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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:07:45 GMT -5
Missing Alzheimer's Patient Turns Up At Local Gas Station LAST UPDATE: 5/17/2005 10:45:00 PM A missing Alzheimer's patient drives hundreds of miles before turning up safe and sound at a local gas station. Glenn Ross Daughters, 76, was reported missing from his home in Dagsboro, Delaware on Sunday. Dagsboro is about 600 miles from Cincinnati. Daughters drove along Route 50, and turned up at the BP gas station on West State Road in Cleves just after 11:00 a.m. Tuesday. The store manager, Pam Todd, said he seemed confused and stopped to ask for directions. She immediately called police when she realized he was from out-of-state. "He left his house to get his hair washed and ended up down here," said Todd. "These incidents are very rare in small towns," said Sgt. Steve Hickey, Cleves Police Department. Todd said it appeared that no one offered to help Daughters during his journey. Daughters was overdue for dialysis treatment and was taken to University Hospital. He was doing just fine late Tuesday night. His family has been notified, and is making plans to come and pick him up. wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?cont...35-4976E4EE1921
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:08:57 GMT -5
Parents fear for missing teen BY KEIKO MORRIS STAFF WRITER April 19, 2005, 8:11 PM EDT The parents of a missing Deer Park girl want the public's help in locating their daughter who, they say, has been missing since Saturday and needs her medication. Ashleigh Richards, 15, was last seen leaving her godparents' house in Westbury after taking a taxi there from Deer Park, Nassau police said. Richards, who has bipolar syndrome, had planned to go to Adventureland with her friends on Saturday until they canceled, said her mother, Margaret Richards. She then went to her godparents' house. Once she arrived, her godparents paid $42 for the taxi and questioned her judgment for taking the cab such a distance. "She got insulted and walked down the block and they haven't seen her since," Margaret Richards said. After she left her godparents' house about 4 p.m., a friend got a phone call from her around 7 p.m., her mother said. Richards told her friend that she was at the Westbury McDonald's and that she was getting a ride from someone to that friend's home. The friend told Richards, however, that she was not home and Richards said she would call back at about 8:30 p.m., her mother said. The friend overheard Richards talking with the driver and learned he was 19 and his car was black. Nassau police said they are interviewing Richards' friends. Richards was wearing an orange and yellow short sleeve Rocawear jacket over a yellow halter top, black dress slacks, and black Nike sneakers. She was wearing a pearl ring and earrings as well as a heart pendant and a necklace reading "Greek Princess." She is 5-foot-6, weighs 138 pounds, has blue eyes and dirty-blond hair. Anyone with information can call Nassau detectives at 516-573-5338. www.newsday.com/ny-ligirl0420,0,787...y-main-tabheads Ashleigh Richards Safe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashleigh Richards is safe at home. Thank you to everyone who thought about her and her family. websleuths.com/forums/showthread.ph...3979#post643979
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:09:24 GMT -5
Body Identified As Illinois Woman Missing Since December May 16, 2005, 01:36 PM (VINCENNES, Ind.) -- Authorities have identified a body found in the Wabash River in Vincennes, Indiana, as a 37-year-old Illinois woman missing since December 27th. Knox County Coroner Don Halter used dental records to identify the body as Michelle Asher of Russellville, Illinois Halter says the cause of Asher's death is still under investigation following an autopsy yesterday. He says results of tests conducted on the body would be available in about two months. Asher's body was found Saturday afternoon about two miles north of Kimmel Park in Vincennes by men fishing in the river. She was last seen walking on a road south of Russellville near the Wabash River, about ten miles north of Vincennes. www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=3349921
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:10:24 GMT -5
Name: Charles Billy Patterson Classification: Endangered Missing Adult Alias / Nickname: Bill NCMA Case ID: A200502562S Date of Birth: January 21, 1938 Date Missing: January 1, 1998 From City/State: Copper Hill, TN Missing From (Country): USA Age at Time of Disappearance: 59 Gender: Male Race: White Height: 5' 11" Weight: 165 pounds Hair Color: Brown Hair (Other): With graying. Eye Color: Brown Complexion: Medium Identifying Characteristics: Part of pinky finger missing, tattoo of a red thin "ribbon" across his chest with possibly a blue bird on each side, tattoo of an outline of a nude "woman" on lower leg. Clothing: Light colored long heavy coat. Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Charles was last seen in the vicinity of the 190 block of Ocoee St. in Copperhill, TN. He may be in the Dalton, GA area. Even though the photo of Bill is an older one, friends say he still looks very similar. Bill was known to live a transient lifestyle with possible sightings in the states of GA, TN, and LA. His friends would like to know that Bill is ok. Investigative Agency: Polk County Sheriff's Department Phone: (423) 496-3301 Investigative Case #: 05-0203-103 __________________ Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski President and Founder, Project Jason www.projectjason.org ***Bill's family has discovered that Bill died about 5 years ago in TN. They will be bringing him back home to Georgia. Bill was going to be on one of our next Come Home campaigns. As a part of the campaign, the family writes a personal note to their missing loved one. This is the note that was for Bill, written by someone who knew the meaning of unconditional love: "Dear Bill, I have always loved you and I so want to know if you are alright. I remember you singing "Personality" to me so many years ago. Please contact me or your friend, XXXXX. We want to see you again so badly. I'll always be yours. Let's not waste the years we have left by being apart. I will help you any way I can. The numbers listed have my phone no. and they will call me immediately if you ask them to. Love you and hoping to see you again, XXXX" The family wrote the following to all those who assisted in their search for Bill: "The family of Charles Billy Patterson would like to thank everyone at Project Jason, National Center for Missing Adults, the North American Missing Person's Network, Project EDAN and anyone who placed posters and helped, for all your thoughts and prayers in our search for our beloved Bill. Bill was found deceased in Tennessee. After being alone for five years, Bill will finally be brought home to Georgia." I believe love is everlasting and neither time nor separation by death can or will end it. I can see Bill's forever-young face smiling down upon those who loved him. Please pray for this family. Thank you.
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:11:00 GMT -5
Missing boy emerges from woods Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle May 13, 2005, 10:06PM An 11-year-old Montgomery County boy missing since late Wednesday afternoon was found just before 7 p.m. Friday, when he walked out of the woods not far from his home. Ryan Priestley was being interviewed Friday evening by investigators at the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. According to a statement released by the department, "It is known that Ryan had seen searchers throughout the day and had elected not to be found." The youth had been missing from his south Montgomery County home since 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, when he left after an argument with his mother. His mother reported him missing Thursday. www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/m...politan/3181632
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:11:29 GMT -5
Missing Gaston Woman Located WLTX-TV Columbia, SC Updated: 5/13/2005 2:15:41 PM (Gaston) - Investigators in Lexington County say they've located one of two women who had been missing from the Gaston area. Jaime Binkley, 28, was found to be in good condition on Friday after being missing for eight days. Lexington County Sheriff James Metts says Binkley made telephone contact with her mother on Friday while Binkley was near a doughnut shop on Broad River Road. Binkley's mother then called 911 to report that her daughter had made telephone contact with her. Telecommunications operators at the Lexington County Communications Center immediately contacted the detective who handled the missing person investigation, Metts said. The detective then drove to Richland County and found Binkley, who was in good condition. Binkley told detectives she voluntarily left home at 7:15 a.m. on May 6 after driving her son to his school bus stop at the end of the driveway of her mother's home at 437 Irvin Jumper Road, Metts said. Binkley does not have custody of her son, who lives with Binkley's mother. After leaving home in her 1995 Ford Thunderbird, Binkley told detectives that she drove to Richland County in order to buy crack cocaine, Metts said. She told detectives that she had been on a drug binge since May 6. Binkley has a history of drug abuse. www.wltx.com/news/news19.aspx?storyid=27277
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:11:56 GMT -5
Body identified as runaway, 11 Friday, May 13, 2005 By PATRICK JOHNSON and PAMELA METAXAS Staff writers CHICOPEE - Police yesterday confirmed the body found earlier this week along the Chicopee River was Ron Di John Harris, an 11-year-old boy who was reported as a runaway from his home in the Indian Orchard section of Springfield more than a month ago. The medical examiner's office was able to identify Harris through his dental records, but the autopsy could not determine a cause of death, said Detective Lt. Mark S. Higgins. Investigators are awaiting toxicology reports, which will not be completed for several weeks, he said. "We are still looking into the circumstances surrounding his disappearance along with the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit," Higgins said. Harris was reported