Julia Quintana, 16, (Found Deceased / ARREST MADE) Deerfield, KS

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Body Of Missing Teen Found In Dumpster
No Suspects In Custody In Death Of Kan. Girl

POSTED: 5:43 pm CST December 16, 2008
UPDATED: 6:25 pm CST December 16, 2008
GARDEN CITY, Kan. -- The body of a missing 16-year-old has been found in a southwest Kansas Dumpster.

The Garden City Police Department said in a news release that detectives searched the Dumpster Tuesday morning after receiving a tip. The body of Julia Quintana, of Deerfield, has been taken to Wichita for an autopsy.

Family members of the teen had filed a missing person report Sunday in Kearny County. They also contacted officials from Garden City, which is located in neighboring Finney County.

The agencies began a joint search for the teen.

Police said no suspects were in custody. But detectives have obtained a warrant to search the address where her body was found.
http://www.kctv5.com/news/18294097/detail.html?rss=kan&psp=news

[foxfarmboxers]

I couldn't find a thread on this case....thought I'd post here...???....




Body of Missing Kan. Teen Found in Dumpster
Posted by: Aaron Heintzelman
Email: heintzelman@nbcactionnews.com
Contributor: Mike Markewinski
Last Update: 4:31 pm
Julia Quintana (Courtesy <a href="http://www.ksn.com/" target="_blank">KSN Wichita</a>)
Julia Quintana (Courtesy KSN Wichita)
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. – Friends and family of a missing teenager found dead in a dumpster describe the 16-year old as happy and a good friend.




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Body of Missing Kan. Teen Found in Dumpster

Posted by: Aaron Heintzelman
Email: heintzelman@nbcactionnews.com (heintzelman@nbcactionnews.com)
Contributor: Mike Markewinski
Last Update: 4:31 pm

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/media/news/d/2/e/d2ea25ba-669a-43d0-8b07-49161b4e5169/Story.jpg (javascript:void(0);) Julia Quintana (Courtesy KSN Wichita (http://www.ksn.com/))

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GARDEN CITY, Kan. – Friends and family of a missing teenager found dead in a dumpster describe the 16-year old as happy and a good friend.

Garden City Police discovered the body of Julia Quintana behind a home in the 1000 block of North Fourth Street Tuesday around 9 a.m.

"A 16 year old, at you know, the prime of their life, their life is taken. I can't speak for the community but we're going to work this case diligently," said Captain Michael Utz, with the Garden City Police department.

Quintana’s family had filed a missing persons report Sunday in Kearney County and had contacted authorities in nearby Garden City.

Many of Quintana’s friends learned of her death while they were in school Tuesday, forcing some to leave class.

"I knew they were going to say something about that, like for some reason I just knew, and I just started crying,” said Kayla Cruz.

A warrant was served late Tuesday on the address where the body was found.

No suspects were in custody.

[Faith]

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[gabby]

How sad!

[sarahhod]

Published online 12/18/2008 11:47 PM

Friends recall efforts to reach, find teenager

http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/friends2008-12-18T21-47-01

By Shajia Ahmad - The Garden City Telegram - sahmad@gctelegram.com



Karen Morales said she and her friends "waited and waited" for one of their closest friends, Julia Quintana, to arrive at Morales' 16th birthday party on Saturday night.

"I know she was coming," said Morales, a classmate and close friend. "She called me at 4:16 (p.m.) and told me she was going to run some errands before coming."

An hour and a half into the small gathering, Morales said, they began to worry. Where was Julia? They called and sent text messages on their cell phones, they said, but there was no answer.

The 16-year-old Deerfield teenager never showed up to the party.

Quintana's body was found in a Garden City trash bin on Tuesday morning in the west alley behind 1009 N. Fourth St. Police say they were acting on a tip.

Officials are investigating the case as a homicide but will not release the cause of Quintana's death until an autopsy report is completed in Wichita.

Garden City police Capt. Mike Utz said law enforcement officials are working on several leads but have made no arrests. He said he could not comment on any possible suspects.

"We're still trying to put together a timeline of events," Utz said. "We're encouraging any of her friends or people who knew her to tell us if they called or texted her so we have a more definitive timeline on when she was last seen. We only have preliminary information at this time."

Morales and a mutual friend, Katie Freburg, 15, said they left the party to go looking for their friend. When they couldn't find Quintana, they called her mother, Monica Espinoza, who joined them in the search.

