Samantha Clarke's parent near for 3rd displacement job, with her girl Samantha, 19, and her lad Hunter, 12 astatine home. By 12:30 a.m. Hunter called his ma to accidental that Samantha had walked retired of the location with her pajamas on, but Barbara Tinder was incapable to reply the telephone till she got her interruption astir 1:30 a.m. When Barbara arrived astatine location astatine 7:05 a.m. (9/14/10), she would find Samantha's pajamas connected her bed. The lone happening known that Samantha had with her was a caller alteration of unidentified clothes, and her location key. When Barbara went to record the Missing Persons study that morning, idiosyncratic astatine the Police Department advised her she had to hold 48 hours earlier she could record a missing persons report... an outright nontruth. Those days were agelong gone.
By Federal Law, each constabulary section is required to instrumentality a missing persons report, without delay, by anyone, astatine immoderate department. Unfortunately, that information is not arsenic known and understood arsenic we would hope. Unfortunately, this was detrimental, arsenic the Police did not 'get the case' until the 15th.
Samantha had conscionable met a caller radical of radical the week anterior to her disappearance. One of them, was Randy Taylor, 45, who was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium the past idiosyncratic that spoke with Samantha. He called the residence six times that night. Randy admitted to being the past idiosyncratic who spoke to Samantha.
Taylor would beryllium the aforesaid feline who past saw different young miss 3 years later, Alexis Murphy, 17 (Her communicative is besides connected our website) successful Lovingston, Virginia, astatine a state presumption with Taylor. He was charged for Alexis' murder, and sentenced to life.
Most hunt efforts for some of our missing girls has been connected a crippled of onshore that's been searched much than once; a two-hundred-acre backstage hunting nine successful the Eheart country of Orange County, successful east-central Virginia. So far, determination has been nary connection connected thing being recovered connected that property. This country was adjacent to wherever Taylor lived, and had entree to this spot astatine the clip of their disappearances.
Taylor and Alexis are inactive missing. Taylor's lawsuit has been reclassified from a missing persons lawsuit to an abduction and execution investigation.
Samantha Ann Clarke is described arsenic being 5’4” gangly and weighing astir 145 lbs. astatine the clip of her disappearance. She has brownish hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. She besides has a Playboy bunny tattoo connected her close arm, a Tigger tattoo connected her close ankle, and 2 dolphin tattoos connected her little back.
If you person immoderate accusation connected the whereabouts of Samantha Clarke, delight interaction the Orange Police Department astatine (540) 672-1491.
Taylor is housed astatine Red Onion Prison, which besides has 2 different good known serial killers - Lee Boyd Malvo the Beltway Sniper, and Jesse Leroy Matthew.
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