TX NADIA LEE: Missing from Houston, TX - 16 Oct 2022 - Age 2* Found Deceased*

Missing Houston girl: Search for 2-year-old daughter of man charged with common-law wife's murder

Houston police say missing 2-year-old Nadia Lee is the daughter of a man who was charged with the murder of his common-law wife earlier this week.

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Missing Houston girl: Nadia Lee, daughter of man charged with common-law wife's murder​

Authorities in Houston are searching for the 2-year-old daughter of a man who is charged with the murder of his common-law wife.

The Houston Police Department and Texas EquuSearch are looking for Nadia Lee, who was reported to have last been seen around October 16 in the 300 block of South Richey Street in Pasadena.


Police say Nadia Lee is the daughter of Jyron Charles Lee, 26, who was charged in the death of his common-law wife on Tuesday night.

The 22-year-old woman was found unresponsive in a hotel room in the 500 Bay Area Blvd.

According to police, she had called 911 earlier in the evening and said there was a dispute over child custody with her common-law husband.

Officers responded to the scene. HPD said officers settled the situation and everyone was fine when they left.

Around 10:30 p.m., authorities say they got another call from the man. Police say he reported that the woman was trying to discipline one of the children, and he thought she was choking the child. According to HPD, he told officers that he then put the woman in a chokehold to stop her, but she went unconscious.

The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital. Authorities said she had signs of trauma to her neck.

Police said two girls, ages 1 and 3, were also in the hotel room but were not injured.

Jyron Lee was detained at the scene, and further investigation led to him being charged with murder in the woman's death. His bond was set at $250,000.

Anyone with information on 2-year-old Nadia’s whereabouts is asked to call the HPD Homicide Division AT (713)308-3600 or Texas EquuSearch at (281)309-9500.


MEDIA - NADIA LEE: Missing from Houston, TX since16 Oct 2022 - Age 2

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

 

[Kimster]

Equuisearch is helping the search.

Update on search for missing Houston girl Nadia Lee

Houston police and Texas EquuSearch provide an update on a search for missing 2-year-old Nadia Lee. Police say she is the daughter of a man who was charged with murdering his common-law wife earlier this week.

www.fox26houston.com

 

[GrandmaBear]

So do I have this right? Two children were there uninjured and he was arrested but they can't find "their" child? My hope would then be that he put her with someone of course. If he didn't injure ones that weren't his or the child wasn't found with the dead wife, maybe, just maybe he ensured her care. Kind of hard to follow. Kids 1, 2 and 3 but the 2 year old missing it sounds like?

 

[RoundPeg]

So do I have this right? Two children were there uninjured and he was arrested but they can't find "their" child? My hope would then be that he put her with someone of course. If he didn't injure ones that weren't his or the child wasn't found with the dead wife, maybe, just maybe he ensured her care. Kind of hard to follow. Kids 1, 2 and 3 but the 2 year old missing it sounds like?

I'm a bit confused too.

The 16th was Sunday.

The murder of the mom was Tuesday, the 18th?

So she went missing 2 days prior to Mom's murder?

 

[RoundPeg]

I dunno anything about this page so take it as rumor until verified.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid021TgVjU5k71sLPSTRTTRUhvP8Bp6JD8ZgzjGYwFwbcc9rUsithC73giZGZnineL4Ll&id=100064752156407

UPDATE!!!

Houston police and Texas Equusearch are searching for a missing 2-year-old child who is the daughter of the man accused of choking his common-law wife to death on Tuesday.

Police said the toddler, Nadia Lee, was last seen near the 300 block of South Richey Street in Pasadena on Oct. 16.

According to HPD, Nadia is the daughter of 26-year-old Jyron Charles Lee, the man who was arrested and charged with murder after reportedly choking his 22-year-old wife, Nancy Reed, to death during a dispute about the way she disciplined their children in southeast Houston.

Tim Miller, the founder of Texas Equusearch, said Lee checked the child out of foster care on Friday, Oct.14, and never returned her.

Miller said Lee claims the child was with him at the apartment complex on Sunday when he took the trash out, but when he returned, the child was gone. Miller and his team are currently searching the area for the child.

“It doesn’t look good at this time; I can say that. There have been absolutely no sightings of her,” Miller said. “We’ve got people that are looking at cameras and different things right now. We got a little 2-year-old missing, certainly endangered missing. I can’t say that. I don’t know if it’s going to have a happy outcome, but we’re gonna do everything we can do to have an outcome.”

Miller said authorities have interviewed Lee about his daughter, and he allegedly said he didn’t report the girl missing because he believed she was with her mom.

