L.A. Authorities Link Rockefeller To Calif. Missing Persons Case

Boston kidnapping suspect Clark Rockefeller is a German man wanted for questioning in connection with a 1985 California missing persons case, the Los Angeles County sheriff said Monday.

Officials in California said Monday that Rockefeller is in fact the same man who called himself Christopher Chichester in the mid-1980s. At the time, Chichester was a tenant of a property owned by John and Linda Sohus, who disappeared and are believed dead. Chichester disappeared before authorities could question him.

Last week, Rockefeller refused to talk with California investigators about the case.

Rockefeller's attorney Stephen Hrones denied his client had any link to the California case.

"They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him. This matter in California is all speculation," Hrones said.

Last week, a man in a small town in Bavaria identified pictures of Rockefeller as his younger brother, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who went to America in the late 1970s as a teen and then lost contact with the family.

Sandra Boss Issues Video Plea for Return of Missing Daughter

The mother of a 7-year-old allegedly kidnapped from Boston by her father issued an Internet video Thursday pleading for the girl's safe return.

Sandra Boss asked her ex-husband, Clark Rockefeller, to return their daughter, Reigh Boss, who goes by the nickname "Snooks." In the video, released by the Boston Police Department, Boss told Rockefeller that there must be a better way to deal with their differences.

"We both love her dearly and have only her best interests and well-being at heart," Boss said. "I ask you now, please, please bring Snooks back. There has to be a better way for us to solve our differences than this way."

Bones Found in Mesa County

Mesa County Sheriff's Office investigators are searching for clues after human remains were found in the region.

The department is not disclosing the location of the find nor identifying who found the remains, said sheriff's spokeswoman Heather Benjamin. Investigators "want to keep the area clear for a forensic search."

The Mesa County coroner's office is working with investigators to identify the remains.

"We believe this will take a long time," Benjamin said.

It is too early to speculate whose body has been located, she added.

Police Use Facebook to Track Missing Persons

Australian Federal Police will use social networking websites Facebook, bebo and MySpace as the latest tool to track down missing persons.

The websites have become a common forum for friends and family involved in high-profile missing person cases to appeal for information on their loved ones.

Last month, friends of murdered Hervey Bay woman Lisa Keem created a Facebook group dedicated to finding her alleged killer, now in custody, while numerous groups have been set up still seeking information on missing British girl Madeline McCann.

Missing Toddler's Mom 'Person of Interest'

In a bond hearing today, the lead detective in the investigation into the June disappearance of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony named Casey Anthony, 22, the toddler's mother, a "person of interest."

While Anthony is currently being held on three relatively small charges, including child neglect and obstructing an investigation, prosecutors said that the case was turning into "what is looking to be a homicide investigation."

The detective, Yuri Mellich of the Orange Co., Fla., Sheriff's Missing Persons Unit, called Anthony a "person of interest" after revealing in testimony that samples of hair of similar length and color to Caylee's were found in the trunk of a car owned by the Anthony family and last driven by Casey.

Plus, a police dog trained to seek out the decomposition of human bodies also alerted its handler to the car trunk.

Judge Stan Strickland set Anthony's bail at $500,000 with the restriction that if the bail is posted, Anthony must wear a GPS tracking device at all times.

New Tool To Match Remains to Missing Persons

A local mother's dedication could help solve thousands of family mysteries and some murders.

Debbie Culberson is on the board of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.

Culberson worked with the Justice Department to create a centralized, online tool to match the unidentified dead, with missing persons across the country.

Local 12's Deborah Dixon shows how, for Culberson, the mission is personal, as she looks for the remains of her daughter, Carrie, killed 12 years ago.

Great American Ball Park filled to capacity. It would take 8,000 more people to equal the number of unidentified dead in America.

"The number of unidentified bodies is astounding," said Dr. Amy Burrows-Beckham, Kentucky medical examiner. "It's been called the nation's silent national disaster."

Some of the unidentified dead were murdered. Thousands have families searching for answers.

There was no way to do that, until now.

Now there is NamUs, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Online Predators

According the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC), every day more than 2,000 parents or caretakers call law enforcement to report a missing minor. The FBI also says missing persons reports have multiplied by more than five times since the invention of the internet.

Over the years, stories of predators seeking victims online have made news. However, the message hasn't hit home with some teens who risk their lives meeting up with strangers from cyberspace. Grant County Sheriff's detectives are dealing with such a case.

Connie Farrell doesn't know where to find her daughter, 17-year-old Pamelia Alise Westbrook. "I believe that she left on her own, but I don't know if she does not want to come home or someone is not letting come home," says Farrell. She's been missing since Sunday, June 29th. Farrell says that day, her daughter likely chatted with someone online who picked her up from her family's home in Grant County. "I'm scared that she just can't come home," says Farrell.

Family Found: Sisters Reunited In South Korea Thanks to Private Investigator

Wanda King's life in the United States has been a good one.

But as a child in North Korea, she lived under communism and saw the effects of war. She remembers seeing red skies after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and her mother warning, "Don't you go outside! You're going to be sick." As American bombs fell on her own country during the Korean War, she and her family fled south with hundreds of other refugees to escape the fighting. They ate insects and slept in rice paddies to survive.

"I don't have a happy life when I was young," she said. "I have a hard life."

Although conditions improved after the war, she was still living in poverty in 1962 when she met Ben King, a young soldier from Davie County. He fell in love with her, and he vowed not to leave South Korea without her.

She was 23 when she married him and left her family behind in Seoul. She built her own family in a new country.

Her children grew up with plenty of food and without fear of bombs falling in the night. King, now 68, watched with pride as they married and started forming their own families.

Despite all that she had, King ­mourned what she had lost.

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.