Evelin Valibayova - missing since 17 July 2011

[Olivia]

I am sure I had posted this one before but it must have been lost in the crash

http://www.facebook.com/evelin.valibayova?sk=wall

What happened to Evelin? Billboards posing this very question are being posted all over New England in hopes of helping investigators solve the mystery surrounding the 23-year-old's disappearance.

Evelin Valibayova moved thousands of miles away from her native Azerbaijan to the United States seeking a new life. She was working hard to achieve the American Dream; however, something happened to Evelin the weekend of July 16, 2011 that put those plans on hold.

The weekend she disappeared Evelin worked until almost midnight on Saturday at Area Four, a restaurant in Cambridge. The following day she had plans to talk with her mother in Azerbaijan via Skype, and her boyfriend was planning on visiting her in Quincy that same day.

"We believe Evelin went missing due to foul play. She skyped with her mother regularly, contacted her brother regularly, bank accounts, credit card accounts. She was gainfully employed. She just fell off the map," Trooper John Morris told FOX 25's Bob Ward.

Evelin Valiboyova was most recently living in a small apartment building on 11 Hodges Ave. in Quincy. Inside the apartment, police found some personal papers, her passport, her birth certificate, and even a marriage license. They also found some forensic evidence.

"Crime scene services have gathered some forensic evidence, specifically, will not comment on. Enough for us to have a very strong belief that she was the victim of foul play," Norfolk Country District Attorney Michael Morrissey said.
The last known image of Evelin was captured by a MBTA surveillance camera. It was taken at 12:27 a.m. on Sunday, July 17, 2011 at the North Quincy MBTA station, just 200 yards from her home.

Evelin also used her phone that night to text a co-worker at Area Four saying she could not cover her Monday shift because she was going on a business trip. However, there was no business trip.

"There's no evidence that has shown us that Evelin was involved in any risky behavior. She was a typical, hard-working 23-year-old with a nice circle of family and friends who cared about her."

At the time she disappeared, Evelin was getting ready to move, not once, but twice.

Police know about one apartment in Brighton, but a year later, they still don't know about another apartment.

"Evelin was going to move into an apartment in Brighton effective September 1. And for the month of August she was going to sublet an apartment in the Allston-Brighton area. We do not know where that is. We would like to know who she was going to sublet an apartment from for that month."
Police believe the key to understanding what happened to Evelin Valibayova is somewhere at her apartment in Quincy where she vanished and where police found forensic evidence.

A full year later, the mystery is far from solved, but no one is giving up.
"We have put together a large wealth of information and put together a person of interest. But we're now to the point where we really need the public's help. We're kind of stalled right now, and we need help."

Anyone with information regarding Evelin Valibayova's disappearance is asked to contact the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, Massachusetts State Police, or local law enforcement.



Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/192...#ixzz23aLs9SMI

[strozzapreti]

This story has a surveillance photo of two men who apparently used to MBTA Charliecard after her disappeareance:

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012...4IN/story.html

[Kelly-Jane]

http://m.wcvb.com/news/suspect-named...27610164QUINCY, Mass. -
Three years after a 24-year-old North Quincy woman disappeared, the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office has named a convicted kidnapper from Quincy as a suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder of Evelin Valibayova, our news partners at the Patriot Ledger reported.

The man identified by a county prosecutor is John D. Castonguay, of 71 Hobart St. Castonguay, now 52, was convicted in 1987 of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl from Woonsocket, R.I., who was out walking her pet beagle.

Photos: Massachusetts unsolved mysteries

Prosecutors now say that Castonguay was employed as a handyman in the North Quincy building where Valibayova lived before she disappeared.

Valibayova, a native of Azerbaijan, was last seen leaving work on July 16, 2011 and then stepping off a North Quincy MBTA Red Line platform. Police and other authorities later said they had evidence that the young woman was a victim of foul play at her Hodges Avenue apartment.

Castonguay “was working as a handyman in her building at the time of her disappearance,” Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth McLaughlin wrote in the document filed last Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. “He had keys and unfettered access to her apartment, and he admitted to being in her apartment, including cleaning the apartment after her disappearance. (Castonguay) remains a suspect in the case.”

Castonguay has not been charged in connection with Valibayova’s disappearance or possible murder, and he is currently in custody on a parole violation.

“All that information the DA has is old,” said Eric Tennen, a Boston-based attorney for Castonguay. “They investigated and moved on from my client years ago. They’re using him as a scapegoat.”

A spokeswoman for Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrisey said prosecutors would not comment on an open case they are investigating.

