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Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 8:48am »

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Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
Childrens' identities and parents unknown
Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 7:39 AM EDT (1139 GMT)

MAITLAND, Florida (AP) -- The body of a young girl was pulled from a murky pond in an office park Sunday and a small boy was found clinging to life a few feet away, police said.

No one has reported the children missing, and police said it is unclear how they came to be in the pond.

Police believe the girl is 1 or 2 years old; the boy is thought to be about 5. They were found by a fisherman.

"One of the things that concerns us the most is why haven't the parents come forward and said, 'Hey, we're missing our child,"' Maitland Deputy Police Chief Gary Calhoun told The Orlando Sentinel.

An autopsy will be performed on the girl Monday. Police have classified the girl's death as suspicious.

The boy is hospitalized in critical condition, officials said.

The office park in Maitland, about six miles from Orlando, is miles from any residential areas.

Divers searched the pond on Sunday and will resume Monday.

The boy managed to tell investigators that his name is Randall, but police do not expect to be able to interview the child for several days, said Wayne Ivey of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

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Re: Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« Reply #1 on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 10:09am »

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My God! This is horrible!

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Re: Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« Reply #2 on: Sep 16^th, 2003, 10:43am »

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Missing kids mystery ends in dad's death
Police conducting murder-suicide investigation, chief says
Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 10:53 PM EDT (0253 GMT)

(CNN) -- A father suspected of drowning his 2-year-old daughter and attempting to drown his 4-year-old son drove his vehicle into a tractor-trailer on a Florida interstate Monday, killing himself and severely injuring his two other children, Florida police said.

The father, Bryan Christopher Randall, left behind a hand-written suicide note in the front seat of his sport utility vehicle.

"Dearest family and friends, 'Why?' must be the question on your minds, the following are the reasons, I made too many mistakes, I would not allow those beautiful children to grow up in the manner in which you had raised them, I didn't get the latest job...," Lake Mary Police Chief Richard Beary read from the letter at a news conference.

Beary said the note also instructed authorities who should be notified in the case of the father's death, and indicated that he wanted his and the children's remains cremated and the ashes mixed together.

Maitland Police Chief Gary Calhoun told CNN's Anderson Cooper the father "didn't want anyone else raising his children if he wasn't going to be doing it."

Beary referred to the case as a murder-suicide, saying it "looks like it was a planned event." Randall pulled his 2000 Dodge Durango right into the path of a barreling tractor trailer, which was carrying cars, on Interstate 4 in Lake Mary, near Orlando.

The children's mother, Lisa Randall, 41, told authorities she left the four children with their father Friday and he was to return them Sunday. The mother and father had been married 10 years but were getting a divorce.

The accident occurred around 11 a.m. Monday, just as police were about to issue an Amber Alert for Randall's vehicle.

"It's just a terrible tragedy. You have a family that's been destroyed and the children, they're going to be devastated. This defies explanation. You can't rationalize this," Beary said.

The three surviving children remained hospitalized Monday, two of them in critical condition.

The entire ordeal has puzzled investigators.

"That's what we're working on all together. That mom left four children with their father Friday night. Now, two have been found in one place and the other two in his car," said Maitland police spokeswoman Jonni Shardine

The case began Sunday morning in the Orlando suburb of Maitland when a fisherman recovered a boy from an office park pond. The boy was alive and whispered to rescuers that his name was Randall.

Authorities then put out an alert through the news media Sunday night, including the surviving little boy's photograph because he had not yet been identified.

The boy was identified as 4-year-old Regal Randall. He was wearing red shorts and a yellow-and-blue pullover shirt. He was in critical condition at a hospital, according to police.

Police later found the body of Regal's 2-year-old sister, Yana, who was wearing a one-piece jumper.

Contacted by relatives responding to a police alert, Lisa Randall identified her children Monday morning at the Maitland Police Department.

She told police she left Regal and Yana and the two older children -- 6-year-old Julian and 8-year-old Bryan -- with their father Friday night at an unidentified location. She told police all four children were to be returned Sunday night at 8 p.m.

Police said Bryan was in critical condition and Julian was in stable condition. Their father was taken to another hospital, where he died, they said.

CNN correspondent Susan Candiotti in Miami contributed to this report.

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« Reply #3 on: Sep 16^th, 2003, 10:47am »

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What the hell is the matter with people? Angry

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Re: Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« Reply #4 on: Sep 16^th, 2003, 6:05pm »

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Bi-polar, depression...and whatever else must have been wrong with that man. Something I don't get is that the ex-wife to-be never sensed something was seriously wrong with him?

Those poor babies!! Such suffering to the little innocent children. He HAD to be a sick s-o-b to have murdered and harmed his children.

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« Reply #5 on: Sep 16^th, 2003, 9:43pm »

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Sometimes it's not your choice. I have a friend with a very abusive ex-husband who managed to have a good enough lawyer to get joint custody. She had no legal right to stop him from seeing her children without any kind of supervision. None. If she had refused she could be arrested, and the children would be then given over to him by a police officer, until she got back out. It took two separate incidents when he "spanked" the children and left bruises and her going back to court each time, before a judge finally said he would have to have supervised visitations. This is on top of the felony battery charges he had for beating the crap outta her. It may be that she recognized exactly how unstable he was...that's why she left him, but she had no legal choice but to allow him visitations with his children. It's a sad reality in this nation.

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« Reply #6 on: Sep 20^th, 2003, 9:24pm »

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on Sep 16^th, 2003, 9:43pm, Rhune wrote:

It's a sad reality in this nation.

:cry: It's so sad and so wrong. Why do the judges let these things happen? Though while I realize that sometimes when there's spousal abuse - there's no abuse towards children - I wonder how often this situation isn't addressed?.....until the children are murdered by their own father.

I'm so sorry for the people in these situations - who no one will listen to when they're being beaten and tortured.

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Re: Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« Reply #7 on: Sep 21^st, 2003, 1:32am »

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When the spouse is gone, and the husband is the same, who does the judge suppose will be there for the husband to take his rage out on? That's nice that he never hit the children before, but he never had to, the wife was there to kick around...now she's not...

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Re: Girl found dead in pond, boy rescued
« Reply #8 on: Sep 21^st, 2003, 3:25pm »

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Ths story is just heart wrenching. Our court system is ruled by liberal judges who think almost everything is OK. They give in and give custody when they just don't know the sustance of cases. This wife had to know something.
Maybe he was distressed over loosing his job and not being able to find another. Perhaps she could be the bad one here. Who knows?
Too many times folks don't recognize stress problems with men for they are supposed to be brave and take care of the family.
Whatever the cause here, this is just too sad.

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