During a news conference on Thursday, authorities said Lee was no longer cooperating with investigators about the whereabouts of Nadia, and evidence found inside his apartment has them believing the girl may be dead.

“I don’t don’t think this is going to have the outcome we want it to have,” Miller said.

Miller, along with Houston police, is also searching a nearby wooded area and a bayou for the child.

Authorities said it’s unknown what type of clothing Nadia was wearing, but she was believed to be wearing a white short-sleeve t-shirt at the time of her disappearance.

Nadia is described as having brown eyes and black hair and weighing about 50 pounds.

Anyone with information about Nadia’s whereabouts is asked to call the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department at (713) 308-3600 or Texas EquuSearch at (281) 309-9500.

Lee is currently in jail, being held on a $250,000 bond.

 

[RoundPeg]

Authorities are searching for missing 2-year-old Nadia Lee whose father is charged with murder

The situation appears grim in Pasadena, where searchers are trying to find a little girl whose mother is dead and father is charged with murder.

abc13.com

Better story.

 

[Guess Who]

I dunno anything about this page so take it as rumor until verified.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid021TgVjU5k71sLPSTRTTRUhvP8Bp6JD8ZgzjGYwFwbcc9rUsithC73giZGZnineL4Ll&id=100064752156407

UPDATE!!!

Houston police and Texas Equusearch are searching for a missing 2-year-old child who is the daughter of the man accused of choking his common-law wife to death on Tuesday.

Police said the toddler, Nadia Lee, was last seen near the 300 block of South Richey Street in Pasadena on Oct. 16.

According to HPD, Nadia is the daughter of 26-year-old Jyron Charles Lee, the man who was arrested and charged with murder after reportedly choking his 22-year-old wife, Nancy Reed, to death during a dispute about the way she disciplined their children in southeast Houston.

Tim Miller, the founder of Texas Equusearch, said Lee checked the child out of foster care on Friday, Oct.14, and never returned her.

Miller said Lee claims the child was with him at the apartment complex on Sunday when he took the trash out, but when he returned, the child was gone. Miller and his team are currently searching the area for the child.

“It doesn’t look good at this time; I can say that. There have been absolutely no sightings of her,” Miller said. “We’ve got people that are looking at cameras and different things right now. We got a little 2-year-old missing, certainly endangered missing. I can’t say that. I don’t know if it’s going to have a happy outcome, but we’re gonna do everything we can do to have an outcome.”

Miller said authorities have interviewed Lee about his daughter, and he allegedly said he didn’t report the girl missing because he believed she was with her mom.

During a news conference on Thursday, authorities said Lee was no longer cooperating with investigators about the whereabouts of Nadia, and evidence found inside his apartment has them believing the girl may be dead.

“I don’t don’t think this is going to have the outcome we want it to have,” Miller said.

Miller, along with Houston police, is also searching a nearby wooded area and a bayou for the child.

Authorities said it’s unknown what type of clothing Nadia was wearing, but she was believed to be wearing a white short-sleeve t-shirt at the time of her disappearance.

Nadia is described as having brown eyes and black hair and weighing about 50 pounds.

Anyone with information about Nadia’s whereabouts is asked to call the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department at (713) 308-3600 or Texas EquuSearch at (281) 309-9500.

Lee is currently in jail, being held on a $250,000 bond.

well, when you choked the mom out to death, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that you also had something to do with this child's disappearance.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

So Nadia was "checked out" of foster care on Friday the 14th (for a visit)?
Dad saw her on Sunday the 16th but she disappeared when he took the trash out, and he never bothered to report that?
On Tuesday the 18th he kills his wife after she was supposedly harming one of the other children?
And there is "evidence" in the apartment that indicates that Nadia may be deceased?

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

 

[RoundPeg]

I swear I read they have 5 children. So, we know a 1 and 3 year old are currently safe. 2 year old missing and presumed dead? Where are the other 2?

Also, were these 2 separated? She's in a hotel with 2 kids, he's picked up a 2 year old and went to his apartment? There was mention of a custody dispute.

 

[GrandmaBear]

It sounds like they were separated if they were having a dispute over custody.

Total conjecture on my part but he was likely the one disciplining the other children and she got upset. Probably turned it directly around. He was the one who put her in a choke hold and likely killed their own child. Probably said she was abusing the other two (disciplining) so when they find his, they believe she did it only the story didn't work out as they know he had the child....?

I have no real basis for thinking the above but they often blame the other for exactly what they are doing.

Why was one child in foster care? Maybe she checked the other two out? Maybe it was temporary since she didn't have a place for them perhaps? I haven't read every link yet maybe some is explained.

