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Endangered Missing: Student from S.J. missing in N.Y. Update

Student from S.J. missing in N.Y. Update

When Sarah Fox was a teenager, she would tell her mother where she was going even if it was just across the street.

That makes Fox's disappearance five days ago all the more frightening to those who know her.

"Sarah is very responsible, and she really understands the importance of friends and family," said Jake Browne of Logan, who graduated from Gloucester County Institute of Technology with Fox in 2001. "She's not the type of person who would just up and go without letting anyone know."

Fox - who grew up in Pennsauken and has family in Gibbstown - was last seen between 4 and 5 p.m. Wednesday near Isham Street and Broadway in the northern Manhattan neighborhood where she lives.

Authorities speculate Fox, 21, may have planned to go running in nearby Inwood Hill Park, bordered by the Hudson River and Harlem River Ship Canal, or to a gym on 181st Street.

Police in New York's 34th Precinct confirmed the search for Fox was continuing but released no other details.

Fox, raised on Day Avenue in Pennsauken, was accepted into the first class of the Southern New Jersey Performing Arts Academy, a drama and dance school housed at GCIT in Deptford.

At her graduation in June 2001, she told the Courier-Post she auditioned for the school on "kind of a whim." During her four years there, however, she fell in love with stage life.

Her talents later earned her acceptance to the Juilliard School in New York, where she is a third-year drama student.

Juilliard, a highly selective performing arts college, has about 800 music, dance and theater students. Its alumni include actors Kelsey Grammer, Ving Rhames and Val Kilmer.

About 40 of Fox's classmates and Juilliard faculty members spent the weekend searching for her and posting fliers bearing her photo around the city.

"She is a lovely, joyful person, a good worker. We just are hoping they find her," said Paula Mlyn, a Juilliard spokeswoman who briefly worked with Fox in the school's communications office.

Fox's mother Lorraine, who moved from Pennsauken to Jackson Street in Gibbstown after Fox left for college, went to New York with another daughter, Samantha, to join the search.

They could not be reached for comment.

Friends in Fox's old Pennsauken neighborhood, however, said they were stunned when they learned of her disappearance.

"I just don't understand how she could be missing because that's not like her at all," said Jaclyn Singer, 18.

Fox is responsible and wouldn't give in to whims or rash decisions, said friend Randi Johnson, 20, of Pennsauken.

Fox seemed mature beyond her years and enjoyed a special closeness with her mother, her friends said.

Singer speculated that bond could have been forged in the early 1990s, when Fox's father, Stephen, died of cancer.

Even as a child, Fox was drawn to acting, Singer said. She recalled Fox directing her and other kids to act like felines as she performed scenes from the Broadway musical Cats.

"We would pretend like we were in a play because that's what she wanted to do," Singer said with a laugh. "She was the older one and we looked up to her."

Fox has no interest in acting in movies, Johnson said. She loves the stage and hopes to be a part of the New York theater scene.

"She saw it as fun," Johnson said. "She's very good at it. She has a very vivid imagination.

" She also is talented, said Browne, her GCIT classmate, who recalled Fox's stage presence in the lead role of Rosalind in their senior production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.

"If there's one time when Sarah shone, that was it," said Browne, who is studying history at Wagner College on Staten Island. "She played it so well, she was like a true professional. You watched her and you had to remind yourself that she was still a senior in high school."

Fox resembled the quintessential actor even off stage, her friends said. She was outgoing and friendly, charismatic yet intimate, they said.

"She was incredible," recalled Erica Bauman, 20, a GCIT classmate of Fox's who now attends the University of Tampa in Florida. "When she got into Juilliard I was really proud and not surprised at all."

Even during her summers, Fox immersed herself in theater.

The Chautauqua Conservatory Theater listed Fox as a cast member in last summer's performance of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Fox played the role of Maria.

Friends said Fox enjoyed Juilliard, although she described it as difficult. She spent most of her time in New York, and Johnson said Fox was in the midst of a relationship with another student, a young man from California.

