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  1. #151
    NOVSTORM Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by GODDESS6 View Post
    this so sad~ & the fact that i heard her grandpa interviewed yesterday before they had found her body & he was so sad & just wanted to find her no matter the outcome~ & the damn interviewer would not stop bringing up this porn stuff, i just wanted to smack the guy!!!~
    I don't know why that was so important? SO she did a little porn on the side bfd. First of all she was a young beautiful little human being. I don't know why they kept syaing STAR. Where are all of the movies if she was a star. They should have just let it go that she was missing and saved her family from all of this Bs. It is a shame that she is dead and of course they can't touch the guy..no shock there. I live in the SF area and so far in 6 months we have had 3 kids between 6 and 12 raped and can't get the guy cause he is illegal and headed back to Mexico.

  2. #152
    Mrs. James Dean Guest

    Missing Children/People

    Hopefully, I'm putting this thread in the right forum if not please move.

    WARNING: MJD is going to off on a rant.


    I’m sure you guys see all those missing posters on the windows of stores or other public facilities. How many of you actually take the time to read them? Do any of you just brush them off?

    Today I have been thinking long and hard about all the missing children/people of this world. This subject is very near and dear to my heart. When I was in first grade one of my friends got kidnapped after school; her name was Sarah. She had blond hair and green eyes and liked teddy bears. She was never seen or found. The only thing they found was her teddy bear 5 miles from the school. Who took her? No one knows and I don’t think I have fully recovered from this experience.

    In my spare time I volunteer with missingchildren.org, donating money, or helping put up missing children flyer's. Before that, I used to make web pages for missing children/persons. I spend hours talking the family and wondering what happened to these children. Parents of missing children tell me that it is the ultimate worst pain a parent could ever face in their life. They say it’s worst than having their children dead, murdered, or having their child commit a crime because at least they know what happened. You can go to their grave or remember them and grief. But when they go missing, you do not know if they are alive, dead, what happened to them, or where they are at. Can you imagine not knowing what ever happened to your loved one? Nobody, saw anything, it’s like they vanished into thing air never to be seen again as if they never existed. I cannot even imagine. I think of all the missing children and people in this world and I wonder if people care about them? They have every right to be found and be giving a proper burial.

    But what about all those kids/person that go missing but they don’t get the national attention as Polly Klass or Megan Kanka (Megan’s Law), or Morgan Nick Amber (Amber alert)? Sadly, they just get forgotten as years pass by and nobody cares anymore but their families.

    Every time I see a missing children flyer I never brush it off. I take the time to read it. This is a child/person who is missing and deserves to be found so I take the time to read it. What if god forbid this happens to my child? Or a loved one? I wold want others to read their stories. I have spent countless hours reading many missing children/people cases online. Why? I don’t know, to get to know them and their story but most importantly so they don’t get forgotten.

    HERE ARE SOME MISSING CHILDREN STATS (from missing children.org)

    The U.S. Department of Justice reports
    • 797,500 children (younger than 18) were reported missing in a one-year period of time studied resulting in an average of 2,185 children being reported missing each day.
    • 203,900 children were the victims of family abductions.
    • 58,200 children were the victims of non-family abductions.
    • 115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. (These crimes involve someone the child does not know or someone of slight acquaintance, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.)
    Years ago I found this website: http://www.doenetwork.org/ It’s a network that lists THOUSANDS of missing children/people cases. There’s also a section of people who were found dead but have not been identified. There are also sections of people who have been found or identified.

    I'm sure you guys have read/heard of missing children/persons in your area that at one point made news but since they never found nothing else came of it. So, how about we remember some of those missing children/persons by posting their stories here so we can all read them and remember them?
    Last edited by Mrs. James Dean; 01-08-2008 at 12:06 AM.

  3. #153
    djdeath-hag Guest
    Thank you for your beautiful thread, Monica. I applaud you for your work in the names of & memory of the missing. I cannot fathom anything worse than the fate of not knowing the whereabouts of a loved one.

  4. #154
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    Jodi Huisentruit



    The following comes courtesy of wikedpedia:

    Jodi Sue Huisentruit (born June 5, 1968) was a television news anchor for KIMT, based in Mason City, Iowa in the United States. It is believed that she was abducted while on her way to work in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995. She was 27 years old at the time.

    At about 4:00 AM on the day she disappeared, Huisentruit talked on the phone with producer Amy Kuns at the station as she prepared to leave her apartment. However, by 6:00, she had not appeared, and Kuns filled in for her on the morning show Daybreak. By 7:00, staff at KIMT called the police. Personal items including keys were found strewn around the area where her car was parked.
    There have been periodic resurgences in the story. Whenever remains of any kind are found in the area (animal or human), speculation quickly jumps to the idea of the missing reporter. So far, no conclusive evidence has been found in the case, and remains have always turned out to be from other sources.

    On December 1st, 2006 reports surfaced of a woman who has notified police that as a 13 year old runaway she saw Huisentruit murdered by six men. However upon being interviewed by authorities from the Mason City Police Department the witness recanted the statements she made to the local television station.

    There is also a webpages dedicated on finding Jodi:
    http://www.findjodi.com/


    I always think about Jodi and wonder whatever happened to her. She disappeared on my birthday too. I remember watching the news on her when she disappeared. Someone killed her; that's I what think. I just hope that she is found one day, her poor family have suffered a lot.

  5. #155
    Snoopy Guest
    The work you do in honor of your missing friend is wonderful..they say everyone is put on this earth for a purpose and this is truly yours..I have kids and could not even fathom going through life not knowing where they were or if they were ok.

  6. #156
    Cettie Guest
    My heart goes out to the families and friend of missing loved ones. My cousin Judy disappeared in 1975 at the age of 22. The most frustrating thing was the police department's utter lack of concern that someone disappeared. People nearby heard screaming that night as she walked home from the library but the police took over a week before starting aninvestigation---they just tried to say "she ran off with some guy", well guess what, she's STILL missing and the family had no contact with her since and that was not like her at all. Both parents are gone now and the brothers still wonder what happened to their sister.

  7. #157
    Ghoulie Girl Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Snoopy View Post
    The work you do in honor of your missing friend is wonderful..they say everyone is put on this earth for a purpose and this is truly yours..I have kids and could not even fathom going through life not knowing where they were or if they were ok.

    My Sentiments Exactly!

