Endangered Missing: JEFFREY STONE (AL)

[YMC]

JEFFREY STONE, Age Now: 15, Missing: 03/24/2008. Missing From ATTALLA, AL. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Etowah County Sheriff's Office (Alabama) 1-256-549-5404.

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[Mary]

Police say on July 1, the body of Jeffrey Stone was found in a neighbors freezer. Two men have been arrested. Jeffrey had been missing since March 24th. RIP Jeffrey.

http://www.amw.com/missing_children/brief.cfm?id=54436

[EMUJeff]

Prayers for Gods love and comfort for the family in this time. I can't imagine...
EMUJeff

[EMUJeff]

update...

Men charged in slaying

July 3, 2008
Two men charged with murder in the death of Jeffrey Blake Stone had planned for weeks to kill him, Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said.

“They killed him for no other reason than for getting the rush of killing someone,” Entrekin said during a news conference Wednesday.

Nathaniel Wayne Lee, 19, 1176 Littleton Cutoff Road, and Troy Andrew Smiley, 22, 1084 Anna Drive, both near Attalla, were charged with murder Wednesday.

Stone, 15, a student at Sardis High School, often visited at Lee’s home about a quarter-mile from his own.

Stone’s remains were found in a freezer at Lee’s house about 6 p.m. Tuesday, Entrekin said.

Stone had been missing since March 24, a day he was out of school for the Easter holiday. He left his home walking about 12:30 p.m. When he did not return within a couple of hours, his father and stepmother began searching for him.

Within a day, they were passing out fliers and searching all through Etowah County, following any lead they could. They asked Lee to pass out fliers at Gadsden State Community College, where he was enrolled.

Most of those fliers were found in Lee’s house, Entrekin said.

Investigators now believe when Stone left home, he went to Lee’s house — a large brick home on more than 100 acres that Lee inherited after his father’s death a few years ago.

Lee lived there alone, but Smiley often stayed over.

“They hung out together and smoked dope together,” Entrekin said.

Lee and Smiley were there shooting for target practice — something Lee did often, Entrekin said.

“Once they got him over there, they shot him,” Entrekin said.

Entrekin said the investigation shows that Stone did not realize he was about to be shot.

“They had planned this senseless murder for weeks,” he said.

Entrekin said they apparently chose Stone because he was over there often.

Investigators got a tip Tuesday morning that led to a shallow grave on a logging road just off Rocky Hollow Road near Gallant.

There was evidence at the shallow grave that led to a search warrant at Lee’s house.

Entrekin said Stone was killed in the woods behind the house and then initially buried at the area on Rocky Hollow Road, about 12 miles away.

Entrekin said Lee and Smiley apparently went to the grave a couple of weeks ago and moved the remains to the chest-type freezer. The body apparently was wrapped in a tarpaulin and placed in a plastic Rubbermaid box.

“Apparently they thought the body was exposed and they were afraid someone would find the body,” Entrekin said.

District Attorney Jimmie Harp said for now Lee and Smiley are being held without bond on murder charges. The penalty for a murder conviction is 99 years to life, Harp said. A judge could set bond, he said.

A few additional, equally disturbing paragraphs from this article are available here.
Where is our humanity?
http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20080703/NEWS/993349165/1017/NEWS (http://www.gadsdentimes.com/article/20080703/NEWS/993349165/1017/NEWS)