TAYLOR EILEEN MANLEY - 15 yo - Harrison/Evart (NW of Saginaw) MI

Michigan State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing 15-year-old girl.They are looking for Taylor Eileen Manley. She is a 15-year-old white female who is 5'6" tall, weighs 120 pounds, has brown eyes and brown hair. She has pierced ears and was last seen wearing a grey tank top, black and yellow Air Jordan tennis shoes.Manley was last seen by her father when he left for work Tuesday evening. Manley was living with her father near Evert, but is originally from Harrison.
Manley was allegedly abducted by Raymond Robert Bush. Bush is a 38-year-old white male. He is 6'1" tall and weighs 180 pounds. He has brown eyes and a shaved head with the tattoo "Taylor" on the back of his neck.Bush's vehicle is a blue GMC pick up truck. It has a toolbox in the pick up bed, a cracked windshield and a large dent in the middle of the tailgate. The truck may have a Michigan license plate of 5HCW06.If you have any information you are asked to call 911 or the Michigan State Police in Reed City at (616) 866-6666.

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Police seek man in minivan accused of kidnapping 15-year-old girl

Published: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 5:24 PM Updated: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:04 PM


MECOSTA COUNTY -- State police in Reed City have updated the Amber Alert they issued today for a missing 15-year-old, Taylor Eileen Manley, saying the suspect has changed vehicles and now likely is driving a dark blue minivan.Kidnapping suspect Raymond Robert Bush, 38, is driving a 2000 Chrysler Voyager with tinted front windows, license plate CCE1469, state police said. The girl, who was last seen by her father when he left for work, has brown hair and eyes, is 120 pounds and 5 feet and 6 inches.


Troopers asked anyone with information to call 911 or state police at 231-832-2222.E-mail the author of this story: localnews@grpress.com

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Taylor Manley - details of car they are possibly travelling in

Submitted by Ellen on 27 October, 2010 - 22:23.
They may be traveling in a dark blue 2000 Chrysler Voyager, with tinted windows, with Michigan license plates, CCE469, similar to the one shown.

Teen, accused kidnapper found dead in cemetery hours after Amber Alert issued

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 1:26 AM

REED CITY -- Hours after an Amber Alert was issued for 15-year-old Taylor Eileen Manley of Osceola County, she and kidnapping suspect Raymond Robert Bush, 38, were found dead in a vehicle parked at a cemetery in Newport on Wednesday night, state police said.

Newport is in Monroe County, south of Detroit.

Their cause of death was not released. TV station WXYZ is reporting Bush shot the teen.

Early Wednesday, state police from the Reed City post issued an Amber Alert for the teen. They said Bush likely was driving a dark blue minivan.

Police said they located the vehicle in the cemetery. A state police emergency services team entered the vehicle and discovered the bodies.

Manley was last seen by her father when he left for work on Wednesday.

Several police agencies are working on the investigation, including the Clare County Sheriff's Department, the FBI and several metro Detroit area police agencies.

Amber Alert Ends Tragically: Teen Girl and Suspect Both Found Dead

15-year-old Taylor Manley located dead with the suspect in Monroe County

REED CITY —
Michigan State Police have found Taylor Eileen Manley, 15, and Raymond Bush, 38, dead in a cemetery in Newport, downriver from Detroit in Monroe County. Few details are being released about their deaths at this point.

Michigan State Police in Reed City told us around 8:00 Wednesday night that police were engaged in a standoff situation with the suspect. He was inside a van in St. Charles Cemetery in Newport. Police surrounded the vehicle. At 10 p.m., police issued a news release confirming both Manley and Bush were found dead in the van.

Manley was believed to have been abducted by Raymond Robert Bush.

UPDATE: Police say Evart girl and kidnapper found dead in Monroe County

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - The Michigan State Police say a 15-year-old girl kidnapped from Evart was found dead Wednesday night with her abducted in a Monroe County cemetery.