  8. #158
    Jaxxx Guest
    Lovely, lovely thing you do, if we were all diligent in our efforts as you are, maybe more children would be found, I live in St Louis, where Shawn Hornbeck was finally recovered with another boy Ben Ownsby, and yet Shawn walk the streets here and spent the night in his friends home, why didn't we notice? Good point, thanks for the reminder that just because it doesn't effect our live that moment, it could. Thanks for the thread.

  9. #159
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    a friend of mine used to go to school with this girl http://www.amw.com/missing_children/...d.cfm?id=26853 who was finally recovered. in a zippy twist i was booked for assault the same night this guy was arrested. he's flippin' scary looking in real life, i was really scared. i guess that's what i get for fighting. anyway, this girls disappearance was a huge deal in my town, i was part of a volunteer group that helped look for her on the outskirts of town.
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  10. #160
    panda Guest
    That's a wonderful thing you do Monica, I'm very sorry to hear about your friend, obviously she meant a lot to you for you to remember so many details about her. I always wonder whenever I see these missing person posters where on earth could so many people go? I also think of how terrible it must be for their family and people who loved them to never know what happened to them. I do read throughly every poster I see with the hopes of someday helping someone find a lost loved one.

    As for children, they say to ask a child if you see a suspicious situation. Ask a crying child if they are with their mom or dad because there's a possibility they could be in the process of being abducted. I think people may be a little leary of doing that because there are so many weirdo's & parents that can get down right irrate if you put your nose in their business. I remember at a baseball or hockey game last year a little boy was standing at the rail alone in our section. A lady in the section went down there & asked the boy where his parents were & he pointed to them sitting up a couple of rows from the rail. I overheard the parents of the boy & some other people around me remark that the woman was nosey & should mind her own business. I was about to say something, but hubby told me not to...................game + drinking = assholes...you know what I mean. But I thought it was nice of her to show concern for the boy & I would have been grateful to her if it were my child. How does everyone feel about that????

  11. #161
    don't_axe_me Guest
    I'm with you, panda. If there's nothing wrong, there shouldn't be a reason to get upset. By the same token, my kids were always in my sight when they were little, and if I saw a stranger approach them, I'd be right there too.

  12. #162
    RaRaRamona Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by panda View Post
    That's a wonderful thing you do Monica, I'm very sorry to hear about your friend, obviously she meant a lot to you for you to remember so many details about her. I always wonder whenever I see these missing person posters where on earth could so many people go? I also think of how terrible it must be for their family and people who loved them to never know what happened to them. I do read throughly every poster I see with the hopes of someday helping someone find a lost loved one.

    As for children, they say to ask a child if you see a suspicious situation. Ask a crying child if they are with their mom or dad because there's a possibility they could be in the process of being abducted. I think people may be a little leary of doing that because there are so many weirdo's & parents that can get down right irrate if you put your nose in their business. I remember at a baseball or hockey game last year a little boy was standing at the rail alone in our section. A lady in the section went down there & asked the boy where his parents were & he pointed to them sitting up a couple of rows from the rail. I overheard the parents of the boy & some other people around me remark that the woman was nosey & should mind her own business. I was about to say something, but hubby told me not to...................game + drinking = assholes...you know what I mean. But I thought it was nice of her to show concern for the boy & I would have been grateful to her if it were my child. How does everyone feel about that????
    Yet if he went missing those same people would the loudest, screaming no one paid any attention.

    Thanks for the link, I looked so long I almost fell asleep. I too wonder how so many can go missing with no one knowing. Some have no one looking for them but others must. It's just so sad. I pray that one couple who is fostering an abandoned child get to keep her. They can't adopt her b/c she was abandoned.

  13. #163
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by djdeath-hag View Post
    Thank you for your beautiful thread, Monica. I applaud you for your work in the names of & memory of the missing. I cannot fathom anything worse than the fate of not knowing the whereabouts of a loved one.
    Thank you for the kinds words. I can't even imagine having a loved one disappear. I just can't.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cettie-hag View Post
    My heart goes out to the families and friend of missing loved ones. My cousin Judy disappeared in 1975 at the age of 22. The most frustrating thing was the police department's utter lack of concern that someone disappeared. People nearby heard screaming that night as she walked home from the library but the police took over a week before starting aninvestigation---they just tried to say "she ran off with some guy", well guess what, she's STILL missing and the family had no contact with her since and that was not like her at all. Both parents are gone now and the brothers still wonder what happened to their sister.
    Cettie, I am so sorry for the disappearance of your cousin. Wow, she has been missing for nearly 33 years now. Sometimes police complicate things or make them worst. If a person over the age of 18 goes missing they cannot act on it until a certain amount of hours go by because they are adults; or they tell their loved ones that they took off on their own. *sigh* I truly hope that one day your family will find the whereabouts of your cousin. God bless.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jaxxx-hag View Post
    Lovely, lovely thing you do, if we were all diligent in our efforts as you are, maybe more children would be found, I live in St Louis, where Shawn Hornbeck was finally recovered with another boy Ben Ownsby, and yet Shawn walk the streets here and spent the night in his friends home, why didn't we notice? Good point, thanks for the reminder that just because it doesn't effect our live that moment, it could. Thanks for the thread.
    I am so thankful that Shawn and Ben made it back home SAFE. That is very unlikely after they go missing for years. I was so in shocked but thankful and happy for them being safe and for their families. Thanks so much for the kinds words Jaxxx.

    Quote Originally Posted by panda View Post
    That's a wonderful thing you do Monica, I'm very sorry to hear about your friend, obviously she meant a lot to you for you to remember so many details about her. I always wonder whenever I see these missing person posters where on earth could so many people go? I also think of how terrible it must be for their family and people who loved them to never know what happened to them. I do read throughly every poster I see with the hopes of someday helping someone find a lost loved one.

    As for children, they say to ask a child if you see a suspicious situation. Ask a crying child if they are with their mom or dad because there's a possibility they could be in the process of being abducted. I think people may be a little leary of doing that because there are so many weirdo's & parents that can get down right irrate if you put your nose in their business. I remember at a baseball or hockey game last year a little boy was standing at the rail alone in our section. A lady in the section went down there & asked the boy where his parents were & he pointed to them sitting up a couple of rows from the rail. I overheard the parents of the boy & some other people around me remark that the woman was nosey & should mind her own business. I was about to say something, but hubby told me not to...................game + drinking = assholes...you know what I mean. But I thought it was nice of her to show concern for the boy & I would have been grateful to her if it were my child. How does everyone feel about that????
    VERY GOOD POINT, Trish. I think when it comes to children we should be very observant. I think deep down our intuition or our gut feeling will let us know that something doesn't seem right. Yes, many are weary of asking but it never hurts to ASK. Sometimes, if we let things go it could mean A WORLD Of difference.

