live from downtown Detroit local 4 News
at 5:00 starts now things get a little
tense as we work to resolve a battle
between a local nonprofit and a Detroit
hotel you can't treat people like this
see how we come to the rescue new
tonight we've had a couple rumbles out
there already but the severe stuff could
be showing up later on tonight we'll
talk timing but we begin in Macomb
Township as investigators spend day 3 in
this small patch of woods digging for
bodies connected to a killer and now for
the first time since the search started
the families who've spent decades
without closure are speaking out thanks
for being with us for the news at 5 that
closure has yet to come though as police
confirmed today they found no human
remains at that site as of yet and now
the site of that dig at 23 mile and
North Avenue getting national attention
KOCO McEvoy live there right now and I
suspect crews still digging or as the
weather starting to change that KOCO
good afternoon to both of you crews are
still digging out here despite the rain
you can see they still have a perimeter
set up out here and some equipment as
well that van here has been here all day
long and that's where crews are going
for relief however we want to share with
you some new information that we learned
during this press conference here this
afternoon one of the main things we
learned is that police did find some
type of evidence linking Arthur Reem to
this land once again and to one of the
teen girls who went missing from the 70s
or the 80s the other piece of
information we found is that the four to
six potential victims are not connected
in any way the girls did not know each
other however they are believed to have
been targets of Arthur Reem and that
third thing that we learned is that
police believe Reem could have more
victims and that some of them might not
have even come forward and we're hearing
from family members of some of those
victims today the search in Macomb
Township is reopening deep wounds for
family members of several victims it
looks like it may bring
deal of hope to a lot of family Connie
Bhima is the sister of Kimberly King
King went missing in 1979 when she was
just 12 years old Annie got how was
King's best friend and the last person
to see her before she vanished something
horrible happened to her that day now
police are confident king and at least
five other girls are buried in this
field all are suspected to be victims of
Arthur Reem we're very cautiously
optimistic that we're going to
unfortunately find remains Reem kills 13
year old Cindy's our zicke in 1986 and
led investigators to this site in 2008
to find her remains Cindy's father heads
our Ziggy drove 60 miles to attend the
press conference today and when I heard
this it was just like reenactments stars
ickey wanted to show his support for
King's family the two families are
connected by the devastating losses they
share we just had to come here and give
support we care and they think about
when we're praying for them King's
family is hoping the search gives them
some type of closure after nearly four
decades
and of course Arthur ream is the center
of this investigation a lot of people
wondering who is Arthur ream at six
o'clock we're sharing new information
we've learned about Rheem and what
police are looking into back to you now
KOCO we heard the FBI shifted the search
area so I'm wondering if we know what
that means does that mean they're
narrowing it down a bit yes seven that's
exactly what that means so a member from
the FBI today was at that press
conference he says they have 24 acres of
search ground that's what they're
working with but they're slowly but
surely narrowing down that site and they
believe that they're getting closer to
those remains nothing yet but we're
still on it all right Coco I'm right a
beautiful day with temperatures above 80
so of course it's fitting that we have
rain on the way had to be I can't have
that much of a good thing for live radar
showing a small line of storms starting
to move through let's turn it over to
Ben yeah you saw cocoa found the one
spot where the rain is coming down
that's in McComb County this is a line
was a line of thunderstorms it's decayed
to just some showers right now here on
the east side so that's going to
continue to move out but we're seeing
more storms that are starting to pop
here in northern Indiana just now
starting across the state line into our
South Zone in the Lenawee County you can
see some lightning strikes out there and
with the red color zone radar there's
definitely some heavy rain in there but
there are no warnings on this storm
right now and we're really thinking it's
going to be later into the evening
pretty much past the nine o'clock hour
before we start looking for the
potential of severe weather but this is
the area we're going to focus on and
those storms have already started to pop
here out put around Valparaiso and the
southern end of Lake Michigan those will
start meandering here to the east
gaining a little bit of strength in a
very unstable atmosphere and then start
working their way towards us so the
bottom line between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00
a.m. tonight that's what we're looking
for the severe potential primarily this
is going to be in our west and south
zones and if I had to narrow it down
even further I'd say the West Zone would
probably be the biggest threat and
damaging wind is going to be what we're
looking for from these storms we'll talk
about what's to come after this because
there's plenty of rain in that forecast
going into the weekend in just few
minutes guys all right then now the
heart breaking new information we're
learning about a deadly crash last night
in Van Buren Township we've now learned
two of the three victims where a mother
and her
thirteen-year-old son Naomi and Dominic
esselman third victim Robert Doolin the
third witnesses say it was speed that
played the key role in the crash at
Belleville and E course roads let's get
to Sean Leigh he's live tonight Sean
this is just devastating devastating to
two families that we spoke to today
Kimberly just spoke with both families
impacted by this both families here
crossing paths today at the medical
examiner's office when they went in to