Troopers say Taylor Manley was abducted Wednesday morning by Raymond Bush, 38. Bush was already facing charges in an earlier sexual assault case involving Manley.

The state police issued a statewide Amber Alert for the girl. Troopers say their investigation led them to a cemetery in Newport, where Bush's van was spotted.

Troopers barricaded the cemetery, then a SWAT team approached the vehicle and discovered Manley and Bush dead.

The FBI is taking part in the kidnapping and death investigation.

His connection to the girl remained unclear.

---Ackshually...it is quite clear my dear Watson!
He was obsessed with this girl, tattooed her name on his neck and even had a prior sex charge with her as the victim.
If he couldn't have her nobody would.
What a waste of a life....

TomTerrific0420 wrote:

His connection to the girl remained unclear.

---Ackshually...it is quite clear my dear Watson!
He was obsessed with this girl, tattooed her name on his neck and even had a prior sex charge with her as the victim.
If he couldn't have her nobody would.
What a waste of a life....

I'll bet this has an internet connection. These poor little kids have no judgment and are far too trusting.

He abducted her from her fathers home so she didn't go to meet him somewhere. What an ###@@@@@.

Oct. 27, 2010 - 9:49 a.m. today

Autopsy on Amber Alert teen to be performed today




Autopsies are scheduled this morning to determine the cause of death of two people found in a cemetery Wednesday night.


The bodies of Taylor E. Manley, 15, and Raymond R. Bush, 38, both were found in Bush’s minivan parked in St. Charles Cemetery, on North Dixie Highway in Newport, according to Michigan State Police. An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday for the teenage girl who had been living with her father in Evart, which is southeast of Cadillac, police said.

The father came home from work Wednesday morning around 7:30 and the teen was not there, Michigan State Police Sgt. Joe Cairnduff said.

Bush and Manley were acquaintances, but the exact relationship between the two is still being investigated, he said.

The 38-year-old man had a tattoo on the back of his neck with her name on it, Cairnduff said.

Bush had a court date Wednesday in Clare County and the teen was supposed to be involved in that court date, he said. There was some fear he might have been attempting to prevent her from attending that hearing and an Amber Alert was issued, he said.

Clare County Prosecutor Michelle Ambrozaitis said that Bush was scheduled to appear in 80th District Court in Harrison. He never showed Wednesday to face a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge from Aug. 22 for a sexual relationship with Taylor Manley, 15.

She was to be in court as the main witness against him.

Ambrozaitis said she got a call from Manley's father around 8 a.m. Wednesday saying his daughter went missing the night before.Ambrozaitis said Bush was a family friend of Manley and her mother when they had lived in Monroe County at some point. He stayed friends and would visit.

"At some point after they moved up here, the relationship turned sexual and the mom reported it to police" one she learned about it, Ambrozaitis said.

Michigan's age of consent for sexual relations is 16."There is no consent in this," Ambrozaitis said. "She's not of an age where she can give consent."

Bush's bond was forfeited Wednesday and a bench warrant issued for him.

"I met with the young woman the day before she disappeared," Ambrozaitis said. "It's devastating. I was absolutely sick when I got the call."

1st Lt. Mary Kapp, commander of the state police Monroe District Post, said the bodies were found when police, acting on a tip, found the van around 5:00 p.m. A SWAT team was called in but officers found the two dead, she said, and there was never a standoff situation.

Bush is from the Monroe area, she said.

Police are not saying how the two may have died or who they believe is responsible for the deaths.

The FBI is assisting with the investigation.

twinkletoe wrote:

TomTerrific0420 wrote:

His connection to the girl remained unclear.

---Ackshually...it is quite clear my dear Watson!
He was obsessed with this girl, tattooed her name on his neck and even had a prior sex charge with her as the victim.
If he couldn't have her nobody would.
What a waste of a life....

I'll bet this has an internet connection. These poor little kids have no judgment and are far too trusting.

