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Post by Graveyardbride on Dec 13, 2014 20:29:53 GMT -5
Teenage Girl Burned Alive in MississippiThere is an all-out hunt for the killer, or killers, who set 19-year-old Jessica Chambers and her car on fire Saturday, December 6, in Courtland, Miss., in what authorities are calling a gruesome murder. The teenager was transported tot he hospital, where she died the following day.
Now, security footage taken from a gas station near the location where the Mississippi teen was found burning alive could hold the key to the case. Authorities are currently examining the footage, however, no suspects or motive have been identified, Panola County District Attorney John Champion said Wednesday.
Ali Fadhel, a clerk at the convenience store/gas station, told police the teen was a frequent visitor and they talked often. She always put $5 worth of gas in her car. However, on the date of her murder, she had a $14 tab. “I asked her, ‘Why are you putting so much gas?’ She said, ‘I’m going somewhere,’” Fadhel said. According to Fadhel, as she was leaving the store, she told him she was going to make a stop on the way home. Then, she received a call on her cell phone, came back inside and purchased a pack of cigarettes.
According to authorities, about half-an-hour later, she was found along a back road with her body almost completely burned. She was barely able to talk, but reports are she provided police information about her attacker. When first responders arrived at the scene, Chambers reportedly uttered a few words that might lead detectives to the murderer. Police have not disclosed what Chambers said – or tried to say.
Investigators are hoping the teen’s final words will lead them to the person who poured an accelerant down her throat before lighting her on fire in a crime that has stunned the small Mississippi community of 460. Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby confirmed Chambers died after she was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire on a road in Courtland.
Her father believes his daughter named her killers. “They squirted lighter fluid down her throat and in her nose, and apparently they knocked her out,” her father, Ben Chambers, told WDBD News. “She had a big gash on top of her head. When the fire department got there, she was walking down the road on fire ... only part of her body that wasn’t burned was the bottom of her feet,” Chambers, a maintenance worker at the sheriff’s department, added. “She told them, she told them, told him who done it.”
Amanda Prince, who identified herself as Jessica Chambers’ sister, said the family is “shocked, lost ... confused, angry, hurt. I have so many questions, I want to know why.” She described Jessica, a former cheerleader, as very athletic, outgoing and loved by everyone. The murdered girl had just graduated high school and was about to begin her life as a nurse, dentist or writer, her sister said. “She was happy all the time. She made everyone laugh. She lit up a room ... She was just full of life.”
But Jessica’s friends are telling a different story. Theresa Fleming, a close friend, posted a photo on the internet of Jessica kissing a black man. There is also chatter among her friends that Jessica had relationships with multiple black males in the past year and that some of these relationships were abusive. One girl insisted her friend’s death was the result of “domestic violence.” Charlotte Wilkerson, an acquaintance, said she saw Jessica at a party the night she was killed.
DA Champion is expected to obtain Jessica’s cell phone records. He does not believe the attack was random because most female homicide victims are killed by a boyfriend or husband.
Watch video here: www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/27586665/cell-phone-evidence-expected-in-jessica-chambers-murder-investigation-no-arrests-made
Sources: WMC News, Fox News, Inquisitr and CNN.
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Post by jane on Dec 14, 2014 0:50:28 GMT -5
I wasn't going to read this because I thought that it had something to do with civil rights, but now I'm glad that I did. Did anyone else notice on the videotape how that girl was dressed? She was dressed like a black gangster and those men in the store were either gangsters, or they were trying to look like gangsters. When white people get into that culture, or whatever you call it, they're asking for trouble.
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Post by Sam on Dec 14, 2014 4:08:07 GMT -5
What I'm thinking is why didn't the sheriff think to get the video from the gas station instead of having to wait and get it from the TV station? That's not very good police work. The man who got the gas in the can may have seen her, but that doesn't mean that he had anything to do with her death. In a town that small, I'm sure that everybody knows everybody. I agree with the DA that this wasn't just some random act, that she was targeted and that it was probably one of those men that she had dated. If they did pour gas in her mouth, that's really sick, so whoever did it was either trying to send a message or he really hated her for some reason.
Jane: Where did you find the video of the men in the store? I didn't see that part at the link.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Dec 14, 2014 14:07:20 GMT -5
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Post by catherine on Dec 14, 2014 16:43:55 GMT -5
I wasn't going to read this because I thought that it had something to do with civil rights, but now I'm glad that I did. Did anyone else notice on the videotape how that girl was dressed? She was dressed like a black gangster and those men in the store were either gangsters, or they were trying to look like gangsters. When white people get into that culture, or whatever you call it, they're asking for trouble. Jane, when did you ever know of Lee, or anyone else, to post something about civil rights?