Quintana's family filed a missing-persons report with the Kearny County Sheriff's Office on Sunday and later the same day with the Garden City Police Department. The GCPD said it followed up on leads Sunday after several interviews with friends and checked several possible locations for the missing girl.

Friends and family posted fliers around Garden City businesses on Sunday and Monday.

"Even if you barely met her, she'd already have you laughing in five minutes," said Morales, who became friends with Quintana at the New Outlook Academy, 1404 Jones Ave., where they were both sophomores. "She was really bubbly, silly, crazy and funny."

Freburg, 15, a Deerfield High School student, said Quintana, her friend of four years, was "very strong-hearted."

"Julia was the type of person who just comes up and forgives you; she really believed in God," said Freburg, who had been friends with the teenage girl since she was 11 and Quintana was 12, she said.

Both friends said Quintana was like any normal teenage girl - the friends would go shopping together, hang out with friends and talk about boys. They were impressed that Quintana could cut and dye her own hair.

"Oh, my God, she was obsessed with her hair," said Morales in between tears. "She dyed her hair so much it was about ready to fall out."

Friends said Quintana liked cross country, track, boxing and wrestling, and the 16-year-old was a member of the Garden City High School wrestling team.

Freburg said she and Quintana began going to a local church youth group at the Bible Christian Church, 1404 E. Mary St., in recent months.

Kent Wagner, the youth group director for about six years, said he had several interactions with Quintana.

"Julia seemed to come from a rough life, and she was trying to figure out how God fit into it," said Wagner. Quintana's white Pontiac Aztec was found abandoned in the 300 block of Sixth Street near Finnup Park on Sunday. Police have said they will not comment on the vehicle's connection with the case or specific evidence.

Officials from the Kearny County Sheriff's Office, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Finney County Attorney's Office are assisting the GCPD with the case.

This is the first homicide investigation this year in Garden City. Anyone with information should contact the GCPD at (620) 276-1300.

[Grande]

Garden City PD make arrest in teen's killing
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the death of a teenage girl whose body was found in a Garden City trash bin last week.

Police said Monday that Joaquin Deanda of Garden City is being held in the Southwest Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of first-degree murder, rape, sodomy and obstruction.

The arrest is related to the disappearance and death of 16-year-old Julia Quintana of Deerfield. She went missing Dec. 13 and police -- acting on a tip -- found her body Tuesday in a trash bin across the street from the suspect's home.

Police say an autopsy showed that Quintana died due to suffocation and also sustained a broken neck. The autopsy also indicted that she was sexually assaulted.

Funeral services for Quintana are scheduled for Monday afternoon at the United Methodist Church in Deerfield.

http://www.hdnews.net/wirestories/k1034-BC-KS-BodyInDumpster-Ar-1stLd-Writethru-12-22-0205

[packy]

My condolences to Julia's family and friends.

[DarkOrchid]

Garden City PD make arrest in teen's killing
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the death of a teenage girl whose body was found in a Garden City trash bin last week.

Police said Monday that Joaquin Deanda of Garden City is being held in the Southwest Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of first-degree murder, rape, sodomy and obstruction.

The arrest is related to the disappearance and death of 16-year-old Julia Quintana of Deerfield. She went missing Dec. 13 and police -- acting on a tip -- found her body Tuesday in a trash bin across the street from the suspect's home.

Police say an autopsy showed that Quintana died due to suffocation and also sustained a broken neck. The autopsy also indicted that she was sexually assaulted.

Funeral services for Quintana are scheduled for Monday afternoon at the United Methodist Church in Deerfield.

http://www.hdnews.net/wirestories/k1034-BC-KS-BodyInDumpster-Ar-1stLd-Writethru-12-22-0205

This story is just heartbreaking. Do the police know if this boy knew her? I wonder if it was random or???

So sad. My thoughts are with her family and friends.
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What an awful thing to have happened. My condolance go out to Julia's family and freinds. Will be praying for justice for this young woman and her family.

[Grande]

Arson suspect accused of murder in Kansas
By Lola Shrimplin
La Junta Tribune-Democrat
Fri Jan 23, 2009, 01:56 PM MST

A 17-year-old male arrested in April under suspicion of arson on West Fourth Street in La Junta now stands accused of murder in Kansas.