  14. #164
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    GAYLE MARKS

    Date of disappearance: OCTOBER 18, 1988
    DOB: 11/30/1969
    FROM: STOCKTON, CA
    Height and Weight: 5'4" AND 110 POUNDS
    BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES
    AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 18 YEARS
    LAST SEEN AT STOCKTON, CA
    DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
    INFORMATION CALL: STOCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 209-937-8377 HELP ME PLEASE!

    If you guys want to understand the pain of a parent whose child is missing please visit this page: http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/GayleMarks/
    On her page you will find a video clip with the detail of Gayle's disappearance.

    This page is maintain by Gayle's loving mother who will never stop looking for her.

    From Gayle's Mom (taken from her website)

    There are no words to explain or express how a parent feels when their child goes missing. It feels as though you have been shot in the heart but you didn't die. Missing people has become an epidemic. There is more money spent on the care of abused and abonded animals than on our children.There is something wrong with this picture. We, as parents need to step up to the plate and demand changes. I am one mother that will NEVER stop looking for my child. Not ever.

  15. #165
    RaRaRamona Guest
    How awful must it have been for her mom to get her DL in the mail?

  16. #166
    sheri Guest
    i read all the posters put up as well cuz one never knows if/when/where they will turn up...i might be able to help send one home...i cant imagine how id feel if it were one of my kids....they are my life...thank you MJD for doing what you do and to everyone else that gives a damn and pays attention

  17. #167
    chiguy1968 Guest
    My mom's cousin was kidnapped about 20 years ago in Wisconsin. Hunters found her body in the woods a year later.

  18. #168
    HelenaHandbasket Guest
    I read each and every one of them and I always read the cards I get in the mail with my weekly circulars. I volunteer as well and I write content and create videos on the missing and unidentified. A friend of mine just gave me full permission to use his music in my video projects, so I'm really excited about that.

    Like so many others, the reality of missing somebody you care about came home for me as well. My best friend from high school went missing in 2000. She still hasn't been found. Personally, I think her ex fiance killed her, but we can't prove anything. He's a real scum of the earth type. Killed the girl he dated after my friend, possibly killed his own father. I'm not crying too much about the fact that he's in prison where he belongs. My friend got involved with drugs and prostitution before she vanished, but she was turning her life around for the better. She made her mistakes, but she didn't deserve this. Here's her page on charley project http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...ns_alicia.html. I knew here when she lived in PA, obviously. The lady who runs the Charley Project is good people. Hell, her last name is Goode. Take a look around over there, it's a great site and Megs does a wonderful service.

    The missing and unidentified are my pet cause. We may never find Alicia, we may never learn what really happened to her, but I will always do my personal best to honor her memory by looking for her and others just like her. So, thanks MJD for bringing this up. It's great to meet a fellow death hag with the same dedication to the missing. You're good people

  19. #169
    malaki Guest
    What a great post!!! it gets ya right in the goocher!!!...Being a mom of a cute 7 yr old girl I often think about what I can do make sure she's extra careful, I have often told her "If anything ever happened to you I would die"....I constantly let her know she needs to be where I can see her at all times....What a horrible thought!!!!

  20. #170
    RaRaRamona Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by HelenaHandbasket View Post
    I read each and every one of them and I always read the cards I get in the mail with my weekly circulars. I volunteer as well and I write content and create videos on the missing and unidentified. A friend of mine just gave me full permission to use his music in my video projects, so I'm really excited about that.

    Like so many others, the reality of missing somebody you care about came home for me as well. My best friend from high school went missing in 2000. She still hasn't been found. Personally, I think her ex fiance killed her, but we can't prove anything. He's a real scum of the earth type. Killed the girl he dated after my friend, possibly killed his own father. I'm not crying too much about the fact that he's in prison where he belongs. My friend got involved with drugs and prostitution before she vanished, but she was turning her life around for the better. She made her mistakes, but she didn't deserve this. Here's her page on charley project http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...ns_alicia.html. I knew here when she lived in PA, obviously. The lady who runs the Charley Project is good people. Hell, her last name is Goode. Take a look around over there, it's a great site and Megs does a wonderful service.

    The missing and unidentified are my pet cause. We may never find Alicia, we may never learn what really happened to her, but I will always do my personal best to honor her memory by looking for her and others just like her. So, thanks MJD for bringing this up. It's great to meet a fellow death hag with the same dedication to the missing. You're good people
    Wow she was so beautiful. I'm sorry she lost her way. I hope they find some answers for her you & for her family.

  21. #171
    RaRaRamona Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by malaki View Post
    What a great post!!! it gets ya right in the goocher!!!...Being a mom of a cute 7 yr old girl I often think about what I can do make sure she's extra careful, I have often told her "If anything ever happened to you I would die"....I constantly let her know she needs to be where I can see her at all times....What a horrible thought!!!!
    Um...what's a "goocher?"

  22. #172
    lisalouver Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by RaRaRamona View Post
    Um...what's a "goocher?"
    Well, I know it is used in the movie "Stand by me" when they flip coins and get four tails....

    It is quoted "four tails, oh man thats a goocher!"

    In that context it means something freaky just happened...

  23. #173
    djdeath-hag Guest
    ((((MONICA)))) Please keep posting info. about the missing here. This is a valuable thread!

  24. #174
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by RaRaRamona View Post
    How awful must it have been for her mom to get her DL in the mail?

    I know, I cannot even imagine that; to look at the last photograph taken of her before she disappeared. What breaks my heart is that she called her mom and left her a message. Her mom just missed her when she called. Where she is, may god be with her.


    Quote Originally Posted by sheri View Post
    i read all the posters put up as well cuz one never knows if/when/where they will turn up...i might be able to help send one home...i cant imagine how id feel if it were one of my kids....they are my life...thank you MJD for doing what you do and to everyone else that gives a damn and pays attention
    Thanks Sheri, it's so nice to know that there's people out there that take the time to read the stories of these missing people. Thank you for taking the time.


    Quote Originally Posted by chiguy1968 View Post
    My mom's cousin was kidnapped about 20 years ago in Wisconsin. Hunters found her body in the woods a year later.
    I am so sorry to hear that chiguy, did they ever found who did this to her? That is awful.


    Quote Originally Posted by HelenaHandbasket View Post
    I read each and every one of them and I always read the cards I get in the mail with my weekly circulars. I volunteer as well and I write content and create videos on the missing and unidentified. A friend of mine just gave me full permission to use his music in my video projects, so I'm really excited about that.

