The family of a mentally challenged woman who was tortured, beaten and stabbed to death and left in a trash can in Greensburg said she was a trusting and caring person. The victim was 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty. "She trusted anybody," the victim's sister, Joy Burkholder, said today. "If you met her today, you had a friend for life. ... She thought everybody was good, and nobody would hurt her." Six people -- three men and three females -- have been charged in connection with Daugherty's death. Her body was found Thursday morning in a trash can outside Greensburg Salem Middle School on North Main Street. The six suspects are: Robert Loren Masters Jr., 36; Ricky V. Smyrnes, 23; and Melvin Knight, 20, all of 428 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Greensburg; Peggy Darlene Miller, 27, Mt. Pleasant Township; Amber C. Meidinger, 20, of 103 Indiana Drive, Building O, Greensburg; and Angela Marinucci, 17, of Greensburg. The six were arraigned on charges including criminal homicide, kidnapping, aggravated assault and conspiracy. All are being held without bond in the Westmoreland County Prison. At a news conference today, authorities said Daugherty knew some of the suspects and had a relationship with Smyrnes. Family members said Daugherty went to the County Market in East Huntingdon Monday to take a bus to Greensburg for some appointments. She was carrying jeans and some other clothing in a small bag. She then went to 428 N. Pennsylvania Ave., police said. The family told police they called Daugherty's cell phone, but she did not answer. Daugherty was held against her will from approximately Monday night to the time she was stabbed to death, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck said. Some of the suspects then put her body in a plastic trash can, carried it to the parking lot of the middle school and left it there. The brutal killing stunned Daugherty's relatives. They said although "Jennie" was 30, she looked and acted like a teenager. replica bag wholesale "She was a happy, vivacious person," Burkholder, 31, of Mt. Pleasant Township, said of her younger sister. "She totally loved life." Daugherty's aunt, Linda Kovacs, of Shanksville, Somerset County, said the entire family was still trying to fathom such a horrific crime. "There wasn't a mean bone in her body," she said of her niece. "She loved and trusted everyone. "If anyone knew her, this stuff is just so completely unthinkable, and it really is breaking all of our hearts. She would have trusted anyone with her last dollar, and she would come through for you with anything you would ask her to do," Kovacs said. "I always worried that Jennie was too trusting, and maybe that's what happened. But she was just the most caring, kind individual," she said. Kovacs said the family doesn't know how Daugherty met the people who are accused of her murder. Police said Daugherty was stabbed in the second-floor apartment where Masters, Smyrnes and others live. Her head had been shaved, and she was bound with Christmas decorations and clothing, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Authorities said all six suspects admitted involvement in the crime. Police did not offer a motive. Smyrnes told police he and Knight carried Daugherty in the garba Other articles: http://mywatches.eshizuoka.jp/e554393.html http://bacasable.eoliss.com/mywatches/2010/02/24/even-when-i-was-child-mother/ http://www.blogoodies.jp/mywatches/69807/McAllister+set+to+feature+on+H.html
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