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 MY New Petition |
| Posted by oldies4mari2004 - 10-29-09 23:36 - 1 comments |
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Hello everyone:
I will be going back home soon and then I will have full use of my computer.Still in North Carolina.I sure miss being able to do what my heart is into helping the families and posting on all my boards.I have started a petition again and I hope many of my friends on Porchlight will join with me and spread the word.This is for the families and friends who are missing a loved one.The need to get to the President,all the State Govenors of every State and help to promote other Countries to help them to pass the word to their leaders also.I believe in petitions and have seen them work but it will take all of us to do it.As a Maryland Task Force Member and a family advocate and I have met many family members and see the pain and suffering they have had to endure,I encourage all to stand behind me.The petition is on page 1 the 6th one down under Criminal Justice.The URL is
http://www.change.org/actions?cause_id=34
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| Canada: Lindseys Law |
| Posted by Ell - 10-22-09 16:29 - 0 comments |
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Unresolved missing persons a wound that never heals.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 | 7:10 am
Canwest News Service
When the Jaycee Dugard horror story broke in late August, news of the California woman’s kidnapping at age 11 – and her 18-year imprisonment in the squalid backyard compound of her alleged abductor and rapist – struck Vancouver Island resident Judy Peterson in a way that might puzzle most Canadians.
“People I’ve talked to say they feel so sorry,” for Dugard and her family, Peterson says. “I’m thinking, oh man they’re lucky. It’s like they’ve won the lottery. Obviously, it’s a horrendous situation that it happened but, for her to come out the other end of it alive, I’m sure the mother is very, very grateful.”
Peterson’s perspective arises from her own immeasurable, unresolved grief. Her own 14-year-old daughter, Lindsey, went missing near Courtenay, B.C., in August 1993 and has never been seen or heard from since.
In her quest for closure, the 54-year-old Peterson has spent the past decade championing a cause that could help solve hundreds of missing person cases in Canada – none, perhaps, with the relatively happy ending the Dugard family is now experiencing, but with an ending at least.
Peterson’s push for the adoption of what she calls “Lindsey’s Law” would finally allow investigators to match DNA from unidentified human remains found in forests and fields across the country with DNA samples supplied by the families of missing Canadians – grieving siblings, fathers and mothers, like Peterson, who are aching to close the book on the central tragedy of their lives.
“My fear is that, oh my god, what if her DNA is sitting in a coroner’s office somewhere?” says training analyst with B.C. Ferries. “What if her remains are there, and nobody knows who she is?”
The country’s National DNA Databank already includes genetic profiles from known crime scenes across the country. Convicted violent offenders also have their DNA on file at the RCMP’s Ottawa headquarters, and these two databases can be cross-referenced by investigators in criminal probes.
But there is no central registry of DNA taken from found human remains in Canada – the hundreds of Jane and John Does who have turned up over the decades and never been identified. So people like Peterson – Canadians who would happily provide samples of their own DNA to seek a possible familial match with traces of a lost loved one – are still unable to do so, despite years of lobbying for that right.
Privacy concerns, jurisdictional questions and perceived funding challenges have so far thwarted the adoption of Lindsey’s Law.
There have been some high-profile expressions of support for the cause over the years. Former Liberal solicitor general Wayne Easter publicly backed the idea, and a private member’s bill was introduced in 2003 by current federal Sports Minister Gary Lunn, Peterson’s MP.
But Lunn’s bid, along with another private member’s bill introduced in 2006 by Burlington, Ont., Conservative MP Mike Wallace, failed to gain House of Commons approval before elections scuttled the process.
“As it stands now in terms of DNA analysis, if we do find remains there’s no real way of comparing it against a databank,” says RCMP Const. Annie Linteau, B.C. spokesperson for the force.
She says investigators currently need specific evidence with a “high probability” connection to a particular missing person to trigger DNA analysis.
“It’s not an easy process,” she says, adding that the Mounties “absolutely” support Peterson’s efforts to implement Lindsey’s Law: “Anything that would make it easier for us to give closure to those families.”
But the proposal has faced privacy issues, legal questions and jurisdictional wrinkles about how provincial police forces – which manage missing person cases – would be involved in a new national DNA-matching system.