Why did he kill his own child? Why check the child out just to kill the child?

I was initially briefly hopeful he just hid the child but doesn't sound that way

I don't like his remark of she went missing when he "took the trash out".

 

[Guess Who]

It sounds like they were separated if they were having a dispute over custody.

Total conjecture on my part but he was likely the one disciplining the other children and she got upset. Probably turned it directly around. He was the one who put her in a choke hold and likely killed their own child. Probably said she was abusing the other two (disciplining) so when they find his, they believe she did it only the story didn't work out as they know he had the child....?

I have no real basis for thinking the above but they often blame the other for exactly what they are doing.

Why was one child in foster care? Maybe she checked the other two out? Maybe it was temporary since she didn't have a place for them perhaps? I haven't read every link yet maybe some is explained.

Why did he kill his own child? Why check the child out just to kill the child?

I was initially briefly hopeful he just hid the child but doesn't sound that way

I don't like his remark of she went missing when he "took the trash out".

I'm pretty much seeing everything he has said as projection, too.

 

[Kimster]

So Nadia was "checked out" of foster care on Friday the 14th (for a visit)?
Dad saw her on Sunday the 16th but she disappeared when he took the trash out, and he never bothered to report that?
On Tuesday the 18th he kills his wife after she was supposedly harming one of the other children?
And there is "evidence" in the apartment that indicates that Nadia may be deceased?

I didn’t know you could check kids in and out of foster care.

 

[RoundPeg]

I didn’t know you could check kids in and out of foster care.

You don't necessarily "check them out". Some parents get visitation rights including weekend visits when the courts are working towards reunification.

 

[Kimster]

You don't necessarily "check them out". Some parents get visitation rights including weekend visits when the courts are working towards reunification.

OK thanks for the clarification. I’m not very familiar with how the foster system works.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Nadia Lee update: Search for missing 2-year-old continues in Pasadena

Nadia Lee is the daughter of a man in custody on a murder charge and police suspect the toddler may also be a victim of foul play.

www.khou.com

Nadia Lee update: Search for missing 2-year-old continues in Pasadena​

The search for a 2-year-old girl who has been missing since Sunday resumed Friday morning in Pasadena, according to the Houston Police Department. Nadia Lee is the daughter of Jyron Charles Lee, 26, a man in custody on a murder charge. Police suspect the toddler may also be a victim of foul play.

Volunteers with Texas EquuSearch searched the area of Pasadena Memorial Park and an area two to three miles from the park, as well as Jackson Hill Cemetery. The FBI locked down a nearby landfill and won't allow anyone to use it during the investigation.

HPD said Nadia was last seen at her father's apartment complex on South Richey Street on Sunday around 8 p.m. There was DNA evidence of a crime at the apartment and police said they were investigating the case as a homicide.

Investigators said Lee was seen on camera near a dumpster for 20 minutes while pushing a stroller.

“We know that Nadia’s last known location – based off the totality of the evidence we have -- was October 16th, this past Sunday at approximately 8 p.m. at 331 S. Richey," HPD Sgt. Blake Roberts said.

Texas EquuSearch founder and director Tim Miller said on Thursday that his biggest fear is that Nadia won't be found.

"Time's not on our side," Miller said. "I don’t think any of us expect that happy ending. We do believe in miracles, and it would certainly take a miracle to get her back alive right now."



Investigators said the couple's other children were turned over to Child Protective Services after their mother died at the hands of her common-law husband.

Police said it all started as an argument between the couple just two hours before the mom was killed. The young mom and dad were arguing over child custody when officers were called out to the area around 8:30 p.m.

Nancy's family said she was staying at the motel because she was trying to get away from Jyron.

CPS has the 1- and 3-year-old kids in their care as they look for possible family members in the Houston area to take care of them.

Help for domestic violence victims​

Domestic and family violence cases in the Houston area have increased at an alarming rate. The Houston Area Women's Center says its crisis hotline has seen a 20-percent increase in calls, which means 9,000 additional calls.

"I will be very transparent and say that our average wait time is about five minutes, but if there is an influx of very serious calls we are going to need to be on the phone for a very long time," HAWC CEO Emilee Whitehurst said.

Whitehurst attributes the wait times to staffing shortages and how long each call can take. But she urges victims, who often suffer in silence, to make that call and not hang up.

"If people have to wait, we encourage them to do so -- because on the other end will be a trained advocate who will believe you, who will support you, you will never feel shamed," she said.

The Houston Area Women’s Center has a 24-hour hotline for victims of domestic violence at 713-528-2121 or 1-800-256-0551.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I didn’t know you could check kids in and out of foster care.

