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Brittany’s Story

CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER MOVES ON DOWN THE ROAD
CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER MOVES ON DOWN THE ROAD

OUR HEARTS ECHO WITH YOURLOSS          Britt and Me

            Brittany’s grave site — Brit & me

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NEW!!!!!!  9/1/10  Well, once again we are heading to the 6th anniversary of Brittany’s burial/25th birthday. Fotthe 3rd year in a row  somewhere between a month andup to Brittany’s anniversary of her death/birthday (buried on 19th birthday ) something happens that totally stops my car, costs more money, takes away from impact and/or money to be raised during whatever anniversary event I have had.
 
Last year I had Bowling for Brit on 10/4/10. On 9/27/09 and 9/28/09, the days she was allegedly murdered, 1st on 9/27 the mother cat I had bought Brit in 99 died, on 9/28 the daughter cat of the mother died and on 9/29, driving to Tulsa to advertise the event at the state fair for 3-4 days, my car breaks down in front of the police station and wasn’t ready until the morning of the event (her 24th b-day and 5th anniversary of burial). It cost 900 to fix and only the regs showed (who come to the memorial service at grave site). In 08, two days before a  Brittany’s Bazaar on 10/3/08, to raise funds for reward. again the car breaks down, cost 800.
Now the car has been in the shop for 3 days. They discovered the engine block has been cracked for a few years (they don’t know how I have driven over 20 of the 38000 miles of the CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLERon this) we are waiting for insurance to estimate if they will cover it. But…………..now I don’t have it for the event in Salina and Colby……..to not have it there will break my heart even though the event is for all the unfound/unsolved child tradjedies. It would be a chnacefor Brittany’s voice to go a little farther. Yes it can just in talking, but her face from my car is wortha thousand words.
  
I cannot ask why this keeps happening, it just does. But still my heart gets a litle heavier each time it happens because itis around her anniversary and it just brings home the loss of her even more. It gets me tired but I will keep on, somehow, until I can’t anymore.
 

 

 

 

NEW!!!!!! WE WON THE MEDIATION WITH THE LAWSUIT WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE AWAY ALL OF THE EXPERIENCED DETECTIVES. A SQUEAKY WHELL DOES GET THE GREASE.

NEW!!!! ON 9/4 IN SALAINA KANSAS AT CAMPBELL PLAZA AND 9/5 IN COLBY KANSAS AT FIKE PARK THE RIDE FOR THEIR LIVES EVENT WILL BE HAPPENING FROM 330 TO 530. INFORMATION ABOUT MISSING, ABDUCTED, UNSOLVED MURDERS, A MEDITATION WALK ABOUT THE MISSING AND THE ARRIVAL OF ED SMART AND AHMAD RIVAZFAR, PRIMARY RIDERS OF THE EVENT WILL OCCUR AT 500. PLEASE COME OR VISIT RIDEFORTHEIRLIVES.COM TO SEE THE OTHER 26 STOPS!!!!!

HER STORY–BRITTANY WAS BURIED ON HER 19TH BIRTHDAY AFTER LYING IN HER APARTMENT DEAD FOR 3 DAYS. 

   Each heartbeat echoes pain of Brittany’s voice being silent. If you really waNtto help–Let your local media know you saw me but EVEN MORE SO…… Write, call, email national news. Ask, beg complain to get this story told. Especially with car break downs -5 in the last 5 months— I may not be able to cover any more CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER tours.

 THE MURDER                            On 9/27/04-9/28/04 (mon tues) someone either was already in Brittany’s apartment or broke in thru french doors on the 2ndstory porch or the windows. Brittany was both raped and strangeled. It is unclear how she was strangeled. She lay there 3 days before a friend, wondering why she wasn’t at school stopped by. SHe noticed something odd and called police. Brittany’s best friend’s dad almost took the call. They notified my son first because I  moved a few months prior to a small town near by. I was notified that Friday  at 1 am. A local sherrif knocked on the door and said “are you Maggie Zingman, you need to call Tulsa police, your daughter has been murdered.   Needless to say I have also worked with police force to change notifications.

