NC MADALINA COJOCARI: Missing from Cornelius, NC - 23 Nov 2022 - Age 11 *Reported Dec 15 *GUILTY of failure to report*

Cornelius parents arrested for failing to report disappearance of 11-year-old girl

Police said the child was last seen at home on the evening of Nov. 23 and has not been seen since.

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11-year-old Cornelius girl missing since November, police say​

Police are looking for a child out of Cornelius who has been missing since the day before Thanksgiving.

According to the Cornelius Police Department, officers began investigating a missing person’s report involving a juvenile on Thursday.

The parents of the child, identified as 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari, reported her missing to the Bailey Middle School school resource officer, where she attends.

Police said the child was last seen at home on the evening of Nov. 23 and has not been seen since.

FBI, police search for 11-year-old; mom, stepdad accused of not reporting disappearance

In court Monday, prosecutors said school resource officers had reached out to find out where Madalina was three days before her mom reported her disappearance.

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Cornelius police searching for missing 11-year-old girl​

The Cornelius Police Department is searching for an 11-year-old girl who has been reported missing.

Police said they began investigating after the parents of Madalina Cojocari reported her missing to a school research officer at Bailey Middle School on Dec. 15.

Cojocari was last seen at her home on the evening of Nov. 23, according to police.

MADALINA COJOCARI: Missing from Cornelius, NC - 23 Nov 2022 - Age 11 *Reported December 15

Police said they began investigating after the parents of Madalina Cojocari reported her missing to a school research officer at Bailey Middle School on Dec. 15. Cojocari was last seen at her home on the evening of Nov. 23, according to police.

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So she may have gone missing a day or two prior to what we thought before? They don't have the license plate of the Prius? I've been studying a tool that investigators use called ALPR.

Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, along with the location, date, and time. The data, which includes photographs of the vehicle and sometimes its driver and passengers, is then uploaded to a central server.

Vendors say that the information collected can be used by police to find out where a plate has been in the past, to determine whether a vehicle was at the scene of a crime, to identify travel patterns, and even to discover vehicles that may be associated with each other. Law enforcement agencies can choose to share their information with thousands of other agencies.

Automated License Plate Readers

Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view...

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"Johnny Law" on YouTube says the information is given to LE instantaneously! I'm planning on starting a thread about it in the Community area of our website and my goal is to have it up this month.

Back to this case, if they have that license plate number, they can go back and track the car.

 

[Guess Who]

So she may have gone missing a day or two prior to what we thought before? They don't have the license plate of the Prius? I've been studying a tool that investigators use called ALPR.

Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view, along with the location, date, and time. The data, which includes photographs of the vehicle and sometimes its driver and passengers, is then uploaded to a central server.

Vendors say that the information collected can be used by police to find out where a plate has been in the past, to determine whether a vehicle was at the scene of a crime, to identify travel patterns, and even to discover vehicles that may be associated with each other. Law enforcement agencies can choose to share their information with thousands of other agencies.

Automated License Plate Readers

Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that are typically mounted on street poles, streetlights, highway overpasses, mobile trailers, or attached to police squad cars. ALPRs automatically capture all license plate numbers that come into view...

www.eff.org

"Johnny Law" on YouTube says the information is given to LE instantaneously! I'm planning on starting a thread about it in the Community area of our website and my goal is to have it up this month.

Back to this case, if they have that license plate number, they can go back and track the car.

I've lost track of cases, but didn't it have temp tags (or was that a different recent case?)

 

[kdg411]

I've lost track of cases, but didn't it have temp tags (or was that a different recent case?)

I haven't read anything about the prius having temp tags but I may have missed that detail.

 

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Mother of Madalina Cojocari Travelled to Appalachian Mountains After Daughter's Disappearance: Police

There is also new information about what detectives discovered when visiting the home where 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari lived with her mother and stepfather, Christopher Palmiter.

