| mommyof3 |
| | 09/07/03 at 09:24 AM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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The timeline for what authorities believe happened the afternoon and evening of June 14, when Leanna Warner disappeared in Chisholm, Minn.:
4:35 p.m.: Leanna, 5, leaves her home for a friend's house less than two blocks away. Her mother, Kaelin Warner, tells her to be home in about a half-hour. Leanna is barefoot and wearing a sleeveless denim dress.
5:15 p.m.: Two neighbors see Leanna knocking on the door of the friend's house. The friend is not home, and nobody answers.
5:30 p.m.: Kaelin notices Leanna isn't home yet. She sends Leanna's older sister over to the friend's house. The friend's family isn't home.
6 to 6:30 p.m.: Kaelin and Leanna's older sister start walking around the neighborhood looking for Leanna.
6:21 p.m.: Chris Warner, Leanna's father and a volunteer with Chisholm's ambulance service, leaves home on an emergency medical run to the Hibbing area. Authorities do not believe he knew at this point that his daughter was missing.
7:30 p.m.: More people join in the search for Leanna.
7:47 p.m.: Chris Warner's ambulance run ends. He returns home, is told that Leanna is missing and joins the search.
8:48 p.m.: Kaelin Warner places a 911 call to a St. Louis County dispatcher to report that her daughter is missing. By 9 p.m., Chisholm police are helping with the search. Rescue squad personnel, including bloodhounds, arrive by 10:15 p.m. A State Patrol helicopter is searching for Leanna by 4 a.m. Sunday.
June 15: Residents join police officers from Chisholm and neighboring cities, St. Louis County sheriff's deputies and state Department of Natural Resources officers. The helicopter again searches for Leanna, especially above Longyear Lake, which is about two blocks from her home.
LeeAnna's website |
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| mommyof3 |
| | 09/07/03 at 09:31 AM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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After reading about Rachel's story and the journal, I feel like I need to help out someone, somehow.
I'm from Minnesotal also but I'm a few hundred miles from where LeeAnn disappeared. I can't believe it has been almost 3 months already. Her poor family. The police are baffled but now believe that it was a stranger abduction.
I believe the family has gone through a lot because unless you live in a rural area and a small town, you just don't understand how natural it is to let the kids walk a block or two by themselves. I only hope that this opens more parents eyes to see that the danger exists everywhere.
I emailed Mr. Warner last evening to see if there is anything that I can do to help. I guess even just getting a few extra people to say prayers is helping in some way. |
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| mommyof3 |
| | 09/14/03 at 08:53 AM | Reply with quote | #3 |
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Here was the reply I received from Mr. Warner the other day. Please continue to pray for this family. Thanks.
"thank you for the e-mail sorry it took so long to reply they have a few new things they are working on hopefully there will be an end to this soon please continue to pray for our family these prayers have been our strength"
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| mommyof3 |
| | 09/14/03 at 08:58 AM | Reply with quote | #4 |
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This was in this mornings paper. If this man had anything to do with Beaner's disappearance, I'm praying that he left a note or some evidence for closure for this family. This is not the closure we are hoping for though. Jane
Man questioned in LeeAnna Warner's disappearance is found dead
Howie Padilla and Terry Collins, Star Tribune
Published September 14, 2003 LEAN14
The body of one of several men who had been questioned in the disappearance of 5-year-old LeeAnna Warner of Chisholm, Minn., was found in a gravel pit Friday, the victim of an apparent suicide, authorities said Saturday.
At this point, Matthew J. Curtis, 24, of Chisholm, is no more of a suspect than any other person authorities have questioned, Department of Public Safety spokesman Kevin Smith said Saturday afternoon.
"There were a lot of things going on in this man's life, so it's not clear why he committed suicide," Smith said. "It may have nothing to do with LeeAnna Warner at all. He's like any other person they've been looking at for a long time."
Curtis' body was found by three men from the area who were looking for a place to practice archery, St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman said in a written statement. The gravel pit is about 8 miles north of Chisholm on National Forest land.
Curtis had recently been charged with possession of child pornography and was out on bail, the sheriff's statement said.
Investigators had said in July that they planned to look at about 130 convicted s@x offenders who live in northeastern Minnesota as part of the investigation.
Chris Warner, LeeAnna's father, said Saturday that he was awaiting a call from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension about Curtis.
Warner saw police at Curtis' home Friday night and wondered whether their presence had anything to do with his missing daughter.
"This guy only lives a few doors from me," Warner said. "I went up to the police and asked them if it had anything to do with LeeAnna, and they said no.
"Right now, everything I know is speculation."
LeeAnna, nicknamed "Beaner," was last seen about 5:15 p.m. on June 14 as she knocked on the door of a friend's house a block and a half from her home. She was wearing a sleeveless denim dress and was barefoot. Authorities believe she was abducted.
A reward and pleas from her parents have generated more than 1,300 leads. Investigators and family members have followed each tip and searched in vain for the girl.
Authorities investigating Curtis' death will probably spend the next few days gathering evidence at the gravel pit to see whether there are other clues, Smith said.
"They're going to move slow on it," he said. "They have to process all the evidence and try to figure out why he committed suicide.
"This in no way ends the investigation in LeeAnna's disappearance."
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| JR |
| | 09/14/03 at 07:51 PM | Reply with quote | #5 |
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mommyof3, Thank you for posting this update. I too pray Matthew Curtis left a note or some sort of evidence in his home if he was involved in Beaner's disappearance.
My heart goes out to the Warner family as they wait for news on this latest development. |
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| Shirley |
| | 10/03/03 at 09:43 AM | Reply with quote | #6 |
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Are there any updates on "Beaner's" case? She looks like such a sweetie pie in her pictures.
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| John Johnson |
| | 03/02/06 at 03:12 PM | Reply with quote | #7 |
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The time line of Leanna's disappearance is not accurate! There is still more things that the authorities are looking at
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| sunni |
| | 08/25/08 at 08:23 AM | Reply with quote | #8 |
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I hope someone has given a thought to Joseph Duncan III regarding this child's disappearance. If not, authorities should be given the heads up immediately.
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| lovin6933 |
| | 06/14/09 at 08:43 PM | Reply with quote | #9 |
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I spent many many hours helping with the search of "beaner" and today (6-14-2009) marks 6 years and this day and many others I often think of this child and her family. As a resident of chisholm I ask that everyone take a moment and say a prayer for "beaner" and her family! my thoughts and prayers are with the family ALWAYS! |
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