Search on for Missing Hemet Man, Someone has Withdrawn $92,000 From His Account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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No New Clues Found in Search for Long-Missing Brockton Teen

The search will move on to a nearby pond in September, said private investigator Phillip White.

The investigation recently turned up information that the teen had frequently visited the area of the park, White said.

White is part of the team of private investigators, working pro bono through the Molly Bish Foundation, who have interviewed dozens of people and conducted several searches for evidence in the area, with the assistance of state and Brockton police.

Search Under Way for Missing Hiker

A search and rescue team from Clackamas County is looking for a hiker who failed to come home after heading up to the Mount Hood area.

According to Lt. Jim Strovink with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, the hiker left home Monday morning, telling his wife that he would be home that night. When he didn't return, she filed a missing persons report with the Portland Police Bureau.

Strovink said deputies have searched several trailheads in the areas where the man may have parked his pickup, including Angel's Rest and Lolo Pass. No sign of the vehicle has been found.

Red Cross Offers Tracing Service to Find Missing Loved Ones

For decades, the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) has been synonymous not only with organized efforts to ensure a steady supply of blood in the country to those who need it, but also with providing disaster and emergency response services.

Unknown to many, the PNRC is also actively involved in bringing together families separated by time, distance and circumstances. Under its tracing program, the agency has been reuniting families for years—free of charge—as part of its social work.

Private Funding of DNA Test in Missing Girl Case Refused

Two law enforcement agencies appear to have turned down offers to privately pay for and expedite DNA testing on an unidentifed Wisconsin girl who could be Everlyse Cabrera, a North Las Vegas foster child who disappeared in 2006.

In a Tuesday federal court hearing, attorney Dara Goldsmith, the court-appointed guardian for Everlyse, told Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leavitt that she was willing to use funds held in trust to bypass the public DNA testing backlog, which in Wisconsin is at least four months long.

That offer was extended to both North Las Vegas police and Green Bay, Wis., police, Goldsmith said.

Investigator: Someone Knows Where Becky Is

A private investigator has joined the search for Bekime Elshani.

Elshani is the Colorado Springs woman who's been missing since March 29th . Her boyfriend, Daniel Dereere, shot and killed himself March 31st, with Colorado Springs Police Officers outside his apartment.

A PI and Web Designers Help Find Missing Persons

Carl A. Bartol, a licensed private investigator and founder of the Prevent Delinquency Project recently teamed up with two of the Internet's top blog designers in the quest to find missing children and adults.

Each year more than 800,000 children and countless adults are reported missing in the United States. Technorati, an Internet-based search engine estimates that approximately 125,000 new bloggers come online each day. This amounts to millions of blogs and posts every year. In thinking outside the box of ways to aid in the search for missing children and adults, Bartol and his Prevent Delinquency Project (http://www.preventdelinquency.org) teamed up with two of the web's top designers, Ophelia Nicholson (http://www.ophelianicholson.com), and Linda Jackson (http://www.wpskins.org), to develop WordPress blog themes specifically designed to help locate lost loved ones. To their credit, they have completed two such themes to date and more are on the horizon.

Use a Reverse Address Search to Find Someone You´ve Lost Contact With

Wouldn´t it be wonderful to be able to reunite with that long lost friend or family member, even if you haven´t got a clue what their telephone number is? In fact, as long as there are a few details of personal information that you know about this "missing person", it is possible for you to use a reverse address search site online to find their current information, including their telephone number, location on a map, and even sometimes driving directions as well.

Missing Soldier 'May Be in Hawaii'

An Australian army team is in Vietnam following leads in the search for the remains of Private David Fisher, one of three Australian servicemen still missing from the Vietnam war.

One rumor being investigated is that he might have been taken alive by enemy forces.

Private Investigator Jay J. Armes Raises Questions About Young Woman's Death

The death of a young woman whose body was found in the desert earlier this year has raised questions about what happened the night she went missing in 2005.

Signs indicate that 21-year-old Alondra Rodriguez was suicidal when she left home but two months since the discovery of her body east of El Paso there are suspicions her death may have been a homicide.

Person of Interest in Missing Couple Case Apparently Commits Suicide

Dennis Ray Gerwing, a former business associate of John and Elizabeth Calvert and the last person known to have seen the couple, apparently committed suicide Tuesday, hours after being named a "person of interest" in the case.

Before Gerwing's body was found, investigators had announced that hehad hired a lawyer and wasn't cooperating. Over the weekend they had searched Gerwing's home, business and cars.

Missing Children and the Media: The Wrong Kind of Family?

The case of Shannon Matthews, the missing nine-year-old from Dewsbury, has developed a cruel overtone: an unspoken suggestion that, because of their lifestyles, her family deserve not our pity but our censure.

For 23 days since her daughter went missing, Karen Matthews has answered questions. Some, such as whether she can identify discarded items of clothing and toys found near her home on an impoverished estate in West Yorkshire, are distressingly necessary parts of a huge police effort to find nine-year-old Shannon.

Person of Interest in Missing Investor Case Leaves State

A motivational speaker named as a person of interest in the disappearance of his business partner after a boat trip last month has left California to attend a bikers' week in Florida, "to look for the missing man," authorities said Friday.

Sheriff's Department officials said they cannot keep Gary A. Shawkey, 44, of Virginia from leaving Orange County while they continue to hunt for his investment partner, Robert Vendrick, a 71-year-old diabetic from Phoenix. Vendrick has been missing since Feb. 16, a day after he arrived in Southern California to meet with Shawkey and "highly placed government officials" to receive a $1.2 million return on his software programming investment.

MSU Student Charged with Roommate's Death

A Mississippi State University student has been charged with capital murder in the death of his roommate.

Oktibbeha County Sheriff's deputies arrested Bobby Batiste, 28, of 250 Sinai Rd., Preston, Friday, according to a news release from the department. Earlier that day, a missing persons report was filed for Andreas Galanis, 28, of Biloxi, who was also a student at MSU.

Vehicle Found in River, One Person Missing

Police are preparing to retrieve a vehicle from a swollen Grey River and believe it may contain a body.

Acting West Coast police area commander Senior Sergeant John Price said today it appeared the vehicle left the road after failing to take a bend north of Taylorville, 12km northeast of Greymouth, last night, plunged through bush and into the Grey River.