UPDATE 05/02/08 - Felicia Mikels’ body was recovered this week from Pennsauken Creek in Maple Shade, where it had washed up on the bank. Today, the body was positively identified as Felicia’s. Our sympathies to her family and friends.
Pennsauken, N.J., January 21, 2008 - When Felicia Mikels, 17, didn’t come home on Friday night, her family was worried. It wasn’t like Felicia to stay gone, and she’d left the house on foot with her five-week-old baby Miciana in her stroller. By early Saturday morning, they were frantic and contacted police to file a missing persons report.
Saturday morning in neighboring Cherry Hill, a man was driving to work when he saw a Winnie The Pooh carseat on the front lawn. Inside was a newborn baby girl - cold and hungry, but otherwise unharmed. She was bundled in pink blankets. The man called police, who sent out press releases to area news outlets publicizing the abandoned baby, hoping for leads.
Within hours, pieces started to fall into place. Family members saw the baby on TV and rushed to the police station to collect Miciana - but there was no sign of Felicia. It wasn’t like her, they insisted. She took pictures of her baby every day even though she was young and single. She loved her baby, wouldn’t leave her. Detectives spent hours interviewing family to collect leads - and they got one.
Felicia’s paternal uncle, 26 year old Christopher Mikels, showed authorities a text message from Felicia’s cell phone. The text indicated that Felicia had run away, but something about the message didn’t seem right to investigators. They kept Chris there to ask a few more questions, and his story just didn’t add up. Until later that night, when he came clean.
Felicia was upset about a money dispute with him and his friend Douglas Mandichak, 25. She’d met the men at a local bowling alley near her home Friday night and had Miciana with her. Mikels and Mandichak took Felicia for a little ride “just to scare her”, Mikels said, but when they got to a parking lot in Pennsauken, something went wrong. Mikels said he’d held Felicia while Mandichak hit her in the head with a piece of wood. They drove around for awhile, then dumped Felicia’s body in Pennsauken Creek. They left the stroller on the bank, he said, but he couldn’t kill baby Miciana.
Douglas Mandichak
After all, said Uncle Chris, Miciana was probably his daughter. He’d been having sex with his teenaged niece for quite some time. And if not his baby, then quite possibly Doug Mandichak’s. What’s a little sexual abuse of a minor and incest in the face of murder?
Can I just stop here and get a giant WTF? Even Camden County Prosecutor Joshua M. Ottenberg said, “There seems to have been a serious breakdown in the rules of humanity” in this case. Oh, really, Captain Obvious? And I don’t think this was a money dispute, either, unless the money he meant was child support.
Divers spent Sunday combing Pennsauken Creek for Felicia’s body, but haven’t yet found it. They did recover the stroller on the banks of the creek where it was dumped, though. And Mikels and Mandichak are in jail in lieu of $750,000 bond. Mandichak is charged with murder and Mikels is charged with accomplice to murder. DNA testing is being done on both men to determine which total waste of humanity is poor little Miciana’s father.
UPDATE 4/29/08 - Three months later, Felicia Mikels’ body has been found. It washed up on the banks of Pennsauken Creek this afternoon and was spotted by passersby. After removing her body from the creek bank in Maple Shade, it was determined that the body is Felicia’s. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Also today, both Christopher Mikels and Douglas Mandichak were in court briefly, where new bonds were set. Mandichak, who is accused of the actual murder of Felicia Mikels, is now being held on $1 million bail. Christopher Mikels, who is being charged as an accomplice, remains held on $750,000 bond. DNA testing still isn’t in, but each man has said that he could be Miciana’s father.
On May 2, 2008, authorities confirmed that the body pulled from the creek on April 29 does belong to Felicia Mikels.
I’ll continue updating this article as information comes in.
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aspartame
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:01 pm -There are so many things wrong with this i dont evern know where to start…
poor little baby….
*shakes_head*
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ab
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:06 pm -I think this is the myspace page for Doug’s girlfriend and she is expecting. Lovely!
http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....d=10694525
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ERnurse
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:18 pm -Trashy picture of the girl. WTF! I am too disgusted with the whole bunch of them to even think of a comment about this case. This girl did not deserve to die but she sure did live dangerously.
