Mom admitted that herself and her husband beat the girl, held her head underwater and threw her against a wall, causing her head to slam onto the tile floor.
Riley Sawyers, a 2-year-old missing from Spring, Ohio, is Baby Grace, according to officials. Riley’s mother, Kimberly Trenor, and her new husband, Royce Zeigler, are both in Galveston County Jail, charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence. Both have bonds of $350,000. For those of you reading who are not aware of the case, “baby Grace” was the name given to an unidentified girl found dead in a storage container found in West Galveston Bay, Texas a month ago.
Riley was last seen when Kimberly took her to Texas to meet Royce, a man she met over the internet. Riley’s father and grandmother had not heard from Kimberly since and had been going through the legal process of getting visitation rights set up when they saw the report on Baby Grace and contacted authorities. Kimberly has stated to officials that Riley was taken from her by someone claiming to be an Ohio social worker.
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Pari
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:52 am -Given the state of the “remains” I am so impressed by our investigators, the girl behind the artists impresion is pretty spot on. What an awful job this forensic artist had..BUT WOW…how spot on was this artist was to the victim.
I just wanted to give my regards to the forensic artist who had the horrific burde to sketch a human form to this very very sad case.
I cannot even imagine what the law enforcement and the witnesse have had to go thru in a case like this. \I hope the fuckers are found and suffer the max and even worse. I am beyond disgust and rage…
Poor little thing….
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janice
Nov 26, 2007 at 1:01 am -this is a beautiful baby why in the world would anyone want to her someone so precious…OMG all of this sickens me to the very core of my being…i know I’m dealing with alot right now and sometimes it’s more than I can handle…but my heart goes out anyways
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farmergurl62
Nov 26, 2007 at 2:55 am -May you rest in peace baby grace To the family of riley ann and i mean her father and grandma not her worthless mom and step father ok there was no excuse for this this was and had to be just like i posted eariler they abused this child and then when she died though Oh! shit we have to hide the body well i just cant wait for the mother to try and talk her way out of this one and omfg did you all get a load of that bond that was set thats a fucking joke I have seen drug dealers have higher bonds I am just happy they finally found out who this baby is so at least her family can get some sort of closure
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ells9824
Nov 26, 2007 at 8:50 am -Just subscribing to the thread =)
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Kathy
Nov 26, 2007 at 10:09 am -Looks like another “mother” in pursuit of penis at the expense of her child.
Someone needs to introduce these dumb whores to the world of adult toys. A dildo won’t beat your child or get you pregnant with another one that you can’t take care of.
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angelica379
Nov 26, 2007 at 10:45 am -I found this article updated at 8:03am, where I live it is 6:45am
http://www.wlwt.com/news/14691522/detail.html
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm -Here is the link to the Galveston News site.
http://galvestondailynews.com/
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stuman93
Nov 26, 2007 at 12:40 pm -I just watched the news conference on FOX News.
Please make sure to pray for peace for Baby Riley Ann and for her family in Ohio as they have to deal with this horrible ordeal.
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thepooh5
Nov 26, 2007 at 1:37 pm -Another sorry excuse for a “mother”! The endless search for a dick!!!
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swivel
Nov 26, 2007 at 1:46 pm -As much as this case sickens me, Kathy still had me laughing out loud with her brilliant post (5).
Our genetic urge to reproduce gets us into so much trouble. As does our penchant for cute, young things. I find it sad that the beauty of this child is why people react so strongly. If this were an ugly black kid, most people would just shrug.
Sad.
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 3:14 pm -Does anyone have any mug shots of the mother and step-father to post a link to?
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Kathy
Nov 26, 2007 at 3:24 pm -Here you go.
http://www.khou.com/news/local.....32b4a.html
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 5:48 pm -Thank you, Kathy.
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miss_sixty
Nov 26, 2007 at 7:26 pm -http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/st.....id=5785684
i have been following this discussion and wanting to post and have finally got around to it. the above link is breaking news on how little Riley died. some people just dont deserve to be parents. she was such a beautiful little girl.
RIP Riley.
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 8:17 pm -Thank you, miss_sixty for the link.
Not ONE…..but TWO losers(that is putting it mildly, as in my mind I have several other words that would best describe both of them, however, do not think I should put them on a public forum - everyone else can (insert) their own views of these two)……attempting to kill that little girl.
I wonder if they even went and attended the service they held for her on the island.
