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CONCORD, NC (WBTV) - Authorities are looking for a teen girl who they say ran away from her home last week.

The girl, 16, was last seen in Concord on Sunday after running away on Friday, Cabarrus County Sheriff's detectives said.

"She was last seen on Highland Avenue in Concord on Sunday, January 23 and may be in the area of Sunderland Road traveling on foot," said Brian A. Schmitt, a detective with the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office.

The girl's name is Amanda Lynn Saugrich and she lives on Blackwelder Road in Concord, detectives said.

She is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and has a tattoo on her right foot that has 3 stars. Her hair is now darker than pictured in the DMV photo, according to her father, Schmitt said.

Copyright 2011 WBTV. All rights reserved.



I recently took a trip up north went through Statesville in NC got off exit in Statesville I went down a highway called Hickory Highway/70 to Catawba County. I didn't think at that second of little Zarah Baker but after I got gas. I was heading back to I-77 something was not right in this town. Than I realize where I was actually was and what occured in Hickory NC.I got that same feeling that I had when I searched for little Caylee Marie Anthony. I felt so sick to my stomach I had to pull my vechile over and just take a few deep breaths. And pay my respect to little Zahra Baker, the morbid torture that this little precious girl went through. Heart wrenching is somehow to explain it what I was feeling. I will be working on the whole story this week and Posting some Pictures of the trip.

Another babysitter Carolyn Renee Miller baby dies in her care

Babysitter Charged In Connection With Baby's Death

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Posted: 11:33 am EST January 24, 2011
Updated: 8:13 am EST January 25, 2011

TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- Investigators are awaiting autopsy results Tuesday of a missing 7-month-old boy who police said was found dead inside a cooler in the back yard of a Titusville home on S. Deleon Avenue (see map) on Monday.

The boy's babysitter, 40-year-old Carolyn Renee Miller, is being held in the Brevard County Jail on a $5,200 bond after she told police where to find the body. Police said the investigation is now being called a homicide.



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Investigators said Miller led them to the home being rented by her boyfriend, and in the back yard police found Ja-Von Brushan dead inside an Igloo cooler.


Titusville residents watched in disbelief as police lifted a small blue tarp behind the home.

"She said she gave the baby back to the mom and the mom said she didn't. And you get a real bad feeling in your stomach," said Titusville Police Chief Tony Bollinger.

The baby's mother, Janelle Richardson, was questioned Monday afternoon by Titusville police. She told investigators she allowed Miller to baby-sit on Tuesday. Friends told WFTV Graham was celebrating her 21st birthday.

On Thursday, relatives told WFTV Miller made a stop for diapers and milk. But later, when Graham tried to reach Miller to get her son, she couldn't be found. Brushan was reported missing on Sunday.

Richardson's cousin, Latanya Burch, spotted Miller Monday morning without her cousin's baby.

"I said, 'Where's the baby?' And she kept telling different lies. Nothing added up," Burch said.

When Burch pointed Miller out to police, they began asking their own questions. They said Miller told them she fell asleep and when she woke up, she found the baby dead. She then disposed of the body.

But some relatives aren't buying that story.

"I think it's a damn shame to kill a baby like that," Burch said.

Miller has a history of problems with the law and with state agents who look after families. The Department of Children and Families wouldn't share specifics, but said it's familiar with Miller.

However, Miller's sister, Lisa Madden, told WFTV she doesn't believe Miller could have harmed the boy or any child.

“She wouldn't hurt that baby. She would never hurt that baby,” said Lisa Madden, Miller’s sister. "She really cared about that baby."

“She probably panicked. You don't know the state of mind when panicking,” said Madden. “You find a baby dead, you know she probably wasn't thinking at the time.”

Miller also has a criminal history dating back to 1993. It includes charges for shoplifting, disorderly conduct and both marijuana and cocaine possession.

Monday night, Titusville police charged Miller in connection to the case. Miller is charged with felony child neglect as well as improper disposal of human remains.

“I'm very devastated. My heart goes out to her very much, you know I've been crying and stuff and just hurt with the whole situation that's been going on,” said Madden.

Investigators said other charges could be filed in the case pending autopsy results on the baby.Copyright 2011 by wftv.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Police: Carolyn Miller
Babysitter Leads Cops To Deceased Infant





TITUSVILLE, Fla. -- A babysitter, who was reported missing along with a 7-month-old infant, has led Titusville police to the body of a baby who police believe is the missing child, officers said Monday.

Javeon Brushan was reported missing, along with his babysitter, 40-year-old Carolyn Renee Miller, on Sunday. Brushan's mother said he was last seen on Thursday, January 20. Police said that it is not uncommon for Miller to babysit the child for days at a time.

