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"Mikelle Diane Biggs"
 
  
Mikelle Diane Biggs

DOB: 31-may-1987
Missing: 02-jan-1999
Sex: F
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 4'8" - 142 cm

Weight: 65 lbs - 29 kg
Missing From: Mesa, Arizona, USA
Age Now: 12 years
Case Number :858245


Mikelle was last seen on her bicycle at approximately 4:00 p.m. on January 2, 1999. Her bicycle has been found
but she is still missing. She was wearing a red shirt with a white stripe across the chest and blue jeans with
designs on the sides.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678
1-800-THE-LOST
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Mesa Police Department (Arizona) 1-602-644-2211




Table of Contents


NASCAR Driver Darell LaMoure_Volunt..., LadyBug, 01:48 AM, Dec-16-99
Mikelle Diane Biggs_ Web Page Links, LadyBug, 01:58 AM, Dec-16-99
UPDATE_Ongoing Time Consuming _Inv..., LadyBug, 02:41 AM, Dec-16-99
Never Give Up Hope !, LadyBug, 03:12 AM, Aug-18-00
Lady Bug, pinky5, 06:11 AM, Aug-18-00
Hopeful , LadyBug, 09:34 PM, Aug-22-00
Police check whether Montanan linke..., Ishtar93, 07:11 PM, Feb-01-01
gee...., birgitta, 07:50 PM, Feb-01-01
You Will Find , LadyBug, 08:19 PM, Feb-01-01
no link to Bar-Jonah, LovelyPigeon, 09:11 AM, Feb-02-01
Return to Mikelle , LadyBug, 04:57 PM, Feb-02-01
LadyBug, Ashley, 11:13 PM, Feb-02-01
Bar-Jona , Biggs, Massachusetts, Sheree, 05:43 PM, Feb-04-01



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1 . "NASCAR Driver Darell LaMoure_Volunteers Help"
Posted by LadyBug on Dec-16-99 at 01:48 AM (EST)
Missing Girl Gets National Publicity

(PHOENIX) -- A missing eleven-year-old Mesa girl gets some national exposure from a NASCAR driver
who puts a large photo of her on his race car.

Glendale resident Darrell LaMoure was racing in the nationally televised Copper World Classic at the
Phoenix International Raceway.

He decided to publicize last month's disappearance of the Mesa girl, Mikelle Biggs in the hope that
someone would recognize her.

Jason Leffler won in the Midget series, Troy Regier in the Super Modified Series, and Jim Inglebright in
the Featherlight Southwest series.

*************************************************

This Police Composite Sketch is of a man wanted for an attempted sexual molestation at an
apartment complex in the 600 block of South Stapley Drive in Mesa, AZ on Christmas Day.

There is no established link between that incident and Mikelle Biggs disappearance, but the proximity
of these two crimes lead the detectives to consider the possibility that there may be a connection.




2 . "Mikelle Diane Biggs_ Web Page Links"
Posted by LadyBug on Dec-16-99 at 01:58 AM (EST)
The Garden Of Missing Children Society
http://www.gomcs.org/usa/0080-usa.htm

The Garden Of Missing Children Society (HOME)http://www.gomcs.org/index.html




3 . "UPDATE_Ongoing Time Consuming _Investigation "
Posted by LadyBug on Dec-16-99 at 02:41 AM (EST)
Hope endures for missing girl
But Mikelle Biggs' track is cold

Darien Biggs holds hope his daughter Mikelle will be found.

MESA, AZ. Hope endures for missing girl (The Arizona Republic ) Authorities have interviewed 500
psychics, tracked every known ice cream vendor in the state and dug through 35 mine shafts in the
Santan Mountains.

CAN YOU HELP POLICE?
Dec. 14, 1999

Authorities have interviewed 500 psychics, tracked every known ice cream vendor in the state and
dug through 35 mine shafts in the Santan Mountains. Seven thousand leads. And Mesa police are still
no closer to an arrest in the Mikelle Biggs case than they were the day last year when the
12-year-old vanished from her neighborhood. On Monday, detectives spoke publicly about the case
for the first time. "There is no answer to this one yet," Sgt. Steve Stahl said. "There's no closure.
There's no body. And obviously, there's no suspect yet." But the two lead investigators and their
sergeant say they won't give up until all leads are exhausted. "I don't think we'll ever drop the case
until it's solved, but there may be a time where we scale back," Stahl said. Mikelle's Jan. 2
disappearance attracted worldwide attention and has since sent detectives chasing tips from
Pennsylvania to Mexico.