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miss_sixty
Nov 26, 2007 at 8:45 pm -“I find it sad that the beauty of this child is why people react so strongly. If this were an ugly black kid, most people would just shrug.” [from post #10]
is that actually the case though? seems like an assumption to me. Diamond and Tionda Bradley were (admittedly cute) little black kids that went missing and there is still plenty of info on them, years after they disappeared.
anyway - not really on the topic…
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 10:13 pm -Children are innocent. Whether they are black, white, Chinese, etc…makes no difference when they are mistreated and abused by losers.
The guilty party pays.
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Kathy
Nov 26, 2007 at 10:22 pm -“Diamond and Tionda Bradley were (admittedly cute) little black kids that went missing and there is still plenty of info on them, years after they disappeared.”
Who??? Seriously. Why haven’t they found them? Maybe not as much manpower on their cases?
“Children are innocent. Whether they are black, white, Chinese, etc…makes no difference when they are mistreated and abused by losers.
The guilty party pays.”
If you were REALLY to look at the statistics you would see that there is a difference in the sentencing for the murders of minority children and the sentencing for white children. The media pays almost no attention to missing black and hispanic children. Look out there. Look at all the latina females on the missing childrens lists. Have you EVER heard of any of them? Chances are you have heard of some of the white ones.
The point is. Would we even know about Riley smith if she were not blond and blue eyed? Maybe, but not on a national level.
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Unamused
Nov 26, 2007 at 11:03 pm -Why is it that a child killer is usually an ugly fat fuck?
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Gram Oreo
Nov 26, 2007 at 11:41 pm -Maybe cause she was jealous of her beautiful daughter.
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Tux Princess
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:46 am -Found this story on Yahoo! and thought I would share. Most of it you probably already know…
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer
33 minutes ago
GALVESTON, Texas - A woman believed to be the mother of a 2-year-old whose body was found in Galveston Bay told police she and the girl’s stepfather beat and tortured the child to death, court documents show.
The details in an arrest affidavit paint a chilling picture of the last days of the girl investigators called “Baby Grace” as they worked for weeks to learn her identity.
Investigators are awaiting DNA test results but said Monday they are “fairly confident” that the body a fisherman found in a plastic box Oct. 29 is that of Riley Ann Sawyers. Her mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, and stepfather, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, were arrested early Saturday and are in custody on charges of hurting the girl.
“It was a few weeks ago I held up this little shoe and asked, ‘Who is Baby Grace? Who does this belong to?’” sheriff’s Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo said at a news conference. “We’re now fairly confident we know the answer to that.”
Zeigler attempted suicide last week and wrote a note saying, “My wife is innocent of the sins that I committed,” according to the court documents, which were filed Saturday and first reported Monday by Houston television station KTRK.
An autopsy revealed that Riley suffered three skull fractures, but the cause of death has not been determined.
In a statement to police included in the affidavit, Trenor, 19, said she and Zeigler, 24, killed Riley July 24.
The girl was beaten with leather belts, had her head held underwater in a bathtub and then was thrown across a room, her head slamming into a tile floor, Trenor said in the document. She said they kept the body in a storage shed for one to two months before they put it in a plastic bin and dumped it into Galveston Bay.
Trenor said in the document that after her daughter was killed, Zeigler had her forge a document that the Ohio Department of Children’s Services had taken Riley away because of allegations of sexual abuse.
Tuttoilmondo said Trenor had told relatives that someone claiming to be a social worker from Ohio, where Riley’s father lives, took the girl in July.
Trenor’s attorney, Tom Stickler, said she has cooperated with authorities. He declined to comment about her statement to investigators.
“But from what she said, there is no doubt that the girl found is Riley Sawyers,” Stickler said.
Trenor and Zeigler were charged with injury to a child and tampering with evidence, Tuttoilmondo said. Bail was set at $350,000 each. The couple’s next court appearance was expected to be scheduled on Tuesday.
Wendell Odom, Zeigler’s attorney, declined to comment on the case except to say Zeigler grew up in Spring, about 75 miles north of Galveston, and works as an instrument technician in the oil industry.
Trenor and Zeigler met a couple of years ago playing an online game, World of Warcraft, and she moved with her daughter from suburban Cleveland to Spring in June, Stickler said.
Riley’s paternal grandmother, Sheryl Sawyers, hadn’t seen her granddaughter in months when she saw a police sketch of “Baby Grace.” Thinking it might be Riley, she called authorities in Texas.
