Witness describes bloody motel room
Police search for bedspread along U.S. 54, U.S. 69
BY TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle

EL DORADO - On the same day that police sought the public's help in finding a bedspread involved in the investigation into a missing woman, a restaurant owner disclosed information that might help explain why investigators suspect she was the victim of violence.

The employer of a man police say is a "person of interest" in the disappearance of 18-year-old Emily Sander said Tuesday that he saw what appeared to be "a lot" of blood in the man's El Dorado motel room. The room has become a crime scene in an investigation that stretches into Texas.

Joe Terziu, owner of Bella Casa Italian Restaurant, which sits beside the El Dorado Motel, told The Eagle he saw what looked like blood on a bed and carpet in the room where Israel Mireles had been staying.

El Dorado police say Mireles, 24, is the last person seen with the Butler Community College student before she disappeared after leaving a bar just east of El Dorado on Friday night.

In a prepared statement Tuesday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Rick Kennedy said: "We are asking for the public to pay particular attention to areas east of El Dorado along Highway 54 to Fort Scott, then along Highway 69 to Baxter Springs, for a bedspread matching the one in the photograph." Kennedy showed a photograph of a white bedspread with a maroon-and-blue floral design.

"We are interested in locating a bedspread similar to this," Kennedy said.

Searchers have been looking along U.S. 54 and U.S. 69, Kennedy said. Agencies involved in the search include the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Butler County sheriff's office and the Kansas Highway Patrol, which has been searching by air. Trained citizen volunteers are helping.

At the motel Tuesday, searchers came and went in trucks bearing all-terrain vehicles.

Searchers also have checked along the Walnut River, which flows near the motel, on the east side of El Dorado.

Although Mireles has not been located, Kennedy said, "we are aggressively seeking his whereabouts."

A 2007 Ford Taurus, which had been rented in El Dorado and which authorities thought Mireles was using, was found earlier Tuesday in Vernon, Texas, about 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls.

Detectives and KBI special agents arrived in Vernon on Tuesday night to help Texas Rangers check the car for evidence, Kennedy said.

Kennedy also provided a more recent picture of Mireles, taken about three weeks ago. It shows Mireles wearing earrings and a piercing below his bottom lip.

The motel room

Terziu, Mireles' employer, said he went to the room Saturday after the motel owner told him that it looked like the room where Mireles was staying was damaged.

The motel owner, Isaac Patel, said he saw that a window beside the door had been broken.

Terziu said he went into the room and thought to himself "this place looks scary" after he saw the blood. The telephone wire appeared to be disconnected, possibly cut, he said. He told the motel owner that he should call police.

Police have said they came to investigate after the motel management called about 2:45 p.m. Saturday with a report of a possible altercation.

El Dorado police declined to comment on Terziu's description of the motel room.

Terziu said Mireles had been staying at the motel with his pregnant girlfriend. Terziu thought she was 18, he said. Police say she is 16.

Terziu said Mireles had worked for him previously at restaurants in Hays and Vernon, Texas, and that he had been working at the El Dorado restaurant as a waiter for a couple of months.

Terziu described Mireles as "not reliable" because he often quit his jobs; he said Mireles had quit his waiter job Nov. 21.

A public-records search showed that Mireles lived in Vernon as recently as October 2005. Terziu said Mireles has relatives in Vernon.

Mireles' criminal record in Texas includes misdemeanor convictions for possession of prohibited weapons, hunting from a vehicle and driving while intoxicated.

Authorities have said that they think Mireles was traveling with his girlfriend, who is from Hays. The Eagle is not naming her because she is a minor.

Police said Monday that they were concerned about the girlfriend's welfare as well.

Martin Straub, an assistant principal at Hays High School, said the girlfriend was enrolled as a freshman after moving into the district last year. He said she dropped out earlier this year.

Assistant Hays Police Chief Philip Hartsfield said his department was helping El Dorado police on the case. He said he had no record of his officers ever coming into contact with Mireles.

'Some good, solid clues'

At Tuesday's news conference, Clem Sander, Emily Sander's grandfather, thanked media for coverage of the disappearance.