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By CHRIS SPARGO
First Published: 9:11 AM PST, January 9, 2023

There is also new information about what detectives discovered when visiting the home where 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari lived with her mother and stepfather, Christopher Palmiter.​

There is a new development in the investigation into the disappearance of 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari.
The Cornelius Police Department is now seeking information from anyone who may have seen Madalina’s mother in Madison County, North Carolina, during the days or weeks after her disappearance.

Madison County is a sparsely populated and densely forested section of the state, located deep in the Appalachian Mountains on the Tennessee border.
Police believe the trip took place after Madalina was last seen on Nov. 21, but before the start of their investigation into the missing child on Dec. 15.

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Two photos of Madalina's mother released with the statement showed her standing in a mountainous area with heavy woods behind her.

 

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Cornelius Police Department, Cornelius, North Carolina. 17,227 likes · 1,231 talking about this · 351 were here. Welcome! This is the official Facebook page for the Cornelius Police Department in...

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Investigation into disappearance of missing Cornelius girl continues in Madison County

Agents with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are returning to Madison County Tuesday to look for surveillance footage.

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By Dave Faherty, wsoctv.com
January 09, 2023 at 5:28 pm EST

MADISON COUNTY, N.C. — Agents with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are returning to Madison County Tuesday to look for surveillance footage in the expanded search for missing 11-year-old Cornelius girl Madalina Cojocari.

Last week, law enforcement sources said they came in contact with Madalina’s mother, Diane Cojocari, in a rural part of Madison County.

A deputy came in contact with Cojocari at a pull-off area on U.S. Highway 25 near Lonesome Mountain Road, sources said.

The SBI, Cornelius police and Madison County sheriff’s deputies searched there and in the Revere Community along Burton Cove Road.

 

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In case anyone is interested in the now unsealed warrants. If the actual documents are published feel free to post a link.

 

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Warrants available in link below.

Search Warrants Revealed in Madalina Cojocari Case - WCCB Charlotte's CW

Search warrants are now public following the disappearance of 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari.

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Mecklenburg County released the documents Tuesday morning. Read the documents HERE.

Many warrants are heavily redacted, but one reveals that three iPhones were confiscated from a home on Victoria Bay Drive in Cornelius.

 

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Missing Madalina Cojocari: Timeline of North Carolina girl's disappearance that went unreported for weeks

A timeline of events details the timeline of missing North Carolina 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari's disappearance between her last sighting to her parents' arrests.

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Published January 10, 2023 6:36pm EST
By Audrey Conklin

Decent timeline at link. (I missed the below statement from the father prior to this article) ~Summer

Palmiter tells investigators that he believes the last time he saw his stepdaughter was nearly a week after he left home to visit relatives in Michigan Nov. 24, potentially extending the date of Madalina's last known whereabouts.

 

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Missing Madalina Cojocari: Timeline of North Carolina girl's disappearance that went unreported for weeks

A timeline of events details the timeline of missing North Carolina 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari's disappearance between her last sighting to her parents' arrests.

www.foxnews.com

Published January 10, 2023 6:36pm EST
By Audrey Conklin

Decent timeline at link. (I missed the below statement from the father prior to this article) ~Summer

Palmiter tells investigators that he believes the last time he saw his stepdaughter was nearly a week after he left home to visit relatives in Michigan Nov. 24, potentially extending the date of Madalina's last known whereabouts.

"believes" he saw her a week after. Not buying it. Maybe they should ask him if he saw her then, was she alive or dead at that time he saw her.

 

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Missing Madalina Cojocari search expands in western North Carolina: report

The search for missing North Carolina 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari has reportedly expended into Madison County, more than two hours from where Madalina was last seen.

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Published January 11, 2023 4:24pm EST
By Audrey Conklin

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – The search for missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari reportedly expanded in western North Carolina this week, according to local news.

