13-year-old Neica Gibbs was missing, now dead

[Ruby]

More horror in Florida. What is going on down there, people??

Why didn't we know about this story?? Gosh, she's just beautiful. See picture in link:

http://www.local10.com/news/16968119/detail.html


Body Found Near Dumpster ID'd As Missing Girl
13-Year-Old Reported Missing 3 Weeks Ago

POSTED: 4:17 pm EDT July 23, 2008
UPDATED: 12:56 pm EDT July 24, 2008


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Police said a decomposing body found outside a trash bin Wednesday night in Fort Lauderdale has been identified as a missing 13-year-old girl.

Neica Gibbs had been reported missing since June 29. That's when her grandmother and legal guardian, Barbara Queer, said she was supposed to be spending the night with her aunt, Linda Pendegrass.

Police said Gibbs' body was found wrapped in a blue tarp next to the trash bin, located in the 2700 block of Southwest Sixth Drive -- the same street where Gibbs was supposed to be staying when she disappeared three weeks ago.


Lorraine Bogges was cleaning up the trash left on the ground outside the bin when she discovered Gibbs' decomposing body.

A purple teddy bear marked the spot Thursday where Gibbs' body was found.

Friends of Gibbs told Local 10 they were curious about a hole underneath Pendegrass' trailer. They said the hole was small and not wide, leading them to believe someone put the body under the trailer and moved it when the body started to stink.

Neighbors reported smelling a foul odor, but police said nobody ever notified them about it.

Police said they are investigating several leads, including Gibbs' MySpace.com page, which was last updated Tuesday.

The heading on Gibbs' page reads: "UM GONE N BITCH I AINT NEVA COMMING HOME."

It was unclear who posted the message, but police said they were investigating.

Police on Thursday also responded to criticism that they didn't do more to find Gibbs.

"The family's been in consistent contact with us and we had no reason to believe that there was any foul play or the child was endangered," Fort Lauderdale police Sgt. Frank Sousa said.

Investigators said it was unclear how the girl died. An autopsy is scheduled.

[michelle]

:sad:

[Carolina Girl]

What a beautiful little girl, how tragic that this happened to her and it seems to just be a small little article, and fyi kind of thing instead of the tragic loss of a 13 year old.

[SoUncool]

http://www.bradenton.com/180/story/761870.html

Boy, 15, charged with murdering girl

FORT LAUDERDALE - Authorities say they have arrested a 15-year-old boy in the murder of a 14-year-old girl who had been missing for three weeks.

Police say he was an acquaintance of the girl's.

Police say the trash bin was just steps away from a home where Neica was supposed to attend a sleepover three weeks ago.

Police say Gibbs was inside the boy's residence on June 28. The two got into a fight that left the girl dead.

[Jaded]

He is actually the son of the woman that found the body....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25845646/

[Ruby]

Here's some more detail, as well, along with another gorgeous picture of Neica:

http://www.local10.com/news/16988346/detail.html


Boy, 15, Reportedly Confesses To Killing 14-Year-Old Girl

POSTED: 11:42 am EDT July 25, 2008
UPDATED: 1:44 pm EDT July 25, 2008


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The 15-year-old boy arrested and charged with the murder of a teenage girl and hiding her body near a Dumpster will make his first court appearance Friday afternoon.

But many questions about the crime remain unanswered.

It is still unclear how the teens knew each other, how the victim was killed, or what motive the boy may have had for killing 14-year-old Neica Gibbs.

Local 10 will not identify the teen suspect unless prosecutors decide to charge him as an adult, but the boy's mother said she was as shocked as anyone to hear her son confess.

“He told me what happened. Did I have any clue? No. He didn’t show no signs,” said Lorraine Boggess, the suspect's mother.

Boggess said she found out Thursday night, not long after detectives took her and her 15-year-old son in for what she thought was routine questioning. Boggess is one of the people who found Gibbs' body, wrapped in a blue tarp, near the dumpster of their trailer park Monday afternoon.

Family members reported Gibbs missing three weeks ago. Boggess said during that time, her son never let on that he knew where she was.

"The only time he started acting strange on me is when he went to the police station. That’s when I started to noticed that he was acting funny. But other than that, no,” Boggess told Local 10's Elena Echarri.

