In a tragic ending, the body of a missing toddler was recovered from a pond just days after her mother was found murdered in Illinois.
Indiana State Police announced in a news release that troopers were called out to Kennedy Avenue ramp on I-80 regarding a person in a retention pond. A construction worker reportedly pointed out the body to troopers, and Hammond Fire Department officials retrieved it from the water. Indiana State Police described the person found as a Black female “whose age appeared to be less than five years old.” She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Lake County Coroner identified the victim as 1-year-old Jaclyn Angel Dobbs from Deerfield, Ill.
The Wheeling Police Department said they received a missing person report about 21-year-old Ja’nya Murphy, who is Dobbs’ mother, on November 9 at approximately 10:22 p.m. Murphy’s family reportedly became worried when she did not show up to work and had not spoken to them since the day prior.
According to the Wheeling Police Department, officers and Wheeling Fire Department officials conducted a well-being check at Murphy’s residence on Inland Drive. Officers entered her home via a balcony door and reportedly found her dead and her daughter missing. Murphy died by strangulation.
On Friday, November 12, the same day as little Jaclyn’s autopsy, an arrest was made.
Ahmeel Fowler was arrested in Missouri and charged with first-degree murder for the alleged killing of Murphy. A cause of death for the toddler has not yet been released.
Fowler has not been charged with the death of Murphy’s daughter of Jaclyn Dobbs, but police said they “anticipate additional charges” as the investigation continues.
According to the local ABC News station, police had been frantically searching for Dobbs since Tuesday night, when her mother was found murdered in her Wheeling apartment. An autopsy found Murphy had been strangled and died of asphyxiation, authorities said.
Her daughter Angel was not in the apartment, sparking a frantic search. It was a group of construction workers that led police to the retention pond off I-80 near Kennedy Avenue in Hammond after they spotted a body floating in it.
It didn’t take long for police to find the body once they made it to the area. Investigators said the pond was relatively full of water from recent rain, about four or five feet deep, and easily accessible from the nearby roadway.
Fowler was identified as a person of interest early on in the investigation and was arrested in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday.
He is not Jaclyn’s father but had a relationship with Murphy and was last seen with her and the child at a mall on Monday, around the time her family last had contact with her.
“We know for a fact he was in the far northern suburbs yesterday morning, and then by yesterday evening, he was in western Missouri,” Wheeling Deputy Police Chief Al Steffen said. “We are looking to recreate the track from where he was in the northwest suburbs to Missouri.”
Murphy was a 2018 graduate of Stevenson High School and lived with her daughter at the apartment building, Wheeling police said.
A family member of Murphy, whose exact relation to the slain woman could not be independently verified, said on Facebook that the family is grieving and needs time to process the tragedy and heal. “I’ve known about this for a while today, but I just couldn’t deal with it at the moment. I thank everyone who shared the pictures and posts looking for her, but for right now, our family needs this time to process and heal. I especially need this time right now, so like I said earlier, I’m not willing to talk to any reporters right now. I know you guys were just trying to reach out to see if I would be willing to talk about my cousins, but at this time, my family needs time to be together to heal,” Kenthany Angel Murphy wrote on Facebook.
