Posted on 06/25/2005 4:18:48 AM PDT by kcvl
June 25, 2005 -- CAMDEN, N.J. — The father of a missing 6-year-old boy dropped to his knees and let out a blood-curdling scream after opening the trunk of a parked car last night to discover the body of his son and two young friends who had been missing since Wednesday.
The bodies of Jesstin "Manny" Pagan, 5; Daniel "Danny" Agosto, 6; and Anibal Cruz, 11 — who were last seen playing in a yard in this hard-luck suburb of Philadelphia — were found by Danny's father, David Agosto, shortly before 7 p.m. in the maroon Toyota Camry.
"Anibal's father told me that there was a plastic bag over his son's head," Anibal's babysitter, Nancy Santana, told The Post last night.
The death car belongs to Anibal's grandmother and had been parked in the driveway of the family's house throughout the three-day search for the boys in neighboring woodlands and the nearby Delaware River.
Hearing Agosto's anguished screams, family and friends frantically ran from a nearby porch where they had held a vigil hoping for a miracle. The grim discovery echoed across the community.
"This is a moment that the families and the city hoped and prayed we wouldn't have to face," said Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi.
Last night, law enforcement officials declined to elaborate on their investigation, but said they were searching for Angel Martinez, 28, of Camden, as a "person of interest" in the case.
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Sarubbi and Figueroa said the car had been searched on Thursday with a canine unit.
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"We looked in the car on Thursday," an anguished neighbor, who did not want to be identified, told The Post.
"I can't believe we didn't look in the trunk."
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Pornography and a society whose media has, for the most part, lost it's belief in a higher authority. Children are depicted everywhere as just a sexual commodity as are women and now increasingly, men. We are a society drunk on sensuality and power.
That's my point, not some nonsense about satillite capabilities!
And finding the kids took a backseat to finding who committed the crime against them (if any)? Typical egotistical bureaucratism.
Area looks like your classic gang banger turf. Run down boarded up windows unkept lawns. Yuck. Bet the perp was a screwed up druggie.
This is what druggies do to communities. They are bringing this country down. And I seriously think if drugs were made "legal" the situation would get worse not better in places of employment. All nondruggie types would flee the druggie work environments and companies would go down the tubes because they wouldn't be able to find and hire qualified, prompt, responsible INTELLIGENT employees.
"I can't believe we didn't look in the trunk."
This is on a level of incompetency almost unbelievable.
Oh' never mind this is N.J.
I don't know for sure, but what makes me think they were not placed there later is all the publicity. There were police and people crawling all over the area. Hard to miss that happening.
In high school, I got a call from the kids old man one night. He asked me “What's wrong with Kenny?” Seems 'Kenny' was selling the car the father had bought him 'piecemeal'... radio, tires, etc. Since we only had one phone in the house... and my parents were right there, I had a big decision to make.
I told him the truth.
What I learned from 'Kenny' was that some people are 'born-bad'. Heredity/environment, race/economics... have nothing to do with it either.
When 'Kenny' was born... God had a 'bad day'.
Well, good on you and your volunteers in that case. That is commendable.
Yes.
I wonder how many lawyers are now looking for an angle they could pursue in a law suit against Camden PD?
LOL! Okay. 8^)
"Car trunks are not airtight so why couldn't the kids have survived several days?"
You're kidding right? Ever read all the stories of kids expiring car seats in a locked up car on a hot day.
Thank you, but what we do is not that remarkable. We just train hard to do it. Firefighter put out fires, police officers fight crime. This is what we train so hard to do.
That's my guess, also seems odd that the Father would go right to that specific trunk and open it long after the police searched the car. Also I find it odd that a canine capable of smelling even minute traces of anything it's scented on, didn't fixate on this trunk to begin with.
Kind of like throwing gasoline on a roaring fire.
Hitech, have you ever met George Jones? Good Handle. NSNR
"Pornography and a society whose media has, for the most part, lost it's belief in a higher authority. Children are depicted everywhere as just a sexual commodity as are women and now increasingly, men. We are a society drunk on sensuality and power"
I totally agree with you. This nightmare is then fueled with the most diabolical kitchen made drugs and we are literally witnessing hell on earth.
The police never searched that car.
Can you imagine being stopped for a crime, and the police never trying to search your trunk?
And dogs are not infallible. They make mistakes every day.
What is the relationship of this woman to the familes of the three boys ? NSNR
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