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Oak Hill: Volusia Sheriff's deputies now our cops

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NSBNews.net photos by Henry Frederick / Oak Hill City Commissioner Kathy Bittle, shown at far left, casts the lone vote Monday night against a formal contract with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office to provide around the clock policing. In the middle photo are Sheriff Ben Johnson and Chief Deputy Bill Lee with former Oak Hill police officer M.J. Eberhart sitting in front of them.

OAK HILL -- The City Commission approved a contract with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office tonight for around-the- clock policing, but one commissioner dissented in protest to the earlier disbanding of the police force.

Skeletal remains in Oak Hill those of New Smyrna Beach mom; 2 other bodies found in Edgewater

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Jennifer RadoCourtesy photo NSBPD / Jennifer Rado was reported missing July 11 to New Smyrna Beach police. There are unconfirmed reports a "person of interest" led Edgewater police to the New Smyrna Beach woman's skeletal remains Monday off Maytown Road in Oak Hill. In what police are saying is unrelated, two bodies were found in a wooded area of Edgewater near I-95.

EDGEWATER -- Two bodies were found in woods off Opossum Camp Road just west of Interstate 95 and skeletal remains in the area of Maytown Road in Oak Hill, a dispatcher for Edgewater police confirmed early this morning.

Other than the locations, no other details were released. There are unconfirmed reports police were led to the skeletal remains by a "person of interest in the disappearance of Jennifer Rado, but Edgewater police did not respond to NSBNews.net's inquiries through the police department's overnight dispatch service. An Edgewater patrol sergeant flat out refused to respond to media inquiries. 

Edgewater woman charged with murder of Jennifer Rado; led Edgewater cops to skeletal remains

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VCSO jail mug / Frances R. Gibson of Edgewater, shown at left in the larger photo, has been charged with murder in the slaying of Jennifer Rado, a wife and mother of two from New Smyrna Beach.  

EDGEWATER -- Jennifer Rado was murdered and her alleged killer led investigators to her skeletal remains off Maytown Road, Edgewater Police Chief Dave Arcieri told NSBNews.net at 6:30 a.m., adding she "confessed" to the slaying in which the victim was beaten so badly with fists that they caused lacerations to her head and face.

"Frances R. Gibson confessed to the murder of Jennifer Rado and led us to the body," Arcieri said, adding she was charged with first-degree murder Monday night.

Charging affidavits released by police show that the victim, Jennifer Rado, was tied up with electrical tape and wiring before her body was disposed of in woods off Maytown Road in Oak Hill.

Edgewater top cop Dave Arcieri breaks murder case wide open with confession

Dave ArcieriEdgewater Police Chief Dave Arcieri and his investigators as well as those with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and the State Attorney's Office are to be commended today for their excellent detective work in getting a confession from accused murderer Frances R. Gibson in the slaying of New Smyrna Beach mom and wife, Jennifer Rado. Despite intense media coverage, Arcieri kept his information close to the vest Monday night, revealing exclusively to NSBNews.net in a phone call early this morning that Gibson, who has a lengthy rap sheet, "confessed

New Smyrna Beach weeps for murdered mother

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Jennifer Rado, 41, was shown on the National Center for Missing Persons website after she was first reported missing July 13 in New Smyrna Beach and then four days later when she was at a party in Edgewater thrown by her accused killer, Frances Gibson, according to police there. 

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Despite her apparent addiction to prescription pills, murder victim Jennifer Rado was loved by her husband and their two children, say friends who knew her.

"She was a great person and a friend to all," said Renee Tyner-McGraw, both former employees of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Don't care about Casey

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It continues to amaze me that a month after her “not guilty” verdict in the death of her 2 – year old daughter... the media spotlight continues to shine on Casey Anthony. And... boy... is she lovin' it. This is the gal who was on trial for 1st degree murder. Now... as I write this missive... the Orlando media is all over the place where defense attorney Jose Baez is having lunch. Here's the deal... she has been ordered to show up and report to serve her probation from her bad check charge. She ain't gonna do it.

Breaking news is priority No. 1 for NSBNews.net

When it comes to covering the local news that is of importance and interest to people in this area, especially breaking news, no one has coverage that is more detailed, more complete and better written than our own Henry Frederick of NSBNews.net.

Henry has done it again with his intense coverage of the murder of Jennifer Rado of New Smyrna Beach. Doggedly following the case without sleep for two days, Henry was initially tied into coverage of the first day of school and then the Oak Hill City Commission vote for a contract with the Sheriff's Office for police services just a few weeks after the corrupt police force was disbanded, a story Henry

Throwing America under the bus

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By Stan Escudero
Chief Political blogger for NSBNews.net

Our President has been traveling the byroads on his Throw America Under the Bus Tour, in hot pursuit of anti-Republican class warfare all the while denying that he is campaigning so that he can rip off the public by forcing the taxpayers to pick up the cost of the trip.