SYLAR NEWTON - 2 yo (2010) - Camp Verde (S of Flagstaff) AZ

Sylar Newton case: Campsite to landfill

Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Valhall

Excerpt:

Some time during the early morning hours of Sunday, July 25th, 2-year-old Sylar Newton disappeared from the Beaver Creek campground, just 47 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the Coconino National Forest. He was on a camping trip with his custodial family including his adoptive mother, Christina Priem, grandmother, 12-year old sister and 14-year old brother (who are children of Christina), and was asleep in a tent with several, if not all, of them. The last time Sylar was seen is reported to have been right about midnight to 12:30 a.m. by one of the other family members as he slept in the tent. Somewhere around 1:45 a.m. one of the family members awoken to find Sylar missing.

READ MORE: http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/08/02/sylar-newton-case-campsite-to-landfill/

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oviedo45 wrote:https://www.facebook.com/sylernewton

my goodness, this is a strange one -

I've been reading on this sight a lot. It's not so strange, some strange posters but some good questions too.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/02/arizona.missing.toddler/index.html?iref=NS1

Missing 2-year-old boy presumed dead, authorities say

By the CNN Wire Staff
August 3, 2010 4:48 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- The case of a missing 2-year-old boy who disappeared
from an Arizona campground more than a week ago has turned into a
criminal investigation, the Yavapai County sheriff announced Monday.
Syler Newton was last seen shortly after midnight July 24, sleeping
in a tent with the family at the Beaver Creek Campgrounds. About 1:45
a.m. July 25, the family noticed that he was missing from his sleeping
bag. "The sheriff's office believes Syler did not wander from the
campground and he is presumably dead," Yavapai County Sheriff Steve
Waugh told a news conference Monday. "The search effort is now in a
recovery mode and the investigation has become criminal in nature." Waugh
said investigators have spent the past three days searching more than
200 tons of garbage in a nearby landfill "to try to determine if in fact
the boy's body was there." About 50 people, along with highly
trained bloodhounds, had joined in the search for Syler, who was wearing
only a diaper when he disappeared, according to Yavapai County
Sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn. The bloodhounds, normally
used by the state Department of Corrections for tracking down escaped
felons, failed to detect the boy's scent outside the immediate
campground area, investigators said as they described an exhaustive
search that included aerial surveillance, scuba teams and underwater
cameras. "Anything we could have done in that area has been
searched," one investigator said Monday. Syler was camping with
his custodial mother, Christina Priem, and her children, when he
disappeared. Priem has said she was in the process of adopting the boy
from his biological mother. D'Evelyn said last week that that
"there's no evidence" that the planned adoption played a role in his
disappearance, "but until we've exhausted every lead, all possibilities
are being investigated."
About 25 other people
were at the campgrounds the night of Syler's disappearance -- all of
whom have cooperated with investigators, according to the sheriff's
office.

they must have something compelling to presume he is dead and not kidnapped.

Sylar Newton case: Presumed dead, criminal investigation

Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Valhall

Excerpt:

The case of Sylar Newton has been declared a criminal investigation. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office has now stated they do not believe 2-year-old Sylar wandered away from the Beaver Creek campground of his own volition. Previous statements by the sheriff’s department had made clear that even if the toddler had wandered away on his own, he would now be presumed dead due to the statistics of a 2-year-old being able to survive past around 72 hours alone, without food or water, and exposed to the elements in that environment. However, now, YCSO has determined they do not believe the child got lost by himself.

In rather baffling language that resembled the statements made in the early days of the Kyron Horman case, YCSO has stated that they believe Sylar Newton was not abducted. I’m going to repeat that – they don’t think he was abducted. BUT, some one took him away from that campground, either dead or alive and YCSO at this time cannot determine in which state. NOW, add to those two statements that YCSO also believes he is now dead, and you start getting at least a desert mirage of why the investigation has been declared criminal.

READ MORE: http://www.thehinkymeter.com/2010/08/04/sylar-newton-case-presumed-dead-criminal-investigation/

Still no news.