In Mentor, Ohio, on Monday, Sawyers wiped away tears at a news conference and held up the Elmo doll she had already bought Riley for Christmas.
“It’s hard to think that I’ll never see her again,” she said.
The Sawyers family’s attorney, Laura DePledge, said they take comfort in knowing that the girl is “resting peacefully and is no longer subject to abuse.”
DePledge said Trenor and Sawyers’ son, Robert Sawyers, also of Mentor, had been high school sweethearts. Sheryl Sawyers said she has not seen Riley since the girl and Trenor moved to Texas.
Robert Sawyers, who works in an auto-parts store, was never married to Trenor but lived with her and their daughter in his parents’ home for about two years. He and Trenor split up after March 31, when he was charged with domestic violence against her.
DePledge said there was insufficient evidence to support the charge, which was reduced to disorderly conduct. Robert Sawyers is now married and has a 3-month-old son.
Riley “had a very big imagination for such a little girl,” he said of his daughter. “She could play with anything and have fun with it.”
Tuttoilmondo said investigators became emotionally involved in determining the little girl’s identity.
“Any way you look at it, we carry a piece of her with us and will always carry a little piece of her with us,” he said. “She’s still our little girl.”
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eyeforaneye
Nov 27, 2007 at 2:14 am -What the hell are people thinking…..I cannot believe how people can so easily just abuse children….Actually wait I think maybe because they are all just a poor excuse for a human…a waste of skin..Pathetic…I think that my name says it all AN EYE FOR AN EYE they want to be sick bastards then they should be treated like sick bastards..I would have no problem making these people non existent I would do it with a smile across my face..not just in this case but all of them that I have heard……
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irtabby
Nov 27, 2007 at 2:33 am -I honestly don’t understand this. Its not like it was just one angry twisted person that got there rocks off by torturing a little girl. . . it was one angry twisted person and the mother. She participated. And it wasn’t like it was one act of beating or drowning, out of sudden anger and rage like so many childrens deaths. They systematicly beat and abused her.I just can’t grasp how someone could hurt an innocent child. And then to keep doing it and keep doing it, and the fact that they probably got enjoyment out of it???? I just don’t understand. Does anyone have any qoutes from these monsters as to what they were thinking and why they did it?
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Hippiepoet
Nov 27, 2007 at 9:14 am -Geez, I knew it, I knew her mother and that guy fucking killed her, I think many of us knew it, or had a damn good vibe to it. How horrible. God, why did that stupid bitch of a mother even take her to Texas? It is so goddamn sad knowing that this little girl had people in Ohio that wanted her. All her “mother” had to do was call Ohio and the father or grandmother would have retrieved that child. Just another dumb ass selfish fuck that shouldn’t have had a baby.
Someone mentioned earlier in the thread about the little girl being white and getting more media coverage. Sadly I believe that’s true. Racism unfortunately runs rampant in the world. I think most agree here though, doesn’t matter what color that child is, what matters is it’s an innocent person.
Violence again seeps from me, I’m thinking how much I want to hurt these two like they did that child. I know it would not change a thing, that little girl would still be dead.
QUOTE irtabby “Does anyone have any quotes from these monsters as to what they were thinking and why they did it”.
I too, would like to know what they were thinking. Obviously that little girl got in their way, messed with their fun, got to be too much of a burden, and what do you do to your kid when they become a pain in the ass? Kill ‘em. Sonofabitch. It’s crazy. Are these two fucks still going to be allowed to post bail? I read where it was 350 grand but, how do you kill someone like this, and then be let out on bail? Those two would run for sure. Any words on drug use with these two? Curious about the Meth thing. They both look they’re jonesing for something and it ain’t for a hit off the bong.
Peace to all
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JUSTAMOM2
Nov 27, 2007 at 11:20 am -When I found out that the mom admitted to torturing the baby to death I wanted to go to Texas (a state I swore I’d never return to) and kill that couple myself! I’m not a violent woman and I try to believe that our justice system will do it’s best but I lost faith in that a while ago. What I do have faith in is the anger of good people and when good people get angry enough they will act. I know some read these stories and lose faith in the world and I can understand that but I also know there are some that read these stories and do something. It may be a small something or it may be a huge something but I believe people care.
