KEMAURY & KEVIN McARTHUR - 3 and 4 yo - Madison WI

MADISON, Wis. -- Madison police said
they considered issuing an Amber Alert for two missing boys who were
later found dead but had reasons for not doing so.The children,
brothers ages 3 and 4, were found dead Wednesday morning in a car parked
on Kinsman Boulevard in a business parking lot.Investigators said they are
treating the case as a double homicide.Police
said charges may not be filed against the suspect in the boys' death,
David J. Hoem, 28, until next week.



In the meantime police are
explaining why they didn't issue an Amber Alert on Monday evening for
the missing boys.Hoem is the boyfriend of the boys' mother. He turned himself in
to law enforcement early Wednesday morning.Hoem remains in custody on a
parole violation charge. Police said he is the only suspect in the case.Despite
the case starting with a domestic dispute report, police said they did
not issue an Amber Alert for the boys because they were not abducted,
and there was no specific threat against the children."It was not
clear that there was a possible issue related to the children until
much later in the day, and I think that in and of itself, from a
timeline standpoint, made this situation turn from one thing to
another," said Howard Payne, spokesman for the Madison Police
Department.Police said Hoem and the boys' 22-year-old mother were
involved in a domestic dispute Monday. The incident involved a knife at
the Moorland Road apartment that the mother and boyfriend shared,
police said.The mother reported the domestic incident to Madison
police Tuesday afternoon, and around that same time, Hoem picked up the
boys from their 25-year-old father's Lake Point Drive apartment. Hoem
apparently indicated to the father that he would take the children to
the East Side of Madison to meet with the mother's family members and to
go shoe shopping, police said."It was not uncommon for this
boyfriend to facilitate custody exchanges between the mother and the
father of these two children," said Capt. Joe Balles, of the Madison
Police Department.Police said the boys' mother then contacted police
again to report the children missing."At
5:47 p.m. (Tuesday), the mother recontacts the Madison Police
Department and reports the children as missing and now likely in the
custody of this boyfriend, who she had the domestic violence incident
the day before," Balles said.Police said they were tracking
Hoem's cellphone during the situation as well, and while they did
consider issuing an Amber Alert, they decided not to. Police said that,
in hindsight, they don't believe they should have reacted differently.Hoem
turned himself into police around 1 a.m. Wednesday. Because the
children weren't with Hoem, police began a search for a gray Volvo,
which Hoem was thought to be driving earlier. An officer spotted the
vehicle early Wednesday and found the boys dead inside.Police
working on the investigation met Thursday morning and said it could be
next week before charges are referred to the district attorney's office.Police
said they are also trying to determine exact location of where the boys
were killed, they and believe more information may come from the
medical examiner's office to provide clues to that end.
The victims' names and causes of death will likely be released Friday.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/28480281/detail.html

Brothers, 3 and 4, Found Dead in Car in Wisconsin

Published July 07, 2011 | Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. – The dead bodies of 3- and 4-year-old Wisconsin brothers were found in a parked car early Wednesday morning and the boyfriend of the children's mother was arrested, Madison police said.

The children's names have not been released and a cause of death has not been determined pending autopsies, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain. He said investigators are treating the case as a double homicide and the boyfriend is their primary suspect.

Police said the boys' 22-year-old mother arrived at police headquarters Tuesday afternoon and reported she had an altercation involving a knife a day earlier with her 28-year-old boyfriend at their apartment. Police didn't offer any further details.

The Associated Press is not identifying the boyfriend because he has not yet been formally charged. Police have not named the mother.

Several hours later, the woman returned to the couple's apartment and contacted the boys' biological father. The father told the woman that her boyfriend had picked the children up from his apartment. The boyfriend told him he was going to take the boys to meet with the mother's family and go shopping for shoes.

About 45 minutes later, the mother called police again and reported the children were missing and they were with her boyfriend. Police checked various addresses and tracked the boyfriend's movements through his cell phone, Police Capt. Joe Balles said.

Around 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, the boyfriend called police and told them he was in a vehicle with a woman who had convinced him to turn himself in.

A few minutes later he pulled into a police station parking lot and was arrested on a parole violation stemming from the alleged domestic dispute, Balles said. He didn't offer any details about the other woman.

