Also among the new details to emerge Tuesday is that Ross may have forced the child to pen her own ransom letter to demand $50,000 from her parents. Those details emerged in a report by the Albany Times-Union, which cited anonymous police sources.
The Times-Union’s sources also revealed that a state trooper is under scrutiny for failing to arrest Ross when he dropped the note off in a mailbox at Sena’s family home—that was under police surveillance—early Monday morning.
Investigators were able to identify Ross as a suspect using a fingerprint he left on the ransom note. Authorities said the fingerprint returned as a match to Ross from a 1999 arrest for driving under the influence.
Ross was nabbed four hours after the match was confirmed, with a specially trained police unit reportedly raiding his camper to find him wearing only his underwear, according to the Times-Union’s sources.
The Times-Union reported that Ross was uncooperative with authorities once in custody and received minor injuries.
Cops have not publicly identified any relation between Sena and Ross, though authorities revealed an address listed to Ross is near the Sena family home.