Rachel Cooke 24... January 10, 2002[BELIEVED DECEASED/SUSPECT CHARGED]

[Pauli]

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Rachel Cooke
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January 10, 2002
Rachel, an accomplished cross-country runner, left her home in the Northlake development on FM 3405 northwest of Georgetown, Texas (north of Austin) on the morning of Thursday, January 10, 2002, to go on her usual 3-4 mile morning jog around the neighborhood. Sometime around 11 AM, near the end of her run and possibly within 200 yards of home, she disappeared.
$50,000 REWARD (http://rachelcookesearch.org/english_reward_poster.html)

Please contact the Williamson County Sheriff's Office 512-943-1300, Crime Stoppers 1-800-253-STOP, or email us (http://rachelcookesearch.org/provide_information.html) with any information to help find Rachel.

Name: Rachel Louise Cooke
Missing Since: January 10, 2002 at 11:00 a.m.
Age: 20
Missing From: Home in North Lake Area, Georgetown, Texas
Sex: female
Height: 5 ft 2 in
Weight: 120 lbs
Eye Color: hazel
Hair Color: blonde with auburn streaks
Race: white
Complexion: fair
Birth Date: May 10, 1982

Distinguishing Marks: Rachel Cooke has pierced ears and a pierced navel. Both ears have multiple piercings, one ear having an upper piercing. She has tattoos of two heart shaped cherries on her left shoulder and a black star on her left foot.
Clothing Description: Green sports top, grey shorts, Asics shoes, and carrying a yellow Walkman


http://rachelcookesearch.org (http://rachelcookesearch.org/)

[Nut44x4]

Not far from where Rachel vanished....

Possible human remains found in Lake Travis

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=209660

I wish they had given more info regarding how old the remains may be...still waiting on this.

[Nut44x4]

From>>2006
Murder charge in Cooke case
Updated: 11/10/2006 1:17 PM


Michael Keith Moore is charged with the murder of Rachel Cooke.

Moore, 31, pleaded "not guilty" in court Thursday morning to the charge. Before the hearing, a deal was struck for Moore to plead "guilty" to murder to avoid a capital murder charge and the possibility of a death sentence. (Read Michael Keith Moore's criminal history.)

Moore's “not guilty” plea threw a wrench into the court proceedings, which lasted only five minutes before a recess. Court resumed at 11:20 a.m. with no new developments and recessed until further notice.

Moore struck Cooke's head with a hammer and then suffocated her, an affidavit said.

Earlier this year, Moore pleaded guilty to felony murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping in the killing of Christina Moore; the two are not related. He was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences for that crime. (Read a collection of stories on the Christina Moore murder.)

Cooke, 19, disappeared in 2002 while jogging near her parent's home in Georgetown. Her disappearance remained a mystery since then.

“The sheriff and I were led to believe that this morning Michael Keith Moore was prepared to take responsibility for the disappearance of Rachel Cooke … When it came time to admit his guilt, he entered a plea of ‘not guilty.’ That is his right. And based upon that, the sheriff and I will go back to work and continue to develop information to develop to prosecute Michael Moore,” Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley said.

Bradley would not answer questions on whether Cooke’s body had been found.

“There were several things that Michael told us that only the person who was involved in the abduction and the probable slaying of Rachel Cooke could have known. We verified the facts that he gave us and it was pretty obvious, well it was completely obvious, that he had to have been there … at the location and that his confession in all likelihood is true,” Williamson County Sheriff James Wilson said.

The decision to bring Moore into court was made to provide closure to the Cooke family, Bradley said.

“And I regret that Michael Keith Moore, at least at this moment, passed on the opportunity to help them with that closure and resolve this case,” Bradley said. “One of the mottos that I live by is, the worst thing someone can do is get me to notice them, to get me to pay attention to their case more than any other case and to bring the resources that we have more and more to bear on that."

The morning’s events were upsetting to the Cooke family.

“We were ready for this phase of it, but he’s decided to play with us a little bit, but we’re still here, we’re not going away,” Janet Cooke, Rachel’s mother, said. “Closure’s going to come in bits and pieces, I think. And, I think, we got a little bit today.”

“Oh, I’m extremely angry, but I’ve been angry for four years, but I channel it in other directions,” Robert Cooke, Rachel’s father, said. “I just couldn’t believe that he would … put us through this, what his motives were to string us along and tell all the information he had told so far and not go through with it,” Robert said of the “not guilty” plea.