On Tuesday, agents with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), along with Cornelius police and Madison County sheriff’s deputies, searched the area of Revere Community along Burton Cove Road in Madison County, WSOC-TV first reported.

Madison County is located about two-and-a-half hours from Cornelius, where Cojocari lived with her family on Victoria Bay Drive before she went missing between Nov. 21, 2022, and Nov. 23, 2022. Investigators are still trying to nail down a more exact timeline.

Law enforcement sources told WSOC-TV last week that a Madison County Sheriff's Office deputy came in contact with Madalina's mother, Diana Cojocari, on U.S. Highway 25 near Lonesome Mountain Road.

 

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Missing Madalina Cojocari: North Carolina police ask locals to 'flood the area with her precious face'

North Carolina authorities continue to search for missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari, of Cornelius. They are asking locals to ' flood the area with her precious face.'

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Published January 19, 2023 7:06pm EST
By Audrey Conklin

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Carolina police are urging people to continue sharing photos of missing 11-year-old Madalina Cojocari's face.

In December, authorities arrested and charged the 11-year-old's parents, Diana Cojocari and Christopher Palmiter, with failure to report a missing child to law enforcement after Madalina's disappearance from her hometown in Cornelius, which is just north of Charlotte, around Nov. 23, 2022.

"Thank you for continuing to spread information on social media to help us #FindMadalina," The Cornelius Police Department (CPD) said in a Thursday Facebook post. "We still need your assistance in continuing to flood the area with her precious face."

 

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Search continues for Madalina Cojocari two months after her disappearance

Madalina Cojocari was seen in public when she was getting off a school bus on Nov. 21.

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Search continues for Madalina Cojocari two months after her disappearance​

Saturday marks two months since a missing 11-year-old Cornelius girl was last seen in public.

The Cornelius Police Department, the SBI, and the FBI continue to search for Madalina. Those departments have posted flyers and billboards of Madalina since she went missing.

 

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Madalina Cojocari still missing from Cornelius: What some online true-crime groups are looking into

The case has gotten a lot of attention in online true crime forums, many of whom are trying to find out what happened to 11-year-old Madalina.

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Madalina Cojocari still missing from Cornelius: What some online true-crime groups are looking into​

Updates from the Cornelius Police Department have been few and far between since then, even since the FBI got involved. Most of the facts in the case have come through the court system and released documents.

Despite the trickle of information, the case has gotten a lot of attention from online true-crime communities, many of whom are trying to find out what happened to Madalina.

Ever since Madalina's case went public, so-called web sleuths have gotten to work trying to find some of those answers to the seemingly never-ending list of questions surrounding her disappearance.

Michelle Sutton said she’s always had a passion for true crime. She researches missing child cases and shares the facts on her YouTube channel.

“We want to be a voice for them," Sutton said. "They don’t have a voice. They can’t speak out. So, we have to have people that are willing to take that stand."

She’s also part of a Facebook page dedicated to finding Madalina.

“If we can find that one tip that may say 'You need to question him about this,' and that’s the one that breaks them, then I don’t see the problem,” she explained.

Officials with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said most of the attention brought to the case can help. They warned online forums can cause rumors and theories to spread, but the fliers, billboards and online posts sharing Madalina’s picture and her story could also lead to tips.

“Don’t let that information slip by," John Bischoff with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told WCNC Charlotte. "If the community feels it’s important, then report it because it just may help save a child. You never know."

Sutton said their group’s main goal is to help find and bring justice for Madalina.


Madalina’s mother and stepfather are due back in court on March 2.

 

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Missing Girl Madalina Cojocari and Her Mom's Car Seen in Remote Area

A photo of Madalina Cojocari taken before her disappearance shows that she had been to the remote section of North Carolina where police are now focusing their investigation.

