Daisja Weaver's father Alandus Weaver, 20, has been charged with capital murder/ Jury Delivers Verdict in Baby Death Case

The parents stories never sounded true and now it turns out the mother had admitted
that the father threw the 9 month's old body into a river. The mother is 6 months
pregnant. It never ends does it.

Good lord, this is awful. Thanks for the update artgal...as horrific as it is.

:( poor sweety

And yet they even weighted him down with a sandbag so he would sink! (according to what I heard on the news)
What has made me wonder right along in this case is what the baby looks like in the pictures released to the media. The legs are much, much too thin, the face much too small---no bloom of good health apparent in that baby that you would expect to see at his age. I just wonder if they were adequately taking care of him in the first place.

Police arrest Texas mom who reported baby missing


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DALLAS (AP) — The mother of a 9-month-old girl who was reported abducted from her home told investigators the baby's father dumped the infant's dead body into a lake, according to court documents released Monday.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8Z5YyXlGO0o5whsryBzwGcQezqwD98RGHHO0

Note from Wrap:

Happy this thread was started!! Please, if you all start a thread about a crime, please make sure you post a link along with it!!

Thanks! :flower:

LOL, opps, I forgot to include links, sorry

Here is the link about the red stained items removed from the new apartment
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/06/father-of-missing-baby-daisja.html

and this article has a link to the mothers affidavit
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/Affidavit_Baby_Dropped_Into_L

I am not buying the Mom is a victim. Bull!!! We always have a choice. She chose to protect the murderer of her baby. Terryrose I agree the baby did not look like she was thriving in the pictures. With another baby on the way DFS better step in to protect the unborn baby.

Butter,I agree...how could she go to work after what happened? And,when she was at work...why not call police if she was innocent.She could have called 911 when she found the baby dead,even if she didn't talk...LE would have came & checked it out.

There are so many people nowadays that don't need to be parents.They are unable (or unwilling) to put their kids wellbeing first. :x

HLN is saying the mom was abused and forced to cover for the crime. And, is it just me or does that poor baby look like she may have come physical disabilities???

It was reported the child had definite problems that is why I was so upset that social workers or someone from the hospital didnt check these people out before letting them take the baby home to make sure they could properly care for her. They didnt and that child is now dead

how sad, this poor angel. this child needed help and fell thru the cracks. please God take the new baby away from it's mother when it is born. She should not be allowed to breed, ever again.

Baby in lake

The Lewisville Lake community and entire D/FW Region was shocked when nine-month-old Daisja Weaver was killed and said to be thrown into the lake. The body was not recovered but her parents have spoken to police.

Authorities believe the infant was tossed from the Interstate highway 35 bridge running across the lake June 9.

Daisja's father Alandus Weaver, 20, has since been charged with capital murder.

In the beginning, the child was reported missing from a North Dallas residence, where the baby's mother Tamaira Creagh, 19, told police the the child was kidnapped during a sexual assault attempt on her.

Weaver has since come clean and said he accidentally drowned the baby during a bath June 8, claiming he poured too much water on her head. The couple then said they panicked and dumped the body the next day and fabricated a story about the sexual assault and kidnapping. Creagh is being charged with evidence tampering.

http://www.lakecities.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=86&ArticleID=4593

