"Dearest friend" cut fetus from womb of black mother

[Revanche]

Woman suspected of killing cousin, stealing baby
By Bill Bryan
”šÃ‚© 2006 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
09/21/2006

A woman who today buried a newborn she claimed as her own became a suspect a few hours later on suspicion of killing a pregnant cousin and using a knife to remove the cousin's unborn child, authorities said.

Police found a body, believed to be the cousin, this afternoon in weeds behind a home in the 600 block of North 56th Street in East St. Louis. Authorities declined to identify the deceased or the suspect.

The suspect is in her 20s and from the East St. Louis area. She first came to the attention of authorities last Friday, when she appeared at Touchette Regional Hospital in Centreville along with a deceased newborn, authorities said.

At the time, the woman said she had gone into labor and delivere
d a baby after a man raped her in his home in St. Louis, authorities said. The woman told police the stillborn child was about seven months in fetal development, authorities said.

A funeral was held earlier today for the child, authorities said. At the funeral, they said, the woman confided to her boyfriend, a sailor home on leave, that the baby wasn't his. Authorities said she also told him that she had killed her cousin and taken the cousin's baby.

The sailor then contacted St. Louis police detectives, who found the body this afternoon.

Today, the sailor told police that the suspect admitted to having suffered a miscarriage several weeks ago, authorities said.

East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister said the victim had not been identified. Officers of the St. Clair County coroner's office removed the body from weeds behind the home on North 56th Street, which is occupied by a relative of the suspect.

Denise Hollinshed of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
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[3 Ks]

I guess the temptation of benefits increase was to great, "chile, pleeze".

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Woman's body found at ESL home

EAST ST. LOUIS - Police on Thursday afternoon found the body of a woman who apparently had an unborn child removed from her body, and a search is under way for a woman who buried a stillborn child Thursday morning.

The victim's name was not released but the Illinois State Police is searching for a person of interest identified as Tiffany Hall, 26, of East St. Louis.

Hall was last seen in the East St. Louis area Thursday afternoon. She may be driving a maroon Lincoln Town Car with temporary Illinois registration.

The victim's body was found in the rear of 645 N. 56th St. after Hall's boyfriend told police she had confessed to him at the funeral for the stillborn child Thursday that the baby wasn't h
is and she had killed someone and taken the baby from that person, East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister said.

St. Clair County Rick Stone said the body had been in the brush for more than 24 hours.

Hall's boyfriend was not identified by police. He is a sailor home on leave.

Neighbors said Hall lived at 645 N. 56th St. for about two years and had appeared to be pregnant. Police would not say whether Hall, who has two children, had been pregnant.

Terri Dunn said she is both surprised and shocked to learn that police are looking for Hall, a woman she's lived next door to for a long time.

"I knew she wasn't the victim because I saw her driving down the street about 3:10 p.m. when I went to pick my daughter up from school," Dunn said. "She was driving down our street and she waved at me," Dunn said.

Mister said police cannot be sure that the baby that was buried Thursday was cut from the body until an autopsy is conducted today.

Mister said police were not su
re what object was used to cut the woman's stomach open.

Hall came to the attention of police Friday when she went to Touchette Regional Hospital in Centreville with the deceased baby, Mister said.

She said she had gone into labor and delivered the stillborn baby after she had been raped in a man's home in St. Louis, he said.

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Tifanny Hall


DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall, 3, and
Jinela Tunstall, 2

3 Kids Missing After Mom Killed, Fetus Taken
Police Holding 26-Year-Old In Custody

CHICAGO -- Illinois authorities found the body of a woman who had a fetus cut out of her womb.

And police are now trying to find her three other young children.

Dozens of searchers on Friday scoured the densely wooded Frank Holten State Park in East St. Louis looking for the three children, identified as DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall, 3, and Jinela Tunstall, 2. A boat also searched the shoreline of a lake at the park.

Investigators are also holding
Tiffany Hall, a 26-year-old East St. Louis woman, in the case. She was described as a person of interest and it is not clear if the woman has been arrested or charged. The Center for Missing and Exploited Children said that police are concerned because the children are missing and were last seen with "a woman now accused of killing her cousin and cutting her cousin's child from her womb."