The world may never learn what became of Sylar Newton or understand
the chaotic life of the 2-year-old Flagstaff boy who disappeared from a
northern Arizona campground last month.
Family members have said little about the mystery, even less about Sylar's life story.
Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh says only that the missing child
is presumed dead and that his disappearance is the subject of a criminal
investigation. Waugh has not divulged why investigators believe the boy
is a victim of foul play.
Flagstaff court records and police reports suggest that, in his short
life, Sylar had moved from one troubled home to the next, sometimes
caught in a custodial tug-of-war.
The dysfunctional background has generated a whirlwind of speculation
on Internet sites and blogs about missing children, including a
Facebook page dedicated to Sylar. But investigators have disclosed no
evidence that the boy's home life had any bearing on his disappearance.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Sylar is the birth son of Charity
Newton, a Flagstaff woman who voluntarily gave custody of the child to
an acquaintance, Christina "Tina" Priem, a single mother with two other
children. Priem told investigators that she was in the process of adopting the boy.
During a July 24 outing with the Priem family at Beaver Creek
Campground near Rimrock, Sylar went to sleep in a tent about 9:30 p.m.
and was discovered missing shortly after midnight. Over the next 10
days, deputies and FBI agents, as well as hundreds of searchers using
bloodhounds, helicopters, sonar and scuba equipment, could not find the boy.
As the search subsided, a criminal investigation developed. Family
members were interviewed and, in some cases, given polygraph exams.
Warrants were obtained to check vehicles driven by Priem and her mother,
Nancy Collins, who also was on the camping trip. Detectives have not
divulged any criminal evidence, nor have they discussed the troubled
family history revealed in public records.
"I just want the little guy found," said Carroll Newton, Sylar's
great-grandmother. "It's been two weeks from hell. It just has torn us all up."

Adults have run-ins with police

In June 2008, Sylar's birth mother, Charity Newton, 26, was arrested
after a domestic incident involving Priem's sister, Sandra Shoemake.
According to a police report, a fight "started over a custody issue -
suspect gave custody of her son to RP (reporting party, Shoemake).
Suspect is now saying RP is trying to kidnap the child."
The report says a teenage girl at the apartment tried to protect the
baby while the two women struggled. Flagstaff Municipal Court records
show Charity Newton pleaded guilty to five counts of disorderly conduct
and fighting.
Priem, 35, has had about a half-dozen contacts with Flagstaff police
during the past decade involving misdemeanor offenses and traffic
violations, according to the court.
In 2007, she was found guilty of making false statements
about a domestic dispute between her roommates.
In June 2009, police records say, Priem got into an altercation with
her sister, Shoemake. Priem was arrested during a subsequent traffic
stop with her two children in the vehicle and was accused of resisting
arrest when an officer attempted to place her in handcuffs. A similar
incident occurred when she was arrested a second time for failure to
appear in court. The disorderly conduct/fighting charge ultimately was
dismissed, according to court files.
Shoemake also has an extensive court record that includes convictions
for forgery, custodial interference and theft. An arrest tied to
narcotics possession was dismissed.

State wasn't involved in custody

Carroll Newton, Sylar's great-grandmother, said Charity has given
birth to four children in the past six years, each of them adopted out.
Carroll said she last saw the boy at Christmas and was told he was
living with Charity in Texas, even though that apparently was not true.
"She bald-faced lied to me," Carroll said of her granddaughter.
"I'm so angry. If you don't want children, don't have them."
Carroll said that she was contacted by the FBI and provided a DNA sample
but that she has no idea what became of Sylar.
Steve Meisner, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Economic
Security, said private adoptions are typically conducted without state
involvement or paperwork. Meisner declined to comment on whether Child
Protective Services workers had previous contacts with Sylar or whether
they are investigating his disappearance.
The operator of a Facebook page, "Find Syler (sic) Newton," posted
notes identifying Charity as a co-administrator. In subsequent messages,
a person claiming to be the birth mother defended herself from critical comments.
That person said she would "never give my child to someone that I
felt would hurt him. . . . I'm sorry that the world wants to believe
everything that they read and hear and that is a shame that all of you do."

"But investigators have disclosed no
evidence that the boy's home life had any bearing on his disappearance."

Well hell it doesn't. It appears that this precious child had no home life, he's been bounced around since he was born so, it would seem to me that nobody really wanted him. That's how his home life bears on him disappearing.

"I just want the little guy found," said Carroll Newton, Sylar's
great-grandmother. "It's been two weeks from hell. It just has torn us all up."

Then explain why none of the family had custody of this precious baby? Why didn't the grandmother??? Why wasn't any family member "tore up" when he was being bounced around, that's when you all should've been concerned.

Don't be crying now, NOBODY-made sure Sylar was a priority. Both "mothers" (I use that term loosely) should be in jail until this baby is found!!!

Have they named anyone as a person of interest yet??

(CNN) -- Skeletal remains found near an Arizona campground are
believed to be those of a missing 2-year-old, the Yavapai County
Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. Sylar Newton was reported missing
July 25 from the Beaver Creek Campgrounds in Rimrock. Authorities said
last week that the boy is presumed dead as they announced the launch of a
criminal investigation into his disappearance. The remains were
found Tuesday afternoon at the bottom of a wash less than two miles from
the campground, the sheriff's office said. The office said the remains
"likely came to rest in this area due to recent flash flooding." "At
this time, the remains are believed to be that of Sylar Newton, but
final confirmation is still pending," the sheriff's office said. Sylar
was last seen shortly after midnight July 24, sleeping in a tent with
the family at the campgrounds. About 1:45 a.m. July 25, the family
noticed that he was missing from his sleeping bag. "The sheriff's
office believes Sylar did not wander from the campground and he is
presumably dead," Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh told a news
conference last week. "The search effort is now in a recovery mode and
the investigation has become criminal in nature." Sylar was
camping with his custodial mother, Christina Priem, and her children,
when he disappeared. Priem has said she was in the process of adopting
the boy from his biological mother. Sheriff's spokesman Dwight
D'Evelyn said last month that that "there's no evidence" that the
planned adoption played a role in his disappearance, "but until we've
exhausted every lead, all possibilities are being investigated."
About
25 other people were at the campgrounds the night of Sylar's
disappearance -- all of whom have cooperated with investigators,
according to the sheriff's office.