to Springfield police as a runaway April 7. Authorities believe the youth entered the Chicopee River in Indian Orchard and floated several miles downstream near the Davitt Bridge, a popular fishing spot near Interstate 391. Fishermen found the body Monday on the Chicopee Street side of the riverbank near I-391. The discovery brings a somber ending to an investigation that began when Harris' family reported the boy had run away, said Springfield police Youth Aid Bureau Capt. Mark Anthony. Anthony said Harris was seen several times in the Indian Orchard area and other parts of the city for weeks after he left home. Most recently he was spotted April 15 at the Boston Road Wal-Mart, Anthony said. The investigation, led by detective Lance Holmes, logged hundreds of hours searching for him, interviewing friends, family and teachers at the Kennedy Middle School. Officers distributed fliers with his picture to Indian Orchard restaurants and businesses, and to the media, Anthony said. Information about the missing boy and his photograph were published in the April 16 edition of the Republican. The investigation also employed the state police helicopter and the Springfield police dive team to search waterways in Indian Orchard, he said. "A lot of hours went into this," he said. "It was a top priority." Officers are now conducting additional interviews in hopes of retracing Harris' movements, he said. The Youth Aid Bureau investigated 1,300 reports last year of children 17 years and younger running away from home, Anthony said. Another recent runaway case that was publicized ended when 15-year-old Anthony Bosworth returned home, Anthony said. www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/re...7940.xml&coll=1
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:12:29 GMT -5
Toddlers Believed Abducted In Kissimmee Found Safe UPDATED: 1:39 pm EDT May 12, 2005 An Amber Alert issued Thursday morning was canceled when Orange County, Fla., authorities found two young girls who were reported missing. Deputies located 14-month-old Samaya Turner-James and 2½-year-old Sierra Turner-James in a car with their father, Michael James, 28, at Orange Blossom Trail and Sand Lake Road just after 1 p.m. www.news4jax.com/news/4480972/detail.html
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Post by ex member on Jun 13, 2005 9:13:10 GMT -5
Police look for missing DeWitt woman By Kay Luna Last Updated: 5:22 pm, Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 DeWITT, Iowa — Witnesses saw Shayla Annette Lippens leaving a Grand Mound tavern with two men, who told police they last saw her getting gas in her car at a DeWitt gas station. . That was five days ago. No one has seen or talked to her since. . DeWitt Police Chief Gene Ellis said investigators are searching for the missing 21-year-old woman, whose family is concerned she could be in danger. . “She’s had a couple of traumatic things that have occurred in her life that has the family concerned,” Ellis said. The woman lives with her parents, who filed a missing-person report Monday with the DeWitt Police Department. She hasn’t contacted family or friends, or shown up for work at Barnes Foodland in DeWitt. . Ellis said police have talked to the men Lippens left the tavern with early Saturday. They said they followed her to Casey’s General Store in DeWitt about noon Saturday, so she could get gas in her car. The men said that’s the last time they saw her. . “She took nothing with her,” the police chief said. “We’re concerned.” . Lippens is described as being 5-foot-5, weighing 160 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. . She last was seen driving a green 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier with the words “Rally Sport” on the sides in pink. The Iowa license plate is 879 NZW. . Anyone with information about Lippens’ whereabouts should call the police department at (563) 659-3145 or (800) 462-6530. www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_...ews&c=2,1050906 Missing DeWitt woman found By Kay Luna Last Updated: 12:43 pm, Thursday, May 12th, 2005 . DeWITT, Iowa — A missing DeWitt woman has been found in another eastern Iowa town and has asked police not to release any more information about the case. Shayla Annette Lippens, 21, was found by officers from a law enforcement agency in the unnamed community. DeWitt police Capt. Mike Osmun said officers asked Lippens to contact her parents, with whom she lives in DeWitt. DeWitt police did not say why Lippens left town, but they stressed that she is not under investigation for any wrongdoing. “She was just a missing person,” Osmun said. “She committed no crime.” Family members filed a missing person report regarding Lippens on Monday. She was last seen leaving a Grand Mound tavern with two men early Saturday and then putting gasoline in her 1998 Chevy Cavalier at the Casey’s General Store in DeWitt. It had been several days since she talked to family or friends or reported to work at the Barnes Foodland store in DeWitt. www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_...ews&c=2,1050970
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:21:08 GMT -5