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WryBread
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:19 pm -Gee, which murderer is the daddy? Which daddy killed mommy over money? This is confusing. Poor baby. What a legacy to grow up knowing — or to find out when an adult.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:24 pm -Here is Felicia’s from 2005 (last log in).
http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....d=20213718
Here’s is Felicia’s more recent (I think), but set to private.
http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....=110316304
Appears to be her sister? Lots of pictures of the baby.
http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....d=14830346
What’s with the lips? I’ll just shut up right this minute….
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:26 pm -Thanks AB for the link! I was just starting to look for pics and there’s Doug Mandichak in all his glory. Nice. Poor g/f is a mess, and that’s the nicest thing i can say about that.
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Morbid
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:29 pm -Looking at her Myspace, I feel more for the baby than ever before. Out of the pan, into the fire. Damn. Colomom beat me to it.
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:32 pm -Y’all beat me to it
I probably don’t even need to post extra pics now. 
As to the lips, well, a lot of kids do that now. It’s like the fun “ooh, we’re gonna take pictures, everyone pucker!” thing. What’s weird is when they smile. Heh.
That baby looks microcephalic, not gonna lie.
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dammitall
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:33 pm -I bet that was it. I bet she said, “Hey, Uncle Chris you scumbag–you can help support YOUR BABY or I’m going to start talking!”
I mean, why else would they kill her?
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Morbid
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:33 pm -It’s probably a good thing the baby cannot read yet. If it could, and could see his Aunt’s musings of
The baby may have just jumped in the creek right behind its mother.
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ab
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:40 pm -Felicia’s dad and Chris’ brother’s site: http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....=119909319
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ells9824
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:41 pm -“love isnt easy you have to fight for it…right now im fighting for the love of my life Doug.. i hope we never break up….i know everyone says this but i honestly do need him and i love him to death”
Last Login: 1/21/2008
Prison romances are always so sweet. Maybe y’all can get married on Lock Up. I’ll throw the watch party.
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dammitall
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm -That’s nearly iconic.
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ZombieBabe
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:44 pm -In all of her pictures with Doug, she calls him her husband, but her last name is Dennison. Hmmmm. Common-law marriage perhaps? Or maybe good ole Douggie was just stringing her along, promising to marry her knowing full well he’d knocked up the neighborhood slut. Curiouser.
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:45 pm -See, this is my thing - I’m just not sure this girl ever had a chance. Everyone in her family that has Myspace talks like an idiot. The boys seem to date younger girls with no sense and knock ‘em up. Felicia was obviously sexually abused by her uncle, who passed her around to his friends, and her baby is not okay - that is a sick baby. Now she’s dead. The whole family situation looks shaky at best.
I feel sorry for Felicia. And even sorrier for Miciana.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:49 pm -Hey, no fair using big words….
Please explain Dr. Morbid, don’t make me Google it….
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:51 pm -Whooops, I mean Dr. impqueen….sorry. Your avatars are really close, colorwise.
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ells9824
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:52 pm -Not to be mean,but these people seem really trashy.
I have piles of laundry and the living room needs to be painted, but hey, my brothers are only fathering kids with their wives.
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:56 pm -First, here’s mama’s Myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....d=71839261
Microcephalic means “small head”, basically. Really small head. That baby just looks sick. It’s too early to really tell for sure what the problem is just by looking, but she’s definitely little all over and her head circumference is just very small. Which usually means problems in the brain.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 8:57 pm -I didn’t want to be mean either ells but damn, these grrrrlllllls make the Mean Girls look like wimps.
The Camden Girls scare me….
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:01 pm -Daddy’s Myspace says he needs a woman for Christmas fun, and he’s 38. Mama’s Myspace has her as 40 but looking somewhat older, and she talks gangsta too. Mama even has a “pimp daddy”. Holy cats. No wonder the kids are flashing gang signs and writing like morons. And these people have grandchildren.