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Madalina Cojocari Search: Photo Shows Missing Girl in Remote Area Where Eyewitnesses Spotted Her Mother's Car​

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By CHRIS SPARGO
First Published: 1:41 PM PST, January 30, 2023

A photo of Madalina Cojocari taken before her disappearance shows that she had been to the remote section of North Carolina where police are now focusing their investigation.​

The search for Madalina Cojocari continues, 70 days after the 11-year-old girl went missing from her home in North Carolina.
That search has now moved from Madalina's home to Madison County, a densely forested but sparsely populated area deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Police moved search efforts to this remote and rugged section of western North Carolina last month and reached out to the community asking if any residents had seen Madalina, her mother, Diana Cojocari, or Diana's car.

Inside Edition Digital has now learned that multiple residents have informed investigators that they spotted Diana's car in the days after Madalina's disappearance.

 

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Missing Girl Madalina Cojocari and Her Mom's Car Seen in Remote Area

A photo of Madalina Cojocari taken before her disappearance shows that she had been to the remote section of North Carolina where police are now focusing their investigation.

www.insideedition.com

Madalina Cojocari Search: Photo Shows Missing Girl in Remote Area Where Eyewitnesses Spotted Her Mother's Car​

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By CHRIS SPARGO
First Published: 1:41 PM PST, January 30, 2023

A photo of Madalina Cojocari taken before her disappearance shows that she had been to the remote section of North Carolina where police are now focusing their investigation.​

The search for Madalina Cojocari continues, 70 days after the 11-year-old girl went missing from her home in North Carolina.
That search has now moved from Madalina's home to Madison County, a densely forested but sparsely populated area deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Police moved search efforts to this remote and rugged section of western North Carolina last month and reached out to the community asking if any residents had seen Madalina, her mother, Diana Cojocari, or Diana's car.

Inside Edition Digital has now learned that multiple residents have informed investigators that they spotted Diana's car in the days after Madalina's disappearance.

This is starting to turn the page on who the prime suspect is imo. Anyone else getting this same impression?

 

[Guess Who]

This is starting to turn the page on who the prime suspect is imo. Anyone else getting this same impression?

yep. it also makes it make more sense as to why they were inquiring about her car.

 

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Madalina Cojocari: North Carolina police release new photo of 11-year-old missing since November

Madalina Cojocari has been missing from Cornelius, North Carolina, for 85 days, when the 11-year-old was last seen getting off her school bus on Nov. 21, 2022.

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Published February 14, 2023 4:16pm EST
By Audrey Conklin

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Carolina police have released a new photo of Madalina Cojocari, a missing 11-year-old girl whose disappearance was reported to police nearly two months ago.

Madalina's disappearance wasn't made known to Cornelius police until Dec. 15, when her mother, Diana Cojocari, told school officials and local police that she hadn't seen her daughter since she went to her bedroom the night of Nov. 23 around 10 p.m. after she and her husband, Christopher Palmiter, got into an argument, court documents state.

"It has been 85 days since Madalina was last seen getting off her school bus on November 21, 2022. It has been 61 days since Cornelius Police learned on December 15, 2022, Madalina was missing," the Cornelius Police Department (CPD) said in a Tuesday social media post. "'[CPD], the SBI and the FBI continue to search for Madalina. Detectives are working tirelessly and are following up on many leads to bring Madalina home."

 

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Madalina Cojocari Case: Police K9s Search Missing Girl's Parent's Home

Officers with the Cornelius Police Department (CPD) returned to the missing girl's home this week with K9s to search the property, a spokesperson with the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office tells Inside Edition Digital.

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By CHRIS SPARGO
First Published: 12:16 PM PST, February 15, 2023

Search efforts continue for Madalina Cojocari, the 11-year-old North Carolina girl who has not been seen in at least 85 days.

Officers with the Cornelius Police Department (CPD) returned to the missing girl's home this week with K9s to search the property, a spokesperson with the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's Office tells Inside Edition Digital.


Also present at the search was an assistant district attorney.

The ADA "was there as part of our office’s legal obligation to consult with law enforcement," the spokesperson explains.