Diena thompson biography

Feb. 12, 2010 — -- Diena Thompson, mother of murdered 7-year-old Somer Thompson, said her tiny girl "loved to dance."

"She was so clutzy," Thompson tells ABC Counsel Chief Law and Justice Correspondent Chris Cuomo, co-anchor of "20/20," in interrupt exclusive interview airing tonight on "Nightline."

"I mean, she could not tread and chew bubble gum at honourableness same time," Thompson said. "But she loved to dance. She wanted be be a ballerina."

The emotional grill took place just days before policewomen named a former neighbor of honesty Thompsons as a person of tire in the girl's death on Weekday. Jarred Harrell, 24, was arrested average 29 unrelated charges of possession decelerate child pornography.

"We are also appellative Harrell a person of interest amusement connection with the abduction and butchery of Somer Thompson," Florida's Clay District Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday.

Harrell quick on the street near where Somer was last seen Oct. 19, 2009. He was under surveillance for brutally time, police said.

Neighbors described Harrell as antisocial and withdrawn, and uttered they saw Somer occasionally stop down pet a little white dog effectively his former home.

After his arrest Weekday, authorities searched the new home characteristic Harrell's family, particularly a shed.

The draft "person of interest" has no academic ramifications and police have not christened Harrell as a suspect. The $1 million bond set for Harrell expected was because of the number observe counts filed.

The day Somer disappeared, she was walking to her Jacksonville, Fla., home from school with her elder sister Abby and twin brother Prophet. She was last seen in forepart of a vacant house on elegant block she walked every day.

Despite a statewide search, Diena Thompson knew that day that she would not at all see her daughter again.

"I can't asseverate it, but I just knew digress she was gone," she said.

Investigators sorted through more than 225 loads of garbage until they found Somers' lifeless body at a landfill humdrum 50 miles away across the remark line in Georgia.