Missing Texas woman was hiding in plain sight in Kentucky By MURRAY EVANS Associated Press Writer Posted on Wed, Jun. 15, 2005 FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) - After nearly seven years, Brandi Stahr's mother was about to have the missing young woman legally declared dead when Stahr turned up alive in Kentucky, working as a department manager at a Sam's Club store under her real name and Social Security number. The case was an emphatic reminder that even in this age of Internet databases and instantaneous Google searches, someone who really doesn't want to be found can get away with it, at least for a while. Stahr was a Texas A&M University sophomore when she disappeared in 1998, apparently after an argument with her mother about her grades. Texas law enforcement officials feared she had been murdered. They searched for her body in the woods of Brazos County in Texas and questioned a serial rapist and murderer just hours before he was executed last year. But last month, Texas Rangers and U.S. marshals, acting on a tip, found her in Florence, a Cincinnati suburb off Interstate 75. Stahr, 27, has been hiding in plain sight, working for five years in one of the numerous stores near the highway. The source of the tip was not disclosed, and the two U.S. marshals and two Texas Rangers who worked on the case refused to comment or did not return calls. Since she was found, Stahr has avoided the media _ she did not reply to a letter sent to the store by The Associated Press _ and her co-workers are not talking, either. Her mother, Ann Dickenson, did not return calls to her home in Moody, Texas. But Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that if Stahr's intention was not to be found, she did things right, including not obtaining a Kentucky driver's license and not having utility bills in her name. Investigators have not said how Stahr traveled or whether she had roommates. Stahr did pay taxes, but because of federal privacy laws, law enforcement officials do not have access to tax records, IRS spokeswoman Pat Brummer said. Frank Viera, a Social Security Administration spokesman, said the same laws apply to that agency's records, except in cases of violent crime or fraud involving a government program. And there was never any proof Stahr was a victim of violence. Mange said that lack of access is a source of frustration to law enforcement officials. Law enforcement officials and missing-persons organizations said Stahr's story is a reminder that such cases are not always what they seem. Angela Ellis, founder of the North American Missing Persons Network Web site, said Stahr's case is unusual because of the amount of time that lapsed between her disappearance and discovery. But of the 79 people on Ellis' Web site whose whereabouts were determined, 40 were found alive. According to the FBI, many people listed as missing are not victims of foul play at all but simply wanted to disappear. Kay Scarborough, a professor of police studies at Eastern Kentucky University, said technological advances such as the Internet cut both ways for law enforcement officials: Information that can be used to track people is more readily available, but so is information on how to avoid detection. "People are just smarter about those kinds of things, because they've gotten more publicity and because they do watch TV and learn things," she said. For those in law enforcement, "the overabundance of information that we have, we think we can surely use it to our advantage, but sometimes we don't know what to do with the information or can't develop it to make sense of it to help with the case." Mange said that while the Rangers are pleased that Stahr has been found alive, "we wish she would have been considerate of everyone's time. But it's not against the law to be inconsiderate." "You need to let people know," Mange said, "because people care about you, even if you don't believe that." That would have saved Stahr's mother a lot of heartache, said Nikky Munz, co-owner of a gift shop in Moody, an agricultural town of about 1,500. Munz suggested that Dickenson release balloons each year on Stahr's birthday as a sort of therapy and gave Dickenson the balloons to do so. "She said that it helped her so much, that she was touching or reaching her," Munz said. "It was her way of releasing her love and care to Brandi." Now, with Stahr's discovery, "everyone is just excited for Ann." www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/...on/11900348.htm
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:22:02 GMT -5
www.thetimesonline.com/articles/200...01c00582599.txtPolice: Missing Hobart man found, in good health By Times Staff This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, June 10, 2005 6:17 PM CDT GARY | A 30-year-old Hobart man reported missing since Tuesday was located by family members this afternoon in the downtown Gary area. Brian Cutler is in good health, and police said they are ruling out foul play. Police launched a search for Cutler after he was last seen at his Crowsnest Drive home in Hobart at 7 a.m. Tuesday. His vehicle and belongings were left at the house. Police said it's unknown whether Cutler's disappearance was linked to a medical condition.
