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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 16:47:34 GMT -5
ABDUCTED AUGUST 26, 1995 Heather Danyelle Teague was visiting a Kentucky beach to lie out in the sun on August 26, 1995 when something went awry. Someone decided to take Heather against her will from her lounge chair. The only eye witness was a man watching through a telescope who saw a bearded man snatch Heather up and drag her into the woods, to never been seen again. He later came forward to say that he thought it was a joke that her boyfriend was playing and did not think it was serious. The only known suspect, Marvin Dill was to be questioned a few days after Heather's disappearance, and before police could question him, he shot himself in the head. Several years after the abduction of Heather Teague, there has been many questions about the disappearance and the inconsistencies in the witness statements and the police's handling of the case. One fact still remains. Heather Teague is STILL missing!!! There is a mother who will not give up searching for her daughter and what happened to her. Has there been a police cover-up? Was Heather Teague's abduction a planned event? Where is she? A mother must know what happened to her and to bring her back home to her family where she belongs Please review Heather's website and take a walk inside the mind of a grieving mother who cannot get on with her life because one of her children is "missing". Someone knows what happened to Heather. Do you? If you do, please do the right thing and contact her family. What would you do if your child was missing without a trace??? www.whereisheatherteague.com/
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 16:51:19 GMT -5
On August 26, 1995 Heather Danyelle Teague was lying in the sun on Newburgh Beach in Spottsville, Ky. when "someone" appeared from the woods, jerked Heather up and drug her into the woods. The only eyewitness to Heather's abduction would be a man by the name of Tim Walhal who just happened to be looking through a high powered telescope across the Ohio River in Indiana
Walthall would tell police that he witnessed the abduction and he would help the police draw a composite sketch that would later match a man named Marty Dill. On the same day of Heather's abduction, residents on the road where Marty Dill lived heard screams coming from his trailer. Before police could question Dill, he shot himself in the head. It appeared that this was a closed and shut case but it was far from that
As days would turn into months, and months would turn into years, there were still many unanswered questions in the minds of many. One of which was that the dead suspects hair did not match the composite sketch drawn by police. It was found that Marty Dill had a clean shaven head at the time of Heather's abduction. So, who was the person Walthall really saw that day take Heather? The hair did not match the suspect. Was this a planned abduction or was it just a strange coincidence?
It would not be until late 2004 until a new break in the case would surface. A man named Chris Below was named as a person on interest in the Teague abduction. It was found that Below had acquaintances that were related to Heather Teague and he was already in jail for the abduction and murder of another women would be Heather Teague's twin (Kathern Fetzer). Did Below take a fascination to Heather and decide to take her as well? It is known that Below knew both Marty Dill and Heather. Is this the man who is responsible?
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 16:59:14 GMT -5
Cousins Disappear 10 Years Apart Reported by: Jennifer Leslie Web Editor: Michael King Last Modified: 10/12/2005 8:29:50 AM The search for a missing mother from Woodstock has family members feeling a sense of deja vu. Sueann Ray, 26, was last seen six weeks ago on the same day that marked the 10th anniversary of her cousin’s disappearance in Kentucky. Her cousin, Heather Teague, was abducted from a beach in Spottsville, Ky., on August 26, 1995 in broad daylight. Teague was 23 years old at the time and has not been seen since. Her case remains unsolved (see family Web site. "You never know the pain a mother and father go through when they lose a child or a child is missing until it happens to you," said Danny Jenkins, Heather's uncle and Sueann's father. Jenkins has spent years helping his sister deal with the disappearance of her daughter, Heather. Now he’s in the same situation. His daughter, Sueann, has been missing since August 26. She disappeared ten years to the day after her cousin’s abduction here. “It's a feeling you can't describe,” Jenkins said. “It's terrible, and I don't know how my sister made it. I don't know how she's alive. I don't know how she's done it for 10 years, because I can't. I can't go through it for 10 years, I'll tell you that." Sueann, who was a teenager when her cousin disappeared, recently sent an e-mail to her aunt. “I am sure that I can help,” Sueann wrote. “I will do anything I can. I picture this happening in my head, and it doesn’t make sense…Something is definitely wrong…We will bring her home, one way or another.” Three days after sending that e-mail, Sueann vanished. Police suspect foul play, but they haven’t identified any suspects. "I just have to keep hope that she is alive,” said Sandy Chasm, Sueann’s sister. "I want her home so I can talk to her." Relatives are hoping at least one family mystery will be solved soon. Anyone with information about Sueann Ray’s disappearance is asked to call the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-597-TIPS. A family friend has put up a $100,000 reward for information that leads to finding her. The total reward fund now stands at $105,000
