Re: 911 Call, New Details Emerge in Spring Lake Baby's Death


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911 Call, New Details Emerge in Spring Lake Baby's Death


Posted: Today at 9:36 a.m.
Updated: Today at 9:06 p.m.

Lillington - A Harnett County mother charged with killing her
11-month-old
daughter sobbed and screamed while her mother reported the baby's
disappearance to a Harnett County 911 dispatcher.

During the five-minute call Friday, Michelle Heuser sounded as if she
were
in hysterics and at one point. Her mother told the dispatcher that
Heuser
was holding onto the baby's father, who had returned hours earlier from
a
15-month deployment in Iraq, to get through the crisis.

Heuser, 25, showed no emotion, however, during a brief court hearing
Monday
when she faced a first-degree murder charge in the death of Harmony
Jade
Creech.

She responded "Yes, sir" when a judge asked if she understood the
charge
against her, and she asked the court to appoint a defense attorney for
her.

"I haven't seen a lot of (remorse)," Harnett County Sheriff Larry
Rollins
said during a news conference about the investigation late Monday
afternoon.
"(She has been) a liar - deceptive right up to the point of just being
back
to the corner and can't go anywhere else. . I don't know that she's
told
the
truth now."

Investigators found the child's body early Saturday afternoon wrapped
in
a
plastic bag inside a diaper box in the attic of the Spring Lake home
Heuser
was renting.

"There were a number of other boxes and clothing and items that were in
there," Rollins said. "And the box that her remains were in was very
concealed and was even difficult for investigators to locate."

In addition to the diaper box, investigators seized trash bags filled
with
baby clothes and shoes, written directions to a nearby trash dump, a
cell
phone, a pipe, financial records and an X-Box video-gaming system,
according
to search warrants released Monday.

The gaming system can operate like a computer chat room. While not
confirming the gaming link, FBI Supervisory Agent Greg Baker said
agents
are
interviewing as many as five people along the East Coast about the
case.

"They're looking at imaging hard drives, and we're looking to see if
there's
any individual in contact with the principal targets of the
investigation,"
Baker said.

Heuser's mother called 911 Friday morning to report the baby missing,
prompting authorities to issue a statewide Amber Alert and the FBI to
dispatch a 32-member evidence response team from across the United
States
to
Spring Lake to comb the house for evidence.

It was a meticulous search that led investigators to Harmony's body.
They
said they chose not to cancel the Amber Alert for several hours,
however,
so
they did not compromise the interview with Hueser.

"At that point in our investigation, and in the interviews that were
being
conducted with Michelle, it would have been a great hindrance to have
done
so at that time," Rollins said.

Investigators were then able to get a statement from Hueser that the
child
had died some time ago and that she had concealed the death out of
fear.

The FBI said she consented to a polygraph, which Rollins said
"confirmed
that we knew she was a habitual liar."

"She lied to us and everyone else from the start right up until the
time
she
had to explain that child's remains in that attic," he said. "She got
to
the
point where she couldn't get around not answering the question."

Warrants indicated that investigartors thought the child might have
died
sometime in September. They sent the baby's remains to the Office of
the
Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill to determine a cause and time of
death.

Meanwhile, Hueser's three other children - twin boys and a girl - are
in
foster care.

The bay's father, Ronald Creech II, who is in the 82nd Airborne
Division,
has asked for privacy for him and his family as they cope with their
loss.
He released a statement Monday afternoon, however.

"Harmony's mother was good at deceiving everyone who would ask about
Harmony
and where she was," 82nd Airborne spokesman Maj. Tom Earnhardt read on
behalf of Creech. "The stories were credible and everyone believed her.
My
goal for the last year was to complete my mission and return home to my
children. I have returned home to a tragedy I would not wish upon any
parent
of any child."

"I think my heart goes out to him the most," Rollins said. "It's been
very
traumatic for him, being deployed for 15 months, returning thinking
he's
coming back to a family unit that he's going to enjoy and then have to
be
faced with this."

"You can imagine the emotional state he was in and still is," the
sheriff
added.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1954649/

Does the dad have other children?

More importantly to my mind, did the mother live with her mother (who
would
be the grandmother to the dead baby) or not? Was the home of the mother
and
the grandmother one and the same? Or not?

jc

Haven't gotten any facts on your questions yet, but from what I gather the
mother lived alone in the house with her four children. I know the mother
wasn't *close* to her father, the maternal grandfather of the children.
Some sort of *family* dysfunction. Other than this discussion about the
*grandmother* being the one who made the 911 call, and it being reported
as
being the girls *mother*, I haven't figured that out yet. Because it was
the guy who just got back from Iraq, the father of the baby, it was his
mother who picked him up from the base upon his return. So I'm wonderiing
if the media reports aren't confusing *her* as being the killers mother???
Know what I mean? I didn't hear anything about there being *two*
grandmothers present in the home. The mother of the returning service man
would also be the infants *grandmother*. So perhaps it wasn't the females
mother who was making the 911 call, but the males/fathers mother who made
that call?

td

I get what you're saying. I hate it when the basic info gets all screwed
up.Would be informative to know who is who and who did what, and where.
Sheesh.

jc


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