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Nov 07,2009



Regina McDaniel

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Investigators are asking for help in locating a woman who has been listed as missing since Wednesday.

Regina McDaniel, 20, is a student at Kaplan Career Institute studying pharmacy tech. Her mother says Regina went missing Tuesday and a missing persons report was filed with police the following day.

Regina drives a silver 2004 Mercury Sable, license plate BPR 457.

Her mom says Regina has never gone missing before, and does not typically go out for more than a couple of hours on a school night.

If you have any information, call Detroit Police (313) 224-1500

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MOTHER: Please Help Find My Daughter

Nov 10,2009

DETROIT (WXYZ) - A mother continues her painful vigil as she waits for news on her missing daughter, who went out on a date last week and never returned home to her young son.

Regina McDaniel says she can't stop crying and cannot stop worrying about her 20-year-old daughter, whose name is also Regina. The young mom of 2-year-old Kimoni has been missing now for a full week.

Young Regina, who goes to school by day and is studying to be a pharmacy technician, went out last Tuesday night in her mom's silver Mercury. She said she would be back in about two hours, but by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, she still had not returned. So the elder Regina, with her grandson in tow, went to the police.

Investigators have talked to young Regina's friends, but no one has had a phone call or text message, nothing since last tuesday

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Car Missing Mom was Driving Found Burned
Last Update: 11/11/2009

DETROIT (WXYZ) - There is a major development in the case of a missing mom who disappeared a week ago after going out on a date. Police found the car that the young woman was driving, but it was completely burned up.

The silver Mercury Sable was tracked to a neighborhood on the city's east side and was taken to an impound.

Police searched the burned up vehicle for evidence. No body was found.

Regina McDaniel says she fears something terrible has happened to her 20-year-old daughter, who is also named Regina McDaniel. She says her daughter would never leave her 2-year-old son Kimoni.

Young Regina, who goes to school by day and is studying to be a pharmacy technician, went out last Tuesday night in her mom's silver Mercury.

She said she would be back in about two hours, but by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, she still had not returned. So the elder Regina, with her grandson in tow, went to the police.

Investigators have talked to young Regina's friends, but no one has had a phone call or text message, nothing since last Tuesday.

If you have any information, call Detroit Police (313) 224-1500.

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Missing Mom's Vehicle Found Charred
Mom Left Home Last Tuesday, Said She Would Be Back In 2 Hours
POSTED: November 11, 2009


DETROIT -- Police are one step closer to solving the mystery of a missing 20-year-old mother from Detroit.

Regina McDaniel has been missing for more than a week, but on Wednesday, the car she was last seen in was found charred at a southwest Detroit scrap yard.

Regina McDaniel's mother, also named Regina McDaniel, told police that her daughter borrowed her 2004 silver Mercury last Tuesday to go out with some friends. The elder Regina McDaniel said that before her daughter left their home on the 200 block of Merton Road at about 10 p.m., she told her she would be back in a few hours. She has not been seen or heard from since.

The elder Regina McDaniel said she is distraught and she believes something terrible happened to her daughter because she would never leave her 2-year-old son for that long.

"Never, ever has she ever disappeared without calling us or calling the baby so he could hear her voice," said a distraught Regina McDaniel about her daughter.

GPS tracking inside of the Mercury located it at Boulevard and Trumball towing located at Dix Road and Central Avenue.

The owner said the car was dropped off Tuesday afternoon, but he would not allow Regina McDaniel's family to see it because police needed to examine the vehicle for evidence first.

"I have been praying for her. For whatever ordeals she has come across, to just survive it. Just survive it baby and come home to your mama," said the elder Regina McDaniel.

Investigators said they talked to younger Regina's friends, but they all say they have not received a phone call or a text message from her since last Tuesday.

The younger Regina McDaniel is black, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 135 and has brown eyes and straight long brown hair.

She was last seen wearing a pink jacket, blue jeans, and leopard print boots.

Her family described her as being in good mental and physical health.