I read he was friends with her mother. Maybe he used to date the mom. SICK

Harrison, Evart school districts react in wake of Amber Alert teen's death

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 11:25 AM


HARRISON — In the wake of a 15-year-old student's death, two central-Michigan school districts are offering crisis support counselors for students, faculty and family.

Taylor E. Manley, of Evart, formerly of Harrison, was found dead Wednesday night, alongside her abductor, Raymond R. Bush of Newport, who allegedly had taken his own life. WXYZ, in Detroit, is reporting that investigators said the teen had been shot in the chest.

Taylor has three siblings in the Harrison Community Schools district — one at Harrison High School, one at Hillside Elementary and one at Larson Elementary. Superintendent Tom House and his faculty met with a crisis response team this morning.


"The appropriate support and counseling is available for student and staff," said House.


That counseling is already under way.


Superintendent of Evart Public Schools Howard Hyde said Manley was only enrolled at the school for about one week. He released the following statement:

Taylor Manley transferred into Evart Public Schools, recently.

We were just getting to know Taylor. We are saddened by the tragic events, and our deepest sympathies go out to Taylor's family, and we have trained counselors on hand for any students in need.

Clare County Sheriff John Wilson tells The Associated Press that Bush had been scheduled to appear Wednesday in 80th District Court, where he was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Wilson says an arrest warrant was issued after Bush failed to appear.

Bear aka GA wrote:

twinkletoe wrote:

TomTerrific0420 wrote:

His connection to the girl remained unclear.

---Ackshually...it is quite clear my dear Watson!
He was obsessed with this girl, tattooed her name on his neck and even had a prior sex charge with her as the victim.
If he couldn't have her nobody would.
What a waste of a life....

I'll bet this has an internet connection. These poor little kids have no judgment and are far too trusting.

I read he was friends with her mother. Maybe he used to date the mom. SICK

Yes, I posted that 2 posts above yours. I'm glad it wasn't internet related.

Why would a woman allow a 38 year old man to befriend her 15 year old daughter? WTF is wrong with people?

The case of missing Shyla Selvage sounds like how this one started with a man abducting her for the second time.
Shyla is 15 years old and she has been abducted twice by a 46 year old man.

A heartbreaking end to a statewide Amber Alert for this Osceola County teenager.

Police are still trying to put the pieces together after discovering the bodies of 15-year-old Taylor Manley and her kidnapper. Now, medical examiners confirm their murder suicide theory.

Police issued the Amber Alert Wednesday morning after Taylor was taken from her father's home near Evart. After a day long search, troopers found her and Raymond Bush dead inside his van Wednesday night in a cemetery near Detroit. Autopsies showed Bush died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound, and Taylor was shot multiple times.

Taylor and Bush had known each other for awhile. Back in September, Bush was charged with sexually assaulting Taylor. Yesterday morning, she was supposed to testify against him, but neither one ever made it to court.

Many people Northern Michigan's News Leader spoke with remember Taylor as a loving girl, who enjoyed spending time outdoors fishing and four-wheeling. Her family says funeral arrangements are still being made.

A Frenchtown Township woman said Raymond Bush admitted to her that he had killed 15-year-old Taylor Manley about six hours before they were found dead in Mr. Bush's minivan in St. Charles Cemetery on North Dixie Highway.

Teri Nunn, who is the mother of Mr. Bush's 11-year-old son, said he called her from his cell phone about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday. She said he confessed to shooting Taylor in the chest and head while they were driving to Monroe County from her Reed City, Mich. home, more than 170 miles away.

"He said he shot her in the heart but it didn't kill her. He said he didn't want to see her suffer so he went back and shot her in the head," Ms. Nunn said.

Ms. Nunn said she called authorities to alert them to the crime and police detectives went to her workplace, where they interviewed her about what Mr. Bush had told her.

Taylor Eileen Manley was the subject of an Amber Alert Wednesday, and it was feared she had been abducted by Mr. Bush, 38, who was living in Newport.

On Wednesday, a charge of aggravated stalking was filed against Mr. Bush and involving Taylor in Osceola County District Court, records show.

