I read about this SVU episode last night and it is available on NBC.com or Hulu. Link to the episode on NBC is here:Originally Posted by rachy
http://www.nbc.com/law-and-order-spe...ieces/1363310/
It was sort of similar but not. They say divorce in the article but I didn't see that in the episode at all (in fact, the couple wasn't even married).
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to. - Donnie Darko
ok so has the friend confirmed the fact that she met them and got gas. Has the gas station attendant confirmed seeing her with her daughter? I have so many questions. This woman is looney toons.
Missing Boy’s Mom’s Car Had Gas, Ran Fine, Police Say
Early Friday morning, Bellevue police test drove the car that the mother of a missing boy claimed he vanished from last weekend.
Julia Biryukova had told authorities that she left 2-year-old Sky Metalwala alone in the car while she went to get help with her 4-year-old daughter after she ran out of gas on Sunday morning.
According to Maj. Mike Johnson, however, the car did have gas in it. He said at a morning press conference that investigators drove it on Friday with the same amount of gas that was in the tank when they got it.
He would not go into specifics about the condition of the car, other than to say, “The vehicle operated just fine.”
Johnson had made a public plea Thursday night for Biryukova to meet with investigators and answer questions as doubts continued to grow about her version of events, but police had not yet received any response from her or her attorney.
Sky’s father, Solomon Metalwala, came in for a second polygraph test Thursday, Johnson confirmed. The results of a previous test were inconclusive and Johnson would not discuss the outcome of Thursday’s.
Johnson also told reporters Friday that cops have determined that a toddler’s shoe that was found near where Biryukova abandoned her car is not connected to the case. It was not Sky’s size and search dogs did not pick up his scent on it.
He said he expected to talk to detectives later in the day about what information would be necessary to declare Biryukova a person of interest or suspect in the case. Currently, she is neither, but when asked if it was unfair for police to be talking so publicly about the holes in her story, Johnson responded, “It’s the facts speaking, not us.”
Biryukova and Metalwala had been locked in a bitter custody fight over Sky and his sister for over a year. In hundreds of pages of court documents obtained by HLN, she accused him of being abusive and he claimed she suffered from a severe obsessive compulsive disorder that endangered the children. In one declaration, Metalwala alleged that Biryukova told him she had dreamed of strangling Sky.
Metalwala’s attorney said on HLN’s “Nancy Grace” that the couple reached an agreement after an 11-hour mediation session last week, but Biryukova called him days later to try to void it. He said he later learned that she left the children home alone during the mediation.
Investigators say nobody has reported seeing Sky in the two weeks before he was reported missing besides his mother and sister.
The owner of a Facebook page devoted to the search for Sky had announced on the site Thursday that they received a “ransom e-mail” demanding $25,000 for the boy’s safe return. The writer threatened to cut off Sky’s fingers if the money was not sent.
The note was very similar to one that KIRO reported was recently received by the son of Patti Krieger, a hiker who has been missing for more than a year. Like the note for Sky, it was signed “The Keeper,” but that one sought $250,000 and demanded that the money be wired to Ghana.
Asked about the note Friday, Johnson said, “That’s absolutely not true from our standpoint. We know nothing about that…If our investigators don’t have it, we’d like to.”
Police have received more than 330 tips in the case, according to Johnson. Anyone with information related to Sky Metalwala’s disappearance is asked to contact the Bellevue Police Department at pdtipline@bellevuewa.gov or 425-452-2564.
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2011...ay/?hpt=ng_bn1
I read that the cuckoo for cocoa puffs momma left the kid(s) home alone while she was at the 11 hour mediation session. WTF!?!
I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to. - Donnie Darko
Police in Sky Metalwala search obtained info from dating website
Police investigating the disappearance of two-year-old Sky Metalwala were in contact last week with the operator of a dating website where Sky's mother, Julia Biryukova -- or someone using her name and likeness -- created a profile in July.
The owner of the site, Brandon Wade, said police contacted him on Nov. 10 asking for any information he could provide on it. Wade's staff turned over to police a list of login information and messages to and from the account.
Wade said the page was created by someone using a Washington state Internet account, but the person created a free profile requiring no payment or proof of identity, so the exact identify of the profile's creator is unknown.
The website -- seekingarrangement.com -- bills itself as offering "a secure place for like-minded Sugar Daddies, Mommies and Sugar Babies to meet each other." Wade said Biryukova, if it was her who created the account, “signed up to be a sugar baby, which means she’s looking for someone wealthy to take care of her.”
