Alicia DeBolt -- Found Deceased 8/24/10 -- Adam Longoria Charged With Capital Murder

So sad, another one to add to the list

14 Year Old Kansas Girl Alicia DeBolt Missing Since Saturday

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:08:05 AM by GD
By Gina Gomez

Kansas, Aug 25, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Alicia DeBolt, a teenage girl of Great Bend has been missing since last Saturday. The police of Great Bend has left no stones unturned to find the missing girl, but she has not returned home yet. Fourteen year old Alicia DeBolt is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 118 pounds, her family says. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has released a missing child poster yesterday seeking information about her.

The friends and family of the girl reports that she was last seen on Saturday, around 11 p.m. Great Bend Police Chief Dean Akings said that five agencies are involved in the search and the investigators have conducted a minimum of 50 interviews since last Sunday. The Police Chief said that he is worried because of the length of the time she has been missing. Holly DeBolt, Alicia DeBolt’s sister in law said that she left her house to go a party in southeast Great Bend with a 19-year-old male friend. Her mother Tammy DeBolt said that Alicia DeBolt told her plans before leaving home. However, after that she did not meet her friend. Great Bend Police Detective David Bailey said that her family filed a missing report on Sunday morning.

The case of the missing girl took an unexpected turn when police found a dead body outside of Great Bend. However, Police says that the body is undefinable so they will perform an autopsy for the identification. Alicia DeBolt’s father said that on Saturday night while leaving home she left her purse so the missing girl did not have anything that would help to identify her. However, the family of the missing girl said that Alicia DeBolt is not a runaway.

More at : http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/14-year-old-kansas-girl-alicia-debolt-missing-since-saturday_100418017.html#ixzz0xr9I6kRa

Police, KBI looking for missing teen

By DALE HOGG
August 23, 2010 @ 5:01pm

Local authorities have enlisted the help of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in locating a teenage Great Bend girl missing since Saturday night.

Alicia DeBolt, 14, was last seen at about 11 p.m. Saturday when she left her house to go to a party in southeast Great Bend with a 19-year-old male friend, said Holly DeBolt, Alicia’s sister-in-law. Alicia had outlined her plans with her mother Tammy DeBolt before leaving their home at 910 Stone.

Shortly after, she failed to meet a friend of hers at a convenience store on east 10th Street, Holly said.

According to Great Bend Police Detective David Bailey, the family reported Alicia missing late Sunday morning. The Great Bend Police Department is following up on several leads, but "we are having some problems locating her."

The case didn’t qualify for an Amber Alert since Alicia willingly got into the vehicle. However, Bailey said the GBPD contacted the KBI which issued a state-wide media alert.

Alicia Danielle DeBolt is five-foot-four, weighs 115 pounds, and has brown hair and blue eyes. She was wearing blue jeans shorts, a white T-shirt with the word "Haters" on it over a teal tank top, and white high-top sneakers with neon colors on the sides.

Monday would have been Alicia’s first day at Great Bend High School as a freshman. She was a cheerleader and missed a GBHS Panther Booster Club dinner Sunday night, an event that was very important to her, Holly said.

Anyone with information is urged to call the GBPD at 620-793-4120, 911, or Crime Stoppers at 620-792-1300 or 888-305-1300.

http://www.gbtribune.com/news.php?id=4246

Man reportedly named person of interest just ID’d in murder of teen cheerleader!

Posted: 12:55 PM ET
August 27, 2010

Update: Breaking News! Just moments ago the man reportedly named a person of interest in the case of murdered cheerleader Alicia DeBolt has been found after a statewide alert was issued. We are awaiting details.

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News is flying fast out of Great Bend, Kansas, as the investigation gears up into who murdered 14-year-old cheerleader Alicia DeBolt. Law enforcement has reportedly just named 36 -year-old Adam Longoria a person of interest in her murder, warning the public of a “danger concerning his behavior.” Just last night, law enforcement served a search warrant on Longoria’s home and reportedly seized a vehicle belonging to his wife.


Alicia DeBolt / Adam Longoria
Hours later police issued a statewide alert for Longoria, saying he stole a vehicle sometime after 2 A.M. from the Venture Corporation, the company that owns the asphalt plant where Alicia’s body was found badly burned. Police describe Longoria as 5’7” 160lbs, with brown hair and brown eyes. He’s believed to be driving a 2002 Ford Explorer with a “Venture Corporation” logo on the doors in red lettering. Police ask anyone with information to call the Kansas Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-KS-CRIME or, if you are in close proximity, dial 911.