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thepooh5
Nov 27, 2007 at 11:27 am -Sick, disgusting - now that they have admitted all that they have done - why do we have to waste time and money on them - just rid the world of them.
She had no desire - but for her “dick”. As Kathy posted - someone please inform all women - about the world of adult toys - DAMN , DOUBLE DAMN!!
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Rosie
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:00 pm -I just read that the Mom is 19. I have thought for a long time that there needs to be a class taught in either middle school or high school called LIFE, and in this class they would teach everything from managing money to taking care of yourself, i.e. a woman doesn’t need a man to survive, a woman doesn’t have to put up with being hit, a parent’s role is to raise their children and protect them, etc. Parents don’t seem to be teaching their teenagers about real life anymore and I believe that is where the break down is coming from.
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Kathy
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:12 pm -Add to that class Rosie. Boys are being babied and freed from their responsibility. Teach them too.
Men can be responsible for their own contraception. A real man doesn’t need to use violence to control a woman. A real man needs to be a good father and role model.
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Hippiepoet
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:43 pm -QUOTE Kathy “A real man doesn’t need to use violence to control a woman. A real man needs to be a good father and role model.”
Right on.
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tabularasa9
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:52 pm -Only among the fellow citizens we have come to acquaint as the white trash of America!!!!
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Rosie
Nov 27, 2007 at 12:53 pm -Yeah Kathy there would be a class for both males and females. But do you think the Bible thumpers would allow such a class? I think there are far more important things than reading writing, etc. and unfortunately parents today are more focused on their jobs and obviously their private parts to raise responsible children. Boys are awful today it seems as far as going to college or getting a good job, they seem to rely on their parents. My husband caught my 4 year old hitting me the other day and he picked him up and spanked him good - he told him that he might grow up hating his guts but he would not allow him to hit or disrespect any woman and especially his Mother and nor would he allow him to be a deliquent. I love my husband!
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warrman69
Nov 27, 2007 at 1:29 pm -I am have been reading this site for about two weeks now. I live right down the road from where they found Rowan Ford and for some reason I have felt drawn to finding out more about how such a thing was allowed to happen. How the hell can people do these kinds of things and how as a mother or a father could you cover up the murder of your child. If a parent or step parent even looks at your kid wrong you should have then out of there so fast it would be like you where never there. When I was a single dad I would not even let my daughter meet the girls I was seeing, let alone move them in and allow them to hurt my child. I just don’t understand why people can’t just be by themselves and find out who they are and then shop around for someone who is nice and kind and would never hurt their child. One strike and your out is how it should go, but most people are just so needy that they will hook up with the first person who knocks on their door. This poor girl, why the hell did her mom not leave her with her dad? Why would he let her take his daughter out of state? Why did he not fight her on this? There is no way in hell I would have let her leave with my child, guys come on we have rights too. That is the one thing that I would like to know. Why the hell he was allowed her to leave with this little girl to meet some guy she met online and no one called the cops on her or took her to court to stop her from taking this little girl. Sorry but this all just a lot to take in. One other thing, if this would have been a story about a little black, brown, yellow or green girl I would be just as upset. All little gifts are worthy of love and respect. I have a one year old little girl and I could not imagine hurting her. I also have a 15, 9 and 6 year old girls and a 9 year old boy, they are all wonderful and would kill for them, I just don’t get it, but maybe I not suppose to. Fathers need to step up and be there for their daughter and tell them that they are great and wonderful and that they can do or be anything that they want. I get so sick of all these girls out there with daddy complexes because of shitty fathers. Guy your little girls need you today not tomorrow or the next day or when you can get around to it, BUT NOW. Trust me on this I have to sisters that are all messed up because of my father. He allowed some bitch into his life and let her abuse my sisters and his pussy ass did not do a dam thing and than he wonders why they are all messed up. Than he tells me that he Lovvvved her and I would not understand, well he got me there, not about the love, but allowing someone to call you little angle a slut. Yes dad I don’t understand because I would have shoved my foot so fair up her ass her would have Doc Marten breathe. Sorry about that, Lol.
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Morbid
Nov 27, 2007 at 1:36 pm -March 11, 2005: Riley Sawyers is born in Mentor to Kimberly Trenor and Robert Sawyers.
March 30, 2007: Robert Sawyers is arrested for domestic violence after Trenor calls police and says he grabbed her throat because she parked in his space in the driveway.