On the page, which was created July 25, a person identifying herself as "JB" says she is "looking for financial stability and assistance. I am looking for a successful mentor. I am looking for a REAL man. YOU tell me YOUR 'ideal' arrangement!" The profile says "JB" expects "US$3,001 - $5,000 monthly."
The profile page features nine photographs of Biryukova and describes her as 30-years-old, a "non-smoker" and "non-drinker" who can "speak fluent Russian, Ukrainian and English" and lives in Redmond.
The last time Biryukova, or the person behind the account, accessed the account was October 26, Wade said.
Biryukova is a native of Ukraine. She moved to the United States as a child and has spent most of her life in Bellevue and the Eastside.
Monday marked eight days since Biryukova's son, Sky Metalwala disappeared. During that time, Biryukova has not agreed to a police interview or a polygraph test. Bellevue Police said there is no evidence to charge to anyone with a crime yet, but that the case could turn into a criminal investigation in the future.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Poli...133842203.html
Sky Metalwala's Mom on Police Radar as Possible Flight Risk?
Washington police investigating the disappearance of 2-year-old Sky Metalwala said they are keeping an eye on the boy's mother in case she tries to leave the country.
Sky was last seen Nov. 6 while in the custody of his mother, Julia Biryukova, a Ukranian woman who emigrated from Russia when she was 12.
Police in Bellevue, Wash., have been openly skeptical of Biryukova's story that she was driving her two children to a hospital when she ran out of gas. She allegedly walked with her 4-year-old daughter to a gas station, but when she returned to her car Sky was gone.
"We're not comfortable calling her a person of interest or a suspect. So I suppose if she did intend to make travel plans it would be something we'd want to know about and discuss with her," Bellevue police Maj. Mike Johnson said today.
"It is something that's on our radar. We're watching for that," Johnson said.
The officer also did not rule out a theory that Biryukova, who is in a bitter custody battle with her husband Solomon, may be trying to smuggle her son out of the country.
"There's a lot of work going on to rule out possible theories of abduction, coercion, the element of custody battle between mom and dad, secreting him outside the country, all of these are viable theories," Johnson said.
Solomon Metalwala said today on "Good Morning America" he believes the boy's disappearance is related to a court decision granting him visitation rights.
In the week before Sky disappeared, the parents reached a tentative agreement that would allow Metalwala to have some visitation with the couple's two children. But two days later — and two days before she reported her son missing — Biryukova decided to pull out of the agreement, the Associated Press reported. In a letter sent by her attorney, Biryukova insisted that everyone at the mediation session had been against her and the settlement was unfair, according to Metalwala's divorce attorney, D. Michael Tomkins.
The father of the missing toddler has said several times he believes his wife, Biryukova, knows what happened to their 2-year-old son.
"She has had Sky for the last 10 months so I believe that she does know something," he said today on "Good Morning America."
A team of more than 300 people including volunteers, police and FBI agents have spent the past nine days searching for Sky, but to no avail.
Over the weekend Metalwala recruited volunteers who passed out fliers, and he has been talking to the media nearly daily pleading for help.
"I'm very blessed that I live in Washington where people are very nice and very grateful to help me," he told "GMA." "I do believe that my son is coming back home."
Biryukova has been speaking to police only through a criminal lawyer she hired following her son's disappearance. She has not responded to requests to speak to investigators voluntarily, Bellevue police Maj. Mike Johnson said at a news conference on Friday.
The Search for Sky Metalwala
When asked to comment, Biryukova's attorney would only tell ABC News, "My office does not comment about ongoing investigations."
Metalwala, who has agreed to take two polygraph tests, again today denied he has any involvement in his son's disappearance.
"I don't know what happened," Metalwala said. "If I knew I wouldn't be here."
Biryukova has refused to be tested, telling investigators that she has been too disturbed to participate.
There has not yet been enough evidence to name Biryukova as a suspect, Johnson said, but more discrepancies are appearing in her story.
The car she says ran out of gas ran fine on Friday when police took it for a test drive. No gas was added before the test and no mechanical problem was found during the drive, according to police.
Police also say Biryukova never bought gas at the Northtowne Chevron Service she and her daughter walked to on Sunday but, instead, spent time walking around a wealthy neighborhood where she reportedly didn't ask anyone for help.
Both Metalwala and Biryukova were cited for reckless endangerment in a December 2009 incident in which a then 3-month-old Sky was left in the family's SUV in a Target parking lot for 55 minutes on a 27-degree day, court records showed.
The case was dismissed earlier this year after the pair completed a year of probation, 40 hours of community service and a 10-week parenting class.
Police have received more than 900 tips so far about the missing toddler, but none of them have resulting in any solid leads. Even so, investigators are encouraging the public to continue coming forward.