By the time I arrived at her apartment, she had been taken to the ME’s office (needless to say again, I also have discussed how parents should be given right to see the family member’s body before taken away). They identified her by her license.

  1. REMEBERING THE MOMENTS BEFORE…

    That Monday evening 9/27/04, I talked to her over the phone like I always did after her class at the downtown campus of Tulsa Community College. She was tired, had tried to get into a walkin clinic because of nasal infections, couldn’t and decided to drive home. I said I would help her get an appointment, said I loved her and said good night. She had a heavy class schedule the next two days, andwe usually didn’t talk those days. We often talked on Thursdays to plan for her weekend visit to my house, 40 miles away. On 9/29 I called her (Wednesday) and wasn’t surprised she didn’t answer.  When I called Thursday, I remember I left a slightly miffed message, noting she knew I worried when she didn’t call back, that she needed to let me know she was okay by calling me when she got home. I assumed she had an exam she was studying for and went to sleep.

    At 1 a.m. (10/1) a knock at the door woke me. My memory is that it was like an old horror film as rain came came inside my house witha gush of windas I opened the front door. I was expecting an old friend from out of town so I was ready to complain about their late arrival. I vaguely remember a rain soaked Chandler Sherrif quickly stating, “Are you Maggie Zingman? You need to call Tulsa Police, your daughter has been murdered.”

    The following hours, days swirl in clouded memories of racing down to the apartment, finding she had been taken to the medical examiners, calling family, going to airport pickups and making arrangements for her burial. By the time the autopsy was done we had a choice of three days for the burial, the middle day was 10/4, what would have been her 19th birthday. Since the other days were so near, we chose to honor her birth and passing on the same d

  2.      WHY THE CARAVANS 

Prior to the 1st CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER tour, we began to rule out 200, 400, 600 suspects by DNA comparison. I felt helpless. People had been responding to pictures in my car window thta a frienddid so started seeking a full wrap with no idea how money would come. Left a note for Traves owner of Midwest wraps and with a few days he and fellers vinyl decided to donate the WRAP. 

Three main issues are behind the need (dif than purpose) for the CARAVANS. 1) There is very little real time sharing of cold case/unsolved cases information between departments across US.     They have news letters and individual websites but no cross reference or clearinghouse type website. So going to cities is a way to share. 2) Many violent predators either plead down and/or aren’t charged and then leave the city once out of jail. So I go to as many cities as possible because of number (1) reason.   3) If you are not famous, rich, the murder/abduction, rape, etc. is not bizarre national news does not tel story so because of (1) and (2) must get story out myself.                                                                                                                                                                                 Once on CARAVANS I grew more aware of issues that were impeding ours and other investigations and probably contributed to Brittany’s and other violent crimes occurring at alarming rates. Each police department I visited noted the same issues, same facts. Thus the 2nd CARAVAN started having the DNA and rape laws as important a platform for raising awareness about these justice issues as was finding Brittany’s killer. We had to start trying to save other daughters.

  1. These issues are:

    (1) Backlogs in getting DNA into national databases (1 month to 8 years from time someone goes to prison until it is in database)

    (2) the lack of early DNA retrieval (i.e. taking DNA at arrest from alleged offenders (All states now take DNA at conviction not a arrest. 23 states now have laws to take DNA at arrest but not all are funded). When a violent predator is finally charged w/a felony conviction, there are record after record of then matching his/her DNA backwards over 10-20 years to 10-20 unsolved crimes often including murder and rape. 

    (3) Lenient rape sentencing (short sentences, pleading down to misdemeanors w/no DNA taken or no charge at all) allow violent offenders back into our communities

    The above issues along with our 2000 regional suspect rule outs through DNA comparison suggests Brittany’s killer could be anywhere in the US, 63 reporters of 49 cities in 38 states have shared our story not just a local Tulsa story, but a young woman’s murder mystery who is the “girl next door” anywhere in the US

        In the above ways,Brittany helps diminish the number of family members who will experience the most unfathomable loss, that of a child. 

