UPDATE: Raven Abaroa Arrested in Wife's Murder
bella
Michelle Young's husband Jason a few weeks ago, and now finally Raven
Abaroa. Janet Abaroa was murdered in 2005, and Raven, her husband, was
always the only suspect. Like so many of the others, he took their child
and moved away shortly after Janet's murder.
Durham police make arrest in Janet Abaroa murder case
Posted: Today at 8:54 p.m.
Updated: 58 minutes ago
Durham, N.C. - Durham police investigators arrested Raven Abaroa on Monday
and charged him with murder in the April 2005 death of his wife, Janet
Abaroa.
Raven Abaroa, 30, of South 8th St. in Montpelier, Idaho, was taken into
custody at his home without incident.
Janet Christiansen Abaroa, 25, was stabbed to death inside an upstairs
bedroom at her 2606 Ferrand Drive home on Tuesday, April 26, 2005. The
Abaroas' 6-month-old son, Kaiden, was also in the home but was unharmed.
There were no obvious signs of a break-in, but a laptop computer was missing
from the house.
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Raven Abaroa's arrest was a joint operation by the Durham Police Department,
the FBI Task Force, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the
Montpelier Police Department in Idaho, the East Idaho STAR (Special Tactics
and Response) Team and the Bear Lake County Sheriff's Department in Idaho.
"This arrest is the result of hard and tenacious work by our investigators
and a strong partnership with the FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of
Investigation. Investigators continued to follow leads and never gave up,"
Durham Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr.said in a news release.
Complete article & photos at link:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6942948/
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"bella" <tinyda...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Poor baby doesn't want to be sent back to Durham to face murder charges.
Well who the hell *would* want to?
Posted: Today at 2:12 p.m.
Updated: 26 minutes ago
Durham, N.C. - A former Durham resident charged with killing his wife almost
five years ago plans to fight extradition to North Carolina.
Durham police arrested Raven Abaroa, 30, late Monday at his Montpelier,
Idaho, home and charged him with the April 2005 murder of Janet Christiansen
Abaroa, 25. He is being held without bond in Idaho's Caribou County jail.
During an initial court appearance Tuesday, Abaroa requested a
court-appointed attorney and told the judge he didn't want to be sent back
to North Carolina to face the murder charge, according to the Idaho State
Journal. The newspaper said a Feb. 17 extradition hearing was scheduled in
the case.
Janet Abaroa was stabbed to death in an upstairs bedroom at her 2606 Ferrand
Drive home on April 26, 2005. She was pregnant at the time. The Abaroas'
6-month-old son, Kaiden, was also in the home but was unharmed.
In an October 2007 interview with NC Wanted, Raven Abaroa said he had
nothing to do with his wife's death. He told police he was at a soccer game
in Morrisville when she was killed. He found her when he returned home, he
said.
article contines at link;
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6947025/
Here's something from his new wife. I've seen her on one of the National
news shows, 20/20, Dateline, one of those did a program on this case.
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His new wife, Vanessa Pond, and her parents, recently traveled from Utah for
an interview with Durham police investigators. Abaroa and Pond remain
married but are estranged.
"He had me convinced that everyone was trying to frame him, everyone was out
to get him, and (he) had me there on his side," Pond said in an exclusive
interview with NC Wanted.
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Abaroa and Pond met in Utah in December 2007, and on Mother's Day of 2008,
they were engaged. The day of her bridal shower, Pond said, she saw another
side to the man she was to marry.
"He threw me down, and he pushed me around that day," Pond said.
Pond said she searched the Internet for Abaroa's name and found the October
2007 NC Wanted interview.
"He told Vanessa he spent months preparing that interview," her mother,
Jodean Pond, said. "And Vanessa was thinking, 'Why would you have to
prepare?'"
Vanessa Pond said she also watched a Web video, made by Abaroa, which showed
him opening a knife in front of his first wife, talking about it and saying
how he likes to collect knives.
"The buck knife video - I was disturbed by it," she said. "He said he never
had a knife collection and never had a fascination with them."
As their wedding day approached, Pond's parents said they decided to ask
Abaroa directly if he killed his first wife.
"And Raven's response to that was, 'I loved my wife,' in a
beating-around-the-bush kind of way," Jodean Pond said.
"Without answering the question directly," Vanessa Pond interjected.
Despite concerns, Pond said people seemed supportive, so she married Abaroa
in Utah on Sept. 6, 2008.
"I found out later that nobody liked him," she said.
She described the first night of her honeymoon.
"He was very drunk, and he started talking about how mad he was after Janet
died - and kept reiterating how mad he was," she said. "And then, he cuddled
up close to me and said, 'I promise I'll never hurt you.' And I didn't know
how to take that."
As the marriage progressed, Pond said, Abaroa had rapid mood swings.
"He would say the most horrible things," she said. "And then, moments later,
act as if nothing happened. He could go back and forth within seconds."
"I was so scared for Vanessa," Jodean Pond said.
Pond said her greatest heartbreak involves Kaiden and what happened
Christmas Eve 2008, the night, she said, Abaroa left her.
"He was in the process of cursing me, calling me names, saying how he hated
me, telling me he didn't care if I died," she said. "Then, he said, you know
what, I want to hit you so bad, and I can't get in trouble for it anymore.
So, he was pushing me around in the bathroom and wouldn't let me out of the
bathroom.
"And later, as Raven was leaving, he went downstairs and grabbed Kaiden and
said, 'Come on, we have to go. Mommy doesn't want us anymore.' Who does that
to a child?"
complete article at link:
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> "bella" <tinydancer...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Wow.
Raven doesn't seem like an innocent guy who is upset by it all or
anything. One would think he might have the sense to tell himself "I
can't act like that, they could still come and get me," but no.
Janet's pics make her look incredibly sweet, very domestic. Pics can
be wrong, of course, but what a shame.
Mick
bella
"M" <mc...@pitt.edu> wrote in message
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Wow.
Mick
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There was a Christmas video I've seen. Raven made a christmas video to send
to their distant friends/relatives. Of course he did most of the talking,
but I recall having that same impression of Janet, how very sweet she
appeared. Those around her here said she was very sweet, kind, loved being
a mother, etc. Her murder was very brutal. And Raven was much like Jason
Young, in that he didn't appear at all interested in finding his wife's
killer. He took the baby and left, moving across the country, shortly after
the murder. He didn't talk much to the cops. I recall hearing the cops or
someone mention that. No calls to the dept., asking the detectives if they
had any news on his wife's killer, etc. Once she was dead, he just seemed
to move on with his life.
bella
Wow.
Mick
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Just in our local area, there have been over half a dozen murders of young
mothers, with the husbands being the strong suspect. Janet Abaroa was one
that didn't get a lot of media outside the area. Nancy Cooper, Kelly
Morris, Michelle Young, and a couple others I can't recall the names of
right now. Tell me this isn't an epidemic. And I was just as vocal and
posting just as many stories of the Eric Miller murder by his wife, Ann
Miller. Over the years, until they finally arrested that bitch, I stayed on
the Eric Miller murder and the fact that I strongly suspected his wife Ann
of his arsenic poisoning. So happy when they finally nailed her ass.
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.true-crime/2008-06/msg00069.html
I read the book, Deadly Dose, on the Eric Miller case, excellent read.
bella