~RICKY FLORES - 16 yo - St. John's AZ

Ricky Flores, a 16-year-old St. Johns teenager, has been missing since Aug. 3.





He weights 155 pounds, is 6 feet tall, has black hair and brown
eyes. His date of birth is Feb. 28, 1993. Anyone with information on
the whereabouts of the missing teenager should contact the St Johns
Police Department at (928) 337-4321.

Poster's Note: I believe the following report refers to the Missing Ricky Flores, same age, town and date of disappearance. I'll monitor to be certain but for now this is going into the "MURDERED" Forum

Three people have been charged in the death of a 16-year-old St.
Johns boy, whose remains authorities believe were buried in a shallow
grave.
Jeffrey Johnson of St. Johns and William Inmon and Storm Williams -
both of Springerville - were arrested within the past week. They're
being held at the Apache County detention center.
Authorities say the 43-year-old Johnson is charged with conspiracy
and solicitation to commit murder while the 21-year-old Inmon and
44-year-old Williams face first-degree murder charges.
Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting says the boy's mother
reported him missing on Aug. 14. The FBI recovered what authorities
believe are his remains from a shallow grave about 50 miles from town
two weeks later.
Whiting says it appears the boy was killed before his body was left in the wilderness.
Authorities have not released the boy's name.

Poster's Note: I was correct

A 16-year-old St. Johns boy who was murdered
and discarded in a shallow grave fathered a child with the daughter of
two of the four suspects, an Apache County official said.
Sgt. Richard Guinn, an Apache County Sheriff's spokesman, said he
believes Flores impregnated the daughter of suspects Melissa Johnson,
37, Jeffrey Johnson, 43.
Melissa Johnson was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of hindering a
criminal prosecution, false information and giving false information to
law enforcement; Jeffrey Johnson was arrested Aug. 28 on suspicion of
conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.
The body of Ricky Flores, who was reported missing by his mother on
Aug. 14, was found by the FBI on Aug. 28 nearly 80 miles away in Blue,
near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
“He was missing for a while but we were hoping to find him alive,”
Whiting said. “We talked to several suspects who led us to believe (the
boy) may be deceased so we started looking for the body.”
The Apache County Sheriff's Office would not say whether the Johnsons'
daughter's relationship with the teen was a suspected motive.
“Investigation has led us to believe drugs and money are two issues
that possibly led to this,” said Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting.
No further details were available.
Guinn said he thinks the baby is less than a year old; the Johnsons' daughter is believed to be about the same age as Flores.
Johnson, who is being held at Apache County Jail, is believed to have lived with his wife, children and the grandchild.
Police also arrested 21-year-old William Inmon and 44-year-old Storm
Williams on Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder. The pair led
police to the body, where it had been left for about two weeks.
Authorities suspect Flores was murdered on Inmon's property outside
of St. Johns, taken to the remote area in Greenlee County and discarded
in a shallow grave. Marks on the body suggest that someone attempted to
burn it.
The Sheriff's Office also released documents showing William Inmon
was a person of interest in the unsolved murder of William Frederick
Stone in 2007. That case also is still under investigation.

A 16-year-old St. Johns boy who was murdered
earlier this month and discarded in a shallow grave fathered a child
with the daughter of two of the four suspects, an Apache County
official said.
The body of Ricky Flores, who was reported missing by his mother on
Aug. 14, was found by the FBI on Aug. 28 nearly 80 miles away in Blue,
near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
"He was missing for a while but we were hoping to find him alive," Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting said.
"We talked to several suspects who led us to believe (the boy) may be deceased, so we started looking for the body."
Police arrested William Inmon, 21, and Storm Williams, 44, on Friday
on suspicion of first-degree murder. The pair led police to the body,
where it had been left for about two weeks.
Also arrested were Melissa Johnson, 37, and Jeffrey Johnson, 43.
Melissa Johnson was arrested on suspicion of hindering a criminal
prosecution, false information and giving false information to law
enforcement.
Jeffrey Johnson was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.
The Apache County Sheriff's Office wouldn't go into the details of
what each suspect specifically is accused of doing, but Sgt. Richard
Guinn, a sheriff's spokesman, said Flores impregnated the Johnsons'
daughter.
The Apache County Sheriff's Office would not say, though, whether
the daughter's relationship with Flores is the suspected motive.
Guinn said he believes the baby is less than a year old and believes the Johnsons' daughter is about the same age as Flores.
Authorities suspect Flores was murdered on Inmon's property outside
St. Johns, taken to the remote area in Greenlee County and discarded in
a shallow grave.
Marks on the body suggest that someone attempted to burn it, county officials said.
The Sheriff's Office also released documents showing Inmon was a
person of interest in the unsolved murder of William Frederick Stone in
2007. That case still is under investigation.

