RALEIGH - The family of Jennifer Kathleen Nielsen said Friday that their greatest priorities are finding the person responsible for her death and changing state laws that do not recognize fetal homicide.Nielsen’s friends and family, including her husband and two young sons, gathered in a downtown park to announce a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for whoever is responsible for her death the early morning hours of June 14. Nielsen was eight months pregnant.
Boon Edam Tomsed Inc., a revolving-door manufacturer in Lillington that employs Nielsen’s father and husband, put up the reward money, family members said.
“It would mean the world to us to know this person is off the street and won’t cause this kind of tragedy to another family,” Nielsen’s father, Kevin Blaine, said.
The reward and other efforts, including a hot line and composite sketch of a person of interest, are yielding tips from the public, Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue said.
“The composite is the most likely path we have toward identifying that person,” Sughrue said.
Jenna Nielsen, 22, expected to give birth July 8 to a son she and her husband Tim had already named Ethen. She was working as a newspaper carrier for USA Today when she was stabbed while dropping off papers at the AmeriKing Food Mart and Exxon station at Lake Wheeler Road and Centennial Boulevard, near the state Farmers Market.
A Raleigh patrol officer found Nielsen behind the convenience store shortly before 5 a.m. after a newspaper carrier for The News & Observer called 911 to report a Honda Civic parked in front of the store with its doors open and newspapers scattered on the ground. Police think Nielsen was attacked between 3 and 4 a.m. when the AmeriKing was closed.
USA Today published a full page ad Monday and smaller ads several times this week also offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the person responsible for Nielsen’s death.
On the day investigators combed the area and nearby woods for evidence leading them to Nielsen’s killer, a homeless man found a bloodied pocketknife less than a block away. The man, who is being treated at The Healing Place, a residential substance abuse center, told the staff about the knife, men’s program director Chris Budnick said.
On Friday, Tim Nielsen held the couple’s oldest son, Schyler, 3, as Kaiden, 11 months, wriggled and squealed in his step-grandmother’s arms.
Tim Nielsen begged anyone with information about the case to come forward. “The tiniest bit of information has been known to break the greatest cases,” he said. “That’s what we need right now.”
Source: News & Observer
A GREAT PLACE TO BUY PORK IN RALEIGH NC
Lots of people all over the USA just love a great pork steak,center cut pork-chops.
For last 15 years I would shop at my local grocery store, and be very disappointed in the
qualty and value of what you get.
A good pork chops that not too thin, not too thick, not too much fat and not a lot of bone.
That’s not asking too much, but after shopping at the grocery stores and seeing the nicely
packaged packs of pork on display at the meat counter, and buying and serving to the family
for so long and just dealing with the fact that in each package of 5 to 10 pounds 1/3 to 1/2 of the pork is fat, bone and mixed lean, fat, that looks like throw away scraps.
We went to 4 of the major grocery supermarkets in Raleigh and surrounding area’s and purchased 2 packages of pork chops about 7 to 10 pounds per package, from each store,
we found that all four stores was doing the same thing. Each package had the top of the package displayed very nice, the meat looked great through the plastic wrap but under the top layer was, what my sister calls, “scraps for dogs food” not what you want to eat.
Each package had only 1/2 to 2/3 of eatible meat in them, this is a practice that’s been happening for years, and it could be an industry practice accross the board.
Well what can you do? Write you grocery store, call your consumer BBB, your local government, complain to the USDA or don’t shop that store.
I found a place in Raleigh NC, at the North Carolina State Farmers Market.
PORK KING, Nahunta Pork Center (919) 242-4735
The State Farmers Market is conveniently located on I-40 and Lake Wheeler Road, exit 297. Covering 75 acres, the modern facility provides up to 225,000 square feet of covered, climate controlled, all season retail and wholesale spaces.
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