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#51 Lori Davis

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Posted 01 November 2009 - 08:54 AM

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Posted 03 December 2009 - 08:52 PM

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Jennifer Wilkerson, Missing from Lubbock, TX since 7/13/2004
Written by Vikki Wilkerson, mother of Jennifer

On July 13, 2004, my middle daughter, Jennifer Lynn Wilkerson, went missing.  She was last seen leaving her boyfriend’s house about 11:00 a.m. in Lubbock, Texas to go home and get ready to go to work at “Nothin’ but Smokes” around 2:00 p.m.  When she did not show up for work and did not call saying she wouldn’t be in, her employer contacted Jen’s boyfriend to see if he knew what was going on.  Thinking Jennifer may have fallen asleep, her boyfriend went to the trailer Jennifer lived in.  When he arrived at the trailer, Jennifer’s car was parked out front but when he knocked on the door, no one answered.  Bewildered but not worried, he contacted Jennifer’s roommate to see if she had heard from Jennifer.  No one seemed to have heard from her since she left his house earlier in the day.  When the roommate finally got to the trailer, the door was locked, both sets of Jennifer’s keys were hanging just inside the trailer door, but there were no signs of Jennifer.  Her car parked out front was unlocked and her cell phone, checkbook, driver’s license, and a few personal belongings were in the front seat.  Still no signs of Jennifer.  Her roommate’s boyfriend called my husband on July 14, 2004 asking if we had heard from Jennifer.  Everyone was already alarmed because Jen would always let someone know if she was going to do something out of the ordinary.  The Lubbock Sheriff’s department was contacted, and on July 15, 2004, the media, with the direction of the sheriff’s department, was asking the public for help in locating our daughter.  She was listed as being an “Endangered Missing Adult.”  So began the heart-wrenching journey of searching for our missing daughter.

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Now, still searching and praying and hoping that each day will be the day we receive answers, we have to come to the realization that we may never get to hold our daughter in our arms, or see that wonderful smile, or hear that silly giggle ever again in this world.  Although it is all in the same, this story is written to talk about the holidays and how we cope.  Memories can be bittersweet and yet they are all we have at this time to hold.

Christmas was always a time that, no matter where life took any of us, we somehow managed to spend together.  For 26 sweet years, we would celebrate Christmas at our home here in Hobbs where the kids grew up.  It was a joyous time.  Singing, baking cookies and candy, wrapping presents, candlelight services, and when they were young, the big night that Santa would visit.  I loved bringing Santa to life, filling the stockings, arranging the gifts under the tree to look magical, eating the cookies and drinking the milk that was left so lovingly for Santa.  On Christmas Eve, it was usually close to midnight before we could get the girls settled in bed and supposedly sound asleep.  That is when I would spin the magic.  After everything was in place, Jack and I would crawl in bed for a very short winter’s nap.  I would lie in bed and listen to the girls giggle and say shhh be quiet, Mom will say it is too early.  They would lay there being silly and they’d try talking each other into peeking in the living room to see if Santa had come.  Usually around 2 a.m., they would agree they would all go together.  I would hear them whispering with excitement about what was under the tree, and after a short time they would come running in the bedroom yelling with glee, “Mom, Santa’s been here.”  Everyone would see what was in the stockings and pass out the gifts to be opened.  It sounds so calm to me now, putting it on paper, but believe me, it was nothing but calm and organized.  Bows and wrapping paper would be flying, ohs and ahs, and Mom look, look what I got!!!  After the last present was opened and everyone had a bit of time to enjoy his or her gifts, we all would be ready for bed.  About the time most everyone else in town might be waking, the Wilkerson family was just going to bed.