God bless him

Oh this is sad

http://www.ksro.com/news/article.aspx?id=2423720

8/10/2010 6:28 PM Skeletal remains believed to be missing Ariz. boy Authorities believe skeletal remains found Tuesday are that of an Arizona toddler missing since last month. Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn says the remains were found at the bottom of a wash less than 2 miles from the central Arizona campground where 2-year-old Sylar Newton was last seen. He says the body likely came to a rest there because of recent flash flooding, but he had no further details. Sylar was staying at the Beaver Creek Campground near Rimrock with his custodial mother and her family when he disappeared July 24. Rimrock is about 40 miles south of Flagstaff. The investigation took a grim turn last week when D'Evelyn said investigators didn't believe Sylar wandered off on his own, as his custodial mother said, but was taken from the area and feared dead.

No "official" confirmation yet. I'm so sick of reading things like this, when the hell are we going to put children first???
God Bless you Sylar, your safe now.
RIP precious baby.

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/skeletal-remains-believed-to-be-missing-ariz-boy/19588747

Skeletal Remains Believed to Be Missing Arizona Boy

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (Aug. 11) -- A criminal investigation is under way after skeletal remains believed to be that of a toddler reported missing more than two weeks ago were found near a central Arizona campground, authorities said.

The remains were found at the bottom of a wash less than 2 miles from the Beaver Creek Campground, where 2-year-old Sylar Newton of Flagstaff was last seen July 24, Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said.

Authorities believe someone tried to hide the remains and they ended up in the wash after recent flash flooding.


Yavapai County Sheriff's Office Investigators in Arizona found skeletal remains on Tuesday that they believe to be those of missing 2-year-old Sylar Newton.

"Somebody didn't want us to find him," sheriff's Capt. David Rhodes said.

No suspects have been named, but D'Evelyn said foul play is suspected. He released no further details. An autopsy was planned.

It's the second time this month that a 2-year-old boy has been found dead in Yavapai County, but authorities said the cases are unrelated. The body of Emmett Trapp was found in a mine pit Aug. 4, two days after he wandered away from home.

Sylar was staying at the campground near Rimrock with his custodial mother, Christina Priem, and her family when he was reported missing. Rimrock is about 40 miles south of Flagstaff.

The investigation took a grim turn last week when D'Evelyn said investigators didn't believe Sylar wandered off on his own, as Priem said, but was taken from the area and feared dead.

"It's going to take some time to sort all of this out," D'Evelyn said Tuesday.

The remains were discovered by a distant relative of Sylar who lives in the area and had periodically been searching for the boy, Rhodes said.

Searchers previously walked up and down washes, and scoured a landfill, trash bins and other areas of the campsite for more than a week. Rhodes said search and rescue crews looked in the general area where the remains were found but not the exact spot. He added the search was conducted for someone who was lost, not concealed.

"We were confident that anywhere he could have wandered or walked away from the campsite legitimately, we had covered," Rhodes said.

Authorities still are looking into custodial issues involving Sylar, Priem and Sylar's biological mother, Charity Newton.

An attempt to reach Priem by phone Tuesday night was unsuccessful. Matt Gramelspacher, a friend who answered the phone at Newton's Jasper, Ind., home, said Tuesday she was not able to answer questions and directed all queries to law enforcement.

In a phone interview last week, Newton told The Associated Press she was pregnant with Sylar when she met Priem through Priem's sister Sandra Shoemake.

Newton said she was "messed up" back then and knew she couldn't take care of her son, so she considered having Shoemake adopt him. After having a dispute with Shoemake, Newton gave temporary custody of the boy to Priem, according to Newton and a Flagstaff police report from 2008.

Newton declined to comment on the investigation, saying authorities had asked her not to.

According to a police report, authorities visited Priem's home in January to look into what was determined to be an unfounded report of child neglect regarding Sylar. At the time, Priem said Newton had given her full custody of Sylar 1½ years earlier. Priem said she hadn't heard from Newton since, the report said.

Authorities said they have found no paper trail of adoption proceedings involving Priem and Sylar.

Police reports show Newton had at least two other children - one of whom tested positive for marijuana in 2004 while a newborn. Newton's rights to another child were severed, and the child was considered a ward of the court, according to a 2004 police report. The report also noted Newton had a history of substance abuse and mental health problems.

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