Wallace says his bill addressed a legitimate concern that random probing of DNA databases could improperly prompt criminal investigations. Likewise, he said, provisions were made to protect the privacy of living individuals, such as “missing” women who were actually escaping violent relationships, or individuals who might be linked to crimes through relatives’ donated DNA.
Still, there are signs of progress that give Peterson hope. In 2007, the Commons’ public safety committee gave an all-party endorsement to have the government consider implementing Lindsey’s Law.
A ministry spokesman told Canwest News Service that the Conservative government remains “committed to further action to make the DNA Databank effective in solving other types of crime,” and that proposed reforms, including Lindsey’s Law, “are now undergoing further study.”
Wallace added that a relaunched bill for the adoption of Lindsey’s Law will be his “priority item” the next time he gets a chance to introduce private member’s legislation.
Peterson says the change couldn’t happen soon enough – despite the fact that she hasn’t exhausted all hope that Lindsey is alive.
On Sept. 12, 2008, the day her daughter would have turned 30, the RCMP and Missing Children Society of Canada issued a news release urging the public to help solve Lindsey’s disappearance and distributed – along with a snapshot of the girl as she appeared in 1993 – an “age-progressed” image showing what she might look like today.
“For the RCMP, this remains a very active investigation,” RCMP Sgt. Tim Shields said at the time. “While it has been over 15 years since Lindsey was last seen, we are continually looking for new information and clues that can help us determine what happened.”
Peterson says that even as stories like Dugard’s rescue in California kindle faint hopes of finding Lindsey, such developments are “always emotional” for the families of missing men, women and children.
“The trouble is when you don’t know for sure, then every time you hear something it reopens the wound. That’s what it’s like. That’s why we need the database to help all of the `missing families’ across Canada.”
http://www.kelowna.com/2009/10/22/unresolv...t-never-heals/#
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| Hearing set for Missing Persons bill |
| Posted by monkalup - 09-10-09 04:00 - 0 comments |
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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics..._persons_cases/
Hearing set for bill that aims to improve handling of missing persons cases
By Laura Crimaldi
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - Added 14h ago
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!A long-stalled bill to create a statewide clearing house to track missing and runaway children gets a public hearing today.
The proposed system before lawmakers is already in place in some form in 44 states, said Debbie Savoia, vice president of Community Voices, an advocacy group that helps locate missing and runaway children.
“No one’s out there looking for kids and families are frustrated,” said Savoia.
The state Executive Office of Public Safety & Security maintains a Web site with pictures and descriptions of missing and runaway children.
The clearinghouse bill proposed by state Sen. Steven Baddour (D-Methuen) would establish procedures for police departments to follow when a person is reported missing.
Those procedures include coordinating search efforts with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, registering the missing person with the Criminal Justice Information Systems and National Crime Information Center and updating case files every 60 days.
The proposal also prohibits police departments from imposing a waiting period before accepting a missing person case. The legislation was first filed in 2006. Baddour re-filed it this year.
Savoia cited the case of California kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, who went missing for 18 years, as a reason for improving systems to locate missing children.
“Look at that California situation,” said Savoia, who plans to testify today. “Our kids are just not a priority.”
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| Billys Law |
| Posted by Ell - 08-9-09 14:05 - 0 comments |
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Conn. rep. proposes legislation on missing adults
By KATIE NELSON Associated Press Writer
Updated: 08/06/2009 05:17:21 PM EDT
HARTFORD, Conn.—The unsolved case of a man who disappeared five years ago has prompted a Connecticut congressman to propose federal legislation aimed at improving efforts to find missing adults nationwide.
Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy said Thursday he will introduce the measure in the first week of September and is calling it "Billy's Law," after Billy Smolinski, a Waterbury man who has been missing since 2004.
If enacted, the measure would "help thousands of families across this country who are searching for loved ones, trying to bring potential closure to months, if not years, of agony," Murphy said during a news conference at the Capitol, where he appeared with Smolinski's mother.
The legislation would provide up to $2.4 million a year to merge data from two main database systems run by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice, Murphy said.