The children weren't in the car and the search for them continued. Balles declined to comment on what, if anything, the man told officers after he was arrested.

Shortly before 3 a.m., an officer discovered a gray Volvo that police believed the boyfriend had been driving earlier in the day parked in front of a medical testing lab on Madison's east side. The officer discovered the children's bodies in the car.

Balles said the lab apparently has no connection to the case and he didn't know who owned the Volvo.

Chief Noble Wray said surveillance cameras in the parking lot show the vehicle was parked there around 7 p.m. Tuesday evening.

Online court records show the boyfriend has a lengthy criminal record.

He was convicted of felony battery by a prisoner in 2002, fleeing an officer and disorderly conduct in 2003, 2nd-degree recklessly endangering safety in 2004 and false imprisonment in 2006. In that case, he accused his girlfriend of cheating on him and held her in her basement with a pellet gun.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/07/brothers-3-and-4-found-dead-in-car-in-wisconsin/#ixzz1S19WfbmM

Why do women continue to put their children at risk?

It's not just a tiny mistake in judgment when babies and children die because of the piss poor choices mothers make.

The children's names are Kemaury McArthur, 3, and Kevin McArthur, 4.

http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?47496-David-J.-Hoem-Charged-With-Killing-His-Girlfriends-3-and-4-Year-old-Boys

The mother of two boys who were found dead last week in a car on
Madison’s North Side told police that the man arrested after the
boys’ deaths had put a gun to her head on three occasions in May or
June this year, according to a search warrant filed Monday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Police and the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office have not
said specifically what caused the deaths of Kemaury McArthur, 3,
and Kevin McArthur III, 4, calling it only “homicidal violence.”
Among the stated objectives of the search warrant was to look
for a firearm or ammunition inside a 1994 Volvo registered to David
J. Hoem, 28, of Madison. Madison Police Capt. Joe Balles said that
investigators were looking for a gun related to the overall
situation surrounding the incident but that a gun did not cause the boys’ deaths.
Balles said he is hopeful that criminal charges will be filed in the case this week.
According to the search warrant, the boys’ mother, Denise C.
McGee, told police that she had kept a black and silver
.380-caliber pistol hidden inside a white speaker box in her living
room, but the search warrant states that it was gone when police went to look for it.
Hoem, who was McGee’s boyfriend, had picked up the boys from the
home of their father, Kevin McArthur Jr., on July 5 to take them shopping.
But after Hoem failed to bring the boys to her apartment, McGee
reported to police that she believed her children had been
kidnapped, the search warrant states, beginning a search for the boys.
Police said last week that McGee contacted police to report a
fight she had with Hoem on Monday at their Moorland Road apartment.
She and family members were in contact with Hoem to try to persuade
him to return the boys, police have said, and investigators later
tracked Hoem’s cellphone to try to locate him.
Kemaury and Kevin were found about 2:30 a.m. in the Volvo, which
was parked in the rear parking lot of Covance Laboratory, 3402
Kinsman Blvd. Hoem had surrendered to police almost two hours earlier.
Inside the car, according to the search warrant, investigators
found children’s clothing, toy cars, a purple stuffed toy, an
unopened bag of corn chips and other items, but no gun or ammunition.
Hoem is under Department of Corrections supervision for earlier
criminal convictions. He remains in the Dane County Jail.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_c6c47dfc-ac07-11e0-b4ae-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1SEDtWPnl

Thank you plaidlined.

July 28, 2011

"MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a man Wednesday with killing his girlfriend's two young sons and leaving their bodies in the backseat of his parked car.

Investigators believe David Hoem, 28, suffocated 4-year-old Kevin McArthur and 3-year-old Kemaury McArthur on July 5 and fled to Milwaukee with another woman that night as police searched for him. He eventually returned to Madison and turned himself in.

He faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the boys' deaths. He also faces one count of false imprisonment and a count of strangulation stemming from a fight with the boys' mother, in which authorities say he put her in a chokehold for about 30 seconds to a minute.

Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer entered a not guilty plea on Hoem's behalf Wednesday and set cash bond for him at more than $2 million. Hoem's attorney, public defender Tracey Lencioni, didn't immediately respond to a message left at her office.

