MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 13, 2008
Second Child's Body Found In Ala. Waters
Search Continues For Children Allegedly Thrown From Bridge By Father
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A search team explores the waters near the Dauphin Island Bridge in Mobile, Ala. Police say currents carried two of the bodies of children thrown from the bridge westward. (WKRG)
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Lam Luong, who police say threw his four children off a Mobile, Ala., bridge, has been charged with capital murder. A second child's body has been recovered from the water nearby. (WKRG)
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The body was found by a search team near where a duck hunter found the body of an infant about five miles west of the bridge in a marshy area on Saturday, said Mobile County sheriff's Sgt. Jerry Taylor.
The search for the children - ranging in age from a few months to 3 years - began Tuesday near the mouth of Mobile Bay after prosecutors said the father, Lam Luong, confessed.
Luong, who came to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1984 and until recently had been living in Hinesville, Georgia, had a crack cocaine possession charge pending in Hinesville.
The children's mother, 23-year-old Kieu Phan, had gone with Luong to report them missing Monday evening.
"The inevitable nightmare we have feared has now been confirmed," Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said Saturday. "We believe, certainly now, that the father of these children threw these children off the Dauphin Island bridge."
Cochran said searchers using sonar technology saw images Friday that they believed were three bodies, but the currents were so strong the divers were unable to get to the location.
Divers re-entered the water Saturday and worked until darkness forced them out of the water without finding the other three bodies. Authorities expanded the search zone westward toward Pascagoula, Mississippi, believing that the strong currents may have moved the bodies in that direction. The search resumed Sunday morning.
Luong, 37, a shrimp boat worker who lives in Irvington, was being held without bond on four counts of capital murder. If convicted, he could be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.
District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said Luong had confessed to throwing Ryan Phan, 3, Hannah Luong, 2, Lindsey Luong, 1, and Danny Luong, 4 months, off the three-mile-long bridge after an argument with his wife.
Luong later recanted, claiming two Asian women took the children and never returned them. But a witness saw Luong on the 80-foot-tall two-lane bridge with the children, and another saw him leave the area without the children, Cochran said Friday.
Luong's appointed attorney, Joe Kulakowski, met with Luong on Saturday and did not immediately return a phone message for comment.
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- Takes a truly sick person to be abe to do something like this, even on crack,to his own children. Even predatory animals dont do this to there young. Another perfect candidate for the express lane on the death penalty high way. Swift trial, NO appeal krap for years, idiot is even now trying to say he didnt do it, and blaming 2 asian woman??? Heh...fry his a$$.
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- Why is there debate the man/boy killed his own children in americia and should be disposed of they found bodies he confessed don''t need a trail that is about time to serve he needs to be destryed public hanging is my choice you kill your own children you give up your right to breath how is letting him rot out in prison being nice.
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- Deport this guy to Vietnam and see what they do to him.
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- Deport this guy to Vietnam and see what they do to him.
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- Deport this guy to Vietnam and see what they do to him.
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- You murder your children you should die but whatever way the goverment sees fit I perfer rope but then again being stuck in a cement room getting lousy chow for the rest of your days is a option, Let''s get honest capital punishmemt is far more humane. You want this piece of dirt for a nieghbor?
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- Posted by ov442 at 10:57 AM : Jan 14, 2008
He was defending his neighbors property,,which is what he was asked to do, by his neighbor. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by slim1h2o - Good for him, but was it they were randomly shot because the guy went nuts or was he just defending himself and his property?
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- You never hear about some evil criminal with a mile long rapsheet getting shot to death because he was a victim of someone going nuts. Its always innocents and mostly women and children.
Posted by ov442 at 09:32 AM : Jan 14, 2008
Apparently,, you have forgotten about Joe Horton, down in Pasadena Tx.
He shot and killed two burglars, who had rap sheets a mile long! - Reply to this comment
- As they have found the 4 month old baby and another child, It looks like he didnt spare any of the poor little ones..
I hope the inmates give him what he deserves if the state doesnt!!! - Reply to this comment
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