Topic author: shy
Subject: Girl 16 Found Stabbed to Death
Posted on: 04 June 2004 01:36:47 AM
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Her body was behind an East Germantown warehouse. The teen had been missing from a Montco youth shelter.

Police had few clues yesterday in the slaying of a 16-year-old Brewerytown girl whose body was found earlier in the day behind a vacant warehouse in East Germantown.

Champaine Vessels was stabbed once in the chest and may have been beaten about the head. She was reported missing last Thursday from the North Star Youth Services home in West Norriton, Montgomery County, where she had been a temporary resident, officials said.

A worker at Sun Printing House in the 4800 block of Stenton Avenue discovered Vessels' body around 6:20 a.m. yesterday in a driveway that separates his company and the warehouse, which is owned by Pinn Memorial Baptist Church in Wynnefield.

"In terms of who last saw her, we don't really know," he said. "We still have a lot to do in this investigation. At this time, we don't have any suspects; we don't have any witnesses."