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Update- Houston Area Abduction of Susana de Jesus

by harringtola | March 11, 2009 at 06:17 am

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Update to my previous story on the subject of the abduction of this young woman after work in Pearland Texas.

Susana de Jesus Missing Persons Flyer

A person has been arrested who admits that he was the mysterious man in two surveillance photes by an ATM machine and a fast food drive through window. However he says that he is not the person who killed Susana. He has indicated that there were four other men involved. The investigation does not support that position however. Police suspect that Mr. Jean was the kidnapper and was acting alone.

The news comes hours after police arrested Nocholas-Michael Edwin Jean, 21. He is charged him with attempted
murder, burglary of habitation, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and theft of a firearm. All of these charges are related to an attempted carjacking incident that happened on Monday. Police found Jean hiding in a shed late Monday night.

Authorities say he may also be involved in the de Jesus kidnapping that happened in February.

Jean told police where to look for de Jesus' body, according to 11 News sources. Hours later, a woman's badly decomposed body was found near Reliant Park.

"Early Tuesday morning, the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Department notified the family of Susana de Jesus that they may have located her body," Precinct 6 Constable Danny Perez said in a written statement.

The body was discovered early Tuesday inside an abandoned semi-trailer parked in the 9000 block of Knight Road near West Bellfort.

It is still not confirmed if the body is indeed de Jesus.

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Fred Miller

at 16:39 on March 12th, 2009

Thanks for the story that is now coming to an end. This is close to my neighborhood and the shopping plaza she visited is a big draw since it is fairly new and huge.

The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed the identity of the badly decomposed body, which was recovered early Tuesday from a truck trailer at an office park southeast of Reliant Park.

"Security cameras that twice photographed De Jesus’ car the night and morning after the abduction did not show whether she was still in it. A masked man was photographed an hour after the kidnapping at a bank’s ATM at 3636 Old Spanish Trail in Houston.

Minutes before the car was photographed at the ATM, De Jesus made two cell phone calls. One was to her sister, advising her that she would be home late. A more cryptic call was to a family friend asking if her car’s OnStar device could find her even if she didn’t pay for the system’s subscription."

~ excerpt from The Chron.com.

Link http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6303881.html