Jennifer Ann Feeney [FOUND SAFE] & Patricia Smith Hays County TX [BODY FOUND]

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San Marcos police seek missing woman (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2007/12/05/san_marcos_police_seek_missing.html)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 08:44 AM
From the San Marcos Police Department:
San Marcos police are searching for a missing woman who has not been heard by her family since Sunday, December 2, 2007.
http://www.statesman.com/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/JenniferFeeney.jpg Jennifer Ann Feeney

Missing is Jennifer Ann Feeney whose family reported her missing on Tuesday December 4, 2007 after last speaking to her on Sunday.

Family reported her missing after she missed a day at work and had not contacted the family, which is unusual for her.

She is described as a white female, age 30, blond hair, Hazel eyes, 5’1” and approximately 115 pounds.

Anyone who with information about the whereabouts of Feeney are asked to call San Marcos Police at 512-753-2108 or Commander Bill Glasgow 753-2120.

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Also from Hays County Texas;

Authorities search field for signs of missing possible murder witness

Reporter: Julie Simon
Email: jlsimon@keyetv.com
Last Update: 7:32 pm

Travis County deputies searched a Hays County field Wednesday morning, looking for a woman that's been missing since a mid-November double shooting.

Patricia Smith has not been seen or heard from since Nov. 18, when a shooting left her son, Billy Ferguson, dead. Albert Segura is charged with the murder, but he’s on the run.

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Deputies searched the field from the air and on the ground.

Investigators have reason to think the suspect in this case might have driven by a field south of Kyle along I-35. Searchers combed every nook and cranny of the field.

They were looking for any sign of Smith. The shooting happened in South Austin the week before Thanksgiving. They think she was likely forced to go with the alleged shooter as he fled the house on Magra Lane. Detectives are worried about her safety, though they say they are still hoping she is ok and able to provide information about the incident.

The Travis County Sheriff’s Office set up a command post Wednesday morning. Deputies searched the field on horseback, on foot, and with all-terrain vehicles. They found no sign of Smith.

"We are always hopeful she is alive," said Sheriff's Office spokesman Roger Wade. "We just don’t know at this point. We are covering all our bases."

Investigators believe all the people in the house that night were acquaintances, and something happened to make the shooter angry.

Anyone with any information about the whereabouts of Albert Segura or Patricia Smith, should call (512) 854-3233.

Authorities are worried about Ferguson’s mother, Patricia Smith, because she may have witnessed the crime.

Searchers are combing the area where they believe Segura passed through after the shootings. Deputies are conducting a ground search on foot, with cadaver dogs, and horses, along with a helicopter to look from the air.

http://www.keyetv.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=f5171d32-382a-4a82-a09a-181458aeba51

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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/sha...ek_missing.html (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/sha...ek_missing.html)

San Marcos police seek missing woman (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2007/12/05/san_marcos_police_seek_missing.html)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 08:44 AM
From the San Marcos Police Department:
San Marcos police are searching for a missing woman who has not been heard by her family since Sunday, December 2, 2007.
http://www.statesman.com/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/JenniferFeeney.jpg Jennifer Ann Feeney

Missing is Jennifer Ann Feeney whose family reported her missing on Tuesday December 4, 2007 after last speaking to her on Sunday.

Family reported her missing after she missed a day at work and had not contacted the family, which is unusual for her.

She is described as a white female, age 30, blond hair, Hazel eyes, 5’1” and approximately 115 pounds.

Anyone who with information about the whereabouts of Feeney are asked to call San Marcos Police at 512-753-2108 or Commander Bill Glasgow 753-2120.

Missing woman has been found
Thursday, December 6, 2007, 10:26 AM

From the City of San Marcos:

San Marcos police are cancelling the missing person search for Jennifer Ann Feeney, a 30 year old woman reported missing by her family earlier this week.

San Marcos police said Feeney’s mother reported that she spoke to her daughter this morning and she is in Colorado.

Feeney was reported missing by her family on Tuesday December 4, 2007 after she had missed work and had not been heard from since the previous Sunday.

San Marcos Police received calls from various people with information on a variety of suspicious circumstances they had witnesses in an attempt to give investigators any leads in this case. The public is encouraged to contact their local law enforcement agencies when they see suspicious activities.

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Deputies Scour Area Near I-35 For Missing Austin Mother

Travis County deputies will search once again Thursday for a possible murder witness. They're looking for Patricia Ann Smith, 51.

Deputies said Albert Jesse Segura took Smith after he killed her son last month in South Travis County.

They also believe Segura shot Mario Rivera, 33, who is now recovering.

Deputies searched the area around Yarrington Road just north of San Marcos Thursday. They believe Segura drove Smith through the area after he killed her son, Billy Gene Ferguson.

"We're always hopeful that she's alive, but we've got not only people in horseback, ATVs, but we've got cadaver dogs searching the area, as well," said Roger Wade of the Travis County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities said they'll call off the search if they don't find anything by the end of the day.

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Body found in San Marcos may be that of missing woman

Last Update: 1:20 pm

The Travis County Sheriff's Office said early Saturday that a body found in San Marcos may be that of Patricia Smith, the missing mother of a murder victim.

The body was found at 5:17 p.m. according to a Sheriff's Office spokesman.

