Dannarriah Finley ORANGE, TEXAS JULY 4, 2002
MURDER VICTIM Dannarriah Finley DESCRIPTION Age: 4 years old Hair: Black Sex: Female Eyes: Brown Height: 3'7" Race: Black Weight: 43 pounds Complexion: Light Remarks: Dannarriah Finley was last seen wearing a white floral shirt and purple shorts. She wore her hair in braids. THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THE CRIME Dannarriah Finley was last seen in the bedroom of her home in Orange, Texas on the morning of July 4, 2002. She was reported missing later that afternoon. It is unknown whether she was abducted from her bedroom or from outside of the residence. Finley's body was discovered on July 8, 2002, in an isolated area on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur, Texas, approximately 27 miles from her residence. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS CASE, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE. DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 TELEPHONE: (202) 324-3000 http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/seekinfo/finley.htm

Police have suspect in Dannarriah case By Margaret Toal The Orange Leader 02/25/2004 Orange police have organized evidence against a person suspected of kidnapping and killing Dannarriah Finley, 4, in 2002. "We believe we know who the person is," said Police Chief Sam Kittrell. No one has been arrested and no charges have been filed. Kittrell said the department organized evidence and laboratory reports and turned them over to the Orange County District Attorney's Office. He said the district attorney's office will review the evidence and reports to make sure everything is in order before presenting the case to a grand jury for an indictment. The little girl with a shy smile in her pre-school photograph captured the attention of thousands of people. Her mother reported her missing on July 4, 2002, from their house on Fourth Street in Orange. Hundreds of volunteers searched the town for the next few days. Volunteers came from across Texas and from other states, some bringing helicopters and some bringing horses. A pipeline inspector on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur found the child's body the morning of July 7, 2002. The autopsy showed she had been sexually assaulted. Orange police, along with the FBI and other area law enforcement agencies have worked the case for months. Numerous tests have been run on registered sex offenders and searches have been made of cars. At one time, police distributed posters with a color photograph of a flowered sheet from a discontinued Springmaid pattern. The child's body had been wrapped in the sheet. Kittrell said there has been a lot of "good hard police work by the many officers that worked on the case day and night." Kittrell said the final report from the FBI lab in Quantico, Va., came back about three months ago. He said it took weeks for officers to review all the evidence and organize the evidence into a case against a suspect. "It's a very complex case," he said. He said the district attorney's office will probably need several weeks to make sure the evidence is ready for a legal case. He said the office is currently busy preparing for a capital murder trial in the case of an Echo area elderly couple that was budgeoned to death in 2003. The person who is arrested in connection with Dannarriah's killing could face capital murder charges, which include the death penalty. Orange Leader

