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INDIANAPOLIS Mar 6, 2007 (AP)— By the time Beth Johnson rushed to tell police that she suspected her ex-husband had abducted their 8-year-old daughter, it was too late.

Eric Johnson had already strapped Emily into the passenger seat of a leased single-engine Cessna and taken off from Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport, police said. Moments later the aircraft slammed into the side of a house occupied by Johnson's former mother-in-law.

Johnson, 47, and his daughter died in the crash, which investigators suspect was intentional.

"It is just gut-wrenching to think about what was happening to that child just prior to the crash," Indiana State Police spokesman 1st Sgt. Dave Bursten said Monday night at a news conference in Indianapolis.

Emily didn't go to school Monday, and her mother arrived at the Bedford police headquarters about 11:30 a.m. to say she believed her ex-husband had abducted the girl, Bursten said.

By the time Beth Johnson had gone to the police station, investigators already were examining the wreckage of the plane crash at the home of her mother, Vivian Pace, in Bedford, about 20 miles south of Bloomington.

Before the pilot was identified, Pace told The Times-Mail newspaper that she was in the living room when the plane struck the side of her one-story home. She said everything fell off the walls.

Bursten said eyewitness accounts of the plane's movements just before the crash led police to suspect the crash was deliberate, as did the relationship between the pilot and the home's resident.

Authorities will not know for sure whether the crash was intentional until the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation, which could take up to a year, Bursten said.

State police have no record of disputes between the Johnsons, Bursten said.

"I thought he would do something to get back at Beth," Pace said. "He was a very possessive person. He got what he wanted."

Submitted on 03/06/2007

Submitted by: Raymond C. Moore III
Reference: ABC News, March 06, 2007

>> Moderator Scores <<

Chip said:
Definitely Toss: Bystanders Hurt
Not amusing and the child was killed. A sad, sad story. Thanks for sending it though, Raymond

James said:
Definitely Toss: Bystanders Hurt
Ouch! Poor, innocent bystander hurt! We appreciate the submission, Raymond, but alas, it is an automatic toss!

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