AJA DANIELLE JOHNSON - 7 yo (2010) - Geronimo/Davenport OK

Thanks for moving this Tom. I saw last night on the news they had called it, but I just couldn't bring myself to move this thread.

An FBI spokesman says the agency's offer to
help search for a missing 7-year-old girl was turned down by the
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
But an OSBI official says an FBI agent was involved in the
search for Aja Johnson and her suspected abductor - Lester Hobbs.
The bodies of the two were found Monday near Lake Thunderbird in
east Norman - about two months after they had disappeared.
FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said Thursday the agency offered its
Child Abduction Response Team but the offer was declined.
OSBI agent-in-charge Richard Goss says an FBI agent did work
with the OSBI at the command post in the early days of the
investigation. Goss says the agent told state authorities they were
doing everything that's on a checklist the abduction team uses.

EDMOND — Lester William Hobbs left only a violent legacy, including the killing of 7-year-old Aja Johnson, and a note for the world to read when he killed himself in a wooded area east of Norman.

J.J. Johnson said Wednesday he learned of the note’s contents from investigators, adding that it only revealed the true character of his daughter’s killer.

"Lester went on in the note ... blaming all these people for his problems — Tonya, myself, his parents,” said Johnson, Aja’s father. "He named off all these people. Everyone but himself. What a coward.”

Now Johnson is left to bury his daughter.


Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100401_11_0_EMNetr462136

Remembering Aja Johnson
Posted: Apr 03, 2010 6:51 AM Updated: Apr 03, 2010 11:28 AM
Video Gallery
Remembering Aja Johnson
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http://www.newschannel6now.com/Global/story.asp?S=12248357

Aja Johnson will be laid to rest at Resthaven Memory Gardens in Oklahoma City.
Her funeral service is set for Wednesday April 7th.

While Aja Johnson's family comes to peace with her death the Oklahoma State Bureau Of Investigation is coming under fire.

An FBI spokesman says the agency's offer to help search for a missing 7-year-old girl was turned down by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

But an OSBI official says an FBI agent was involved in the search for Aja Johnson and her suspected abductor - Lester Hobbs.

The bodies of the two were found Monday near Lake Thunderbird in east Norman - about two months after they had disappeared.

FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said Thursday the agency offered its Child Abduction Response Team but the offer was declined.

OSBI agent-in-charge Richard Goss says an FBI agent did work with the OSBI at the command post in the early days of the investigation. Goss says the agent told state authorities they were doing everything that's on a checklist the abduction team uses.

She's going to be with my grandma, my grandpa, and my dad at Resthaven. It's a beautiful place, as far as cemeteries go...I think I may go and lay flowers from all of us...

Tom, your prayer is wonderful...thank you...

Precious child, know that you are loved and mourned by many. May you find peace in God's arms.

Thank you, OKGran. Services are at 1:30.

http://www.newson6.com/Global/category.asp?C=121535&clipId=4684143&autostart=true

The service. :( I'll post the preliminary ME's report tomorrow. It's too disgusting and awful to post today.

From Cindy Adams at Examiner.com

Aja Johnson update: Autopsy reveals little girl died a ‘violent’
death

This week, a partial autopsy report was released regarding 7-year-old Aja
Johnson, indicating the little girl died a violent death.

To see photos regarding Aja’s case, click
here, and here.

Aja's lifeless body was found last week with the body of Lester Hobbs,
her stepfather. She had been missing for over two months and authorities
surmise Hobbs abducted Aja after murdering her mother, Tonya Hobbs.
Later, he killed the child and then himself.

To
see a video report regarding discovery of the bodies, click here.


For the full report: http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2010m4d7-Aja-Johnson-update-Autopsy-reveals-little-girl-died-a-violent-death

A 7-year-old girl who was found dead in Oklahoma near the body of her
suspected kidnapper likely died after having her throat cut, an
independent pathologist said Wednesday, the same day the child's funeral
attracted hundreds of mourners.
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office released autopsy reports for
Aja Johnson and her stepfather and alleged abductor, Lester Hobbs, after
an open records request by The Associated Press. Their bodies were
discovered last week, more than two months after both disappeared and
Johnson's mother was found dead in Hobbs' mobile home.
The reports list the cause and manner of death as "pending," but Dr.
William Manion, a forensic pathologist and deputy medical examiner in
New Jersey, said Aja's autopsy report indicates she was likely cut
repeatedly in her neck. He said the report for Hobbs showed no
potentially lethal injuries such as a gunshot wound. Toxicology tests
haven't been released.
The state Medical Examiner's office declined to comment on details of
the reports, but agency spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said the advanced
decomposition would make it challenging to pinpoint when the two died.

The bodies of Aja and Hobbs were found last week in a rural part of
Norman, along with the missing car that belonged to the girl's mother,
Tonya Hobbs. She was found dead Jan. 24 inside Lester Hobbs' motor home
in Geronimo, about 100 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
Lester Hobbs' body was found inside the car while the girl's body was
nearby, authorities have said.
Ballard confirmed Wednesday that ligatures, which could have been
used to tie up the girl, were found in the car. A chief medical
examiner's investigator told The Oklahoman newspaper that a kitchen
knife was found in the vehicle, but a Norman police spokeswoman wouldn't
confirm the information.
The warrant used to search the vehicle hasn't been publicly released.
A funeral held for Aja on Wednesday attracted an overflow crowd of
almost 400 people near Oklahoma City. Her father, J.J. Johnson, said the
family was grateful that his daughter's body was found.
"My heart goes out to all these people who never find their loved
ones who are kidnapped and taken," Johnson said. "I mean, the
two months that I went through, I cannot imagine (what those) people
have gone through for months or years at a time."
Johnson also said he was satisfied with the work of the Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation, which has received some criticism for its
handling of the search. He said he believed the agency did everything
it could.

http://www.kfor.com/media/acrobat/2010-04/53130677.pdf

WARNING. GRAPHIC CONTENT.

so terribly sad.