But some of the teens who live in the Azalea Trailer Colony suspected from the start that her son was involved. They said their hunches were confirmed when they learned Gibbs' hands were tied together.

"That blue rope that she got tied up with, I’ve seen that rope over there by (the suspect's) house so I think he did it,” said one friend.

Police said they believe Gibbs was killed on June 28, inside the trailer the teen suspect shares with his mother and younger brother. Neither family member was home at the time.

Investigators describe the boy and Gibbs as acquaintances and said he killed her during an argument. But they won’t say what the two were fighting about.

The boy is charged with an open count of homicide. It's unclear if he'll be prosecuted as an adult.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

More horror in Florida. What is going on down there, people??
I think I'm going to start calling it "Horrid-a"... even so, I still wouldn't hesitate a visit.

[Unamused Cat]

Suspect Jason Hartley

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg107/snarkyphotos/jasonhartley.jpg

[Abroad]

*gag*

It takes an awful lot of trash to conceal a body.





And my stars, it takes a special kind of cheek to "dispose" of a body by putting at the kerb with the household waste. Such disrespect and callousness........

[Jaded]

First, he lied about everything.

Then Jason Hartley told a Fort Lauderdale police detective that he found the body of Neica Marie Gibbs, 14, near the trailer where he lives.

Later, in a videotaped statement shown by his attorney Friday, Hartley, 15, tearfully admitted Gibbs was with him when she died. But he said her death was an accident.

Hartley, 15, is being charged as an adult with second-degree murder in the June 28 death of Gibbs and could face life in prison if convicted.

In his 90-minute interview with Detective John Curcio, recorded July 24, Hartley initially said he and Gibbs had sex and that she left his trailer.

Then he claimed he found Gibbs dead and hid her body out of fear he would be held responsible for her death.

"Why didn't you just call 911?" Curcio asked.

"I was scared," Hartley responded. After further questioning, Hartley leaned in toward Curcio.

"You're trying to make me say I did kill her," he said.

"I'm trying to get you to tell the truth," Curcio said. "That's all I want from you, man."

Sobbing, gulping for air and sometimes struggling to get his words out, Hartley finally said he agreed to pay Gibbs for the sexual encounter, but that she got angry because he didn't have any money on him. She threatened him, Hartley said, and then got violent, attacking him with a piece of a broken vacuum cleaner in Hartley's bedroom.

Hartley said he fought back, and that in the struggle, a strap hanging on a treadmill ended up wrapped around the girl's neck.

Before Hartley could make sense of what was happening, he said, the girl stopped moving.

"She fell to the ground," he said, crying almost uncontrollably. "I checked her arm. She wasn't breathing."

Afraid no one would believe it was an accident, Hartley said he put Gibbs' body in a tarp and lugged it outside on a dolly to a trash bin.

No one saw him, he said, contradicting an 11-year-old friend who, in a sworn deposition, told the same detective he saw Hartley and touched the body through the tarp, not knowing what was underneath.

Hartley's lawyer, George Reres, said Hartley never intended to kill Gibbs.

"He had a long-term crush on the girl," Reres said.

In the video, Hartley tells the detective his sexual encounter with Gibbs was his first with anyone.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sfl-flbgibbs1018sboct18,0,6556848.story

[crickett]

I don't believe this little lying ass prick. I have NO doubt that the girl was unwilling and he raped her, then killed her. She was found with her arms bound together. What kind of "accident" was that?

[Aelwynn]

Wow. LOL So the little brat is saying that he wanted to pay her to have sex with him. I find that hard to believe. She was on her way to a sleepover, not to get paid for sex.

He says there was a struggle when she attacked. I find that hard to believe also. Usually if a John doesn't have money, the prostitute (not saying she was one) leaves and says w/e. They don't attack their John unless they did it and he didn't want to pay up.

As for the getting trapped up in a cord, I call bullshit. Did her hands get magically tied too? Did she struggle and fight with him so much that she magically tied her own wrists? Whatever.

My personal opinion? This fat fuck raped this girl when she was on her way to a sleepover - I'd like to know if he had sex with her, where's the rape kit. He tied her up, strangled her, and dumped her body.

Edit...holy shit didn't even see Crickett's response. Totally agree with ya.

