Inside are cases old and infamous, too: vanishings unsolved for decades; still-hidden victims of notorious serial killers; toddlers here one day, gone the next.
And there, among them all, is the roll of this state's anonymous dead -- 107 men, women and children, silently waiting for their names to be restored.
Sue Johnson said she last heard from Zuely a week ago and believes her daughter may be with Richard Lee Oglesby Jr., 44, who failed to show up in Circuit Court Sept. 14 for sentencing in a narcotics case.
Is it possible the little girl seen recently walking into an Orlando drugstore is 4-year-old Jewel Strong, who local authorities believe died more than a year ago? Her family says yes.
Simona Strong, whose daughter was thought to have drowned last year, believes the grainy drugstore surveillance video is evidence that Jewel is alive and well.
The mother of a local Cincinnati woman who has been missing since 1996 is throwing her support behind a new DNA database.
Debbie Culberson was in Washington, D.C., Tuesday for the unveiling of the National Missing and Unidentified Missing Persons System.
The new national database can be used to match unidentified remains with records of missing people.
On April 12, Sue Kayton learned that her son, a 22-year-old senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had gone missing. Four days later, a student at Virginia Tech killed 32 people on that campus.
The following week, while Virginia Tech was being criticized for withholding information about the gunman due to its privacy policy, MIT's own privacy policy was leading it to reject Ms. Kayton's requests for information she believed would help her find her son. The administration refused to allow Ms. Kayton access to her son's dorm room or to his computer files. It demanded a subpoena even after her son was listed in a national missing persons database.
YES founder Jay Breyer said the kits will use hair samples and buccal swabs from family members to put into a nationwide system, hoping to match DNA from victims in potter's cemeteries and morgues.
Today marks one week since 21-year-old Stephanie Eldredge disappeared, and police say they are not any closer to solving the case. Detectives have received some tips, but have not gotten substantial information on the mother of three's whereabouts.
On Friday, a vast area south of Idaho Falls was searched by Bonneville County Search and Rescue, but no leads were found. A helicopter flew over the region, but did not find anything. The search was later called off, because the person who called in the tip gave a general area and wasn't specific.
