DAISJA WEAVER - 9 months - Dallas TX

6/11/09
Amber Alert issued for missing 9 month old Texas girl

Posted:
June 11, 2009 08:37 AM CDT

"DALLAS, TX (AP) - A Dallas mother claims her nine-month old daughter was kidnapped after she was attacked inside her home.
The alleged incident happened late Tuesday night at the Preston Oaks Apartments in Dallas.
Policed launched a full-scale search on the ground and in the air in an effort to find the baby girl.

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From the beginning, the young parents gave conflicting accounts of what happened, police said, leaving investigators skeptical.
The mother said she was coming out of the bathroom when she realized a man was inside her apartment. She said he tried to take her pants off but she fought him.
The man punched her in the face, the mother said, then grabbed her baby and ran out the door.
Police said the incident happened just before midnight as the family was moving from an apartment in the 5800 block of Preston Oaks Road to another apartment seven miles away, in the 18900 block of Marsh Lane.
"I think they had to be out by today, so that's not uncommon," Dallas police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said. "They had a deadline to meet, so that's why they were moving late."
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Dallas police
spent Wednesday searching for a 9-month-old girl whose parents told
them she had been kidnapped late the night before from their Far North
Dallas apartment.But the baby, Daisja Weaver, had not been found by the evening.From the beginning, the young parents gave conflicting accounts of what happened, police said, leaving investigators skeptical.The
mother said she was coming out of the bathroom when she realized a man
was inside her apartment. She said he tried to take her pants off but
she fought him. The man punched her in the face, the mother said, then grabbed her baby and ran out the door. Police
said the incident happened just before midnight as the family was
moving from an apartment in the 5800 block of Preston Oaks Road to
another apartment seven miles away, in the 18900 block of Marsh Lane."I
think they had to be out by today, so that's not uncommon," Dallas
police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said. "They had a deadline to meet, so
that's why they were moving late."The mother, who is pregnant,
was evaluated at a hospital and had no injuries, police said. Daisja's
father was not home at the time.Officers searched the area by foot and helicopter but came up empty-handed.Police
did not explain how the parents' accounts varied, but authorities did
not issue an Amber Alert until almost noon on Wednesday."It was
not the conflicting stories, it was the fact that she was not able to
give us a definitive suspect description, and that's one of the
criteria" for an Amber alert, Janse said. "So throughout the interview,
we kept trying to get a better description before we put out the Amber
Alert."The parents, whom police did not identify, were released and are considered witnesses, Janse said.A
team of dog handlers wearing orange shirts spent much of the afternoon
under a hot sun leading search dogs around the area of Nantucket
Landing, the Marsh Lane apartment complex.As police searched Wednesday, family members stood nearby, waiting for some word of their progress.A cousin, Rashad Creagh, said the family was grief-stricken. "She's
wonderful with her baby," he said of the mother, speaking to WFAA-TV. "They seemed happy, and everything seemed good."Creagh also spoke well of the father."He's a good dad, I mean I know he's heartbroken," he said. "He had the baby with him every day."Daisja
is black and has black hair and brown eyes. She weighs about 20 pounds
and is about 2 feet, 4 inches long. She was last seen wearing a red
hoodie.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 214-671-4268 or 214-671-4250.

Dallas police
said they had no new leads Thursday in the case of a 9-month-old girl,
Daisja Weaver, whose parents said she had been kidnapped late Tuesday
from their Far North Dallas apartment. "Detectives have been
working around the clock searching for baby Daisja," said police in a
statement Thursday. "They are currently meeting with the parents doing
a walk-through of the crime scene in hopes of finding more evidence."Investigators
have said the parents gave conflicting accounts of the events
surrounding the baby's disappearance. The mother said a man entered the
apartment while the father was not there and tried to sexually assault
her before taking her child.Officers have combed the area
surrounding the apartment. Searchers also focused on a second apartment
the family was moving into that night.The baby's mother,
19-year-old Tamaira Creagh, told Rebecca Lopez of WFAA-TV (Channel
that police were focusing on the wrong place."They're looking in the wrong area," she said, between sobs. "They need to be looking where it happened."The
mother, who is pregnant, said her attacker said nothing as he took her
child. Police said she was unable to give a detailed description of him."I just want whoever has my little girl to bring her back," the mother said.Daisja
is black and has black hair and brown eyes. She weighs about 20 pounds
and is about 2 feet, 4 inches long. She was last seen wearing a red
hoodie.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 214-671-4268 or 214-671-4250.