Despite sorting through more than 7,000 leads, Mesa detectives Butch Gates and Jerry Gissel and
Sgt. Steve Stahl (from left) have still not been able to solve the disappearance of Mikelle Biggs.

The two lead detectives on the case -- Butch Gates and Jerry Gissel -- have worked for weeks
straight, canceled their vacations and risked their lives for answers to the mystery: What happened
to Mikelle Biggs? Theories have run the gamut, from drug smugglers taking her to Mexico, to an ice
cream truck hitting her, to a sexual predator snatching her from the street. It has become an
obsession. "You just can't get it off your mind," Gissel said. "You see photos of her at the grocery
store and think about what else you can do. It just totally consumes you." "We'll feel like failures until
we solve this thing," Gates added.

Although Darien Biggs, Mikelle's father, said he has been at odds with police at times, he is thankful
they haven't given up.

"Of course, I expected the world," he said. "And that's almost what I've gotten. It seems like they'll
go to the ends of the Earth if they get a lead, no matter how hokey it sounds."

Mikelle disappeared shortly before 6 p.m. on Jan. 2 at Toltec Street and El Moro Avenue as she
waited for an ice-cream truck. She had been alone for only a few minutes.

Her little sister, Kimber, had gone home because she was cold, but Mikelle lingered, waiting for the ice
cream truck that no one else in the middle-class neighborhood reported hearing. Clutched in her hand
were two quarters her mother had given her.

Mikelle was last seen wearing bell-bottom jeans and a red shirt printed with the name of the school
where she was an honor student, Lindbergh Elementary.

Police found only Kimber's bicycle, which Mikelle had been riding, and the quarters she left behind.

Since the news broke, leads have flooded the Police Department. Two people have spend countless
hours prioritizing them and passing the most urgent ones along to the detectives, Stahl said.

Agencies across the Valley have helped in the investigation, and detectives throughout the Mesa
department have stepped in or picked up extra cases the lead detectives couldn't handle.

A "missing juvenile" report hangs onto glass outside Room 239, which detectives call the Mikelle Biggs
Room. Inside the cramped space sits a telephone, computer and thousands of pieces of paper. Maps
hang on the wall, binders are stacked around the room.

"Every lead was looked into or is still being looked into," Stahl said. "Each lead takes on its whole new
life.

"Just when you think you've whittled it down to maybe five viable areas where you can send five
people . . . one of those leads mushrooms into an 80-person lead or something."

They've thought they've been close.

Shortly after the disappearance, police were monitoring Mikelle's personal Web page when a message
for Darien Biggs came over.

The author claimed he had Mikelle, and he would exchange her at a certain time and location. "The
man-hours devoted to that one lead were astronomical," Stahl said. "It was almost like the Delta
Force in scramble mode."

Investigators tracked the message to a Phoenix home, conducted airplane surveillance and sent out a
SWAT team. But the note was a prank sent by a 12-year-old boy.

Mikelle's family members say they've learned not to get too excited when a new lead comes in. "It's
happened a couple times," Tracy Biggs said. "They say, 'We think this one just might be it, but don't
get your hopes up.'

"I haven't let myself get my hopes up on any of it. . . . If I did, it would just be an up-and-down
roller-coaster ride."

Investigators have hypnotized people, used polygraph and voice-stress analyzers and even used FBI
profilers. They've contacted sex offenders known to hang out at a nearby park, which Mikelle passed
about an hour before she disappeared. Investigators have spent days trooping through unstable
caverns and mine shafts across the state, using sophisticated equipment to detect whether a body is
in the pitch-black pools.

Many of the leads are bogus -- those sent by revenge-seeking drug dealers trying to attract police
attention and psychics who have visions as vague as "a green car next to the light pole," Gates said.

"Although there's no closing lead, they've gone above and beyond everyone's expectations," said Kym
Pasqualini, director of the Nation's Missing Children's Organization.

Tracy Biggs said she misses the little things about her daughter -- reading Christmas stories every
night in December, playing 21 questions at the dinner table, getting an unexpected hug while washing
dishes. And although she tries to focus on the positive, "it gets frustrating, depressing."

"Sometimes I get so full of anger I want to put my fist through the wall," she said.

The hardest part, she said, is not knowing whether her little girl is dead or alive. "Whether she's
found alive or not, we just want to have her found," Biggs said.

