
State’s Attorney to Seek Independent Psych Evaluation for Hoggle, After She is Once Again Found Not-
Prosecutors in the Catherine Hoggle case are attempting to step up pressure on Catherine Hoggle in Montgomery County District Court on Monday morning. Hoggle was in court for a status hearing, and for a fifth time in 18 months, she was found to be not competent to stand trial. State’s Attorney John McCarthy is not asking the court’s permission to bring in another independent doctor to evaluate Hoggle’s mental competency. Hoggle has been at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center a

Catherine Hoggle Remains Incompetent, New Court Date Set for February
A Montgomery County District Court Judge ruled Monday that Catherine Hoggle was still not yet competent to stand trial on child neglect charges stemming from the disappearance of her two young children in September of 2014. According to reports, Judge William G. Simmons ruled that Hoggle was still not competent to participate in her defense of the charges after reading the report of the doctors at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center. He ordered another status hearing in the ca

Judge Rules Hoggle Still Not Competent to Stand Trial
A Montgomery County District Court Judge ruled that Catherine Hoggle was still not yet competent to stand trial on child neglect charges stemming from the disappearance of her two young children in September of 2014. Judge James Sarsfield ruled that Hoggle was still not competent to participate in her defense of the charges after reading the report of the doctors at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center and interviewing Hoggle in court Friday morning. He ordered another status h

Family Continues to Search for Children and Answers in Hoggle Case One Year Later
It has been one year since Sarah and Jacob Hoggle went missing while with their mother, Catherine Hoggle. A year of sorrow. A year of questions. A year of frustration. A full year, missing. “It is a matter of constantly missing them,” said the children’s father Troy Turner at press conference held Tuesday in the Aurora Hills local park in Clarksburg where he and his children, then two-year-old Jacob and four-year-old Sarah, had played only the day before all of this happen

Catherine Hoggle Remains Incompetent to Stand Trial; State Plans More Charges
Catherine Hoggle, the mother of two missing Clarksburg children, was in court Thursday for what prosecutors called a “simple hearing,” but which ended with an excited exchange between the State’s Attorney and Hoggle’s lawyer on the courthouse steps. Hoggle is currently facing misdemeanor charges of child neglect and obstructing and hindering an investigation after going missing in Germantown with her two young children, Jacob and Sarah, in September of 2014. The children rema

Search for Hoggle Children Did Not Turn Up Any New Clues
Little Jacob and Sarah Hoggle have been missing for 223 days, and on the 224th day Montgomery County Police, along with search teams from surrounding counties and volunteer search groups from as far away as Pennsylvania conducted a massive search for the missing children on Sunday, April 19. Search teams fanned out throughout the Upcounty area, searching wooded areas along Great Seneca Highway and Clopper Road in Germantown, using K-9 dogs. Search teams from Charles County pr

MCPD to Conduct Search for Missing Hoggle Children Sunday
The Montgomery County Police Department, with the assistance of allied police agencies and volunteer search teams, will be conducting search operations on Sunday, April 19, in an attempt to locate Jacob and Sarah Hoggle. This search is not based on any new investigative leads but is part of the continued efforts of the department to locate the Hoggle children, according to police. Jacob Hoggle, age 2, was last seen in the Darnestown area at approximately 4:00 p.m. on Septembe

Prosecutors Will Not Challenge Hoggle Incompetency Finding
By Kevin O’Rourke In November a psychiatric evaluation of Catherine Hoggle, the mother of two toddlers missing since September, found her to not be mentally competent to stand trial, and this week Montgomery County prosecutors said they would not challenge that opinion. According to a Washington Post report, Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy was planning to file legal papers today, asking District Court Judge Eugene Wolfe to make the November opinion an official

Police Investigate Possible Sighting of Hoggle Children in New Jersey
By Kevin O’Rourke Montgomery County Police told Fox5 DC that they are investigating a new tip which alleges that the two Hoggle children, missing since Sept. 8, have been spotted in New Jersey. The possible sighting was first published on the FindSarahFindJacob Facebook page on December 29. “Possible sighting on NJ Turnpike North at Exit 8A-9 - December 28th ~4 PM Eastern,” said the post. The children’s father Troy Turner told Fox5 DC that surveillance video of the alleged s

Hoggle Court Date Set For Nov. 6
Catherine Hoggle will finally have her first court hearing on Nov. 6, almost two months after the Clarksburg woman disappeared with her two young children. Montgomery County District Court has scheduled the hearing for Hoggle, 27, who faces misdemeanor charges of detaining a child, neglect of a minor and obstructing and hindering. The children, Jacob, 2, and Sarah, 3, were last known to be in the company of their mother, Catherine Hoggle. Catherine Hoggle, a diagnosed paranoi

State Police Deny Family's Request For Amber Alert in Hoggle Case
By Kevin O’Rourke For a family that has had the more than its share of bad news in the last three weeks, it must have felt like the Maryland State Police were just piling on Tuesday when the family’s request to issue an Amber Alert for Jacob and Sarah Hoggle, missing for three weeks, was denied. On Monday, Troy Turner and Lindsey Hoggle stood in front of the Maryland State Police Barracks in Rockville to urge the Maryland State Police to issue an Amber Alert for the Sarah,3,

Family of Missing Children Urge Governor to Issue Amber Alert
By Kevin O’Rourke The family of Jacob and Sarah Hoggle stood in the rain today in front of the Maryland State Police barracks in Rockville to urge Governor Martin O’Malley to issue an Amber Alert to help find the missing toddlers. Troy Turner, the father of the children, along with their grandparents Lindsey and Randy Hoggle, and Debbie Beckward, and aunts and uncles of the toddlers sent a letter to the Office of the Governor today to request that the Governor use his office