April 12: Sawyers is ordered by Lake County Domestic Court to stay away from Trenor.
May 25: Trenor agrees to give Sawyers custody of Riley every Wednesday and every other weekend.
May 29: Sawyers files a claim that Trenor failed to give him Riley. Trenor’s father, Randall Trenor, says his daughter and Riley are in Canton and will return in June.
June 1: Kimberly Trenor and Riley move to Texas, where Trenor, 19, moves in with Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, who she met on the Internet.
June 5: Robert Sawyers’ mother, Sheryl, the court’s go-between, argues with Randall Trenor about Kimberly. Randall tells Mentor police that Kimberly is either in Pennsylvania, Maryland or Virginia.
June 26: A trial is set in Lake County Domestic Relations Court to change custody and give Sawyers more time with his daughter.
July 15: Court summons for Trenor is returned unopened.
Sept. 19: Second court summons returned unopened.
Oct. 29: Body of a young unidentified girl, later named “Baby Grace,” is found in plastic bin in Galveston Bay.
Nov. 7: Sheryl Sawyers alerts Texas officials the body might be her grandchild she has not seen since May.
Nov. 20: Robert Sawyers gives DNA sample to be sent to Texas.
Nov. 24: Galveston police arrest Kimberly Trenor and Zeigler and charge them with injuring a child and tampering with evidence.
Nov. 26: Galveston sheriff’s officials confirm the body found is that of Riley. DNA tests results are pending, but police say are confident in the identification.
SOURCE: Lake County court records and Galveston Sheriff’s Office
Personally, I think the father and grandmother of Riley were doing the only things you could do, legally.
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warrman69
Nov 27, 2007 at 1:52 pm -Thank Morbid that clears up a lot. He was doing all he could, how terrible.
By the way great site.
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Morbid
Nov 27, 2007 at 2:05 pm -Thanks, warrman69. Glad you like it.
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thepooh5
Nov 27, 2007 at 3:15 pm -“warrman69″ - it is so refreshing to hear a “father” - calling on other fathers to step-up!!! I truly appreciate the below statement:
“Fathers need to step up and be there for their daughter and tell them that they are great and wonderful and that they can do or be anything that they want. I get so sick of all these girls out there with daddy complexes because of shitty fathers. Guy your little girls need you today not tomorrow or the next day or when you can get around to it, BUT NOW. Trust me on this I have to sisters that are all messed up because of my father.”
Amen, warrman69 you have the “father of the day award” from me!!!
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Pari
Nov 27, 2007 at 6:25 pm -Just wondering, will the Grandmother Sawyer receive the $20,000 reward offered by the FBI?
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 7:11 pm -I sure as hell hope so. I read in one of the papers, that Robert Sawyers was gonna set up a fund, so he can raise the funds to bury Riley.
What better way for this reward to be used, than to give Riley a beautiful farewell.
Has anyone noticed, that there have no reports of statements from Kimberly’s parents nor Royce’s either.
Most likely toooooo ashamed of their murdering offspring.
Another thought. The family lived with Robert’s parents. Would you not think that they would have noticed the abuse if it took place in their own home. Maybe at that time it wasn’t physical abuse but verbal abuse. Needless to say, if that were the case, I am shocked that they did not prevent the mom from taking her to Texas, on those terms. Also, I believe that Robert could have stopped Kim and Riley from leaving the area, regarding child support rules, etc…. I believe he could have said NO…and she would not have been able to travel the distance that she did.
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 7:36 pm -From http://www.cnn.com Words from the Artist ~
(CNN) — A man in the medical examiner’s office pushed back the cheeks on Baby Grace’s corpse to put a smile on her tiny, decaying face. That’s how forensic artist Lois Gibson captured the open-mouthed grin with spangled risotto-sized teeth. It was one of the girl’s few features that had survived six weeks in a shed during a Texas summer and nearly two months in Galveston Bay.
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Forensic artist Lois Gibson created a nearly perfect portrait of Riley Ann Sawyers’ face.
But it was the way the blond toddler looked outside of the black body bag that made Gibson draw large, lid-filling eyes on the picture of the girl that led to identifying Riley Ann Sawyers.
“She was so very, very small. She looked like the size of a child that you would change the diaper on, just laying there on a metal gurney like a giant stainless steel cookie sheet,” Gibson says just above a sad, disbelieving whisper before her voice shifts and she’s strong and scientific. “If you are very, very small, then the iris, that colored part of your eye, takes up almost the entire eye opening.”