"I want to stress the importance of every possible piece of information that's out there. We would really like people to err on the side of reporting information," Johnson said.
Anyone who sees a child matching this description is asked to call 911 immediately. Police are urging anyone who might have traveled along 112th Ave N.E., between I-520 and NE 24th Ave N.E., Sunday morning between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. to call Bellevue, Wash., police at 425-452-2564 or email pdtipline@bellevuewa.gov.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/mom-missing...ry?id=14949987
Dating website contacted by police as part of missing boy search
SEATTLE -- Bellevue police have requested information from a personals website that appears to indicate the mother of Sky Metalwala had been seeking a "sugar daddy."
"Pictures on her profile seem to resemble Julia Biryukova, and address provided as well as login records show it is from Washington state," said Brandon Wade, the founder and CEO of the site seekingarrangement.com. Wade said the account, which was created on July 25, remains active.
Biryukova is the mother of 2-year-old Sky, who disappeared after she left him alone in an unlocked car 10 days ago. The woman said she left him alone while she and her 4-year-old daughter went to get help after their car ran out of gas. Investigators later determined the car's gas tank was not empty.
On the dating site, which features photos of Biryukova and her description, the author wrote that she is looking for "financial stability," a "successful mentor," and "a REAL man."
The author says she expects to be provided between $3,001 and $5,000 a month.
The description states the woman speaks fluent Russian, Ukrainian and English, is a "mommy of 2 beautiful babies" and lives in Redmond. The post is signed "JB".
Wade said he has provided the all the necessary information about the account to law enforcement.
Bellevue police Maj. Mike Johnson told a news conference Tuesday that social media are part of the investigation, but he would not comment on specifics.
Biryukova, 30, is a native of Ukraine. She moved to the United States as a child and has an apartment in Redmond. She and her husband, Solomon Metalwala, are involved in a divorce and child custody dispute.
Biryukova told police she left her 2-year-old son, Sky Metalwala, alone in her car Nov. 6 and went to get gas with her 4-year-old daughter. She said that when she came back about an hour later, Sky was gone.
Police said the car started and ran fine when they took it for a test drive. Investigators said they have been frustrated that Biryukova has not answered questions about discrepancies in her story. She has not agreed to a polygraph test, saying through her lawyer that she is too distraught to answer questions.
Police said hundreds of investigators are working on the missing person case that could turn into a criminal case.
A $1,100 reward is being offered in the case. Anyone with any information regarding the disappearance of Sky Metalwala should contact the Bellevue Police Department at (425) 452-2546 or through their e-mail tipline at pdtipline@bellevuewa.gov.
http://www.komonews.com/news/search-...133894908.html
Odd details emerge in case of missing Wash. boy
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press 3 days ago
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) From the moment a Washington toddler was reported missing 11 days ago, police had serious questions about his mother's story that she left him alone in an unlocked car after running out of gas.
The case has become even stranger since.
For starters, Julia Biryukova's car had plenty of gas and was running fine, police determined. She had told them it stalled as she was driving her 2-year-old son to the hospital because he wasn't feeling well, and that she left him inside as she and the boy's sister spent an hour walking to a gas station and calling a friend for help.
Biryukova's estranged husband the two are in a bitter divorce and custody fight ? said her story was full of holes and bore similarities to a recent episode of her favorite show: "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." He also claimed in divorce documents that Biryukova had dreamt of strangling the boy.
Police were also looking into whether Biryukova was a member of an online dating service that connects women with "sugar daddies."
It all adds up to an unusual story that has become a top priority for authorities in Bellevue, just east of Seattle, and provided plenty of fodder for cable TV news in the past two weeks.
Biryukova has refused to speak with detectives since the day of the disappearance, but she did acknowledge she sometimes left her children alone for extended periods, police say.
Nevertheless, detectives have yet to arrest the 30-year-old Ukrainian immigrant for any crimes they might be able to pin on her, such as making a false police report or recklessly endangering the boy. By giving her some space, they say, they hope to encourage her to cooperate beyond the limited help she's given.
It's unclear how much longer that deference might last. Bellevue Police Maj. Mike Johnson said this week investigators still consider the disappearance a missing person case, not a criminal matter, and they haven't been able to rule out anything regarding Sky's disappearance: Is he alive, secreted away with a relative somewhere? Was he kidnapped by a stranger? Is he dead, by force or neglect?
"It's a fair question why after 10 days are all these theories still viable options?" Johnson told a news conference Tuesday. "We have sufficient resources to be looking at all of these theories. None of the evidence we've gathered has ruled out one or the other or pointed strongly in one direction or another."