Dallas police
announced today a $10,000 reward for the safe return of a missing
9-month-old girl whose parents said had been kidnapped late Tuesday
from their Far North Dallas apartment.

Daisja Weaver

If Daisja Weaver is the victim of foul play, the same reward being
offered by Schepps Dairy will be paid for information leading to the
arrest and indictment of those responsible, police said. The reward
will remain in effect for six months. Investigators have
said the parents gave conflicting accounts of the events surrounding
the baby's disappearance. The mother said a man entered the apartment
in the 5800 block of Preston Oaks Road and tried to sexually assault
her before taking her child. Officers have combed the
area surrounding the apartment. Searchers also focused on a second
apartment the family was moving into that night. The
mother, who is pregnant, said her attacker said nothing as he took her
child. Police said she was unable to give a detailed description of
him. He was described as wearing a red hoodie. "I just
want whoever has my little girl to bring her back," 19-year-old Tamaira
Creagh told Rebecca Lopez of WFAA-TV. Daisja
is black and has black hair and brown eyes. She weighs about 20 pounds
and is about 2 feet, 4 inches long. She was last seen wearing purple
clothes and a diaper. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 214-671-4268 or 214-671-4250.

A Dallas father whose daughter has been missing since Tuesday night
is in jail, charged with tampering with evidence in the case.
20-year-old Alandus Weaver is the father of 9-month-old Daisja
Weaver, whose disappearance launched an Amber Alert Wednesday morning.
The father was booked into the Dallas County Jail late Saturday
night. Dallas Police say the father is a suspect in the case, but say
he has not been charged with any other crime.

Weaver spoke with CBS 11 on Friday. When asked about how people
thought the disappearance story was suspicious he got up from the
interview and walked away.
He is being held on a $100,000 bond. The Amber Alert for Daisja is
still active, but police tell CBS 11 Daisja's mother told them Saturday
she believed the girl is dead.
On Sunday Police Lieutenant C.L. Williams told CBS 11 "the mother
of the child came forward and talked to us about the disappearance. We
have uncorroborated testimony that the child had not been taken in a
kidnapping, but killed."
Williams also added the investigation was far from over. "the investigation is far from complete. We have just as many questions as you do."
Schepps Dairy and Crimestoppers are offering monetary rewards. Anyone
with information in the case are asked to call Dallas Police.

Missing Dallas infant's father arrested; mom recants abduction


01:02 AM CDT on Monday, June 15, 2009


By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning News
sgoldstein@dallasnews.com

Dallas police arrested the father of a 9-month-old girl missing since last week and said Sunday that they have "uncorroborated evidence" from the mother that the child was not kidnapped as she and the father had said but was killed.
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"Soon after 9-month-old Daisja Weaver went missing, her father told her mother she should not have signed anything to let police inside their new apartment because there was blood inside, Dallas police say.
The father, 20-year-old Alandus Weaver, was talking to the mother, 19-year-old Tamaira Creagh in a "very threatening manner," according to a search warrant affidavit by detectives seeking to search the apartment on Marsh Lane on Wednesday.

