Man Bites Dog: Thailand's Answer To John Mark Karr?

[Sateev]

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (USA):

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY AND AMY ROLPH

P-I REPORTERS

TACOMA -- The body of a 12-year-old Tacoma girl missing since July 4 has been found, authorities said Thursday night.

A suspect previously detained by local law enforcement tipped investigators off about the location of Zina Linnik's body, Tacoma Police said. The girl's body was discovered Thursday evening in Pierce County, but police and FBI investigators wouldn't say where.

"People at the scene identified her as Zina," Detective Chris Taylor said. "Family was not there."

There was no immediate word on the cause of death or when the girl died.

As of Thursday night, Pierce County prosecutors had not pressed charges against the man who tipped police off.

"The information regarding the whereabouts of Zina was obtained from a suspect who is currently being held at a local federal detention facility on charges relative to his immigration status," Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell said.

On Monday, investigators seized a gray van found at the Parkland home of the 42-year-old convicted sex offender. Authorities also found girl's underwear at the home. In 1990, the man -- a Thai immigrant - pleaded guilty to incest after being charged with rape, according to court documents.

Zina disappeared at 9:45 p.m. July 4 from an alley behind her family's Hilltop neighborhood home in Tacoma. Witnesses said they heard the Ukrainian girl scream, then saw an old van pull away down the alley in the 2500 block of South J Street.

The man being detained denied any involvement in Zina's disappearance and said he was not in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood July 4, according to an affidavit filed in Pierce County Superior Court in support of a search warrant application.

The grim news Thursday brought "great anguish" to the Linnik family as well as Tacoma police and FBI agents who had worked to find the girl, Ramsdell said.

"Our hearts and prayers are with the Linnik family and we will continue to put forth our best efforts to bring the perpetrator of this senseless and horrific crime to justice," Ramsdell said at a news conference outside Tacoma police headquarters.

Late Thursday night Tacoma Police officers were stationed outside the Linnik's home.

Sincere Hankins, who helped searched for Zina for days, on Thursday night stood by her house across from the Linnik home, holding back tears.

"My kids aren't going outside the fence without me anymore," she said of her 13-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, who remember Zina riding her bike around the neighborhood. "I can't imagine what (Zina's family) are going through."

Investigators searching for Zina on Wednesday called off a search of Tiger Mountain east of Seattle. FBI Special Agent Fred Gutt had said that the Tiger Mountain search was prompted by one of several leads investigators were following.

Meanwhile, a 10-year-old Tacoma boy police spent hours searching for returned home safely Thursday morning. Joseph Felton's mother called police after the boy went missing from their home in the 1700 block of South G Street Wednesday afternoon.

Police now believe the boy ran away after fighting with his mother. He came home after spending the night at a relative's house, a police spokesman said.

This report included material from The Associated Press

Hope this won't make it more difficult for Thais to enter the USA, get jobs, use public assistance, start businesses, and live free of the need to run to Tijuana every 30/90 days, just to stay in the US. Hopefully, Disneyland, Sea World, and the National Park System won't start charging them a 1250% 2nd tier fee for entry to those facilities, using this knucklehead as a pretext.

Sateev

[Scott]

Perhaps we should wait until he's found guilty.

[tijnebijn]

Lunitics are found everywhere , in every country and on every level of society . Not one government wherever whatever

should make any decisions to make rules of immigration more complicated like it seems the Carr case did here in Thailand.

People are no different no matter where they come from . The world is a pretty sick place or better said the people who are living on it .

[Sateev]

Perhaps we should wait until he's found guilty.

Actually, his guilt isn't the issue. The public's perception of his guilt, as a foreigner, and the painting of ALL foreigners with the same brush, is. Kind of like the knee-jerk of the Thai government to Karr's uncovering.

Sateev

[KireB]

Lunitics are found everywhere , in every country and on every level of society . Not one government wherever whatever

should make any decisions to make rules of immigration more complicated like it seems the Carr case did here in Thailand.

People are no different no matter where they come from . The world is a pretty sick place or better said the people who are living on it .

Well, some countries produce more lunacy than others of course!

And people are different in different places.

[El Taco Loco]

Wonder if this will be in the Thai media?

[Huw]

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (USA):

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY AND AMY ROLPH

P-I REPORTERS

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Hope this won't make it more difficult for Thais to enter the USA, get jobs, use public assistance, start businesses, and live free of the need to run to Tijuana every 30/90 days, just to stay in the US. Hopefully, Disneyland, Sea World, and the National Park System won't start charging them a 1250% 2nd tier fee for entry to those facilities, using this knucklehead as a pretext.

Sateev

I am sure all of that will not come to pass.

Sadly.

I would dearly love to see some of the shit that Thais hand to foreigners handed back to them in a nice big bun.

H