Lately, however, Fox was looking to take a break.

She had hoped to take some academic courses away from the school, possibly at Rutgers, before finishing her theater coursework, relatives said.

"She wanted to take a break because she didn't get a chance to be a kid," Johnson said.

Now, 90 miles south of where the search is concentrated, Fox's friends and relatives wait for word of her whereabouts.

"I don't know," Johnson said, her voice trailing. "I just hope they find her because I don't want . . ."
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the Truth has a name, and there is power in that Name!

[blondie]

Another boyfriend from Calif.

[rd]

"wanted to take a break" and go elswhere and not quoting the boyfriend are two red flags for me. I hope they are able to rectify that if possible.

rd

[rd]

Bad news. Sarah Fox was found dead in a Manhattan park.

rd

from www.foxnews.com (fair use)

Volunteers Looking for Juilliard Student Find Body
Associated Press
Tuesday, May 25, 2004

NEW YORK — Volunteers searching Tuesday for a missing Juilliard student discovered the decomposed body of a woman in a park in upper Manhattan, police said.

The body had not been officially identified as that of 21-year-old Sarah Fox. But police said it partly matched the description of the missing woman, who lived near the park.

A civilian search party found the body in a wooded area below the Henry Hudson Parkway in Inwood Hill Park, police said.

Fox, who grew up in Pennsauken, N.J., was last seen May 19 leaving her apartment in workout clothes. Friends said she may have been going for a run in the park, or to a gym on 181st Street.

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>>> A civilian search party found the body in a wooded area [snip]

Friends said she may have been going for a run in the park, or to a gym ... . <<<


those are chillingly familiar details ... attractive, talented young woman, trying to stay in shape, ends up dead. it sure is getting dark out ... keep your eyes on the skies, folks, 'cause we're gettiing there.


nanci
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[benn]

Hello nanci, I think I am a little older than you. I was going to high school during World War II, until I graduated in 1944 and went into the Navy.

In those days girls, and women, did not have as much freedom as now, but they did not seem to go missing so much either. Girls did not go out much alone, but now they are liberated and have their freedom and they go out alone and once in a while a mountain lion captures one of them.

I guess I should not call the predators mountain lions. Yesterday on the tv news the woman announcer was trying to tell the audience how to make yourself look big when you see the mountain lion. Only she was talking about a real mountain lion. People nowadays are getting so soft that they can not see that shooting mountain lions is necessary when they start to move into populated areas.

The girls and women are going to continue to go missing until they develop better security skills.

benn

[rd]

and more wolves are captured and kept off the streets, and monitored until they have completed probation. That's an extra cost, but one that should gladly be payed to keep women alive and safe.

rd

[peripeteia]

One would not think that a body would decompose in such a short time, it must have been very hot in Manhattan these days. This is all very scary, the rate at which young women and men are being murdered in the US, this seems to be a big problem in North America, it might be going on in in South America and Europe, we know for sure it is a big time occurance in Mexico. I know it happens in the Middle East, a school mate of mine was murdered in Morocco in 1969, this did not even make the news, either in Canada or Morocco. The Moroccans would not release her body, saying that there was a thyphoid epidemic, and typhoid had been irradicated from the world at this point. Her parents went to Morocco to bring the body back, and it much to do through external affairs she was brought home. On autopsy, it was found that her body was completely devoid of blood. someone had phelbotomized her body, this was not done by whatever medical examiner in Morocco had examined her, but was the cause of her death. Go figure?!

The question is raised why, with all the free sex that there is out there, one would not think that one has to murder to get this. Something is happening sociologically and psychologically to men, and women that there is this compulsion to rape, pillage and plunder women. I do not claim to have any knowledge as to what is causing this phenomenon. One thing is for sure, some understanding and insight needs to happen in order to be able to change behavior, in the meantime, the death penalty is the only thing that might crub this in the interm, until programmes can be set up to change behavior.

