Melissa Jenkins

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Social Media Overflows With Prayers For Melissa Jenkins


Kristen O'Hare opened Facebook on Monday to find her news feed filled with postings about Melissa Jenkins. "I didn't know her personally," O'Hare said on Tuesday. "But every friend that I have from St. Johnsbury had this posted."

O'Hare, who is a 2002 graduate of St. Johnsbury Academy and now lives in Nashville, Tenn., wanted to contribute in some way so she did what she knows: creating a community through social media. "I felt the need to do something and that was the best I could do, knowing the power of social media. It really is the best way to get information out there."

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Melissa Jenkins Missing: Body Found During Search For Vermont School Teacher (UPDATED)

UPDATE: 9:10 p.m. -- Authorities in Vermont believe they have found the body of Melissa Jenkins, a missing school teacher whose SUV was found abandoned along the side of a road with her 2-year-old child alone inside.

While checking remote pull-offs in the greater St. Johnsbury area, Vermont State Police located a suspicious area off of Comerford Dam Road in the Town of Barnet. Upon further investigation, detectives located a body determined to be that of a young adult female. Authorities have not elaborated further on the discovery.

The body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington, where an autopsy is scheduled to be performed on Tuesday. According to Vermont State Police Major Ed Ledo, the body is believed to be that of Jenkins. Ledo said a positive identification will not be made until the autopsy is performed.



www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26/melissa-jenkins-missing-vermont-teacher_n_1380504.html

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Community mourns St. Johnsbury teacher after discovery of woman's body

ST. JOHNSBURY — Police expect an autopsy Tuesday will confirm that a body found Monday afternoon in the Northeast Kingdom is that of Melissa Jenkins, a popular teacher and waitress whom detectives say was abducted from her SUV in front of her 2-year-old son.

Half an hour after police announced they had recovered the body off a remote road in Barnet, some 200 people converged on The Creamery Restaurant in Danville for an evening vigil. Jenkins, 33, waited tables at the restaurant part-time for 12 years while working full-time as a science teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy.



www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120326/NEWS07/120326001/melissa-jenkins-st-johnsbury?nclick_check=1

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St. Johnsbury — During the morning of March 28, the Vermont State Police released a statement during a press conference with Major Ed Ledo, Criminal Division commander of the Vermont State Police, regarding a significant development in the investigation into the death of Melissa Jenkins.

#Detectives with the Vermont State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, St. Johnsbury Fire Department, Hardwick Police Department, Caledonia County Sheriff's Department, St. Johnsbury Academy, and the Vermont Army National Guard, conducted an aggressive investigation into the death of Melissa Jenkins. Following investigative leads, evidence collected from the crime scenes, and information obtained through interviews, the Vermont State Police made two arrests earlier this morning.

#Vermont State Police arrested Allen Prue, age 30, and Patricia Prue, age 33; both of Waterford, Vermont, for second degree murder and improper disposal of a body. Additional charges may be forth coming as this investigation continues to unfold, as coordinated with the Caledonia County State's Attorney's Office.


www.newmarketpressvt.com/news/2012/mar/28/two-arrests-murder-melissa-jenkins/

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Charges upgraded against alleged killers of Melissa Jenkins



ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. -
One of the suspects accused in the murder of popular St. Johnsbury teacher Melissa Jenkins allegedly confessed to her cellmates, and forensic evidence indicates the murder was premeditated. Now prosecutors have upped the charges to first-degree murder.

A ripped up note, torn into 101 pieces found by a prison guard tells the story. Inmates say the note was written by Patricia Prue herself, as they pieced it together phrases like "why we did it," "blonde hair," and "sexually attracted" came together. It's just one piece of evidence that gave prosecutors what they were looking for and could keep Patricia and Allen Prue behind bars for the rest of their lives.

www.wcax.com/story/18858788/charges-upgraded-against-alleged-killers-of-melissa-jenkins