A man charged with killing a 16-year-old eastern Arizona boy took
the body to the home of the man police suspect hired him to commit the
crime before burying the remains, court records allege. William
Inmon, 21, transported the body of Ricky Flores of St. Johns to the
home of Jeffrey Johnson, 43, to "show Jeff that the job was done,"
according to a statement of probable cause filed in Apache County
Superior Court. Flores was dating Johnson's daughter, and the
relationship had been a source of conflict between Flores and the
girl's family, said Apache County Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Guinn. The
teenagers had a child together nearly a year ago. Investigators
haven't released a motive in the case but are "looking at everything,"
Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting said. Four
people are charged in the case, and three of them appeared in court
Tuesday: Johnson, Inmon and Inmon's girlfriend, Storm Williams, 44. Inmon
and Williams face first-degree murder charges; Johnson is charged with
conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder; and Johnson's wife,
37-year-old Melissa Johnson, is charged with hindering prosecution and
giving false information to law enforcement. The Johnsons are also from St. Johns, while Williams and Inmon live in nearby Springerville. Williams
and Jeffrey Johnson waived their right to a preliminary hearing and are
scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 28. Inmon's appearance was rescheduled
for Sept. 18, and a judge indicated
Melissa Johnson's hearing may be rescheduled for the same day. Marsha
Gregory, an attorney for Jeffrey Johnson, declined to comment, saying
she didn't want to try the case in the court of public opinion. Inmon's
attorney, Albert Lassen, also has declined
to comment. Williams'
attorney, Dirk Legate, said his client will plead not guilty and that
he may file a motion to determine her competency because of a brain
injury. An after-hours call to the office of Melissa Johnson's
attorney, Emery La Barge, was not answered. Whiting said Inmon
and Flores had known each other for a couple of years, so it was no
surprise to Flores' mother when Inmon showed up at their home the day
before she reported her son missing on Aug. 14. Flores' mother said she
received a text message later that day from her son saying he was with
Inmon, but he didn't return home by his 8 p.m. curfew and hadn't taken
any clothing or his cell phone charger. She told police Inmon had a gun strapped to his hip. Inmon
initially told authorities that he and Williams dropped Flores in town
that night after they went to the ranch of Inmon's father just east of
St. Johns. Authorities say Inmon and Williams later led them to
a shallow grave and described how they killed Flores, burned his body
and buried it in a wilderness area. Bone-like fragments, shell casings,
bullets and tools were found in the vehicle they were in, court records
said. Inmon told police that Jeffrey Johnson offered to pay him
to kill Flores, but authorities aren't sure if any money changed hands.
Whiting said Johnson "had expressed to different people that he wanted
Ricky Flores disposed of, killed." "We think they had conversations to that effect," Whiting said. Jeffrey
Johnson and Inmon's father were acquaintances, and Inmon sometimes
stopped by the tire shop where Jeffrey Johnson worked, Whiting said.
The two also were known to be involved in drugs, Whiting alleged. Johnson
was arrested Aug. 31, and Williams and Inmon were arrested Aug. 28 -- a
day before Flores' body was recovered. Melissa Johnson was arrested
last week. Whiting said Tuesday he wouldn't seek the death
penalty against Jeffrey Johnson; he didn't say if he would seek the
death penalty against any of the others. Jeffrey Johnson and
Inmon were being held without bond, while Williams was in custody on
$500,000 bond. Melissa Johnson posted bond and was released. In
court Tuesday, Inmon's mother, Dianna Inmon, stared lovingly at her
only child, held prayer beads and cried. She said she hadn't seen her
son in five years and heard about his arrest through her sister. Dianna
Inmon recalled the days when her son gave her a crown to wear and sang
to her for special occasions. She laughed when remembering the time her
son made her climb the tallest slide at McDonald's as her initiation
into their "Silly Willy" club -- she was Silly, he was Willy, and they
had two dogs named Nilly and Dilly. "It put me on the floor," she said. "I was like, 'No, not my baby."' Flores'
slaying came less than a year after a then 8-year-old boy was arrested
in the shooting deaths of his own father and another man in St. Johns.
The boy, now 9, pleaded guilty to one count of negligent homicide and
is awaiting sentencing.

