Tears

James M.	Moore	8

"The world is dangerous to live in not because of the people who do evil things, but because of the people who know about it but do nothing to stop it."

The children's first names are links that will take you to websites with more information... I would like to give credit to the Littlestangels, Children Who Never Made It Home and Stolen Innocence webpages for most of the names found here.

First Name	Last	Age	Description



Mary Jennifer	Love	6	In June of 1998, Mary Lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was called �The Hugger� by her loving family and her neighbors at the apartment complex where she lived. This was because she was so friendly and so generous with her hugs and smiles. Mary loved jump rope and had just finished kindergarten. A neighbor lured her into his apartment in the same complex. Ralph Lynch, a former sex offender, molested and suffocated Mary and discarded her body in the trash a few miles away. For the next few weeks, he actually participated in the search for Mary. However, during questioning by the police, he confessed to her murder and led police to little Mary�s body. Ralph Lynch was indicted and later found guilty of Mary�s murder. Lynch received the death penalty. This sentence was recently upheld by the Ohio Appellate Court.

Matthew	Margolies	13	At 4PM, September 5th , five days after the initial report of the missing boy two youth division officers appeared on the scene. The 38-year old father of a daughter Matthew's age trotted down the hill leaving the two officers with the grim task of uncovering the diminutive body that laid in the makeshift grave. He had died of the stab wounds and traumatic asphyxiation.


Cary Ann	Medlin	8	Three days after 8 year old Cary Ann Medlin disappeared on September 1, 1979, Robert Glen Coe admitted, that he had lured her into his car as she rode a bicycle near her parents' home in Greenfield, Tenn. Coe told police in handwritten and recorded statements that he sexually molested the girl, then tried to choke her, and when that did not work, stabbed her and watched her bleed to death. He also said that just before he killed her, she said to him, "Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you." Coe had a long history of family and drug abuse, repeated arrests for exposing himself in public, and had been committed to mental hospitals on four occasions prior to the murder.


			Memphis, TN -- On the afternoon of 6 May 1993, West Memphis was rocked by the news of the discovery of the mutilated bodies of three eight-year-old boys. Rumors regarding the nature of the murders spread like wildfire through the town. It was soon well known that the boys had been cut with a knife, raped and at least one of the boy�s genitals had been cut, many of these rumors were based on inaccurate police assumptions. By 12.00 p.m. the next day, police were questioning their first suspect, Damien Echols. Several weeks later Jessie Misskelley, an associate of Echols, confessed to the murders, implicating Damien Echols and another friend, Jason Baldwin. Soon after, following a confession by Misskelley, the three teenagers were arrested and charged with the murders of James M. Moore, Steven E. Branch and Christopher M. Byers. To read more visit The Crime Library: Also visit here to read about how many feel that three young men were falsely convicted of their murders and their attempts to free them. You can also type in West Memphis Three into any search engine to get even more information.
Christopher M.	Byers	8
Steve	Branch	8


Lisa	Norrell	15	No charges have been filed in last year's death of a 15-year-old Pittsburg girl despite an alleged confession. Lisa Norrell disappeared after a party Nov. 6, 1998, and her body was found near a landscaping business on the Pittsburg-Antioch Highway a week later. The investigation of her murder has become entwined with the case of a fire captain who reportedly traded information about the slaying in a deal that allowed him to escape child-molestation charges. That information, said the mother of one of the molestation victims, was that 25-year-old David Heneby of Pittsburg had confessed to Norrell's slaying. Heneby is serving a six-year prison term for unrelated assault charges Former Antioch fire captain Duanne Shoemake had child-molestation charges against him dropped after he told authorities that Heneby confessed taking Norrell, holding her for several days and doing "awful things" to her, the mother of one of the molestation victims told the San Francisco Chronicle. Heneby was arrested in Norrell's killing on Jan. 6, but he and another suspect were released the next day because prosecutors determined they didn't have enough evidence to charge them with the crime.


Michelle	Norris	7	Family members and police said the girl vanished while playing in the school yard of the Capt. G. Harold Hunt Elementary School, where she was a first grader. Her body was discovered less than a half mile from the school. Michelle's clothes were lying next to her and, according to family members who viewed photos of the body, she was dirty and badly bruised. Authorities classified Michelle's death as a murder, bringing to five the number of young children who have died in the Providence area recently after being reported missing. ****many more sordid details at the article...


Jeanna	North	11	Late 1980's Kyle Bell served jail time in South Dakota for a sexual offense. June 28, 1993 Bell sexually assaults Jeanna North and then murders her. April 21-22, 1994 Bell was arrested on child molestation charges against two girls. The abuse is alleged to have happened between August 1993 and April 1994. Bell eludes the law. August 1994 Bell was arrested in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. October 15, 1994 Bell pleads not guilty to 6 counts of child molestation in Fargo, N.D. January 24, 1995 Bell is sentenced to 40 years in prison with 10 years suspended after he pleaded guilty to four felonies. Bell admitted to molesting two girls while taking lewd pictures of them in his north Fargo trailer home. The girls were 8 and 3 at the time of the molestation. Bell confesses to killing Jeanna. The confession is videotaped. ****many more sordid details including his escape in Santa Rosa, New Mexico while being transported.


Kari	Nunemaker	16	A one-time suspect in the 1991 murder of Kari Nunemaker of Wakarusa has been convicted in California of kidnapping and multiple counts of rape and sodomy. The convictions are unrelated to Nunemaker's death, which remains unsolved. The Wakarusa teen disappeared in January 1991 and her body was found several days later in Bonneyville Mill County Park near Bristol. Mott has a long history of violent sexual assaults against women, including multiple convictions in Illinois and one in Elkhart County. Mott had been sentenced in Elkhart County in 1978 for a rape and kidnapping that started at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds. Mott was free on parole from that 24-year sentence when Nunemaker disappeared, but he skipped a mandatory probation meeting a few days later and moved to San Francisco.


Ashley	Ochoas	6	Angela Anderson lived in an apartment with her 3 children: Edwardo Ochoa (8), Ashley Ochoa (6), and Lacey Anderson (19 months). Wheat was a church maintenance man and lived in the same apartment complex, often babysitting for Angela while she was at work. On July 30, 1995, Angela delivered a note to Wheat, indicating that she was going to call the police because Ashley had told her that she was molested by Wheat. Wheat became enraged, went to the apartment and shot Angela, then shot and killed each of the children. Angela survived with brain damage. Three others, including a security guard and a police officer, were also shot and wounded by Wheat during the rampage.
Edwardo	Ochoas	8