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LEWISVILLE —
The mother of eight-month-old Daisja Weaver has told police that the
baby's father threw the child into Lewisville Lake last week, a
sigificant shift from her original account of assault and kidnapping. Tamaira Creagh — who is 19 years old and six months pregnant — is now under arrest. According to the arrest warrant for her 20-year-old boyfriend, Alandus
Weaver, Creagh told investigators that Weaver picked her up from work
last Monday and took her to their apartment on Marsh Lane in Dallas.
She said Weaver told her he had left the child alone after giving her a
bath. When they arrived, Creagh said she found the baby
on the floor naked, wrapped in a towel. Daisja had no heartbeat and was
cold, Creagh told police. For the next 30 minutes, Weaver
attempted to use CPR to resuscitate the child without success, Creagh
said. When she asked Weaver what happened to the child, she told
police, he became threatening and violent. Creagh said he
told her they had to stick together by saying the baby had been
kidnapped. The following day — after she got off work — she said Weaver
made her drive to Lake Lewisville with him. "He stopped on a bridge and
tied [Daisja] to a sandbag and dropped her into the lake," according to
the police affadavit of Creagh's account.
The
19-year-old mother told police that during the entire episode, she was
afraid of what Weaver might do to her because she is pregnant with his
baby, according to the affidavit. Emergency workers from
Lewisville and Highland Village and Denton County Sheriff's deputies
continued their search for the missing child on Monday morning. The
agencies were seen using boats and personal watercraft to scour an area
around and under the Interstate 35E bridge over Lewisville Lake. The search there began Sunday after Daisja's father, 20-year-old
Alandus Weaver, was named as a suspect in the child's disappearance. Creagh originally told police last week that she had been attacked in
the family's Far North Dallas apartment and that her assailant fled
with the infant. On Sunday, police said Creagh had
recanted her story about the kidnapping and provided investigators with
the information that led to the conclusion that Weaver had harmed
Daisja. Weaver was arrested late Saturday and is being held in the
Dallas County Jail on $100,000 bond on charges of tampering with
physical evidence to impair an investigation. Creagh was subsequently arresed on a similar charge. In court documents obtained by News 8 and The Dallas Morning News
, police said they have a witness who overheard Weaver telling Creagh
that she should not have let police search their apartment because
there was blood inside. Detectives were seen removing
several items from the Marsh Lane apartment, including sheets, a bath
towel, and stained baby clothing. An Amber Alert remains
in effect for Daisja Weaver. Call Dallas police at 214-671-4268 if you
have any information.

Divers find a body in Lake WorthFORT WORTH
— Fire Department divers recovered a body Monday afternoon from Lake
Worth while helping police investigate a possible suicide, a fire
official said. The dive team went to the lake about 2:40 p.m. after a
911 call that someone might have jumped off the Loop 820 bridge, fire
Lt. Kent Worley said. The body was found near the Quebec Street boat
ramp about 4:30 p.m., he said. — Alex Branch

Police
records show that a mother who reported her baby missing last week now
admits to tossing her infant daughter over the Lewisville Lake bridge. The search for the small body of Diasja Weaver continued Tuesday, with
teams from multiple agencies expanding their scope beyond an area
around the Interstate 35E bridge that was their focus on Monday. Relatives of the infant said they still believe she is alive. The
Weaver family is standing by Alandus Weaver, despite mounting evidence
the 20-year-old had something to do with his young daughter's
disappearance. "I just don't believe it. I don't have a
feel for it, my grandbaby somewhere around here, she's somewhere," said
the child's grandfather, Alandus Weaver Sr. "If they put
that baby in the lake, that would really hurt me, because that's an
innocent child that can't even defend herself," said Deamber Johnson,
the suspect's cousin. They are still hopeful the
nine-month-old child lives, despite what police say was a chilling
confession Monday morning from her mother, Tamaira Creagh. She allegedly told officers that she and her boyfriend tied the baby's
corpse to a sandbag and dropped her in Lewisville Lake last week. "Until we find the baby, we can't confirm what she's telling us is 100
percent accurate," said Dallas police spokesman Kevin Janse. Two days of searching in Lake Lewisville hasn't yielded a body. From the beginning, police say, the mother has lied. "I just want
whoever has my little girl to bring her back," Creagh told reporters
last week. File / WFAA-TV
A tearful Tamaira Creagh last week told reporters her baby had been kidnapped.

Now, court documents say the 19-year-old mother admits she left the
baby in Weaver's care last week, but when she returned home, Daisja was
lying on the floor naked, wrapped in a towel. She was cold, without a
heartbeat. Scared by Weaver's threats, Creagh told police
they waited until the next day to dump the young child's body, a
scenario family members find hard to believe. "It just
hurts," Johnson said. "Just imagine having a nine-month-old child in
your family missing. It hurts, it really hurts." Police
have only charged Creagh and Weaver with tampering with evidence
because there is no body. They say they believe it is just a matter of
time before they find the body. The mother's family tells
News 8 all this caught them completely off-guard: The young mother —
soon to be a mother again — accused of such an unthinkable crime.