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We celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ, sang carols, pulled taffy, and on some Christmases we would put on little plays for the family.  The kids were always the characters in the play.  Growing up as a child, one of my favorite Christmas stories was in the Ideal Christmas magazine.  It was a story of a beautiful, white winged horse that longed to be part of the story of Christmas.  While flying far above a snow covered country town, huge bubbles floated to the sky where the winged horse would wonder at the marvelous reflections of children singing, bright lights on decorated trees, laughter and love.  He wanted to be a part of the scene so bad that he flew down to the town, but once he was there all the celebration was in the homes.  Sad, he rested in a small barn that belonged to the baker.  The baker’s wife came in the stable and saw huge tears coming from his eyes.  When the woman was told why he was so sad, she said, “I know what I can do!  I will change you into a sugar cookie and hang you high on the Christmas tree!”  The winged horse thought for a moment and said “But what if one of the children eats me?”  The old women assured him that the children were not allowed to eat the sweets until after they had their dinner and she would get him before that happened.  As she promised, she changed him into the most beautiful sugar cookie you could imagine and hung him just below the star on the Christmas tree.  What a sight to behold, children laughing and singing, wonderful scents of cinnamon, pumpkin, and apples, and bright shining lights.  Just before dinner, the family gathered around on the floor and all listened while the Grandmother read a story of the birth of Jesus Christ.  Never had the winged horse felt so much love and happiness.  One little girl had been eyeing him all evening and very slowly crept up to the tree.  Just has she was about to put her warm little hands around the sugar cookie, her mother quietly grabbed her up in her arms and said, “No sweets until after you eat.”  While the family was having their dinner, the old woman returned and placed the winged horse back in the barn, changing him back to his glorious self.  The winged horse flew back up to sky with a very happy heart.

We did a play on this story that was just incredible.  We made a little outfit and wings for the part of the winged horse.  It was so very much fun.  We laughed and cried at the same time!  We even decorated winged horse sugar cookies for Santa.

Even after the girls were grown, we would celebrate much the same.  My oldest daughter had children, so my girls got to help spin the magic of Santa.  Wonderful, fun times, but things change, children and grandchildren grow up and begin their own traditions, as it should be.  Life happens, deaths in the family, divorces, and of course Jennifer vanishing without a trace.  The first few years she was missing, the holidays were so very painful.  As bad as I tried to enjoy it with the rest of the family, I couldn’t.  The lights weren’t as bright, no singing and dancing, no cookies being baked, I was just to tired and so consumed with grief and worry, all I could do was hope the season would soon be over.  It was only a few seasons ago, that at my lowest, I realized the true meaning of Christmas again in my heart. 

Thanksgiving and Christmas will never again be the same, but I can be thankful for the many blessings I do have in my life.  Jack, my husband, is my rock and a very special blessing!  Without him, I would be lost!  We will love and remember when and hold tight to the hope that someday we will be able to celebrate this wonderful time of the year with our entire family.

To all of you, have a Merry Christmas and very happy New Year!

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Posted 08 May 2010 - 07:02 PM

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Human remains found near Lubbock Landfill


Posted: May 08, 2010 9:15 PM CDT

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate human remains that were found near the Lubbock Landfill.

The remains were found on County Road 5200, about a quarter mile west of North Frankford.

A man riding an ATV discovered a scull around 1:15 p.m. on Saturday and called 911.

The Medical Examiner and a Forensic Pathologist from Texas Tech University confirmed that the remains are human.

Authorities searched a 20 yard diameter area and found more bones. The Medical Examiner took the bones to investigate further.

They say the bones do not appear to have been buried.

The Lubbock Sheriff's Office told KCBD NewsChannel 11 that they are hopeful that this discovery could solve one of two missing persons cases in Lubbock County.

Lubbock County currently has two high profile missing persons cases that remain unsolved. Peggy Merimon went missing on August 9th, 2006. Jennifer Wilkerson has been missing since July 13th of 2004.

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Posted 11 May 2010 - 05:04 AM

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Found human remains still mystery

By Robin Pyle | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Story last updated at 5/11/2010 - 12:27 am

Identification of the human remains found in Northwest Lubbock County over the weekend remained a mystery Monday as two families continue to wait to hear if their missing loved one was found deceased.

Vikki Wilkerson is waiting to hear if the remains are those of her daughter - Jennifer Lynn Wilkerson, 27 - who went missing in July 2004.

She said investigators contacted her this weekend before the discovery was made public, but she didn't have any indication if the remains were Jennifer.

"We're waiting," the mother said on Monday, not wanting to talk at length since identification hadn't been made. "Right now, we just need to wait."

