An internal investigation has found that Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum violated department policy because he didn’t respond when called to issue an Amber Alert for Zina Linnik in the early hours of July 5, 2007.
McCarver Elementary School students will celebrate two new playgrounds, and their power, on Play in Peace Day Friday.
The only former cop on a citizen panel charged with reviewing the Tacoma Police Department’s policies and procedures told Police Chief Don Ramsdell this week she believes he lied to the community about why his department delayed issuing an Amber Alert in the Zina Linnik case in 2007.
A letter sent by Tacoma’s city attorney two years ago to the lawyer for Zina Linnik’s family states the police department acted appropriately in deciding when to issue an Amber Alert after the girl disappeared in 2007.
In a sudden about-face, Tacoma City Manager Eric Anderson announced Friday that he has reprimanded Police Chief Don Ramsdell for withholding information regarding the Zina Linnik investigation.
Terapon Adhahn was angry the night of July 4, 2007.
The July 4, 2007, kidnapping and subsequent murder of 12-year-old Zina Linnik motivated kids from her Tacoma elementary school to dream big dreams in her memory.
Lakewood police named Terapon Dang Adhahn “a person of interest” Tuesday in the death of 10-year-old Adre’anna Jackson, who disappeared on her way to school in 2005.
Terapon Dang Adhahn, the suspect in the abduction and slaying of Tacoma 12-year-old Zina Linnik, provided DNA samples to Pierce County Superior Court after he was charged with incest in 1990.
Clothing recovered from a Parkland house during a police search last week did not belong to 12-year-old Zina Linnik, Tacoma police said Monday.
Mikhail Linnik’s last memory of his daughter is of Zina being taken away in a gray van.
Terapon Adhahn, prime suspect in the abduction and slaying of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, settled in Pierce County no earlier than December 1989, according to available public records.
“I disgraced myself and my mother deserves a better son than me.”
A 10-year-old child left a simple message in front of Zina Linnik’s Tacoma Hilltop home Friday.
Is Terapon Adhahn a serial child killer?
Memorial funds for Zina Linnik were opened Friday to help the 12-year-old Tacoma girl’s family.
Everyone in the South Sound grieves over the deaths of innocents such as Zina Linnik and Paul Limstrom.
Investigators are looking hard at an unsolved series of sexual assaults in 2000, seeking possible links to Terapon Adhahn, the prime suspect in the abduction and slaying of Zina Linnik.
Wednesday, July 4: • Terapon Adhahn, 42, has dinner with friends in Parkland. They later tell police he left about 9 p.m.
South Sound residents outraged over the abduction and slaying of Zina Linnik have raised two key questions about Terapon Adhahn, named by Tacoma police as the suspect in the girl’s death.
Tiger Mountain in Issaquah yielded the remains of someone’s family pet Wednesday, but no trace of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, missing from Tacoma since July 4.
A sex offender whose home and van were searched Sunday and Monday hasn’t been eliminated as a suspect in the July Fourth disappearance of 12-year-old Zina Linnik, Tacoma police said Tuesday.
Tacoma police and FBI agents found the body of missing 12-year-old Zina Linnik on Thursday night, Tacoma Police Chief Don Ramsdell said.
The Fourth of July disappearance of 12-year-old Zina Linnik from the alley behind her home has gripped the South Sound community in a way few other events in recent years have done.
After six days, 200 tips and a lengthy overnight search at a Parkland home, Tacoma police and the FBI are still searching for missing 12-year-old Zina Linnik.
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