Shall we start the pool on how long it takes the family to find us and start screaming illiterately about how mean we are and how we shouldn’t hate a playa? The more I see of this family the sorrier I feel for Felicia and her baby.
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dammitall
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:05 pm -Probably take them till tomorrow at least. I’m not sure they can spell well enough to Google their own names.
Poor Felicia. Fuct from the gitgo.
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ells9824
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:07 pm -If we write inbillicacord over and over, they will find us quick.
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dammitall
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:13 pm -It’s okay with me if they don’t find us. Just sayin’.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:20 pm -Sister has another…
http://profile.myspace.com/ind.....d=71839261
Thanks impqueen, I read that the baby was born premature, mentioned here: http://cbs3.com/topstories/Chi.....33732.html
She is 5 weeks old and was just released from the hospital last week. A month in the hospital? Ugh. She is a very, very, very lucky little girl. It has been very cold in Jersey.
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Morbid
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:33 pm -Added a pic of the possible father, killer. As usual, thanks, Heather!
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:41 pm -That’s a great smirky shot of Doug Mandichak, thanks! I’m still looking for pics of Felicia’s paternal uncle Chris Mikels if anyone has ‘em. I think i have one, but i’m not sure it’s him and i’d hate to get a cap busted in my ass by the wrong dude.
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Hippiepoet
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:02 pm -Oh my god. I read so many myspace pages and none of these people seem to correctly use the English language. Jesusfuckingchrist. The best thing for that baby is to be taken the hell away from that family, or else it is going to end up as just “anotha gangzta ho”. I could not imagine being raised in that fucked up bullshit. My life just got a whole lot fucking sweeter after viewing a little bit of their lives….holy shit.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:14 pm -Anytime….
Doesn’t that pic just make you want to slap the shit outta him?
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:15 pm -Prematurity can certainly account for the small body size and even to some extent the small head size. Proportionally, that baby’s head still looks really small. Both of my kids were preterm and neither of them looked like that around the cranium.
If the baby spent a lot of time on oxygen, she might have had a little brain bleed or something, too. It’s hard to say - i’ve just been a nurse too long. I notice babies who don’t look right, and Miciana is lovely, but she just doesn’t look okay to me. Hopefully she’ll be fine.
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Hippiepoet
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:34 pm -I just thought it looked like a tiny infant. I’m no Pediatric nurse, though. My youngest sister had much difficulty with her first pregnancy and the baby was born early, his head/body was extremely small. I’m not sure what you’re seeing with that cranium Imp., but let’s hope this baby doesn’t have health problems to deal with because it already has to deal with one humdinger of a fucking family.
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WryBread
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:55 pm -Gangsta asses having gangsta ass kids who have babies whose father’s identity is in dispute.
She’s puckering up for the camera because she’s an asshole.
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:59 pm -Yeah, i’m probably nitpicking on the poor baby’s head
But, yeah. That’s a family, all right. The uncle’s raping his niece for how long and nobody notices or does anything or even seems all that surprised.
That’s messed up. Poor girl had no shot - I wonder how young she was when Uncle Chris started passing her around to his buddies?
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impqueen
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:02 pm -Wry, in this case the father’s identity is in dispute because the uncle was molesting his niece. He admits to having sex with her enough times that he feels the baby is his. Given that, if she was at all promiscuous it’s no wonder. She was never taught she could say no or do anything else. I’d say it’s not the dead girl who’s the asshole here, it’s her uncle.
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ab
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:22 pm -I would bet that this is the uncle in question (even looks like “Fe Fe’s” dad): http://viewmorepics.myspace.co.....ID=6016872
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ells9824
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:29 pm -Just please promise me if someone I know dies brutally and shit, y’all won’t leave me messages and shit like this and shit:
ayo my bad just heard today sorry it took to long to hit you up i was morning too the fucked up part was i was tellin her to stay strong and shit cause she told me bout hear helth and shit so like i said man sorry and keep me informed bout funeral and shit cause me and my bro want to come to it so hit me up and also let me know whats goin on wit every thing im watchin the news tring to stay informed
~~~~~~~~~~
keerist, I didn’t know Jersey had a different primary language than the rest of the United States.
