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Jun 14, 2013 22:36:37 GMT -5
Post by meme on Jun 14, 2013 22:36:37 GMT -5
Mississippi investigators meet with FBI in Jaren Lockhart case
FBI says it has a backlog of cases nationwide
UPDATED 4:36 PM CDT May 09, 2013
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. —Investigators working the case of the gruesome killing of a southeast Louisiana woman met with the FBI nearly a year after the crime occurred in an effort to push the case forward.
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Jaren Lockhart was reported missing on June 6. Her torso washed ashore on a beach in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and other parts of her severed body washed up days later. Authorities in Hancock County, Miss., are looking for her killer. This timeline follows the events of the investigation.
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The last known images showed Jaren Lockhart leaving a men's club in the French Quarter in June 2012. Days after her disappearance, her remains washed ashore on beaches in Hancock County, Miss.
Hancock County investigators met with members of the FBI on Wednesday morning. The FBI has been assisting with the investigation since the beginning because the case involves two states.
Chief Deputy Don Bass told WDSU that the meeting discussed evidence in the case.
Bass said the Sheriff's Office wants to expedite the processing of evidence submitted to the FBI. Last year, federal investigators removed bags of evidence from the Kenner home of the couple named as suspects in the crime – Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks. Neither were ever charged in connection with Lockhart’s death and dismemberment.
Speaks and Sanchez were last seen leaving with Lockhart on the night of her disappearance in surveillance video. Days after the surveillance video was released by investigators, Sanchez and Speaks were arrested in Tangipahoa Parish on a traffic stop. Speaks, a convicted sex offender, was eventually extradited and taken to a New York prison where he is serving time for violations related to his prior conviction and not the Lockhart case. Sanchez was released.
On Wednesday, Bass said an FBI representative told the sheriff's office there was a "backlog of cases" nationwide, but that agents understood the urgency of the situation. Speaks is expected to be released from the New York facility in about two years.
Bass said the meeting went well and that the FBI promised to "assist us in every way they can in prosecuting the case."
In the meantime, in the last few weeks, detectives have met with the local district attorney to decide if any charges would be filed in the case.
Read more: www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/mississippi-investigators-meet-with-fbi-in-jaren-lockhart-case/-/9853400/20083402/-/na8t2hz/-/index.html#ixzz2WFiUa67u
FBI says it has a backlog of cases nationwide
UPDATED 4:36 PM CDT May 09, 2013
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. —Investigators working the case of the gruesome killing of a southeast Louisiana woman met with the FBI nearly a year after the crime occurred in an effort to push the case forward.
IMAGES: JAREN LOCKHART INVESTIGATION TIMELINE
Jaren Lockhart was reported missing on June 6. Her torso washed ashore on a beach in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and other parts of her severed body washed up days later. Authorities in Hancock County, Miss., are looking for her killer. This timeline follows the events of the investigation.
MORE
EXCLUSIVE: MOTHER OF SLAIN WOMAN SEEKS CLOSURE, PEACE OF...
The mother of a woman whose remains washed ashore in Hancock County, Miss., nearly one year ago is hoping for justice -- but not the deaths of those responsible.
MORE
MEETING BETWEEN INVESTIGATORS, DA IN JAREN LOCKHART CASE...
A planned meeting between Hancock County, Miss., investigators and the district attorney’s office about possible charges in the death and dismemberment of a Bourbon Street dancer has been postponed for a third time.
MORE
IF MISS. DA MOVES FORWARD WITH JAREN LOCKHART CASE, ARRESTS...
Officials with the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office said that arrests could be made if the District Attorney’s Office decides to move forward in the case against two people named as suspects in the gruesome death of a Bourbon Street dancer.
MORE
View investigation timeline
The last known images showed Jaren Lockhart leaving a men's club in the French Quarter in June 2012. Days after her disappearance, her remains washed ashore on beaches in Hancock County, Miss.
Hancock County investigators met with members of the FBI on Wednesday morning. The FBI has been assisting with the investigation since the beginning because the case involves two states.
Chief Deputy Don Bass told WDSU that the meeting discussed evidence in the case.
Bass said the Sheriff's Office wants to expedite the processing of evidence submitted to the FBI. Last year, federal investigators removed bags of evidence from the Kenner home of the couple named as suspects in the crime – Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks. Neither were ever charged in connection with Lockhart’s death and dismemberment.
Speaks and Sanchez were last seen leaving with Lockhart on the night of her disappearance in surveillance video. Days after the surveillance video was released by investigators, Sanchez and Speaks were arrested in Tangipahoa Parish on a traffic stop. Speaks, a convicted sex offender, was eventually extradited and taken to a New York prison where he is serving time for violations related to his prior conviction and not the Lockhart case. Sanchez was released.
On Wednesday, Bass said an FBI representative told the sheriff's office there was a "backlog of cases" nationwide, but that agents understood the urgency of the situation. Speaks is expected to be released from the New York facility in about two years.
Bass said the meeting went well and that the FBI promised to "assist us in every way they can in prosecuting the case."
In the meantime, in the last few weeks, detectives have met with the local district attorney to decide if any charges would be filed in the case.
Read more: www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/mississippi-investigators-meet-with-fbi-in-jaren-lockhart-case/-/9853400/20083402/-/na8t2hz/-/index.html#ixzz2WFiUa67u
