Press conference wrap-up on the local evening news
Ashton's father on camera, crying, saying he hopes whoever did this gets what he deserves
.Body was buried 2 feet under ground
.5 miles east of where Ashton was last seen
.Milton Wright, Ft Bend County sheriff is making the announcement
.Clothing description and class ring only for ID at this time
.No suspects
.Video surveillance tape from "It's a Grind" coffee house being analyzed because Ashton was seen on it outside, earlier in the evening on Friday night with friends, out by her truck, going to a white Toyota pick-up and getting in with a lone male
.Father Terry Glover has a msg for killer - "I don't know why you did it, but I hope that later in life, you realize what you have done. It takes a messed-up individual to do something like this. I hope you get what you deserve."
.Family has a lot of family members in town and is getting lots of support. Her mother wasn't shown in the clips tonight. [Aside: I got the feeling yesterday when she was speaking out for Ashton to come home or be brought home that she was perhaps medicated - by a doctor, I mean - for her anxiety. She was calmer than her temperament appears that her demeanor would be. I imagine she fell apart over this news. She looks very much like the late Patsy Ramsey, which was why this case caught my eye. Her daughter looked a lot like her, except a fuller face.]
.First Colony Methodist Church in First Colony - candlelight ceremony tonight there at 10PM - this is her home church.
.Investigators are going over the maroon Ford Ranger found elsewhere, for possible evidence.
Some updates on Ashton Glover's murder. Two of her so-called "friends," fellow classmates at Clements HS, are now charged with the homicide, but they have not yet been apprehended.
What makes me sick is that these two boys were the ones who told cops they saw her leave with some other guys (SODDI) and a few days later, her mom called one of them to ask some more questions.
She didn't know these boys, but they said they were the last ones to see her. So, she asked one of them to go out to the scene where Ashton's body was found so he could explain some things to her.
He refused to go, which put up red flags for her - then he and the other friend disappeared from their homes shortly thereafter and haven't been seen or heard from since then.
Ft Bend sheriff got search warrants and searched their Sugar Land houses earlier, but today got a 2nd warrant and were seen carrying out shovels, a gun, computer CPUs and other bags of potential evidence.
Here's an article from earlier today:
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July 12, 2006, 5:04PM
Two charged in death of Fort Bend teenager
By ERIC HANSON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
RICHMOND -- Fort Bend County authorities today charged two 18-year-old men with murder in the death of a Sugar Land teenager whose body was found Monday in a shallow grave in a muddy field.
Charged in the slaying are Sean H. Brown and Matthew R. McCombs, aid Sheriff Milton Wright. Both men are being sought by authorities.
They are believed to be driving a 1999 Dodge Ram 4x4 pickup with Texas license plate number 2DDX08.
The motive for the slaying is still unknown, Wright said.
An autopsy was completed Tuesday in the death of Ashton Glover, whose body was found at a construction site off Oil Field Road just west of Missouri City.
The cause of death of blunt force trauma, Wright said. He said there were no signs of robbery or sexual assault.
Family members are hoping for a swift arrest and strong punishment.
"For somebody to take your loved one's life and then do to them what they did, I hope they rot in hell," said Carla Hensley, the victim's aunt.
"They buried her in dirt, covered her body up so that she may have never been found. Thank God we have a body that we can bury, thank God for that," Hensley said Tuesday.
Hensley said her niece was a 4-H member and wanted to become a veterinarian. ...
"She was a big Aggie. She wanted to go to A&M. She wanted to go sky jumping; she wanted to go to Europe; she wanted to go to New York. She wanted to live a full life," Hensley said.
Glover, an incoming senior at Clements High School, was last seen by friends getting into a white truck about 12:30 a.m. Saturday near University and Commonwealth in Sugar Land.
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At roughly the same time the body was found, police found Glover's pickup parked in the 17000 block of Marigold.
After police began investigating Glover's disappearance, detectives obtained a surveillance videotape from the coffee shop showing someone driving away in Glover's truck.
"We have not identified who moved the pickup," Wright said.