      Tulsa’s media calls Brittany’s murder “the most mysterious murder of and since 2004″ because sexual homicides do not occur in Tulsa and because the “normal FBI profile does not appear to be the answer (.within a 5 mile radius, someone familiar or having some contact with), because aspects of the murder seemed staged and because DNA swabs have ruled out most everyone that ever had contact with her. 

     Thousands have seen our mobile billboard as I travel self-funded cross country, and hopefully Brittany’s story can help influence change.I recently became a charter member of the Surviving Parents Coalition (SPC) made up of Ed Smart Erin Runion, Mark Lumsford, and other well known names using their group power to influence law change and educate the public.  I realize we may never find Britt’s killer but I will travel as long as I can, as far as I can to carry her story down every US roadway... If not to find her killer, I hope that we help save other lives, by bringing awareness that, if laws aren’t changed, our children, our families continue to be at risk. Actually it is Brittany who is saving lives.

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         The apartment Brittany was murdered in sits right next to Union High School in Tulsa where she graduated from a year prior. We never heard of any major crimes occurring there in those 5-6 years she attended school. Soon after her murder, we were extremely distressed to find out we had not been told of previous attacks/rapes that occurred at her complex (prior to her moving in).

    Specifically, an attack two buildings down–10 months before she moved in.

    People always comment on her mix of brains and beauty. With dark eyes, long blond curls, she stopped traffic wherever she went. She always drew people towards her with her beauty & kindness. Many high school friends wrote me ”I was always so surprised that someone so beautiful talked to a dork like me!”

    REMEMBER THESE ISSUES THAT POSSIBLY INCREASED CHANCES THAT THE MURDER OCCURED AND IMPEDE THE INVESTIGATION.
                                                                                                                                                            CRIMES THAT OCCUR BY AN INDIVIDUAL DOING MULTIPLE OFFENSES, BECAUSE THEIR DNA IS NOT IN NATIONAL DATABASES (SO THEY COULD BE CONNECTED TO THESE CRIMES) ARE CALLED “PREVENTABLE CRIMES” IN OTHER WORDS, THESE CRIMES WOULD NOT HAVE OCCURED IF DNA WAS TAKEN AT ARREST. BY THIER 2ND OR 3RD CRIME THEY WOULD BE IDENTIFIED AND TAKEN OFF THE STREET. DNA AT ARREST WOULD CUT DOWN ON POLICE WORK, ON UNSOLVED CASES. IT WOULD SAVE LIVES

     BECAUSE MANY RAPISTS PLEAD DOWN TO MISDEMEANORS, THEIR DNA IS NOT TAKEN (EXCEPT IN THE STATES WHO HAVE STARTED DNA AT ARREST. EVEN IF AN OFFENDER GETS A FELONY CONVICTION OF RAPE, IT CAN TAKE ANYWHERE FROM 1-4 YEARS FOR THEIR DNA PROFILE TO SHOW IN NATIONAL DATA BASES (DUE TO BACKLOGS, LOW FUNDING AND RED TAPE). 

    MINIMAL SENTENCING FOR RAISTS OFTEN ALLOWS THEM BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY AS DO THE BACKLOGS. AN OFFENDER IS OFTEN RELEASED FROM PRISON BEFORE BEING CONNECTED TO OTHER CRIMES. IN OKLAHOMA AS OF 2007 WE HAD 900 SEX OFFENDERS THAT WERE LOST (WHAT ABOUT MONTHLY CHECK-INS?) MANY HAD SHORT SENTENCES (NO TIME FOR DNA MATCHING). THIS HAPPENS IN OTHER STATES. THE BIKINI MURDERER IN SOUTH CARLOINA CLEMSON UNIVERISTY WAS LISTED AS A SEX OFFEDER IN THREE STATES WITH A LONG LIST OF CRIMES THAT OCCURED PRIOR TO THIS YOUNG WOMAN’S MURDER!! MORE INFO ON RAPE LAWS/ISSUES PAGE.