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:22:37 GMT -5
Missing DeKalb Woman Found Unharmed POSTED: June 13, 2005 CLARKSTON -- A DeKalb County woman who speaks no English and who disappeared this weekend was found safe Monday morning, authorities said. Taiba Muhammed, 57, who lives at an apartment in the 6600 block of Old Singleton Lane, was found shortly before 8 a.m. near the intersection of College Avenue and Memorial Drive. She was taken to a metro Atlanta hospital for treatment, but did not have any visible injuries, relatives said. www.wsbtv.com/news/4600161/detail.html
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:23:27 GMT -5
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHP explains why Amber Alert wasn't issued Missing mother and daughter were found dead in car Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, June 14, 2005 sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...BAGPBD88BQ1.DTLThe California Highway Patrol on Monday defended its decision not to issue an Amber Alert last week to help find a Walnut Creek woman who had vanished with her daughter and had suggested in a letter to family members that she would kill herself and the child. Mary Alicia Driscoll, 39, and her 5-year-old daughter, Jineva, were found shot to death in the back of their sport utility vehicle Friday in rural Sonoma County in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, authorities said. A preliminary autopsy report released Monday revealed that Jineva had been shot three times in the neck and upper torso and that Driscoll had shot herself once inside her mouth. Both died almost instantly, according to the report. On Thursday, the Contra Costa County sheriff's office had seen Driscoll's letter warning that "their bodies would be found," said sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee. His office requested a statewide Amber Alert that would have flashed information, including the SUV's license plate number, on freeway message signs and preempted radio and television broadcasts. That request went to the state warning center in Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County, where the CHP used a checklist of criteria that must be met before it will issue an Amber Alert, said Lt. Joe Whiteford. But the case did not meet the first of four conditions -- that an abduction had occurred -- because Driscoll had sole custody of Jineva. The incident met the other criteria, Whiteford said. Victims must be under 17 (or mentally or physically disabled), they must face imminent danger, and information must be available that could, if released to the public, help locate the child. Since the Amber Alert program was introduced in California on July 31, 2002, the CHP has turned down 159 requests for the alerts, more than twice the 76 that it has granted, according to records. "One of the biggest dangers of this system is overuse," said CHP spokesman Tom Marshall. Among the dangers, CHP officials said, are that people will disregard the alerts if they are bombarded with them and that radio and television stations will tire of the alerts, which interrupt programming, and stop broadcasting them. In addition, the freeway signs can cause traffic to slow down, with many people even jotting down the information. As a result, the CHP often doesn't use them during commute hours. In last week's case, Contra Costa County authorities tried to find Driscoll in other ways -- contacting police agencies around the state and seeking media coverage. and even obtaining an arrest warrant for Driscoll, whose family read her letter late Wednesday. Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren Rupf said Monday that the CHP had followed the rules in declining to issue the alert. But he said he had called newly appointed CHP Commissioner Michael Brown, and would continue to talk with him, about whether the rules should be changed. Chronicle Staff Writer Leslie Fulbright contributed to this reportE-mail Demian Bulwa at dbulwa@sfchronicle.com.
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:27:05 GMT -5
Lovington girl found Monday evening in Rockford Wednesday, June 15, 2005 A 15-year-old Lovington girl was found safe in Rockford Monday night following her disappearance from a Lake Land Parking Lot last Wednesday night. Megaan Fowler was taken into custody by Rockford police Monday night and has been returned to her home. No other details are available on the story pending questioning of Fowler by authorities. www.colescountyleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=161516
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Post by ex member on Jun 16, 2005 10:28:11 GMT -5
Searchers Find Body Of Missing Toddler
POSTED: 12:12 am EDT June 15, 2005 UPDATED: 4:49 pm EDT June 15, 2005
YORK CO., S.C. -- At about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, police divers found the body of missing 2-year-old Trinity Casey in shallow water, just off a boat pier on the family's property.
It is impossible to describe the anguish the family of the missing toddler is going through.
Family and friends, unable to sleep, were up at 4 a.m. Wednesday -- pacing back and forth along a dark road -- searching for Trinity.
Trinity disappeared from her grandparents' home on Crowder's Creek at about 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Wednesday morning, search dogs tried again to pick up her scent from her clothes.
The dogs weren't alone. People who don't even know the family started searching.
Neighbor Dean Bartruff watched the news Tuesday night and she couldn't sleep.
"I just saw that it was right here where I live and was up all night. I thought I couldn't come out here in the middle of the night. I wouldn't do any good. (I) waited (for it) to get light this morning so I could come out and do whatever I can help find this little girl," she said.
By late Wednesday morning, specially trained dogs were out on boat in the cove, trying to pinpoint where the toddler might have gone under.
An Amber Alert was issued in the girl's disappearance because a stranger -- an unfamiliar man in an unfamiliar car -- was seen in the area at the time of the disappearance.
Police said that they tried to reach out in as many different directions as they possibly can.
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