One has to wonder if the absence of men going to war, unemployment and the stress that we live under and as well all the pornography that exists might be causing the unbelieveable number of women being murdered. There seems to be a rise on the number of young men going missing as well.

Perhaps you are right Nanci, that the dark times are upon us, surely this has not occured to the extent that it is today in modern history, well for sure there is no records to show that the number of missing persons has existed before now. The breakdown of the family unit is surely one cause, but one thing is for sure, nothing being done at present seems to disincline murders at present. Something has to give, over 100,000 missing in the US. Canada certainly has our share of wacos that are murdering at unprecidented rates, their prey are young men and women?

I hope that the murders that were committed by the Picton Brothers re: Pig Farm, that the death penalty awaits them, so far only one of the brothers have been charged but no doubt the both brothers were involved in the murders of allegedly 50 women plus.
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A vision sent me on the path of seeking justice for Chandra, nothing I've seen in print to date has diminished the vividness but only served to reaffirm the validity of this vision.

[peripeteia]

Sarah Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/nyregion/26dead.html?ex=1400904000&en=ae508d53e3ed5c73&ei=5007
Body Found in City Park Is Believed to Be Missing Student
By THOMAS J. LUECK

Published: May 26, 2004


naked body believed to be that of a missing 21-year-old drama student at the Juilliard School was found yesterday by a volunteer search party near a jogging path at the northern tip of Manhattan, and police officials said it appeared likely that the young woman was murdered.

The missing woman, Sarah Fox, described by acquaintances as an energetic actress, was last seen about 5 p.m. last Wednesday when she said goodbye to a roommate in her Inwood apartment, less than a mile from the spot in Inwood Hill Park where the body was found, the police said. She was wearing exercise clothing and carrying a compact disc player, apparently intending to jog or work out at a nearby gym.

Her disappearance, which was reported on Thursday by the roommate, provoked alarm from Manhattan to the hardscrabble street in the southern New Jersey township where she was raised. And her apparent killing ended what many who knew her saw as a promising theatrical career.

As the police dispatched officers, helicopters and dogs to search the densely forested parks near Ms. Fox's apartment on Isham Street, friends and family members posted hundreds of posters with her photo in store windows, subway stations and elsewhere.

The body was discovered about 1:30 p.m. by a volunteer search party made up largely of people from Pennsauken, Ms. Fox's hometown in Camden County, and elsewhere in southern New Jersey. The group of about 75 people, organized by Ms. Fox's uncle, arrived yesterday in Manhattan on two yellow school buses, then fanned out across Inwood Hill Park even though the police had already covered the same ground.

"We knew the park had been searched, but we felt if anything happened, it happened here," said the uncle, Isaac Porter, an electrician from Millville, N. J. "We love her extremely, that is why we are here."

By late yesterday, the police said they had not yet been able to positively identify the body as that of Ms. Fox because it was badly decomposed. Investigators, however, believe that the body is that of the drama student. They said that it matched the size of Ms. Fox's 5-foot-2 frame, and that it had the same strawberry blond hair as Ms. Fox. Perhaps most telling, the police said the body bore a tribal band tattoo on the lower back like the one Ms. Fox had inscribed.

An autopsy to determine the cause of death was scheduled for today. And the medical examiner's office will use Ms. Fox's dental records in an effort to identify the body. Investigators said yesterday that while the cause of death remained uncertain and there was a remote chance that Ms. Fox had taken her own life, they were treating it as a homicide.

"We're going to have to sit down and find out if this is a random act of violence or someone that she knew,'' said a police official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We're certainly going to have to take a hard look at everyone she was associated with.''

There were no apparent signs of a struggle in the area where the body was found, the police official said. "It's a pretty pristine crime scene,'' the official said, adding that there were no signs of blood. "But if she were strangled there, there would be no blood."

Besides the absence of clothing at the scene or nearby, a member of a volunteer search party said the body was found in a place where it had probably been dragged from a nearby jogging path, and that despite its state of decomposition, the body appeared to have been badly beaten. But police officials said the body was too badly decomposed to detect any signs of violence.