For weeks after Dallas police accused him of tying a sandbag to his dead daughter and tossing her from a bridge, the father of 9-month-old Daisja Weaver sat in jail on a charge of tampering with evidence.
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All the while, he told detectives he felt sure Daisja was alive and wanted to help them find her.
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Police now say the father, 20-year-old Alandus Weaver, will face a charge of capital murder in the girl's June 8 death.
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In an interview last week, detectives say, Weaver told them he accidentally drowned the girl while giving her a bath in the kitchen sink. This, along with gruesome details of what followed, are presented in a police affidavit released Thursday.
From the beginning, investigators were skeptical of accounts given by Weaver and the baby's 19-year-old mother, Tamaira Creagh.
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Creagh called 911 on June 9, saying a man entered the family's Far North Dallas apartment while Weaver was not there, tried to sexually assault her and then kidnapped the child.
Later that week, Creagh and her attorney met with detectives, and she told them a different story. She said Weaver picked her up from work June 8, leaving Daisja home alone. When they arrived, she said, the girl was dead.
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Creagh said the girl had bruises on her eyes, cheeks, stomach and back. When she asked Weaver what happened, he didn't answer. Instead, she said, he bullied her into concocting the kidnapping story with him, and later dumped the child's body from a bridge into Lewisville Lake.
Creagh, who was six months pregnant with Weaver's second child, said he'd been violent with her before and she was afraid of him.
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Police arrested the couple on charges of tampering with evidence, and divers spent days combing the dark waters underneath the Interstate 35E bridge. They battled treacherous conditions, feeling their way through debris for the dead child.
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On June 18, still empty-handed, police called off the search. The same day, Creagh was released from jail on $25,000 bail.
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Several days later, according to the newly released affidavit, Creagh approached detectives with a new attorney and said she wanted to cooperate more fully. She described the hours after her daughter's death.
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She said Weaver put Daisja's body in the back of his car and strapped her face down into the car seat. When they went back inside the apartment, he asked her if she wanted to go get something to eat.
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"She told him no!" the affidavit says. "Later on that night, as he lay in the bed with the suspect, she stated that he attempted to have sex with her, and when she said no, he became angry and told her that she did not love him."
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She told the detectives she couldn't sleep that night, thinking of her dead child outside in the car. She said she tried to sneak away while Weaver slept, but he woke and yelled at her.
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The next day, she said, Weaver took her to work in the car. "She didn't want to get inside, because when the suspect opened the door, the smell of the [child's] corpse made her nauseous," the affidavit says. "Regardless ... she agreed to do so, because she was afraid of what he would to her and her unborn child."
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As she worked, she said, other employees told her they saw Weaver sitting in the car waiting for her.
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They drove toward to the lake, stopping at a construction site for a sandbag, which Weaver tied to the child's leg with a cord he brought from home, Creagh said. They pulled over on the bridge, and he put the hood up as if they were having car trouble. Then he forced her to watch as he threw Daisja's body over the side, she said.
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The detectives asked Creagh whether there were any details she left out. She told them this: As she and Weaver left the construction site with the sandbag, they weren't sure of how to get back on the freeway. They saw a police officer parked along the road and pulled over to ask him for directions.
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Detectives have since tracked down the officer, who confirmed he gave Weaver directions.
A week ago, Weaver asked detectives to meet with him at the Denton County Jail, where he was being held, with bail set at $100,000. He told them again he was sure Daisja was alive.
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But further into the interview, the affidavit says, Weaver said the girl drowned while he gave her a bath. He said he poured at least six cups of water over her head to wash out the soap, and it got into her mouth.
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Later, Weaver left jail with the detectives to show them the spot along the bridge where he said he dumped his daughter's body.
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"After some lengthy discussions with the Denton County D.A.'s office," according to a Dallas police statement Thursday, "they believe there is enough circumstantial evidence to proceed with a case against Alandus Weaver and charge him with capital murder."

http://prairiechicken.blogspot.com/2009/10/father-of-9-month-old-daisja-weaver.html

OMG, what a completely horrific ending to this case. All this time, the parents knew they drowned their baby. I hope they get the electric chair.

This is Texas, they don't play!!

Amen, Wrap!----and they seemed so blasé about it! It's like he was acting, oh well, whatever, what's for dinner?-----he's a total void of anything decent and good---like a black hole in empty space!

Look at this picture I found of Daisja. She looks horribly abused. I created a category in our memorials for her.

This poor little baby. I can't imagine it. How could anyone hurt an innocent baby?? Thanks Linda Marie, for putting her in our memorials.

I also found another image of Daisja and she does look abused to say the least
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/stories-keep-changing-in-baby.html

Poor baby looked like she was starved half to death. How do people do these things to innocent babies?

April 2010

A jury on Monday found Alandus Weaver guilty of capital murder in the death of his infant daughter.

It tooks jurors about 5 hours to find that Weaver killed 9-month-old Daisja Weaver in June 2009.

Tamaria Creagh, the baby’s mother, had testified that she was with Weaver when he tossed the infant's body into Lewisville Lake.

Creagh originally told police that someone had kidnapped the baby. Then she said Weaver forced her to lie about what happened. She faces a lesser charge for her cooperation with police.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, another witness also told police Weaver had asked him if there were any lakes nearby. He responded that Lewisville Lake was a good lake.

Defense attorneys had painted a picture of Creagh as a liar. And on Monday Weaver took the stand in his own defense, telling yet another story about what happened to his daughter.

Weaver said Creagh smothered the baby and begged him not to call 911 because she “didn’t want to have a baby in the pen like her mother.” He testified that Creagh threw their daughter’s body in the creek behind their apartment.

But prosecutors in closing arguments said Weaver’s story had changed for the fourth time.

“I am begging you. Do not give this man credit for being good and disposing of a body. Find him guilty of murder and give Daisja the justice she deserves,” said Prosecutor Mike Dickinson.

Family members said they still don’t believe they have the total truth from either of the baby’s parents.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/041210-jury-deliberates-in-baby-death-case

More Justice!!!!!

Daisja's mother didn't end up doing any time. I never believed her story from the start. On the video where she's pleading with the "kidnapper", she starts fake crying and says "Daisja, come back...I need you" How in the hell was a baby that couldn't even walk supposed to COME HOME? These two were in in together and they should both be rotting behind bars.