Dark Ghost Journal March 4, 2015

Just a few days after my daughter was born on Monday March the 2nd at 10:30 pm an weighed in a 6 pounds 16 ounces. I went out for a smoke. Gas station across the street alarm going off but no cars on lot or around back so I went to check it out and found nothing doors still locked and no broken windows. I called the police and was told that they would send a car to look in to it. Also  I possibly save a retired private detective`s life he was in for double pneumonia. He was out side smoking and got to feeling very weak I ran and got a nurse and while she was tending to him I ran and got a wheelchair and took the old fellow up to his room. I talk with him a bit and got him to give up his cigarettes at least till he gets home and got him to give the his last pack to the nurse till he is discharged. The later helped a man to find I lost keepsake that belonged to his sick wife a small gold baby ring that she had since she was two it had fallen off the keychain. He had to get take some important in to his wife's doctor but did not want to go in with out it cause he new it would upset his wife. I told him I would find it go take in what the doctor needs. I found it and waited for him in the main lobby a few minutes later he returned and I gave him the ring.

Tennessee mask Laws

There is nothing in the Tennessee State Code forbidding the simple wearing of a mask or disguise without criminal activity or intent. It is only addressed at all in the section regarding civil rights intimidation. I can't find a mention of masks in the Chattanooga City Code at all, & if Hamilton County has a separate code, I can't find it online.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-309 (2011)

39-17-309. Civil rights intimidation.

 

(a) The general assembly finds and declares that it is the right of every person regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion or national origin, to be secure and protected from fear, intimidation, harassment and bodily injury caused by the activities of groups and individuals. It is not the intent of this section to interfere with the exercise of rights protected by the constitution of the United States. The general assembly recognizes the constitutional right of every citizen to harbor and express beliefs on any subject whatsoever and to associate with others who share similar beliefs. The general assembly further finds that the advocacy of unlawful acts by groups or individuals against other persons or groups for the purpose of inciting and provoking damage to property and bodily injury or death to persons is not constitutionally protected, poses a threat to public order and safety, and should be subject to criminal sanctions.

 

(b) A person commits the offense of intimidating others from exercising civil rights who:

 

    (1) Injures or threatens to injure or coerces another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another from the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee;

 

     (2) Injures or threatens to injure or coerces another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another because that other exercised any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the United States or the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee;

 

    (3) Damages, destroys or defaces any real or personal property of another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another from the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee; or

 

 

    (4) Damages, destroys or defaces any real or personal property of another person with the intent to unlawfully intimidate another because that other exercised any right or privilege secured by the constitution or laws of the United States or the constitution or laws of the state of Tennessee.

 

*****(c) IT IS AN OFFENSE FOR A PERSON TO WEAR A MASK OR DISGUISE WITH THE INTENT TO VIOLATE SUBSECTION (b).*****

 

(d) A violation of subsection (b) is a Class D felony. A violation of subsection (c) is a Class A misdemeanor.

 

(e) The penalties provided in this section for intimidating others from exercising civil rights do not preclude victims from seeking any other remedies, criminal or civil, otherwise available under law.

Murderd Street Woman

Melissa Michelle Ward

Case Number: 04-087386
Race: White
Sex: Female
DOB: 04-12-1971
Age: 33
Height: 5’1”
Weight: 90
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Case Status: Unsolved

On 11-02-04 Melissa Michelle Ward was reported missing to the Chattanooga Police Department.

Ms. Ward had been arrested in the past on prostitution and drug charges and her death may have been related to association with criminals

Missy was last seen on 10-29-04 at about 1900 hours, when she got into a late model red Ford Pick-up Truck with a white camper top, at the BI-Lo parking lot on 23rd Street. The drive of the vehicle was described as a W/M, salt and pepper hair, in his 50’s. Missy was last seen wearing a blue dress and no shoes.

On December 05, 2004 the decomposed body of Melissa Ward was found on Cash Canyon Road.




From the News Channel 3 web site

HAMILTON COUNTY, TN. (WRCB)  --  A man charged with raping two young girls this summer is being looked at in connection with a murder from six years ago.
Earlier this month 46-year-old Christopher Johnson was charged with allegedly raping and kidnapping a relative and one of her friends.
Channel 3 and our partners at the Times Free Press have learned from multiple sources that Johnson has been interviewed in connection with the murder of Melissa 'Missy' Ward.
Ward's remains were found in a remote area of Lookout Valley in 2004.  Her case went cold until two weeks ago when the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office suddenly reopened it.
Dawn Johnson says she was shocked to learn her sister's 6-year-old murder case was not only reopened, but that detectives interviewed a man she's never heard of before.
"She looked up to me," Johnson says.  "She would say all the time that she wanted to be like me."
The last few weeks have been bittersweet for Johnson.
"I'm excited because hopefully we'll have closure," she says.  "Hopefully they'll catch the person that did this."
Two weeks ago, after receiving new information, detectives searched the area off Cash Canyon Road where Ward's remains were found in 2004.
Johnson says investigators told her in 2004 they were looking for a serial killer.
"They were telling us it could be a serial killer," she says.
The Sheriff's Office won't officially go that far.  Johnson says her sister had a drug problem and one prostitution arrest in Hamilton County, but that shouldn't matter.
"She didn't die because she was a prostitute or a drug addict," Johnson says.  "She died because she was with the wrong person."
After two days of searching the woods again, detectives pulled out.  Sheriff Hammond won't say exactly what someone said that led them back to the original crime scene. 
"There's some sensitive information that we need to keep quiet about for the case," Hammond says.  "We can't comment."
Although the sheriff's office won't officially name a suspect, Channel 3 has learned from multiple sources that Christopher Johnson has been interviewed in connection with the murder.
To Dawn Johnson it's all still an unfolding mystery.  She just wants to know what happened.
"You see on TV people say 'why',"  Johnson says.  "You think, 'that's so crazy', but I want to know why she was targeted."
Johnson says her sister was last seen getting into a red pick-up truck outside a grocery story.
Christopher Johnson appeared in court two weeks ago on his latest charges, he is still in custody.


