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Canadian Stacy-Anne Sappleton murdered in New York

 
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:27 pm    Post subject: Canadian Stacy-Anne Sappleton murdered in New York Reply with quote

Body of murdered Canadian woman found in New York garbage truck


Canadian Press


May 11, 2004





NEW YORK -- A Toronto woman was in New York on Tuesday grieving the murder of her 26-year-old daughter, who had gone to the city to plan her September wedding.

The body of Stacy-Ann Sappleton was found in a garbage truck Monday in the New York borough of Queens. She had been shot several times.

''She never really ever liked this place,'' sobbed Marcia Thomas, who identified her daughter's body on Tuesday.

Sappleton, of Tecumseh, Ont., near the border city of Windsor, had flown to New York on Friday to make arrangements for her nuptials to Damion Blair of Detroit. She was en route to the home of Blair's parents in Brookville, a quiet New York residential neighbourhood, when last heard from.

Her disappearance was reported Saturday.

Sappleton's body, clad only in underwear, was found by a sanitation worker when he stopped to check a jammed mechanism on the back of his truck.

Thomas, reached by phone at the New York home of Blair's parents, said her daughter had flown from Detroit to New York's La Guardia airport and had called her fiance from a cab to confirm directions to his parents' residence.

''A block from the house she realized she knew where she was, and told her boyfriend, 'I'm OK, I'm fine. I'll talk to you later,''' Thomas said.

''And that was it. Nobody has seen her (alive) since.''

Thomas, who has been in New York since Sunday after hearing from one of Sappleton's friends about her disappearance, said police hadn't given her any information as of Tuesday morning.

''It's just the media that's saying what was happening. The report over here was that she was found in a Dumpster,'' Thomas said, losing composure.

''My daughter was a good girl. She came from Jamaica when she was 11. She went to University of Windsor. She was doing pretty well.''

''How could someone just take a life like that?''

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Sappleton's body was discovered about eight kilometres from the home of her intended in-laws.

It appeared that she had been dead for less that 24 hours, said Insp. Kathleen Kearns of the Queens South detective bureau. Police were considering the possibility that she had been detained for a period before her killing.

Sappleton had been employed for 18 months as a group benefits specialist with the Great-West Life insurance firm in Windsor, the Times reported, quoting a manager as saying she ''was at a good point in her life.''

An autopsy was to be performed Tuesday.

© Canadian Press 2004
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seems as though this young woman made it to the door of her to be inlaws and winds up eigth miles away in a garbage dumpster. The taxi driver left her off at her to be inlaws, he had telephoned her beau just prior. If I'm not mistaken isn't Queen's district pretty residential, it was when I was there 30 years ago.
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can betcha that if they find this murdering thug that he was on parole and should have been being monitored so that we would know what creeps were in the area when she disappeared. If we don't do that we're just going to keep seeing this, over and over.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thursday, June 3, 2004

Woman likely knew her killer

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Body found (Photo by Robert Stridiron)
May 10, 2004


BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA AND DARYL KHAN
Staff Writers

May 11, 2004, 7:47 PM EDT


The Canadian woman found shot dead in Queens while in town to prepare for her wedding was likely killed by someone she knew, police sources said.

There were no arrests by late Tuesday night in the death of Stacy-Ann Sappleton, 27, but sources said her death appears to be less of a mystery than originally anticipated, with detectives interviewing friends and relatives.

Sappleton got off a plane at LaGuardia Airport Friday morning, hopped in a cab and headed to the Springfield Gardens home where her fiancé's parents and two brothers live.

During the ride she conferred by cell phone with her fiancé, Damion Blair, 28, who was home in Detroit and providing directions to the house.

On Monday morning, she was found, clad only in black panties and a black bra, in a garbage truck in Bayside, about five miles away. Sappleton, who had been reported missing over the weekend in Canada and New York, was shot in the neck, torso and arms, the medical examiner said Tuesday. A police source said it appears she was not sexually abused.

She had been beaten badly about the face and body, Blair told Thomas.