    Like so many others, the reality of missing somebody you care about came home for me as well. My best friend from high school went missing in 2000. She still hasn't been found. Personally, I think her ex fiance killed her, but we can't prove anything. He's a real scum of the earth type. Killed the girl he dated after my friend, possibly killed his own father. I'm not crying too much about the fact that he's in prison where he belongs. My friend got involved with drugs and prostitution before she vanished, but she was turning her life around for the better. She made her mistakes, but she didn't deserve this. Here's her page on charley project http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...ns_alicia.html. I knew here when she lived in PA, obviously. The lady who runs the Charley Project is good people. Hell, her last name is Goode. Take a look around over there, it's a great site and Megs does a wonderful service.

    The missing and unidentified are my pet cause. We may never find Alicia, we may never learn what really happened to her, but I will always do my personal best to honor her memory by looking for her and others just like her. So, thanks MJD for bringing this up. It's great to meet a fellow death hag with the same dedication to the missing. You're good people
    Wow, let me first applaud you for the hard work you do for all the missing people. We need more people like you to make a difference for these people who don't have a voice. This is great to find another death hag who feels the same way I do!!

    I am so sorry for your cousin; she's beautiful btw. So her ex is in jail for another crime? I truly hope that one day she will be found and your family can get some sort of closure. Thank you so much for the site. I spend my lunch break looking at it and I still am!!

    Everyone else thank you for taking the time to view the thread! I will post more stories on other missing children/people.

  25. #175
    HelenaHandbasket Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs. James Dean View Post
    This is great to find another death hag who feels the same way I do!!

    I am so sorry for your cousin; she's beautiful btw. So her ex is in jail for another crime? I truly hope that one day she will be found and your family can get some sort of closure. Thank you so much for the site. I spend my lunch break looking at it and I still am!!

    Everyone else thank you for taking the time to view the thread! I will post more stories on other missing children/people.
    I was thrilled when I read this topic yesterday. I don't know a lot of people who are as concerned about it as I am, so it's great to meet one!

    My friend was really beautiful. She was rough around the edges,but she'd give you anything if you needed it. She had a great heart, just a tough shell. Her ex is in prison for the murder of the girl he met after her. People who date him have a habit of taking a turn for the dead. Here, you read up him: http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/EXECU...hn%20Faba.html

    Glad you liked Charley Project. I read that one and Doe Network and Project Jason all the time.

    Again, great to meet another hag who cares for the missing!

  26. #176
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by HelenaHandbasket View Post
    I was thrilled when I read this topic yesterday. I don't know a lot of people who are as concerned about it as I am, so it's great to meet one!

    My friend was really beautiful. She was rough around the edges,but she'd give you anything if you needed it. She had a great heart, just a tough shell. Her ex is in prison for the murder of the girl he met after her. People who date him have a habit of taking a turn for the dead. Here, you read up him: http://www.prisonpotpourri.com/EXECU...hn%20Faba.html

    Glad you liked Charley Project. I read that one and Doe Network and Project Jason all the time.

    Again, great to meet another hag who cares for the missing!
    What a jerk! I think your friends disappearence is connected to this guy. Maybe, one day he will talk? So sad for the families of your friend and the families of the girlfriend he murdered.

  27. #177
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    EAST BAY AREA, CA, MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARENCES:

    [The following come from The Doe Network]

    Tara Cossett Cossey
    Missing since June 6, 1979 from San Pablo, Contra Costa County, California
    Classification: Endangered Missing




    Vital Statistics
    • Date Of Birth: August 24, 1966
    • Age at Time of Disappearance: 12 years old
    • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'11; 65 lbs.
    • Distinguishing Characteristics: Native female. Black hair; brown eyes. Dark complexion.
    • Clothing: Cutoff Levi's jeans, a blue tank top and thong sandals.
    • Dentals: Not available
    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Cossey was last seen in San Pablo, California on June 6, 1979. She was walking to Pirelli's Liquor Store to purchase a bag of sugar for her mother at the time of her disappearance.
    Cossey never returned to her family's residence and has not been heard from again.





    Mitchell Deon Owens
    Missing since February 3, 1983 from Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California
    Classification: Non-Family Abduction


    Vital Statistics
    Date Of Birth: November 21, 1978
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 4 years old
    Height and Weight: 3' 0" - 91 cm, 40 lbs - 18 kg
    Distinguishing Characteristics: Black male. Black hair; brown eyes.
    Marks, Scars: Owens has a scar on the upper portion of his nose. He also has a surgical scar on the left rib area of his chest and and a lazy right eye.
    Dentals: Not available

    Circumstances of Disappearance
    An unidentified person broke into the Owens' family home in Menlo Park, California on February 3, 1983. The intruder attempted to strangle Ona Owens, Mitchell's mother, with a telephone cord and she lost consciousness. She was also savagely beaten. When Ona awoke, her son was missing. Mitchell has never been seen again and the intruder has never been identified.
    Ona received telephone calls for several years from an unidentified man who threatened to take her other two sons; the man's identity remains a mystery and it is not known if he was connected to Mitchell's abduction.





    Clark Toshiro Handa
    Missing since August 23, 1984 from Fairfield, Solano County, California.
    Classification: Non-Family Abduction


    Date Of Birth: December 5, 1980
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 3 years old
    Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 3'4; 40 pounds
    Distinguishing Characteristics: Asian male. He is of Japanese descent. Black straight hair; brown eyes.
    Clothing: 2 toned brown striped long sleeve pullover, red pajama bottoms
    Dentals: Not available

    Circumstances of Disappearance
    An unidentified person broke into the Handa family's Fairfield, California home on August 23, 1984. The intruder then abducted Handa from his bedroom as he was sleeping and left a ransom note. The kidnapper never followed up to collect the money. The suspect remains unidentified; Handa has never been seen again.





    Amber Jean Swartz-Garcia
    Missing since June 3, 1988 from Pinole, Contra Costa County, California
    Classification: Non-Family Abduction


    Vital Statistics
    Date Of Birth: August 19, 1980
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 7 years old
    Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'0; 62 pounds
    Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair; blue eyes. Her ears are pierced.
    Medical Conditions: At age 4, Amber was hit by a car and suffered a concussion, which left her with migraine headaches suffers causing loss of balance and vomiting. She sucked her thumb when she was tired or nervous.
    Marks, Scars : She has a severe hearing impairment and requires a hearing aid; was not wearing her hearing aid when abducted. She is able to read lips.
    Dentals: Not available. Missing right front tooth. Possibly has crooked teeth.
    Clothing: Purple corduroy pants; white short sleeve top with a teal colored band around the sleeves and neck with multicolored images of sunglasses imprinted on on the front; brand new, white LA Gear tennis shoes with pink laces.
    Jewelry: Gold and emerald stud earrings

    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Swartz-Garcia was last seen jumping rope in the front yard of her family's home in Pinole, California on June 3, 1988.
    Her mother later started "The Amber Foundation for Missing Children".
    He disappearance may be connected to the disappearances of Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff and Amanda Campbell.



