Internal Investigation in to What Caused the Delay in Sending Evidence to the Crime Lab - COMPLETED
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The internal investigation is into why there was a 40 day delay in sending evidence to the Crime Lab -has been completed. This evidence was obtained during the 3/28/12 search of Dr. Larry Amos' home. That was the last place anyone saw Cleashindra Hall.
According, Lt. JoAnn Bates, results of the investigation have been forwarded to Police Chief Brenda Davis-Jones to review.
PBPD to Provide Weekly Updates Regarding the investigation to the Mother of Cleashindra Hall
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Cleashinda Hall's mother, Laurell Hall sat and looked straight at leadership during the Pine Bluff City Counsel meeting on Monday night. "The more they see me, the more they can't ignore me and my daughters case," said Hall.
Alderman Steven Mays made a proposal that would have required police to create a cold case unit. "It was to help the other cold cases because we have more than one. But the resolution was to start on the Hall case," he said.
PBPD promised to be more transparent, however the resolution did not pass. "Each Wednesday after we get together, I will give the Hall family a weekly update on what we have or have not accomplished on the case," said deputy chief Kelvin Sargeant.
According to the Pine Bluff Police Department, an internal investigation is under way in order to determine the reason why evidence gathered from the search of Dr. Larry Amos' home- on March 29, 2012...was not sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab until 40 days after the search. The search was in connection with the 1994 disappearance of 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall. KATV Channel 7 News reports that Hall's family thought the evidence was awaiting analysis at the State Crime Laboratory. However, Hall's mother says, the evidence has been sitting at the Pine Bluff Police Department until this week.Pine Bluff Police Department spokeswoman says an investigation into the delay is under way.
Calls were made to Pine Bluff Police Chief Brenda Davis-Jones for comment- however, she did not respond.
Calls were made to Pine Bluff Police Chief Brenda Davis-Jones for comment- however, she did not respond.
18 years ago today, Cleashindra Hall vanished. She was last seen at the home of Dr. Larry Amos in Pine Bluff, AR with whom she worked for after school.
40 days ago police executed their first ever search warrant on the Amos property. Evidence collected was unfortunately sent to the crime lab... yesterday.
Evidence collected at a raid of his home- 40 days ago- was only sent to the crime lab yesterday.
40 days ago police executed their first ever search warrant on the Amos property. Evidence collected was unfortunately sent to the crime lab... yesterday.
Evidence collected at a raid of his home- 40 days ago- was only sent to the crime lab yesterday.
On March 29, 2012- the Pine Bluff Police Department executed a search warrant at the home of Dr. Larry Amos.
While attending a city counsel meeting, Laurell Hall asked the Pine Bluff Police Chief Brenda Davis-Jones for an update on the investigation.
Davis-Jones replied: “We call the crime lab once a week,"... "Once they come back, we will be happy to come back and give you the results of the report.”
According to the AR State Crime Lab- while Chief Davis-Jones was making those statements- they were not yet in possession of any evidence. The Hall's learned today that the evidence did not make it to the crime lab until yesterday, May 8th.
A spokesperson for the police department said that chief just assumed the evidence had been sent. "There's some miscommunication and we're checking into it at this time,” said Captain Greg Shapiro.
The Hall Family is outraged. "What kind of chief is that that doesn't know, she's assuming. You know what happens when you assume," Hall said. "They're not making asses out of the Hall’s anymore.” Hall said up until this point, she trusted Chief Davis Jones, but has now lost all faith in the department to ever solve this case.
"Because I went to the city Council meeting on Monday, now the evidence goes to the crime lab on Tuesday?" Hall said. "C'mon."
The Halls are seeking outside help, to bring closure and justice for her daughter. “There's some type of cover up going on and I'm not going to have my daughter's life be the cost."
Cleashindra Hall case: Police search home for Ark. teen missing since '94
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Police obtained a warrant to search an Arkansas man’s home for clues into the 1994 disappearance of an 18-year-old woman after someone reported seeing blood at the house, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Authorities seized four items when they searched Larry Amos’ home in Pine Bluff for evidence related to Cleashindra Hall, who was working part-time for Amos doing clerical work and preparing for college. Amos, who hasn’t been charged or named a suspect in the case, is the last known person to have seen her.
“We have no viable suspect, and what we’re trying to do is narrow down the scope of the investigation,” Police Lt. Bob Rawlinson said Tuesday, declining to comment on what police found. “Until we are able to identify a person of interest, everybody associated with the case is (a person of interest).”
According to the court documents, a man who said he did some construction work for Amos in the late 1990s told investigators in January that he spotted blood in the home “like it had been splattered on the insulation” Another man who was hired to fill a hole in Amos’ backyard said that “when the wind would blow he could smell an odor unlike anything he has smelled before,” according to a summary of a police interview included with the court documents.
The heavily redacted documents don’t indicate whether any blood was found. The paperwork also doesn’t say what items investigators took from the home when it was searched late last week. Rawlinson also wouldn’t comment on what was found, or whether two cadaver dogs that searched the home found anything.
Amos declined to talk to reporters when authorities searched his home in Pine Bluff, a city just south of Little Rock. A man outside the home Tuesday refused to comment or identify himself to an Associated Press reporter, saying only: “I have no comment no matter what you ask.”
Investigators believe that Hall went to work at Amos’ house on May 9, 1994. She called home around 8 p.m. to see if someone had called for her. No one had, so she hung up, her mother Laurell Hall said.
“That was the last time we heard her voice,” Laurell Hall said Tuesday.
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