ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT : Washington County Sheriff's Office<BR> (Oregon) - Missing Persons Unit 1-503-648-8700 <P><P> ELISABETH ANN HUSTER <BR> Case Type :Endangered Missing<BR> DOB :sep-26-1986 Age now :14 years<BR> Height : 4' 6" - 137 cm <BR> Weight : 100 lbs - 45 kg <BR> Eyes :Blue Hair : Lt. Brown<P> Circumstances : She was last seen with her mother in August of 1996. Her mother is currently in<BR> police custody, however, she will not divulge the whereabouts of the child. Elisabeth's upper front<BR> teeth are crooked. <P> Date Missing : August -31-1996 <BR> City/state of Report :PORTLAND, Oregon USA <P> Case Number :831039 <P> ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT<BR> National Center for Missing & Exploited Children<BR> 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) <BR> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> Washington County Sheriff's Office (Oregon) - Missing Persons Unit 1-503-648-8700 <P> <BR> <BR> <P><BR> Table of Contents <P><BR> Karen Huster, Her Mother Arreste..., LadyBug, 01:22 AM, Nov-18-00 <BR> Father's Hope Fades , Ishtar93, 07:32 PM, Nov-20-00 <BR> Greetings Ishtar , LadyBug, 10:37 PM, Nov-20-00 <P><BR> <P> <BR> <P> Messages in this discussion <P> <BR> 1 . "Karen Huster, Her Mother Arrested !"<BR> Posted by LadyBug on Nov-18-00 at 01:22 AM (EST)<BR> Woman found with dismembered body to return to Oregon<P> PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A woman found in a suburban Los Angeles apartment with a dismembered<BR> body will be returned to Oregon to face charges of killing her missing 9-year-old daughter.<P> Karen Lee Huster, 41, could be extradited to Washington County within a week.<P> She was arrested Nov. 10 after police found body parts in two freezers in the two-bedroom San<BR> Fernando Valley apartment she shared with 73-year-old James Cameron.<P> The remains have not been identified, but Cameron, a friend of Huster's father, has been reported<BR> missing.<P> The Los Angeles district attorney's office has declined to file charges, saying the coroner has not<BR> determined a cause of death.<P> In court papers, the district attorney's office said Huster told police she cut up the body, but only<BR> after the man died of a heart attack.<P> Washington County investigators plan to try Huster for her daughter's murder, no matter what<BR> happens with the case in Los Angeles.<P> Huster is accused of killing her daughter Elisabeth Anne, who was last seen Aug. 31, 1996. Her body<BR> has not been found.<P> "I believe she killed Elisabeth, and this only endorses my belief," said John Stratford, the Washington<BR> County Sheriff's Office detective who has investigated the case since 1996.<P> Stratford went to Los Angeles this week to search for signs of Elisabeth and to try to find anything<BR> that could be pertinent to the Washington County murder case.<P> "That's our whole case, that Huster is adept at getting rid of bodies," Stratford said. "We believe she<BR> did that to Elisabeth and was in the process of doing that with this man."<P> Huster disappeared from Tigard on April 12, just days before a Washington County grand jury handed<BR> down an indictment against her for murder.<P> Huster had run before, almost immediately after a Washington County sheriff's deputy appeared on<BR> her doorstep on Christmas Eve 1996 to ask about Elisabeth's whereabouts. Police found Huster with a<BR> loaded gun in a motel in Newport in February 1997, but there was no sign of Elisabeth.<P> Huster was convicted of custodial interference and spent two years in an Oregon prison for refusing<BR> to talk to authorities about her missing daughter. She has maintained that she sent Elisabeth to live<BR> with relatives and friends in California.<P> Stratford said he didn't know where Huster had been before her arrest in California.<P> "Her whole goal was to stay out of Oregon," Stratford said. "She saw his death as a way to stay<BR> living there and avoid detection."<P> <a href="http://www.modbee.com/state/story/n699.html";>http://www.modbee.com/state/story/n699.html<;/a><P> <BR> <BR> <P> <BR> 2 . "Father's Hope Fades "<BR> Posted by Ishtar93 on Nov-20-00 at 07:32 PM (EST)<BR> Father's Hope Fades After Horrific Find <BR> Crime: His ex-wife admits dismembering a body in Canoga Park. But the discovery has yielded no<BR> clues in their daughter's disappearance, police say. <P><BR> By SOLOMON MOORE, Times Staff Writer<P> BEAVERTON, Ore.