A fourth person has been arrested in the case of
Ricky Flores, the 16-year-old St. Johns boy found murdered and buried
in a remote grave in the Blue Wilderness Area in northern Greenlee
County.

Michelle Johnson, 37, of St. Johns, the
wife of one of the other suspects, was arrested Wednesday on charges of
hindering a criminal prosecution, false information and giving false
information to law enforcement.
A preliminary hearing in the case was scheduled to take place today at noon in the Apache County Superior Court.
William Inmon, 21, and his girlfriend Storm E. Williams, 44, both
of Springerville, were arrested Aug. 28 on charges of first-degree
murder. Other charges are pending against the three suspects, Apache
County Attorney Michael Whiting said.
Two days later, Jeffery
Alan Johnson, 43, of St. Johns was arrested on a charge of conspiracy
to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.
Sheriff's
spokesman Sgt. Richard Guinn told The Independent that Johnson's
teenage daughter had a child with Flores. However, police have not been
able to confirm whether that relationship had anything to do with the
murder.
"No firm idea yet on what the motive may have been,"
Guinn said, noting that the Sheriff's Office was still investigating.
Authorities have said the three suspects confessed to killing the
16-year-old St. Johns who had been missing since Aug. 13. Guinn said
the "preliminary cause of death pending further investigation and
testing by (Pima County) Medical Examiner's office is homicidal
violence."
Sheriff Joseph Dedman Jr. said that his office was
informed Aug. 26 by the Apache County Attorney's Office and St. Johns
Police Department that a missing person case they were investigating
had developed information leading them to believe the missing person
was a victim of homicide.
St. Johns Police investigators Sgt.
Lucas Rodriguez and Detective Debbie Neckel's investigation led them to
believe that the missing juvenile may have been killed. Rodriguez
obtained two search warrants based on his investigation.
On
Aug. 27, the Sheriff's Office and St. Johns Police executed a search
warrant at a 110-acre ranch, the home of Charles and William Inmon, in
an effort to locate evidence of the missing boy. A search warrant was
also executed on the home of Williams at the same time. While the
search warrants were being executed, William Inmon and Williams
voluntarily appeared for interviews at the Springerville Police
Department. Springerville Police Chief Steve West, Rodriguez, Neckel
and investigators from the Apache County Attorney's Office interviewed
the couple.
During the course of the interviews,
investigators discovered a homicide had occurred in the jurisdiction of
the Apache County Sheriff's Office. At that time, the Apache County
Sheriff's Office took over as the lead agency in this case, Dedman said.
Investigators learned that the juvenile victim was buried in a
secluded area of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, located in
Greenlee County, between Alpine and Hannagan Meadows. Police believe
Inmon and Williams killed Flores on Inmon's property, took his body to
a remote area in the forest and dumped the body in a shallow grave. The
couple led police to the body, which reportedly had indications that
someone tried to burn it.
Greenlee County Sheriff Steve Tucker
sent staff to assist with the evidence recovery in Greenlee County. The
FBI dispatched an Evidence Recovery Team to assist in collecting
evidence from three crime scene locations and a vehicle believed to
have been used to transport the body from the ranch near St. Johns to
the burial site.
On Aug. 29, the shallow grave was located,
and the body was exhumed on Aug. 31. It was sent for an autopsy at the
Pima County Medical Examiner's Office in Tucson on Sept. 1.
Further investigation indicated the possible involvement of other
people. Follow-up interviews led to the arrests of the Johnsons.
Aside from St. Johns Police and the Apache County Attorney's
Office, sheriff's offices out of Apache and Greenlee counties,
Springerville Police Department, Apache County Sheriff's Posse and the
FBI have contributed to the case and continue to investigate.

The Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the autopsy
report for a 16-year-old boy found murdered in Northern Arizona.

In
August, the Apache County Sheriff’s Office and Apache County Attorney
investigators found the body of Ricky Flores “burned and decomposed
partial remains” in a shallow grave in a remote area of Greenlee
County.

Four people were later arrested in connection with the St. Johns boy’s disappearance and murder.

One
of the people arrested, William Inmon, later confessed to being a
serial killer and admitted to killing Flores and at least two other
people.

The autopsy report released Monday shows Flores suffered
a shotgun wound to the head and that there were tool marks on his
skeleton.

