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Deceased Jonathan Foster 12 Went Missing Christmas Eve *found deceased*

The woman, now in custody, is an acquaintance of Jonathan Foster’s stepfather. A second person, a male, is being searched for in connection with the boy's disappearance
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Foster’s mother and stepfather were taken in for questioning on Tuesday, but there was no indication the parents were put into police custody.

Police were questioned as to why it took three days to issue an Amber Alert following Foster’s disappearance. They said they delayed the alert because they felt parents were not giving the full story regarding their son’s disappearance.
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http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/new...woman-arrested-in-connection-to-missing-child

I'm thinking "acquaintance of Jonathan Foster’s stepfather" = "other woman" :noidea:
 
DV, you took the words right out of my mouth.

The woman, now in custody, is an acquaintance of Jonathan Foster’s stepfather.
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I believe I posted something along these lines earlier. I still don't rule him out. I still think he did it, and she is covering up for him.
 
If my kid called me at work like that and some strange woman was talking, I wouldnt be driving home, Id be calling 911 to have the cops hightail it to my home and check on my son...
 
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There have been some conflicting reports and confusion in the case of the 12-year-old Houston boy, Jonathan Foster, who vanished Christmas Eve.

In a phone conversation with Houston Police Public Information Officer Kese Smith Wednesday afternoon, Examiner.com learned police were given conflicting information from Jonathan’s parents early on in the case, leading to conflicting reports.

Houston Police PIO Smith provided information to Examiner.com Wednesday to clear up some misconceptions and to provide an update in the case (all updates and responses provided below are from PIO Smith):

Initial reports:

Jonathan was at a babysitter’s house on Christmas Eve, walked home at around 1:45 p.m. to pick up a video game from his apartment which is located in the same neighborhood, and vanished.

Update:

Jonathan was not at a babysitter’s house. He was home alone at 1:45 p.m. on Christmas Eve. He did vanish sometime after 1:45 p.m.

Initial reports:

Jonathan’s stepfather lives in the apartment with Jonathan's mother, Angela Davis, and Jonathan, and is the last person to have seen Jonathan before he vanished Christmas Eve.

Update:

Jonathan’s stepfather did not live with Davis and Jonathan at the time of Jonathan’s disappearance. Jonathan’s stepfather told police he saw Jonathan “before it happened” but did not provide a specific time.

Initial reports:

Jonathan called his mother at work and left her a message of an emergency.

Update:

Jonathan’s mother, Angela Davis, did receive a disturbing phone message at around 1:45 p.m. while she was at work on Christmas Eve. The call came from her apartment.

Police do not know who placed the call and do not believe the message was from Jonathan.

Jonathan’s mother immediately called back and a woman with a raspy voice answered the phone. The woman asked Davis who she was, and Davis identified herself saying she was Jonathan’s mother.

When the woman asked Jonathan if Angela was his mother Davis could hear Jonathan in the background reply “yes,” then the phone abruptly died.

Initial reports:

Jonathan went missing around 1:45 p.m. and his mother did not report him missing until 9:30 p.m.

Update:

When the phone call abruptly ended, Davis feared something was terribly wrong and raced home to find her son missing.

She filed a missing person’s report at 9:30 p.m. PIO Smith is unsure what time she first called police, and will provide that information to Examiner.com once it is made available to him.

Initial reports:

The parents’ car was seized.

Update:

PIO Smith said the Houston Police cannot give specific details about the case, including whether or not a vehicle was seized.

He said they are following leads and were interviewing more witnesses Wednesday.

Question:

Are police still actively searching for Jonathan?

Response:

Yes, the search for Jonathan continues. The Amber Alert remains active.

Police are looking for a woman with a raspy voice.

Police are asking the public for their help. They need to know if you have heard, seen, or know of anything about Jonathan’s disappearance.

Note: Even if the information you have seems minor or even irrelevant, yet it has to do with this case, it is crucial to provide it to police. It could be one of the missing pieces to this puzzle.

If you have information you are asked to call Houston Police, Homicide Division at 703-308-3600.

Question:

Since the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department is handling Jonathan's missing person's case, does that mean police believe this is a homicide?

Response:

No. The Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department not only handles homicide cases, it is also tasked with handling kidnapping and abduction cases.

Question:

What is the classification of Jonathan’s case?

Response:

Jonathan’s case is a “missing person’s case of a child believed to have been abducted.”

Note: The Amber Alert lists Jonathan as "Endangered Missing."

Initial reports:

PIO Smith stated that he believes Jonathan is still alive.

Update:

To clear up any misconceptions, PIO Smith said he told reporters that police are treating this case as a missing person’s case, and as such, are treating it as if Jonathan is still alive.

Police are actively searching for information into Jonathan’s disappearance.

Initial reports:

An Amber Alert was not issued until Monday, Dec. 27, when Jonathan went missing Friday, Dec. 24.

Update:

Because of conflicting reports police received from Jonathan’s parents, an Amber Alert was not initially issued.

