Police: Missing Wash. girl's body found

TACOMA, Wash. - A Thai immigrant convicted of incest led investigators to the body of a 12-year-old girl who had been missing since the Fourth of July, and is expected to be charged in her death, authorities said Friday.

Police are also trying to determine whether Terapon Adhahn, 42, is connected to other missing child cases that date back to 1986.

Zina Linnik, abducted during a neighborhood fireworks display, died from "homicidal violence," said Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum and the Pierce County medical examiner's office. Her body was found in a rural wooded area after information from Adhahn's lawyer led police and FBI agents there, authorities said.

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:grr:

but it's going to be pretty hard for me to work up any sympathy for this animal. How could someone kill a child for his or her own sick pleasure?

...but this is the sort of thing that makes my position really hard to defend.

I live about halfway between Seattle and Tacoma. We had Amber Alerts being displayed on Walgreen's electronic sign boards by the next day. The word out was to watch for an "older gray van" with either 677 or 667 in the license plate. Last Friday (I think it was), I was driving to pick up paisley from the bus stop and, as I turned out of our housing development onto the main road, I found I was some distance behind an older gray van. I literally drove about ten miles over the speed limit on a small rural road (prone to speed traps) to get close enough to read the plate. Sadly, it was nothing close, but, for a few moments, I was hoping I might be the one to help rescue that poor kid. :-(

I think if we had more people like you who cared enough to go an extra mile or two, we would have fewer of these tragedies.

the Amber alert until more than 12 hours after the kidnapping, even though state policy calls for it to happen within 4 hours -- because most stranger kidnappings do end up in a murder within just a few hours.

According to the accounts, the family contacted the police right away.

I was so hoping that little girl would be found alive. RIP Zina. :cry:

Don't think you have to worry about the death penalty, these disgusting animals usually meet their end in the violent prison system.

so hoping she would be found alive.

They are looking at the suspect for murders and disappearances of other little girls. Sick goddamn fucker!

I don't support the death penalty, but it's hard not to want something horrid to happen to this guy. And, it probably will, if he's convicted and sent to prison. Child molesters/murderers are the lowest of the low, even among the prison population.

RIP, Zina, and condolences to her family. :cry:

I hate this sh*. Poor girl...

I'm not in favor of capital punishment, but cases like this really try my belief system.

But as I said in my post above, I think that if this creature is convicted, his life in prison will probably be short.