The worried mother said she just can't stop crying and her grandson keeps calling for his mommy.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Detroit Police Department at (313) 224-1500.

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3 Women Missing; 1 Found Dead
Police Say Missing Women Are Not Related

Friday, November 13, 2009

Video-Search for missing Mom

DETROIT -- Police said the disappearance of three women in the past week and the gruesome discovery of a woman's body inside of a Dumpster on Detroit's west side are not related.

However, there are still many questions that remain unanswered.

"We have to go piece by piece in the investigation," said Detroit Deputy Police Chief James Tolbert.

An unidentified woman's body was found Tuesday inside of a burning Dumpster in an alley.

She was identified as a white woman in her 40s.

Shanita Brown, 28, of Detroit went missing Monday. A woman, who did not want her identity revealed on camera told Local 4 that she was out with Brown and two other men Monday at Club Celebrity at Plymouth and Mark Twain streets.

Brown's friend said she met one of the men at Lou's Deli in Southfield, where she worked as a cashier.

The friend said the other guy Brown had met for the first time that night.

“The guy she was talking to seemed nice. I saw him a couple times at our work place. He seemed nice, the other one he seemed crazy,” the friend said

After the bar, the friend was dropped off at home at about 2 a.m.

Brown, a recent Wayne State graduate, and the two men drove away.

None of them have been seen since.

In the meantime, members of Brown's family are worried.

“She didn’t show up for work, she didn’t call off, she hasn’t been to her house. This is not like her. I just want her home with us,” Brown’s sister, Salina, said.

Brown was a passenger in a vehicle that is described as an older model silver minivan. She is about 5 feet 3 inches tall, 160 pounds, has a medium skin tone, brown eyes and black medium-length straight hair.

Police are one step closer to solving the mystery of a missing 20-year-old mother from Detroit.

Regina McDaniel has been missing since last Tuesday but eight days later, on Wednesday, the car she was last seen in was found charred at a southwest Detroit scrap yard.

Regina McDaniel's mother, also named Regina McDaniel, told police that her daughter borrowed her 2004 silver Mercury last Tuesday to go out with some friends. The elder Regina McDaniel said that before her daughter left their home on the 200 block of Merton Road at about 10 p.m., she told her she would be back in a few hours. She has not been seen or heard from since.

The elder Regina McDaniel said she is distraught and she believes something terrible happened to her daughter because she would never leave her 2-year-old son for that long.

"Never, ever has she ever disappeared without calling us or calling the baby so he could hear her voice," said a distraught Regina McDaniel about her daughter.

GPS tracking inside of the Mercury located it at Boulevard and Trumball towing located at Dix Road and Central Avenue.

The owner said the car was dropped off Tuesday afternoon, but he would not allow Regina McDaniel's family to see it because police needed to examine the vehicle for evidence first.

"I have been praying for her. For whatever ordeals she has come across, to just survive it. Just survive it baby and come home to your mama," said the elder Regina McDaniel.

Investigators said they talked to younger Regina's friends, but they all said they have not received a phone call or a text message from her since last Tuesday.

The younger Regina McDaniel is black, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 135 and has brown eyes and straight long brown hair.

She was last seen wearing a pink jacket, blue jeans, and leopard print boots. Her family described her as being in good mental and physical health.

Twenty-eight-year-old Chrissita Cage has been missing since Oct. 26 and suffers from bipolar disorder.

Officials said they found her vehicle on Belle Isle with all of her personal items in it.

Tolbert said in each case, they are covering the bases, and paying close attention to the people who last saw the missing women.

"Where they say they were going, if they made it there, and these are all things we're in the process of doing right now," said Tolbert.

Tolbert said that in each missing case, police have a solid lead.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Detroit Police Department at (313) 224-1500.

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Mother Holds Out Hope for Missing Daughter

Last Update: 11/12

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Less than a week after we broke the story of Regina McDaniel's disappearance on WXYZ.com, there are troubling new clues in the search for answers. Someone torched Regina's car, and her family desperately hopes another grim discovery is not linked to the mystery.