"We need some closure just so we know. "But there's no way you can give up hoping that she's alive
and well."
.................................
Related Articles
Police urge anyone with information about the Biggs case to call (480) 644-2002.. In addition, there's
a $75,000 reward fund available to anyone who provides the key tip to the Silent Witness Program,
1-800-TIPS.

Christina Leonard can be reached at christina.leonard@arizonarepublic.com or at (602) 444-7972.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/1214biggs.shtml



4 . "Never Give Up Hope !"
Posted by LadyBug on Aug-18-00 at 03:12 AM (EST)
What happened to Mikelle. Is there an update? Is anyone from nearby Mesa, AZ vicinity?




5 . "Lady Bug"
Posted by pinky5 on Aug-18-00 at 06:11 AM (EST)
LAST EDITED ON Aug-18-00 AT 06:14 AM (EST)

I couldn't find any info on Mikelle(except for the missing person site), but the
Arizona Republic newspaper covers Mesa:

http://www.azcentral.com/

They have an archive but you must have a passport
which includes giving a cc# & past articles cost
$2; so I passed.

The Mesa police dept doesn't have any press release information on any thing:

http://www.ci.mesa.az.us/frames.asp?main_section=cs&page=/police/default.htm



6 . "Hopeful "
Posted by LadyBug on Aug-22-00 at 09:34 PM (EST)
Pinky5, I have sent a message to the Arizona Republic News requesting an update, and to the author
Christina Leonard of the Dec 14'99 article. She no longer works that department, my inquiry has been
forwarded on to the Mesa Police Dept. Keep all eyes on the following news site.
http://www.azcentral.com/

I recall another sketch of an aged person wanted for questioning (not person on these threads)who
had been seen in the Mesa area at the time and who also bore similar features (at a younger age ) in
the bay area, CA, also wanted years ago for questioning regarding disappearance (s). Does anyone
remember those sketches?

Those sketches were posted in another forum at the time Mikelle went missing but those posts and
images, in a wbmstr frenzied and heartless state of mind, were remove. In fact the entire missing
children site was removed which certainly didn't help the kids or their loved ones. :(
http://www.azcentral.com/




7 . "Police check whether Montanan linked with missing Mesa girl "
Posted by Ishtar93 on Feb-01-01 at 07:11 PM (EST)
Police check whether Montanan linked with missing Mesa girl


Associated Press
Feb. 01, 2001 07:30:00


Police say they are checking whether the mysterious disappearance of a Mesa girl might be linked
with a Montana man accused of butchering a boy and of feeding human flesh to neighbors.


Mikelle Biggs, 11, had been standing at a streetside curb a few doors from her home to await an ice
cream truck heard nearby when she vanished on Jan. 2, 1999.

Her sister had given up and had gone home. When Mikelle didn't show up, her bicycle was found in
the road along with the money her mother had given her for ice cream. Despite repeated and
extensive searches, Mikelle's whereabouts have remained unknown.

In Montana, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 43, of Great Falls was charged in December with kidnapping, killing
and butchering 10-year-old Zachary Ramsay, who vanished on Feb. 6, 1996. Montana authorities say
the boy's remains have never been found.

Bar-Jonah, who denied having killed the boy, also is accused of having fed stew, chili and burgers
containing human flesh to neighbors.

Police said they found bone fragments in Bar-Jonah's former garage that DNA tests show don't belong
to Ramsay but do belong to a child aged 8 to 13.

Bar-Jonah, who long has been in trouble for violence involving children, has been in jail since
December 1999, when he was arrested for impersonating a police officer in what police said was a
failed attempt to take a boy from school. He also is charged with having sexually assaulted three
boys, and he reportedly is charged with tampering with a witness and assault with a weapon for
allegedly having tried to hang a child.

Recently, about 20 Great Falls women received letters with a Phoenix postmark and signed with
Bar-Jonah's name speaking of wanting to eat the women.

"They were pretty shook up," Brent Light, the county attorney in Cascade County, Mont., told the
East Valley Tribune.

The letters bore the return address of Arizona state Sen. David Petersen, a Mesa Republican. They
were mailed on Jan. 18. In a report about the investigation, the Tribune said Petersen did not return
a call seeking comment.

Bar-Jonah was in jail at the time the letters were mailed. He apparently he was free when Biggs
vanished.

"Was he in Arizona?" Mesa police detective Jose Martinez asked Wednesday. "Was he accounted for
on that date?"

Martinez said the FBI continues to help with the Biggs investigation.

Meanwhile, Royal Canadian Mounted Police were checking their missing children's records to see
whether any cases might have happened during times Bar-Jonah was in Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Authorities said they could place him crossing the border several times and that he apparently was in
those two cities during the mid-1990s.