I saw the videotape on the second site that was posted and I agree that the gas station clerk, owner, or whatever he is, was either involved in some way, or knows who did it. What I don't understand is why the police allowed a gang hangout where there was obviously drug-dealing going on to stay in business. Why weren't they patrolling both the store and behind the store? I know some black thug killed the girl, probably one of those she was dumb enough to date, but it seems that people are afraid to say anything. This is what happens when people associate with scum like that.
Jane, I also agree that unless her family is totally clueless, they would have known by the way she dressed that she was hanging out with those black thugs.
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Post by Kate on Dec 15, 2014 3:15:41 GMT -5
Either the police are incompetent or they're protecting someone. If that service station is a place where gangsters sell drugs, they could be paying the police to leave them alone. The MBI needs to take over the case from the locals.
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Post by jason on Dec 15, 2014 4:22:29 GMT -5
This case just gets weirder and weirder and if you want to read something really weird, take a look at Ali Alsanai's assbook page:
www.facebook.com/basem.alsanai
This lowlife is only 19 and he supposedly owns the service station and convenience store. Where does a 19-year-old get that kind of money? He's obviously a gangsta' wannabe and drug dealer. Otherwise, the gangsters wouldn't be hanging out in his store. I agree with you, Kate, local law enforcement is turning a blind eye to what's going on. Hell, Courtland, Mississippi, has a population of 460, this gas station and store are the only things there to freaking patrol!
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Post by Sam on Dec 15, 2014 22:04:35 GMT -5
Thanks for posting that link, Jason. I heard today that the FBI has been called in and with that kid posting all those terrorist pictures and things on his website, maybe they'll arrest him as a suspected terrorist and put him out of business.
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Post by pat on Dec 17, 2014 1:35:28 GMT -5
I just read that the FBI is questioning Ali Alsanie and that it is his father who owns the gas station, not him. If that's true, why would his father allow him to have all those weapons and pose with stacks of money? If the store wasn't a drug front, all those gangsters wouldn't be hanging out there. Why would his father allow that? I think that both father and son are terrorists who are collecting money to support terrorist organizations and dealing drugs brings in a lot of money.
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Post by natalie on Dec 19, 2014 12:39:33 GMT -5
When you go looking for trouble, trouble will find you. It's sad and awful the way she passed, but we all know that when you play with fire, you're bound to eventually get burned (no pun intended).
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Post by jane on Dec 30, 2014 2:44:13 GMT -5
This case has disappeared from the news just like the case of the decapitated man in Georgia. For a while, it was in the news every day and now nothing.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Dec 7, 2015 5:53:10 GMT -5
No Arrests in Burning Death of Mississippi Teenager
Just a year ago, a tiny blonde former cheerleader named Jessica Chambers (above) worked at Goody’s in Batesville. The sassy 19-year-old had a dog named Roscoe at the home she shared with her mom, and she was getting ready for Christmas – her favorite holiday. She was like so many other teenage girls. December 6, 2014, started off like a normal Saturday. After hanging out with friends, Jessica went to the store. She took a nap on the couch. Then she got a phone call and left for what would be the last time.
That night, Jessica died a gruesome death, leaving a crater in the world around her. Just after 8 p.m., Chambers was doused with gasoline and set on fire in her car next to the gate of some private land on Herron Road, under several trees that still bear the burns from the heat of the flames. She got out of the car and was found on the road with burns over most of her body. She was able to give firefighters a name, but after interviewing more than 150 people, authorities still haven’t been able to pin it to a specific person. Her car was burned beyond recognition, with any useful evidence that might have been inside destroyed. She lived a few more hours, long enough for her family to tell her goodbye. Jessica’s mother, Lisa Daugherty, said she was on a ventilator, unconscious and clinging to life until Daugherty told her everyone was there and she could go if she was in pain. Her family isn’t the same. Her friends, her community, the law enforcement on the case – they’ve all been changed by the labyrinthine investigation that began that night.
‘It has tormented me.’ Daughterty says, “It has been a year that I cannot find the words to express the loss of Jessica. It controls my every thought. I have been trying to keep her out in the spotlight. I have fought to remove people from profiting off of her name. My life is, every day, hoping I will wake up and hear my daughter has justice.”
