Alicia Eakins missing for 8 yrs. [Remains Found]

[packy]

After all this time her boyfriend told them where she was. He is in prison for killing another girl.

For Alicia, finally found. RIP :1222423:

http://www.wftv.com/news/15759162/detail.htm

lST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- The remains of a northeast Florida woman missing for eight years have been found in the Ocala National Forest.

Alicia Eakins was last seen getting out of her boyfriend's truck on Feb. 27, 2000, in St. Augustine. (more at link with picture)

[Roamer]

How could he let her family suffer for 8 long years? :(

[Hope]

How could he let her family suffer for 8 long years? :(



Simply put, he is a POS.


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Faba Charged with Murder in Father's Death
April 09, 2008

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ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -- Ralph Faba was in court Wednesday morning, charged with killing his father Ralph Faba in 1999.

It's the third murder Faba is connected with.

Investigators say Faba killed 16-year-old Angela Durling of Jacksonville in 2000. He was convicted in 2004 and received 40-years in prison.

The same year Durling was killed, 25-year-old Alicia Eakins disappeared.

Authorities found her remains late last month when Faba led investigators to her grave in the Ocala National Forest in Putnam County.

Last week, he was charged with Eakins' murder.

And those new charges led to the reopening of the investigation into the death of Faba's father, Ralph Faba Sr.

The medical examiner initially ruled the death a suicide. Faba found his wheelchair-bound father hanging from a tree.

However, investigators say information gathered from an interview with Faba within the past week has led them to file new charges against him for killing his father.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/l...106725&ref=rss

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Faba Confessed to Killing Father
By Jessica Clark
First Coast News

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL -- Nine years after he found his father hanging from a tree, Ralph Faba confessed to killing him.

Ralpa Faba Jr. appeared in court Wednesday morning to face murder charges.

It's now the third murder linked to Faba.

He is serving 40 years for the murder of 16-year-old Angela Durling of Jacksonville in 2000.

Authorities revealed Wednesday Faba strangled her.

The same year of Durling's death, 25-year-old Angela Eakins disappeared.

Eight years later, authorities found her remains in the Ocala National Forest in Putnam County.

Faba led investigators to her grave late last month. Last week, authorities charged Faba with her murder.

Those new charges led to the reopening of the investigation into the death of Faba's father, Ralph Faba Sr.

The medical examiner initially ruled the death a suicide. Faba told detectives he found his wheelchair-bound father hanging from a tree.

Detectives wrote in the initial report (see below) from October 23, 1999, Faba left his house on Stokes Landing Road to go pick up a part for his Jeep.

He told detectives he found his father hanging from a tree in the backyard when he returned at 2:30 p.m.

Faba told detectives he used a knife to cut the rope to let his father down. Faba said he tried CPR before calling 911.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/l...106725&ref=rss

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Faba pleads guilty to killings
By RICHARD PRIOR
staugustine.com
Publication Date: 04/16/08

Ralph John Faba Jr., already serving 40 years in prison for murder, admitted Tuesday that he killed his girlfriend and his father and was sentenced to an additional 25 years.

Faba probably will stay in prison until 2060. He will be 83 years old.

The defendant pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Clyde E. Wolfe on Tuesday to the deaths of Ralph Faba Sr., 68, in 1999 and Alicia Eakins, 25, in 2000.

The judge sentenced him to 25 years on each charge, with the terms to run concurrently.

However, they run consecutive with the original sentence.

Most Florida inmates serve 85 percent of their sentences, according to the Department of Corrections.

Faba's original tentative release date was Jan. 20, 2039.

The defendant was found within yards of the body of 16-year-old Angela Durling in a wooded area off Lafayette Avenue on May 19, 2000. She had been strangled.

Faba, now 30 years old, originally faced the death penalty for a first-degree murder charge. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in February 2004 and was sent to prison for 40 years.

No possible motive was ever announced.

Alicia Eakins was reported missing March 5, 2000. Former St. Johns County Sheriff Neil Perry said in 2004, "I still believe he did it."

"But we don't have her body, and, at the present time, he's not willing to tell us where the body is," Perry said.

That changed within the last few weeks.

St. Johns Sheriff's Office Detective Howard "Skip" Cole decided to give the case "another real hard look" at the end of 2007.

"In doing so, we identified critical people who might have evidence relevant to the investigation," said Cole. "We brought them in for an interview.

"This one particular person, a critical witness, knew everything that had happened. R.J. had confided in him."

Cole had Faba brought back to St. Augustine from the Cross City Correctional Institution in Dixie County.

"I laid out everything I knew about the investigation," said Cole. "R.J. knew I had really built a case against him.

"So he elected to cooperate. And he has cooperated to the fullest extent."

Faba led detectives and crime scene technicians from the Sheriff's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to Eakins' grave on March 29.

Investigators uncovered her remains from a shallow grave about 40 feet off State Road 19 in the Putnam County portion of the Ocala National Forest.

The same "critical witness" who gave Cole information about Alicia Eakins also had been told how Ralph Faba Sr. actually died.

The prisoner allegedly found his father hanging from a tree in the rear of the family property on Stokes Landing Road.

Faba Jr. said he had returned home and found a gate open that led to the back of the property.

He said he cut the rope, started CPR and called 911.

"We actually opened both cases simultaneously," Cole said. "R.J. had told our critical witness about them both."

The sentencing arrangement had been discussed with Eakins' family, said Cole.

"This was a good resolution based on the facts," he said. "The family won't be subjected to a trial.

"And to be able to bring this young woman's body home against all odds after eight years, in the middle of the woods is a pretty good feeling."

http://staugustine.com/stories/04160...xt01_017.shtml