[nurseronda]

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/nurseronda/16983642_240X180.jpghttp://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh20/nurseronda/41728445.jpg

I just thought that we needed her pictures in this post.

[Aelwynn]

Ok yeah, those pics don't really scream prostitute to me. What a very pretty girl. Such a worthless death. I'm sure her family misses her alot.

[silvahalo68]

What a very tragic story. Such a senseless death...this bastard kid must have never been taught a thing about respect for life.

Children killing children it is always so incredibly sad. Two lives changed and ended...no mistake his life has ended from any normalcy....a murder at 15 yrs. old...dead at 14 just so *F* sad.

Rest in peace Neica Marie.

[crickett]

She's beautiful....RIP
I pray for justice for her.

[Wonder]

i did a google search on (15 yr old Bogges)due to the post that said he was the found of the lady that found her... not knowing his name

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=15+yr+old+Bogges&aq=f&oq=

story on pg 2 here is upsetting
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/nationworld/sfl-flbgirl0725pnjul25,0,4917251.story?page=2

A local nonprofit group, A Child is Missing, also offers a free service to police that alerts residents when a child may be missing in their area, even in the case of runaways. Sherry Friedlander, the group's founder, said Fort Lauderdale police never contacted them about the case.

Ricky Dunn, one of Gibbs' uncles, said she would spend weeks at her best friend's house. Because of that, she was gone for a week before relatives called police

[Wonder]

Prosecutors on Wednesday formally charged Jason Hartley, the 15-year-old Fort Lauderdale boy accused of killing a 14-year-old-girl and covering it up, with second-degree murder -- as an adult.

Hartley potentially faces life in prison if convicted.

Police say he confessed to killing neighbor Neica Gibbs after they had sex in his mother's mobile home on June 28. Her body was found rotting behind a garbage bin nearly a month later.

There was a question whether Hartley would be charged as a juvenile or an adult. That became clear Wednesday, when state attorney Maria Schneider announced the charges in court.

Hartley will be moved from juvenile lock-up to the main jail Wednesday.

''It's a very difficult situation whenever you're dealing with a 15-year-old, but the circumstances and severity of the crime led us to charge him as an adult,'' Schneider said. ``The victim's family felt strongly that this was the way to go.''

Lorraine Boggess, Hartley's mother, was in court Wednesday but did not speak with reporters.

''It's rare that a 15-year-old with no contact with the criminal or judicial system whatsoever is charged with such a serious crime,'' said George Reres, Hartley's attorney. ``The boy is in shock because he was never been away from home for this long and he really doesn't know what's going on yet.''

Gibbs' family did not attend Wednesday's proceeding.

Schneider explained that Hartley was not charged with first-degree murder because the state did not feel like it was premeditated and it may have been an act of passion.

in a cache page (aug 29th)
http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:_ty7w-Umn54J:www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/breaking-news/story/649581.html+15+yr+old+Bogges&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

I do hope they lock him up for life ! :bootyshake:

I read a 11 yr old touched the body under the tarp without knowing it was the girl's body.

[Nell]

''It's rare that a 15-year-old with no contact with the criminal or judicial system whatsoever is charged with such a serious crime,'' said George Reres, Hartley's attorney. ``The boy is in shock because he was never been away from home for this long and he really doesn't know what's going on yet.''


Well boo fucking hoo! I bet that poor girl was really shocked when he killed her and dumped her like trash. And she can't ever go home.

[Wonder]

I highly recommend that second video

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/friday/nationworld/sfl-flbgirl0725pnjul25,0,4917251.story?page=2

Hartley helped pass out flyers and asked Pendegrass everyday if she had saw her.


(as i went back for spelling I noticed - Hartley attended Parkway Middle School, where he was supposed to have been starting eighth grade in August.) 15 yr olds are usually sophmores.

[Abroad]

Hartley helped pass out flyers and asked Pendegrass everyday if she had saw her.


(as i went back for spelling I noticed - Hartley attended Parkway Middle School, where he was supposed to have been starting eighth grade in August.) 15 yr olds are usually sophmores.



So he was cunning enough to deflect suspicion by acting doing what any concerned neighbour would do; but not academically advanced to the point you would expect at that age? That is interesting.