Alicia DeBolt Update: Statewide Alert for Man Believed Connected to Murdered Teen

August 27, 2010 12:40 PM
Posted by Kevin Hayes

GREAT BEND, Kan. (CBS/KWCH) The Kansas Highway Patrol says a statewide alert has been issued for a man who they believe has connections to Alicia DeBolt, the Kansas14-year-old whose body was found Tuesday.

Authorities believe 36-year-old Adam Longoria stole a 2002 white Ford Explorer.

The vehicle has Kansas plate number UGJ 366. The word "Venture" is written on both doors in red lettering.

The vehicle was taken from the Venture Company some time Friday morning.

Longoria told CBS affiliate KWCH that he was questioned in the DeBolt case and a search warrant was executed at his home Thursday evening.

DeBolt was found dead in Great Bend days after she went missing. Her body was severely charred.

Anyone with information on her disappearance is urged to contact the Great Bend Police Department at 620-793-4120.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20014911-504083.html

"Person of Interest" in Alicia DeBolt Murder Arrested; Adam Joseph Longoria Found

Posted by Kevin Hayes
August 27, 2010 4:03 PM

GREAT BEND, Kan. (CBS/KWCH) Adam Joseph Longoria was taken into custody Friday morning; he is described as a "person of interest" in the death of Kansas 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

Longoria, also known as "Rocco," was caught by the Kansas Highway Patrol on I-70 near Salina, about 80 miles away from Great Bend, according to CBS affiliate KWCH.

Longoria was allegedly driving a 2002 white Ford Explorer which was reported stolen from Venture Corporation near Great Bend early Friday morning.

Longoria is currently being held in Barton County on a warrant for the stolen vehicle.

DeBolt went missing Saturday, August 21. Her parents said that she left their Great Bend home around 11:00 pm to go to a party, but did not come home at her midnight curfew. Her body was found burned just outside town days later.

Thursday, authorities served a search warrant on Longoria's home. In an interview, he told KWCH that he was taken in for questioning, but allowed to go home once the police search was complete.

A statewide alert was issued for law enforcement to be on the lookout for Longoria Friday morning.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20014951-504083.html

Death of Great Bend teen 'not a random act of violence'

BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
Posted on Thu, Aug. 26, 2010

GREAT BEND - Kansas Attorney General Steve Six confirmed Thursday that the body found Tuesday near Great Bend is that of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

Six said that the body had been burned.

"The case is being treated as a homicide," he said.

So far, the investigation indicates that the death is "not a random act of violence,'' Six said. He wouldn’t elaborate or discuss the cause of death.

Alicia, an incoming freshman at Great Bend High School, left her home about 11 p.m. Saturday with a 19-year-old male friend to attend a party, according to initial reports. She was supposed to return by midnight.

A relative notified authorities about 1 p.m. Sunday that she was missing, Six said.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/08/26/1463748/ag-body-is-great-bend-teen-alicia.html#ixzz0xrDbXHgN

http://www.gbtribune.com/news.php?id=4246

A couple of comments:

Posted by: M Location: Kansas
This 14 year old girl was going to a quinceanera, which is a party for 15 year olds. The 19 year old was a family friend.

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Posted by: carissa Location: Kansas
You say where are the parents, I say at least her daughter told her truth about where she was going and didnt lie. If your curfew is midnight on the weekends like MANY other high school freshmen, you are allowed to leave before midnight but have to be back at midnight. Why are you pointing fingers at the mother, Tammy, who JUST lost her ONLY biological daughter and by the way raised TWO step children successfully through the TEEN years. They used reside in Hays KS where I was friends with their older daughter. Its the NAIVE who cry where was her mom, well at least Alicia didnt have to lie to go out and was truthful and didnt say I am going with so and so to a late movie who knows what would have happened then.

News video, woman who gave Longoria a ride talks to the press.

http://www.kwch.com/videobeta/55093c60-9209-426c-b2be-768b67efc8a9/News/Eyewitness-News-talks-with-Adam-Longoria

O/T Interesting site: http://www.pactcoalitionusa.blogspot.com/

Tragic, Alicia died a horrible death. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family.

He states he only met her once and it was mistakenly rumored the party was to take place at his house. Notice he puts blame on her, saying she had been texting him for rides. He seemed pretty calm in the interview.........crazy. Sounds like they pretty much had him pegged from the get go.

 

Girlfriend saw promise in Longoria

BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
August 29, 2010

GREAT BEND — The world now knows 36-year-old Adam Longoria as a "person of interest" in the killing of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

But a 31-year-old Great Bend woman who was making a life with Longoria at the time of the teen's death says she saw a person with promise when she first became acquainted with him about 11 months ago.