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:00:32 GMT -5
10 Years Pass, Teague's Mom Demands Answers Friday marks the ten-year anniversary of the disappearance of Heather Teague. A witness claims to have seen someone drag her from a Henderson County beach at gunpoint. She hasn't been heard from since. And to this day, her mother holds out hope she will be found, and wonders why Kentucky State Police haven't located her. She's not the only one. Sarah Teague is moving all the mementos of her daughter into a new house, where she knows she will be much happier - that is, if the void in her heart is finally filled. She doesn't blame the new detective assigned to her daughter's missing persons case, but she thinks the initial ones were negligent and inept. It's only been in the last year that she's found out about blood stains on the inside tailgate of suspect Marty Dills' Bronco - the same Bronco investigators pulled a hair out of in 1995. Authorities have just recently taken a saliva sample from 40-year-old Christopher Below, currently behind bars, after confessing to the murder of a young woman in Ohio. It was the investigator in the Kathern Fetzer murder case that tracked down Below in Evansville in 2003, and started asking questions about other unsolved cases in the region. He and Evansville Police Detective Brent Melton originally tried to link the western Kentucky native to five missing or murdered women. They just added Erica Lee Fraysure of Brooksville, Kentucky and Laney Gwinner of Fairfield, Ohio to that list. Fraysure disappeared in October of 1997, Gwinner vanished two months later. Her body was eventually found in the Ohio River. Detectives say there are just too many similarities in the cases of these seven women, but won't give specifics for fear of information being leaked to Below in prison. Detective Melton says the Heather Teague case is still technically in the hands of Kentucky State Police, but if it were his investigation, he would focus more on the possibility that Dill was only an accomplice in the kidnapping. Melton says enhancement of the crime scene video shows a man he believes looks like a clean-shaven Dill sitting in the driver's seat of his Bronco, while someone else appears to be ransacking Heather's car. The most compelling evidence to him, is how Below's torso appears to be identical to the sketch of the suspect, described by the only eyewitness. Sarah Teague is relieved that now, it's not just her questioning the investigation, and pleased that a billboard in Henderson is reminding people that Heather has been gone ten long years. She still holds out hope that she's alive, but knows it is unlikely. Detective Tim Rascoe of the Kentucky State Police is currently in charge of the Teague investigation. He did respond to an email request for an interview, only to refer us to a community relations person for the state police in Frankfort. Even Governor Ernie Fletcher is involved in declaring August 26th, Heather Teague Day across the Commonwealth.
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:02:54 GMT -5
November 12, 2004 -
Authorities have released a statement that they have a person of interest in the nine year mystery of Heather Danyelle Teague. That person is Chris Below who is currently in prison serving a sentence for the disappearance and murder of Kathern Fetzer. Fetzer's body has never been found. At the time of Heather Teague's mysterious disappearance, in August of 1995, Below was living in the area where she was abducted. Kathern Fetzer bore a striking resemblance to Heather Teague, and both women are still missing. Another odd similarity is that Chris Below also resembles the first suspect composite sketch that was made in August of 1995, although at the time, the suspect in question was Marvin Dill. Dill would later commit suicide before authorities could question him, leaving the Teague family to wait nine more years for any clue or solid lead in the case. Please read the articles below that have been coming out in the last few days. With the holiday's approaching, the Teague family is hoping for a conclusion to this nine year ordeal. It is stressed that Heather Teague is still considered to be only missing, not a murder victim at this time.
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:03:41 GMT -5
December 18, 2004 -
The only eyewitness who originally picked Marty Dill as the prime suspect in the abduction of Heather Teague, has now picked out Christopher Below from a line up of possible suspects who would match the composite sketch drawn in 1995. This is very interesting
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:05:03 GMT -5
August 26, 2005 -
Heather Teague is now missing for 10 years. A day of prayer was held in the state of Kentucky for Heather. In a startling turn of events, Heather's first cousin, SueAnn Ray vanishes on this same date.
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:17:02 GMT -5
The Latest On Heather Teague's Disappearance
dated 2-18-05
Heather Teague's mother is hopeful of closure in the case of her missing daughter. This week, the Akron Beacon Journal published a three-part series on Christopher Below. Including how he confessed to a murder of an Ohio woman and how he may be linked to the kidnapping of Heather Teague nine years ago. Shannon Samson first reported on this story back in November. Now, she talks to the victim's mother Sarah, who says the newspaper article makes her more convinced Below played a role in her daughter's disappearance from Newburgh Beach.