The volunteer searchers from New Jersey included several retired or off-duty police and firefighters, and the first person to discover the body was described by the authorities as a retired policeman. The search effort also included the Ramapo Rescue Dog Association, a highly trained volunteer group that provided three German shepherds.

The police said the body was found face up on a bed of leaves in a thickly wooded area about 50 yards west of the Henry Hudson Parkway, and less than 40 yards south of the toll plaza on the south side of the Henry Hudson Bridge.

The site is down a ravine in an isolated expanse of park land that has been left uncut.

Body Found in City Park Is Believed to Be Missing Student

Published: May 26, 2004


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Ms. Fox lived in a five-story walkup building at Isham Street and Broadway in a neighborhood that has attracted many young actors, musicians and artists because it offers relatively low rents for Manhattan, and provides convenient highway access to the summer performance venues of the Hudson Valley.

Before the discovery yesterday, much of Inwood was blanketed with posters bearing Ms. Fox's photograph. Last night, people milled about on street corners, sharing news of the discovery in Inwood Hill Park.

Ms. Fox was a third-year drama student at Juilliard, one of the nation's most elite institutions for music and drama, and acquaintances said she had displayed remarkable acting talent since her early teenage years.

"She was an incredibly creative person, and an extraordinary talent," said Michael Sexton, a Manhattan director who led a theatrical workshop at Juilliard in February 2003 and had Ms. Fox as a student.

He said she was also remarkably popular with other students.

At Juilliard yesterday, students in the fourth-floor halls of the drama department appeared stunned.

Solange Merdiniam, 20, a voice major who said she had met Ms. Fox at a summer performing arts program at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York, broke into tears when she was told of the discovery. "It can't be possible," she said.

Ms. Fox grew up in an environment far humbler than the halls of Juilliard. Her home in Pennsauken was half of a modest duplex that is less than 200 yards from a busy New Jersey highway, Route 90.

She displayed an interest in acting as a little girl and real talent when she became a teenager. After a winning audition, she spent her high school years at the Southern New Jersey Academy of the Performing Arts , and from there won admission to Juilliard.

"We used to do plays, and she always wanted to do scenes from 'Cats,' '' said Jaclyn Singer, 18, a neighbor and a friend who lives across the street from Ms. Fox's childhood home in Pennsauken.

In an interview late yesterday, Ms. Singer also recalled Ms. Fox's dedication to keeping fit, and to jogging.

"When she was here in the summer, you would see her every day going out to jog," Ms. Singer said. "She would stretch on the sidewalk, with her CD player in her hand, and then run off."

"But she would always tell her mother where she was going," Ms. Singer said. "She would never be out late, and she didn't talk to too many people."


William K. Rashbaum, Ian Urbina, Howard O. Stier and Jason George contributed reporting for this article.
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A vision sent me on the path of seeking justice for Chandra, nothing I've seen in print to date has diminished the vividness but only served to reaffirm the validity of this vision.

[rd]

kate, this is sadly similar to Chandra's case. The police missed her body, but now I think people realize they have to search on their own, even bringing search dogs. The police just aren't capable of doing the job.

The body was dragged down a ravine off a jogging path, in deep brush but in sight of a highway. Chandra was dragged down the side of a hill from a horse trail, hidden from sight of a busy road by trees.

A major misperception that I correct with Murder on a Horse Trail is that next to no one who looks at the details of where Chandra was found and her situation would believe that she or any other woman would be alone on a horse trail deep in a primevial forest. It is almost always men who say that she was there, men who haven't seen the terrain.

People envision something like Sarah Fox just endured. It is anything but on that horse trail on the side of a steep hill in the national forest of Rock Creek Park.

rd

[benn]

We have to look at who might lose a political career if Chandra did not go away. Of course she had talked to her aunt and her family, so Chandra did not go away. We have her story whether she is with us or not.