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    Michaela Joy Garecht



    Missing since November 19, 1988 from Hayward, Alameda County, California.
    Classification: Non Family Abduction


    Vital Statistics
    Date Of Birth: January 24, 1979
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 9 years old
    Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'8; 75 pounds
    Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair; blue eyes. Michaela has prominent ears and her eyes slant slightly downward.
    Dentals: Her teeth are slightly mottled. Dental X-rays Available.
    Clothing: White t-shirt with Metro written across the front and images of people imprinted on the midsection, pant or shorts, flesh-colored nylons, black cloth shoes with brown plastic soles.
    Jewelry: 3" Pearl-colored or white earrings which resembled feathers.

    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Garecht was abducted by an unidentified White male on the parking lot of the Rainbow Market on Mission Boulevard in Hayward, California on November 19, 1988. Garecht had ridden her bicycle with a friend, the two blocks from her home to the store. When they came out of the store, the friend's scooter had been moved. Garecht saw the scooter in the parking lot and was lured to the kidnapper. He grabbed her and threw her, screaming, into his car while her friend watched. The friend ran into the store for help. The car sped off. The car the kidnapper was driving was described to police as a large older model American-made sedan, gold or tan in color, in ratty condition, possibly a four-door. The car may have had cement splattered on the sides, and lights set into the rear bumper. It was last seen speeding south on Mission Boulevard toward the nearby Union City border.
    The abductor is described as having long, dirty blonde hair; a slender build; and a pockmarked or pimpled face. He was approximately 18 - 24 years old at the time of Garecht's abduction. A sketch of her abductor is below:





    Ilene Beth Misheloff


    Missing since January 30, 1989 from Dublin, Alameda County, California.
    Classification: Non-Family Abduction


    Date Of Birth: March 12, 1975
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 13 years old
    Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3; 115 pounds
    Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes.
    Marks, Scars: Misheloff has freckles on her cheeks and on the bridge of her nose, and a small lump on the inside of her left ankle. She has pierced ears.
    Clothing: A charcoal gray Espirit pullover polo sweater, a horizontally striped pink and charcoal gray skirt and black, low-top Keds sneakers. She was carrying a dark blue backpack.
    Dentals: Available. Misheloff wore braces on her teeth at the time of her disappearance.

    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Misheloff was last seen walking home from Wells Intermediate School on January 30, 1989 in Dublin, California. Classmates reported to authorities that they saw Misheloff walking by herself on Amador Valley Boulevard near Villiage Parkway shortly before her disappearance. She has never been seen nor heard from again.
    Authorities announced that a suspect had a possible connection to her disappearance, as well as the disappearances of Michaela Garecht, Amber Swartz-Garcia and Amanda Campbell.







    Amanda Nicole Campbell

    Missing since December 27, 1991 from Fairfield, Solano County, California.
    Classification: Non Family Abduction

    Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: May 7, 1987
    Age at Time of Disappearance: 4 years old
    Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 3'7; 70 pounds
    Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Blonde hair; blue eyes. Campbell's nickname is "Nikky."
    Marks, Scars: Campbell has facial dimples. She has light brown-colored moles on her forehead and near her nose. Her ears are pierced.
    Dentals: Available
    Clothing: Campbell was last seen wearing a pink jacket; purple pants; dark purple short sleeved shirt; and white tennis shoes.
    Circumstances of Disappearance
    Campbell was last seen at approximately 4:00 PM on December 27, 1991 near her home in Fairfield, California.
    She left her brother and a friend to ride her bicycle to another friend's house; she never arrived. Campbell's bicycle was discovered abandoned later in the night.
    Authorities believe that she was abducted by a non-family member.


    It is believed that all of these cases are connected to a person who terrorized this region by abducting these kids. I'll post the article below...

  29. #179
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    Vanished: Missing
    Girls Mystery
    Sympathetic Stranger or Suspect?


    Tim Bindner describes himself as a good Samaritan. (ABCNEWS.com)

    Jan. 16 ā?? Three days after 7-year-old Amber Swartz disappeared from her Pinole, Calif., yard in June 1988, a stranger came by to tell her mother that he had been searching the nearby woods for the little girl.

    "'I wanted to be the one to save her,'" Kim Swartz remembers the man saying. "'I wanted to be the one to bring her home to you.'"
    When Swartz heard him say that they were "looking for a dead body," the grieving mother wanted nothing to do with the man, who said his name was Tim Bindner. But he wasn't easy to ignore. Bindner would continue to call her for years, offering help in the search for her little girl.

    Five months later, another little girl, 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, disappeared in Hayward, a nearby town. Bindner showed up again, asking Michaela's mother if he could help find her daughter. Michaela had been abducted while buying candy with a friend, who heard a muffled cry and turned around to see her friend being kidnapped by a white male.

    "He said that he wanted to go out and look for Michaela," said Sharon Murch, Michaela's mother. "He brought a map and showed us where he wanted to go."

    Amber and Michaela were not the first young girls to disappear from towns along Interstate 80, which goes through the communities of San Francisco's East Bay.

    Angela Bugay, 5, disappeared from Antioch in November 1983, and Tara Cossey, 11, disappeared from San Pablo in June 1978.

    And the heartbreaking losses continued. In January 1989, Ilene Misheloff, 13, vanished in mid-afternoon near the town of Dublin. Two years later, 4-year-old Nikki Campbell vanished from Fairfield.

    The disappearances of little girls in the East Bay area left law enforcement officers puzzled. "It was just taunting the investigators, taunting the public, taunting the families," said Linda Goldston, a reporter for The Mercury News who covered the cases for years. "You just felt there was a master killer, it was a master suspect at work."

    Were the continuing disappearances along I-80 unrelated tragedies, or the work of one person? Investigators began to search for clues that might link some of the cases.

    Birthday Greetings From a Stranger

    Bindner's name surfaced again in the Nikki Campbell investigation. Months before Nikki disappeared, a worried couple in the same Fairfield neighborhood told police their 12-year-old daughter was getting odd mail, with the letters written backward so they could only be read in a mirror.