The Department of Justice information is currently open to the public, while the FBI database is not. Merging the two would enable families to search all available data, update missing persons case information and examine data on unidentified bodies, he said.
"We know that our law enforcement is doing everything they can to find these individuals, but families want to be part of that search," Murphy said. "It's human nature to want to do everything you can ... to try to bring some resolution to a missing persons case."
The new law would also establish protocols for
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law enforcement agencies on how to handle and report such cases, and it would provide up to $10 million a year in grants for agencies that want to improve how they report and collect data on missing persons cases.
The proposed measure has the backing of Connecticut's state Department of Public Safety, said Trooper First Class Karen O'Connor, who spoke on behalf of the agency. The FBI and the Department of Justice have been consulted on the creation of the bill, Murphy said.
These new steps would close gaps in existing laws that are more geared toward missing children than missing adults, said Smolinski's mother, Janice Smolinski. It also would help bring closure to families of adults who vanished, she said.
"Uncertainty is a cancer that curses the spirit of loved ones left behind, destroys marriages and tears at the tissue of family bonds," Smolinski said.
The FBI says it had nearly 103,000 active missing persons files at the end of 2008. More than half those missing people were adults.
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| DNA Kits |
| Posted by Ell - 05-13-09 00:43 - 0 comments |
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This is who you need to contact for DNA kits.
They will be sent to a police dept and detective and verified... they will need the Police Depts address, Detectives name, phone # and the Detectives e-mail address.
They ask that each family of a missing submits 3 samples, therefore 3 kits will be sent.. per request
The samples need to come from both mother and father, and if one or both are not available , if the missing has sisters that will help and samples need to be taken from them by the Police Dept.
Kits maybe ordered here:
Ruth R-Dunnahoo
Missing Persons Program
UNT Center for Human Identificaion
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
800-763-3147
(Fax) 800-221-3515
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| Danny Barter Vigil-50 yrs missing |
| Posted by luvmycat - 05-4-09 17:23 - 3 comments |
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Hello Friends,
I wanted to announce that a vigil for Danny Barter will be June 20, 2009 @ 6:00pm CST. Danny has been missing since June 18, 1959 and this will mark the 50th anniversary of his disappearance.
We will meet at Americas Best Inns ,1517 S McKenzie St, Foley, AL in the hotel board room for an initial conference and update on the case, afterwards, we will meet at the beach where Danny originally disappeared for a candlelight vigil.
I look forward to seeing those of you that can attend. If anyone has any questions please pm me or email me @ Lhreuss1972@hotmail.com.
http://www.dannybarter.com/
Take Care,
Lynn |
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| Brandons Law |
| Posted by Ell - 03-3-09 13:10 - 0 comments |
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http://www.marshallindependent.com/page/co.../id/508140.html
Swansons lean on new law
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Their son is still missing, but Brian and Annette Swanson of Marshall hope a bill named for their son Brandon will make it easier in Minnesota to find missing adults.
Rep. Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, was expected to introduce Brandon's Law on Monday in St. Paul. The law amends the state's Missing Children's regulations to include adults and, if passed, would be in effect July 1. The law calls for data to be released on missing adults; the Missing Children's program would be for all missing persons as well as the clearinghouse of information on missing persons. The rules that apply to missing children would apply to missing adults.
"Families shouldn't be left alone in this strange country with a strange language they don't speak," Annette Swanson said. "This is not going to help us but it will help somebody else."
More needs to be done when an adult is missing, the Swansons said. The proposed bill will help.
"There is a lack of coordination in the ability to identify missing persons," Seifert said.
"This policy change will not be enough, but we will start with it," Annette Swanson said.
Brandon Swanson, 19, has been missing since May after his parents lost cell phone contact with him. Brandon Swanson called his parents about running his car into a ditch but apparently, did not give the correct location. His parents maintained cell phone contact while they went to find him near Lynd but the last call ended abruptly. Brandon Swanson's call was traced to a cell phone tower near Taunton and law enforcement have searched portions of Lyon, Lincoln and Yellow Medicine counties near the Yellow Medicine River since May.