“I’d like to see him stay in jail the rest of his life. He’s a predator. He’s killed two people at least. That’s what we know. That’s what I know,” Robert said. “I think it’s hard to consider him a person. This is not a person.”

Robert had a few words for Moore.

“Come forward and be a man for once in your life and tell the truth,” he said.

Moore’s involvement in the case was not made known to the Cooke family until Wednesday, Robert said.

For more information on the case, visit rachelcookesearch.org.

Anyone with information in the Cooke case should call (512) 818-0494, (512) 966-6561 or (512) 818-2184.

http://news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=174419

[Nut44x4]

Georgetown girl's disappearance spans six years
1/10/2008 5:15 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
Rachel Cooke disappeared during a jog in Georgetown, six years ago Thursday. No one has seen her since.

She vanished near her family's home there. Since then there have been few leads.

Last year there was a possible break when Michael Keith Moore, who was convicted of killing a Round Rock woman, was expected to plead guilty to Rachel's murder.

At the surprise of lawyers, including Rachel's family, Moore pleaded not guilty.

The Williamson County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate this case, and Michael Moore remains in prison.

Cooke's family is offering a $50,000 reward for pertinent information leading to her disappearance.
http://news8austin.com/content/your_news/?SecID=278&ArID=197950

[Grande]

Michael Keith Moore's criminal history
11/9/2006 1:30 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

Moore has a criminal history dating back to 1992:
Nov. 28, 1992: Charged with Criminal Mischief in Williamson County, punishment deferred
Feb. 22, 1993: Charged with Credit Card Abuse in Williamson County, released on police recognizance, 60 days in jail, 10 years probation
Jan. 25, 1994: Charged with Aggravated Robbery in Williamson County, no sentence data available
Dec. 4, 1998: Charged with Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon in Austin, 20 days in jail
Nov. 27, 2001: Charged with Credit Card Abuse in Williamson County
Dec. 19, 2001: Charged with Aggravated Robbery and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Felon in Williamson County, sentence data unavailable
Jan. 10, 2002: Rachel Cook disappears
Jan. 17, 2002: Arrested for Credit Card Abuse in Round Rock
Jan. 18, 2002: Charged with Theft in Williamson County
June 24, 2002: Sentenced to 14 months in prison, date of release not known
Sept. 23. 2003: Christina Moore is murdered in her Round Rock home
May 13, 2004: Arrested for Unlawfully carrying a weapon in Williamson County
July 2, 2004: Moore enters prison
Nov. 11, 2004: Indicted for Christina Moore's murder. Charged with Aggravated Robbery, Murder and Aggravated Kidnapping in Williamson County.
Feb. 13, 2006: Pleads guilty to murder and other charges. Sentenced to three life terms to be served consecutively.
Nov. 9, 2006: Charged with the murder of Rachel Cooke in Williamson County. Enters a plea of "not guilty."

http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=174444&SecID=2

[Roamer]

For Rachel and her family. :1222423:

I hope someday she is found, so they can take her home in some way.

[Nut44x4]

??? Why was this moved to FOUND?? Did I miss something?

[Roamer]

No, I moved it and I shouldn't have, since they haven't found her body.

Putting it back now. :a1chic:

[Faith]

For Rachel and her family :1222423:

[packy]

Too bad he backed off on the agreement. So heartbreaking all the way around.

[Battnt]

God bless that family...They have been through so much...:1222423:

[Audie]

Not far from where Rachel vanished....

Possible human remains found in Lake Travis

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=209660

I wish they had given more info regarding how old the remains may be...still waiting on this.A little more on this story:

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?s=8386140

[Faith]

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A father's journal



KVUE News stories

Rachel Cooke disappears http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke/rachel1.wmv)
The search for Rachel Cooke continues http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke/rachel2.wmv)
A mother's poetic tribute to her missing daughter http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke/rachel3.wmv)
Singer/Songwriter Al White performs a tribute to Rachel Cooke http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke.rachel4.wmv)
A poem by Rachel's sister (http://www.kvue.com/breaking/stories/0516kvuepoem-jw.91ef9f1a.html)
Sister of McDuff victim helping Cooke family (http://www.kvue.com/breaking/stories/042403kvuebible-jw.12f8b4605.html)

http://www.kvue.com/news/rachelcooke/

[Faith]

