and I think I was one of the last people who saw her. She was very upset and was thinking of running away. I tried to talk her out of it. That was the last time I ever saw her. She has been on my heart and mind ever since then. I hope that her case is solved in my lifetime.

Originally Posted by atrabilius

Muhnay, Desiree Wheatley's last name is spelled like I just spelled it, with two e's. As I recall, she was 15, she went to Charles Middle, before that, Fannin Elementary, and her death was set to the account of David Leonard Wood. Wood is now on Texas' death row for that murder and the murders of five other girls and women whose bodies were found out in the desert off McCombs near what is now Painted Dunes Golf Course in the late Eighties.

There was another girl, Melissa Alaniz, age 13, who disappeared at around the same time as the murders and has never been found; it was suspected that Wood killed her, too, though it was never proven. Melissa lived in the same neighborhood as Desiree (Apollo Heights, which for the uninitiated is around Salem Drive and Kenworthy Street in Northeast and has streets mostly named for figures from Greco-Roman mythology--Trojan, Hermes, Polycrates, Cupid).

My mother was the nurse at Fannin when Desiree Wheatley was there and remembers her as being perpetually unhappy, and also remembers Melissa Alaniz, whose mother was in the habit of walking her and her siblings to school and eating lunch in the cafeteria alongside them.

[Muhnay]

Yes it is closed they caught the guy who did it.