"He seemed like a pretty good guy," the woman said Sunday.

Her assessment of him has changed since Alicia's burned body was found Tuesday, more than two days after she disappeared, at the asphalt plant outside town where Longoria worked hours before the teen disappeared, the woman said.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/08/29/1469361/girlfriend-saw-promise-in-longoria.html

Single parents, you have to start getting smarter! Set your standards higher, if not for yourselves, for your childrens sakes.

Now a days in addition to all the diseases you can catch, you have to make sure the intended isn't a nutjob/criminal to boot.

Thanks J4A for keeping this story updated.

The risks alone make it better to stay single.

This woman and her children sound like they are lucky to be alive.

I agree, Calypso. He is a life long criminal, they don't change. Unable to live a decent, normal life. I'd guess he was in the juvenile system as well starting as a petty thief. Can't stay out of prison. No regard for anyone or anything but himself. How tragic for Alicia and her family that he came into their life and took Alicia's. So very sad.

Judge sets $150K bond for Adam Longoria

11:42 a.m. CDT, August 30, 2010


Adam Longoria outside the Great Bend courthouse

(GREAT BEND, Kan.) — Adam Longoria appeared in a Great Bend courtroom Monday morning. He is charged with charged with one count of Vehicle Burglary and one count of Theft of property worth at least $1,000 but less than $25,000.

Longoria told the judge he understands the charges against him. He told the judge he plans to hire an attorney. Another hearing is scheduled for September 7.

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Before stealing the vehicle, Six says Longoria went to post office and mailed many of his belongings to an address in Texas. “I believe that the defendant is in a desperate state of mind, and therefore, there’s a risk to the community if he’s released," said Six to the court.

And this guy also has a warrant out for his arrest in North Carolina for allegedly calling in threats to an elementary school!

Read more here:
http://www.kwch.com/news/crimewatch/kwch-news-cd-longoria-court,0,7962542.story

Too many women are making "wrong" choices. Very very wrong choices, and too many aren't getting another chance at a new choice. Ladies - choose lonely, choose a book from the library, choose to sit and cuddle with your child, make hot chocolate, some popcorn, and LIVE.

Family And Friends Remember Slain Great Bend Teen
A "celebration of life" service held for a slain 14-year-old girl was attended by family and friends in Great Bend Friday.

Reporter: Deb Farris
September 4, 2010

A "celebration of life" service held for a slain 14-year-old girl was attended by family and friends in Great Bend Friday.

The service for Alicia DeBolt was held at 10 a.m. at the First Assembly of God in Great Bend. The Rev. Kyle Ermoian officiated. A private family inurnment took place after the service.

Alicia's family last saw her late on the night of Aug. 21, when she left home to go to a party. Her burned body was found three days later at an asphalt plant outside Great Bend.

Read more: http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/102140089.html

Great Bend teen Alicia DeBolt remembered as kind and loving

Posted on Sat, Sep. 04, 2010
BY FRED MANN
The Wichita Eagle

GREAT BEND — Alicia DeBolt was remembered Friday as a kind, caring and loving person who saw kindness and beauty in everyone.

About 700 people gathered at the First Assembly of God Church in Great Bend for a memorial service for the 14-year-old.

Alicia also was remembered for her love of clothes and her tendency to speak her mind and operate on her own time.

Rev. Kyle Ermoian, who officiated, called her "willfully persistent."

"She was stubborn as a mule," he said, drawing laughter.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/04/1477805/debolt-remembered-as-kind-and.html

Kansas man charged with murdering burned teen

Updated: Sep 07, 2010 6:30 PM EDT
By BILL DRAPER
Associated Press Writer

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) - A 36-year-old factory worker who spent much of his adult life in prison was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found behind gravel piles at the asphalt plant where he worked.

Adam Joseph Longoria was charged with capital murder, criminal sodomy, vehicular theft and vehicular burglary and in the August death of Alicia DeBolt. He could be sentenced to death if convicted of the murder charge, but prosecutors said they hadn't decided whether to seek such a sentence.

Read more: http://www.newschannel6now.com/global/story.asp?s=13110804

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Longoria had previously been charged with vehicular theft and burglary in connection with the case. In the Barton County Courthouse Tuesday to hear the new charges, Longoria spent nearly the entire hearing standing and leaning on his fists, staring frequently at DeBolt's family. Asked by the judge if he understood the charges, Longoria looked away from the judge and answered, "Yeah."

Wicks declined to comment after the hearing. Longoria's bond was increased to $1.5 million to "ensure public safety," Six said.

Staring at her family during the hearing......he has no remorse at all.