Lt. Mary Kapp of the Michigan State Police said Thursday afternoon that an autopsy showed Taylor died of one gunshot wound to the chest and another to the head. Bush died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities said a .22-caliber gun was used.

They are treating the case as a murder-suicide.

Clare County Prosecutor Michelle Ambrozaitis said on Aug. 22, she filed one count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct against Mr. Bush, alleging he had sexual intercourse with a person aged 13 to 15, specifically Taylor.

Mr. Bush posted 10 percent of a $50,000 bond and was released from jail on the condition that he have no contact with Taylor.

Ms. Ambrozaitis said she met with Taylor a week ago to go over her testimony for a preliminary examination that was scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday.

"She was upbeat. She was just how she normally is," the prosecutor said. "She makes me laugh because she has that attitude about her. She was on board about testifying against him and never gave us any indication she wasn't on board with that."

She said Taylor and her father met with her again Tuesday "because the defendant was calling her cell phone and sending her text messages."

Ms. Ambrozaitis said that after meeting, she forwarded information to the Osceola County Prosecutor regarding Mr. Bush's repeated attempts to contact Taylor, who had been staying with in that county with her father.

Ms. Ambrozaitis said she filed a motion to revoke his bond.

"I intended to argue that his bond be raised after the preliminary examination was held the following morning," she said.

It would turn out to be too late.

Ms. Ambrozaitis said she never imagined Mr. Bush would hurt Taylor. He had never threatened her, and she had not expressed fear about him. She also believes their relationship began consensually, but that changed after her mother found out and brought her to the police department to report it.

"Basically she said she wanted him to stop having contact with her. She didn't want to have contact with him. She didn't want to talk to him," the prosecutor said. "He was holding some of her personal belongings, and she was concerned about getting them back."

Ms. Ambrozaitis said Mr. Bush had purchased gifts for Taylor, had tattooed her name across his back, and had engaged in other behavior she considered "predatory."

"Clearly you have to wonder what possesses a normal 38-year-old man to want to have a relationship with a 15-year-old," she said.

Mr. Bush's minivan was found by a Michigan State Police trooper in the cemetery in Berlin Township, north of Monroe about 5:20 p.m. Wednesday.

They say they entered the vehicle and found the pair dead inside.

About 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, while Ms. Nunn was driving home, she encountered Mr. Bush's mini-van on North Dixie Highway, about one mile from her home.

She said they both pulled into a convenience store parking lot, where she got out of her vehicle and approached Mr. Bush in his van.

She said he told her that he had left some personal belongings in the garage of her home for her to give to their son. She said she looked inside the minivan and saw Taylor's body that was partially covered with a blanket on the floor behind the driver's seat.

Ms. Nunn said Mr. Bush said he and the girl had made a pact to die together in a murder-suicide.

"He said he asked her to shoot him first, but she didn't want to shoot him because she was afraid she would back out of it."

Taylor Manley, 15, spoke with her dad before he took off for work Tuesday night about her big day Wednesday.
She was supposed to be out of bed when he got home from an overnight shift and ready to go to court to testify. The teen planned to miss school that day to be the main witness against Raymond Bush, 38, who faced a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for a relationship with her.When Robert Manley arrived at his Evart home in Osceola County around 7:30 a.m., his daughter was gone. He knew something was wrong and immediately called authorities, prompting an Amber Alert to be issued for the teen.Taylor and Bush were found dead in the back of Bush's blue Dodge Caravan parked in a Monroe County cemetery. She had been shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest, and Bush died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide, police said."She was afraid of him," Robert Manley said of Bush, who had Taylor's name tattooed near his lower neck. Taylor told her dad that Bush had threatened in the past that he would "do something" if she planned to testify.
A desperate man, a fearful teen