Bar-Jonah's history of violence began in 1975, when he pleaded guilty to nearly choking an 8-year-old
boy to death in Webster, Mass. He received probation. Two years later, he pleaded guilty to
kidnapping and trying to kill two Shrewsbury, Mass., boys he abducted at a movie theater parking lot.

He spent nearly two years in prison before being transferred to a state mental hospital, where he
stayed for 11 years. Shortly after his release, he was arrested in Oxford, Mass., for assaulting a boy
sitting in a car outside a post office.

Under a plea agreement, Bar-Jonah received a suspended jail sentence in that case on condition he
move to Montana with his mother.

In late January, Mary Patrone, a Connecticut probation officer, told The Hartford Courant that
Bar-Jonah had abducted and assaulted her 26 years ago, when as a 9-year-old she was walking
home from a friend's home. She said she recognized Bar-Jonah from a recent newspaper photograph.

Connecticut state police were investigating whether the bone fragments found in the Bar-Jonah
garage might be linked with the disappearance of 7-year-old Janice Pockett in Tolland 27 years ago.
The alleged attack on Patrone occurred 10 months before and less than 20 miles away from where
Pockett disappeared.

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0201cannibalbiggs-ON.html




8 . "gee...."
Posted by birgitta on Feb-01-01 at 07:50 PM (EST)
what kind of horror is this???
canīt say anything more,i just canīt understand this things going around......




9 . "You Will Find "
Posted by LadyBug on Feb-01-01 at 08:19 PM (EST)
...the 'Bar-Jonah Update' thread in 'True Crime' forum. He's a monster and drew the attention of
children with toys. Mikelle and her sister thought they heard the ice-cream truck ( the familiar tinkle
tune), that is why they went to wait on the corner for the ice cream truck. They waited..waited and
sister went on home.

Someone, IMO used that tune on a speaker system to attract kids. Ice cream companys were
contacted and they were NOT in that area that day, as I recall they were not on the streets that
day at all.

There is also updated posts in the Ramsay thread here. He has not been found. His body has not
been found.

Terrible that a child can't walk their dog, visit a park, walk to school or go to the corner for ice cream
without an armed adult...but it's a fact!




10 . "no link to Bar-Jonah"
Posted by LovelyPigeon on Feb-02-01 at 09:11 AM (EST)
Police rule out link between Montanan and missing Arizona girl
By Associated Press, 2/1/2001 21:00
MESA, Ariz. (AP) Police have determined there is no link between the mysterious disappearance of a
Mesa girl and a former Massachusetts man accused of butchering a boy and feeding his flesh to
neighbors.

Investigators were checking into the link that Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 43, of Great Falls, Mont. may
have been involved in Mikelle Biggs' January 1999 disappearance. Twenty Great Falls women recently
received letters with a Phoenix postmark and signed with Bar-Jonah's name speaking of wanting to
eat the women.

Biggs, 11, had been standing at a streetside curb a few doors from her home to await an ice cream
truck heard nearby when she vanished on Jan. 2, 1999.

She never came home and her bicycle was later found in the road along with the money her mother
had given her for ice cream. Despite repeated and extensive searches, Biggs' whereabouts have
remained unknown.

Mesa police detectives spoke with Montana authorities Thursday and determined Bar-Jonah was not
in Arizona when Biggs went missing, said Mesa police Detective Jose Martinez.




11 . "Return to Mikelle "
Posted by LadyBug on Feb-02-01 at 04:57 PM (EST)
Needed your update, thanks LovelyPigeon !
As far as I have been able to determine, Bar-Jonah, formerly David P. Brown, chose male victims.
He posed as police officer to attract them and also held sales in his garage with toys ( baseball
cards) that would attract kids.

The letters from Arizona either an attempt to draw attention to Mikelle Biggs investigation or another
sicko prankster.

I've often thought the sound the girls heard might have been a similar to ice cream vender, ORcould
it have been the sounds of a New Years Celebration whirling toy or horn?

The abduction of Mikelle may not have had anything to do with those sounds the girls heard. Those
sounds could have been a passing motorist or could have been a neighbor with the left over toy.

Is it common for Ice Cream venders travel neighborhoods on January 2 in Mesa, Arizona?




12 . "LadyBug"
Posted by Ashley on Feb-02-01 at 11:13 PM (EST)
I live in Chandler, Az. right next door to Mesa. Ice-cream vendors do sometimes travel in the winter.
We just had one come by tonite and the kids waited for at least 25 mins. before she finally got to our
street.

