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Post by TomTerrific0420 Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:08 am

Nearly two years after the remains of an 11-month-old girl were
found in the attic of a Spring Lake home, a Harnett County grand jury
has indicted the child's mother in her death.
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Johni Michelle
Heuser, 27, of 1680 Ray Road, was indicted this week on a charge of
first-degree murder in the death of Harmony Jade Creech.Deputies
found the toddler's remains in her mother's attic on Oct. 20, 2007. The
indictment states the child was killed between Aug. 31, 2007, and Sept.
30, 2007.The child had been wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed
in an empty diaper box in a corner of the attic, authorities said. The
body was so badly decomposed that medical examiners have never been
able to determine a cause of death.When the child's father, Sgt.
Ronald Creech II, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg,
returned from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, Heuser claimed the baby
had been abducted, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.She later told investigators that she found the baby dead in her crib weeks earlier and hid the death out of fear.
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Post by TomTerrific0420 Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:37 pm

Harnett County prosecutors plan to
seek the death penalty against the mother of an 11-month-old girl whose
remains were were found in the attic of a Spring Lake home two years
ago.Johni Michelle Heuser, 27, of 1680 Ray Road, was indicted in
September on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Harmony
Jade Creech.Deputies found the toddler's remains in her mother's
attic on Oct. 20, 2007. The indictment states the child was killed
between Aug. 31, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2007.The child had been
wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed in an empty diaper box in a corner
of the attic, authorities said. The body was so badly decomposed that
medical examiners have never been able to determine a cause of death.Prosecutors
said they believe the child starved to death, based on the findings of
an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, who
examined the toddler's bones.When the child's father, Sgt.
Ronald Creech II, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg,
returned from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, Heuser initially claimed
the baby had been abducted, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.She later told investigators that she found the baby dead in her crib weeks earlier and hid the death out of fear.
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Post by oviedo45 Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:09 pm

Posted: November 11, 2009
Updated: May 13
Death penalty sought against mother in toddler's death
Lillington, N.C. — Harnett County prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against the mother of an 11-month-old girl whose remains were were found in the attic of a Spring Lake home two years ago.

Johni Michelle Heuser, 27, of 1680 Ray Road, was indicted in September on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Harmony Jade Creech.

Deputies found the toddler's remains in her mother's attic on Oct. 20, 2007. The indictment states the child was killed between Aug. 31, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2007.

The child had been wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed in an empty diaper box in a corner of the attic, authorities said. The body was so badly decomposed that medical examiners have never been able to determine a cause of death.

Prosecutors said they believe the child starved to death, based on the findings of a forensic anthropologist at North Carolina State University who examined the toddler's bones.

When the child's father, Sgt. Ronald Creech II, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, returned from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, Heuser initially claimed the baby had been abducted, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.

She later told investigators that she found the baby dead in her crib weeks earlier and hid the death out of fear.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6400083/
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Post by oviedo45 Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:21 pm

i can't find any trial results for this case - i would think a death penalty case would generate some publicity -

http://charlotte.news14.com/content/search/?currentUri=http://charlotte.news14.com/Default.aspx&searchtarget=news14&searchterm=johni%20michelle%20heuser&SecID=14

maybe some of our locals know what happened -
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Post by oviedo45 Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:49 pm

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2376467/
Posted: January 30, 2008
Indictment Delayed in 11-Month-Old's Death

Lillington, N.C. — The results of specialized DNA testing in the death of an 11-month-old Harnett County girl have delayed the indictment of the child's mother, who is accused of killing her.

Investigators discovered the body of 11-month-old Harmony Jade Creech in the attic of the child's home near Spring Lake in October after the child's mother, Johni Michelle Heuser, reported the child missing a day earlier.

Heuser, 25, who is charged with first-degree murder, has yet to be indicted while prosecutors wait for DNA test results from a Texas company examining the infant's skeletal remains.
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Post by oviedo45 Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:50 pm

Posted: March 11, 2008
Autopsy Finds Nicotine in 11-Month-Old's Remains
Spring Lake, N.C. — An 11-month-old girl whose remains were found in her mother's attic last fall had nicotine in her system, according to a recently released toxicology report.