I don't know if it is called that but I have heard of cases where a parent or grandparent can come and take them out for lunch or something, they just can't provide for them right then or some such. One of my thoughts if is mom was in a hotel and there are at least three young children and the couple broken up or on the rocks, that might be part of it and maybe he had no roof over his head at all or something on that order.

The goal I always thought is to be to keep families together, reunite them or give them some support. Not sure it is the case any more these days..
I am probably wrong and I suspect there may be more to this but just like supervised visitation in a custody case apparently IF he could just check daughter out then the kids weren't necessarily "taken" away from them for safety's sake. And she had two with her or so it sounds at the time?

Of course the other possibility is mom had her taken away but it didn't negate dad's right to see her. And even then the system could have it all backwards where he/his type (speculation) turned all around on the mom in their split up.

Clearly he was NOT okay since he did this. At minimum at least allegedly killed the mom.

That's where my thoughts go so far., drug

Adoptions and foster care systems are a mess imo but so are parents who can't take care of their kids or drugs, etc. part of the problem. I judge but one agency to the next may differ county to county and state to state as may each worker but my rose colored glasses are all the way off when it comes to just assuming these systems take care of it or anyone.

Then in the next breath you will have one who will believe an ex or a parent against another parent in a custody dispute when they have an ulterior motive for trying to get them in trouble...

Just like cops probably damned if they do and damned if they don't in some cases...

Anyhow, I'll stop going on about it. I do think there are cases where a parent can take them out. And we never know either foster care may be a grandparent situation or aunt. Arranged and with rules by the agency or court. Hard to say.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Missing girl's mother asked judge for help before being strangled

The search continues for missing 2-year-old Nadia Lee, while court records show both of her parents spent the last few years in and out of jail.

www.khou.com

Author: Grace White
Published: 10:27 PM CDT October 24, 2022

HOUSTON — The search continues for Nadia Lee, 2, who is still missing after Houston police said her mother was killed. Court records are revealing new details about what may have led to all of this.

Even before Nadia was born, court records show there were problems. Both of the little girl’s parents have spent the last few years in and out of the Harris County Jail, and at one point, her mother even wrote to a judge begging for help.

“There’s typically a history and it’s a cycle," Director of Training for Houston Area Women's Center Michelle Sacks said. “I think it’s really easy for us to look at that and say, wow, we missed a lot, but we did."

Investigators said he called authorities and told them he was trying to keep Reed from harming their children.
Sacks said domestic violence cases can be challenging to investigate.

“There was a lot of nuances to what was happening, not just on that particular day, but again, there was a long history there," Sacks said.

According to court records, Lee has been convicted of minor offenses -- like theft and giving an officer a false report. On Reed's record, there is a history of family violence.

After an AMBER Alert was issued for her and one of her children in 2018, Reed was convicted of aggravated assault on that child and a protective order was filed against her. It was a different child than the one currently missing.

Later that year, court records show that Reed sent a letter to a judge asking for help. She told the judge the accusations were false, and that she was currently pregnant and suffering from postpartum depression.

"It is heartbreaking, it really is. My heart is just broken in half," Nora Reed said during a previous interview with KHOU 11 News.
Nora Reed is Nancy Reed's mother.

Both sides of the family have spoken out, praying for the 2-year-old’s safe return.

"We just really don't want to believe that she's gone," Jyron Lee's sister, Quaneisha, said over the weekend.

Homicide detectives are involved in the search for Nadia.

“Children are one of the big barriers to leaving, again in this situation, there were five kids," Sacks said. “We don’t want to see kids hurt, by any means, so I think that’s another reason to try and help."

If you or someone you know needs help, call the Houston Area Women's Center 24-hour domestic violence hotline at 713-528-2121.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Crews dig through landfill as search for missing toddler last seen in Pasadena continues

Nadia Lee, 2, has been missing since Oct. 16 after her mother was strangled to death.

www.khou.com

Author: Zack Tawatari, John Diaz
Published: 2:03 PM CDT October 31, 2022
Updated: 2:23 PM CDT October 31, 2022

ALVIN, Texas — The search for a missing 2-year-old who was last seen in Pasadena has moved to a landfill on private property.

Nadia Lee has been missing since Oct. 16 and the search continued Monday at a massive landfill in the Alvin area off Highway 6.

Texas EquuSearch confirmed they're digging in the landfill for any possible sign of the missing girl. A crew of nearly 20 people and lots of equipment assembled at the search area.

Officials said the area they're searching has actually been roped off for about a week and is about the size of a football field. They also said it's possible they will need to dig about eight feet deep.