The corpse’s decay helped Gibson perfect the gentle downward slope of Riley’s eyes. “The decomposition was such that I could see that bone on her face,” she said. “And her eyebrows were going to follow her little ridge.”
Gibson said she felt her blood pressure rising during her morgue visit. It passed quickly, she said, and “I turned into the artist. I was going to make the best picture possible and get every piece of anatomy right and find her name and get justice for her.” In spite of what lay on the gurney, Gibson said, “I knew that she was beautiful, and the picture would reach out to people who knew her and loved her.” Video Watch what the sketch artist has to say about the case »
And it did. Five days after the release of Gibson’s precise post-mortem sketch, Riley’s grandmother in Ohio recognized the sweet face and contacted police.
It’s the kind of result police hope for when they summon one of the handful of forensic artists across the nation who can re-create the faces of maimed, burned and decaying bodies. Gibson spent what she described as just “three intense minutes” with Riley’s body that day. It was all she needed. It was all she could take.
But it was decades of research that help her nail the image.
A trained artist can look at a skull and immediately tell the race and gender of a corpse. And that’s the beginning of giving a name to the unknown.
“If you turn the skull of a white male sideways, it’s almost like a truck hit it. It’s just straight up and down flat,” said Marla Lawson, a renowned forensic artist who works for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “The forehead protrudes very little and the chin sinks in. But for African-Americans, they slightly slope at the forehead and they protrude slightly at the mandible and they have these great cheekbones. Their skulls weigh more than white people’s skulls, and their teeth will be whiter and brighter usually.”
An Asian person’s skull will have a wider facial area, Lawson said, but people of Hispanic descent are more challenging because the structures are nearly identical to Caucasians.
But determining male and female is easy, said Lawson who created the first, and dead-on, likeness of Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph while he was a fugitive. Run your fingers vertically over your eyebrows. Males feel a defined ridge under the brow line. A woman’s face is smoother.
There are other clues about structures on a person’s head. The size and direction of that really hard bone just behind the ear holds clues about whether earlobes are attached or not, said Suzanne Birdwell, who works for the Texas Department of Public Safety. And those orbits, the openings in a skull where eyes belong, are not all the same in spite of their run-of-the-mill appearance.
“Some part of it will be slanted and that will tell you which way tears ducts would have drained and that tells you where to start the corner of the eye,” Birdwell said.
Anthropologists spent years taking measurements from various cadavers — male, female, chubby, emaciated, short, young, old, Asian, Latino, black, white. They’ve compiled those measurements in how the depth from skin surface to bone differs based on all those factors for 21 different spots on a face and placed those averages in a chart. Forensic artists use those measurements to determine how much flesh and contour to put on a skull to create a bust or make a sketch.
Frank Bender worked on a case very similar to Riley’s in the early 1980’s. Bender helped identify Aliyah Davis. Like Riley, she was beaten to death, tossed into a steamer trunk and then dumped under a bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Bender says the best reconstructionists know how to combine science and art because depth charts are limiting. “Facial thickness charts do not make the person. They will give you a gross, generic likeness because they are taken from averages and every person is an individual,” he said.
Charts would have failed him when he worked on a case in New York. The front of the skull was gone — no orbits to determine the slope of eyelids, no hole in the middle to give clues about where the nose would have been or its shape and no upper jaw to hint at lip and mouth shape. But with something that resembled an empty bowl, Bender made a face. The exact face.
He used shapes from the back of the head to determine what kind of face would match the back of that skull. “It’s harmony of form,” said Bender who is a fine artist by trade. “It’s no different than composing a piece music or orchestrating a dance.”
Gibson used similar artistic license in painting the case-solving portrait of Riley. Along with the saddening visit to the morgue, Gibson used autopsy photos and pictures of the clothes and shoes on the body.
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“I had to go to the morgue to see her in person. I saw how her hair fell to the middle of her back. She looked a lot like my little girl at that age,” Gibson said. “I took out a picture of my baby girl playing on the floor with toys at that same age and I drew my daughter’s body in that position. And I drew the clothing of the dead girl on that body and I put Baby Grace’s face on that body.”
Gibson captured the downward slope of Riley’s eyes and the tiny nose with the bulbous tip. “I knew I had to do this right for that little girl,” Gibson said. “I only get one chance, and I want to help helpless victims. How much more helpless can you be when you’re 2, and you’re dead.”
