Archive for the ‘family members’ tag
FL v Leppert & Lowry – Victim: James Stewart
09.29.09: Sentence - Life Without Parole plus 2 concurrent life sentences
Fifteen-year-old Morgan Leppert was originally reported as an endangered runaway. After investigating the case police realized she may be in danger because she was in the company of adult male Toby Lowry. An Amber Alert was issued because there were a few sightings of Morgan riding in a truck.
Police ran a search on the license plate and found the truck was registered to Florida resident James Stewart. Police went to Stewart’s home address, but there was no response to their knocks on the door. The detective left a business card requesting that Stewart contact them.
A few days later family members of Stewart phoned police asking them to do a ‘welfare check’ on Stewart because they had not heard from him in several days. Stewart was hard-of-hearing and had no hands. Police went to Stewart’s home, made entry and found his body. He had been beaten, stabbed, and suffocated with a plastic bag.
PA v Page – Victim: Nyia Page & Unknown child
William Lorenzo Page is charged with assaulting, kidnapping and leaving his 23-month-old daughter, Nyia, to die in 8-degree weather in February 2007.
William Page reported his daughter missing from his Braddock, Pennsylvania home in the early morning hours of February 3, 2007 where he lived with his wife and other family members. During the course of the investigation Nyia’s brother indicated that he had been the victim of a sexual assault by William Page. At that point police took William Page into custody on that charge.
Nyia’s body was found by searchers on February 4, 2007 in an abandoned playground. She was not wearing any clothing from the waist down.
William Page finally made a full confession about what happened that night.