The police chief of East St. Louis, where the victim was found Thursday afternoon in a vacant lot, said authorities were alerted to Hall after a funeral Thursday for a baby that she said was stillborn.

Police said they began looking for Hall after her boyfriend told officials that she had confessed to him during the funeral that the baby wasn't his and that she'd killed a woman and taken her baby.

Police would not identify the boyfriend, saying only that he is a sailor home on leave.

The buried corpse has been recovered and an autopsy will determine if the fetus came from the dead woman.
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The Belleville News-Democrat reported that neighbors said Hall, a mother of two, had appeared to be pregnant.

Police said that Hall went to a Centreville, Ill., hospital with the deceased baby, according to the paper. East St. Louis Police Chief James Mister said that Hall told the hospital that she had gone into labor and delivered the stillborn baby after being raped.

[Whitebear]

Coroner: (Black) Person of Interest Confesses to Killing (Black) Mother, Stealing Fetus
Jimella Tunstall's body was found Thursday in a thickly weeded lot near the home of the "person of interest" with her fetus missing, cut from her womb, perhaps with scissors.
Suspect in killing was victim's dear friend

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DeMond Tunstall, 7, Ivan Tunstall, 3, and
Jinela Tunstall, 2

Kids of woman slain in fetus theft found dead

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Three missing children have been found dead, days after their mother’s body was discovered with the fetus cut from her womb, authorities announced late Saturday.

The bodies of the children were found hours after a woman was charged and jailed on $5 million bond in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall, 23, who was seven months pregnant.

The children were found together, the St. Clair County coroner’s office said. The coroner would not give the location, but KSDTK-TV reported the bodies were discovered in a housing compex in East St. Louis late on Saturday.

Polic
e began a search for Tunstall’s two sons, 7 and 2, and 1-year-old daughter, when they found the mother’s body last week in a weedy East St. Louis lot.

Authorities continued a desperate search for Tunstall’s children after charges against Tiffany Hall, 24, were announced Saturday. The children were last seen with Hall on Monday, three days before she was taken into custody.

Hall faces charges of first-degree murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child in the death of 23-year-old Jimella Tunstall, said St. Clair County State’s Attorney Robert Haida.

Hall is being held in lieu of $5 million bail in the St. Clair County Jail in Belleville.

Relatives of both women told media outlets the two grew up together and attended alternative schools. The woman in custody often baby-sat Tunstall’s children, and Tunstall never expressed worry about leaving them in her care, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

An autopsy showed Tunstall bled to death aft
er sustaining an abdominal wound caused by a sharp object, believed to be scissors, said Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner.

Hart said he believes Tunstall was knocked unconscious before her baby, seven months into gestation, was removed during a slaying he called “very graphic and very brutal.”

Still searching for 3 children

Officials were optimistic about the prospects of finding the children unharmed. Illinois State Police Capt. Craig Koehler said authorities will not end the search until the children are found.

“We have no evidence that leads us to believe they’re dead,” he said, adding two or three additional sites will be searched in and around East St. Louis on Sunday.

“These children are from East St. Louis,” said Police Chief James Mister. “They know how to survive.”

Koehler and Mister refused to publicly discuss the evidence or possible statements Hall has made to investigators. Authorities have
also refused to reveal how the women knew each other, or whether Hall’s alleged confession came before Tunstall’s body was found.

Haida did not immediately return messages Saturday seeking information on Hall’s arraignment and attorney.

The charges came a day after a meticulous scouring of the 1,100-acre Frank Holten State Park, just blocks from where Tunstall’s body was found. Investigators would not say what led them to believe the children were there.

Woman gave different stories about baby
Hall summoned police to the Frank Holten park on Sept. 15, saying she had gone into labor, Hart said. The dead baby, taken to a hospital, showed no signs of trauma, and an autopsy the next day failed to pinpoint a cause of death, he said.

Hall would not let doctors at the hospital examine her and offered conflicting reasons for why she went into labor, alternately saying she had consensual sex and was raped, Hart said.

Authorities say Hall acknowledged to her
boyfriend during the baby’s funeral Thursday that the child wasn’t his, and that she killed the mother. The boyfriend told police, who arrested his girlfriend hours later, investigators said.

