Most Missing Kids Quickly Found

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing every year — a rate of more than 2,000 per day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

But the vast majority of them are quickly found.

Most reported missing person cases turn out to be teenage runaways, said Maryland State Police Detective Sgt. Jim DeWees of the Westminster barrack. Most of them return home or are found at a friend’s house of some other familiar location, and police are able to make contact with them within 24 hours.

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Indian Nation Going Hi-Tech to Find Missing People

The Oneida Indian Nation Police Department has formalized an agreement with the A Child Is Missing Alert Program that has led to a high-tech method to search locally for missing children, elderly, college students and persons who may be mentally or physically challenged or disabled.

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Age Progression Shot Released for Boy Missing 15 Years

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children recently re-released an age-progression photo of Jamel [Williams], who was reported missing 15 years ago today when he was 3. Accompanying the photographs of a blond, blue-eyed boy both as a toddler and as a teenager is a plea for information.

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