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jamz09
Nov 27, 2007 at 8:35 pm -Im a typical no emotion, keep it all in, I can handle anything type of guy. But when the news of this broke….it took my breath away. I can tell you it wrenches my soul to know that I live in Spring and this happened possibly mere miles from my home. Does anyone know where in Spring they lived?
Hug and Kiss you children as much as you can….
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 8:50 pm -Kimberly’s Father breaks silence ~
MENTOR — They say they warned their daughter not to move to Texas prior to the murder of baby Riley
Kimberly Trenor’s father, stepmother and their best friends want the world to know that the 19 year old murder suspect is not a monster.
Despite the happy prom pictures taken last year at Mentor High School, they claim Robert Sawyers, the baby’s father was abusive towards Trenor.
Kimberly wanted to get away from Sawyers and met a new lover, Royce Zeigler, on the internet playing “Worlds of Warcraft”.
But when Randy and Patty Trenor found out she was planning to move to Texas to join Zeigler, her parents were worried something bad would happen.
I told her you shouldn’t go down”, recalls her father, Randy. “I told her I think you are making a mistake. But I couldn’t stop her because she was over 18 and she made her own decisions. I couldn’t stop her.”
Step-mother, Patty Trenor added, “people are making us into horrible persons. They say we should have stopped her and we should have prevented it. But how could we stop her from going?”
Family friends describe Kimberly as quiet, reserved and unwilling to let the outside world know about her troubles.
Once she moved to Spring, Texas, they believe Kimberly was living in fear of her new husband, Royce Zeigler.
Long time family friend, Annie Frost and her husband, Fred, are devastated by the death of Riley.
“It’s out of her character because she’s not like that,” said Fred Frost. “She was raised in a good household. I mean Patty and Randy love her to pieces. And there’s no way it’s Kimberly. No way!”
“It’s possible she was part of this, even if it was just covering up,” added Annie. “But you don’t know what she might have been doing out of fear.”
But Kim’s parents admit that she lied to them about the baby last summer. She kept telling them that Riley was playing or sleeping whenever they called to talk to their granddaughter.
Today the couple has tears but no answers. The murder suspect’s father wants her to answer some simple questions.
“I want her to tell me,” said Trenor,”why did you do that? Why did you lie to me on the phone?”
Wiping back tears, family friend Annie Frost said, “Kimberly is all alone down there. There’s no one there for her.”
Perhaps the more important question is, who was there for the little blonde child, Riley Sawyers?
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 8:53 pm -I remember reading the address. Something like: 7000 (block) Enns. Does that help you. I am surprised that you have not seen that since you are in SPRING!!!
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 9:48 pm -jamz09…..here is the correct address: 7800 block of Enns Lane
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dammitall
Nov 27, 2007 at 10:57 pm -I wish we could at least sterilize these motherfuckers with a hammer.
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Gram Oreo
Nov 27, 2007 at 11:12 pm -Has anyone notice the comment from the article I posted ~ Kimberly’s Father’s comments…. Here is a real breathtaker…..
Wiping back tears, family friend Annie Frost said, “Kimberly is all alone down there. There’s no one there for her.”
Well tooooooo damn bad. She went there, what in god’s name would this Annie Frost be thinking…about Kimberly for???? Hey…..she has ROYCE…..had a daughter, that was not good enough, had a hubby in Ohio that was not good enough. So…..let her have her freedom……she will have a lot of friends in jail. LOL LOL LOL…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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dammitall
Nov 27, 2007 at 11:42 pm -“All alone”? Well, gee…she did it to herself. It could be worse, she could be “all alone” in a box in Galveston Bay.
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txchick1971
Nov 28, 2007 at 9:08 am -i would like to say……..i am a single mom myself with 14 & 10 yr olds……i tried dabbling in online dating but stepped away very fast….there are weirdos out there and people i would never trust around my kids….it sucks though because i choose not to date in order to protect my kids….and when i read stuff like this about rowan ford and riley sawyers, it just reminds me what comfort i have being single and protecting my kids….but i can see how people so easily fall into the “i need attention” phase……..it’s tough but i work thru it everyday….just makes me stronger i suppose
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ashdavus
Nov 28, 2007 at 9:21 am -This entire story just makes me want to puke. It’s unfathomable how anyone could be so evil. From the mugshots, even m