Friday, June 27, 2008

Search on for Missing Hemet Man, Someone has Withdrawn $92,000 From His Account

Police suspect elder abuse may have led to the disappearance of a missing 80-year-old Hemet man whose bank account was emptied of about $92,000.

Neighbors told police that a caretaker working for Edward Andrews, 80, appears to be the same man who withdrew Andrews' money from banks in three counties and bought a big screen television in Orange County. The neighbors were shown a surveillance photo of the man.


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Ohio Launches New Missing Adult Alert

Law enforcement officials across Ohio are preparing to launch a new plan that creates a statewide emergency alert program to aid in the identification and location of missing adults who are endangered and age 65 or older or have a mental impairment.

Alerting the public about a missing child (the Amber Alert) is something Ohio has championed since its inception, according to Ohio Emergency Management Agency officials.

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Children's Homes See one a Day go on Run

Police deal with more than 60 missing people from the city's children's homes and psychiatric hospital every month, it was revealed today.

New figures show youngsters were reported missing from one of the Capital's ten care facilities on an almost daily basis between January and March. It was a similar situation at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital where patients with mental illnesses and those attending drug and alcohol rehabilitation disappeared on most days.


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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Investigator Donates Time to Missing Kids

She went jogging like she did most mornings.

But on May 27, Crystal Sexton, a rising junior at Loganville High, kept running. Her mother got in her car and drove around, looking for the 16-year-old.

“I said, ‘Something is wrong,’ ” Donna Sexton told me. ” ‘This is not right. Something is just not right.’ “

She called Loganville Police and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. She passed out fliers with Crystal’s photo.


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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Police: Missing Man May be Headed to Canada

Police are searching for David Dumas, 25, of Spring Lake Ranch in Cuttingsville.

Staff at the facility filed a missing persons complaint at about 1:45 p.m. Sunday, after Dumas failed to arrive to take his morning medications, according to Vermont State Police at Rutland. Dumas, who holds dual citizenship, had been complaining about being in the United States and wished to return to Canada, where his father lives, police said.


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McCanns Back Facebook-Based Missing Children Scheme

The parents of Madeleine McCann have added their support to a new scheme for locating missing children through social networking websites such as Facebook.

The charity Missing Persons has created an application for Facebook users which allows the display of the details of missing young people on their own profile page.

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