According to a criminal complaint, Hoem's girlfriend, Denise McGee, reported to police on July 5 that she had spent the Fourth of July fighting with Hoem at the apartment they shared in Madison.

McGee told police she tried to flee the apartment but Hoem dragged her back inside in a chokehold. The two struggled over a knife and at one point McGee held her down and threatened to kill her with a hammer if the police showed up, the complaint said. An officer responding to a neighbor's report of a scream did knock, but left after getting no response and Hoem allowed McGee to clean herself up.

The couple then went out to eat and returned to the apartment to sleep. The next day, McGee gathered up all her belongings while Hoem was at work and left.

Later that day, after she had reported the fight, McGee told authorities her children were missing. Police learned Hoem had picked up the boys from their father's home, promising to take them shopping and to meet their mother.

Hoem, meanwhile, had given the children to Amanda Padley, a woman he knew. Later that evening, authorities said, he asked Padley to deliver the children to him at a Madison drugstore. Hoem put the boys in his gray Volvo and drove off.

Surveillance cameras show the Volvo pulling into a medical research lab's parking lot about twenty minutes later. A half-hour went by before the cameras picked up Hoem exiting the vehicle and walking away, according to the complaint.

Padley picked Hoem up about two blocks from the lab. She noticed the children weren't with him. He said the kids were with another woman named Lisa and had Padley drive him to his sister's house in Milwaukee. He removed the batteries from their cell phones, saying he was afraid police were tracking him.

His sister refused to let him stay at her house. Around 11 p.m., Padley and Hoem stopped at a gas station in suburban Milwaukee. While Hoem sat in the car Padley told the clerk the man she was with had kidnapped some kids and gave the clerk a description of her car and license plate number.

They began to drive to Rockford, Ill., and Hoem ultimately decided to give himself up. The complaint doesn't indicate what motivated him. Police have said Padley talked him into it, but the complaint said she told investigators she never thought the children were in danger.

During the trip back to Madison, McGee called Hoem, demanding to know where her children were. Hoem refused to tell her. He surrendered at a Madison police station but wouldn't say where the children were. Around 1 a.m. on July 6, an officer spotted the Volvo at the medical lab, its back seat full of clothes.

Shining his flashlight through the windows, he realized what he first took to be a black hat was human hair. The officer smashed the windows and found the boys' bodies under clothing and a backpack. Autopsies later showed they had died of compressional asphyxiation, which essentially means a weight or other force compressed their bodies until they suffocated.

After the bodies were found, investigators demanded Hoem say what had happened in the car. Hoem, who already had confessed to abusing McGee, said Daniel from the Bible appeared in the car, authorities said. Daniel gave the boys a big hug and they went to sleep, smiling, Hoem said, according to the complaint.

Later, though, he told investigators he and McGee had hoped to have a child of their own and he was helping her by taking the children. Asked if he meant he was supposed to kill them, he responded "yes."

Online court records show Hoem was convicted of felony battery by a prisoner in 2002, fleeing an officer and disorderly conduct in 2003, second-degree recklessly endangering safety in 2004 and false imprisonment in 2006 stemming from holding his girlfriend at the time in her basement with a pellet gun.

He's due back in court on Aug. 9 for a preliminary hearing."

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/126283798.html

This is so incredibly sad. I especially am bothered because my sons were 3 & 4 when their father (my husband) left and I can so vividly picture them at that age - and then the joy they have brought me through the past 28 years - and that was taken from her. And there is so much that isn't discussed; why didn't she warn the boys' father, why not an endangered bolo, if they could track the boyfriend why not just triangulate and get him. And imo police should not just knock on a door if screams were heard - I mean come on, do they think a killer with his knife raised is going to stop and answer the door? This woman co-operated with the guy that night out of fear because as soon as he left for work she cleared out and went to police...but then is that where she went back to? Don't understand a lot of what and why in this story, but the obvious is - mothers need to raise and protect their children without partying, affairs and bringing criminals into their lives.

The mother of two boys who were found dead last week in a car on
Madison’s North Side told police that the man arrested after the
boys’ deaths had put a gun to her head on three occasions in May or
June this year, according to a search warrant filed Monday in Dane County Circuit Court.

This mother had amble warning that this man was evil and violent. She deliberately put her children in harms way.

Why was the name of the accused deleted?