DNA tests should determine definitively whether the baby was the one Tunstall was carrying, Hart said.

The baby was buried Thursday as Taylor Horn after a funeral arranged by L. King Funeral Chapel, whose president said Hall called minutes after the service was to start, asking if she could reschedule for a different day so more relatives could attend. At the time, Levi King said, only two relatives were there.

The woman showed up two hours late, ultimately signing an affidavit for the funeral home stating that the child was hers, King said.

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Slain Woman's Kids Were in Washer, Dryer

Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint the cause of death for three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.

Saturday night's discovery inside apartment 28J at the John DeShields public housing complex came two days after the mother of the children ”� ages 7, 2 and 1 ”� was found in a weedy lot, her abdomen torn open and the fetus missing.

Investigators carried out a furious two-day search, including scouring an 1,100-acre state park, for the children they said were last seen Monday with 24-year-old Tiffany Hall, a family friend prosecutors charged Satur
day afternoon with killing Jimella Tunstall and her fetus.

Hours later, Hall pointed authorities to Tunstall's apartment that investigators had briefly visited earlier in search of photographs of the children for media outlets to publicize as the search pressed on, said Ace Hart, a deputy St. Clair County coroner.

Hall "fessed up where the kids were. She didn't say she killed them," Hart said Sunday, saying he understood why investigators may have overlooked the children during their previous trip to the apartment. "Who would be looking in the washer and dryer?"

But by Saturday night, Hart said, "you could find them by the smell."

Two of the children were nude, the third wearing only underpants, Hart said. The oldest, 7-year-old DeMond Tunstall, was found in the dryer, the younger two children ”� 2-year-old Ivan Tunstall-Collins and 1-year-old Jinela Tunstall ”� in the washer.

Hall remained jailed Sunday in nearby Belleville on $5 million bond, charged with first-degree
murder in Tunstall's death and with intentional homicide of an unborn child.

Autopsies on the children were scheduled for Sunday, Hart said.

Illinois State Police Capt. Craig Koehler declined to say late Saturday whether Hall was suspected in the children's deaths. The cause of their deaths had not been determined, he said.

"Any time you have three deceased children, it's a very emotional time," Koehler said, fighting back tears. "All these investigators have worked tirelessly with one outcome in mind ”� to find these children alive."

An autopsy showed that Jimella Tunstall, 23, whose body was found Thursday, bled to death after sustaining an abdominal wound caused by a sharp object, believed to be scissors, Hart has said. Authorities believe her womb was cut open after she was knocked unconscious.

Relatives say Tunstall grew up with Hall and had let her baby-sit her children.

Officials suspect Tunstall, who was seven months pregnant, was slain on or about Sept. 1
5, said Robert Haida, St. Clair County's prosecutor. The same day, Hall summoned police to a park, saying she had given birth to a stillborn child, Hart said.

Hall and the baby were taken to a hospital, where she would not let doctors examine her and offered conflicting reasons for why she went into labor, alternately saying she had consensual sex and was raped, Hart said. The dead baby showed no signs of trauma, and an autopsy the next day failed to pinpoint a cause of death, Hart said.

Authorities say Hall acknowledged to her boyfriend during the baby's funeral Thursday that the child wasn't his, and that she had killed the mother to get it. The boyfriend, reportedly a sailor home on leave, told police, who arrested his girlfriend hours later, investigators said.

Hall has two children of her own. Koehler said they are "safe and sound."

Hall likely will be arraigned Monday on the two charges, each carrying a 20 to 60 years or life in prison, Haida said. The murder count could b
e punishable by the death penalty.

DNA tests should determine definitively whether the baby was the one Tunstall was carrying, Hart said.

[Brewski]

That wily she-boon hid the dead niglets in the last places a nigger would ever think to look.. a clothes washer and dryer!

I just wonder why "Illinois State Police Capt. Craig Koehler" was all broken down in tears, and stuff. Maybe he's the Illinois state spokesfag.

[Buster]

I suspect primitive savage thoughts are constantly bouncing off the walls of every brainless nigger head on the planet.

[Gman]

This story would be sad if it were not for the fact that the victims were future criminals and welfare queens that would contribute nothing to society except more criminals and TNB. Why was the cop crying???? I am confused.'

Gman