Raymond Bush's troubles were closing in on him.Unemployed, broke and about to lose his apartment, the 38-year-old Newport man faced an even more serious matter: a sex-assault charge that relatives said spooked him. He had been involved intimately with 15-year-old Taylor Manley, a northern Michigan girl whose mother notified authorities when she learned about the sexual relationship that, if true, is statutory rape."He didn't know what he was going to do next," his stepmother, Maryann Bush, said Thursday. "He was just afraid of when he had to go to court, what would happen to him, because he's never been in a situation like that."Bush threatened Taylor about testifying and told her that he would rather run than face the charge, the girl's father said.Now police are investigating whether Bush snatched Taylor out of her father's Osceola County home sometime early Wednesday and drove downstate, shooting her to death before turning a .22-caliber pistol on himself.Glimpses into Bush's growing desperation emerged Thursday as police investigated the discovery of their bodies the day before in the St. Charles Cemetery on Dixie Highway in Newport in Monroe County. Michigan State Police said the bodies were in the back of a minivan parked near the graves of Bush's grandparents, who raised him.Taylor was shot in the head and chest and Bush once in the head, police said. The Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office ruled Taylor's death a homicide and Bush's a suicide.Police still were examining details of the shootings.Taylor's grandfather, Joseph Manley of Farwell, said investigators told the family that there were signs a door to the mobile home where she lived with her father in Evart had been pried open, indicating she was abducted, and that several hours may have elapsed between her death and Bush's suicide.Both Taylor and Bush were supposed to appear Wednesday in 80th District Court in Harrison -- Bush to face a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge and Taylor to be the main witness against him, Clare County Prosecutor Michelle Ambrozaitis said.After Taylor's father came home and discovered she was gone, and with fears Bush might try to prevent her from testifying, police issued an Amber Alert on Wednesday that ended with police discovering their bodies 200 miles south in Newport, said Michigan State Police Sgt. Joe Cairnduff.Bush's worries had worsened as his day in court neared. He had fired an urgent barrage of text messages to Taylor in recent days, though they contained "nothing threatening," Ambrozaitis said. "It was mostly 'I love you.' 'Call me.' 'Text me.'"That violated terms of his bond, which ordered Bush not to have contact with the girl. Ambrozaitis said she had planned to request higher bond for Bush and asked the Osceola County prosecutor to seek aggravated stalking charges against him.Instead, Ambrozaitis said she got a call from Taylor's father around 8 a.m. Wednesday, saying she was missing."I met with the young woman the day before she disappeared," Ambrozaitis said. "It's devastating. I was absolutely sick when I got the call."Taylor moved in with her father, Robert Manley, about two weeks ago because of the sexual-assault case. It was time for her to be a kid again, and her dad was "trying to take her away, trying to hide her, so this kind of thing wouldn't happen," he told the Free Press.Manley said he doesn't think his daughter left willingly with Bush, and didn't seem to have a problem with testifying against the man who police said had her name tattooed on the back of his neck.Ambrozaitis said Bush was a family friend of the girl and her mother when they lived in the Monroe area."At some point after they moved up here, the relationship turned sexual and the mom reported it to police" when she learned about it, Ambrozaitis said.Michigan's age of consent for sexual relations is 16."There is no consent in this," Ambrozaitis said. "She's not of an age where she can give consent."Maryann Bush said her stepson was an unemployed laborer. She said bills and debt were piling up, he couldn't afford rent for his apartment and he was about to move out. The father of two -- a boy and a girl in their teens -- was giving his belongings to friends and relatives for safekeeping.The third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge filed against him Aug. 22 could have led to 15 years in prison."When we found out about it, we asked him, 'Ray, what were you thinking?'" Maryann Bush said. "And all he would say is, 'You just don't understand.' I think he was a lost soul looking for someone to love him."Although Robert Manley said his daughter was scared of Bush, Ambrozaitis said Taylor never told her as much."She just reiterated she didn't want to have anything to do with him -- she didn't want to see him," Ambrozaitis said. "But I do understand she told family she was afraid of him."Ambrozaitis said Bush's record appeared clean enough for bond as low as $50,000, cash or surety, and authorities didn't believe he posed a threat to Taylor.