--Michael and Karen Huster's 18-year marriage was as fractious as the custody<BR> battle for their two children. <BR> But Michael Huster said he refused to believe his wife was capable of harming their daughter--even<BR> after they divorced in Oregon and 10-year-old Elisabeth Anne disappeared in 1996. Even after Oregon<BR> authorities issued a murder indictment against Karen Huster, and she fled. <BR> Huster, who has acknowledged hitting his wife, said he thought Karen was just hiding the girl from<BR> him. <BR> Not until 10 days ago, when police found dismembered human remains of her male roommate in two<BR> freezers in a Canoga Park apartment occupied by Karen Huster, 41, did Michael Huster say he had<BR> begun to lose hope for his daughter. <BR> "It's becoming more plausible to me that she has harmed her," he said of his missing daughter last<BR> week from his home in Pleasanton, Calif. <BR> Court records and interviews with family members, neighbors and investigators show the steady<BR> meltdown of the Huster household, culminating in the disappearance and possible murder of their<BR> daughter at the hands of Karen Huster. <BR> But police in Los Angeles and Oregon say the gruesome discovery Nov. 10 in the De Soto Avenue<BR> apartment has led them no closer to finding Elisabeth's body. <BR> Although she has been uncooperative in the search for her daughter, Karen Huster told investigators<BR> that she dismembered the man's body after he died of a heart attack. So far, police say, they are<BR> inclined to believe her. <BR> "There does not seem to be an obvious cause of death," said coroner's spokesman Scott Carrier. The<BR> identity of the body has yet to be confirmed, but the listed tenant of the unit, 73-year-old James<BR> Cameron, is missing. <BR> Cameron may have been supporting Karen Huster financially, but details of their relationship are<BR> "somewhat nebulous," said Los Angeles Police Det. Mike Oppelt. <BR> She was arrested Nov. 10 after the body parts were found and is being held at Twin Towers jail in<BR> downtown Los Angeles. Efforts to reach Huster or her attorney were unsuccessful. <BR> The district attorney's office has yet to charge Huster and referred the case back to police for<BR> further investigation. Mutilation of a corpse is a felony in California. <BR> Cameron's stepson, Craig Faulkner, 44, of Reseda said they have been estranged and have not talked<BR> since last year. He said he did not know Karen Huster and described his stepfather as a<BR> temperamental widower of three years. "He was a loner, an intellectual," Faulkner said. Cameron was<BR> a retired engineer for ITT, an avid golfer, bowler and square-dancer, Faulkner said. <BR> "But since mom died in 1998, he was a loner," Faulkner said, adding that his father's health had<BR> declined after a stroke last year. <BR> Sierra Nord, who managed the De Soto Avenue property until she moved in January, said Cameron<BR> was a "soft-spoken, quiet man." She said she never saw Karen Huster or anyone else living with<BR> Cameron. <BR> Meanwhile, Oregon authorities say they intend to extradite Huster to stand trial in this Portland<BR> suburb for the death of Elisabeth. <BR> Michael and Karen Huster met in 1978 when he was a Caltech student. They married the following<BR> year and moved to Santa Barbara. In 1980 they had a son, Jonathan. Michael Huster says the<BR> marriage "was tumultuous from the beginning." <BR> "She showed herself, very quickly, to be short-tempered and moody," he said. In court papers filed in<BR> Oregon, Karen Huster claimed Michael Huster had a long-term drug problem. <BR> They separated for two years in the mid-1980s and Michael Huster went back to school at UC Davis.<BR> Karen Huster, a San Fernando Valley native and Chatsworth High graduate, moved from Oregon to<BR> Northridge to live near her father and brother. <BR> The Husters reconciled by 1986, when Elisabeth was born, and moved to Northern California before<BR> relocating to Beaverton in 1994. <BR> "It wasn't until the 1990s that I got the hint that her mental state was unstable," Michael Huster<BR> said. He recalled a time in Northern California when Karen Huster abandoned their then-13-year-old<BR> son at a downtown store miles from their home. He also described a scene in an Anaheim diner when<BR> his wife, frustrated by an inattentive waitress, screamed loud enough to stop every conversation in<BR> the establishment. <BR> Michael Huster was not the only one to mention Karen Huster's bizarre behavior. In their Oregon<BR> neighborhood, a tidy, close-knit community of middle-class families, nearby residents talked about the<BR> volatile mother who yelled at her daughter's playmates and never seemed to leave the house. <BR> "Elisabeth was sweet," said Karen Thatcher, 42, who lives across the street from the Paisley Drive<BR> home the Husters used to own. "But Karen was a little different--not someone you wanted to be<BR> neighborly friends with." Two of Thatcher's youngest daughters, Haley and Lacey, used to play with<BR> Elisabeth, but she said they were often afraid of Karen Huster. <BR> Karen Huster, Thatcher said, rarely moved from a