While law enforcement and area emergency rescue workers responded to search for their son, the Swansons are thankful for the effort and said the source of their frustration is what they see as a lack of coordination in state resources in place and a lack of resources dedicated to search and rescue, and search and recovery training.
The Swansons said they were naive, but have learned during the long months they have searched for their son.
"What we are asking to do, to me, doesn't make sense because it's already being done in other states. I don't understand why it's not being done here," Brian Swanson said.
States are required to submit DNA and dental records of missing persons to the National Crime Information Center and enter information into CODIS, the National Missing and Unidentified Persons database.
"Every state has to have a missing persons clearinghouse and Minnesota's is with the (Minnesota) Bureau of Criminal Apprehension," Annette Swanson said. "Unfortunately, a lot of people don't know it, including law enforcement."
Lyon County Sheriff Mark Mather said his department submitted DNA and dental records to the BCA soon after Swanson was reported missing.
But, data cited by the Swansons said, that isn't happening with every missing person in Minnesota.
The Swansons cited an August 2007 report by the BCA which cited an FBI audit of the NCIC and found of the more than 800 active missing persons cases in Minnesota - only five had DNA collected and 27 had dental records.
"That's pretty damning," Annette Swanson said.
So, if a person reported missing in Minnesota did not have DNA or dental records recorded in the NCIC and died in another state, that person could not be identified, the Swansons said.
"That's astounding to me," Seifert said of the study.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, Swanson was not listed on the BCA's clearinghouse for Missing Persons Web site.
Swanson was listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Web site with a photo, an update to age 20, and a poster link. However, the Lyon County Sheriff's Department is listed as the contact and the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department telephone number is listed on the site.
The Swansons are using the Project Jason campaign as a model for their efforts.
Project Jason seeks to provide a framework to improve law enforcement's response, improve the collection of critical information to other law enforcement agencies and the public and help to prioritize high-risk missing person cases.
The Swansons contend there are more resources and time dedicated to missing children than missing adults. The same resources and time must be dedicated to adults and to children, they said.
They were baffled when they learned there was no state list of search and rescue or search and recover teams in Minnesota or the Upper Midwest. Law enforcement had to find their own sources for that information, Annette Swanson said.
Lincoln County Sheriff Jack Vizecky said there is no such list, but one problem is there is no license or requirement to help determine who is qualified and well-trained in search and rescue, and search and recovery.
"There is not a professional search team out there that I know of," Mather said.
Law enforcement rely on others in the field to recommend good and successful search, and rescue and search and recover teams, they said.
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| Happy Birthday Porchlight |
| Posted by monkalup - 03-1-09 19:53 - 5 comments |
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Today is our third anniversary. I want to thank you all for all the hard work and effort you all put forth. We have become a great repository of information and it is thanks to all of you! Happy Birthday, Porchlight! |
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| VERY IMPORTANT-PROJECTJASON NEEDS OUR HELP |
| Posted by oldies4mari2004 - 12-2-08 04:33 - 0 comments |
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Establish National Protocol in Missing and Unidentified Person Cases
Every 30 seconds someone in the U.S. disappears, an average of 850,000 persons per year. Of that number, approximately 105,000 remain as open cases, unresolved. There are also unknown numbers of unidentified deceased persons, with estimates as high as 50,000. With modern technologies, available resources and tools, more cases could be resolved. With law enforcement budgets slashed, available training and knowledge of these tools and resources remain out of the grasp of many agencies. Cases go unresolved, family members remain in pain needlessly, criminals go free, and the unidentified deceased are buried and even cremated, taking the answers with them, sometimes forever. The Department of Justice crafted model legislation which would give law enforcement, coroners, and medical examiners the necessary protocol and tools to correct this injustice. Efforts have been made to pass this legislation on a state by state basis, but this process has proven to be slow. Each day that passes without these procedures in place increases the number of missing persons who may never be recovered, and unidentified deceased persons who might never be named. The legislation provides law enforcement with a check list of information to acquire from the family of the missing person, databases and other resources to utilize, such as DNA analysis, and the new NamUs. Coroners and medical examiners are given procedures to report the unidentified deceased, and enter all available identifiers into national databases, such as fingerprints, dental records, and DNA analysis. The text of the legislation can be found here:
http://www.projectjason.org/downloads/Mode...008Revision.pdf
- Kelly Jolkowski (Kelly Jolkowski, President and Founder of Project Jason), Omaha, NE Nov 30 @ 10:38AM PST |
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| Another Warning To Families |
| Posted by oldies4mari2004 - 10-2-08 16:17 - 1 comments |
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Stop it!