    The person who had sent the letters was Bindner, a 43-year-old married man who worked at a sewage treatment plant. It turned out Bindner had been writing to lots of young girls, often sending birthday greetings.

    "He said he just did it to be nice, and that they liked it," said Goldston. "That they were lonely."

    Whatever his intentions, Bindner caught the attention of Fairfield police. He had also been questioned by Pinole police, because he was seen repeatedly visiting Angela Bugay's gravesite at Oakmont Cemetary, often in the middle of the night, and because of his contacting many of the grieving mothers.

    Over the years, as he came into the public eye, Bindner has steadfastly denied harming, or even meeting, any of the girls. He said he was deeply affected when he heard of their disappearances and just wanted to do anything he could to help.

    'Accumulation of Coincidence'

    But investigators were troubled by a series of coincidences.

    Bindner once wrote a letter to law enforcement speculating that the next girl to disappear would be 9. Then, 9-year-old Michaela disappeared. On another occasion, Bindner sent a Christmas card to an FBI profiler with an image of a little girl holding up four fingers. Shortly after, 4-year-old Nikki disappeared.

    Police bloodhounds also picked up Amber Swartz's scent at Angela Bugay's gravesite, which Bindner often visited. Police said dogs later picked up Nikki's scent at the gravesite.

    "This kind of accumulation of coincidence is not anything that I've ever encountered in 25 years of investigative work," said John Philpin, a criminal psychologist who spent 1,000 hours interviewing Bindner for his book Stalemate, which examined child abductions in the Bay Area.

    Investigators in the Nikki Campbell case questioned Bindner, and named him a suspect in 1992. But bloodhound evidence is too unreliable to be presented in court, and prosecutors never found evidence to support criminal charges against Bindner. Next month, another man goes to trial on charges that he murdered Bugay.

    Delivering Little Girls to Jesus

    Goldston, the Mercury News reporter, found it odd that Bindner wanted her to interview him at Oakmont Cemetery in the middle of the night. She picked him up at 4:30 a.m., and he asked if he could play his favorite song on the car radio: "Jesus, Here's Another Child to Hold." They drove to the cemetery.

    Goldston, who asked Bindner why he was concerned about the girls who disappeared, said: "He told me that he came to think of them as his children. That he cried about them, he prayed for them, that he spent a long time thinking about them and that he dedicated himself to trying to find them."

    When she asked what he thought happened to the girls when they were taken, Goldston remembers him saying: "'Well, you know, one of them was sweet and shy and didn't say a thing, but the other went kicking and screaming.'" Then, she said, he added, "'I'm just guessing that that's what they would have said.'"

    "I really got chills," said Goldston. "He had convinced himself that he was rescuing these girls and he was delivering them to Jesus."

    A Taunting Game?

    Goldston said it seemed he was purposely toying with both investigators and reporters. "Whether he is the person who took the girls, I don't know," she said, "but I felt that he went out of his way to make me think that he had."

    Kim Swartz, who had developed a bizarre friendship with Bindner at the urging of police, agreed that it seemed to be a game to Bindner.

    "He was walking that fine line, knowing exactly where he can go with it," she said."I think he was getting off on taunting me and my family."

    At Bindner's suggestion, Swartz read Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, in which a character who keeps showing up turns out to be the man who actually committed the crime.


    A Good Samaritan

    Bindner refused to be interviewed on camera, but he agreed to speak with ABCNEWS off camera.

    He said he was simply trying to help find the missing girls, and described himself as a good Samaritan. In fact, Bindner does have a record of helping others: He was given an award for heroism by the California Highway Patrol for assisting in the rescue efforts after the 1989 earthquake. He continues to insist that he had nothing to do with the girls' disappearances.

    "It's a fundamental mistake to focus on Tim Bindner," said his attorney, John Burris. "Because he's the wrong person."

    No civil or criminal actions have been filed against Bindner in any of these cases. The only court action involving him was a defamation suit he brought against the city of Fairfield. The city settled by paying him $90,000.

    Philpin said that in some of the cases neither he, nor Swartz, nor any of the investigators have been able to rule Bindner in as a supsect or rule him out.

    "It's a stalemate," said Philpin. "In the end, all the pieces of this particular puzzle just don't come together."

    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Downt...s_feature.html

  30. #180
    sheri Guest
    youre welcome MJD...so sad these kids/people go missing like they just up and dropped off of the face of the earth...since i became a mother, and more so since Anthony Martinez was abducted/murdered by the creep that kidnapped and killed the Groene kids in Idaho...i pay more attention and i really appreciate the hard work and passion you put into your work as well as others like Polly Klaas's dad, Samantha Runnion's mom, and John Walsh as well...one way or another these kids/people need to be brought home...until then may they be safe wherever they are...keep up the hard, but good and satisfying work you do MJD...your work helps make the streets a bit safer each day and countless families thank you

  31. #181
    Lisamarie Guest

    this guy bothers me!I want to find out who he is!!!




    [SIZE=2]Reconstruction of Victim created by David M. Morris.[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=5]Unidentified White / Native Male[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]
    • Located on September 17, 2001 in Amanda Park, Grays Harbor County, Washington.
    • Date of death is September 16, 2001
    [/SIZE]


    [SIZE=4]Vital Statistics[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]
    • Estimated age: 20 - 30 years old
    • Approximate Height and Weight: 6'2"; 140 lbs.
    • Distinguishing Characteristics: Possibly Hispanic. Black hair; hazel eyes. His hair was neatly trimmed. Appendectomy scar on abdomen. He had recently lost a lot of weight (possibly 30-40 pounds). A small mole on the left sid of his chin. He does not have ear lobes, not removed never had them. His appendix scar was old.
    • Dentals: Available. Teeth in near perfect shape. He had orthodontic work done.
    • Clothing: All in very good shape were a Blue plaid shirt, gray Fruit of the Loom T-shirt, Levi 550 blue jeans (size 36-34), black Timberland boots (size 10 Medium) and a black leather belt (markings "genuine leather made in USA" along with "7301" and "L31".
    • Fingerprints: Available
    • DNA: CODIS
    • Other: It is possible that he spoke with a slight Canadian or similar accent.
    [/SIZE]