According to police, Biryukova told them Sky vanished in Bellevue the morning of Nov. 6. After running out of gas, she and her 4-year-old daughter walked to a gas station, she said. And when they returned to the car having been picked up by a friend the boy was gone. It was the friend who called 911.
Investigators aren't sure the boy was in the car that morning, but Sky's older sister told them he was which was not what they expected to hear from her, Johnson has said. They're not sure if she was coached.
Biryukova has not returned messages seeking comment from The Associated Press. The only thing her divorce attorney, Veronica Freidas, has said publicly is that her client won't take a polygraph test because they're unreliable and she's too emotionally devastated. By Tuesday, Freidas was no longer accepting phone messages from reporters, her office said. A criminal defense attorney for Biryukova, Robert Flennaugh II, said only that he does not comment on pending cases.
Johnson said investigators have looked into similarities between Biryukova's story and the "Law & Order" episode that aired in mid-October. The plot involved a mother trying to cover up her infant's death by reporting that her car with the baby inside was stolen while she went into a store. The woman later drew police a map of a beach where the child was buried in the sand.
Detectives have also questioned the owner of the online dating service SeekingArrangement.com, about a profile that was created in July using Biryukova's pictures and listing her as a "sugar baby" seeking a "real man," Seattle's KING-TV reported. It couldn't immediately be confirmed whether Biryukova or someone else set up the profile.
Police say Biryukova spoke with investigators the day Sky was reported missing, and that she acknowledged a history of leaving her children alone, sometimes for what Johnson characterized as extended periods. Biryukova and her husband, Solomon Metalwala, were cited in 2009 for leaving Sky sleeping in their sport utility vehicle in a Target parking lot in Redmond for 55 minutes. They came out to get him only after police arrived and asked the store to page the vehicle's owner.
The week before Sky disappeared, Biryukova and Metalwala were joined by their attorneys in a grueling 12-hour mediation session that resulted in an agreement that would grant Metalwala some visitation rights with the children. Police say they have investigated reports that Biryukova left the children at home alone during the session, but they haven't revealed what they learned.
Two days after the mediation session, Biryukova sent word to Metalwala's lawyer that she was pulling out of the agreement, and two days after that, Sky was reported missing.
Police and volunteers have searched the neighborhood where he was reported missing, as well as the area around Biryukova's apartment complex and a popular nearby park, to no avail.
Investigators also searched Biryukova's apartment and car both with her consent, police said.
Sky's father has passed out fliers and voluntarily took polygraph examinations, as did some of his relatives. He warned in a court declaration early this year that his estranged wife's mental health issues were endangering the children. She alleged that he was domineering and abusive.
Papers filed in the divorce say Biryukova suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. They also say she was involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric facility after she acknowledged to two Redmond police officers that she thought about killing herself, and the only thing that stopped her was her Christianity: She did not want to commit a sin.
A doctor reported that her diagnosis did not interfere with her ability to care for the kids. But Metalwala wrote in a declaration filed last January that Biryukova frequently would go on 10-hour cleaning binges during which she wouldn't feed the children, and that she refused to keep food in the house. Metalwala wrote that he would have to leave the store he owned in Seattle's Pioneer Square to rush home and take the children to a supermarket to feed them.
That wasn't the worst of it, he wrote. By early 2010, she "was like a prisoner who locked herself into a cell block," refusing to leave the home.
"She began to have dreams about killing our children, even telling me of her dreams about strangling our youngest child," he wrote in the January filing.
In an earlier declaration seeking custody of the children, Biryukova wrote that taking care of the children had been a "top priority from day one."
"I feel that as their mother my instincts as to their needs would be difficult to match," she wrote.
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New photos show missing boy's mom in her Sunday sweats
http://www.katu.com/news/local/Sky-M...=video&c=y
BELLEVUE, Wash. - Police released new photos Friday of a missing Redmond toddler and his mother that more realistically reflect what they looked like on the day the boy was reported missing.
Detectives are hoping that the new photos will help jog the memory of anyone who may have seen the boy, Sky Metalwala, or his mother, Julia Biryukova, around the crucial time of his disappearance.
The newly released photos include images taken from surveillance videos in local retail outlets that show the missing boy's mother as she was believed to be dressed on Nov. 6, in a gray sweatsuit.
"Satisfaction of ones curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life" Linus Pauling
This mother is guilty of something, its as obvious as Casey Anthony's guilt. What mother would just take off leaving their 2 year old in the car by himself? A mother who don't care about her son thats who. Something happened to this little boy and the mother knows what happened to him.
When was Sky Metalwala last seen, and by whom?
That's what the father of the missing 2-year-old boy is trying to deduce.