Authorities found the body of Harmony Jade Creech on Oct. 20 in the attic of the home her mother, Johni Michelle Heuser, was renting in Spring Lake. The baby had been wrapped in a plastic bag and stuffed in an empty diaper box in a corner of the attic, authorities said.

Tests conducted by the State Medical Examiner's Office in Chapel Hill detected the presence of nicotine in the child's system. The report didn't indicate how the chemical might have gotten into her system.

Heuser, 25, of 1680 Ray Road in Spring Lake, has been charged with first-degree murder in the case. She told investigators that she found the baby dead in her crib weeks earlier and hid the death out of fear.

When the child's father, Sgt. Ronald Creech II, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, returned from a 15-month deployment in Iraq, Heuser claimed the baby had been abducted, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2559454/
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Post by mermaid55 Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:43 am

MOTHER PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING INFANT DAUGHTER
from the article by James Halpin – The Fayetteville (NC) Observer

HARMONY CREECH - 11 months (2007) - Spring Lake NC Johni-Michelle-Heuser-300x225A Spring Lake woman pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the death of her 11-month-old daughter, whose skeletal remains were discovered stuffed in a diaper box in the attic of the family home, according to the Harnett County district attorney.
Johni Michelle Heuser, 28, was sentenced to between 11 and 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering Harmony Jade Creech in 2007.
Though the cause of the child’s death remains undetermined, prosecutors contended there was evidence of starvation.
Heuser had been charged with first-degree murder, but in entering the plea Monday, she removed the possibility of the death penalty.
Prosecutors say Heuser killed the girl between Aug. 31, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2007, but no one found out about it until Oct. 19, 2007, when a Harnett County Sheriff’s Office deputy was called to the 1600 block of Ray Road in Spring Lake to a report of a missing child, District Attorney Susan Doyle said in a statement.
Heuser told the deputy that she had last seen the child the night before and that she discovered the child was missing from HARMONY CREECH - 11 months (2007) - Spring Lake NC Harmony-Jade-Creech-300x225her crib about 11 a.m. A window had been opened and a screen removed, she told the officer.
Deputies, joined by the FBI, began searching for the child and eventually found the remains in a diaper box in the attic, Doyle said.
After being confronted by the remains, Heuser told investigators she had found the child looking white and not breathing in her crib one morning around the end of August or beginning of September, she said. Heuser claimed she had wanted to call police but was afraid she would be blamed for the child’s death and that her other children would be taken, she said.
Heuser told investigators she wanted to bury the child but she couldn’t bring herself to do it, Doyle said. Instead, Heuser wrapped the child’s body in plastic and put it in a diaper box, which was shelved in the attic for at least two weeks.
Heuser told investigators that she opened the window the night before the child’s father, Army Sgt. Ronald Earl Creech II, returned home from an Iraq deployment so it would appear the girl had been abducted, Doyle said.
HARMONY CREECH - 11 months (2007) - Spring Lake NC Harmony-Creech-2-225x300Dr. Ann Ross, an anthropologist at N.C. State University, examined the remains and concluded that she could not determine the cause of death but that the probable cause was chronic starvation.
Dr. Deborah Radisch, the state’s chief medical examiner, concluded in an examination report that “no trauma was identified and that the findings were inconsistent with regard to the presence of malnutrition/starvation.”
Radisch concluded that there was no way to determine whether the child had died of a natural cause, such as sudden infant death syndrome, or whether the child had been smothered to death. The cause of death remained “undetermined,” although Radisch noted that the child had a history of medical neglect.
Doyle said the state accepted Heuser’s guilty plea to second-degree murder after consulting with Creech because the cause of death was undetermined and would have been “highly contested” in a jury trial.
Heuser was sentenced to a minimum of 141 months and a maximum of 179 months in prison.
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