Thread: Two Illegal Aliens Held in Slaying of Prom Queen 21 yr old

Our families continue to pay the price for the ILLEGAL "cheap labor" to benefit the Elitist Special Interest Groups!!

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20081 ... /810010315

Jennifer L. Hampton


Published: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

Jennifer Lee Hampton, age 21, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., passed away suddenly Sept. 27, 2008. Jennifer was a member of Bethel Grove Baptist Church. She was a 2007 graduate of Waterloo High School, where she was homecoming queen and voted Most Dependable by her classmates.

Jennifer loved children and the elderly. Her great-grandfather, Owen C. Balentine, maternal grandmother, Mary Lou Crowden, and paternal grandfather, Glenn Peeden, preceded her in death.

Jennifer is survived by her mother, Cynthia Senn; stepfather, Tim Senn; sister, Chrissy Behel (husband, Troy); twin sister, Michelle Hampton (fiance, Robbie Guyton); sister, Jessica Peeden; sister, Amanda May (husband, Chris); great-grandmother, Lenola Balentine; nieces, Katelyn and Brooke Behel; nephew, Cameron Peeden; special uncle, Scotty Balentine; special longtime friend, Nicky Duncan; several cousins, aunts and uncles, many friends and co-workers.

The family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, at Morrison Funeral Home, Central Heights, at 12081 Highway 20 in Florence, with a memorial service to follow at 7 p.m. Private graveside services and interment will be at Tri-Cities Memorial Gardens.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Jennifer Hampton Fund at Suntrust Bank.

Morrison Funeral Home is serving the Hampton family.

"I'm afraid, though, it might hurt the plight of the immigrants in our community."

Defense attorney Joseph Fanduzz, of Knoxville, said calls to seek revenge on the entire Knoxville area Latino community are not an accurate representation of the relationships between the immigrants and other residents.

They continue to refer to the ILLEGALS as "immigrants"! ILLEGALS are in the United States because they broke "our" LAWS!

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20081 ... /810150328

Hampton death puts spotlight on town

By Dennis Sherer
Staff Writer


Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 10:39 p.m.
Dean Elliott is a frequent visitor at the Waffle House on Lovell Road near Interstate 40 in Knoxville. He was sipping on his fourth cup of coffee as he started talking about the homicide that remains the talk of the town.


Dennis Sherer/TimesDaily Knoxville, Tenn., television reporters interview defense attorney Joseph Fanduzz about the court case for the death of Jennifer Lee Hampton."Me and a friend were talking just the other night about what we would do if that had been our daughter," Elliott said.

"We couldn't imagine how tough this must be on her family. Everybody I've talked to feels real bad this happened here in Knoxville."

Just across I-40 from the Waffle House, Jennifer Lee Hampton, a former Waterloo homecoming queen, was sexually assaulted and killed while staying at the Days Inn on Sept. 20.

Hampton, 21, was in town with coworkers to help train the new staff of a Mama Blues restaurant that was in the process of opening nearby.

The horror experienced by Hampton and her family is still fresh on the minds of Elliott and most other locals who reside in Tennessee's third-largest city. In fact, it's hard to find someone who has not heard of the case.

For some Knoxville residents, it has brought embarrassment because their hometown has been linked to such a brutal attack.

It has also triggered the best and, in the minds of some, the worst of Knoxville.

Hampton's surviving family has been overwhelmed with the generosity of Knoxville residents, many of whom have donated money and offered other forms of assistance to help the family continue to function during the ordeal.

At the same time, the fact that the man accused of killing Hampton is an illegal immigrant has spawned a not-so-positive debate in some circles, including the forum pages of the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

An employee and resident of the Days Inn where Hampton was killed, Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 19, has been charged with first-degree murder. Miranda is accused of sexually assaulting and strangling her. Police also say he dumped her body in a nearby lake, where Hampton's nude body was found by a fisherman Sept. 27, seven days after her death.

Miranda has been held in jail since the morning of Hampton's death because he provided police with a bogus Social Security card and other false documentation. They kept him jailed while the search for Hampton continued.

Miranda, through his attorney, maintains he is innocent.

'Knoxville is a good town'
From the parking lot of the Waffle House where Elliott was drinking coffee, the bright yellow sunburst Days Inn sign is visible.

Knoxville police have said Miranda used his master key for the motel to open the door to Hampton's room, where he reportedly attacked her.

There are no longer visible signs that a homicide occurred at the west Knoxville motel, which is about two blocks east of I-40. The yellow crime tape that secured Room 146, where Hampton was staying that night, has been removed.

Several tractor-trailers were parked out front on a recent night. Cars, minivans and SUVs dot the parking lot around the multi-level building.

Everything appeared normal, but locals know better.

Elliott said everywhere he goes in Knoxville, people are talking about the case and the young victim who was saving money to attend college and pursue a career in nursing.

