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Post by Pawleys on Mar 11, 2013 17:46:56 GMT -5
Help Find Terrilynn MonetteA New Orleans teacher has been missing since Saturday, March 2nd. .... Monette came to New Orleans from California in 2011 as a fellow with TeachNOLA, a nonprofit group that places educators in metro area schools. She was out with friends celebrating a recent “Teacher of The Year” nomination. ... “I absolutely do not regret my decision to move out here,” Monnette said in a YouTube video from 2011. “Becoming a teacher in New Orleans is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.” Monette is a second grade teacher at Woodland Elementary School and the principal is urging people for their help. www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/03/help-find-terrilynn-monette/
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Post by Pawleys on Mar 11, 2013 17:48:56 GMT -5
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Post by Pawleys on Mar 13, 2013 5:36:35 GMT -5
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Post by earl on Mar 20, 2013 15:33:23 GMT -5
Monette came to New Orleans from California in 2011 as a fellow with TeachNOLA, a nonprofit group that places educators in metro area schools. She was out with friends celebrating a recent “Teacher of The Year” nomination. Sad to see this one. Hope is a good resolution. Terrilyn Monette, Missing New Orleans Teacher, Seen Driving Alone In Surveillance Footage03/20/2013 1:10 pm EDT A popular teacher who disappeared after a night of partying more than two weeks ago was seen driving alone away from a bar on surveillance footage that New Orleans police found. Witnesses said they last saw Terrilyn Monette around 4 a.m. on March 2, in a parking lot talking to a man near the bar where she'd been celebrating her nomination for a teacher of the year award in her district. By daybreak, she and her black 2012 Honda Accord were gone. The trail had gone cold until the Times-Picayune reported that New Orleans police found several stoplight cameras and security cameras on homes and businesses that show the 26-year-old at the wheel of her car around 5:15 a.m. the day she vanished. Footage shows her driving near City Park -- where volunteers have searched for her -- but her car is quickly lost again, according to WWLTV. EquuSearch, which specializes in looking for missing people, will use sonar equipment to explore waterways near the park, WDAM said. Monette moved from Long Beach, Calif., to teach second grade at Woodland West Elementary School through the city's "Teach NOLA" program, which sends new teachers into troubled schools. She's credited with boosting academic achievement in her class in her first year, according to CNN. Monette is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs about 180 pounds and has long brown hair. On the night she vanished, she wore a pink and yellow sweater and jeans. Her left leg is tattooed. Monette's car has Louisiana license plate WUN494. There's a $3,500 reward available from Crime Stoppers for information that points to her discovery, WDSU reported. If you have seen Monette or have any information, please call the New Orleans Police Department at (504) 821-2222. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/terrilyn-monette-missing-teacher-driving-alone_n_2915621.html?ncid=webmail1 |
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Post by meme on Jun 9, 2013 15:46:49 GMT -5
Terrilyn Monette's Car Found; Decomposed Body Inside Jun 08, 2013 NEWORLEANS -- Authorities pulled a missing teacher'scar from a New Orleans bayou Saturday and police said there was a decomposed body inside. Authorities couldn't immediately say whether the body was Terrilyn Monette, who was last seen leaving a New Orleans bar not far from the bayou in the early morning hours of March 2. She would've had to cross the waterway to get home.Monette wasa LongBeach, Calif., native who moved to Louisiana to teach. Her family has been flying back and forth from California to look for her. They attended a prayer vigil Friday and appealed for FBI intervention, accusing the New Orleans Police Department of mishandling the case. The department has denied the accusations. Monette's mother, Toni Enclade, was among the family members who cameto the scene Saturday. "I don't understand why it took them so long to find her car," Enclade told The Times-Picayune. "This is supposedly one of the first places they would have checked. I'm just over whelmed. It doesn't make sense." Louisiana state Rep. Austin Badon helped spear head the search. He said he and a volunteer diver resurveyed the water way and found the car. "We decided to sonar this area again, and more heavily, and it got a hit," Badon told The Associated Press. A diver got into the water and found the car, which was covered with a film when it was pulled out. Badon described the body as "heavily decomposed." John Gagliano, the Orleans Parish coroner's chief investigator, said he could not immediately tell if the body was a man or a woman. Gagliano told The Advocate an autopsy will be performed Monday to determine the identity of the body and cause of death. Monette was a second-grade teacher at Woodland West Elementary School in Harvey, which is located across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. She had cometo Louisiana through a program that recruits teachers to area schools and had been nominated for a teacher of the year honor. After going to a bar, her friends left her at her car. They told police she planned to sleep before driving home. She left a parking lot about 5:15 a.m. and a traffic camera captured her making a turn in New Orleans' City Park. Monette's disappearance sparked a broad search handled in part by the Texas group Equu search. A number of cars were pulled earlier from Bayou St. John as part of the search, some of which had been reported stolen. "Unfortunately it wasn't what we were looking for in terms of finding here alive and well, but it does bring the family some closure," Badon said. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3409090 |
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Post by meme on Jun 10, 2013 17:31:25 GMT -5
Terrilynn Monette Update: Body ID'd as missing La. teacher, cause of death is drowning, coroner says June 10, 2013 NEW ORLEANS - The Orleans Parish coroner's office has confirmed through dental records that the body found inside of a car pulled from the bayou in New Orleans is that of missing teacher Terrilynn Monette, CBS affiliate WWLTV reports. According to the station, the coroner's office has ruled the cause of death drowning. Monette, 26, had been considered missing since the early hours of March 2 after leaving a New Orleans bar not far from the bayou. She would've had to cross the waterway to get home. Monette, a Long Beach, Calif., native who moved to Louisiana to teach, worked as a second-grade teacher at Woodland West Elementary School in Harvey, which is located across the Mississippi River form New Orleans. She had come to Louisiana through a program that recruits teachers to area schools and had been nominated for a teacher of the year honor. Monette's disappearance sparked a broad search handled in part by the Texas group Equusearch. A number of cars were pulled earlier from Bayou St. John as part of the search, some of which had been reported stolen. Monette's family had been flying back and forth from California to look for her. They attended a prayer vigil Friday and appealed for FBI intervention, accusing the New Orleans Police Department of mishandling the case. The department has denied the accusations. Toni Enclade, Monette's mother, was present when the car was retrieved from the bayou, according to WWLTV. The discovery was made by Mark Michaud, a diver with the Slidell Police Department. State Representative Austin Badon said he and Michaud want the $20,000 Crimestoppers reward to go towards Monette's funeral costs, the station reports. Crimestoppers says the reward is only distributed if the New Orleans Police Department determines that foul play was involved. If not, money raised by Monette's family will go back to the family. Complete coverage of the Terrilynn Monette case on Crimesider. m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?&pageType=general&catid=57588567&feed_id=999&videofeed=999&nb_splitPage=3 |
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Post by earl on Jun 10, 2013 19:40:28 GMT -5
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