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Post by Sher on Aug 4, 2005 15:37:37 GMT -5
Florida cops are following a trail of bizarre clues to try and find missing teen Annamarie Randazzo. Anna - as her friends know her - was on her way home after a night at the movies with her friends when cops say she mysteriously disappeared. Cops say Anna dropped her friends off around 11:30 pm Thursday July 21, 2005 and then was supposed to be heading home. But, she never made it.
On Saturday, cops found Anna's car on fire near a canal. Authorities feared the worst, but there was no sign of Anna at the scene. Then when investigators returned to the scene of the fire two days later, they discovered a t-shirt and a can of lighter fluid. The items weren't there Saturday when cops searched the area around the car, and officials aren't saying what the mysterious items have to do with the case.
Annamarie Cruz Randazzo is 4 feet, 11 inches tell and weighs about 100 pounds. She is of Filipino descent with black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, white shirt and a black bandanna. She also wore a silver charm bracelet and a silver necklace with a pendant shaped like the letter "A."
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Post by Sher on Aug 8, 2005 0:49:18 GMT -5
CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) -- The body of a missing 17-year-old honor student was found in a wooded area Saturday by campers and two people confessed to her murder, police said.
Annamarie Cruz Randazzo was last seen July 21 when she dropped off two friends after watching a movie at a Cape Coral theater. Her 1990 Ford Mustang was found torched the next day.
Her body was put in an abandoned refrigerator and set on fire, police said.
Detectives were waiting for a medical examiner's report to learn how she was killed, said Cape Coral police spokesman Angelo Bitsis.
Joshua Henninger, 16, of Cape Coral, and Jeremy Chapman, 23, were each charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping. Additional charges were pending.
Detectives said both suspects confessed.
Police said Henninger was an acquaintance of the girl and she went to his house after dropping off her friends. There was an altercation and one of the suspects struck Randazzo, police said.
The pair tied Randazzo up, put her in her car and drove to an unknown location, where she was killed, police said.
Then the suspects drove her to a wooded area in Lehigh Acres where her body was set ablaze, police said. They drove her car to a vacant field and also set it on fire, police said.
Henninger and Chapman were being booked late Saturday at the Cape Coral jail, Bitsis said. He didn't know whether either had an attorney. Police also didn't know Chapman's hometown.
Annamarie was a straight-A student and rising senior at Mariner High School, her family said.
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