Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Mom Charged In Kidnapping Of Two Daughters 31 Years Ago

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Two girls who were snatched from their Rhode Island home more than 30 years ago have been located some 1,800 miles away, police announced Tuesday. Their mother, who did not have custody of them, was arrested.

In a press conference, Rhode Island State Police and the Attorney General’s Office said they received an anonymous tip a few days before Christmas that led investigators to Houston, Texas where they found Elaine Yates, who allegedly abducted her two daughters Kelly and Kimberly in August 1985.

Lt. Col. Joseph Philbin said Yates, 69, had been living in Houston under the name Leina Waldberg.

She was taken into custody on Monday around 12:30 p.m. at her home in Houston and arraigned as a fugitive from justice, WPRI reported.

According to Philbin, Yates and her daughters – Kelly was 10 months old and Kimberly was three and a half at the time – disappeared from their home in Warwick, Rhode Island on August 26, 1985. The next day Yates’ husband, Russell Yates, filed a missing person’s report with the police.

Philbin said investigators at the time determined the mother-of-two was seeking a divorce from her husband. He added that Russel Yates had obtained a court order giving him custody of the missing children on Nov. 18, 1985 and had taken the complaint to state police.

Kelly, now 32, and Kimberly, now 35, were not living with their mother at the time of the arrest in Houston. They were also living under an alias.

Philbin would not reveal their current identities nor other specifics about the case, but said both women were surprised by their mother’s arrest.

The elder Yates waived extradition and is on her way back to Rhode Island, where she will be arraigned sometime Wednesday, Philbin said. Investigators used drivers’ license photos and Facebook to help crack the case.

Philbin said the two women were given their father’s contact information. Police said their father has been informed and is “relieved,” KHOU reported.


11 comments:

  1. Probably fleeing an abusive husband. Women are always treated like shit.

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  2. The Washington Post has more info. The husband hit her and she fled with the kids. Probably wasn't the first time that he struck her. The courts jailed the woman's mother for a few days for refusing to say where her daughter and granddaughters were. The husband was an abusive piece of shit.

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  3. Barbara RiceHand10:27 PM

    That was my first thought, that he prob beat the shit out of her. I will have to wait til more info comes out. I wonder if they will form a relationship w the dad.

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  4. Barbara RiceHand10:28 PM

    @s. Thanks for the extra info.

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  5. Count Jerkula10:35 PM

    Crazy broads....pussy so good, life so hard.

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  6. Shorny11:13 PM

    Ha ha ewwww

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  7. Ah-mazing11:27 PM

    Interesting story but does not belong in a celebrity gossip site. Why post it here? I saw this on Yahoo yesterday.

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  8. GoTrollUrSelf12:00 AM

    A mother who lives with her husband & children who then leaves with her children is not "abducting" them in my opinion. There needs to be a separate word.

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  9. SnarkIsFun3:24 AM

    Mom & kids took off in August. He didn't get an order giving him custody until November . . . which means that when she left with the girls, it was completely legal.

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  10. Jesus. Enty posts some true-life shit every day on this site, okay? Every. Single. Day. Feel free to skip over it if you don't like it.

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  11. parkdove4:19 PM

    I like reading about these stories.

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