"Something like this is unusual for Knoxville," Elliott said. "We have crime here like any other city this size, but to have a woman killed in her hotel room and thrown in a lake is out of the ordinary for us. Knoxville is a good town; it's a safe town and crimes like this one don't happen around here very often."

Donna Simerly, who lives less than a mile from the motel where Hampton was staying, said the west Knoxville community is outraged over Hampton's death.

"We feel violated as a community and for Jennifer," she said. "Who expects to go to sleep minding your own business in what we consider the safest side of Knoxville and never wake up again, or for the last thing you see in this life to be the face of pure evil. My heart aches that he was the last person she ever saw."

Forensic evidence presented at a preliminary hearing last week in Knox County General Sessions Court showed that the last minutes of Hampton's life were brutal. A forensic expert said she was strangled, beaten and raped.

Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk said the circumstances of Hampton's death have kept the town buzzing. "Everywhere around here you go, people are talking about this case."

DeBusk said it's unusual for so many people to still be discussing a homicide with such intensity almost a month after it occurred.

Illegal status fuels debate
Elliott agrees that the fact Miranda is in the country illegally has fueled the conversation.

"We have way too many illegals living around here. They really need to do something about it," Elliott said. "Most everybody I've talked to thinks something needs to be done about the illegals."

The 2000 Census reported that 2,751 Hispanic residents lived in the city of 183,000 residents. DeBusk said the Latino population in Knox and surrounding counties has grown significantly in recent years.

He said it remains unclear how many are legal residents of the United States.

DeBusk said Miranda is the first illegal immigrant in Knoxville to be charged with a homicide involving a non-Latino person.

Some of the regulars on Web site forums in the Knoxville area used much harsher words for any illegal immigrants who might be in Knoxville, with some comments clearly racist in nature. Some have called for the government to round up all the illegal immigrants and deport them to the countries they came from. Some forum users have called for Miranda to be sentenced to death and even suggested how the sentence should be carried out. The posts say little or nothing about waiting on the result of his trial.

The death penalty is an option for a first-degree murder conviction in Tennessee, but prosecutors have not decided if they will pursue it against Miranda. They said that decision likely won't be made until early 2009.

Elliott doesn't mince words when asked what the punishment should be for Miranda, if he is convicted.

"He needs to be executed," he said without hesitation. "I'm a strong supporter of capital punishment.

"If that was my daughter who he did that to, I would want him hurt."

Elliott said his advocacy of the death penalty for Miranda is not because Miranda is in the United States illegally.

"I don't care if he's brown, white, black, yellow, red or whatever," he said. "If you murder someone and are convicted, you should get the death sentence."

Lourdes Garza, director of the Knoxville diocese of the Catholic Church, Office of Hispanic Ministry, said she has not viewed any of the Internet forums calling for Miranda to be executed or for illegal immigrants to be deported.

"Normally, when there is a major issue involving the Hispanic community, I receive lots of calls and e-mails. That has not been the case with this unfortunate incident," she said. "I think most people realize it is an isolated incident and is not a true reflection of our community.

"I'm afraid, though, it might hurt the plight of the immigrants in our community."

Defense attorney Joseph Fanduzz, of Knoxville, said calls to seek revenge on the entire Knoxville area Latino community are not an accurate representation of the relationships between the immigrants and other residents.

"I don't think everyone in our community shares those views that have been posted on some of the Internet forums," Fanduzz said.

Reaching out to the family
While many Knoxville residents are calling for the death penalty for Miranda, others are opening up their hearts and wallets for Hampton's family.

Members of Cokesbury United Methodist Church in Knoxville have donated more than $12,000 to help with funeral expenses and to help Hampton's family travel to and from Knoxville for Miranda's court appearances.

The Rev. Steve Sallee, senior minster at the church, said he met Hampton's family after Knoxville attorney Eddie Daniel, who attends the church, asked him to assist Hampton's family.

Daniel has been representing Hampton's family since the early stages of the search.

"Mr. Daniel asked me to be with the family to comfort them in their time of need," Sallee said. "As I talked to the family, I realized they might need some help with the funeral and (other expenses)."

Sallee said donations began pouring in the next morning when he shared the plight of Hampton's family with church members. A special collection was taken at each of the four Sunday services at the church. Numerous Knoxville residents have sent more than $3,000 to the church, and an account has been opened at a Knoxville bank to collect donations. Other churches and individuals have offered to feed and lodge the Hampton family when they return to Knoxville for court proceedings.

"Knoxville is a warm and generous community, and everyone wants the Hampton family to know that," Sallee said. "They want the family to know we are sorry this incident happened. We know there is no way we can feel the pain they are going through, but we do want them to know they are not alone."

Daniel said Knoxville residents are among the most generous in the country.

"This is a very warm and caring community," he said. "When the Hampton family hurts, we hurt as a community. Our hearts go out to Jennifer's family in their time of need."

Simerly said Knoxville residents have a history of helping others.

"That's just the way we are here; it's a loving town," she said.

Many Alabama residents have also donated money to help the Hampton family.

