An aunt of John Evander Couey stepped forward Thursday to claim his body, relieving the Florida Department of Corrections of the financial burden of cremation and burial for one of West Central Florida's most reviled child killers. ...more

October 2, 2009

Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down. ...more

February 16, 2009

Investigators were interviewing 44 registered sex offenders in the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl that they are treating as an abduction. ...more

February 13, 2009

The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...more

February 12, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009

Hillsborough County residents are extremely fortunate that a child's killer is off the streets, probably for good. ...more

August 28, 2008

Fifth Circuit Court Judge Group 11 ...more

August 22, 2008

Lawyers for Mark Lunsford are scheduled guest on tonight's episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" and is expected to speak publicly for the first time about why Lunsford plans to file a lawsuit against the Citrus County Sheriff's Office. ...more

February 25, 2008

2005 Feb. 24: Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford is discovered missing by her father, Mark. She had been tucked into bed by grandparents the night before. ...more

February 22, 2008

2005 Feb. 24: Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford is discovered missing by her father, Mark. She had been tucked into bed by grandparents the night before. ...more

February 21, 2008