"We're still hoping for the best, prepared for the worst," he said.

"We're trying to remember her as the last time that we saw her, which was Thanksgiving."

Lots of people have been calling the family to voice support, he said.

He said he was heartened by the idea that authorities have "some good, solid clues," have found the car and have been able to narrow their search to two highways.

'She told me she'd call'

In the motel parking lot Tuesday, one of Sander's friends, 18-year-old Nikki Watson, sat in her car on the verge of tears. Watson voiced her worries.

"Emily just wouldn't leave," she said.

Sander has been "like my daughter's godmother, aunt," Watson said.

She said Sander has been living in apartment complex across the highway from the motel and restaurant -- and only a little over a mile from the bar where she disappeared.

Watson has been calling Sander's cell phone, over and over, to hear her friend's voice.

They last talked around 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

"She told me she'd call me that night, and she never did," Watson said.

Tuesday evening, outside Room 21 -- where Mireles had stayed and where investigators had set up crime-scene tape -- Patel finished installing new glass where the window had been broken.

The investigators were gone.

And the door to Room 21, which had been open for the past two days as investigators walked in and out, was now closed, secured by a shiny padlock.

http://www.kansas.com/news/story/239825.html

Don't get me wrong, but I think that's all there is to tell.
I hope I'm wrong, I really do, but that's kind of the end to the end right there in the description.


:Oh crap

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/1...urce=enews&c=y


If you had any hopes of this girl returning... well...Don't watch the video then

This is very horribly and sad.

damn - doesn't look good at all :Oh crap

Rich here...

ai, sorry to hear that, goodluck

wow...:s thats insane. Hope the best for her...

Posting her real name in this thread...


FUCKING BRILLIANT
:321GFY

I agree taking down her sites is the prudent thing to do and done for what appears to be the right reasons. Against all odds, I hope she turns up ok.

Fox and CNN are all over the porn star thing...
This might get rough I'd suggest having somoene delete this thread before GFY hits the screen of every tv in america.....

x2 random people is going to try and google up the name and they are going to make the connection

I doubt that matters anymore. Besides, someone could find her

Yeah, I'm sure the parents would love to find out their daughter was doing porn after she has passed.

I am pretty sure they know by now.....

I am sure it will be part of the police investigation - they dont miss that sort of detail.

Another one bites the dust...

Far from disappearing there guy. To be honest i don't care what people think this ain't about me or them. Only thing i care about at this point is finding out that Zoey is safe and returned to her family....

Exactly..fuck the "porn comes first" people in here. You did the right thing and should be highly commended .

I am sure if my child went missing the fact that they did porn would be way down my concern list.

damn... I hope they find her alive!

Anyone live near there? Are they searching?

Tampa, peace man, nothing suggested by it at all, just words came out wrong, can't type exactly how I'd say it.


Any plans to go up there and see what's going on?

Put down the crack pipe, step out of Momma's basement, you are a drama king, anyone who would do business with you after you opened your mouth here, is just as bad as you! Stop blowing crap outta your mouth.

Grow up, lil boy!

let's hope that doesn't happen to you! You are pushing porn right?

Fucked up situation... all the hope in the world for her, as well as friends and family...

Tampa, I think you've done everything appropriate in this situation.

Just quoting the witnesses on the scene that saw the blood in the room.
I know she was your friend, that doesn't change it all.
Never like or want to see anyone die, but facts are facts.

Your her friend, you are in Kansas, I know who you are, why are you on GFY?

You should be with her family or helping track her down if you cared so much.

















Unless you already know the truth.

My parents know. All i was trying to say is that i'm sure no one here wants the fact that she did porn to hamper the search in any way. Most places find out a girl has been into that and suddenly no one cares any more, as sad as that is. Hoepfully she is alive, then none of it would matter but if not i would sooner let the parents keep their vision of their sweet innocent daughter than the secrets she might of been keeping from them.

Maybe it was blood from a miscarriage? That's my only hopeful thought.

My personal feeling is this.... If she is still alive, and the porn connection gets significantly more eyeballs on the story, then thank god for the porn connection.