DSP warns families of missing persons against publicising contact numbers
KIMMO MATTHEWS, Observer staff reporter matthewsk@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
THE demands from unscrupulous persons on the family of 11-year-old Ananda Dean, have resulted in a strong warning from a deputy superintendent of police against the publishing of contact numbers by relatives of missing persons.
According to the police, Ananda's relatives have been bombarded with calls from persons, who - instead of giving information as to the young girl's whereabouts - use the contacts to intimidate and extort money from the grieving family.
"We want to call out to families, not just of the young Dean, to stop this practice. We are aware that in these (criminal) cases families may be anxious to be reunited with their loved ones, but the publishing of contact numbers by families of these victims (such as cases of kidnapping) is a serious situation," Deputy Superintendent Carol McKenzie of the police's St Andrew North Division told the Observer Monday.
"We want to ask persons out there to work with the police as much as possible in dealing with these matters," DSP McKenzie added.
Forensic tests are being conducted to determine if a child's body found in a precipice along Cypress Road in Belvedere, St Andrew, on Sunday is that of Ananda.
The young girl - a student of the Swallowfield All Age who lived with her family in Grants Pen, St Andrew - was last seen on September 17 boarding a bus en route to Half-Way-Tree after school.
Several of her schoolbooks were found a day after she went missing strewn along a pathway in the Pembroke Hall community.
But prior to the discovery of the body, family members were said to be making arrangements to pay out a ransom to persons who claimed they had abducted the young girl. They also sent approximately $7,000 in cellphone credit to the so-called abductors.
Some family members told the Observer that they had even made several trips to various points on the abductors' promise that Ananda would be there, but all turned out to be hoaxes. They said that on one occasion, they were asked to pay a ransom of $30,000, but the demand was later upped to half-million dollars.
The family said they never involved the police as they were warned by the so-called abductors against doing so.
But Monday, DSP McKenzie warned against such practices.
"We want to appeal to the public in such cases, work with the police, because what you will find is that even if contacts are published and abductors should call families, in many instances they are not trained to negotiate with the criminals.
"As a result they (family members) may even end up placing themselves in more danger," McKenzie suggested.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/2...BS_STOP_IT_.asp
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| Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons |
| Posted by Ell - 09-27-08 12:32 - 0 comments |
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An annual meeting for families of victims of unsolved murders will be held Saturday in Denver to discuss their experiences and hear about a proposal to reallocate state death penalty funds to create a statewide cold case team of detectives.
Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons will hold its 2008 forum at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel at Hampden Avenue and Interstate 25. Registration begins at 7 a.m., with a continental breakfast available from 7 to 8:30 a.m.
Jan Smolinski, mother of Billy Smolinski, who went missing in 2004, will give the keynote speech.
For more information, go to www.unresolvedhomicides.org.
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| Angels Among Us. |
| Posted by Ell - 09-25-08 00:50 - 0 comments |
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Woman uses special gift to help solve mysteries
Gail Lionetti assists police on criminal & missing persons cases
BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer
Gail Lionetti says she has a gift that has led her to work on high-profile police cases involving people whose names are familiar to those who follow such news events, names like Sam Manzie, Jon- Benet Ramsey and Natalie Holloway.
REBECCA MORTON Gail Lionetti says she is a clairvoyant, clairaudient medium, who has put her gift to use working with law enforcement agencies throughout the United States as a private investigator. To help a local family, Lionetti will be hosting a benefit "Angels Among Us" event on Jan. 16 at the Sheraton in Eatontown.
Lionetti is clairvoyant, clairaudient medium, who has put her gift to use working with law enforcement agencies throughout the United States as a private investigator.
