ANDREA GAIL PARSONS - 10 yo - (1993) /Convicted: Chester Duane Price - Port Salerno, FL

Arrest in 1993 Disappearance of Florida Girl, Andrea Gail Parsons, 10
By MICHAEL S. JAMES (@bymsj)
Nov. 29, 2012

Police have arrested a 42-year-old man and charged him with murder in the case of a Florida girl who vanished almost 20 years ago.

Andrea Gail Parsons, 10, of Port Salerno, Fla., was last seen on July 11, 1993, shortly after 6 p.m. She had just purchased candy and soda at a grocery store when she waved to a local couple as they drove by on an area street and honked, police said.

Today, Martin County Sheriff's Department officials arrested Chester Duane Price, 42, who recently lived in Haleyville, Ala., and charged him with first-degree murder and kidnapping of a child under the age of 13, after he was indicted by a grand jury.

Price was acquainted with Andrea at the time of her disappearance, and also knew another man police once eyed as a potential suspect, officials told ABC News affiliate WPBF in West Palm Beach, Fla.

"The investigation has concluded that Price abducted and killed Andrea Gail Parsons," read a sheriff's department news release. "Tragically, at this time, her body has not been recovered."

The sheriff's department declined to specify what evidence led to Price's arrest for the crime after 19 years or to provide details to ABCNews.com beyond the prepared news release.

Reached by phone, a sheriff's department spokeswoman said she did not know whether Price was yet represented by a lawyer.

Price was being held at the Martin County Jail without bond and was scheduled to make his first court appearance via video link at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

In its news release, the sheriff's department cited Price's "extensive criminal history with arrests dating back to 1991" that included arrests for cocaine possession, assault, sale of controlled substance, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and violation of domestic violence injunction.

"The resolve to find Andrea and get answers surrounding the circumstances of her disappearance has never wavered as detectives and others assigned have dedicated their careers to piecing this puzzle together," Martin County Sheriff Robert L. Crowder said in a prepared statement. "In 2011, I assigned a team of detectives, several 'fresh sets of eyes,' to begin another review of the high-volume of evidence that had been previously collected in this case."

A flyer dating from the time of Andrea's disappearance, and redistributed by the sheriff's office after the arrest, described her as 4-foot-11 with hazel eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing blue jean shorts, a dark shirt and clear plastic sandals, according to the flyer.

The sheriff's department became involved in the case after Andrea's mother, Linda Parsons, returned home from work around 10 p.m. on July 11, 1993, to find her daughter missing and called police, according to the initial sheriff's report.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-arrest-1993-disappearance-florida-girl-andrea-gail/story?id=17843475

I do remember this case and was sadened that they never found her.  I hope they can recover the body so the family can have some closure.
William

Andrea Parsons, Chester Duane Price case update: Evidence released in girl's kidnapping, murder


   
Posted: 01/31/2013

• By: Tyler Treadway, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers
  

 
STUART— The State Attorney's Office has released 22,555 pages of evidence in
the 19-year-old case against Chester Duane Price, who is charged with
kidnapping and murder in connection with the disappearance of
10-year-old Andrea Gail Parsons.

By law, information that'sexchanged between prosecutors and defense attorneys as part of the
"discovery" process is public record.

Andrea disappeared July 11,1993, after leaving a Port Salerno grocery store about two blocks from
her home on Southeast Ebbtide Avenue. Her body has not been found.

Price, 42, a former Martin County resident, was living in Haleyville, Ala.,
when he was indicted Nov. 29 on charges of first-degree murder and
kidnapping a child under 13. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to
seek the death penalty against Price.

Authorities allege Priceand Claude Davis, a former neighbor of Andrea's, put the girl in Davis'
van, killed her and disposed of the body.

Davis, now 76, wasarrested for false imprisonment in the case in November 1993; but the
case was dismissed in 1994 for lack of evidence. He testified to the
grand jury that indicted Price but, because charges against him were
dropped, cannot be charged again in the case.

Much of theevidence dates to an extensive investigation mounted by the Martin
County Sheriff's Office soon after Andrea's disappearance. In 2011,
then-Sheriff Bob Crowder assigned a new team of detectives to the case
for a "fresh set of eyes to shake things up and develop new leads."

This story will be updated.

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_martin_county/stuart/andrea-parsons-chester-duane-price-case-update-evidence-released-in-girls-kidnapping-murder

Chester Price pleads no contest to manslaughter in Andrea Parsons case

By Lamaur Stancil
Posted March 14, 2014 at 4 a.m.
updated March 14, 2014 at 12:44 p.m.


Photo by Christopher Arnold, Treasure Coast Newspapers

Chester Price, second from right, listens to Judge Elizabeth Metzger (not pictured) during his change of plea hearing Friday at the Martin County Courthouse in Stuart. Price pleaded no contest to manslaughter and kidnapping in the disappearance of Andrea Gail Parsons. Each charge carries a 10-year sentence, which would be served concurrently.

Chester Price pleaded no contest to manslaughter and kidnapping in connection with the 20-year-old case.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2014/mar/14/expected-plea-change-could-shed-new-light-andrea-p/

10 years for kidnapping, raping and murdering a 10 year old girl just don't seem like justice.

If this murderer were black he would be up the river for life or the DP.