Posted on 10/19/2013 10:53:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Elias Acevedo Sr., 49, was charged late Thursday for the kidnapping, rape and murder of his 30-year-old neighbor Pamela Pemberton and Christina Adkins, a pregnant 18-year-old who disappeared in 1995. Acevedo confessed to murders, which means authorities will not seek the death penalty.
Increased scrutiny of missing person cases in a Cleveland neighborhood following the arrest of kidnapper Ariel Castro led to charges against a neighbor for the murders of two women in the 1990s, the FBI said on Friday.
Elias Acevedo, Sr., 49, was charged late Thursday with the kidnapping, rape and murder of his 30-year-old neighbor, Pamela Pemberton, found strangled in 1994, and another woman believed to be Christina Adkins, a pregnant 18-year-old who disappeared in 1995. He also is charged with the rape of two young girls.
"Because the public became more aware and investigators were determined and relentless, people were re-interviewed and there was an increased interest in these missing person cases," FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said.
Acevedo, who lived on the same block as Castro, was arrested in June at his Seymour Avenue residence after police questioned Castro's neighbors and discovered that Acevedo was a convicted sex offender who had failed to report his current address.
Acevedo became a suspect in the Adkins and Pemberton murders after the FBI re-examined the disappearance of other missing women from the Seymour Avenue neighborhood in the aftermath of Castro's arrest, according to a statement from the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office. Cleveland's Seymour Avenue garnered international attention after three women - Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus - were found with Berry's 6-year-old daughter in a dilapidated home owned by 53-year-old Castro. The women had been missing for about a decade - Castro had fathered the child.
While incarcerated, Acevedo's DNA was linked to a 1993 rape that occurred near the location where Pemberton's body was found. The FBI then linked Acevedo to the 1995 disappearance of Adkins, last seen in the vicinity of Seymour Avenue.
Acevedo has confessed to the murders, which means authorities will not seek the death penalty, according to Joe Frolik, spokesman for the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office.
Acevedo led authorities to a spot near a highway where he had put Adkins' body in a manhole 18 years ago, according to the FBI and prosecutors.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office is in the process of positively identifying what are believed to be Adkins' remains after her identification card was found nearby. Castro pleaded guilty to 937 charges and was found hanged in his prison cell just a month into a life sentence. His death was ruled a suicide by the Franklin County coroner but an investigation into his death by prison officials has called into question whether he died accidentally while performing a sex act.
The indictment against Acevedo includes 115 kidnapping charges and more than 173 charges of rape involving Adkins, Pemberton and the repeated rapes over a period of months of two girls, starting when they were 8 and 11 years old. He was also charged in the 1993 rape of his brother's common-law wife.
"It is definitely bittersweet, you hate to give this news to the family but you hope it give them some closure," Anderson said.
Acevedo is scheduled to be arraigned in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court Monday. He has not yet been assigned a lawyer, according to court documents.
Do you have a few sources to share with us proving those allegations? Thanks.
President Obama himself.
He ordered her to cease her activities and get that stuff out of the White House. That was back in 2009.
Sure sounds like it.
That’s not a source. Never mind.
GrandMa Robinson does Voodoo in the White House. What?!! Where did you hear that? Please stop by again and give us details or reasons you believe this. I would be most intriqued..Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson!
Actually pretty darn good.
Cleveland and certain suburbs are actually pretty scary places if you scratch just below the surface...
http://www.icrimewatch.net/index.php?AgencyID=55149
Yeah, it just seems way too coincidental, doesn't it?
Actually there are 6 registered offenders in that 0.25 mile area and including Castro...there were 3 on that street alone...
This kind of story does make you wonder about your own neighbors. It can be difficult to detect evil sometimes.
You might like to do a search here:
http://www.nsopw.gov/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
I feel that the whole story of the original crimes - the Cleveland kidnapping - is not known. I was uneasy when I heard that the perp had ‘committed suicide’ in prison. This further revelation makes me wonder, again.
Thanks for the link. I like to think we live in a relatively nice neighborhood, but there are registered “offenders” living around here.
Good point - the suicide, combined with another suspect living on the same block, is beginning to sound suspicious.
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