KVUE News stories

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The search for Rachel Cooke continues http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke/rachel2.wmv)
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Singer/Songwriter Al White performs a tribute to Rachel Cooke http://www.kvue.com/images/icon_video.gif (http://www.kvue.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.kvue.com/cooke.rachel4.wmv)
A poem by Rachel's sister (http://www.kvue.com/breaking/stories/0516kvuepoem-jw.91ef9f1a.html)
Sister of McDuff victim helping Cooke family (http://www.kvue.com/breaking/stories/042403kvuebible-jw.12f8b4605.html)






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Rachel Cooke related links

RachelCookeSearch.org (http://www.rachelcookesearch.org/)
Search poster with information on $50,000 reward (http://www.rachelcookesearch.org/english_reward_poster.html)
Order a Rachel Cooke ribbon (http://www.rachelcookesearch.org/ribbons.html)
Rachel Alert Network site (http://rachelalert.org/)


http://www.kvue.com/news/rachelcooke/

[sarahhod]

Rachel Cooke’s family marks seven years of her disappearance
By Miguel Liscano | Thursday, January 8, 2009, 04:49 PM

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/williamson/entries/2009/01/08/rachel_cookes_family_marks_sev.html



The family of Rachel Cooke, who disappeared in 2002 while on a daytime jog northwest of Georgetown, will gather Saturday at a billboard erected to help solve her disappearance, her father Robert Cooke said.

Saturday marks the seventh anniversary of the day Cooke vanished. The family will gather at 2 p.m., Cooke said.

The billboard space, donated by Reagan Outdoor Advertising, includes a picture of Cooke, who was 19 when she disappeared, and includes numbers for the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, (512) 943-1300, and Crime Stoppers, 1-800-253-STOP.

“We’re hoping it will get people back thinking about Rachel again,” her father said.

The billboard, along northbound Interstate 35 just north of the Grand Avenue exit in Austin, went up in mid-December, Robert Cooke said. He said he wasn’t certain how long it would stay up.

[Nut44x4]

Not far from where Rachel vanished....

Possible human remains found in Lake Travis

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=209660

I wish they had given more info regarding how old the remains may be...still waiting on this.

Just to calrify on the above. Identified as Jeffrey Michael Prout of Austin, born Aug. 22, 1977.

[packy]

Thanks for the clarification, Nut. My condolences to Jeffrey's family. Peace for him now.

[packy]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/11/0111cooke.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=52

On Saturday afternoon, more than a dozen family members and friends gathered by a billboard with Rachel's picture in North Austin to mark the anniversary of the day she vanished. The billboard is along southbound Interstate 35 just north of Grand Avenue Parkway.

"I miss her," Cooke said. "Regardless of who it was who took her, he owes the family the decency of at least letting us know what happened.

"We know no more now than we knew that first day. And that's got to change."

[sarahhod]

Georgetown family keeps search alive for missing daughter

http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=228760&SecID=2

1/10/2009 5:26 PM
By: Heidi Zhou


Rachel Cooke was 19-years-old when she went missing. She'd be 26 today.

Finding closure in a tragedy is an unimaginable task to cope with and it's even more difficult to move on in life when there are looming unanswered questions.

The Cooke family has lived in that void for seven years.

"I've had people tell me to just get over it. What they don't understand is she's a piece of my heart. When you take it out, you never get over it," Rachel Cooke's mother, Janet said.

Rachel Cooke was 19-years-old when she went on a morning jog and never returned home.

"She'd probably have her own boutique or line of fashion wear," Janet said.

Many questions remain but both parents are certain that someone is still at large.

"Someone's still out there. Someone took her and they need to find him and bring him to justice," Robert Cooke said. "We'd also like to bring her home."

That need has driven the Cooke family to undertake endless walks, ceremonies and other public events for Rachel.

Rachel Cook went missing seven years ago today and the Cooke family is still searching for answers.

The family's most recent effort in finding answers is through a billboard. It contains the same information they've been giving for the last seven years. It advertises a $50,000 reward and a description of Rachel Cooke on the day she disappeared.

"I can't even imagine how anybody could hurt somebody with such a good heart. It just doesn't make sense," Janet Cooke said.

But the Cooke's aren't giving up just yet.

"It's not over. We don't know. Until I know, I'm going to keep going," she said.

