more detailed about what happened to this littlegirl. It is printed here in its entirety, because there was no part I could delete...
Right: Daisja Weaver
The Dallas Morning News
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Friday, July 10, 2009
By STEVE THOMPSON
For weeks after Dallas police accused him of tying a sandbag to his dead daughter and tossing her from a bridge, the father of 9-month-old Daisja Weaver sat in jail on a charge of tampering with evidence.
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All the while, he told detectives he felt sure Daisja was alive and wanted to help them find her.
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Police now say the father, 20-year-old Alandus Weaver, will face a charge of capital murder in the girl's June 8 death.
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In an interview last week, detectives say, Weaver told them he accidentally drowned the girl while giving her a bath in the kitchen sink. This, along with gruesome details of what followed, are presented in a police affidavit released Thursday.
From the beginning, investigators were skeptical of accounts given by Weaver and the baby's 19-year-old mother, Tamaira Creagh.
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Creagh called 911 on June 9, saying a man entered the family's Far North Dallas apartment while Weaver was not there, tried to sexually assault her and then kidnapped the child.
Later that week, Creagh and her attorney met with detectives, and she told them a different story. She said Weaver picked her up from work June 8, leaving Daisja home alone. When they arrived, she said, the girl was dead.
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Creagh said the girl had bruises on her eyes, cheeks, stomach and back. When she asked Weaver what happened, he didn't answer. Instead, she said, he bullied her into concocting the kidnapping story with him, and later dumped the child's body from a bridge into Lewisville Lake.
Creagh, who was six months pregnant with Weaver's second child, said he'd been violent with her before and she was afraid of him.
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Police arrested the couple on charges of tampering with evidence, and divers spent days combing the dark waters underneath the Interstate 35E bridge. They battled treacherous conditions, feeling their way through debris for the dead child.
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On June 18, still empty-handed, police called off the search. The same day, Creagh was released from jail on $25,000 bail.
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Several days later, according to the newly released affidavit, Creagh approached detectives with a new attorney and said she wanted to cooperate more fully. She described the hours after her daughter's death.
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She said Weaver put Daisja's body in the back of his car and strapped her face down into the car seat. When they went back inside the apartment, he asked her if she wanted to go get something to eat.
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"She told him no!" the affidavit says. "Later on that night, as he lay in the bed with the suspect, she stated that he attempted to have sex with her, and when she said no, he became angry and told her that she did not love him."
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She told the detectives she couldn't sleep that night, thinking of her dead child outside in the car. She said she tried to sneak away while Weaver slept, but he woke and yelled at her.
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The next day, she said, Weaver took her to work in the car. "She didn't want to get inside, because when the suspect opened the door, the smell of the [child's] corpse made her nauseous," the affidavit says. "Regardless ... she agreed to do so, because she was afraid of what he would to her and her unborn child."
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As she worked, she said, other employees told her they saw Weaver sitting in the car waiting for her.
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They drove toward to the lake, stopping at a construction site for a sandbag, which Weaver tied to the child's leg with a cord he brought from home, Creagh said. They pulled over on the bridge, and he put the hood up as if they were having car trouble. Then he forced her to watch as he threw Daisja's body over the side, she said.
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The detectives asked Creagh whether there were any details she left out. She told them this: As she and Weaver left the construction site with the sandbag, they weren't sure of how to get back on the freeway. They saw a police officer parked along the road and pulled over to ask him for directions.
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Detectives have since tracked down the officer, who confirmed he gave Weaver directions.
A week ago, Weaver asked detectives to meet with him at the Denton County Jail, where he was being held, with bail set at $100,000. He told them again he was sure Daisja was alive.
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But further into the interview, the affidavit says, Weaver said the girl drowned while he gave her a bath. He said he poured at least six cups of water over her head to wash out the soap, and it got into her mouth.
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Later, Weaver left jail with the detectives to show them the spot along the bridge where he said he dumped his daughter's body.
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"After some lengthy discussions with the Denton County D.A.'s office," according to a Dallas police statement Thursday, "they believe there is enough circumstantial evidence to proceed with a case against Alandus Weaver and charge him with capital murder."
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