McDaniel's silver Mercury Sable Wednesday was tracked to a neighborhood on the city's east side and was taken to an impound.

Police searched the burned up vehicle for evidence. No body was found.

Regina McDaniel says she fears something terrible has happened to her 20-year-old daughter, who is also named Regina McDaniel. She says her daughter would never leave her 2-year-old son Kimoni.

Young Regina, who goes to school by day and is studying to be a pharmacy technician, went out last Tuesday night in her mom's silver Mercury.

She said she would be back in about two hours, but by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, she still had not returned. So the elder Regina, with her grandson in tow, went to the police.

Investigators have talked to young Regina's friends, but no one has had a phone call or text message, nothing since last Tuesday.

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Body In Dumpster ID'd As Missing Woman
2 Other Women Remain Missing

POSTED: November 18, 2009


DETROIT -- Police said the unidentified woman's body that was found burning Tuesday in a northwest Detroit Dumpster is that of a 28-year-old Detroit woman who went missing the night before.

Shanita Brown, 28, of Detroit went missing last Monday. Brown's friend told police that she was out with her friend and two men they had just met at Club Celebrity at Plymouth and Mark Twain streets that night.

Watch: Woman Found In Dumpster Went Missing Last Week

Brown and the two men dropped the friend off at her home at about 2 a.m., and Brown was never seen or heard from again, police said.

The friend told Local 4 that Brown met one of the men at Lou's Deli in Southfield, where she worked as a cashier. She had just met the other man that night.

“The guy she was talking to seemed nice. I saw him a couple times at our work place. He seemed nice; the other one, he seemed crazy,” the friend said.

Men last seen with Brown at Detroit nightclub.

On Saturday, two Detroit men, who witnesses said they saw with gas cans in their hands running from the burning Dumpster in the area of Mettetal Street and West Warren Avenue on Tuesday were charged with mutilating a corpse, arson and tampering with evidence.

However, 33-year-old Shane Dolittle and 52-year-old Brian Euashka have not been charged with murder.

Both men are being held in the Wayne County Jail on $30,000 bond.

Two other Detroit women are still missing, 20-year-old Regina McDaniels and 28-year-old Crissita Cage.

Both of the missing women's vehicles have been located.

Regina McDaniel's burned vehicle was found at a scrap yard at Dix Road and Central Avenue, and Cage's vehicle was found on Belle Isle with all of her personal items in it.

Anyone with information in any of the cases is asked to call Detroit police at(313) 224-1500.

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2 Men Charged With Burning Body
Detroit Men Not Charged With Woman's Death

POSTED: November 16, 2009


DETROIT -- Two Detroit men are accused by Detroit police of burning a woman's body in a Dumpster.

Witnesses told police they saw 33-year-old Shane Dolittle and 52-year-old Brian Euashka with gas cans in their hands near the Dumpster on Nov. 10, in the area of Mettetal Street and W. Warren Avenue.

While the men have not been charged in the death of the women, who has not been identified yet, they are both charged with mutilation of a corpse, arson and tampering with evidence.

Both men were arraigned Saturday and are being held in the Wayne County Jail on $30,000 bond.

Investigators are still trying to determine whether the body belongs to either of two women who were reported missing last week, Regina McDaniel and Shanita Brown.

Anyone with information can leave anonymous tips for Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAK-UP.

Regina McDaniel

Date of Birth: 05/01/1989
Date Missing: 11/03/2009
Age at time of disappearance: 20
City Missing From: Detroit
State Missing From: MI
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Height: 5ft 4in
Weight: 135
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Dark

Clothing: Pink jacket, blue jeans, leopard print boots

Jewelry: Diamond ring

Circumstances of Disappearance: Regina was last seen leaving her residence in Detroit, Mi at approximately 11:30pm in the Woodward and McNichols area.

Medical Conditions: None

Investigative Agency: Detroit Police Department
Agency Phone: (313) 596-1240 Investigative Case #: 12M315