ALINA FITZPATRICK - 17 yo - Oklahoma City OK

Police have identified a body found last week in far northeast Oklahoma City as that of a 17-year-old Oklahoma City girl.

The body of Alina Fitzpatrick was found Nov. 9 in a rural area at 4506 Overbrook Road, near NE 43 and Anderson. Cause of death has not been determined.
Police
said investigators don't know whether her death was a homicide and are
waiting for cause of death from the medical examiner's office. They are
still investigating the case.
Fitzpatrick attended Putnam City North High School until recently and was taking classes from home after being bullied at school, her parents, Mark and Elena Fitzpatrick, said.
The Fitzpatricks could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Mark Fitzpatrick spoke to The Oklahoman
on Monday afternoon when their daughter was still considered a missing
person. He said they were holding out hope she would be found safe.
Tuesday afternoon, Mark Fitzpatrick posted a message on a Facebook
page dedicated to finding his daughter saying they had been informed of
her death by police but do not have more details because the case is
still under investigation.
“May the Lord bless her and hold her,”
Mark Fitzpatrick said. “May His light shine through and cleanse her
soul. May she forever watch over her family and be our guardian angel.
Thank you everyone for your love, thoughts, prayers, and kindness. You
have all supported us in ways we never could imagine, and even in this
time of loss we feel great hope.”
Alina went missing Nov. 4 after
she was dropped off by a friend at an apartment complex near NW 24 and
Western. She stopped answering her cellphone, which went straight to
voice mail. Her parents said she had never gone missing for more than a
few hours before then.
In another Facebook message posted Monday, Mark Fitzpatrick talked about how difficult it is to deal with a missing child.
“I
hope that no parent ever has to go through this, especially not alone,”
he said. “I hope to find a way to channel everything I have learned
through this experience into something positive so I can share with
everyone how to survive this ordeal and assure every parent that has a
missing child that people care, that people love them, and they will
survive.”


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OKLAHOMA CITY -
Three teenage girls, all found dead within the last month.

Tuesday, police identified the body found nude near an abandoned home in Northeast Oklahoma City last Wednesday.

Seventeen-year-old Alina Fitzpatrick had been
missing since November 4. Many News 9 viewers have emailed us asking if
the cases are related. Police said no, but criminologist Howard Kurtz
said there may be a link.

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"Oklahoma as far as teen homicides in the country,
we are kind of in the top ten for that. When they examine teenage
homicides, what they discover is a lot of them are gang-related, and we
are seeing a growth of gangs in Oklahoma. A lot of them are alcohol and
drug related," Kurtz said.



The girls' deaths are bizarre. Dismembered, shot
in the face, and nude in a field. According to Kurtz, they are possibly
drug-related and someone was trying to send a message.

"They'll get a person that's been arrested and
they turn them. You're not dealing with people that gave you the drugs
at the party, you're dealing with serious criminals. Girls tend to get
emotionally attached to guys they shouldn't be attached to. It gets back
to the idea of the bad guy," Kurtz said.

Who the bad guys are remains a mystery in all
three of these cases. At this point, the medical examiner hasn't
determined the cause of death of Fitzpatrick.

Police have not determined whether it was a homicide. No arrests have been made in the Saunders' or Bransby's cases.

If you have any information that could help police with Alina's case, call the tip line at (405)-297-1200.

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