One of the criteria for an Amber Alert is that police must believe the child was abducted. It was not initially clear if that was the case. Police now believe Jonathan was in fact abducted.

Initial reports:

EquuSearch has suspended their search for Jonathan.

Update:

EquuSearch is not searching for Jonathan Wednesday. However, according to its leader, Tim Miller, they told police they are on stand-by and ready to go if they receive leads from police.

Question:

Have any suspects or persons of interest been named in this case?

Response:

Police cannot answer this question at this time. They can say, however, that as of Wednesday afternoon no one has been arrested or charged in this case.

Initial reports:

A burned body was found days after Jonathan disappeared. The body is described as about three feet tall and so badly burned that the gender of the child could not be determined.

Update:

At around 9:30 a.m. Houston time, Tuesday morning, a worker found burned human remains in the 900 block of East Hardy Toll Road and called authorities. Houston Police arrived and determined the remains were so badly burned that the gender could not be determined.

It is believed the burned remains are those of a child. It is believed the child was murdered and burned somewhere else and then dumped at that location.

There is no identity of the burned remains at this time.

Jonathan’s case and the case of the remains are being treated as two separate cases until the identity can be determined by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Scientists.
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http://www.examiner.com/missing-per...ase-houston-police-clears-conflicting-reports
 
A name - but no mug yet.
A family acquaintance has been charged with capital murder in the death of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster.

Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, was arrested Wednesday morning at her home, police said.

A break in the case came Nelson’s truck was spotted on surveillance video taken from an office building near the culvert where a body believed to be Jonathan’s was found in the 9900 block of East Hardy on Tuesday.
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Angela Davis crumpled into a couch this afternoon in the small cottage in northwest Houston where her son was last seen alive, pulling her pajama-clad knees to her chest.

"I feel responsible because I left him here," she said, crying and staring blankly at the front door. "I’m his Mama. I’m supposed to protect him. Who else is going to protect him if I can’t?"
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The woman was friends with her roommate and Jonathan’s frequent babysitter, Sharon Ennamorato.

Angela Davis said she couldn’t figure out any reason why anyone would want to hurt her fair-haired boy.

She said Jonathan's stepfather had passed a polygraph about the disappearance. "I do not believe he had anything to do with my son’s abduction," she said.

But she lashed out at HPD. "They didn’t respond fast enough," she said. "To me, they acted like they didn’t care."

Angela Davis said the family was told it was possible that Jonathan had run away, and that was why authorities hadn’t issued an Amber Alert sooner.

Ennamorato shook her head, asking why a kid would run away on Christmas Eve?
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Pending the official notification from the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Jonathan's family has been prepared for the possibility that the body in the ditch is his, and all indications are that it is, a police source said.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7356276.html
 
So, mama lying to the police doesn't enter into reasons why the investigation was not going as fast as it should have been? whether or not Jonathan should have been left by himself is a moot point, it's the lying that slowed it all down.

I am so sorry Jonathan. I have a nephew named Jonathan, it really tears at my heart.
 
Body positively ID'd

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Mona Yvette Nelson
The Harris County District Attorney's Office has accepted capital murder charges against a woman accused in the disappearance and death of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster.

Late Wednesday, the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences positively identified a child's remains as those of Foster.

Houston Police arrested Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, Wednesday morning at a garage apartment on Allwood in the North Forest area.
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The DA's office is requesting Nelson be held without bond. She has a criminal record dating back to 1984, including aggravated robbery, making a terroristic threat, marijuana possession and theft.
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http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/new...woman-arrested-in-connection-to-missing-child
 
"Mona Nelson has made what investigators call a self-serving statement, which places her with Jonathan. However, she has not admitted to killing him," Houston police spokesman Kese Smith told the Houston Chronicle. "She is the only suspect."

Homicide investigator Mike Miller said investigators believe Nelson took the boy to her home, where she likely killed him and burned his body.

Miller said that while a search of Nelson's home turned up an "incredible amount of evidence," investigators are still trying to determine a motive.

Jonathan's mother, Angela Davis, said she'd met Nelson only once, on the night of her son's disappearance.

Nelson was friends with Davis' roommate and the boy's frequent babysitter, Sharon Ennamorato, who described Nelson as a friend who used to work in maintenance at an apartment complex across the street from the home.

Davis had moved into the home with Ennamorato on Dec. 14, after she and Jonathan's stepfather split up. Both Davis and Ennamorato had to work on Friday morning, so Foster was to stay home alone till his mother was expected to return in the early afternoon.

While at work that morning, a colleague told Davis her son had called the office and was asking for Ennamorato's number.

Then a woman called back, saying it was an emergency. Davis said that by the time she made it to the phone, the line was dead.

Concerned, Davis called the house phone repeatedly as she drove there, she said. Someone picked up just minutes before she pulled up around 2 p.m.

She said when a woman answered, Davis asked to speak to her son. She heard a woman say: "Is your mama's name Angela?" she said.

And she heard Jonathan say: "Yes ma'am, my mama's name is Angela." Then the phone went dead.