Despite being sentenced to a maximum 75 years in prison for the 1986 kidnapping and rape of the girl, Castonguay was paroled in 2006 after successfully appealing the terms of his sentence.

Quincy records show that Castonguay purchased a 2-bedroom bungalow on Hobart Street in 2011 for $227,000.

Castonguay’s trial and conviction described a brutal crime that took place in the summer of 1986. Federal prosecutors said that Castonguay tricked the girl in Woonsocket into following him to a gravel pit two miles away in Blackstone, Mass., where he assaulted her physically and sexually, then left her naked and bleeding with the dog’s rope leash around her neck, according to reports in the Providence Journal.

The girl’s injuries were so severe that she required surgery said Dr. Mitchell J. Bellucci, a gynecologist who treated the girl and later testified at Castonguay’s trial.



A U.S. appeals court in 1988 ruled that the judge who sentenced Castonguay had “exceeded (his) authority,” vacated the sentence and enabled Castonguay to be eligible for parole after serving one-third of a 25-year prison term.

In the statement filed last week, McLaughlin – the Norfolk prosecutor – said that Castonguay was ordered in 2011 to register with Quincy police as a Level 3 sex offender and to refrain from working as a handyman as part of his parole.

But Quincy police and federal authorities later learned that Castonguay was working as a handyman in 2012 and 2013 for a landlord with “several residential properties,” McLaughlin wrote.

[Kelly-Jane]

http://m.wcvb.com/news/suspect-named...27610164QUINCY, Mass. -
Three years after a 24-year-old North Quincy woman disappeared, the Norfolk County District Attorney?s Office has named a convicted kidnapper from Quincy as a suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder of Evelin Valibayova, our news partners at the Patriot Ledger reported.

The man identified by a county prosecutor is John D. Castonguay, of 71 Hobart St. Castonguay, now 52, was convicted in 1987 of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl from Woonsocket, R.I., who was out walking her pet beagle.

Photos: Massachusetts unsolved mysteries

Prosecutors now say that Castonguay was employed as a handyman in the North Quincy building where Valibayova lived before she disappeared.

Valibayova, a native of Azerbaijan, was last seen leaving work on July 16, 2011 and then stepping off a North Quincy MBTA Red Line platform. Police and other authorities later said they had evidence that the young woman was a victim of foul play at her Hodges Avenue apartment.

Castonguay ?was working as a handyman in her building at the time of her disappearance,? Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth McLaughlin wrote in the document filed last Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court. ?He had keys and unfettered access to her apartment, and he admitted to being in her apartment, including cleaning the apartment after her disappearance. (Castonguay) remains a suspect in the case.?

Castonguay has not been charged in connection with Valibayova?s disappearance or possible murder, and he is currently in custody on a parole violation.

?All that information the DA has is old,? said Eric Tennen, a Boston-based attorney for Castonguay. ?They investigated and moved on from my client years ago. They?re using him as a scapegoat.?

A spokeswoman for Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrisey said prosecutors would not comment on an open case they are investigating.

Despite being sentenced to a maximum 75 years in prison for the 1986 kidnapping and rape of the girl, Castonguay was paroled in 2006 after successfully appealing the terms of his sentence.

Quincy records show that Castonguay purchased a 2-bedroom bungalow on Hobart Street in 2011 for $227,000.

Castonguay?s trial and conviction described a brutal crime that took place in the summer of 1986. Federal prosecutors said that Castonguay tricked the girl in Woonsocket into following him to a gravel pit two miles away in Blackstone, Mass., where he assaulted her physically and sexually, then left her naked and bleeding with the dog?s rope leash around her neck, according to reports in the Providence Journal.

The girl?s injuries were so severe that she required surgery said Dr. Mitchell J. Bellucci, a gynecologist who treated the girl and later testified at Castonguay?s trial.



A U.S. appeals court in 1988 ruled that the judge who sentenced Castonguay had ?exceeded (his) authority,? vacated the sentence and enabled Castonguay to be eligible for parole after serving one-third of a 25-year prison term.

In the statement filed last week, McLaughlin ? the Norfolk prosecutor ? said that Castonguay was ordered in 2011 to register with Quincy police as a Level 3 sex offender and to refrain from working as a handyman as part of his parole.

But Quincy police and federal authorities later learned that Castonguay was working as a handyman in 2012 and 2013 for a landlord with ?several residential properties,? McLaughlin wrote.

[Bewitchingstorm]

It looks like the primary suspect in the case, Hobart Castonguay, was never charged. Here is the Charley Project page for her: https://charleyproject.org/case/evelin-valibayova