Relisha Rudd, Still Missing A Year Later #ColdCase

8-Year-Old Not Declared Dead, FBI Offers $25,000 Reward
Filed by James MacArthur
MACARTHUR INDEPENDENT NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON, DC (MINS) -- DC government claims the search for Relisha Rudd continues.

Relisha vanished a year ago from DC General, the homeless shelter where she and her family were living. Police believe the shelter’s janitor, Khalil Tatum, kidnapped her.

There has been zero evidence suggesting she may still be alive, but at a press conference Monday, officials spoke of the case as if there was still an ongoing active search for the 8-year-old girl.

DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said they've found no evidence that Rudd is dead, but they also have no helpful evidence on her current whereabouts.

This despite the fact that Tatum -- the person she was last seen with -- was named as the lone suspect in the murder of his own wife, and himself now dead, after his body was found in the wooded area of a local park. He died of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound.

Relisha's mom speaks as if she's still alive: “I just hope somebody, anybody, runs into her and whoever got her just returns her,” she said.

Her friends speak differently: “My belief system is that we are looking for a body. I have told Shameka [Relisha's mom] this and that’s just what my focus is,” said family friend Brenda Brown.

Relisha’s mother and her boyfriend have said they didn’t call the police when she went missing because they didn’t have a phone.

References: Washington Post timeline of events

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After Claiming Demons Made Her Kill, Mom Convicted Of Murdering Her Own Four Children

After secluding, starving, abusing, murdering, then living with the mumified bodies of her four children, Banita Jacks has finally been convicted of murder.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg found Jacks guilty on 11 counts, including four counts of cruelty to children, four counts of felony murder and three counts of first-degree, premeditated murder. Weisberg said he could not find Jacks guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder while armed in the death of Brittany because prosecutors could not prove that the knife found next to the 17-year-old’s dead body was the murder weapon.

Is there a special part of hell for this type of person?

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The decomposing bodies of Jacks' daughters—ages 5 to 17—were discovered in January 2008 when U.S. marshals came to evict her from her southeast Washington home. In a video taped interview to determine competency to stand trial, Banita Jacks said her children stopped being her daughters and took on the identities of the demons. "They got so bad," she said. Jacks went on to claim her eldest daughter, Brittany, was possessed by a demon she called "Jezebel," a prostitute who caused suffering and spread disease.

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UPDATED: Arrest Imminent In Chandra Levy Murder

'We really came down with a break.' - D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier

Former Congressman Gary Condit must be shaking in his boots.

In a case that has been opened for eight years, with not even so much as a suspect being named, we now hear from DC's daily, that Metropolitan Police expect to make an arrest within days. The Baltimore Spectator is reaching out to his old friends down with the DC police to try to get some inside info.

Sources with knowledge of the investigation reveal police plan to arrest Ingmar Guandique. The 27-year-old Salvadoran immigrant attacked two women at knifepoint in Rock Creek Park around the time of Levy's disappearance in May 2001.

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Aw Shucks: Gary Condit Responds

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