"She didn't deserve to die like that, thrown in a dumpster," Thomas said.

At first, detectives thought she had never made it to the home of her would-be in-laws.

But Tuesday, after tracking down and interviewing the cab driver who picked her up at LaGuardia, police said Sappleton was dropped off at 146th Avenue and 226th Street, near where Blair's family lives.

"OK, I think I'm fine," Sappleton's mother, Marcia Thomas, said Damion Blair quoted her daughter as saying when the cabbie found his family's home. "And he said, 'Are you sure?' And she said, 'Yes.'"

Thomas and Blair's mother, Valerie Blair, also said that they learned from police that Sappleton made two other calls — either from the cab or after she was left off — to a cousin's job in Brooklyn and to her voice mail at her office in Ontario, where she worked as an insurance benefits specialist.

Those calls occurred just after 9:18 a.m. Friday, the time she arrived at the Blair home, according to both mothers.

"And then she just vanished," Thomas said.

It was not clear if Sappleton ever made it inside the home. Blair's parents were not home at the time, but they left the door unlocked so she could enter. Blair's brother, Mark, was sleeping in the basement at the time. Another brother was at work.

Detectives spent Tuesday interviewing family members while Blair flew in, also to be interviewed. Police also searched the home on 226th Street as well as a shed behind the home.
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If in fact Stacey knew her abductor, then it is only likely one of the brothers, more likely the brother who was at home and allegedly asleep, or the brother who was working. It might also be a friend of STacey's boyfriend whom she might have called. The police would not say this unless they had some evidence to support their finding. Odd that they haven't been able to make an arrest, because there could not have been all that many people whom she knew in New York. I have visited this part of queens and it seems very safe, at least it was when I visted. We will see what unfolds in the near future. Wonder if the RCMP is going to investigate this case, more than likely, and as the saying goes, they always get their man. I hope that this is just not an unsolved case!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:38 am    Post subject: Maps of Stacey's Journey to New York Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bride-to-be slay doesn't add up





They've used a search warrant, repeatedly questioned a city cabbie and scoured cell phone records, but detectives are still puzzled by the murder of a Canadian woman found dead in a dump truck Monday.
Stacy-Ann Sappleton, 26, was found shot to death three days after she vanished on her way to visit her future in-laws at their Hollis, Queens, home.

Police believe she arrived at LaGuardia Airport on May 7 and called her fiancé about 9:30 a.m. to say she was close to his parents' home. She never arrived, Damion Blair's family said.

Now the mystery swirling around her death has deepened.

Blair told cops Sappleton had never been to Queens before, but police found evidence that she had lived in Hollis in the past. Detectives were investigating a series of short airline trips she took, as well as repeated phone calls to someone in Detroit, police sources said.

"The idea that she was abducted at 9:30 a.m. on a spring morning in a heavily populated area is not jibing with detectives," a high-ranking police official said yesterday.


Michele McPhee


Originally published on May 15, 2004 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/193574p-167321c.html


It is very interesting that the Mother in law to be stated that stacey had been to their home about 1/2 dozen times but never alone. Why would her boyfriend state that she had not been there before? This seems very odd, also we now learned that she once lived there in Hollis. Presumably the trips and phone calls to someone in Detroit was her boyfriend, as this is where he lived?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Too many people. There was a woman killed in Sacramento yesterday morning at about nine AM. She was not kidnapped, it was a robbery. The woman was just opening up her liquor store.

I don't know the exact sequence, but the robber approached the woman as she opened the liquor store door. I don't know when, but he stabbed the woman with a knife several times. She was dead when they got her to the hospital. She was an East Indian woman and had lived in that area for a long time. She was 53 years old.

The robber ran off down the street carrying the cash register from the store. The police searched the area, but they did not find the man.

I am thinking that maybe the woman did not want to give him the money, or else she knew the robber, and he killed her so she could not be a witness. I would go for she would not give hime the money. He could not get into the cash register, so he carried it away.

There are too many people. Soon we will all be wearing locators. Even rd....:)

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