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What Did Daniel Cleary Do?

June 11, 2008 by impqueen  

Filed under: Amber Alert, Domestic Violence, Missing Person, Murder 

MeLisa Cleary on the Dreamin' Demon

MeLisa Cleary

Mackinaw, IL – MeLisa Cleary, 30, was last seen on Friday, June 6. Her family and friends hadn’t been able to reach her on her cell phone over the weekend, which was weird. And they couldn’t seem to get an answer from MeLisa’s husband Daniel or the kids, either. On Monday, railroad workers in Logan County, Illinois found a woman’s badly traumatized body. The body was MeLisa Cleary’s. Daniel Cleary and the couple’s three children were nowhere to be found.

Early Tuesday, an Amber Alert went out for Daniel Cleary and the kids: Chloe Renee Cleary, 3; Jacob Thomas Cleary, 8; and Kaitlin Elizabeth Roten, 12, who often uses last name Cleary. Just before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, the family was found at the Super 8 motel in Peoria. Also present was another woman, who has since been identified as his mother.

I know what you’re thinking and yep, that’s what I’m thinking too. MeLisa Cleary didn’t just off herself on some railroad tracks. And the most obvious suspect is Daniel Cleary, who took the kids and lit out for a motel room with his mom. It looks pretty suspicious, doesn’t it? Especially when you consider that family members say Dan Cleary often beat his wife. And that she was planning to leave him.

It looks like MeLisa went missing on Friday night. MeLisa’s grandmother says that “she was supposed to meet her sisters for supper that night go out and have supper and she never did turn up and that’s when they started calling around for her.” And over the weekend, family members found MeLisa’s car abandoned about two miles from her home.

Daniel Cleary was taken in for questioning, but no charges have yet been filed. The couple’s children are being cared for by an aunt right now. Whatever happened to MeLisa Cleary, it doesn’t sound good. In fact, it sounds to me like Dan Cleary just doesn’t like rejection.

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Comments

  • solange822001
    Lilbay, I think the other woman is his mother, the children's grandmother, according to the article. Maybe it was updated after you posted this comment, but it makes much more sense. I guess MURDER isn't enough for this mother to desert her precious baby Daniel!
  • havasumo
    what lucky children you must have
  • michelle
    No need for speculation as far as I am concerned. The son of a bitch killed his wife and left three children without a mother and now they will have to live with what he did for the rest of their life. Fuck, him. Is there a crazy as relative who could get away with offing him?
  • It is being reported that she told her sister that she was in fear for her life.
  • michelle
    It is being reported that she told her sister that she was in fear for her life.

    Of course she did, sadly she was right.
  • Hippiepoet
    Sounds very suspicious. Hopefully the coppers will figure it all out soon. What's that saying...."if it looks like shit and smells like shit, it probably is fucking shit"....this dude definitely sounds like he's in the shit.

    I feel sorry for her children.
  • sugarglider
    Yeah, the whole "my daddy killed my mommy" legacy is a tough one to deal with.
  • Lilbay
    In cases like this i always have to wonder what in heck that other woman is honestly thinking?
    I mean she had to know he had a wife now how did she expect him to just pack up the kids and roll into town and stay in a hotel like a new family without any issues from the kids mom?
    Did she just assume that the wife/Mom just did not give a darn?
    I have to wonder what if anything she knew about this


    I pray those kids find strength through whatever higher power they worship and i hope the family gets them to see a therapist to deal with this mess.
  • havasumo
    The other woman WAS his MOTHER you fuckin retard maybe she was trying to save the kids from the jerry springer freak show that the wife's family, the media and illiterate uninformed morons like you made out of this tragedy.I wonder what your higher power thinks about one of his sheep that thinks he has the right to sit in judgment at the same time he's worshiping his Shepard. Sounds like you've got a few issues for the therapist.
  • funnymommy
    It is being reported that she told her sister that she was in fear for her life.


    Yeah, this was on the news the other night and apparently she had stated to family that if she ever went missing, her husband did it. Wow.

    I had a friend who used to say that all the time about her partner. She finally left him. He burned their house down and went to jail. Thankfully, no one was hurt but he destroyed everything they had and the poor kids were left with nothing. He is currently serving time.
  • Zibarro
    No updates?

    Seems if he was gonna be charged... it would have happened by now?

    Just askin'

    Poor kids :(
  • Lilbay
    They took till a week ago to actually state to News that it was Homicide according to recent news posts.

    http://www.week.com/news/local/29201899.html

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-cl...


    So i am not going to give up hope yet. I do pray they find enough evidence to get this bastard. The kids are with a Aunt so hopefully he has limited access if any to them.

    He makes himself look even more guilty in that he cremate the body against familys wishes. Makes me wonder what he was making sure was not found???
    So sad when you KNOW these bastards do it but have no proof to lock them up. I pray the length of time it took to actually come out with news on this may mean charges are coming.
  • havasumo
    Her family isn't in custody anymore because of lame accusations much like yours
  • Eracsurfer
    Hey dumbass...do you even realize that you are responding to comments that were left a year ago?
  • Actually, Zibarro, it's not unusual for charges to take years in homicides.

    But as it happens, there's been an update. This from http://centralillinoisproud.com/content/fulltex... :

    WMBD/WYZZ -- Logan County - A Logan County Coroners jury rules the death of Mackinaw woman MeLisa Cleary a homicide. Autopsy results show Cleary died from blunt force trauma to the head and neck areas. Cleary's body was found June 9th off of Interstate 155 near Hartsburg. MeLisa's husband Daniel Cleary was questioned and released by police following the discovery of her body. An investigation is ongoing through the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department.
  • Zibarro
    Actually, Zibarro, it’s not unusual for charges to take years in homicides.


    Imp, I can understand that in cases where there's no real suspect... but this just didn't seem to fall into that catagory. She goes missing, she's found dead and hubby, grandma and kids are found (essentially) hiding in a motel. HE didn't report her missing and she'd told people she was scared for her life and if she was ever found murdered (to have to even SAY that to people - God!) that hubby did it.

    I guess coincidences happen... but not THAT often.

    Thank you both for the update. I've only been here a few days so I'm finding a lot of these stories long after the fact.
  • Jean Cohoon never thought a year would pass without an arrest after her daughter was found dead June 9, 2008, on a railroad embankment.

    A lot has happened since MeLisa Cleary, 30, was killed, including a custody fight over her three children, a foreclosure on her family’s Mackinaw home and an ongoing police investigation.

    But there’s been no arrest.
    [...]

    Tazewell County Sheriff Bob Huston said last week that investigators have forwarded their reports to the state’s attorney’s office, where they are being reviewed for possible prosecution. State’s Attorney Stu Umholtz said it’s still under investigation.

    A lawyer representing Cleary’s husband, Daniel Cleary, 35, said in December his client was considered the prime suspect in her death but maintained his innocence. The lawyer did not respond to requests for comment this week.

    Meanwhile, the couple’s home in Heritage Lake, a private community near Mackinaw, sits empty amid overgrown grass. Foreclosure proceedings against Daniel Cleary began in October, court records show.

    He has since moved to Normal and works for a heating and air conditioning firm.

    MeLisa Cleary’s family says the couple’s children — ages 13, 10 and 4 — are in foster care and living in western Illinois.
    [...]

    DCFS said in December that Daniel Cleary was allowed supervised visits.

    http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2009/06/02/n...
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