HOW TO MAKE UP EVIDENCE / The Vincent Doan Dog & Pony show #6

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Have you ever wondered why they could not find the body of missing and murdered Battered woman Carrie Culberson's When they went digging for her under the pole barn in May of 2004?
---- This video will tell you why they did not find Carrie then.
Update Aug. 6th 2010
Appeals court: Lawsuit over mess made in hunt for body can continue.
Sheriff's deputies didn't find what they were looking for 6 years ago when they dug a huge hole in Jeanette Spangler's barn. But they did make a big mess trying to find it.
The damage included a demolished concrete floor, a water-filled hole that was 15 feet deep, a ruined septic system and piles of dirt that smothered vehicles and equipment around her Perry Township property.

"It was like a war zone," said Spangler's lawyer, John Scaccia. "It was like they were fighting al-Qaeda out there."
Spangler, who demanded compensation in a 2006 lawsuit, won a federal appeals court decision Friday that allows her case against the sheriffs of Brown and Clermont counties to go forward.

The decision by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati could leave Clermont County Sheriff A.J. "Tim" Rodenberg and Brown County Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in repairs if Spangler wins her case.
Rodenberg, Wenninger and their lawyers could not be reached Friday, but they previously have said they did nothing wrong and made every effort to minimize damage to Spangler's property.
The dispute arose in early 2004 when Clermont County deputies received a tip that the remains of Carrie Culberson, the Blanchester woman who vanished more than a decade ago, might be located near or under the barn on Spangler's property.
Culberson's boyfriend, Vincent Doan, was convicted in 1997 of killing her, but her body was never found despite searches at several locations over the years. Authorities have said the tip about Spangler's barn came from a reliable source.
Spangler's son, Jerrod Messer, lived on the property until he went to prison on unrelated drug charges in 2003.

"Law enforcement had a reasonable belief ... that Ms. Culberson's body may be buried under the concrete floor of the garage," the sheriffs' lawyers wrote in a recent court brief.

FBI agents assisted in the search and deputies from Brown County joined them because the barn is located in that county.

When dogs trained to find cadavers "hit" on a number of spots around the barn, the investigators scoured the property and tore up the barn's concrete floor looking for body parts or other evidence.

The hole in the floor, which soon filled with rainwater, eventually consumed most of the barn's space and was up to 15 feet deep. Dirt and concrete were piled outside the barn, at times on top of equipment and vehicles that Spangler had stored on the property.

No evidence linking Culberson to the site was found, and the search was called off after more than a week of digging.

Scaccia said the sheriffs made no attempt to repair the damage they'd done, telling the 58-year-old Spangler they were under no obligation to do so.

"I was devastated," Spangler said Friday. "I didn't think that law enforcement could come out to somebody's place and do something like that. It's horrible."

Scaccia said the search was based on a bad tip about Culberson and that investigators compounded the problem by continuing to destroy the property even after it became clear there was no point in pursuing the search. He said the tons of dirt dumped on cars and equipment could have been put elsewhere on the two-acre property without damaging anything.

The bottom line, he said, is that Spangler did nothing wrong but was left with a big mess and tens of thousands of dollars in damage.

"Let's concede they had a probable cause to look," Scaccia said. "That doesn't mean you act like this. That doesn't mean you go forward in a way that is unreasonable.

"It's not the way we're supposed to be operating in the United States of America."

The panel of three 6th Circuit judges did not rule on Spangler's claims, but they agreed the sheriffs should remain in the case and could be held liable for damages.

"The property was left in complete disarray," wrote Judge Damon Keith, who was joined by judges R. Guy Cole and Julia Smith Gibbons in the decision. "The totality of the circumstances did not warrant the knowing destruction of plaintiff's personal property."

For more info on this case please see my other Carrie Culberson videos.


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  • I just watched this episode on my DVR, but of course, it cut off at the very end. I was just wondering, A) Did they ever find her body? I guess not, since I couldn't find it online anywhere. and B) At the end, the narrator mentioned that her family sued the city for their part in the coverup? I guess that's what was inferred anyway. I was just wondering what if any damages did they receive? My thoughts go out to her family, and I truly hope that one day they're able to lay her to rest properly.

  • Tedious watch but very interesting. Good luck finding her.

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