I agree with you that people are sick when they do something like this. But I can tell you first hand that Melinda was never out after dark alone. She was walking a dog for a neighbor like she done everyday in the day time. When she didn’t return home by dark her mother and my son the mother’s finacee called the police. They came out and treated this like a run away, but Melinda wouldn’t do that. She was too scared of the dark and wouldn’t leave her mother, her brother, or my son. My son tried to check the other rooms, but he was stopped by the owners and the police. The police wouldn’t check the rooms either. This is a sad thing, but te way I look at it if the police were doing their job in the first place they might have found her body sooner, especially since the man was already in custody for another crime and they knew he was staying at the same motel. As for your information the family was just staying there till their condo was getting ready. Aperson who cares, Debby Patterson!

You know people are horrible. You don’t trust anyone and even more so with your precious children. I never let my kids out alone after dark. And even more so in a motel room. Why was that child out and alone anyway? and why did they not miss her soon enough to bang on every door in that place to find her? I’d not stopped. Every door would have been beaten down. Not 1 hour or 3 hours, but within a few minutes. I feel sorry for the parents, but they are saying that grown ups are to protect the kids. Well, they know as well as anyone else, there if a preditor on every corner.