Convicted murderer Michael Keith Moore confessed in 2006 to killing Rachel Cooke. But prosecutors dropped the murder charge after Moore pleaded not guilty during the trial. Cooke's family said right now the police have no promising leads.

They ask that if you have information about Rachel Cooke's disappearance, please call the Williamson County Sheriff's Office at (512) 943-1312.

[sarahhod]

Georgetown family puts up billboard for missing daughter


http://www.keyetv.com/news/local/story/Georgetown-family-puts-up-billboard-for-missing/33-YbcO5BUy-_Lx5uFb-jA.cspx

CBS 42 Reporter: Rebecca Taylor
Last Update: 1/10 10:55 pm

The family of a woman missing for seven years is still holding onto hope.

Hoping a new billboard might help locate her and prevent other women from disappearing.

The new billboard along I-35, just south of Grand Ave. Parkway, displays a picture of Rachel Cooke and offers a $50,000 reward for information that could help the Cooke family locate their daughter

Saturday, there was a service on the side of the highway to remember the girl that disappeared.

“When I found out she was running at the time, I was heartbroken,” said Angie King, a friend of Rachel Cooke’s.

Rachel Cooke was jogging near her parents Georgetown home the last time anyone saw her.

It has been seven long years of heartache for the parents left behind who hope this billboard will generate new leads.

“I think the chances of her being alive are very, very slim, we have a little hope that she's there, but even if she's not, we need to bring her home,” said Rachel’s father, Robert Cooke.

Friends who knew her from high school, where she ran track, are determined to find answers.

“We will find her. One way or another we will find her and we will bring her home,” friend Melinda Dycus said.

Family and friends believe pleading with the public will help.

“If everybody needs anything please just give a call and bring some answers to her family and friends it's been a long time,” King said.

Rachel’s mother, Janet Cooke, says she'll never stop looking.

“We ain't quitting till it's over. Sometimes you gotta keep being a squeaky wheel,” Janet said.

She says she hopes someone, somewhere, will help her find the daughter she lost.

Anyone with any information about the case is asked to call the Williamson County Sheriff's department.

[sarahhod]

Seven years later, Rachel Cooke's family still looking for answers
Family and friends marked the anniversary of Cooke's disappearance on Saturday.

http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/01/11/0111cooke.html


By Miguel Liscano
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Janet Cooke says she wakes up every morning hopeful that day will be the day her daughter Rachel's disappearance is solved.

But every night for the last seven years, she said, she's fallen asleep disappointed.

"It's rough," she said. "But I'm not giving up."

Rachel Cooke was 19 when she disappeared Jan. 10, 2002, during a daytime jog near her parents' home northwest of Georgetown. After a massive search, thousands of leads that went nowhere and one apparently phony confession, Cooke remains missing.

Still, her family perseveres.

On Saturday afternoon, more than a dozen family members and friends gathered by a billboard with Rachel's picture in North Austin to mark the anniversary of the day she vanished. The billboard is along southbound Interstate 35 just north of Grand Avenue Parkway.

"I miss her," Cooke said. "Regardless of who it was who took her, he owes the family the decency of at least letting us know what happened.

"We know no more now than we knew that first day. And that's got to change."

The billboard, paid for by Reagan Outdoor Advertising along with the Williamson County district attorney's office, went up in mid-December, said Robert Cooke, Rachel's father. It includes numbers for the sheriff's office, 512-943-1300, and CrimeStoppers, 1-800-253-STOP, in case passers-by want to share information.

"We want everybody to keep their eyes and ears open," Robert Cooke said. "We need to bring Rachel home."

Her family also maintains a Web site, www.rachelcookesearch.org, to help in the search.

Robert Cooke said he, along with law enforcement, received thousands of tips just after his daughter disappeared — from psychics trying to help to random people providing false information.

These days, he said, he gets about a dozen e-mails or calls a year from people telling him they know where Rachel can be found.

So far, none of the tips has panned out.

Only one person, Michael Moore, has ever been charged in connection with Cooke's disappearance.

In 2006, Moore, already serving concurrent life sentences for the 2003 murder of Christina Moore in her Round Rock home, told authorities he killed Cooke and pointed them to where he supposedly left her body.

But just when he was expected to plead guilty to her death in a Williamson County courtroom, he backed out of a plea agreement with the district attorney's office.