It’s sad that this is how much black lives really matter to punk asked thugs when they got some score to settle. I got some advice for you all. Look around your neighborhood. The only people coming there to kill you is your own. The way to stop this is not through reparations, critical race theory, and pretending like you’ve got some white supremists holding you back from the prizes that freedom and self determination can bring you. Letting a group of communist rable rousers lead you young people into a revolt against the only system of government that has ever produced wealth liberty freedom and justice for the people who work hard to achieve. The same people who back these gangs of ANTIFA and BLM hoodlums are the same political party that tried to keep slavery, and pushed for every segregationist, Jim Crow, voter suppression law ever passed in this country. And those laws do not include the recently passed laws in Texas that you president dictator loves to lie about every chance he gets. The same party that is now trying to turn America into a socialist dictatorship, and with their lying friends in the media have you thinking that they are going to take care of you. What they want is full control of your ability to work, travel, and purchase goods. They desire to keep track of every dime that you posess to insure that you never have more than enough to barely get by and pay your bills. The government doe not create money. The government only prints money. By doing what they do in printing money they are only capable of creating debt, and reducing the value of the money that already exists. Let me say it another way . Printing money does not make more money, it only reduces the value of the money already in existence. That means that all of the stimulus money given away by the government was fully intended to reduce the value of the money which we already had. PERIOD! The socialist democrats no longer have their focus on keeping black Americans in poverty. They have shifted that focus to all Americans now.. There are no roving gangs of white Christian conservatives out there looking to lynch anybody.. There never was.. Lynch mobs were and have always been formed and lead by white southern democrats just like those who formed and create the Ku Klux Klan! THEY WORK VERY HARD WITH THEIR FALSE CLAIM OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN ORDER TO KEEP THE RACES SUSPICIOUS OF AND THEREBY VOLUNTARILY SEGREGATED FROM EACH OTHER. The biggest groups of racists in this country are Hollywood movie stars, The Democrat elitist politicians,, BLM, and ANTIFA, The labor union chiefs,, and especially those in charge of the teachers,, and social workers unions.
All of you millenials of every race,, and color have been at the free Koolaid punch bowl for too long to even realize that they have been serving you free breakfast and lunch at school not because you needed it. It was to make you feel like they cared, and to remove that little bit of care from the duties of your parents. Your parents went along with it because the money that they earned had been reduced in value so much that they had to work more hours for not enough money to keep their families afloat, and would have accepted any assistance they could get. These are just a few examples of the tactics employed by the leftists to usurp the freedoms and self reliance from the families and communities of this country. If you take this logic and look around I’ll bet you could find other glaring examples. There is nothing that is fair, caring, honest, or equal about stripping the value from the economy by causing inflation, reducing a family’s ability to earn and prosper, taking the bond of love and appreciation from the parents that provide for you, and placing that inherent sense of need into the hands of an institution and then straight up stealing the wealth of the upper middle class who are the people who once when we were a rich nation were the ones who created most of the good jobs that the rest were employed by. These upper middle class were a group of people that cared about our hometown communities. They are the same people that the socialist Democrat’s vilify, while raising their taxes, creating unreasonable industry regulations against their businesses, and forcing them to close their companies so that the multinational corporations like Amazon which the democrats, and Republicans all own stock in can move into the niches that hometown companies used to hold. This is the reason the rich get richer. They are so cunning and malicious to have been able to do this to our country while we sat like fools and watched sitcoms on television. The dictators of the communist countries around the world are laughing up their sleeves at us, because we have nearly defeated ourselves through our greedy political leaders and in the process they profited from our inventions, and innovations. People like Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Waltons and the full line up of super rich are culpable for the transfer of wealth from the middle class and lower class in this country. To put it quite bluntly they helped to steal our collective wealth and give a massive portion of it to the Chinese communist party. Just as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, the Bush family the Clinton’s, the Obamas and so many more have participated in the the theft from the American people. The next time you see black lives matter chase them out of town. Get up in their face and tell them that they are not welcome here anymore. We need solidarity, and community. Not racism and riots from antiamerican thugs. This goes double for the fascist terrorists group which is the antipithis of its own title. These people are so stupid that they don’t even know what a fascist is when they look in the mirror.