The report added that “the external genitalia are
absent,” but does not indicate if this is from decomposition, the body
having been burned, or some other reason.

When the medical
examiner received Flores’ body it was wrapped in a “fabric sleeping bag
and a piece of nylon fabric with attached mesh.”

The report also indicated that, “accompanying the body within the body bag are numerous straps, buckles, and pieces of metal.”

Flores'
head was so badly disrupted that fragments of his skull and some brain
tissue were given to the medical examiner in a separate biohazard bag.

The report said a shotgun was fired near Flores’ left ear.

The medical examiner found several tool marks around the shoulder blade area.

A toxicology screen showed Flores tested positive for Cannabinoids and Ethanol.

Authorities have been investigating the incident since August.

Officials
said 21-year-old Inmon transported Flores' body to the home of Jeffrey
Johnson, 43, to "show Jeff that the job was done," according to a
statement of probable cause filed in Apache County Superior Court.

Flores
was dating Johnson's daughter, and the relationship had been a source
of conflict between Flores and the girl's family, said Apache County
Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Guinn. The teenagers had a child together nearly
a year ago.

Investigators haven't released a motive in the case
but are "looking at everything," Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting
said.

Four people are charged in the case, and three have
already appeared in court: Johnson, Inmon and Inmon's girlfriend, Storm
Williams, 44.

Inmon and Williams face first-degree murder
charges; Johnson is charged with conspiracy and solicitation to commit
murder; and Johnson's wife, 37-year-old Melissa Johnson, is charged
with hindering prosecution and giving false information to law
enforcement.

The Johnsons are also from St. Johns, while Williams and Inmon live in nearby Springerville.

Marsha
Gregory, an attorney for Jeffrey Johnson, declined to comment, saying
she didn't want to try the case in the court of public opinion. Inmon's
attorney, Albert Lassen, also has declined to comment.

Williams'
attorney, Dirk Legate, said his client will plead not guilty and that
he may file a motion to determine her competency because of a brain
injury. An after-hours call to the office of Melissa Johnson's
attorney, Emery La Barge, was not answered.

Whiting said Inmon
and Flores had known each other for a couple of years, so it was no
surprise to Flores' mother when Inmon showed up at their home the day
before she reported her son missing on Aug. 14. Flores' mother said she
received a text message later that day from her son saying he was with
Inmon, but he didn't return home by his 8 p.m. curfew and hadn't taken
any clothing or his cell phone charger.

She told police Inmon had a gun strapped to his hip.

Inmon
initially told authorities that he and Williams dropped Flores in town
that night after they went to the ranch of Inmon's father just east of
St. Johns.

Authorities say Inmon and Williams later led them to
a shallow grave and described how they killed Flores, burned his body
and buried it in a wilderness area. Bone-like fragments, shell casings,
bullets and tools were found in the vehicle they were in, court records
said.

Inmon told police that Jeffrey Johnson offered to pay him
to kill Flores, but authorities aren't sure if any money changed hands.
Whiting said Johnson "had expressed to different people that he wanted
Ricky Flores disposed of, killed."

"We think they had conversations to that effect," Whiting said.

Jeffrey
Johnson and Inmon's father were acquaintances, and Inmon sometimes
stopped by the tire shop where Jeffrey Johnson worked, Whiting said.
The two also were known to be involved in drugs, Whiting alleged.

Johnson
was arrested Aug. 31, and Williams and Inmon were arrested Aug. 28 -- a
day before Flores' body was recovered. Melissa Johnson was arrested
shortly after.

Whiting said Tuesday he wouldn't seek the death
penalty against Jeffrey Johnson; he didn't say if he would seek the
death penalty against any of the others.

Jeffrey Johnson and
Inmon were being held without bond, while Williams was in custody on
$500,000 bond. Melissa Johnson posted bond and was released.

In
court proceedings, Inmon's mother, Dianna Inmon, stared lovingly at her
only child, held prayer beads and cried. She said she hadn't seen her
son in five years and heard about his arrest through her sister.

Dianna
Inmon recalled the days when her son gave her a crown to wear and sang
to her for special occasions. She laughed when remembering the time her
son made her climb the tallest slide at McDonald's as her initiation
into their "Silly Willy" club -- she was Silly, he was Willy, and they
had two dogs named Nilly and Dilly.

"It put me on the floor," she said. "I was like, 'No, not my baby."'