Missing Child Alert Sparks Influx of Calls

An automated phone alert Christmas Eve sent to thousands of downtown and Milbrook residents about an 11-year-old runaway later found safe resulted in a surge of calls through the week from people left hanging about the girl's fate, Greenwich Police Lt. Richard Cochran said.

"Numerous people called not just to report information but wanting to know what was up and if she had been found," Cochran said. "There were a lot of additional calls to headquarters."

Family Search For Missing Mother of Five in Pueblo

A woman in Pueblo is worried sick about her adult daughter's whereabouts. It's been nearly three weeks since she has heard from Janet Renteria, 42, who is a mother of five. Police are searching for the missing Pueblo woman too.

Missing Persons List Used to Help Identify Foot

Radio New Zealand News : Latest News : Missing persons list used to help identify foot: "A pathologist has determined the foot is from a Pakeha man, but cannot say what age he was.

Detective Sergeant William McIvor says because the foot may have been in the water for up to a year, there are several people it could belong to. It is between a size 8 and 9."

Associations want justice for missing persons

Associations want justice for missing persons: "The participants adopted conclusions at the end of the gathering, aimed at facilitating the process of solving the sore regional problem.

According to data released recently, as many as 17,500 people are still listed as missing from a series of armed conflict in the territory of former Yugoslavia during the 1990s."

Concern grows for missing man, 47

Concern grows for missing man, 47 - Yorkshire Post: "POLICE are urgently trying to trace a teacher who has gone missing from his home near Bingley.

Neil Broadbent, 47, who lives in Harden, was reported missing on December 11 and last made contact with a friend on December 6."

Parents Put up $200,000 to Warm Missing Son's Cold Case

Since John Rowan Jr. went missing from Jacksonville in February 2001, his mother has tried anything she can to find out answers.

She's tried canvassing neighborhoods. She's held a golf tournament to raise attention about the case. She's talked with a psychic. She's even written a poem to plead to the public for help.

"Please help us come to an end. To get some closure so our hearts can mend," wrote his mother, Margaret Rowan.

Families of Missing Persons Join Forces

The family of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson is joining forces with families of other missing people in hopes of bringing resolution to all of the unsolved cases.

The families of Lisa Stebic, John Spira, Scott Acaro and Bradley Olsen say efforts to find their loved ones will be strengthened if they all work together.

Standing outside Stacy Peterson's home Monday afternoon, the newly formed support network said no family should be faced with the unanswered question of what happened to their missing relative. The group also raised the issue that missing women seem to get more media attention than men who are missing.

Valiant Daughter Fights to Locate Father’s Whereabouts

Braving threats and all odds young Bilquees Manzoor’s struggle to locate whereabouts of her father who went missing in custody of troops five years ago has earned her the sobriquet of ‘brave daughter of Kashmir’.

In her eagerness to know why her father Manzoor Ahmad Dar, a chemist was picked up and what happened to him, she has shed countless tears, spend many sleepless night and traveled thousands of miles. But to no avail. Aspiring to be a journalist, she wants to highlight human rights violations in Kashmir and vows to get the accused troops punished.

Gardner Still Missing

Westmoreland resident Charles Gardner, Jr. has been missing since November 13, 2007. He is still missing as The Journal goes to press.

Gardner is a black male who was born on January 13, 1956, is 5’10”, 159-160 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes. Gardner also has the mental capacity of a 6 -12 year old and is on 9-10 different medications, including those for diabetes.

Gardner was reported missing to the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Department at 8:17 a.m. on November 13 by a Mrs. Brown, his caretaker. She had last seen him awake at 2:30 a.m.

Why Do Men go Missing?

A 2004 random sample of 1,000 missing cases in London found that more than three-quarters were resolved within 48 hours, while 99% were resolved within a year.

The figures suggest that while the teenage missing are more likely to be girls, of all those over the age of 24 who disappear, 73% are male. Of those missing for more than a year, the longer they are missing the more likely they are to be older men.

Special Bracelets Help Locate Missing Persons

Imagine if a loved one who has autism or Alzheimer's disease wandered off without anyone knowing. In a situation such as that, time is of the essence, but where would one start looking for the missing person?

The Marlboro Kiwanis Club has helped to raise money for the purchase of bracelets supplied by Project Lifesaver that would help if a situation like the one described above occurred.

Project Lifesaver, of Chesapeake, Va., is a nonprofit organization that was established in 1999. According to its Internet Web site, Project Lifesaver has become a leading organization in addressing the need to protect people who have Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome and autism.

City of Fresno's Missing Persons List

Police say it's really a simple way to help. By posting photos and descriptions of missing people on the internet. They hope it will dramatically increase the odds someone is found.

These are the faces of just some of Fresno's missing.

A 15 year old boy last seen getting off a school bus two months ago.

A 17 year old girl missing from her home six months ago.

They are among the dozen missing Fresno police say are gone without a trace.

Don Dross: "These are cases where we have kind of run out of our leads."

Families Hope DNA Will Identify Missing Loved Ones

The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification is using the science of DNA in hopes of identifying more than 1,000 unidentified human remains from across the country.

In Florida, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement estimates there are more than 500 human remains yet to be named.

Medical examiners in Lee County hold on to tissues of the unidentified bodies in case DNA can one day be used to find a name.

First Website for Captured and Missing Persons Opened in Azerbaijan

The first web site for captured and missing persons was opened in Azerbaijan. The opening ceremony of the website was held at the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan on 21 November.

The web site www.hesretyolu.az collects information about captured and missing persons and the places where they are being kept.

The participants of the event said that only one NGO works on the issue concerning the captured and missing, while 150 Armenian NGOs are engaged in this matter, as well as approximately 500 websites.

Family of Missing Chili Teen Puts up Reward

The family of a Chili teenager missing for four months has put up a one thousand dollar reward for information leading to the discovery of his whereabouts.

19-year old Brian Sullivan was last seen at a Burger King on Chili Avenue on the morning of July 8th.

His mother, Barbara Sullivan, says the family wants to keep Brian's face and story alive. She says she can't explain what her family is going through not knowing what has happened to him.