February 14, 2010

Neighbors: 'He Only Came Out When the Kids Came Out of School'

2-14-2010 Florida:

ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- Directly across the street from the home FBI agents searched Thursday, a "for sale" sign points to frustration.

"I moved out of here because of this," said neighbor Sandra Russell.

Russell and her sister Connie Torres moving because they say Jarred Harrell who had lived in the house that was searched, scared them. "I watched that house constantly because something just told me there's something not right with it," Torres said.

Police arrested Harrell Thursday at his new home in Meridian, Miss. He faces 29 child porn charges.

He does not face any charges in connection with Somer Thompson's disappearance, but "we are also naming Harrell as a person of interest in the abduction and murder of Somer Thompson," Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday.

Somer, 7, was abducted in October on her way home from school in Orange Park and her body was found days later in a Georgia landfill. The case is unsolved.



The sisters started moving out weeks ago, and were greeted Friday with the stunning news. "I was devastated. I freaked out. All my friends started calling me. This is your neighbor," Russell said. "He would sit outside about the time the kids would come home and he would wash his car."

In Callahan today, neighbors near the house searched yesterday in connection to Harrell's arrest said they didn't know the people who live there well, that they kept to themselves and hadn't lived there very long.

Investigators searched through the house for several hours, though nobody answered the door today and the house appeared empty. ..Source.. Erich Spivey Dave Wax

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