It’s sad that this is how much black lives really matter to punk asked thugs when they got some score to settle. I got some advice for you all. Look around your neighborhood. The only people coming there to kill you is your own. The way to stop this is not through reparations, critical race theory, and pretending like you’ve got some white supremists holding you back from the prizes that freedom and self determination can bring you. Letting a group of communist rable rousers lead you young people into a revolt against the only system of government that has ever produced wealth liberty freedom and justice for the people who work hard to achieve. The same people who back these gangs of ANTIFA and BLM hoodlums are the same political party that tried to keep slavery, and pushed for every segregationist, Jim Crow, voter suppression law ever passed in this country. And those laws do not include the recently passed laws in Texas that you president dictator loves to lie about every chance he gets. The same party that is now trying to turn America into a socialist dictatorship, and with their lying friends in the media have you thinking that they are going to take care of you. What they want is full control of your ability to work, travel, and purchase goods. They desire to keep track of every dime that you posess to insure that you never have more than enough to barely get by and pay your bills. The government doe not create money. The government only prints money. By doing what they do in printing money they are only capable of creating debt, and reducing the value of the money that already exists. Let me say it another way . Printing money does not make more money, it only reduces the value of the money already in existence. That means that all of the stimulus money given away by the government was fully intended to reduce the value of the money which we already had. PERIOD! The socialist democrats no longer have their focus on keeping black Americans in poverty. They have shifted that focus to all Americans now.. There are no roving gangs of white Christian conservatives out there looking to lynch anybody.. There never was.. Lynch mobs were and have always been formed and lead by white southern democrats just like those who formed and create the Ku Klux Klan! THEY WORK VERY HARD WITH THEIR FALSE CLAIM OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN ORDER TO KEEP THE RACES SUSPICIOUS OF AND THEREBY VOLUNTARILY SEGREGATED FROM EACH OTHER. The biggest groups of racists in this country are Hollywood movie stars, The Democrat elitist politicians,, BLM, and ANTIFA, The labor union chiefs,, and especially those in charge of the teachers,, and social workers unions.
All of you millenials of every race,, and color have been at the free Koolaid punch bowl for too long to even realize that they have been serving you free breakfast and lunch at school not because you needed it. It was to make you feel like they cared, and to remove that little bit of care from the duties of your parents. Your parents went along with it because the money that they earned had been reduced in value so much that they had to work more hours for not enough money to keep their families afloat, and would have accepted any assistance they could get. These are just a few examples of the tactics employed by the leftists to usurp the freedoms and self reliance from the families and communities of this country. If you take this logic and look around I’ll bet you could find other glaring examples. There is nothing that is fair, caring, honest, or equal about stripping the value from the economy by causing inflation, reducing a family’s ability to earn and prosper, taking the bond of love and appreciation from the parents that provide for you, and placing that inherent sense of need into the hands of an institution and then straight up stealing the wealth of the upper middle class who are the people who once when we were a rich nation were the ones who created most of the good jobs that the rest were employed by. These upper middle class were a group of people that cared about our hometown communities. They are the same people that the socialist Democrat’s vilify, while raising their taxes, creating unreasonable industry regulations against their businesses, and forcing them to close their companies so that the multinational corporations like Amazon which the democrats, and Republicans all own stock in can move into the niches that hometown companies used to hold. This is the reason the rich get richer. They are so cunning and malicious to have been able to do this to our country while we sat like fools and watched sitcoms on television. The dictators of the communist countries around the world are laughing up their sleeves at us, because we have nearly defeated ourselves through our greedy political leaders and in the process they profited from our inventions, and innovations. People like Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, the Waltons and the full line up of super rich are culpable for the transfer of wealth from the middle class and lower class in this country. To put it quite bluntly they helped to steal our collective wealth and give a massive portion of it to the Chinese communist party. Just as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, the Bush family the Clinton’s, the Obamas and so many more have participated in the the theft from the American people. The next time you see black lives matter chase them out of town. Get up in their face and tell them that they are not welcome here anymore. We need solidarity, and community. Not racism and riots from antiamerican thugs. This goes double for the fascist terrorists group which is the antipithis of its own title. These people are so stupid that they don’t even know what a fascist is when they look in the mirror.
I wonder what this world is coming to. This is absolutely awful. What a waste of life this is. GOD bless this family and help them all heal. AMEN.
This is awful. My heart aches for this family.
Terribly sad to hear all this. Young women need to really be careful who they trust and invite into their lives. Especially young single mothers. The child was innocent and needed to be better protected if mom wanted a boyfriend then go somewhere and entertain him. Not around your daughter! Its terrible that he wasnt revealed for his true character to her earlier. Or maybe she just felt he was sorta worth a glance or a try. Look at this disaster! Im sorry but the child really flipped my heart out. How terrible to have that ugly creature as her last memory of the world. Shame. Shame. Shame. Since both are now deceased I felt I can and should just actually say this! Its not easy but at least she and her child would possibly still be alive today!