Finley's killer leaves trail of evidence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By MARGARET TOAL - Southeast Texas News Service Posted: 07/25/02 - 12:00:00 am CDT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORANGE--The killer of Dannarriah Finley made mistakes, and police have a lot of physical evidence that can confirm the identity of the killer, police announced Thursday. Dannarriah Finley, 4, was kidnapped from her Fourth Street house in Orange on July 4, and her body was found on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur on July 8. FBI agents from the Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Va., were in Orange this week working with investigative teams to help officers catch the murderer. "From an analysis of the scene, it is indicative that this was not a sophisticated crime, and the person responsible for this crime lacked sophistication," read a press release from the Orange Police Department, the Port Arthur Police Department and the FBI. The release said the killer made mistakes and "has increased the odds that they will be identified." Evidence recovered in the investigation is being analyzed by the FBI Advanced Technologies Division with help from the Behavioral Analysis Unit. The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology is also assisting with analyzing the evidence. Agencies also released a photograph of a knit short outfit like the one Dannarriah was wearing when she disappeared. The sleeveless top has bright flowers on a white background and the shorts are purple. They are hoping someone saw the girl in a car or truck or with someone. Police are asking for information from anyone, particularly truck drivers, who might have seen a person or vehicles on Pleasure Island near where the child's body was found. Inspectors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found her near a pipeline that carries dredging spoils from the ship channel to a disposal site off of Texas 82. The site is about 200 feet off the highway on a relatively new dirt road that is mainly used by the dredging company employees, police said. The site is about 1.6 miles from the Martin Luther King Bridge. For people traveling toward Louisiana on Pleasure Island, the area is on the left side of the roadway, about a quarter mile past the large offshore rig being worked on at the Friede-Goldman site. The offshore rig would be on the right side of the road for someone traveling to Louisiana on Texas 82. "Dannarriah enjoyed playing in the park with her siblings, other relatives or friends," police said. They also want any information on someone who might have seen the little girl playing in the park with "someone paying unusual attention to her." Investigators also want descriptions of any suspicious car or truck that may have been in the area of a park where she might have played. "We realize that many people use the roadway on Pleasure Island to get to recreational or work sites or to travel to or from the State of Louisiana. We are issuing a special appeal to these people and especially to the many truck drivers who have traveled this route," police said. Numbers are Orange Police Department, (409) 883-1095; Port Arthur Police Department, (409) 983-8600; and FBI Beaumont Office, (409) 832-571. In addition to the FBI teams, along with the Orange and Port Arthur police departments, many other law enforcement agencies have been helping track down leads and gather evidence. The agencies are the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the West Orange Police Department and the Texas Rangers. The Jeffersn County Regional Crime Lab and the Medical Examiner's Office also are providing assistance. @agate:Margaret Toal is a staff writer at The Orange Leader. Southeast TNS is a cooperative effort of the Port Arthur News and The Orange Leader. Both papers comprise Southeast Texas Newspaper Group, a subsidiary of cnhi. Port Arthur News

FBI 'profilers' analyze Finley case evidence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By MARGARET TOAL - Southeast Texas News Service Posted: 07/27/02 - 12:00:00 am CDT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The FBI agents in Orange this past week investigating the murder of 4-year-old Dannarriah Finley did statistical analysis rather than psychological studies, said Orange Police Chief Sam Kittrell. The agents from the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI are often called "profilers," but they do not like the label. Kittrell said their special, "criminal investigative analysis" also referred to as "CIA," is more like working mathematics. The agents study thousands of cases from all over the world and work on statistics and probability. Dannarriah's mother, Jaime Arnold reported her to police as missing at 1:07 p.m. July 4. Arnold told police she had been looking for the child since 10 that morning from their Fourth Street house. More than 200 volunteers in addition to dozens of police officers searched for days. Pipeline workers found Dannarriah's body on Pleasure Island in Port Arthur on July 8. A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of her killer. Law enforcement will not discuss specific details about the information the analysts provide on the death of the little Orange girl. But Kittrell gave basic information on how the Behavioral Analysis Unit works. Kittrell said the FBI analysts are "uncluttered with various on-scene stresses and extraneous information." They come to a case and review crime scene information and other investigation information with fresh minds. "Possible motives may be detected as well as determining the sequence of the events which occurred during the offense," he said. The analysts can also review multiple crimes to determine if the same offender was involved. The team can create a personality and behavioral profile of unknown offenders by analyzing the way a crime was committed. "Generally, the person's basic patterns of behavior exhibited in commission of a crime will also be present in that person's lifestyle," Kittrell said. Some of the characteristics that might be included in a personality and behavioral profile are age, race, sex, marital status and social adjustment. The analysts may be able to determine personality characteristics, emotional adjustment, intelligence level, employment history and lifestyle. Other possible information that can be determined includes work habits, sexual adjustment and perversions, and the location where the offender lives in relation to the crime. The agents also might be able to determine the offender's behavior before and after the crime. "No two criminals nor any two criminal acts are identical and therefore the offender is not expected to fit each and every category of the analysis," Kittrell said. A Thursday press release by the FBI and the Orange and Port Arthur police departments said Dannarriah's killer made mistakes and officials have evidence to confirm the identity of someone. "From an analysis of the scene it is indicative that this was not a sophisticated crime and the person responsible for this crime lacked sophistication," the press release read. Margaret Toal is a staff writer at The Orange Leader. Southeast TNS is a cooperative effort of the Port Arthur News and The Orange Leader. Both papers comprise Southeast Texas Newspaper Group, a subsidiary of cnhi. Port Arthur News