Fingers crossed!!!

The 16 year old was several months pregnant so maybe that is it.

Lets hope!

Jennings please stop posting now you don't know shit and you throwing the wrong facts around. Lexilexx does not live in Kansas and she does not know Zoey at all....

Girl "a" goes to motel.
Girl "a" goes into motel.
Window is smashed out of motel.
Witness says "It looked like a cow was butchered in there"
Police say "The evidence is consistent with a very violent meeting"
Guy and Girl b leave motel.
Girl "a" car is still parked 4 days later at bar.
Guy and girl b car are found 50 miles away.
Guy and Girl b missing.

Girl a is missing.



Misscarriage?

LexiLexxx
Registered User


Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kansas
Posts: 1,764

not to mention her website whois?
Kansas.


RagingBucks.com?

http://ragingbucks.com/

Location?


Witchita Kansas.

Should we keep going?.

o'rly?

Seriously innapropriate to be having some sort of drama here.....

Get over it.

Dude im not gonna waste my time going back in forth with you. Lexi has not liven in Kansas for almost 2 years now. Now please im asking you kindly now to step back for a moment and quit posting things you have no clue about....

That?s bad news :(
I hope she?s OK
I hope she return safe.

Something happens to me 2 months ago.
A French guy (I don?t know that guy) closes to my home find me on my website and starts to email me like 6 to 10 time a day.
He was nice at the beginning and after few times chatting with him on email, he became very weird and I was very afraid.
I was afraid to he come to my home or following me every where I was going.
I stop chatting with him on email.
This take 3 weeks for the guy stop to email me, and stop to send me some fucking weird email.
I was scare because on my 2257 it was my address.
The guy was able to come at my home.
Now, I move out from that home and I leave somewhere is not able to know.
I feel better, but I was very scary.
You never know how people are.
I learn with that.

Like Tampa said, you don't know anything..

Lexi USED to live in Kansas... not for 2 years now...

Lexi and Zoey have never met...

You need to improve on your detective skills....

did that guy refer to himself as "French Punk Rocker" ?????

this is very sad, shes a very pretty young girl who got mixed up with some bad people


ill hope for the best :(

what a very sad situation. :( my heart goes out to her friends and family.

No ??????

Tampa, you did the right thing. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

Now, let's all just hope that this story has a (relatively) happy ending.

Pretty sure does not equal "yes, I know for a fact they are aware".
... and thanks to some imbeciles here at GFY, there's that much better a chance they will know now.

Sad story, and leave it to some idiots here to try and make it worse.
:(

WTF!!??? this should be checked out same guy but different girl and abuse :mad:

http://inbetween.typepad.com/munichm...uel-loser.html

That is interesting - sounds like this guy have been inside a long time ago...

i agree, hopefully we'll hear something soon

That's very sad indeed.. Keep us posted man, I hope she's safe...

That is Sick......

It's just fucking terrible......
My toughts with the familly....

Some of you guys aren't that sharp.

When the police go to her apartment I am sure they will find evidence of what she does for a living, or her friends will disclose the information to them. It will leak to the media, etc.. Which I read it already has. All of this is inevitable. The next logical step is that the media would find her site and linking to it and a lot of people would start going to it out of curiosity. At least now when they get to that step (if they haven't already) the site wont be online.

it is one thing to know your daughter was in porn, its another to view her website and see it first hand... to have her entire family be exposed to the website. Seeing it is 100x worse than just knowing it. Sure she has pictures floating around the net still but you cant really link to that like you can to her site.

you are not too bright are you. WTF do you think he can travel 1/2 way across the country and find out. " Hi Police, I was the webmaster on her porn site, can you tell me something that you haven't released to the media. ":upsidedow

True, I guess i wasn't thinking of that. I just think its a horrible last memory to have of your child. I don't get your knowing/seeing reasoning though. I don't see why her family would be forced to view her site?? Just knowing and wondering what the hell my daughter had gotten mixed up in would be bad enough. Taking down the site is a good idea, for sure but still tons of shit out there.