When she opened the door moments later, cartoons were still on the TV, and a game was up on the computer screen. She called for her son, but got no answer.

"The only thing missing in this house is his tan T-shirt with a guitar on it, a pair of jeans, his white sneakers and his black stuffed cat that my grandmother made him," Davis said. "There was no struggle."

Davis said that Nelson stopped by the house that night, telling her that she had come to the house that morning looking for Ennamorato, and that Jonathan had answered the door wearing no shirt, and it seemed like someone was in the house with him.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7359384.html
 
I feel so sorry for this mother. She must be feeling so guilty for leaving her son alone while she was at work. I think 12 years old (well, depending on the kid) is old enough to be left alone for a few hours. WTH happened here?
 
Davis said she's not pretending to be a perfect parent. When felt her life spiraling out of control years ago, she sent her children to live with relatives.

"He hasn't seen his father since he was 4 years old," she said. "When he was 6, his father told him on the phone that he was a problem in his life and he didn't want nothing to do with him."

She calls him a twice-born child, because his heart had stopped when she was pregnant with him, and the doctors thought he'd died. But they picked up the heartbeat, and he was born a healthy little boy.

"That's why his name is Jonathan, which means a gift from God," she said. "I don't know how God could give me that gift, and then take him from me.
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Oh, the pain she must be feeling. I don't know if it would have mattered, but if she had called 911 on the way, maybe she wouldn't of just missed him. Sometimes when you panic and your brain says "you're being dramatic" so you second guess your gut and wait.
 
They are going to just keep trickling info on this...
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Nelson was arrested Wednesday at her apartment and had been scheduled to appear in a court hearing this morning, but officials said she had a medical issue and was not brought to the courtroom. They didn't release details of her condition.

Authorities detailed evidence against Nelson to allow a hearing officer to determine if prosecutors had enough information to have arrested her. She was ordered held without bond, which is common in capital murder cases.

Prosecutors said Nelson admitted to police that she was the driver of a silver pickup who got out of the truck and discarded Jonathan's body in the ditch in the 9902 East Hardy near Schilder.

Surveillance cameras at a business near the spot where the body was discovered had recorded her images, prosecutors said.

They also said investigators found burned carpet at Nelson's home and discovered twine that appeared to match the string that was used to bind Jonathan's hands.

She also was identified by a witness as the woman seen Friday at the Fosters' small cottage near an apartment complex on Oak.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7359495.html
 
Jonathan's stepfather, David Davis, said the arrest does not bring him much peace because nothing will bring Jonathan back.

"What kind of monster is this? Burnt my baby in a ditch? They burnt my baby on Christmas," Davis said. "There's no more Christmas. They're done for this family. What kind of monster is that? You get her!"

Nelson was arrested in the neighborhood where Jonathan was last seen, police said. She is a family acquaintance or a friend of Jonathan's family, police said.

Davis said he did not know Nelson well.

"I don't know her. I saw her before, though. She looks like a dude," Davis said.
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Nelson gave police permission to search her home before Jonathan's body was identified. Investigators said they found welding equipment in her home and she may have worked as a welder.

Davis said he knows exactly what he wants.

"I want vengeance for my boy," he said. "I'm sick. I don't know what I'm feeling right now. I want, I want vengeance!"

Davis and Jonathan's mother, Angela Davis, were questioned extensively in the days after the disappearance.

"They drilled me like I thought I was in Vietnam," David Davis said. "I know that's their job. 'It's you, it's you, it's you,' they kept saying. I told them just hammer me for a thousand days, a thousand nights. I love my boy."
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http://www.click2houston.com/news/26319669/detail.html

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The woman with her in 3rd pic is Houston Mayor Annise Parker. I assume it was just a photo op thing of some sort.

Mona Nelson's MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/499637200
 
Why? Why the hell would this woman do something like this? Did she just stumble upon Jonathon & decide to kill him? Would she've killed anyone else she happened upon that day? It's incomprehensible...

She admits that she dumped the body, but she'll probably plead not guilty to the murder & they'll have to go through with a trial. What a waste of time and money.
 
Ok, so that 3ft thing was a misprint.
And where did she... Oops, I mean the killer... Burn the body? Obviously was a small fire since there was actually something left to dump. Fires have to be intense to leave very small fragments. Not so easy to burn a human body.
And above all... WHY? What did this serve her? What other unsolved murders could be attributed to her or is this actually her first?
 
I could be reaching, but the mom was the roommate with another woman and this killer was an acquaintance of that woman, maybe it was more of a relationship than we know. Perhaps she did not like the living arrangement.
 
Amazon said:
Ok, so that 3ft thing was a misprint.
And where did she... Oops, I mean the killer... Burn the body? Obviously was a small fire since there was actually something left to dump. Fires have to be intense to leave very small fragments. Not so easy to burn a human body.
And above all... WHY? What did this serve her? What other unsolved murders could be attributed to her or is this actually her first?
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He was burned in her apartment.
They also said investigators found burned carpet at Nelson's home and discovered twine that appeared to match the string that was used to bind Jonathan's hands.
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