Divers
searching for 9-month-old Daisja Weaver in Lewisville Lake since Sunday
morning are battling treacherous conditions on top of the frustration
that they have not found the child. "Horrors is what we're
facing," said Dallas police Sgt. Brenda Nichols, commander of the child
abuse unit. "We've got a lake that, after about 10 feet down, there's
no visibility at all."Members of the Lewisville Fire Department
dive team are focusing their efforts underneath the Interstate 35E
bridge over the 29,592-acre lake. They're forced to feel their way
through debris for a child thought to be about 20 pounds and 2 feet, 4
inches long."Several of the divers actually were so entangled that they had to cut themselves out," Nichols said. Daisja's
father, Alandus Weaver, 20, is accused of tying a sand bag to his dead
daughter and tossing her body from the bridge last week. Police believe
Daisja's mother, Tamaira Creagh, 19, was there.Creagh told police her child had been kidnapped from her Far North Dallas apartment. Weaver and Creagh were arrested in recent days on charges of tampering with evidence.Also
Tuesday, Creagh's attorneys said in a written statement that their
client is the victim of long-term domestic abuse by Weaver. Creagh, who
is six months pregnant with Weaver's child, was forced to participate
in the cover-up, the attorneys say.

Dive teams are combing through a massive area searching for nine month
old Daisja Weaver at Lewisville lake. Investigators say the baby's
father dumped the child's body in the water.

Divers from the Lewisville fire department spend the day searching this
stretch of water near the I-35E bridge. The team is searching here
because it's where investigators believe Alandus Weaver,20, dumped his
nine month old daughter Daisja. Water can reach 67 feet deep and
isfilled with debris.

Emergency crews say the biggest problem divers would be facing right
now would be visibility that's because once they're so far down they're
literally feeling their way around.

Lewisville Fire Captain Richard Lee says, " Everything that they do is by touch. you cannot see anything beyond the surface."

With a coverage area of nearly 30,000 square feet, the work is tedious
as divers work grid after grid. Just a few hundred yards away in the
shadow of all the searching a young father watches while fishing.

Eduardo Sauceda, 20, says, " It makes people our age look somewhat bad, as unstable parents or what not."

He says he can relate to the stresses of fatherhood , but not to tossing a childs body in a lake.

DALLAS
— Dallas police have suspended the Lake Lewisville search for a missing 9-month-old girl.
The search for Daisja Weaver began last week after her 19-year-old mother,
Tamaira Creagh, said a man broke into her apartment and kidnapped the
baby. But investigators were suspicious of that claim from the start.
They arrested Creagh on a tampering with evidence charge, and she told
police they dumped the child's body into the lake with a sandbag tied
to it after she died while in her father's care. The father,
20-year-old Alandus Weaver, was arrested on suspicion of tampering or
fabricating evidence to hinder an investigation.
The last search in the lake took place Wednesday.

The search for a 9-month-old baby in Lake Lewisville has been suspended, Dallas police said today. Dallas police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said Lewisville Fire Department
divers have searched the location provided by the child’s mother
despite the poor visibility underwater and treacherous lake conditions.
The search was suspended Wednesday afternoon, but the
investigation continues into the child's disappearance and a $15,000
reward remains in effect, Janse said. The search for
Daisja started last week after her mother Tamaira Creagh, 19, reported
that her daughter had been kidnapped from their Far North Dallas
apartment. Dallas police said the parents had provided conflicting reports surrounding the girl’s disappearance. Creagh later told authorities that she had found her daughter’s body in
their apartment on June 8 and that the baby’s father Alandus Weaver,
20, made her drive to the lake. Weaver, 20, is accused of tying a sand bag to his dead daughter and tossing her body from the bridge. Weaver and Creagh have been arrested on charges of tampering with evidence. Creagh's attorneys said in a written statement that their client is the
victim of long-term domestic abuse by Weaver. Creagh, who is six months
pregnant with Weaver's child, was forced to participate in the
cover-up, the attorneys said.

DALLAS, TX
(KERA) -


The
search for a missing ninth month old Dallas girl in Lake Lewisville has
been suspended, and police have cancelled the Amber Alert. Officers say
evidence and testimony from the mother suggests the baby is dead, and
detectives have nothing to refute that.

Investigators say the
mother of Daisja Weaver had reported the child kidnapped, but later
told police they should look in the lake, near the I-35 bridge.

The
girl's parents have been arrested for tampering with evidence, and
remain in jail. Police say the 15 thousand dollars in reward money
remains in effect.