Jessica’s father, Ben Chambers, works at the Panola County Sheriff’s Department as a mechanic. He says it almost drives him crazy to be there every day, so close to the investigators who are sorting through the huge amount of information that has been gathered. “It’s been terrible. There have been so many ups and downs, thinking that they’ve caught them and then we’ve been let down. It has tormented me,” Chambers relates. “It’s worse on me now than I believe it was when it started. It’s like the longer it goes on the worse it is.”
A team of personnel from the sheriff’s department, the US Attorney’s office, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the district attorney’s office work the case daily, officials said. Rarely does a day go by that there isn’t a sit-down meeting or conference call between at least three or four of them updating the information they have gathered. Resources are constantly available from the FBI and the U.S. Marshals if needed. Yet there are critics on the street, in the public, on the Internet who say the case has gone cold.
“You consider 48 Hours, that’s on TV, and when it gets beyond that is when real investigators get to work,” says Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby. “It’s quiet because there’s nothing fresh and new in the news media, but it’s very, very active.”
Various resources have been used throughout the investigation, District Attorney John Champion indicates. Some technological methods have helped narrow down leads, rule out suspects and track Jessica’s movements in her last hours. Other techniques and resources have not been so successful, such as the art of criminal profiling. “We attempted to use the behavioral sciences unit with the FBI, and for what reason I’m not 100 percent certain, but this type of case, according to what we’ve learned, they couldn’t be of help to us,” he says. “You look at who is capable of doing this, and a large majority of the population is ruled out, because they’re not capable. But that doesn’t mean that someone who wouldn’t be capable couldn’t start for the first time. We think we know what type of person did this, but until we actually know who did this, it’s hard to say if our speculations are accurate or not.”
Throughout the case, investigators have commented on the fact that despite a $54,000 reward, there’s a distinct lack of street chatter or informants passing information to police. According to Champion, the people who have been questioned have been surprisingly cooperative. “I’ve worked homicides for 22 years, and typically we have people who don’t want to cooperate or don’t want to talk to us, but we’ve yet to have that in this case. Every single person we’ve decided we wanted to interview, everyone we wanted to polygraph has agreed,” he adds. “We’re building up a DNA database, and everyone we’ve asked for a sample, we haven’t had a single person yet refuse to do any of these things.”
‘These guys are perfectionists.’ With a lack of talk on the street from early in the case, authorities have said finding Jessica’s killer would probably come down to technology. Darby says the investigators leading the case are just the team that will be able to put those electronic puzzle pieces together. “We’ve got some of the best right here; I’m learning that. Because of them, we’re going to make an arrest. How soon I don’t know because we have to do it right. You can’t mess anything up in something like this,” he indicates. “These guys are perfectionists; they don’t halfway do anything. They get their heads together and work together, and until you can see the team at work, you can’t understand. It hasn’t gotten cold for one second. They wake up in the morning working on this thing.”
Champion says the sheer amount of data processed has been hard to fathom. “We have a tremendously large phone database with close to 20,000 numbers downloaded into our system,” he relates. “It’s not unusual for people to change phones, and with every phone that we’ve accessed, whether through consent or subpoena, the information we’ve received, we’ve downloaded everything in their systems, whether it’s a phone they had before Jessica died, at the time Jessica died or a phone they subsequently have amassed.” Current subpoenas for further phone records, which can take from days to months to get back, will add to those numbers and to the man hours put into sifting through them. Even then, it still may take a lucky tip to break the case.
“We have extremely well-qualified, smart people working on the case, but it basically boils down to even if we had all the technology in the world available to us, the person doesn’t need to be a rocket scientist, but if they don’t use their phone and they don’t use the Internet and they don’t talk, these cases are difficult to solve,” Champion insists. “Everyone watches all these things on TV, but it’s not like that in the real world.”
‘We fight together.’ According to Champion: “This has been one of the more bizarre cases because we’ve had at least four occasions where we’ve said, 'We’ve got this case solved,’ and then when we actually start following up on it, it all falls apart. Our hopes have been really high on so many occasions to be let down when it didn’t pan out like we thought it was going to.”
The probe has led investigators all over the state. It has also taken them to Iowa, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana. “Just because there hasn’t been a lot of coverage doesn’t mean we’re not working the case, because we are. We’ve had numerous sit-downs, especially over the last four to five months, where we’ve been through everything we’ve done piece by piece,” Champion recounts. “I’ve run it past some other seasoned investigators and said, ‘Is there something we’ve done, something we’re missing? Are we making it too difficult?’”
