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Jarred Harrell, 24, who had lived in Orange Park, Florida last year according to AP reports has been named a “person of interest” in the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Somer Thompson after he was arrested last week on federal child pornography charges. Somer’s body was found in a south Georgia landfill last October, and her suspected murderer is reportedly fighting...

"We'll get you," Diena Thompson said today on "Good Morning America." "And, hopefully, justice will be served."

Fear tends to hide the truth from us. Most of what our society believes about sex offenders is not true. Below are just a few of the beliefs we were taught that are either misleading or completely untrue: • Epidemic of rape-murders: The Somer Renee Thompson case is a tragedy indeed, but is a very rare tragedy. In the NISMART-2 study from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, only 115 “stereotypical kidnappings” occurred in the year of the study, with only 45 of those cases ended in death or were permanently missing [1]. Your child has a far...

They paid $9,000 each to die. Sweat Lodges Gone Wild. Speculation as to who might have killed little Somer Thompson…what prompted police to quickly search those landfills? Thieves steal and eat their catch; thieves wear bras as disguise. A rant on Dave Letterman, proof that he’s Bill Clinton’s acolyte. Arrested for being naked in his home? Way more to this story than as originally reported. Much more in this True Crime post with pictures as entertaining as the text.

Death of Fla. Girl Found In Landfill A Homicide By BRENT KALLESTAD ORANGE PARK, Fla. – A body found under trash in a landfill is that of 7-year-old Somer Thompson, a north Florida girl who vanished on her walk home from school, authorities said Thursday. Clay County Sheriff's spokeswoman Mary Justino also said the girl's death was a homicide, though she did not elaborate. Justino confirmed the identification hours after Sheriff Rick Breseler said clothing and a birthmark led authorities to believe they had found the missing girl. An autopsy was being performed Thursday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation...

Child’s Body Found In Search For Missing Girl Somer Thompson disappeared on way home from school on Monday TODAY staff and wire Authorities say they have not identified a child's body they found Wednesday in a landfill while searching for a missing 7-year-old girl. Family members were hopeful the girl is still alive, though neighbors in the girl's community feared the worst. The partially covered body of the child was found in a Georgia landfill near the Florida state line, after investigators followed garbage trucks leaving from the neighborhood where Somer Thompson disappeared Monday. Sheriff Rick Beseler said investigators searched...

Just breaking...found in a Georgia landfill..confirmed by Gov. Crist