This is sort of weird. I have been following a couple of stories over the last two weeks while I was on vacation and had planned to post about Monica Ambriz disappearance before I left but just never had the time. Now both stories have culminated into one unfortunately sad tale.

Back on October 16th 17-year-old Monica Ambriz left work at a grocery store in Jonesboro, Georgia (just south of Atlanta) shortly before 5 p.m. and was never seen again.

Approximately three hours later her mom saw a strange man driving her car nearby. She called Monica’s phone several times and eventually a man answered it and told her that he wasn’t going to bring Monica back. Shortly after the car was found abandoned with Monica’s cell phone inside it.

Ten days later a body was found in an abandoned building about a mile from the grocery store. Police identified the body as that of the missing teen.

The other side of the story has to do with Gerardo Hernandez, who was arrested at a Payless Shoe Source in Dekalb County during an armed robbery on October 26th. He had been identified as the man who had also robbed two other places of business, in one case sexually assaulting two women at a hair salon in Henry County.

Hernandez has now been charged with two murders, that of Monica Ambriz as well as 61-year-old Maria Gloria Galvan De Rivera, who was found stabbed, strangled and beaten to death in her home in Forest Park Georgia on October 12th.

Hernandez, an alleged illegal alien, has been charged with all of the crimes after confessing to them. He told police that the motive was money. The rest of the crimes were just secondary to them. He is being held without bond in the Dekalb County jail on an immigration hold.

This was sent to me by Me ToSee. I could have sworn I wrote about Dozier last year or maybe the year before but as I couldn’t find it in my archives I guess I was mistaken. I may have been researching it at the time and changed my mind for some reason.

Back in 2008 Wendell William Dozier Jr. took his daughter behind a department store in Dekalb County, Georgia and had sex with her. He was also accused of an tried for other incidents in Clayton County as well but was acquitted of those charges. Dekalb County, however, took a different view of things and convicted the man of Rape, Aggravated Sodomy, Aggravated Child Molestation, Incest and Child Molestation.

Dozier was sentenced last week to two life sentences and an additional 30 years to serve. The Dekalb County DA’s Office released the following press statement on it’s web site,

Guilty Verdict for Man Who Raped His Daughter

DeKalb County, GA – A DeKalb County jury has found Wendell William Dozier, Jr. guilty of rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, incest and child molestation. The victim was unfortunately his own minor child.

He was sentenced last Friday to two life sentences plus 30 years.

Dozier, 36, had previously been tried in Clayton County on similar charges but was acquitted. The charges in DeKalb County were from an incident where Dozier had taken his child behind a big-box retail store in 2008 where he committed the crimes. During a trial last week Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Peter Boehm led a prosecuting team that developed a compelling case against Dozier. Boehm leads the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Crimes Against Children Unit.

Members of the prosecution team included a DeKalb County ADA who is an apprentice lawyer. Sybil Price, recently admitted to the Georgia Bar and a graduate of Emory Law School, served as second chair on the case. She is one of several young lawyers who are working in the DA’s office who have either been deferred by their law firm or working gratis to earn valuable legal experience.

Other members of the team included Investigator Boykin Jones and Victim-Witness Advocate Amy Ellis.

Although the specific incident occurred in April of 2008 Dozier wasn’t charged until June of 2009. Wendell and his father, Wendell William Dozier, are no strangers to the Dekalb County Jail. Junior was charged with pimping back in April of 2003 but it appears the charges were dropped. His father has been arrested at least eight times by Dekalb County since 1983 for charges ranging from Domestic Violence to DUI.

Dozier’s MySpace

An unknown man entered the girl’s apartment window and raped her at gunpoint around 4am Saturday morning, according to Clayton County detectives.

Police do have a composite of the suspect but thus far I haven’t found it online.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Clayton County Police at 770-473-5400

35-year-old Dana McFarlane of Snellville, Georgia has been arrested and charged with murder after he turned himself in to a deputy in Rockdale County.

McFarlane and his girlfriend, 34-year-old Kinaya Schenese Byrd, got into an argument at her house in Stockbridge on Friday and McFarlane stabbed her to death.

Byrd was a second-grade teacher at River’s Edge Elementary School in Clayton County.

Updated 2/26/11 – McFarlane received two life sentences after he was found guilty of murder and kidnapping.

Back in 2006 William Allen Cunningham had the bright idea that if he put drugs and lighter fluid in his children’s soup he could get some money out of Campbell’s. His children became severely ill but luckily survived the act although they may end up with breathing problems for the rest of their lives as a result. He fed his two children, 3 years and 18 months, laced soup three times in January of 2006. After having taken his kids to the emergency room he contacted Campbell’s and told them their soup was tainted.

42-year-old William Cunningham was sentenced to 100 years in jail on seven counts of aggravated assault against his children. I hope they make him eat Cambell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup every day in prison, the sick bastard.