From the Chattanoogan.com site

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office investigators are looking into new evidence involving the 2004 murder of Melissa Ward. They are also searching for the possiiblity of additional bodies near where that of Ms. Ward was found in the Tennessee River Gorge. On Thursday, prisoners helped clear a wooded area at the search site.
On Dec. 5, 2004, bones were located at 1580 Cash Canyon Road in a wooded area that were later identified through a forensic examination as belonging to Ms. Ward.
The victim had been reported missing by her family to law enforcement on Nov. 2, 2004.

Authorities said, "A ground search is being conducted of the area where Melissa Ward’s remains were located in December 2004. Interviews with persons of interest are being conducted by investigators in an attempt to bring closure to this active homicide investigation."

The body had been found by attorney Bryan Hoss in a remote area off Cash Canyon Road.
A month later, then-Sheriff John Cupp said it was that of 33-year-old Melissa Michelle Ward.
He said Ms. Ward had been arrested in the past on prostitution and drug charges. He said her death may have been related to association with criminals.
Sheriff Cupp said she had been murdered.
Attorney Hoss and his wife were looking at a lot near the Tennessee River that was for sale.

Missing From Chattanooga Tennessee

Name: Nely Velasquez Diaz

 

Date of Birth: June 30th, 2004

 

Age Went Missing: 5

 

Date Went Missing: March 5th, 2010

 

Age Now: 10

 

Gender: Female

 

Race: Hispanic

 

Hair Color: Brown

 

Eye Color: Brown

 

Missing From: Chattanooga, Tennessee

 

 

Details: Nely was abducted by her non-custodial mother. They may be in the company of an adult male and possibly heading to Guatemala, Mexico the picture above was digitally altered to show what she might look like today.

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Tonetta Carlisle

 

Date of Birth: August 23rd 1973

 

Age Went Missing: 15

 

Date Went Missing: March 16th 1986

 

Age Now: 41

 

Gender: Female

 

Race: Black

 

Hair Color: Black

 

Eye Color: Brown

 

Missing From: Chattanooga, Tennessee

 

Details: Tonnetta was last seen walking home from City High School at approximately 2:55 p.m. on March 16, 1989 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was headed to her family's residence in the 600 block of Hamilton Avenue at the time. A witness observed Carlisle's abduction approximately one-half block from Carlisle's home at approximately 3:00 p.m. A woman on Ruth Street near Hamilton Avenue glanced up the hill and watched Carlisle walking down the street. Several unidentified suspects jumped out of a tan and yellow van, forcibly pulled Carlisle inside the vehicle and then drove away. The witness told authorities that she and her husband chased the vehicle and called law enforcement with its license number. Carlisle's mother filed a missing child report with authorities eight hours later when her daughter failed to return home. The two cases were not connected for some time. The license number of the vehicle involved in the abduction was traced back to Jeffrey Jones. Jones had been released from prison for a rape conviction shortly before Carlisle disappeared. He committed suicide and was found deceased inside his van on March 18, 1989, two days after Carlisle was last seen. There has been no trace of her since that time. Tonnetta enjoys pizza and fast food items. She liked rap music and the musical artist Bobby Brown at the time of her 1989 disappearance. Her case remains unsolved. Eyes Brown Hair Black Sex female. Now Foul play has been suspected in this case.




Name: Francis D. Cownover

 

Date of Birth: March 21, 1953

 

Age Went Missing: 34

 

Date Went Missing: November 26, 1987

 

Age Now: 61

 

Gender: Female

 

Race: Caucasian

 

Hair Color: Blonde

 

Eye Color: Hazel

 

Missing From: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Crownover was reported missing by her boyfriend with whom she had been living with in Hamilton County, Tennessee, for one month, on December 4, 1987. He claimed on November 26, 1987, they went to bed together and when he woke up the next morning, she was missing. He also stated he checked with her friends and no one else had seen her either.
She left a note saying she would call, but she never did. Crownover left all her clothes and most of her personal items at Duenas’s house. She had also left her vehicle, but took $200.00.




