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From :The  New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/nyregion/16missing.html

A 32-year-old man who the police believe had been living in his car was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he murdered a young Brooklyn woman who disappeared last spring while on vacation in Florida, the authorities said.

The police in New York and Miami said that the suspect, Kendrick L. Williams, was found reclining and asleep in a Nissan Maxima parked at the Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn at 8 a.m. He was charged with second-degree murder, the Miami-Dade Police Department said.

Mr. Williams appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday and said he would not waive extradition. The court will hold another hearing on Feb. 15.

The woman, Stepha Henry, 23, was reported missing late last May after a night out at Pepper’s Café in Sunrise, Fla. Videotape taken inside the club showed her and Mr. Williams — who the police said had met at a mutual friend’s home on May 28 — together on May 29 and the early hours of May 30, said Lt. Nancy Perez, a Miami-Dade police spokeswoman. That was the last place Ms. Henry was seen.

Although Ms. Henry’s body has not been found, blood found in an Acura that Mr. Williams was driving at the time matched hers, the authorities said.

“No one could have survived losing that amount of blood,” said Jim Loftus, assistant director of investigative services for the Miami-Dade police.

He said that the police were still building a case and had no comment on a possible motive, but they did not believe that there was a sexual assault.

A police spokesman for the Miami-Dade police said that Mr. Williams had sold the Acura before they located it in September and matched the bloodstains in it to Ms. Henry’s blood.

News of Mr. Williams’s arrest surprised family and friends of Ms. Henry, who recalled her as a talented honors student who aspired to be a lawyer. She had been preparing for the law school admissions exam while working in the recruiting department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, from which she graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in judicial studies.

“She was full of hope and promise,” Jeremy Travis, the university’s president, said in a statement on Tuesday. “We mourn the fact that she was unable to fulfill her dreams.”

Ms. Henry went to Florida in May for a vacation with her younger sister, Shola, to celebrate Shola’s birthday, and stayed at the home of an aunt in Sunrise.

Ms. Henry’s mother, Sylvia Henry, speaking to reporters from a neighbor’s porch, said on Tuesday evening that she did not know Mr. Williams, but that he was a friend of her family in Florida whom she believed her daughter had been acquainted with a few years ago.

“It was not a date,” Mrs. Henry said. “He is just a family friend, an acquaintance of hers.”

She said that she was pleased that someone had been arrested in the disappearance, and that she had not been told what the evidence was that had enabled the police to arrest Mr. Williams. But since they have not found her daughter’s body, she said, “I am just hoping for a positive outcome,” adding that she was extremely upset. She later said, “I am still hoping I will find my daughter, Stepha Henry, alive.”

Ms. Henry and Mr. Williams met at a party in Miramar on May 28 at the home of a mutual friend, Lieutenant Perez said. She said that they made arrangements to attend a party at Pepper’s Café the next day. Ms. Henry was driven to Pepper’s, a club and restaurant, by Mr. Williams in his Acura Integra. They were the only people in the car.

“They went to the party as planned,” Lieutenant Perez said. “Then Stepha Henry has never been seen since.”

Mr. Loftus said that there did not seem to have been any confrontation between the two on the videotape from the club.

The Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement that Mr. Williams had told investigators that he left the club early and that Ms. Henry had decided to stay.

Federal marshals and detectives from the New York Police Department’s fugitive task force, as well as detectives from Miami, were on hand when Mr. Williams was arrested on Tuesday.

“The N.Y.P.D. and the authorities in Miami-Dade cooperated throughout, but more intensely in recent days as they got a lead on where Mr. Williams was located,” said Paul J. Browne, the New York City police spokesman.

He said that there was an outstanding warrant for Mr. Williams’s arrest on reckless driving charges in Florida.

A spokesman for the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office, Edward Griffith, said that the arrest warrant in the murder case had been sealed by judicial order because of the continuing investigation. He said it appeared that Mr. Williams lived in both Florida and New York.

An official said that he was believed to be self-employed in the car trade business.

For the past several months, friends, community leaders and fellow churchgoers from Ms. Henry’s neighborhood in Brooklyn have held prayer meetings, posted fliers, celebrated her birthday and one on occasion released doves to symbolize their hope she would turn up safe. Her former university helped raise thousands of dollars as a reward to help find her.


Ann Farmer and David Hirschman, in New York, and Carmen Gentile, in Miami, contributed reporting.

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I heard January 2013 but haven't seen any updated reports on this case anywhere.
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