JESSICA LYNN LEE-20 YO-(Murdered) Brooklyn Park, MD

06/17/2012

Police are trying to locate Jessica Lynn Lee, 20, who they said has been missing since May 8.
Anne Arundel County police are trying to locate a Brooklyn Park woman who family members say has been missing since May 8.


Officers spoke with a family member on May 13 who said Jessica Lynn
Lee, 20, was last seen at the Shoppers Food Warehouse located in the
5700 block of Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn Park, according to a police
press release.


Police said family members are concerned for her safety and well being.


Lee is known to frequent the Brooklyn Park and Glen Burnie areas. She
is described as a white woman, standing about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds with blue eyes and blonde hair.

Anyone with information on Lee's whereabouts is asked to call the
missing persons unit at 410-222-3588 or the police department at
410-222-8610.


http://glenburnie.patch.com/articles/police-brooklyn-park-woman-missing

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=2012717504&orgPrefix=USMD&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US


JESSICA LYNN LEE
Jessica is developmentally disabled and has a 1
-year-daughter at home. Since she left, Lee has not been in contact with
friends or family members. She went out with the clothes on her back,
no cell phone, no identification.
Case Type: Endangered Missing
Sex: Female
Missing Date: May 8, 2012 Race: White
Age Now: 20 Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
Missing City: BROOKLYN Weight: 127 lbs (58 kg)
Missing State : MD Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Unknown
Case Number: USMD2012717504
Circumstances: Jessica is missing from Brooklyn, Anne Arundel County,
Maryland. Both photos shown are of Jessica. She was last seen at the
Shoppers Food Warehouse grocery store, 7522 Ritchie Highway in Brooklyn
Park, Maryland. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is
encouraged to contact the police Missing Persons Unit at 410-222-3588 or
the police department at 222-8610.
sources: http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=2012717504&orgPrefix=USMD&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US and http://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland_gazette/news/for_the_record/police-ask-for-help-in-finding-missing-woman/article_5757d015-ba8e-5e3e-903d-b9baa49b22ee.html?mode=story

Anne Arundel homicide victim identified as woman, 20, missing since May


Body of Jessica Lynn Lee, found in woods in Pasadena

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The body of Jessica Lee Lynn, 20, of Brooklyn Park was found in… (Photo provided by Anne Arundel…)
August 17, 2012|By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun
A
few days before Mother’s Day, 20-year-old Jessica Lynn Lee got into an
argument with her mother about caring for Lee’s baby and took off.
It
was a familiar, if infrequent, scene between them. They would fight
over small stuff — using the computer, following house rules — and Lee
would leave. She always came home to Brooklyn Park a few days later,
though, sometimes spending the night in the woods near her house or with
whomever she met along the way, while her mother cared for infant
Maygan.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-08-17/news/bs-md-ar-body-identified-20120817_1_ann-burke-homicide-investigation-jessica-lee

For more than three months, family and friends of Jessica Lynn Lee
searched for the young woman who vanished in May after going to a
grocery store on Ritchie Highway in northern Anne Arundel County.
The 20-year-old’s mother said she didn’t for a moment think that the skull and other skeletal remains found two weeks ago along the same stretch of road could be her daughter, even though a partial description given by police — race, age, weight and height — matched.
Only the hair color seemed a bit off: Lee’s was dirty blond, while police believed the dead woman’s was brown.
But on Friday, county police said that the remains are those of Lee,
who left her Brooklyn Park home May 8 without her cellphone or
identification and was last seen at the Shoppers Food Warehouse near her
neighborhood.
When the remains were found, police had said that
the victim had been killed by blows to the upper body and the case was
ruled a homicide. Now, a family that had hoped to find Lee alive — she
was mother to a 16-month-old girl — must confront her violent death.
“I
have no idea what happened,” said Lee’s mother, Ann Burke, who
tearfully cut an interview short on Friday. “Right now, we can’t say
anything.”
Burke did say that when the skeletal remains were
discovered, she never thought they could be her daughter’s. A county
police spokesman, Justin Mulcahy, said at the time that the remains “do
not appear to be matching up with any of our missing persons.”
On Friday, Mulcahy said that statement was based on information
before the county police’s crime lab matched Lee’s DNA to the remains.
A
person walking behind Ollie’s Bargain Outlet found the skull shortly
before 3 p.m. Aug. 6 in the 8100 block of Ritchie Highway in Pasadena.
Police cadaver dogs found the rest of the remains in the woods, about
10 miles south of where Lee was last seen.
In Facebook posts, Lee’s family described the woman, known as Jessie, as emotionally challenged and “extremely vulnerable.”
Relatives
said in the posts, which the mother confirmed were accurate, that Lee
enjoyed going to malls and carnivals, hanging out with friends and
bringing stray dogs home. But the posts also describe her naivete.
“Jessie
talks to just about everyone she sees,” one post reads. “No matter if
she’s known them for a long time or just met them that very second, she
would tell them her life story and think that they were the best of
friends. She would trust everything they told her.”
Mulcahy did not provide any update on the homicide investigation. No arrests have been made.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/anne-arundel-police-remains-those-of-young-woman-missing-since-may/2012/08/17/766165c4-e89b-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_story.html

Jessica Lynn Lee had ran off from her
family’s Brooklyn Park home before, usually after arguments with her
mother over her 11 p.m. curfew.


But in May when the 20-year-old
didn’t call home after a few days like she usually would, that’s when
her mother, Ann Burke, realized something was wrong.




“We’d get into it, but she’d always call me,” Burke said.


About three months after she went missing, her
family’s worst fears were realized Friday when police identified remains
found in Pasadena earlier this month as Lee. Her death has been ruled a
homicide.


The news came as a shock to Burke. She said prior to
Friday’s grim announcement from police, she never lost hope that Lee
would be found alive.


“I was sick to my stomach,” Burke said. “We’re just trying to comfort each other right now ... we’re just in total shock.”


Lee, who was developmentally disabled, leaves behind a 1-year-old daughter. Burke said she plans to raise the child.


“She will be taken care of,” Burke said. “She will know who her mommy is through pictures.”


Lee left the family’s Magie Street home May 8
following an argument. She had no money, cellphone or identification and
only the clothes she was wearing, Burke said at the time.


She was last seen at the Shoppers Food Warehouse in the 5700 block of Ritchie Highway.


On Aug. 6, a man found what appeared to be a human
skull in a wooded area behind Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, located in the
8100 block of Ritchie Highway. Police searched the area and were able to
locate additional remains.


Police said in the days following the discovery, the
remains didn’t appear to be that of a person missing from the county;
however, they maintained they were looking into all possibilities.


Police said they believed the remains had been at the site for a few months.


Investigators with the police’s crime lab were able
to identify the remains as Lee through DNA, police spokesman Justin
Mulcahy said.
The autopsy revealed she suffered trauma to the upper body.


Police are asking anyone with information on Lee’s
disappearance or the discovery of her body to call Detective Regina
Collier at 410-222-3417.


“If anybody has any information of what happened, I ask them to come forward,” Burke said.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/for_the_record/police-body-found-in-pasadena-was-missing-mother/article_1ff60783-ec21-5467-b121-44921e005f30.html