Name: Paula Michelle Burnette

 

Date of Birth: June 15, 1975

 

Age Went Missing: 21

 

Date Went Missing: September 17, 1996

 

Age Now: 39

 

Gender: Female

 

Race: Caucasian

 

Hair Color: Brown

 

Eye Color: Blue

 

Missing From: Chattanooga, Tennessee

September 21, 1996, Bobby Caudill, Paula's father, reports Paula missing and indicates that she was last seen on September 17, 1996 about 6:00 a.m. October 1996, Paula Burnette's driver's license was found in the 9500 block of Harrison Bay Road, Harrison, Tennessee. Two months after she was last seen, her estranged husband, Donald Ray Burnette, took an Amsouth branch bank manager and her family hostage. After driving them around the countryside all night, he forced the woman to rob her own bank. A month later, Donald Ray Burnette and an accomplice, James Travis White, were arrested. April 1997, Paula Burnette's purse/address book washed into a Chattanooga home's backyard in the Tyner community. July 1997, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, the Hamilton County STARS, and the Volunteer Special Tactics and Rescue Services group, searched the old Savannah Valley Water Plant.

Dark Ghost Journal 1/7/2014

Dark Ghost Journal 1/7/2014

I now have a new cell and I went ahead and got a smart phone one of those androids. I have found that I was silly not to have gotten on sooner as them seem to be a lot more useful to my then the basic flip open cell phone.  I have found a lot of useful apps that are free and I have yet to look at those that cost money to get but I soon will but as for the free ones I have now downloaded. Scanner radio which allows my to listen to the Chattanooga Police Department and the to a source I have in the department I have the codes they use on the radio all he ask was to a meeting of the two of us which after to more privet things have been settled I have promised to keep. Another app I have gotten is the Voice translator. Now what this does is the is I meet someone who does not speak English I just activate this app and select the language I need and then speak in to the phone and the phone then repeats what I said in the selected language. The final app I have downloaded it called Mobile Patrol. Now the Mobile Patrol add is great as it has news feeds, alerts, inmates search, NCMEC link for Tennessee, shows who has warrants on them, shows the Most wanted for the Hamilton county, and let me give a crime tip no matter were I am in the city. Now the phone came with some very useful apps on it also. A camera , a sound recorder, a Flashlight app. and the Google search app that can search by voice command. All these apps have a use on my phone and those that do not I plain on deleting so that I can free up space for when I find more useful apps to make me a more effective crime fighter and detective for the people that call Chattanooga Tennessee home for as long as I give them my best then I have not failed.

Citizen Arrest Laws in Tennessee

In Tennessee, it has been held that a private citizen has the right to arrest when a felony has been committed and he has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it. Reasonable grounds will justify the arrest, whether the facts turn out to be sufficient or not.

Tennessee law sates that a person placed under citizen's arrest may not sue the arresting party if it turns out no felony has been committed


What Are Felony Crimes in Tennessee?



Capital Crime Crimes such as kidnapping, rape, arson or murder are capital crimes. Felons who have committed any of these crimes are likely to get either the death penalty or life imprisonment.


Class A Felony Class A felonies include manslaughter, sexual crimes, drug crimes such as possession of drugs or drug use, or burglary. Criminals who have committed a class A felony will most likely spend no less than 15 years in prison and no more than 60 years in prison.


Class B Felony

Class B felonies are theft of at least $60,000 or more, possession of at least 0.5 grams of cocaine, robbery or burglary. Felons who have committed a class B felony generally spend no less than eight years in prison and no more than 30 years in prison.


Class C Felony Class C felonies include crimes such as fraud, white collar crimes, and drug crimes including the possession of 20 to 99 plants. Felons who have committed a class C felony usually spend no less than three years in prison and no more than 15 years in prison.


Class D Felony Class D felonies in Tennessee include computer tapering, DUIs, aggravated assault or failure to pay child support. Felons who have committed a class D felony are likely to spend no less than two years in prison and no more than 12 years in prison.

Class E Felony

Class E felonies in the state of Tennessee are crimes such as computer fraud or aggravated gambling promotion. Felons who have committed a class E felony are likely to spend no less than one year in prison and no more than six years in prison.


Sentencing for Felonies

Class A - It has a probable sentence of imprisonment of about 15 to 60 years with an extreme fine of $50,000 for most of the offenses as well as $500, 000, 00 for the substance offenses.

Class B - This kind of felony has a probable sentence of imprisonment of about 8 to 30 years with an extreme fine of $25,000 for most of the offenses as well as $100,000 for the substance offenses.

Class C - It has a probable sentence of imprisonment of about 3 to 15 years with a great fine of $10,000 for most of the offenses as well as $100, 000, 00 for the substance offenses.

Class D - Tennessee felonies in the class D has a possible sentence of imprisonment of about 2 to 12 years with an intense fine of $5,000 for most of the offenses as well as $50, 000, 00 for the substance offenses. Class E - Felony charges in this type is charged with probable sentence of imprisonment of about 1 to 6 years with an extreme fine of $3,000 for most of the offenses as well as $5, 000, 00 for the substance offenses.