After surviving a difficult childhood and two near-death experiences, Lionetti, who resides in Freehold, said she decided to use her psychic gifts to help people understand their lives from a spiritual and supernatural perspective.
Lionetti, who grew up in Hazlet, said that when she was 6 years old she realized she was connecting with something. She explained that a lot of times with children, spirits will connect with them through the child's most treasured possession. To the 6- year-old Lionetti, the spirits were communicating through her dolls.
As time went on, Lionetti began to question what was happening to her.
"There was one point in my life that I did not believe in this. I was very skeptical, I'm still skeptical on a lot of things. But I was able to open more by meeting with other people and searching things out and finding that I really did have a gift," she explained.
About 30 years ago, Lionetti said, she began doing readings for people, including some celebrities. She also began working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and said she has a 98 percent mark of finding a missing person. As a private investigator, Lionetti has her own company, Scorpion Investigations.
To inspire others, Lionetti wrote about her childhood and how she has overcome the troubling situations of her past. "Survival on a Wing and a Prayer" has a purpose of helping people realize that no matter what they may go through in life, they can survive it as long as they do not let the negatives take over their life, Lionetti said. Some of her experiences working as a private investigator are documented in the book.
There is no such thing as a certified medium, Lionetti said, noting that wellknown mediums such as John Edwards and Sylvia Browne do not list themselves as certified.
She said she understands how people can be skeptical about what she does, again noting that she, too, is skeptical about some areas.
Lionetti said she was very skeptical when she was first able to communicate with live animals. This was an ability she had not heard of previously, but Lionetti said she has been able to help identify injuries in animals through communicating with them.
If someone tries to test her by faking his or her name, Lionetti said she will immediately ask that person, "Why are you testing me?"
Lionetti said phony psychics have helped provide the disbelief that is instilled in some people about this particular gift.
More children are being born with these psychic gifts, Lionetti said. She said television channels such as A&E have shown evidence of this in the program "Psychic Kids."
"They are the ones that I believe are going to change this world for the better," she said of these children.
Having the ability to speak with the spirits of missing people is not an easy task, she said. Lionetti described the pain of, in some cases, reliving the death of the individual she is communicating with.
When she works with a police department for the first time, Lionetti said she requests no information about a missing person other than the person's name. She said she asks the police officials she is working with not to make her involvement in a case publicly known.
Lionetti said she tells police she is "doing this (investigation) not for them, but for the family, even though the family may not know I'm involved."
In most circumstances Lionetti does not interact directly with the family but is called in on the case by the police.
When focusing on the name of a missing individual, Lionetti said she usually knows right away whether the person is alive or in spirit form. If in spirit, she connects with the entity who will provide her with details such as where the person's body may be located.
When she is comfortable with the information provided by the spirit, Lionetti will provide the details to the police. In many cases she is asked to join the police as they search the area. She works with cadaver dogs which can pinpoint the exact location of the body for authorities to recover.
On top of working with the police and performing private readings, Lionetti has also founded Spiritual Outreach Support. In that group she guides students through meditation to reach their own higher level of consciousness toward psychic ability, which she explained everyone holds.
Lionetti speaks with local bereavement groups to help grieving individuals find closure. She also holds group sessions called "Angels Among Us" where she will speak with the spirits trying to communicate with their loved ones in the audience
To help a local family, Lionetti will be hosting a benefit "Angels Among Us" event on Jan. 16, 2009 at the Sheraton in Eatontown with doors opening at 6:45 p.m. Michele Baccaro Parson, a lifelong resident of Middletown, battled three forms of cancer throughout her life before losing her battle on Aug. 11.
Lionetti said the Parson family is facing medical bills and funeral costs in the tens of thousands of dollars. In an effort to assist the family, all proceeds from the Jan. 16 event will go directly to the Michelle Parson Memorial Fund. A gift auction will also be held that evening.
Tickets for the night are $80, which includes a buffet meal, and must be purchased in advance. To purchase tickets visit Lionetti's Internet Web site at www.gaillionetti. com and click on the lectures and seminars tab.