Her body was never found.

Robert Cooke said Moore's insertion into the case resulted in some thinking it has been solved.

"A lot of people think the case is over, that it's closed," he said. But "Rachel still hasn't come home."

He said he hopes that the sign helps and that one day someone will call with the tip that leads him to his daughter.

"Somebody knows something," he said.

[AmyE]

http://www.rachelalert.org/

[emmeblu]

Rachel Cooke :1222423:

Saying another prayer for Rachel's family.

[annalyzer]

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cooke_rachel.html

http://www.rachelcookesearch.org/

http://rcooke.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=1523865

[annalyzer]

Moore said he toyed with investigators----Convicted killer explains why he
recanted confession in disappearance of Rachel Cooke.

The last time Michael Keith Moore surfaced in public, he was expected to
admit to kidnapping and killing Rachel Cooke, whose 2002 disappearance
still haunts her family and Williamson County.

But Moore, serving life sentences for a 2003 murder, pleaded not guilty in
November in the Cooke case reneging on a deal with prosecutors and
dragging the Cooke family through another round of bitter disappointment.

Now Moore, in his 1st prison interview since that surprise plea, said he
was telling the truth when he pleaded not guilty. He claims he duped
investigators because he was getting special treatment in prison,
including extra visits with his ex-wife and having prison infractions
wiped off his record, as long as he cooperated.

Investigators, calling Moore a born manipulator, aren't buying his story.

Cooke's father isn't sure what to think.

"It's kind of hard to tell with this guy. He's probably a compulsive liar.
He's a predator, and that's part of the way he goes after people is to
lie," Robert Cooke said. "He's definitely a suspect, and they have to look
closely at him. But based on his history, how much of what he says can you
believe?

"I'm hoping somehow we can piece all this together. Either get more
evidence on him, or else omit him," Robert Cooke said.

Shortly after his not guilty plea, Moore scheduled then canceled
interviews with several TV and newspaper reporters. The American-Statesman
published a profile of Moore in December that characterized him as a
narcissist who craves attention and who believes his intelligence allows
him to toy with, and outwit, investigators.

Moore, who has spent most of his adult life in prison, took exception to
that article in a January letter to the newspaper, but fell silent when
invited to give his version of events.

Since January, no investigators have interviewed Moore in prison, and
after 3 months without contact, Moore sent a letter to the Statesman in
mid-May offering to talk. "Earlier the better for me," he wrote. "I will
not cancel out this time."

Sitting behind the bullet-proof glass in the visitors lounge of the Hughes
Unit in Gatesville, with his thick forearms heavily tattooed, Moore was
wary at first and asked if the reporter was acting on behalf of the FBI or
Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley.

He warmed to the task of describing how investigators should have seen the
holes in his story about kidnapping Cooke, who was 19 when she
disappeared. And he apologized to the Cooke family for promising closure
in the case and then failing to deliver.

"I can imagine them thinking their daughter, their loved one, just
disappeared again right there in that court. That's what I feel so bad
about," said Moore, 31.

For Robert Cooke, the apology rings hollow: "That's the part I don't
believe. I don't think he cares."

Moore insists that he got caught up in a game with investigators,
especially Fred Rhea with the FBI's violent crimes task force. Rhea was
the one who brought up Rachel Cooke, Moore said, and he played along,
right up to his confession.

"I already went so far, I guess you could say I made my bed, so I had to
lie in it," Moore said. "I guess you could say I was basically being an
(expletive), thinking about what benefits I could get from this guy coming
to see me, this FBI guy."

Changing his story

Moore told investigators that he was driving around Georgetown on the
morning of Jan. 10, 2002, in search of businesses or homes to break into.
He said he drove past Cooke, who was jogging. He pulled over and parked,
he said, and then ran a short distance in front of his truck before
turning around. Pretending to be out jogging, Moore said, he timed his run
so he and Cooke would meet at his truck, where he hit her in the head with
a hammer.

He told investigators he drove her to another location and raped her, hid
her body in the truck's large toolbox, and then drove to Matagorda Bay to
hide the body.

He changed his plea in court, Moore said, because he didn't want to help
"somebody get away with murder."

Bradley, the district attorney, scoffs at that notion.

"I would note that Michael Keith Moore is serving 4 life sentences, is a
psychopathic killer, a proven pathological liar, and has repeatedly used
the media to manipulate his circumstances. It would appear to me that he's
attempting to manipulate the media once again," Bradley said.