While Jessica’s case is at the front of his mind constantly, Darby said he has other cases, too. “I don’t think anyone should be so naïve as to think this couldn’t happen anywhere, because it can. It happened here,” Darby asserts. “The toll that it’s taken is in the not knowing. When you don’t know and you look at your cohort next to you that’s just as determined as you are, it gives you energy and determination, and you don’t give up. We fight together. It takes a toll physically and mentally, but we wouldn’t do anything else, and we want to die doing it. We swore that we’d do our job,” he continues. “Swearing, to some people, doesn’t mean the same thing it does to the good ones. Our hearts are out there to help people.”
‘We will track you down.’ Jessica’s sister, Amanda “AJ” Prince, says it makes her sick thinking that Jessica’s killer is living a normal life as the search continues. She knows the things she would say to that person or those people if she could. “You got to spend Christmas, New Year’s, birthdays, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and many more holidays with family and friends. It looks like you do again. When you see your family and friends at the holidays, do you think of us or my sister?” she implores. “Jessica will never get married, have children or celebrate birthdays. She will never become a doctor, write a book or sing a song. She will never get to call us, text us or hug us. We will never again hear her say, ‘I love you.’ Jessica will never get a future, all because of what this coward took from us.”
Ben Chambers said he clings to faith. “I just have to put my trust in the Lord that they’re going to be caught. I know someday they’re going to be judged, one day or another on this earth or the next. I believe that with all my heart,” he said. “They just don’t realize how they’ve messed up so many lives with what they did, the evil they did. They don’t understand it.”
There’s very little doubt, as far as Champion is concerned, that Jessica’s killer knew her. “I think this was very personal between whoever did this and Jessica. To pour gasoline on someone is very personal. To set them on fire is a very personal deal,” he insists. “We may be totally wrong on that; it may not be. But from my years of doing this and the year we have been investigating this case, we all believe it was very personal.”
Daugherty’s wish is simple: “Justice. I just want Jessica never to be forgotten.”
To at least the team of men fighting to put a name and a face to the evil of December 6, 2014, she never will be. “We want people to know that the oath that we took has been applied and that we do work together. The determination is there,” Darby concludes. “We’re here to work for the good people, and the bad ones better be careful because we’ve warned you. It may take a year. It may take two or three years. But we will track you down. An oath is a promise.”
Source: Therese Apel, The Clarion-Ledger, December 6, 2015.
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Post by pat on Dec 7, 2015 11:51:32 GMT -5
I still think that the store owned by the Muslims are involved in this girl's death in some way. She could have found out something and threatened to go to the sheriff. Of course, she was involved with thugs, which is just asking for trouble. If she had been my daughter, she wouldn't have been dating men like that or hanging out at places where drugs were sold, so her parents are also to blame for what happened.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Dec 20, 2015 14:57:06 GMT -5
17 Black Thugs Arrested in Connection with Burning of Mississippi Girl The FBI has rounded up 17 black gang members (some of whom are pictured above) in connection with the murder of Jessica Chambers in Mississippi. The 19-year-old white girl disappeared from a gas staion in Courtland, Miss., while filling her car. She was found burning alive just a few miles from the station.
The FBI and local law enforcement have initiated what is called “Operation Bite Back” targeting gang members and those arrested were charged with everything from child endangerment, to possession of stolen firearms, to narcotic sales, to felon in possession of a firearm, to possession of counterfeit currency. According to WRED News, FBI agents targeted suspected members of the Black Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords and Sipp Mob street gangs. At this time, none of the 17 has been charged with the assault and murder of Jessica Chambers.
The parents of Jessica Chambers have indicated their daughter was afraid of gang members, although at one point, the former cheerleader was associated with a gang, or gangs, in some manner and confessed to her mother that someone had accused her of being a snitch. The girl also entered a rehabilitation program at a Christian center.
It is believed by some that Jessica spurned a relationship with a black gang member and in retaliation, he and his “homies” kidnapped her, after which she was gang-raped in a Batesville hotel, then driven to a remote location where she was doused with gasoline and set on fire. The burning was particularly sadistic in nature because her killers squirted lighter fluid down her throat and into her nose so that she would inhale the flames. Some who have come forward said Jessica’s horrific method of death was to “send a message.” Sources: The Chattanoogan, AOL News, Doug Giles, CashDaily, December 20, 2015.
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Post by jason on Dec 21, 2015 9:49:09 GMT -5
Sam, in the original post about this murder, you said that the perpetrators were trying to send a message and looks like you were right.
I hope one of the thugs will talk so that the ones who did this can be prosecuted. They should be taken out and hanged, but that will never happen in our current politically correct society.
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