Because of the age of the defendant (16 at the time), authorities in Colorado could not release his name, but calls to the Garden City Police Department and the Finney County District Court confirmed the juvenile was the same one arrested in Kansas on first degree murder charges in December.

Joaquin Deanda, 1009 N. Fourth St., Garden City, Kan., was arrested Dec. 21, 2008 on allegations of first-degree murder, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and felony obstruction of the legal process in connection with the death of a Deerfield, Kan., girl.

Deanda's mother, Margie Romero, who lived at the same address, is not a suspect at this time, according to the Garden City Police Department.
16-year-old Julia Quintana's body was found on Dec. 16 in a Dumpster in the west alley behind Deanda's residence.

Quintana was reported missing Dec. 13, after she failed to show up for a birthday party.

A motion in Finney County District Court to try Deanda as an adult was filed Jan. 13.

Deanda's next hearing is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Finney County District Court.

Deanda was arrested in April in La Junta on suspicion of arson related to the fire at 409 W. Fourth Street.

In an arrest affidavit received by the Tribune-Democrat from the La Junta Police Department, the juvenile was charged with first degree arson.
The affadavit states that Captain Rod Davidson Jr. was assisting fire personnel at the scene of the fire. Davidson noticed a male juvenile resident of the house and spoke with the juvenile's mother, Margie Romero.
Romero told Davidson that the juvenile had told her that he started the house on fire because he was mad.

The juvenile was transported to the La Junta Police Department with his mother and advised of his Miranda Rights on a written form.

During the interview the juvenile stated he had full and complete knowledge of starting the fire and had no remorse about damaging the property. He told Davidson that he started the fire by spraying Axe cologne on the bed and lighting it on fire, according to the affidavit. He also stated that he started some clothes on fire in a clothes basket in his room.

The juvenile was arrested and probation screened, then transported to the Otero County Sheriff's Office and released to the duty jailer.

He was later taken to the Pueblo youth detention center.

Several items were discovered in the house by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and were taken to Pueblo for testing.

According to the La Junta Police Department, the juvenile was released from the Pueblo youth detention center and returned to La Junta for a period of time, before his family moved to Garden City.

Attorney Marty Barta of the District Attorney's Office for the 16th Judicial District said Deanda bonded out of the Pueblo facility, with either his mother or his grandparents cosigning for him.

Because Deanda is facing charges in Kansas, the charge of arson will have to wait, Barta said.

"Right now the case is suspended until Kansas figures out what they're going to do with him," Barta said.

The Tribune was unable to receive the arrest affadavit for Deanda from the Garden City Police Department because it is part of the record and as such is not covered under the open records act in Kansas, according to Sgt. Michael Reagle of the GCPD.

Deanda was a former classmate of Quintana's at the New Outlook Academy, 1401 Jones Ave., in Garden City and is currently being held at the Finney County Jail.

Law enforcement officials in Kansas said prior to the murder, they had no reason to believe Quintana had been abducted and could not issue an AMBER Alert to help locate her.

An autopsy report revealed that Quintana had been suffocated, sustained a broken neck and had been sexually assaulted.

A missing persons report was filed by Quintana's family on Dec. 14, with the Kearny County Sheriff's Office and another was later filed with the Garden City Police Department because family members believed she was somewhere in Garden City, according to the Garden City Telegram.

The Kearny County Sheriff's Office, the Finney County Sheriff's Office, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Finney County Attorney's Office are assisting the Garden City Police Department with the investigation.

Deanda's attorney is Doug Spencer, Oakley, Kan.

http://www.lajuntatribunedemocrat.com/homepage/x1722729111/Arson-suspect-accused-of-murder-in-Kansas

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Man to stand trial for murder

February 25, 2010 - 8:21am
GARDEN CITY — A Garden City man will be arraigned March 31 in the death of a teenager whose body was found in a Dumpster.

Eighteen-year-old Joaquin De Anda was bound over for trial Wednesday after a two-day preliminary hearing in Finney County Court.

Anda is charged with first-degree murder, rape, aggravated and criminal sodomy in the death of 16-year-old Julia Quintana, of Deerfield. Her body was found in a Dumpster on Dec. 16, 2008, behind a Garden City home where De Anda used to live.

De Anda was 17 when the crime occurred but Judge Michael L. Quint ruled that he would be tried as an adult.

http://cjonline.com/news/state/2010-02-25/man_to_stand_trial_for_murder