Some of the kids take off on their scooters and bikes and try to find which street she is on. My son
knows that I won't let him go with them, and I hate to see that look in his eyes, but I CAN'T let him
go... because if I do I have a nervous breakdown until he gets back.

He understands.... but it is still hard. Kids should NOT have to live this way.

The police did check out the local vendors that day and they all said they weren't running that
particular night.

I believe the girls heard something similar and it very well could have been coming from a car or even
someones house close by.

I do know that there is ONE man in Mikelles neighborhood who would not let police check his house.
Everyone else cooperated but him.

As far as I know a warrant was never issued and his house has never been checked.



13 . "Bar-Jona , Biggs, Massachusetts"
Posted by Sheree on Feb-04-01 at 05:43 PM (EST)
HI,

Bar-Jona is from my area. There are several cases that have been in the newspaper recently about
his abduction of young girls. There are at least 2 confirmed that I know of.

John and Magi Bish, parents of Molly Bish, missing 6/27/00 visited with the Biggs family in Arizona
right after Christmas. At least at that time their were no major new leads that the family mentioned.
That was however, before the Bar-Jona case broke into the news.

Sheree


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2. "Sheree...Young Girls Confirmed ?"
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   Sheree ...interesting "There are several cases that have been in the newspaper recently abouthis abduction of young girls. There are at least 2 confirmed that I know of..."

Where are the links to the stories or what are the names of the girls? Were the abductions prior to prison or after Bar-Jonah was released? Before he moved to Montana or after? What's the connection Molly Bish- Mikelle Biggs?


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3. "Possible Suspect ~Blalock ?"
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   Possible Suspect in the Mikelle Biggs Case

11-17-00
12 News discovers new information in the search for a missing Mesa girl. Mikelle Biggs was 11-years old when she vanished from her Mesa neighborhood. Almost 2-years later police believe they may have the man responsible behind bars.

Dee Blalock is behind bars now, but when Mikelle disappeared his house was just 2 blocks away from where she was last seen alive. Police showed up at Blalock's doorstep that very same night and they say he is still a very strong suspect in the little girl's disappearance.

Dee Blalock is headed to prison for 187 and a half years. He was convicted of brutally raping and beating his former neighbor Susan Quinnett. And now police are admitting this guy was and is a prime suspect in the disappearance of Mikelle Biggs. Biggs disappeared in January 1999. Her bike left on the sidewalk. That very night - police knocked on Blalock's door.

Blalock has a long history of sexually abusing kids and women. According to court records, more than 20 years ago he forced a young boy to perform oral sex on him. In 1980 he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and went to prison in California. In 1985 he assaulted a 13-year-old girl and went to prison in Texas. In 1989 he sexually assaulted a woman in Arizona and went to prison here. He was released in 1995 and moved into Mesa Mikelle Biggs disappeared in January 1999. Then in 1999 Blalock raped Susan Quinnett an offense for which he will not again walk out of prison.

Police say they feel so strongly about Blalock in the Biggs case they will continue interviewing him in prison.
..........................................

NOTE: I found this article at the Polly Klaas web site, where Mikelle is included in their database with a date of November, 2000.
http://www.pollyklaas.org/


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4. "Ice Cream Lure "
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   Mikelle Biggs has been missing since January 2, 1999 when she and her sister went to the corner from their home in Mesa,AZ on their bikes, lured by the sounds of what they thought was ice-cream vendor.


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5. "ASHLEY : Ice Cream Lure ?"
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   Ashley, you still here? Can you give us an update for Mikelle please. Has there been any news at all... no matter how slight? Are their fliers posted out and about? Are there still a billboards with Mikelle's picture 'HAVE YOU SEEN ME '?

I notice your post of Feb 2, when your children heard the sounds of the ice cream truck. Do the ice cream vendors also deliver on January 2 , including 1-2-1999 ? Seems to me an odd delivery time after a Holiday. What is the normal temperature the first week of January?

Media reported there were no vendors on the streets of Mesa that day, January 2, 1999. I keep going back to the sounds of the ice cream truck.