     Sadly and angrily I fear that Brittany’s murder will be found to be a “Preventable Crime” . This angers me, that due to misinformation, states are not passing DNA at arrest laws which would stop violent offenders before they commit 15-30 crimes that often occur before they are caught. (See DNAsaves.org).

    PLEASE READ The DNA analyzed by police IS NOT like blood samples or skin samples taken at doctor’s office. There are only 14, what they call identifiers, of thousands of identifiers that make up each of our DNA profiles. Of these 14, 13 are “empty” which means they are specific to the person but do not identify anything, not sicknesses, not blood type, not anything. The 14th identifier only identifies whether the person is male or female. The name is kept separate from the sample when it is sent to the national data base. It is less accessible than fingerprints and stiff sentences and fees are set for breaking any DNA analysis rules (250,000 fine and 10 year felony). Samples at doctors’ offices are less secure and have more info than the forensic samples. Email me at address below for more info!

    *******I should do this on my own. I hate asking for help. Again I am on the 6thCARAVAN. If you can, even $5 will help with Gas. We have Paypaltothe Brittany Phillips Memorial Fund. Bank acknowledgement to me is delayed, Please email me about donation, if it is okay to post your 1st name or email name. Or email/call/snail mail any national news that you heard about our CARAVAN!!! We need national coverage! *******

    My GRADUATE son has created a live stream website for us called caravantocatchakiller. Currently it has my “films” but it will have updates from the road. REMEBER THIS WEBSITE IS NOT TAKING COMMENTS SO SEND ME AN EMAIL AT THERAPOET@AOL.COM THAT YOU VISITED

    ttp://www.livestream.com/caravantocatchakiller

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    A BIT MORE ON 5TH ANNIVERSARY On 9/27 the fifth anniversary of the niteshe was most likely murdered, I came home from a media interview to find the daughter cat of mother cat I bought Brittany in 1999 –dead, By the next day the mother cat was dead. On wed I drove to Tulsa for 4 days of promoting the fund rasier-Bowling forBrittany through flyer passing etc. As I drove into tulsa and exited the highway, my car broke down. I was stuck in a hotel room for 4 days until the car was fixed, losing 4 good days of promotion andcosting 800 for the car and250 for the hotel. The fund raiser only raised 300 which 200 was for the supplies/lane rental.     If I could sell my house and just travel I would. That is how important this CARAVAN  misssion is!!!!!                                                                 But the 6th CARAVAN actually was funded by an angel I will call GBrainbow. SHe is unbelievable and wants to reain anonymous. But even those funds run out.  

    PLEASE READ THIS IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE ON SERVICE CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL WHO HAVE PUT HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES THROUGH NIGHTMARES AFTER THEIR LOSS OF LOVED ONE!!!!

    The beginning of the 5th anniversary (of Brittany’s burial) was the week of hell and  a new nightmare. After 5 years, I was informed by the current owners of Rose Hill cemetery that Brittany had been buriedin the wrong plot—actually a non plot— a portion of the cemetery that was slated to be a walkway.

    Now how did I find out. One of the staff at Rose Hill was telling me about money donated for a monument for Brittany and stated “I am glad the problem is fixed, aren’t you? ” He kept on talking and finally I said “stop!! What are you talking about.” He told me that2 weeks prior some people from the Temple that helped bury Brittany were out surveying current maps of the cemetery and just briefly mentioned, “You know Britany Phillips is not burid in the right spot?” The Temple, the Rabbi have yet to inform me!

    Well in later conversations and my own research I found out thatService Corporaton International (SCI)  (Please look them up on the web), company sold Rose hill in 2005-2006. Brittany was buried in 04. It is suggested that maybe they couldn’t find the right plot , so they buried her in a non plot. Squeezed her in, in an area later slated to be a gravel pathway through the cemetery.  I was told by current owners, allegedly (at least what I was told at first) that, at the end of her container, there is very little space between hers and the casket east of her, squeezed up against its end.
        Was SCI continueing practices that now have lawsuits by families across at least 7 states!

    INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS AND NOTESRememebring the above information, look at what my research on this corporation has fouind, andwhat lawyers involved with lawsuits told me (see the articles below). SCI has a monopoly of cemeteries and creamatoriums, Some call them the DEATH INDUSTRY. Their behaviors, the company’s atrocities, have hit hundreds of people.  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

                                      LAWSUITS against this company from Florida-Menorah Gardens, California (Eden Hills) West Virginia, Houston,Pensyvania, LAs Vegas and more. Their unethical, cruel criminal behaviors have included burying people in wrong graves, embaming wrong, taking bodies out of caskets to reuse, workers being ordered (many are now sueing) to crack the vaults around the caskets to be able to fit more caskets in an area, not storing verteransremains correctly, etc, etc (sic!) !!!!!!!!            So the question is, what will I be comfortable with. Knowing she was squeezed into a non plot I have to at least see if the vault is cracked to the point of walls falling in (cracks will occur after five years in a concrete but not major damage) but will I recognize the casket, will I trust that she is in there.  Did she come fully entombed from the funeral home?  Can I be comfortable withoiut checking to make sure she is still inside. Unfortunately I would always question if thye did more damage. Sadly I will have to  disintern and rebury my daughter.                                                                                                                                                             How can they have been doing this since the mid 80s?  Andno criminal lawsuits against them?                 I CALLED SCI 2) Surprise- The SCI service rep kept telling me I had to deal with the current owners andif they SCI ever had this prob with a company they bought, they would take care of it but they couldn’t really talk to me about it andnot just an agent working there, had to talk to the owners…very interesting. I sure as hell will be there during at least one conversation.                                       I contacted the Washington Post write on one of the stories below. Said he hadn’t heard much about OK (there have ben1-3 mom pop cemeteries that SCI hurt) AT first he like others seemed to think I knew this all along. Think I finally got him to understand that although the day of the funeral I said to my dad (he reminded me) this is n’ttheright place. With the trauma of the murder investigation I totally spaced on that.                                                                                                        http://www.sci-corp.com/SCICORP/home.aspx                                                                            http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/25/AR2009042503075.htm            
  2. At least 3 more stories on SCI                           http://www.jacksonvillefloridainjurylawyer.com/2008/08/06/funeral-home-mistake-ends-up-with-wrong-grandmother-being-buried/                                                                           http://www.oginski-law.com/news/jury-awards-325k-after-funeral-home-lost-remains-20080305.cfm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

     

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    myspace.com/therapoet   

     youtube.com/zpoet  

    facebook.com/mom.missing.brittany

     policefacebook.com dr.maggie-motherofbrittanyphillips    

     livestream.com/caravantocatchakiller

    VISIT OUR NEW GROUPS WEBSITE DNASAVES.ORG

     LEARN ABOUT ALL THE MEDIA THAT HAVE TOLD OUR STORY ON THE “THANKS TO……” PAGE

     THE GREATS!!!! LEARN ABOUT THE GREATS ON THE THANKS TO…. PAGE

    LEARN ABOUT THE UNBELIEVABLE RESPONSE OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEX ON THE NEWS PAGE!!!

    BRITTANY’S MURDER HAS BEEN CALLED THE MOST MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF AND SINCE 2004 BECAUSE SEXUAL HOMICIDES USALLY DON’T OCCUR IN TULSA!!!

    ON 10/04/06 AT OUR 2ND YEAR ANNIVERSARY, HER APARTMENT COMPLEX,
    SOMMERSET AT UNION BANNED US FROM POSTING POSTERS ABOUT THE  MURDER!!!

     

     Brittany Phillips’ (my daughter), murderer remains on the loose. We still struggle to find answers, but will never stop trying to help solve the mystery of who took my beautiful, dancing princess. …………..

     In ALbany attended the 9th annual Missing person’s day organized by Doug and Mary Lyall. Unbelievable. Ed Smart, now a dear friend and Ahmad Rizafar   Have completed more mileage this time than ever before 6500 miles. I would do this full time if I could, Especially the advocatinglaw change…….Ah well.