Re: Main Blog ~ Sun. June 21st, #1

wildcard Today at 2:28 am

Search Called off for 9 mon. old Daisja Weaver

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT
Regretfully I write that the seach has been called off for missing 9 month old Daisja Weaver. For 5 long days the Lewisville lake has been searched as completely
as possible, and yet it remains the tomb of the missing infant. Many of
us were hoping and praying for her safe return up until the mother
confessed to helping the father dispose of the body by tying the little
baby to a sandbag and throwing her over the protective railing into the murky waters below. Then, we began hoping and prayin [...]

moving this thread to murdered children :(

DALLAS —
There has been a big development in the case of nine-month-old Daisja
Weaver, who has now been missing for more than a month. Police belive that the infant was tossed from a bridge over Lewisville Lake by her parents on June 9. Now they have charged Daisja's father, Alandus Weaver, with capital
murder — even though the child's body was never found in the murky
waters. When Daisha was first reported missing from her
far North Dallas apartment, her mother, 19-year-old Tamaira Creagh,
told police that the baby had been kidnapped during an attempted sexual
assault. Police now believe they have the full story about what happened to the baby. Investigators say Alandus Weaver, 20, has told them he accidentally
drowned the baby while giving her a bath on June 8. He said he poured
too much water over her head and she drowned. Weaver and
Creagh told police they then panicked and put the dead child in a car
overnight. The next day they finally disposed of the body in Lewisville
Lake. The parents then concocted their story of the
mother being attacked, and they faked an assault by having Weaver beat
Creagh. Weaver faces a charge of capital murder; Creagh is still charged with witness tampering. The search for Daisja Weaver's body was abandoned after an intensive
effort, but police now feel that with the father's confession, they
have enough evidence to prosecute.

Testimony started Tuesday in Denton for the murder trial of a Dallas man
accused of killing his 9-month-old daughter and throwing her body into
Lewisville Lake.

Alandus Weaver was arrested last June and charged in the murder last
after the baby's disappearance launched an Amber Alert.

In Tuesday's testimony people who know Weaver and his girlfriend Tamaira
Creagh say she was a scared young woman who did what an abusive
boyfriend to her to do. They tried to show Weaver as the one who killed
their daughter.

One after another those who witnessed the story go from an alleged
kidnapping to elaborate hoax took the stand in the Denton County Courts
building.

Tamaira Creagh's mother and aunt testified that Creagh had an abusive
relationship with Weaver. Her mother testified Tamaira's collarbone had
been broken while she was still pregnant with Daisja. Creagh told her
mother she had tripped on the stairs.

The family pastor also took the stand. Robert Canady was the one Tamaira
confessed to while her mother and aunts sat by her side. "She told me
that the baby was dead. That the father threw the baby over the bridge
in Lake Lewisville."

Pastor Canady pushed Tamaira to go to police the next day, and she did.
"She could no longer live with that guilt of covering something up that
would be uncovered anyhow. The best thing happened - she came forward
and told us where the baby was."

Even though Daisja's body still has not been recovered, Tamaira herself
took the stand Tuesday. She says Alandus took her to the lake the day
after the baby died, tying the legs to a sandbag and dropping the body
into the lake off the I-35 bridge.

She says Weaver made her check that the baby was gone. She says she
objected, but he pushed her to. She told jurors she watched as her
daughter's head went under. She says she did everything Weaver told her
to because she was scared.

Those who know Creagh say they believe she was coerced into lying what
happened to her child by Weaver. "I pray that she finds peace and
justice takes its place" says Canady.

Testimony will continue in the trial Wednesday, when the defense is
expected to take over.

A north Texas jury has found a Dallas man guilty of murder in the
death of his 9-month-old daughter.
The Denton County jury about five hours Monday to deliberate the
verdict of 21-year-old Alandus Weaver in the death of Daisja Weaver. A
sentencing trial is scheduled in two weeks. Weaver could get up to life
in prison.
Daisja Weaver has been missing since early June 2009 after her
19-year-old mother, Tamaira Creagh, said a man broke into her apartment
and kidnapped the baby.
Police eventually arrested Creagh on an evidence tampering
charge, and she told police that she and Weaver dumped the child's body
into Lake Lewisville with a sandbag tied to it after she died while in
her father's care.
However, Weaver testified that Creagh was the one who killed the
child.
The girl's body was never found.