A reporter from the Akron Beacon Journal interviewed Sarah Teague back in November, but it wasn't until this week that those stories were published and sent to her. "I still haven't read every single word of them. It's just so hard to absorb all of it, until you look at this picture. It's like, well, it had to be Below."
Out of three in-depth articles, it's a picture that stands out to her. A sketch of the man one eyewitness, Tim Walthall, says he saw drag Heather away at gunpoint in 1995.
Sarah, however, has long suspected the composite was drawn to match Marty Dill's driver's license photo, in an effort to frame the man whose Bronco was spotted at the scene. Dill killed himself five days after the abduction, before police could question him. "So we have Marty Dill's face from a driver's license and Below's body. How that happened, I don't know," Sarah mused.
In an interview back in November, Walthall adamantly denied the sketch was drawn from anything other than his eyewitness account. Here's what he said he told Medina, Ohio Police detective Scott Thomas when Thomas came to Indiana to question him last year:
"The body features particularly were similar, but that's all and I told Scott and this is important, that I still would not change my story that the person that I saw on the beach that day still to me is the person that I identified and that's Mr. Dill."
But the Beacon Journal story quotes Walthall as saying that he's not sure if it was Dill or not. Kentucky State Police are sticking to their original theory. In a statement, Lieutenant Pat Isbill said, "Chris Below has not been completely ruled out but based on what we have so far, we stand by our conviction that Dill, the man who shot himself, was the perpetrator."
Medina detective Scott Thomas isn't so sure. He got Below to confess to the 1991 murder of Kathern Fetzer, and in the newspaper article, he talks about how Below was in the area when Teague disappeared, and how they shared acquaintances. Combined with the sketch, that's enough for Heather's mother. "It's been a process of struggling, searching of faith of never losing hope, always knowing and believing that there is a day set aside that we'll have our Heather home. So, we don't have her home today, but we know this today that Below is involved."
Thomas also suspects Below is linked to several other missing persons cases - all young women with long, dark hair. We'll keep you posted of any new developments.
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:24:12 GMT -5
article dated 11-17-04
An Ohio detective may have stumbled on a break in the disappearance of a Tri-state woman.
Heather Teague was last seen nine years ago, sunbathing along an Ohio River beach. An eyewitness says he saw a man drag her off at gunpoint. Now, the Ohio detective's wondering if that man or one of his accomplices was Chris Below, a Henderson Kentucky native who's already behind bars for the murder of a young woman in Ohio.
We've known about Heather Teague for nearly a decade. Folks in Ohio are just finding out about her now. Front page news this past weekend in the Akron Beacon Journal asks if Heather is the second of Chris Below's murder victims. A detective says it's possible based on what he was able to uncover about this man.
Detective Scott Thomas of the Medina, Ohio Police Department says, "Mr. Below is the type of person that if you give him avenues of lying, he will always take them...He sold himself as a southern gentleman....When you looked into Chris Below's eyes, you saw nothing but darkness....He's an extreme manipulator."
Detective Thomas took over the eleven year old Kathern Fetzer missing persons case in 2002. The retiring detective had always suspected she was murdered by her lover, but could never prove it. So, Detective Thomas started digging up everything he could on this prime suspect, Chris Below. "The more I dug, the more it was... Strange, to be quite honest."
The investigation took him to western Kentucky, where Below graduated from Union County High School in 1985. He liked reading true crime books, his favorite: "Abandoned Prayers", which chronicles the story of Eli Stutzman, a former Amish farmer in Ohio who was suspected of killing five homosexual lovers, not to mention his wife and young son.
Detective Thomas says Below would never admit to it, but he too had a secret sex life that involved multiple partners of both genders. Women especially were drawn to him, though his feelings for them appear to be contemptuous, based on the tattoo on his chest. Thomas says, "You can't see it very well, but it's a picture of two women and you know what it represents? It represents, this is what women look like, and it's a dark-haired woman, pretty, when you need them, and then the other one has fangs and he says they turn into blood-sucking whores."
Pictures recovered from one of Below's five ex-wives also show him wearing a ring Detective Thomas thinks is too small for him. He says investigators always look for items killers may take from their victims as trophies. "I have yet to find the owners of the jewelry."
He never did find the ring Kathern Fetzer used to wear. But by the time he confronted Below in November of 2003, he didn't need it. Below was living in Evansville, when officers brought him downtown to question him about an accusation that he had molested his niece.
When they were done, Detective Thomas walked into the interrogation room. "He didn't know I was a detective from Medina, and when I told him and that I was there to charge him with the aggravated murder of Kathern Fetzer, that the game was over, he almost fell out of his chair."