Is it possible you could inquire with vendors company?
You're right, I wouldn't allow my child out without adult for ice cream...no way!
Thanks, LadyBug


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6. "MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   LAST EDITED ON Jul-08-04 AT 06:54 PM (EST)
 
ENDANGERED MISSING
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) OR...
Mesa Police Department (Arizona) 1-480-644-2211


MIKELLE BIGGS

BIRTHDATE: May 31, 1987 Age now : 17
Missing: January 2, 1999
Height: 4'8" (142 cm) Eyes: Hazel Race: White
Weight: 65 lbs (29 kg) Hair: Brown
Missing From: MESA, AZ USA

Mikelle was last seen on her bicycle at approximately 4 p.m. on January 2, 1999. Her bicycle has been found but she is still missing. She was wearing a red shirt with a white stripe across the chest and blue jeans with designs on the sides
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Funeral for Mikelle Biggs

On Friday, January 2nd, 2004, the Mesa, AZ family of Mikelle Biggs had a funeral service in her honor on her 5th annual date of disappearance. Two NMCO employees attended this service. This ceremony was not meant to close the door on Mikelle's unsolved disappearance, but rather it was to bring a sense of closure to her family's life that deals with her being gone every single day. Mikelle, only 11 when she disappeared, was waiting for an ice cream truck just down the street from her house. That was the last that her family has seen of her. While thousands of volunteers spent time searching for Mikelle, little has come to light about what happened that day. While their daughter's case is still an active investigation at the Mesa Police Department, Mikelle's family believe they know what happened to her.

A local man serving 160 years for other non-related sex crimes is being accused of being involved in Mikelle's disappearance. The family has corresponded with this individual and believes that Mikelle is in her permanent resting place. "I will never give up on her," said Darien Biggs, Mikelle's father. "But I need to be able to devote some time and energy to my family and to life," he continued. Mikelle has two younger sisters and a younger brother at home. They all miss her very much but feel that having a funeral for Mikelle will help the family move forward in a positive healing direction.

The service included a small white and gold casket surrounded by purple flowers, Mikelle's favorite color. While the long funeral procession followed the casket to the cemetery in Mesa after the service, her family says that it will not be buried. The plot, Mikelle's family says, is for both of her parents. They will be including Mikelle's name on their own headstone but for now, the plot remains open since Mikelle is still missing. Her family, friends and loved ones portrayed the young, thin, blonde as outgoing, artistic, and talented at whatever she tried. They said it is always the way they will remember her.

http://www.theyaremissed.org/new_at_nmco/mikelle_biggs_funeral.htm
....................................................................

NOTE: Photos of the funeral are at the link above.
I was upset and for personal and for health reasons I was unable to post this feature update until now.
LadyBug

EDITED TO ADD : Post your thoughts or information in this public forum here please.


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7. "RE: MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   I use to live on broadway and williams 1995,1996,1997,1998 and moved 1999.I lived on elton street close by mikelles home.I do have information its just to sad for me to believe I just dont know who to trust ive been told without question that mikelle was suppose to be a different little girl that girl was my bestist friend during the dissapearence of mikelle.My friend and I never lefteachothers side for the longest time because my parents were in prison or in jail,I dont really understand it all but I do have names that ive been known who wasinvolved some here in mesa say that she is still alive and brainwashed but others here in mesa say that thay raped her on video and killed her and then fed her to pigs.who can i trust to give the names of who were involved from what ive heard?.


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8. "RE: MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   There are several options open to you. You can call America's Most Wanted and tell them what you know, you can write it all down and send it anonymously to the local authorities, ir you can email it to me and I will get it to the authorities anonymously for you.

Be detailed - as much detail as you can give. Just get it in and trust the authorities do the right thing. What else can you do?


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9. "MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   The National Center Missing Exploited Children

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678
1-800-THE-LOST
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Mesa Police Department (Arizona) 1-602-644-2211

OR your local FBI

TRUST Please post responseif you do not understand and/or need help. Also verify that you have read our updates.

AMERICAS MOST WANTED
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www.amw.com

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May-15-06, 06:38 AM (EST)
 
10. "RE: MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   ive been intrested in this case since i remember reading about it in 2003..has there been any news has she beenfound? I'm only 16 and live in england but this has really intrested me.laura


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11. "MIKELLE BIGGS _Update"
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   LAST EDITED ON Aug-12-06 AT 11:40 PM (EST)
 
SEE POST #6 AND #7
THATS THE LAST WE KNOW. IF YOU FIND FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE POST IT HERE ON THIS THREAD.
THANKS HI FOR YOUR INTEREST.

DID YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THE SARAH PAYNE,(SUSSEX, ENGLAND) CASE ? I FOLLOWED UNTIL SHE WAS FOUND... SAD BUT THE LAW CAUGHT HIM !


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