Based on interviews with Miller, detectives located a baby's body shortly after noon in the 500-block of S. Deleon Avenue (see map) . According to police, Miller told them the baby died in her care. Police said the baby was in a backyard of a home and found in a cooler.

Investigators would not say if there were any signs of trauma or how long the baby was there. The house does not belong to the babysitter or the mother.

Officers said they have not established a motive or cause of death and charges are pending.

Police said it is now an active homicide investigation. The FBI is no longer involved because no abduction occurred.

Miller is in police custody.

The mother was being questioned at the police station as well.

Why people murder????

The murder of children is considered a crime in most societies they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder.
The protection of children from abuse and possible death often involves disturbing the child's family structure, as tenuous as this may be.

By family members vs. by strangers

Younger children are more likely to be murdered by a relative.
The killing of children is often closely related to instances of prolonged periods of child abuse.
Some victims are murdered by parents as part of a murder-suicide.
Parents sometimes begin administering corporal punishment that quickly escalates into severe abuse and occasionally murder, as, for example, in the Victoria Climbié case which occurred in London.

A number of murderers of children are pedophiles who commit lust murder or kill to cover up their other crimes.
These latter cases are more notorious, although killings by family members are more common.
In the U.K. the number of child homicides has averaged 79 a year for the last 28 years.
The Home Office also provides unpublished figures on the relationship between the child victims of homicide in any one year and the principal suspect. Latest figures for 2000/2001 show that parents were the principal suspect in 78 per cent of child homicides.
There have been a number of moral panics related to child murder, of which the most notable is the satanic ritual abuse phenomenon, where reports of organized killings of large numbers of children by satanic gangs have failed to be corroborated in spite of decades of investigation.

These moral panics have tended to obscure those rare cases where actual pedophile gangs have acted to prey upon children.
Several cases of exorcism carried out by family members or religious groups have resulted in the murders of children.

By Other Children

In most countries, there are very few cases where children are killed by other young children. According to the U.S. Department of Justice statistics for 1996, one in five murders of children are committed by other children.

Several murders by children have gained prominent media exposure. One was the killing on February 12, 1993 of the almost three-year-old boy James Bulger by two ten-year-old boys in Liverpool, England, UK.
He was beaten and stoned before his unconscious body was left on train tracks to make it look like a train hit him.

Also, in 1968 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England there was the trial of 10-year old Mary Bell. She was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in the deaths of toddlers Martin Brown and Brian Howe.
She was released in 1980 at the age of 23.

Although the United States certainly has an unusually high number of killings of children by other children, it is most often the case that the perpetrators and victims are teenagers, rather than young children. In many such cases, the youthful perpetrator is tried as an adult for their crime.

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini-Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page (generally no murders were front page news). 62 child murders were reported that year.
Multiple deaths in one incident, such as the 1999 Columbine High School massacre tend to gather the most media attention but are statistically scarce

Tracy Ocasio

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OCOEE -- There’s a possible major break in the search for missing Orange County woman Tracy Ocasio.

Cadaver search dogs picked up on a scent near a lake in Ocoee.

Ocasio's father told News 13 more than one dog detected something near Lake Bennett. That's right off state Road 50 in an area where much of the search for Ocasio has been concentrated in recent months.

The family says they wanted to focus on that area after a dog picked up a similar scent during a search earlier this year.

It's an area where the only suspect in the case, James Hataway, was known to frequent.

Volunteers are now asking Ocoee police and the Orange County Sheriff's Office to come out to the lake to do a more involved search.

Ocasio hasn't been seen in more than a year now.

Hataway remains in jail in an unrelated case involving an alleged attack on another woman.




When I first arrived at the search site I was greeted by a very pleasant Search and Rescue Team. I brought water and some fruit for the searches. One of the searchers led me to the cafeteria where there was alot of food and water. They can also need more water and food donations. They lady that was serving food offer me food and drinks but I said; no thanks. While I was talking to the lady in the cafeteria Mrs. Ocasio Showed up. I introduce myself as Joy and that I have been talking with Joe Ocasio on facebook for many months. She took me outside to meet him he gave me a big hug and told me thank you. Mr and Mrs. Ocaiso and I went back inside where we talk inside for over an hour. They are so grateful for all the searches,dogs,deputys that was searching for Tracy. They Told that two dogs picked up a scent by a lake. They where determine to find what James Hataway did with their Daughter. Mrs. Ocasio is not prepared if they find her this weekend. She wants to give her daughter peace and get her daughter Justice.

They will be a new Search This Weekend For Tracy Ocasio she has been missing a little more over a year. Last person that has seen Tracy Ocasio is James Hataway, he needs to stand up and admit to his crimes that what he has done to Tracy Ocasio. Their family needs to find some peace and justice for there daughter. The Search is this Saturday and Sunday where they have help to last two Searches. I will have more on this story this weekend, please keep this family in Prayer.