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WryBread
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:29 pm -Imp, having seen her myspace page, I’d say the ass title could be awarded to a couple of people in this situation. You’re right, though, that it’s the girl and the poor baby who are the victims here. I got so riled over the garbage on her myspace page and the news that her parents’ myspace page is gangsta, too, that I lost focus! Thanks for bringing me back.
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colomom
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:47 pm -Ewwww, this incest aspect is creepin’ me out, I thought the same thing when I saw the pic of Felicia’s dad.
Yep, he looks like “Fe Fe’s” dad….they are brothers.
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ashdavus
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:55 pm -Anyone want to bet that SOMEONE in this fucked up family is their own grandpa too?
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solange822001
Jan 22, 2008 at 12:10 am -Jesus christ. That is disgusting. The uncle needs to rot in fucking hell. The girl is just 17 you guys. Look at who she had as role models. God damn, she didnt stand a chance. How could you sleep with your own neice??? That is freaking disgusting. I really hope for the baby’s sake that the other guy is the dad. And his girlfriend has got to be the dumbest broad I have ever met. Your “husband” had sex with a 17 year old, possibly knocked her up, killed her, and you are hoping you dont break up??? Get a fucking clue woman.
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solange822001
Jan 22, 2008 at 12:18 am -Oh yeah, and according to the news station, good ole Doug is a convicted arsonist. Umm yeah Ms. Dennison, he’s definitely a keeper! Dumb bitch.
It also says something about her oweing THEM money, not the other way around. Who knows though.
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bogustoo
Jan 22, 2008 at 12:22 am -We don’t usually. But then again, that’s South Jersey. The rest of the state doesn’t believe that South Jersey is part of New Jersey. It’s a bit… different around those parts.
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impqueen
Jan 22, 2008 at 6:09 am -Right you are - that’s him all right. Thanks - i’ve got Uncle Chris at the top of the post now
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Kathy
Jan 22, 2008 at 9:44 am -You know, I looked at all these myspace pages and found alot of pics of this girl. The only pictures where she looks like a sweet innocent 16 or 17 year old are the ones where she is pregnant. Isn’t that a shame?
I’m not attacking the victim here, but obviously the adults in this household pretty much let these kids do what they wanted. They may as well have handed that poor girl over to the uncle and his friend on a silver platter. Chances are, they kept her doing what they wanted and QUIET about it with drugs.
and the baby’s head does look a little off. Her forehead is way short, just like microencaphaly. Mind you, these are all new born pics, so her head may have “corrected” itself by now, but I see what you were saying Imp.
Whatever, fucking murdering bastards. I hope they rot for this.
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Hippiepoet
Jan 22, 2008 at 10:01 am -http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tiet.....cge010.jpg
Baby with Microcephalic head.
I still don’t “see” it in this baby. If you look though at the craniums of mom and chris (possible daddy), they both look egg shaped and skinny. Family fucking family can result in some gene manipulation.
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WryBread
Jan 22, 2008 at 10:44 am -Don’t newborns always look a little squashed? And they often look angry, as if the move from the womb to the world has not been a step up in their opinion. And they are probably right — especially if born into this incestuous, arsonist, self-control challenged family.
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ells9824
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:19 am -Understandably so! Life is something that started by you ramming your way out with your head and being tossed into a cold, dry world with weird looking shapes that you’ve never seen the likes of. If that isn’t enough, they immediately start poking you with needles and squirting water in your face. Good times, good times.
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LL44
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:23 am -Looks like Dougie’s girlfriend had a boy. “By” the way… anyone else notice her sexual orientation is…..bi?
What a tangled web we weave…………..
Their family tree is a fucking wreath!
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LL44
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:29 am -and on sis’s myspace - almost every pic - she has a HUGE hickey on her neck.
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solange822001
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:36 am -I saw that too! I think that is so tacky and disgusting. I was going to post about it here last night, but my computer kept freezing. Ugh, this family is just disgusting.
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