couch in front of a television. Elisabeth's hair was<BR> usually uncombed and her clothes old and torn. <BR> Linda Goudge, another neighbor, said, "I liked Elisabeth. She was sensitive--really nice. But my kids<BR> were not allowed to go over there." <BR> Once in a while Karen Huster would venture out of her house to shout at neighborhood kids for<BR> picking on her daughter, Thatcher said. <BR> Both Thatcher and Goudge said they seldom saw Michael Huster at the house. <BR> Tensions in the Huster household reached a climax in the fall of 1995. Michael Huster was laid off<BR> from hisjob as a researcher for a medical equipment firm. On Nov. 16, 1995, Karen Huster accused<BR> Michael Huster of abusing drugs, according to court records. A terrible argument followed, all<BR> witnessed by Elisabeth, who was 9, according to Michael Huster and court records. <BR> "He hit me on the shoulder," Karen Huster wrote in a restraining order she filed in December 1995,<BR> "then he spat on me, then hit me across my face. My face was swollen and bruised. It affected my<BR> hearing and equilibrium, eyesight, it hurt badly and had dislocated my jaw. I went to a doctor." <BR> Michael Huster, who stands nearly 7 feet tall and weighs 240 pounds, acknowledged last week that<BR> he struck Karen Huster. She is 5-foot-4 and weighs 180 pounds. <BR> "That was the last time I saw Elisabeth," said Michael Huster, who obtained custody of their son. He<BR> found a job in Pleasanton and repeatedly called his wife's house, but she prevented him from speaking<BR> to Elisabeth until the following summer. They spoke on the phone during the summer of 1996. <BR> "I told her that we were trying to make arrangements to visit, I told her I loved her, and I gave her<BR> my phone number and told her to hide it in case her mother was trying to keep her away from me,"<BR> he said. "I tried not to make it into a crisis. I never thought she was in any danger." <BR> Michael Huster filed for divorce in August 1996. About the same time Karen Huster told a friend that<BR> she was considering killing herself and Elisabeth, according to an Oregon search warrant. <BR> Elisabeth was last seen on Aug. 31, 1996, at a wedding in Cedar Mill Stake, Ore. Soon afterward, she<BR> failed to attend the first day of school. When neighborhood children asked about Elisabeth, Karen<BR> Huster told them she was visiting relatives, former neighbors said. Karen Huster told her son,<BR> Jonathan, that Elisabeth was visiting friends when he visited his mother on Thanksgiving 1996,<BR> Michael Huster said. <BR> "We thought that was strange," Huster said. "She knew Jonathan was coming and would want to see<BR> his sister." <BR> Michael Huster reported Elisabeth missing on Dec. 23, 1996, and Washington County Sheriff's Det.<BR> John Stratford questioned Karen Huster about her daughter's whereabouts. Karen Huster refused to<BR> tell him where Elisabeth was. <BR> Karen Huster fled shortly afterward and was arrested in February 1997 in the coastal town of<BR> Newport, Ore., on suspicion of custodial interference. Among the belongings police seized was a<BR> newly purchased .22-caliber revolver. The gun had "two expended rounds," said Washington County<BR> Sheriff's Det. Larry McKinney. <BR> Karen Huster served two years in Oregon State Prison, but she refused to reveal her daughter's<BR> whereabouts. During her incarceration, Oregon authorities staged an exhaustive search for Elisabeth<BR> and had even received advice from FBI profilers. In February 1999, Karen Huster was released and<BR> detectives still could not find any trace of Elisabeth. <BR> That same month, Oregon officials indicted Karen Huster on murder charges. Again, Karen Huster fled.<BR> She resurfaced in Canoga Park a week ago. <BR> Stratford flew to Los Angeles from Oregon on Monday, but his partner, McKinney, said no new<BR> evidence connected to Elisabeth's disappearance had emerged as a result of events in Los Angeles. <BR> " 'No-body' murder trials have been done," said Washington County Sgt. Scott Ryon, "but they're<BR> much harder." <BR> Despite his fading hope, Michael Huster said he harbors no hard feelings toward his wife. "I don't have<BR> the energy for that anymore," he said. "Most of all, I feel pity. She's made things so hard for herself."<P><P><P> <BR> <BR> <P> <BR> 3 . "Greetings Ishtar "<BR> Posted by LadyBug on Nov-20-00 at 10:37 PM (EST)<BR> Welcome to the forum. Thank you for posting the update. We can only hope she is safe. I think the<BR> photo above might be a photo of age enhanced, not positive.<P> Could you also please copy the url at the bottom of your posts, that would help immensely. Some of<BR> the areas are foriegn to us and we can use them as reference for future updates. <BR> <BR>

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