Without a body, Detective Thomas knew he would need a confession, but Below was not about to just hand over one. Because he did so much homework on Below before that interrogation, Thomas was able to close off all those avenues where Below could potentially lie. It took four hours, but Detective Thomas did finally get Below to tell him he shot Fetzer in his apartment in Medina County, Ohio. "His quote was he's screwed in the head, but he's really a good guy. So, in his mind, he believed that, but I believe he wouldn't have confessed unless he knew he had no way out."
Detective Thomas's main objective was to get Below to reveal where he had disposed of Fetzer's body. He said he had thrown it in a dumpster, but the detective didn't buy it.
A friend of Below's said he once bragged about knowing how "to get rid of bodies" by burying them in a shallow grave and putting lime on top, or feeding them to hogs, which will eat everything, including clothing and bone. Thomas says, "That's pretty horrendous to think about throwing a body in a hog pen and most people don't want to think that people are capable of doing that, but unfortunately they are." He says it's possible that's what happened to Fetzer.
Four hundred fifty miles away in western Kentucky, it's also a possibility that's come up in the Heather Teague case. Detective Thomas says Below is a "person of interest" in the Teague case because he's from the area and was there when she disappeared. Shortly after, he moved away.
Fetzer and Teague also bear a strong resemblance to each other, both around five feet tall and weighing a hundred pounds. Thomas says, "We believe that the victims, there was something about his victimization, people that he chose to control and dominate and that is a domination and a control. Are there similar ones out there? We want to look to see if he was ever in those areas."
Thomas wouldn't say how many other missing persons cases he's looking into, and he can say little else about the Teague case because he doesn't want to step on the toes of the Kentucky State Police. What he does want is information from the people of Kentucky, anyone who may have known Below. "If he was involved, we certainly want to get to the bottom of it. I can guarantee you I won't stop. That won't happen. It's not in me. It's not in me and I can't."
The only motive that Detective Thomas could get out of Below for killing Kathern Fetzer was that she played "head games" and he didn't like it. And since he suspects Below is involved in the Heather Teague case, I asked him to speculate on a possible motive.
He answered me with one word: sex. He didn't really elaborate on that other than to say much of what Below did was motivated by his strong sex drive.
So about these other missing person cases, does the detective think we have a serial killer on our hands? Detective Thomas would not go that far, but he did say FBI profilers believe he has many of the traits of a serial killer.
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Post by The Tracker on Jan 9, 2006 17:29:25 GMT -5
Missing Cousin Vowed To Find Heather Teague from news article dated 10-18-05 The strange case of two missing cousins is haunting families in both Kentucky and Georgia. On Wednesday, we told you about 26-year-old Sue Ann Ray of Woodstock, Georgia who vanished this past August on the tenth anniversary of Heather Teagues' disappearance from a Kentucky beach. Sue Ann Ray and Heather Teague are first cousins. Now we hear about an email sent to Heather's mother just before her niece disappeared. Jennifer Leslie with our NBC affiliate in Atlanta, has the story. The family of Sue Ann Ray of Woodstock has lived with the unknown for years. On August 26, 1995, Ray's first cousin, Heather Teague, was abducted from a beach in Kentucky in broad daylight. She was 23 at the time and has not been seen since. Her case remains unsolved. Danny Jenkins has spent years helping his sister deal with her daughter's disappearance and now he's in the same situation. "You never know the pain a mother and father go through when they lose a child, or a child is missing, until it happens to you." Jenkins' daughter, Sue Ann, has been missing for six weeks, since August 26th. She disappeared ten years to the day after her cousin's abduction. Jenkins says, "It's a feeling you can't describe. It's terrible, and I don't know how my sister made it. I don't know how she's alive. I don't know how she's done it for ten years, 'cause I can't. I can't go through it for ten years, I'll tell you that." Sue Ann, who was a teenager when her cousin disappeared, recently sent an e-mail to her aunt. In it, she wrote: "I am sure that I can help. I will do anything I can. I picture this happening in my head and it doesn't make sense. Something is definitely wrong. We will bring her home! One way or another." Three days later, Sue Ann also disappeared. Police suspect foul play, but they have not identified any suspects. Sue Ann's sister, Sandy Chasm says, "I just have to keep hope that she is alive. I want her home, so I can talk to her." Relatives are hoping at least one family mystery will be solved soon. The family of Sue Ann Ray is offering a $105,000 reward for information that leads to finding her. As for Heather, her mom Sarah says the FBI's re-involvement in the case has given her new hope that she'll find out what happened to her daughter ten years ago.
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Post by Terry i on May 21, 2020 22:28:48 GMT -5
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