Smith was allegedly in a house in South Austin when an intruder shot two men, killing one and hospitalizing the other.

Police have been searching for Smith since the murder.

A suspect in the case was arrested in Mexico Friday and has been transported to Travis County to stand trial in the case.

Stay with keyetv.com for the latest on this developing story.

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Body found in San Marcos may be that of missing woman

Last Update: 1:20 pm

The Travis County Sheriff's Office said early Saturday that a body found in San Marcos may be that of Patricia Smith, the missing mother of a murder victim.

The body was found at 5:17 p.m. according to a Sheriff's Office spokesman.

Smith was allegedly in a house in South Austin when an intruder shot two men, killing one and hospitalizing the other.

Police have been searching for Smith since the murder.

A suspect in the case was arrested in Mexico Friday and has been transported to Travis County to stand trial in the case.

Stay with keyetv.com for the latest on this developing story.

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SEGURA, ALBERT JESSE
Date of Birth: 10/20/1971
Booking Number: 0758422 Booked: 12/7/2007 18:01
Facility: TRAVIS COUNTY CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX

Charges (2)
MURDER
1ST DEGREE FELONY -- Cause Number: D1DC07100058
Bond:$800,000.00 ANY TYPE OF BOND


FEDERAL DETAINER
FELONY --
No bond information available for this charge.

http://public.co.travis.tx.us/sips/default.aspx

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Jury deliberating in Segura capital murder case

By Steven Kreytak | Friday, September 25, 2009, 12:42 PM

A Travis County jury began deliberating today whether Albert Jesse Segura committed capital murder in 2007 by fatally shooting a man in a southern Travis County house and the man’s mother in a Hays County field hours later.

If the jury convicts Segura, 37, of murdering Billy Gene Ferguson, 28, and Patricia Smith, 51, he would receive either the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

During closing arguments, defense lawyer Ariel Payan said his client is innocent and sought to discredit the testimony of two main prosecution witnesses — one man who was also shot that night and another who said he was with Segura at the time of both killings but did nothing wrong.

Prosecutors Bill Bishop and Rob Drummond said the testimony of those witnesses proves their case.

The first was Mario Rivera, a friend of Segura’s, who told the jury that Segura was angry the night of November 18, 2007, because he believed Rivera had called him a “snitch.”

Segura had stormed off from a house on Margra Lane, near Slaughter Lane and Manchaca Road, that night but Rivera said he invited him back to do more drugs. Rivera lived at the house with Smith, Ferguson and another woman.

Rivera said when Segura arrived he came in the bedroom alone wearing gloves, armed with a handgun and opened fire on him and Ferguson. Rivera was shot in his chest and legs but survived.

The second important prosecution witness was David Valdez, who lived with Segura in a mobile home in Del Valle around the time of the shooting. Valdez said he drove Rivera to the house that night thinking they were returning to do more drugs. When they arrived at the house, though, Segura told him to park on a side street and wait in the car, Valez testified.

Valdez said he heard gunshots, screaming and then saw Segura coming to the car holding Smith by her hair with one hand and a gun to her head with the other.

Valdez testified that because he feared Segura he drove him to Segura’s father’s girlfriend’s house in Kyle to get money and then south on I-35. Valdez said he believed Segura was a member of the violent Texas Syndicate prison gang.

Valdez said between Kyle and San Marcos the 1985 Oldsmobile he was driving, which belonged to Segura’s father, ran out of gas. Adjacent to a secluded stretch of highway frontage road Segura marched Smith into a field covered with tall grass and emerged a short time later without her, Valdez said.

Smith’s body was found about three weeks later. She was dead from a gunshot to the neck. A shell casing found 18 inches from her foot came from the same gun as the shell casings found in the bedroom in the house on Margra Lane, according to testimony.

Payan, one of Segura’s defense lawyers, argued that Rivera’s story did not match the evidence in the house. A bullet was found in an air conditioning closet in the hallway and could not have gotten there if, as Rivera said, Segura fired all of the shots from the doorway of the bedroom to the inside of the bedroom.

Payan suggested that Ferguson may have had the gun and waited in the bedroom to ambush Segura. The shot into the hallway could have been fired when Segura — or Valdez — was taking the gun away from Ferguson before shooting Ferguson and Rivera.

Payan also pointed out a series of inconsistencies in an account of that night that Valdez gave a sheriff’s office investigator and one he gave from the witness stand. Valdez gave different accounts of who drove to Margra Lane and when the Oldsmobile ran out of gas - on the highway or after they pulled off the frontage road - for example.

Payan also challenged Valdez’s assertion that he waited in the car when Segura went into the Margra Lane house. A neighbor testified he saw two men followed by a woman walking from the house that night, Payan noted.

Payan argued that Valdez actively participated in the crime, making him an accomplice. Texas law says that Segura can not be convicted based solely on the testimony of an accomplice and therefore, Payan noted, Segura may not be found guilty of Smith’s murder.

Valdez and Segura drove to the San Antonio house of Paul Rodriguez, a friend of both men who once ran a mechanic’s shop in Austin where Segura worked and lived. Rodriguez then drove to Del Rio and Segura walked into Mexico, where he was arrested about three weeks later, according to testimony.

Valdez returned to live with Rodriguez in San Antonio. When authorities found him there three weeks later he began cooperating with the investigation.

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