identify their loved ones can you
imagine that both families of course
absolutely hurting tonight after this
crash that came close to that was so
close to both families homes just this
isn't real it's just not real
Denise O'Bannon is still shaken by the
awful news or daughter Naomi uh Suleman
and her grandson 13 year-old Dominik
were running errands yesterday minutes
from their home they were at a red light
when another vehicle smashed into them
killing both mother and son she was just
a good person
Naomi almond worked her way up from
Jimmy John's driver to manager tonight
her family says she was raising two kind
kids twin brothers
dominic and donovan dominic wanted to be
a doctor and always said he'd take care
of his brother donovan the football
player very close they were joined at
the hip you don't see a picture of one
of them without the other also killed in
the crash Robert dull into third police
say he was driving the vehicle that
slammed into the back of the us ulm ins
car Dolan was killed his 10 year old son
survived his wife Lakeisha tells us
Robert wasn't just the love of her life
but saved their son at the moment of
impact she posted to Facebook today
saying quote forever my hero thank you
for saving our son our love story was
wonderful and at times unbelievable how
much we loved each other
shane has been so strong through this
Lakeisha Doolin still in the hospital
right now with her son Shane saying some
x-rays are being taken saying her son
physically is going to be fine but he is
in shock that he lost his father Robert
Dylan worked at IT at Eastern Michigan
University Father and some were out for
a haircut at the time of this crash
and we do apologize that we Sean Sean
signal there apparently maybe the
weather has caused that Sean we
appreciate it nearly a dozen children
released from the hospital after being
removed from a home that was full of
Filth the kids were hospitalized Monday
telling officials there was something
foul in the air rescuers discovered
filthy living conditions in the home
including a lot of feces on the floor 11
kids were hospitalized one of them still
in the hospital in fact we await word on
the condition of that child but right
now so far no charges have been filed
this is Jackie Douglas Woodburn he
serves as a pastor and counselor at
colonial Woods Missionary Church in Port
Huron but the feds say in his time off
he worked to get underage girls to send
him graphic images online let's get to
rod Maloney he's live tonight rod
prosecutors want this guy off the
streets with no bond yes you know he
turned himself in to federal court today
in downtown Detroit for his arraignment
but as soon as he stepped up to the
podium for that arraignment the the
federal prosecutors said judge we want
him detained without bond they believed
him to be a danger to the community and
so they went into a detention hearing
that as best we can tell is still
ongoing as we speak and more than that
the feds say they have much more on him
than what they showed in this complaint
port Hurons colonial Woods Missionary
Baptist Church has a sizable staff of
dozen members among its seven pastors is
63 year old pastor Jackie Douglas would
burn wood burn cut the figure of a
community leader lives in a nice yellow
house near Lake st. Clair according to
the church's website Woodburn ran the
colonial Woods counseling center we say
ran because his picture and bio
disappeared from the church's website
this afternoon it said that wood burn is
an Air Force veteran has a master's
degree married for 44 years
in fact his wife accompanied him in
federal court today to his arraignment
what burn is the father of three
children and a member of the American
Association of Christian counselors but
the feds picture of pastor Underwood is
dramatically different
he's charged with coercion and
enticement viewing and receiving child
pornography and producing or attempting
to produce child porn
they say he frequented a chatroom
website where many men would look to
attract young often preteen girls in a
sexual activity on webcam by claiming
that they were teenage boys or girls
the single victim in the case cited the
Fed say was a twelve-year-old girl from
Texas who performed sex acts on herself
at woodburn's request they traced the
internet contact through the young
girl's computer to woodburn's home in
Birch Ville the feds say Woodburn
admitted to all of this when they raided
his home and took two computers away
back in February
late this afternoon pastor Phil
whetstone spoke with local for I think
just the nature the nature of the
accusations is I think for all this so
personal and so so devastating that I
again the best way to say is that we're
simply reeling from the information and
trying to process it and the pastor who
is charged now still undergoing his
detention hearing it's highly unusual to
see that usually if they think that
you're a danger they come and arrest you
and then asked you to be held without
bond so we'll have an update later on as
to what became of it back to you well
run what is the church saying to its
members about this well they're still
trying to figure out everything that's
going on they didn't even have the
information that we had when we came and
did the interview this afternoon so what
the pastor is saying is they're gonna be
talking to their their membership but at
this point they have to assess what it
is that they have and then try and
basically work with the families in the
community to try and see if perhaps
there might be any victims that they
would know about or at least allay any
fears that anything more is likely to go
on certainly more to come
all right ride a bus that helps provide
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that's actually the least of the owners
problems you hear at 5:00 why he's now
in big trouble with police and how this
whole ordeal is putting is important
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finally be in new tonight a push to fix
Detroit's crumbling roads it's underway
but will it really be enough to get the
job done Hank help me Hank comes to the
rescue tonight working to help a small
nonprofit in a big battle with a Detroit
hotel the confrontation and the peaceful
resolution is new tonight