Family members of Peggy Merimon, the mother of seven who was last seen in August 2006, said they couldn't talk to the media because of the upcoming trial of the man accused of murdering Merimon and co-worker Kay Harrelson.

The Lubbock County Medical Examiner's Office declined to say how long the wait for identification could be.

Officials didn't release any new details two days after the remains were found, including how long they were believed to have been there and the possible gender or age of the victim.

On Saturday afternoon, a man found a skull on a vacant oil lease along County Road 5200 about a quarter-mile west of Frankford Avenue. The man, who didn't return a phone call Monday, was riding an all-terrain vehicle on the property looking for deer, according to the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office.

The property owner resides in Dallas, and neighbors told investigators they hadn't seen activity on the structure-less property for more than a decade.

Robert Byers, managing director for the medical examiner's office, said authorities might be able to release some details in the case this week. He didn't specify what type of information they might release.

Dr. Lori Baker, a forensic scientist and professor at Baylor University, said identifying skeleton remains is a much more delicate and time-consuming process than working with a body, especially if the remains are years old.

"It can be more cumbersome and take more time," Baker said of making a positive identification. "People should be patient because forensic science is not as quick as portrayed on television."

Baker, who spoke generally because she wasn't involved in the local case, said the first step for scientists is to narrow down the list of possible victims by examining subtle variations in the skeleton. Officials can determine gender, approximate age, a range of stature and ancestry estimation, she said, though that process could take days.

Forensic experts also can use dental records to compare, if they have a pool of possible people from missing persons reports and the records for those people. Unique characteristics, such as dental implants, also aid in the identification process.

Baker said scientists have been relying more and more on DNA if there is another sample available for which to compare.

If officials can narrow down the possible identity of the remains, they can use DNA from family members to help with the process if none is available of the missing person.

But DNA testing could take weeks, Baker said, especially considering "there's such a backlog of cases in most laboratories."

Having a narrow list of possible victims can make the identification process much quicker than if authorities had no idea of who the remains might be, Baker said.

In cases where officials don't have any indication of a possible identity, "tracing them back could be impossible."

She said there's unidentified skeleton remains in medical examiner offices and pauper graves all over the country.

Local authorities wouldn't give any indication if they had theories as to the identification of the remains found on Saturday, but the two families continue waiting for answers in the disappearances of their loved ones.

Jennifer Lynn Wilkerson was last seen July 13, 2004, and Peggy Merimon was last seen Aug. 9, 2006.

Peggy Merimon

Merimon, 61, left the Lubbock State School during the lunch hour nearly four years ago with a co-worker, whose mangled body was found later. The two women were seen getting into a car with a man. They didn't return to work, and their cars were left in the school's parking lot.

The human remains found on Saturday were located about 13 miles from where the body of Merimon's co-worker - Kay Harrelson - was found in 2006.

A search team of volunteers organized by Merimon's family found Harrelson's body in a ditch about 11/2 miles southwest of Shallowater less than two weeks after the women were last seen.

Merimon's family has continued searching for her.

They spent months and months canvassing the county for clues to Merimon's disappearance. Volunteers assembled weekend after weekend, searching on horseback, on all-terrain vehicles, by foot and in cars.

Officials arrested Mickey Patterson on double murder charges more than three years after the women went missing. Authorities took him into custody Sept. 23, 2009, in Bend, Ore. His trial is scheduled to start June 1.

Jennifer Lynn Wilkerson

Wilkerson, 27, disappeared from her South Lubbock County home in the 2400 block of 118th Street on July 13, 2004, leaving behind her keys and car.

Officials said at the time that her home remained undisturbed, as if she walked away voluntarily, but investigators believed she may have been met with foul play.

Authorities said last year there were multiple "persons of interest" in the case, but no suspects had been named.

The Sheriff's Office and volunteer organizations conducted several large-scale searches in Lubbock and New Mexico, where Wilkerson's family lives, to no avail.

Wilkerson's family refuses to give up hope of one day finding her and answers.

Last year, for the five-year anniversary of the disappearance, her mother pleaded with the public to report any information that could help find her.

The family also made up fliers that they had planned to post in Sonic Drive-in restaurants because Wilkerson used to stop by there daily to order a Dr. Pepper.


