MELISSA SKYE COLLINS, 17 -- MURDERED BY STEPFATHER IN MARYLAND

[HairOfTheDog]

RIP Melissa Skye Collins, 17.

This is a very tragic story.

The grieving (bio) father Lynn Hassinger is a friend of Gunnar's (aka Blindgreed1).

Snip:
A western Maryland man has been charged with murdering his 17-year-old stepdaughter after her body was found hidden his basement on Wednesday, police say.

A neighbor flagged down officers in Hagerstown, Maryland on Wednesday afternoon to report that Melissa Skye Collins hadn't made it to school that morning and hadn't been seen since 7.30am.

Officers became suspicious of her step-father Ernie Chase when they interviewed him and he refused to let them inside.

After obtaining a search warrant several hours later, police discovered Melissa's body 'concealed within the house,' according to police.

Her father said Melissa was afraid of her stepfather and said he was a violent man - but she didn't want to leave her mom or little brothers and sister

Her biological father, Lynn Hassinger, told Daily Mail Online that she was found in the basement.


Detectives promptly arrested ^ stepdad Ernie Chase, 32, and charged him with murder and multiple counts of child abuse.

Police would not say how the girl was killed, why Chase allegedly attacked her or when she may have died.

Mr Hassinger, who lives two hours north of Hagerstown in Pennsylvania, said that she told him that she was scared of her stepfather because he was a violent person.

But, she decided to live with her mother and stepfather in Maryland so that she could look after her little sister and two younger brothers.

Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ement.html
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I wonder where the mother is in all of this?