Before his February 2006 trial in the murder of Christina Moore, no
relation, Michael Moore made several calls to KVUE-TV, saying he was
innocent but knew who had killed the Round Rock woman. He declined to
reveal names for fear that his wife would be killed, KVUE reported.

In fact, Moore slit Christina Moore's throat as she kneeled in her bedroom
closet on Sept. 23, 2003. She was 35 and 3 months pregnant.

Prosecutors sought a capital murder verdict, and possible death sentence,
but jurors declined finding Moore guilty of murder, aggravated robbery
and aggravated kidnapping.

Before his sentence could be imposed, Moore pleaded guilty and received
concurrent life sentences.

Investigators, stumped for years by Cooke's disappearance, approached
Moore last year in the belief that somebody who had killed once might have
killed before.

Moore's confession was the product of repeated meetings, including a
supervised visit to Matagorda Bay, where Moore said he pointed out the
cove where he threw Cooke's body, covered in a tarp and weighed down by
rocks.

Searches revealed no sign of her body.

Speaking this week from prison, Moore said he lied about the cove,
choosing a secluded spot after being driven around the bay for several
hours.

He also said his confession about Cooke's disappearance should have raised
questions, such as:

How could he have feigned jogging in street clothes?

Wouldn't a hammer-carrying jogger, or one running with one arm behind his
back, raise suspicions?

If Moore was casing businesses for a break-in, wouldn't they have been
open by the time Cooke disappeared, estimated to be after 9:15 a.m.?

Moore also said he gave away the large metal toolbox, which he had claimed
was used to hide Cooke's body, two months before Cooke's disappearance.

Finally, he said, he was so muscular after lifting weights before his 2000
release from prison, "I wouldn't need a hammer. That's something
(investigators) would know."

Bradley declined to discuss an ongoing investigation.

"We're going to behave professionally and not have a public debate about
Michael Moore," Bradley said.

"We are going to continue to collect evidence in hopes that someday we can
prosecute him for the death of Rachel Cooke."

Rachel's Cooke's father said he merely hopes for some finality.

"We just don't know. We've got (Moore) out there, but I don't think we
should 100 % focus on him, based on the lies that he's told in the past,"
Robert Cooke said.

"It's hard for me to know what part of that story is true right now."

(source: Austin American-Statesman)

http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/msg05285.html

[annalyzer]

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/cooke.htm

http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200301521W

http://www.nampn.org/cases/cooke_rachel.html

[annalyzer]

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/criminal/clu1102/clu_images/kidnappe.jpg
This individual is suspected of kidnapping Rachel Cooke.

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/criminal/clu1102/clupoet.htm

[annalyzer]

A poetic tribute to a missing daughter

A mother's poem contains a message for those who may have taken Rachel Cooke, March 6, 2002. Rachel Cooke disappeared January 10, 2002 as she finished a six-mile run near her parents' Georgetown, Texas home. Despite massive searches by an army of volunteers and law enforcement personnel, the whereabouts of the 19-year old college student remain a mystery. Her mother wrote this as a tribute to her daughter --- and a message to Rachel's possible abductors. She shared it with KVUE-TV in Austin and KVUE.com.

Janet Cooke's poem for her daughter

Rachel

With each passing day
Comes the evening grey -
And another tear.
Rachel where are you?
Come home to me.
A warm smiling face
Twinkling eye
A bounce in your step
Caring heart
driving dreams.

So many hopes yet to dream
So many dreams yet to achieve.
Playing dress up
Barbie dolls
Weebles that wobble
Sheera and sidewalk chalk
Panda Bears
PooBee
Peep Pie
Playing giddy up horsey on that Old Oak Tree
Make believe cannons fired off the deck.
So full of life
Yet dreams to dream
Stars to reach.
We walked the beach
searched for treasures
Jumped the waves
Snorkled beautiful reefs
of faraway lands.
Whenever you needed
you reached out your hand.
Mine would be there
to love, guide and protect.
Now I feel so helpless - What can I do?
Sweet and Melodic
the words of a song.
Take flight from your lips
and touch my heart.
So much to say to so many
We search night and day.
Oh Rachel our angel
What can we say?
Whoever is knowing -
You must know we care.
Let Rachel come home
Or please tell us where.

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