In letters sent to hundreds of doctors, health-care providers and clinics on the Eastside, Solomon Metalwala is asking whether anyone recalls treating or seeing his son during the months leading up to his Nov. 6 disappearance.
The letter is accompanied by a flier with a number of photos of Sky and his 5-year-old sister, as well as a signed form giving physicians permission to release information on the boy.
Metalwala hopes to better pinpoint the last time his son was seen. Soon after the boy was reported missing by his mother, one neighbor told police she had spotted the boy about two weeks earlier.
The boy's mother, Julia Biryukova, told police she was driving with the two children to Overlake Hospital Medical Center on Nov. 6 when the car ran out of gas in the 2600 block of 112th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue. She said she left the sleeping Sky in his car seat while she and her daughter walked for help.
When she returned, she told police, Sky was gone. Since then, police have conducted an extensive search for Sky but have turned up few clues to his whereabouts.
Police have said that Biryukova's story has serious discrepancies. For one thing, the car she was driving was found to have plenty of gas and no mechanical problems.
Biryukova has declined to speak with police despite repeated entreaties. However, she has not been named a suspect nor a person of interest in her son's disappearance.
Police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate said Monday that police continue to focus their investigation on finding the missing child. "We have no new releasable information at this time," Iafrate said.
In the meantime, Solomon Metalwala has become increasingly desperate to find his son.
Biryukova, 30, and Metalwala, 36, were involved in a bitter and contentious divorce and custody battle when the boy disappeared.
The couple's daughter, Maile Metalwala, was taken into protective custody and placed in foster care by Child Protective Services after her brother disappeared. A King County Superior Court commissioner later allowed the girl to live with Solomon Metalwala at his mother's Kirkland home.
Solomon Metalwala was named the custodial parent of both children in December, giving him legal authority to request the medical records, said his attorney, Leslie Clay Terry III.
Terry said Maile weighed only 29 pounds when she was taken into foster care and that she had gained 8 pounds by the time she moved in with her father.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...ingboy11m.html
"Satisfaction of ones curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life" Linus Pauling
Julia sounds like she has super OCD (and probably other stuff) and I'm glad Solomon got the rights for Maile.
I mean, how can you leave a child in a car alone because he's sick? Why not look after him properly? Because I know when we were sick as kids, our parents would always drive us to places and then leave us there for ages...It's chicken soup, not stale air.
Pretty weird theories are still around, enjoy the badly written article:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/94...s-police-terryBiryukova’s attorney, Rob Wyman, a public defender, did not return phone calls.
After seventeen anguished months, Terry, who is working pro-bono on the father’s behalf, has nothing but unkind words for Julia Biryukova. “She concocted that hospital story and when she realized no believed it, she hired an attorney. She has not helped us one bit,” fumed Terry.
Terry maintains that the child was long gone before the mother told her story. “She’s a clean freak, and she probably bleached everything out.”
Theories abound as to what may have happened to Sky. At one point, Metalwala, who says his son was last seen in April 2011, when there’s a record of him seeing a doctor. He’s also speculated in the past that Sky’s disappearance might be connected to a visit from his estranged wife’s foreign father who visited from Ukraine that spring. Perhaps, the grandfather brought him back to Ukraine.
“But now I don’t know how that could have happened,” Metalwala, who last saw his son in December 2010, told the Weekly.
Terry, when asked why the police have no compelled the Biryukova to come to the station and submit to an interview, had this to say, “They could bring her in, but if they did and charged her, say with child neglect, she could then have her attorney provide her with every single document and piece of evidence that police have been gathering over the past seventeen months. They don’t want to do that, and we don’t want them to do that -- to give her all that information.
“It is not worth it. We know she’s the culprit.”
http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/94...s-police-terryAs far Sky ever resurfacing, Terry is beyond pessimistic. “I don’t think he’s alive. Solomon doesn’t like when I say that, but that’s what I think,” the Bothell-based attorney said. “Again, I think the mother is the culprit. I don’t think it was intentional. It may have been negligence. We don’t know.
Said Metalwala: “Until I have solid proof [of his child’s demise] I am not giving up.”
In the interim, he added, “I am raising Maile to be a princess. I am trying to be the best dad possible.”
Bellevue police spokesman Carla Iafrate said three detectives -- two from Bellevue, one from Redmond -- are still working the case.
“This case is still ongoing. It is still open. It is still active,” she said. And, seventeen months later, “Leads are still trickling it.”
Aaaaaaand I think the kid has a super cool name. Kind of sounds like a mecha superhero.
OK, so I kind of read that a little wrong. But it's a shame she didn't seem to look after the two children well at all. Luckily their father seems to have his head screwed on.
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