    [SIZE=4]Case History[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]The body of this white or Native male was located in a Quinault area motel. His death has been ruled a suicide. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]He had checked into the motel using the name "Lyle Stevik" from 1019 S. Progress Avenue, Meridian, Idaho. The address he listed is for a motel. Lyle Stevik is a character in the book You Must Remember This, by Joyce Carol Oates. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]He indicated that he was going to stay a few more days though he had only paid for one evening. The maid entered the room on September 17, 2001 and found him hanging from the coat rack with his leather belt. He had left money on the nightstand with a note that said "For the Room". The only personal belongings in his possession was a tooth brush and paste. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]He arrived by bus, possibly one that came from Port Angeles (south), but a bus came up from Aberdeen (northbound) and arrived about the same time. Neither driver was sure if he was on their bus. He arrived with no luggage, and there was no luggage, clothing, etc. in the motel dumpster. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]He may have come from Canada, as the clerk recalled that he had "a slight Canadian accent". The fact he wrote the word "suicide" on a piece of paper found in the trash leads athorities to believe he wrote a letter home, telling someone of his intentions, that he was going to disappear, so they aren't looking for him. He may have been dying, or suffered from depression, as he lost a lot of weight, although nothing was found at the autopsy. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]There were no indications that he ever wore a wedding ring. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Fingerprints sent to FBI and RCMP with Negative results. [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Belt[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Registration name & address filled out by "Lyle"[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]Right: note Center: Crisp money Left: table with note[/SIZE]

    [SIZE=4]Investigators[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Grays Harbor Sheriff's Department [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Detective Lane Youmans [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]360-249-3711 x574[/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Agency Case Number: [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]01-7870 [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]NCIC Number: [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]U-960002335 [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Source Information: [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]**Warning! Post-mortem photos contained in link below! [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Missing Persons Gallery [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Child Protection Education of America [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]The Daily World [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Websleuths [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]Missing Person & Unsolved Crime Blog [/SIZE]

    [SIZE=2]hey you guys this guys has been a pet case of mine...I frequent the doe network and I have known about him since it happend..I just find it so sad nothing has even been found!! Any clues you guys?? [/SIZE]
    [SIZE=2]
    [/SIZE]

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    We have a missing persons thread. Im going to move this there.

  33. #183
    HelenaHandbasket Guest
    I've been wondering about that guy for years myself. It's so sad, he went to a place where he thought nobody would care and ended his life. His case and one other one make me cry.

    Can somebody please tell me how to do that nifty copy/paste job with the screen shots? I want to post the other case, but I can't seem to get the hang of that one.

  34. #184
    Mamma Guest
    Johnny Gosch and his disappearance in 1982 has haunted me most all my life. People from across the world have only made it worse for the Gosch family by taunting them with fake leads and awful photographs of tortured young boys. So much to say, so little time to write, deadlines deadline, but must say thank you for ressurecting this thread.

    www.johnnygosch.com (WARNING !!!! Disturbing child/torture images on the front page of this website, from 1/4 to 1/2 down the page. NOT for the faint of heart. Photos like those have been sent to the missing boys families over the years, for no other worldy purpose than to torture the Gosch family, and the boys in the photos. It's an awful case. PLEASE do not visit if you are not familiar with this case. I am dead serious . Mods please remove this post if considered too sensitive in nature. Thank you.

  35. #185
    HelenaHandbasket Guest
    Mamma,

    Not to contradict you or be rude, but most of those pics weren't sent to the Gosch family. Noreen Gosch found them in various places online and she swears they're her son. Law enforcement swears they aren't. Not to diminish from Johnny's disappearance or from the fact that some of those kids are being abused, but Noreen Gosch is known for her conspiracy theories about what happened to her son. Including one where he was kidnapped and sold in to sex slavery for the White House. She also claims he came to visit her at least a decade after he vanished, but left again.

    Noreen, while she is suffering and in deep pain, has done a great deal to damage her credibility while involving herself with people who believe an alien race runs the world. The Gosch case invites more controversy and more far out there conspiracy theories than any other missing child case I've ever seen.

    My personal opinion is that Johnny was killed shortly after his abduction.

    Again, I don't intend to be bitchy towards you. Just trying to point out that what is on Noreen's site should be taken with a grain of salt and possibly a shot of Tequila after viewing the photos.

  36. #186
    Lisamarie Guest
    God are those picture real??? Did you see the one of the kid with his arms bound above his head and next to him is a glass case with what looks like torture stuff!!! And then those other pics..is the older guy who is tickling the bound one a perp and wtf with the movie they have what looks like a set with costumes!! Thsoe kids look so scared...I want to think they are fake ..but the fear in the eyes looks so real.

  37. #187
    Mamma Guest
    Thanks helena ~ yes, people have given Noreen Gosch a hard time with her conspiracy theories, so that I'm familiar with yes.

    Quote Originally Posted by HelenaHandbasket View Post
    Mamma,

    Not to contradict you or be rude, but most of those pics weren't sent to the Gosch family. Noreen Gosch found them in various places online and she swears they're her son. Law enforcement swears they aren't. Not to diminish from Johnny's disappearance or from the fact that some of those kids are being abused, but Noreen Gosch is known for her conspiracy theories about what happened to her son. Including one where he was kidnapped and sold in to sex slavery for the White House. She also claims he came to visit her at least a decade after he vanished, but left again.

    Noreen, while she is suffering and in deep pain, has done a great deal to damage her credibility while involving herself with people who believe an alien race runs the world. The Gosch case invites more controversy and more far out there conspiracy theories than any other missing child case I've ever seen.

    My personal opinion is that Johnny was killed shortly after his abduction.

    Again, I don't intend to be bitchy towards you. Just trying to point out that what is on Noreen's site should be taken with a grain of salt and possibly a shot of Tequila after viewing the photos.

  38. #188
    Lisamarie Guest
    Are those pics real people?? Did someone really send those too her ?? Why cant they find who the other children are?? Is she really conspiracy drama queen...and may I say in her defence...I think I would be on every conspiracy theory if it was about my missing son.

  39. #189
    Mrs. James Dean Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Mamma View Post
    Johnny Gosch and his disappearance in 1982 has haunted me most all my life. People from across the world have only made it worse for the Gosch family by taunting them with fake leads and awful photographs of tortured young boys. So much to say, so little time to write, deadlines deadline, but must say thank you for ressurecting this thread.

    www.johnnygosch.com (WARNING !!!! Disturbing child/torture images on the front page of this website, from 1/4 to 1/2 down the page. NOT for the faint of heart. Photos like those have been sent to the missing boys families over the years, for no other worldy purpose than to torture the Gosch family, and the boys in the photos. It's an awful case. PLEASE do not visit if you are not familiar with this case. I am dead serious . Mods please remove this post if considered too sensitive in nature. Thank you.