Simerly said many Knoxville residents continue to keep the Hampton family in their thoughts.

"I pray for this family every single day," she said. "I wish there was more we could do than just donate money and pray. I wish we could reverse time and send this evil person back where he belongs and that Jennifer would be home, ready for nursing school."

Dennis Sherer can be reached at 740-5746 or dennis.sherer@TimesDaily.com.

Lourdes Garza, director of the Knoxville diocese of the Catholic Church, Office of Hispanic Ministry, said she has not viewed any of the Internet forums calling for Miranda to be executed or for illegal immigrants to be deported.

"Normally, when there is a major issue involving the Hispanic community, I receive lots of calls and e-mails. That has not been the case with this unfortunate incident," she said. "I think most people realize it is an isolated incident and is not a true reflection of our community.

Here is the information for this traitor.
Lourdes Garza, director

Blanca Primm, administrative assistant

805 Northshore Dr., S.W.
Knoxville, TN 37919

Office: 865-637-4769
Fax: 865-584-7538

lourdes@dioceseof
knoxville.org

bprimm@dioceseof
knoxville.org

I will definitely complain

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Should Knoxville now be considered a SANCTUARY city just as Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are SANCTUARY cities!

$100M lawsuit filed in Jennifer Lee Hampton's death
News Sentinel staff
Originally published 10:05 a.m., December 3, 2008
Updated 10:33 a.m., December 3, 2008

A $100 million lawsuit has been filed against a Knoxville hotel whose employee is accused of killing an Alabama homecoming queen when she was in town to open a new restaurant, saying the hotel lied about a previous attack on a female guest.

The suit against the Days Inn at Lovell Road alleges that the hotel hired illegal immigrants and gave them master keys to guests' rooms.

Illegal immigrant Valentino Vasquez Miranda, 19, is accused of using a master key to enter the room of Jennifer Lee Hampton, 21. Hampton's body was found in the Melton Hill Lake a week after she was reported missing in September.

"They'd pay this $100 million to Days Inn if they could just have their daughter back," attorney C. Edward Daniel said today on behalf of Hampton's family.

"We plan to pursue this lawsuit vigorously."

The lawsuit calls the practice of providing master keys to illegal immigrants "reckless, outrageous and grossly negligent" and states that an attack five months earlier provided ample reason to restrict distribution of the master keys.

In April 2008, "a male" whom the lawsuit identifies only as one of the hotels "agents, servants or employees" entered a "female patron's room using a key in the early morning hours and assaulted and attempted to rape" her.

The suit alleges that a hotel manager "falsely told police officers ... that no one other than herself and the tenants who rented the room had a key to the female patron's room." The suit states that the hotel failed to secure its master keys after the April incident.

Assistant District Attorney General Phil Morton has alleged that after using a master key card to get inside Hampton's room, Miranda beat her with such force that he broke her tooth, and then raped her, strangled her to death and then dumped her body in the lake.

The hotel's provision of "master keys to its employees for unlimited use and without any measures for patron safety, which includes, but is not limited to, providing said keys to illegal immigrants without any background investigations, (was) a direct and proximate cause of the burglary into Jennifer Hampton's room and the brutal assault, torture, rape, sodomy, murder, and disposal of her body," the lawsuit states.

The suit calls the Hampton incident "reasonably foreseeable" based on the April incident "and upon industry standards in regard to the supervision or lack thereof concerning handling of master keys without any background investigation."

The suit was filed this morning in Knox County Circuit Court by Hampton's parents, Cynthia Senn and Michael Peeden, against Turkey Creek Hospitality Inc., Days Inn/Lovell Road, Days Inn Worldwide Inc., Wyndham Worldwide Operations Inc. and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts LLC.

It seeks $25 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages.

Miranda was arrested after his girlfriend, with whom he lived at the hotel, reported his suspicious actions the night Hampton went missing, and said he had blood on his clothes.

Morton has stated in court that DNA testing linked semen stains on Hampton's pants to Miranda and bloodstains on his clothing to Hampton. Scrapings of skin found under her fingernails also were linked by DNA testing to Miranda, he said.

"This defendant is connected to Jennifer Hampton's death through his own DNA, through his own semen, through her blood on his clothing," Morton argued.

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When our Law Enforcement at all levels refuse to enforce laws citizens only legal recourse is via civil courts. ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS are the magnet for the ILLEGALS and sadly the only thing the C of C and the Elitist Special Interest Groups understand is their BOTTOM LINE!

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http://www.alipac.us/article-3790--0-0.html

THIS IS ANOTHER HORRIBLE CRIME THAT WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF OUR BORDERS WERE SECURE AND LAWMAKERS DEPORTED ILLEGAL ALIENS LIKE THE LAW SPECIFIES.

I hope that this family stands their ground and does vigorously persue this case. If they can extract $100 million from the company then these traitors will have a chance to contemplate whether the cheap illegal labor was worth that kind of liability. Take 'em to the cleaners but good.