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Outcast set off group's odyssey

Woman trying to get her two children led police to doorstep

August 13, 2008|By Annie Linskey and Gus G. Sentementes , Sun reporters

Feb. 9, 2008: Ramkissoon's mother, Seeta Khadan-Newton, travels to Brooklyn, N.Y., to locate her daughter and grandson. After getting no help from her daughter, she returns to Baltimore and contacts authorities. New York City social workers and police investigate.

Feb. 20, 2008: Baltimore homicide detectives learn that Javon Thompson might have been killed in the city after they are contacted by a social worker in New York.

Feb. 22, 2008: Baltimore detectives meet with Khadan-Newton, who tells them about 1 Mind Ministries and her missing grandson.

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March 19, 2008: A Philadelphia homicide detective locates the children who had been taken away a year ago. The children provide "direct eye-witness accounts relative to the death of Javon Thompson," according to court documents.

April 28, 2008: Baltimore detectives travel to Philadelphia and talk with the 77-year-old man who had rented to the group for the week. He directs police to a locked shed behind his apartment, where authorities find the green suitcase with the remains of a child.

May 4-5, 2008: Baltimore police travel to Brooklyn, N.Y., to search for members of the ministry. Cobbs, Antoinette and Williams are arrested on charges that they failed to appear in Baltimore court in connection with their arrest in 2006 in the child-custody dispute. Ramkissoon, the child's mother, is not arrested and returns to Baltimore.

May 19, 2008: Baltimore prosecutors argue in court that the three suspects should be held without bail because they are "persons of interest" in the disappearance of Javon.

June 2, 2008: DNA samples collected from Ramkissoon match the remains found in the green suitcase.

Aug. 9, 2008: Ramkissoon, having been arrested at a homeless shelter in Baltimore, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her son. Antoinette, Cobbs, Williams and Bynum are charged with murder in arrest warrants.

Aug. 12, 2008: Ramkissoon is ordered held without bail. Antoinette and Williams are scheduled to have a bail review today. A bail review for Cobbs has not yet been scheduled. Police are searching for Bynum.

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