We often see a remark about the Chandra investigation that no motive has been found. I really can't figure that answer out. Of course there could have been other motives by other individuals, a mugger in the park, but to not look at all of the motives is sort of like sticking one's head in the sand.

benn

[rd]

You also have to consider that most people, lacking details of the situation, would consider Chandra's situation to be similar to Sarah Fox's, a woman jogging in a city park. It is actually much more important to deal with why that isn't the case than dealing with other possibilities such as Condit, because people naturally will expect that it is just another woman attacked in a park unless it is carefully explained the difference of a horse trail in a national forest and why Chandra nor any other woman would be there alone.

rd

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>>> that the dark times are upon us, surely this has not occured to the extent that it is today in modern history <<<


that they are, and the growing numbers of missing people and murdered young women are only a small part of the proof that we are living in progressively darker days. when we add in the babies having babies, the children murdering children, and the parents abusing their children, even killing them; when we consider the corporate and political power brokers cheating those who have trusted them, not to mention the religious leaders who molest children and denigrate God by representing the Person who produced all of reality as nothing more than a grand idea; when we raise whole generations of children who worship at the feet of hollywood idols, paying a great deal more than a tithe of their income as homage to their idols, we can realistically expect it to get seriously dark out there ... and it has, because we have done exactly that.

there are, of course, many explanations for the course of human behavior in the 21st century, probably as many explanations as there are people thinking about that issue, certainly as many as the differing perspectives on reality in general ... even ancient writings like judeo-christian scripture give us crystal clear warning that the day will come when the human race will literally deteriorate. however, of the contemporaneous expressions of how we got where we are, i think the following verses, which are attributed to judge roy moore, do the best job of representing the explanation i accept as being the reason that we're seeing it grow more and more dark out there.


nanci

ps to benn: yup, you're almost a generation older than i am, as i was born in '46 ... i wonder sometimes if your generation was the last one to embrace traditional american values, pretty much across the board. thanks for that, and for being one of 'the greatest generation.'

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The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was recently sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama.

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
America the Beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty,
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain.

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray.

We've kept God in our temples,
how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not angry,
that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.

~Judge Roy Moore
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the Truth has a name, and there is power in that Name!

[benn]

I don't know what problem to address first here. Here is something I saved the other day from a daily Bible Devotion I receive from Adrian Rogers.

May 21

BIBLE MEDITATION: "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works." Hebrews 10:24

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: One area where Christians can shed the light of Christ is in our school system. We have a generation who has no standards of right and wrong - everything is relative. In our schools our children are being taught that they have descended from animals. Is it any wonder that many have begun to act like animals? What can you and I do? We must "love" our way back in! We must get involved by becoming members of the PTA. We must encourage teachers and tell them we are praying for
them. We must go to school board meetings and find out about policies and curricula. We must seek to be holy people in a godless world. And if we don't, we are contributing to the demise of the next generation.

ACTION POINT: Are you a parent of a school-age child? Then, join the PTA. Are you a grandparent? Ask God to send you to a teacher so you can be an encouragement to him or her through prayer and ministry. Are you a single person? Learn about becoming a tutor in a nearby school.<<<<

I don't have any children, but I try to help a little through World Vision, etc.

benn

[rd]

I disagree with disbarring a person as a lawyer because they took a principled civil disobedience action as a judge, but then on the other hand if this guy were still a judge and it was some other lawyer and some other issue where he agrees with the law I don't think Moore would treat another lawyer any differently than he's being treated. That is a shame.

Did murders such as Sarah Fox in a Manhattan park take place in the past? Are there more murders now per population than in the past? Is not the claim that America is going to hell in a handbasket more ancient than ourselves?

Is every disappearance and murder of a woman proof of that claim, or has this been happening with just as much frequency or more in the past? The murder novel seems not to be a modern invention. There have been murders as far back as there has been man.

That doesn't help Sarah Fox, though. It is too much loss to lose a Sarah Fox even if her killer is found. He will almost assuredly be a previously convicted predator who was roaming unmonitored.

rd