    That site has ALWAYS been hard for me to visit. Those pictures disturb me till no end. I cannot believe there's sick people out there that would so such things. My heart goes out to his family, especially his mother. I cannot even begin to imagine how this must be for them.

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    We don't realize how lucky we are to not have been abducted. When I was a kid I would wander all over with my friends... at any given moment somebody could have snatched us and it wouldn't have even been my parents fault. Unfortunately this is just another factor of life, just like we can get killed at any moment by a car, bullet, etc... we can be abducted at any moment, how do we prevent it? not sure we can, just pray your child is one of the lucky ones.


  41. #191
    Lisamarie Guest
    I know its horrible ..there for the grace of God go I ....

  42. #192
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    Jacob Wetterling


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    Jacob Erwin Wetterling in 1989


    Jacob Erwin Wetterling (born Feb 17, 1978) was an American boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota who was kidnapped from his hometown at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989. He, his brother, and a friend were bicycling home from a convenience store, when a masked gunman came out of a driveway and ordered the boys to throw their bikes into a ditch and lie down on the ground. He asked each boy their age. Jacob's brother and friend were told to run toward a nearby wooded area and not look back or else he would shoot them. After a short run, both boys did look back and saw the gunman grab Jacob by the elbow and walk away. As of 2007, the whereabouts of Jacob and the gunman are unknown.
    Four months after the abduction, his parents, Jerry and Patty Wetterling, formed the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, which is an advocacy group for children's safety. In 1994, the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, more simply known as the Jacob Wetterling Act, was passed in his honor. It was the first law to institute a state sex-offender registry.[1] The law has been amended a few times, most famously by Megan's Law in 1996.
    The investigation into Jacob's abduction has continued. In 2004, some new reports appeared in the local press. A long-held belief that the abductor got away in a car was abandoned. It was also revealed that ten months prior to the Wetterling abduction, another boy had been kidnapped, placed into a car, and sexually assaulted before being released. The modus operandi was similar to that of the Wetterling case. The man used a gun and upon releasing the boy told him to run and not look back or else he would be shot. This incident occurred ten miles from the location where Jacob, his brother, and friend were stopped. [2]
    The Bridge of Hope is named in honor of Jacob. His mother Patty Wetterling ran unsuccessfully for the Sixth Congressional District of Minnesota in 2004 and 2006.
    The Charley Project has sketches of a man believed to have abducted Jacob and sexually assaulted the other boy in 1989. [3]
    Jacob is a featured child in the Polly Klaas Foundation

  43. #193
    Lisamarie Guest
    Anyone remeber the case of Carli Brucia..I believe her abduction was caught on a security cam at the car wash she was kidnapped from...I just remeber seeing the footage of a man walking up to her and grabbing her hand and leading her away.

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    Yeah I remember her LisaMarie... here the CNN article when it first happened

    and here is an article after she was murdered.
    Last edited by Jason; 01-16-2008 at 06:35 AM.


  45. #195
    Lisamarie Guest
    So sad...I just rewatched that footage and God that scares me..I wonder why she did not freak out and start fighting her ass off... would have thrown a royal fit !! I guess she was so scared...I also just read they just locked her mama up for 90 days for drug charges and prostitution...allthough she never offered any sexual service the cop still thought thats what she intended to do....when she faced the judge she cried that since the abduction and then murder of her 11 year old daughter, she has turned to drugs the judge had zero smpathay and gave her time......a little harsh..I can see if she was workin the corner but jeesh! No offence to cops on here but boy they can be dick heads!I mean couldent they have given her probation or community service??

  46. #196
    HelenaHandbasket Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Lisamarie View Post
    So sad...I just rewatched that footage and God that scares me..I wonder why she did not freak out and start fighting her ass off... would have thrown a royal fit !! I guess she was so scared..
    It's hard to tell. We don't know what he said to her. We teach our kids to obey adults and do as their told, some sickos count on that. I'm not saying we should teach our kids to ignore adults and only listen to their parents, but it's scary being a parent and knowing my kids would obey the adult too. We used to teach them that strangers were weird looking, shady types. That's not always the case, look at Ted Bundy. Some days, I think parents are at a huge disadvantage no matter what we do.

    This little girl vanished from around Pittsburgh in 1985: http://www.findmissingkids.com/Spotl...errieMahan.htm

    I'll never, ever forget her case. My friends and I were 10 at the time, we didn't know her, but it scared the living hell out of us.

  47. #197
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    Quote Originally Posted by HelenaHandbasket View Post
    Including one where he was kidnapped and sold in to sex slavery for the White House.
    I know I joke around a lot, but seriously a lot of people believe this one about child sex slaves and the White House. That Jeff Gannon guy was supposed to have been abducted for the same purposes years ago while touring the White House, and some say Hunter Thompson was working on a story about it when he "committed suicide."

  48. #198
    Daphne Guest
    [quote=Mrs. James Dean;118373]Hopefully, I'm putting this thread in the right forum if not please move.

    Years ago I found this website: http://www.doenetwork.org/ Itā??s a network that lists THOUSANDS of missing children/people cases. Thereā??s also a section of people who were found dead but have not been identified. There are also sections of people who have been found or identified.


    I have been going to doenetwork for some time as well, and am continually touched and amazed by the stories... some of the links they have are also quite touching, faces of the lost, etc.. Im glad someone else visits doenetwork too!

  49. #199
    ajurk Guest
    this is what pisses me off about when people complain about beth holloway. if i go missing, i hope my mother doesnt stop either and if she has to be annoying to keep my image out there, then so be it. she is fortunate enough to have the money and support to do it, but unfortunately that is what seems needs to be done if a loved one goes missing. i've told my mother if i ever go missing, she needs to call greta and nancy grace, stat! it also pisses me off about the little girl madeline mccann that went missing in portugal and the police seem so obsessed with blaming the parents. if they would spend the time they are wasting questioning and blaming the parents they that should be spending finding her, maybe she still wouldnt be missing.

  50. #200
    Jenny Mulhenny Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by ajurk View Post
    it also pisses me off about the little girl madeline mccann that went missing in portugal and the police seem so obsessed with blaming the parents. if they would spend the time they are wasting questioning and blaming the parents they that should be spending finding her, maybe she still wouldnt be missing.
    But technically it is their fault no matter what. Who goes out and leaves their kids alone in a hotel room? I won't even go out of my house into the driveway to get something out of the car and leave my toddler inside alone! That's what I've never understood about that case. People should be screaming about how idiotic it was to go out for drinks and leave the kids alone.

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