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Posted 12 May 2010 - 11:05 AM

The human remains mentioned in the above news stories were that of Peggy Merimon, not Jennifer.

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Posted 25 March 2013 - 06:41 AM

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Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn not only missing person in region

By Jennifer Kendall

POSTED: 10:12 PM Mar 21 2013 
UPDATED: 8:21 AM Mar 22 2013

SCURRY COUNTY, Texas - Authorities continue to work to identify human remains found in a remote area of Lake J.B. Thomas.

Many wondered if it could be a break in the case of missing Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn. Right now, authorities aren't saying. In fact, they still have not released the gender or age and said the body was badly decomposed.

Who could it be?

We checked with the Department of Public Safety for counties near where the body was found.

They said only active cases that have been reported by loved ones or authorities are listed. We looked through Scurry, Mitchell, Howard, Nolan, Fisher and Lubbock counties and found four missing persons after 2000.

In Scurry County, where remains were found last week, there are no active missing persons cases.

William Bynum, 40, disappeared from Big Spring in 2003. He was seen leaving a bar with another man and was never heard from again.

In 2004, 26-year-old Jennifer Wilkerson was reported missing from Lubbock. Her boyfriend was the last person to see her. He said she was going to drive home and then to her job, but she never arrived at work.

The nationally known Hailey Dunn case began in 2010. Then 13-year-old Hailey was last seen at her Colorado City home by her mom's boyfriend. He says she left for her father's house and never made it there.

The most recent case was last year in Lubbock. Mark Ysasanga, 15, packed a bag and went to his friend’s house. He was last seen there at 2 a.m.   

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Posted 15 November 2014 - 03:28 PM

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Ten Years Later, Family Searches for Missing Jennifer Wilkerson

 

11/07/2014 04:50 PM11/07/2014 06:30 PM

By:Meredith Hillgartner

 

LUBBOCK,TX- When Jennifer Wilkerson went missing in 2004, her sister Michelle thought it was all a big joke. She thought Jennifer was on one of her spontaneous adventures, and just didn't have time to call home, but as days went by Jennifer never came home.

 

"I didn't think nothing was wrong, I thought she went somewhere, somebody said lets go," Michelle Wilkerson said. "That is how I dealt with it for a long time, that she was just off having fun."

 

Now ten years later, Michelle is still looking for her baby sister.

 

Jennifer Wilkerson was last seen on July 13th, 2004. She spent the night at her boyfriends, then went home to change clothes for work. She was supposed to meet him for lunch, but her family said she never showed. Her roommates found Jennifer's car later that day in front of the house; keys, wallet and phone inside.

 

Her roommates called Jennifer's father, Jack. It was two days before he told his wife Vikki that Jennifer was missing, just as the local TV stations put Jennifer's picture on the news.

 

"Jack knows how I am about my kids," Vikki cried. "And he didn't tell me. That was Tuesday and on Thursday afternoon he came to my work, it was a regular day, and he walked in that door and I knew immediately something was wrong, and he told me Jennifer was missing."

Lieutenant Bryan Taylor, with the Lubbock Sheriff's Department, said they immediately organized search teams with the help of United Search and Rescue. He said they interviewed several people and performed polygraph tests. No one led them to Jennifer.

 

In 2010, a man being held at a local prison reached out to investigators. He divulged intimate details of the case and convinced authorities he could take them to Jennifer.

 

"I was never convinced there was anything to it," Jack Wilkerson said. "But at that point in time we had so many, I think there has been what? 6-7 confessions over the years you know. Theres' a lot of confessions that didn't go through. I was waiting for proof, I wasn't convinced there was anything to it, but I was going to be there to find out. But I didn't have a whole lot of confidence going over there that they were going to find anything."

 

Jack's intuition proved right. Investigators searched and dug the entire property, but there was no sign of Jennifer.

 

In the ten years since the Sheriff's department opened their investigation, Lieutenant Taylor said they have had one story that never changes. It is that one story, told over and over by multiple people, that Taylor said his office is investigating. Right now, Taylor said his office does not have the evidence they need to follow through.

 

If you have any information on Jennifer's disappearance, call crimeline at (806)741-1000.


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Posted 05 February 2016 - 01:59 AM

Jennifer is still missing.

 

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