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| NCMA Funding emergency |
| Posted by awagner - 09-13-08 14:02 - 3 comments |
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http://pennsylvaniamissing.com/ncmasupport.html
The National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA) Needs Our Help
As many of you may be aware, the National Center for Missing Adults in Arizona had it's Congressional funding withheld in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. This threatened the solvency of the agency. Most of us who have an interest in the plight of missing persons know that the efforts toward missing adults are woefully inadequate. Were NCMA be forced to close it's doors, it would be a terrible loss to the effort.
The good news is that Kristen's Law Reauthorization (HR 423) went before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on July 15, 2008 and every member was in favor of reauthorizing funding to NCMA. HR 423 will appropriate $4 million per year to NCMA from 2009 through 2019. HR 423 is expected to pass prior to November 2008, however, federal funding will not be available until mid-2009.
How We Can Help
We're throwing out a challenge to anyone and everyone who is involved in the effort to seek identities and find the lost, and who has ever used the NCMA site as a resource.
In these dire economic times, there are so many who live paycheck to paycheck, and it seems the price of everything is going up but our incomes remain the same, but if each of us were to donate as little as $5, the sheer number of us could bridge that gap.
So that is the challenge - to make a minimal contribution and help us to help NCMA keep their doors open until the promised funding comes through in mid-2009.
Donations can be made online at:
http://www.theyaremissed.org/
(Please Donate button is located on the top left of the page, just under the logo - credit card required)
or by snail mail:
National Center for Missing Adults
PO Box 6389
Glendale AZ 85312
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| Kyle Fleishman golf tournament and banquet |
| Posted by Ell - 09-13-08 12:22 - 0 comments |
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Hi Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well. The first annual Kyle Fleischmann Foundation is quickly approaching on Saturday, November 8th!
As most of you know, the Golf Tournament will begin as a shot-gun start at 1:00pm in the afternoon at the Ballantyne Resort in Charlotte, NC. Following the tournament we will hold a dinner banquet, raffle, and candle light vigil in honor of the 1 year anniversary of Kyle's disappearance.
Spots for the tournament and banquet are filling up quickly. We will cap the golf tournament at 130 and the banquet at 300. I have attached the registration form for sponsors, golfers, and banquet attendee's for those of you that have not signed up yet. Refer to the bottom of the form for the registration information. Simply circle your option, indicate the number of participants, and return your form with payment to the provided address.
Thanks so much for everyones help and support! Because of you the first annual Kyle Fleischmann Foundation golf tournament will be a huge success! We look forward to seeing you all there!
Sincerely,
Daniel Scagnelli
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| DannyBarter.com |
| Posted by luvmycat - 08-13-08 13:55 - 0 comments |
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Danny Barter has a new website with a forum and everthing. We figured since his case is growing in popularity we should give him an official domain name.
Thanks to Kim Barter!
Everyone is invited. 
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| Danny Barter- Latest Press Release |
| Posted by luvmycat - 07-16-08 13:47 - 4 comments |
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Police rekindle interest in cold case
Investigators hope to jog memories of Danny Barter's 1959 disappearance along Perdido Bay Wednesday, July 16, 2008By RYAN DEZEMBERStaff Reporter
ROBERTSDALE — With the 50th anniversary of 4-year-old Danny Barter's disappearance approaching, investigators are renewing their interest in one of Baldwin County's most vexing cold cases.
On Tuesday, two of Barter's sisters traveled from Texas to Robertsdale, where Baldwin County Sheriff Huey "Hoss" Mack Jr. and one of his top detectives told them and members of the local Rotary Club that local and federal investigators are putting the case back on the front burner.
The Sheriff's Office is also pushing to bring national media attention to the unsolved disappearance in hopes of generating leads in the clueless case of a toddler who vanished from the shores of Perdido Bay in 1959.
"As we approach the 50th anniversary, it is still likely that Daniel Barter is alive somewhere in the United States not knowing he is Daniel Barter," Mack told the Robertsdale Rotary Club over lunch at Mama Lou's Restaurant. "This is a great mystery in Baldwin County."
Mack and Capt. Steve Arthur said that one difficulty in working the case is that there have never been credible leads in the case.
"There's no evidence that links this to anything because there is no evidence," Arthur said.
About a decade ago, Mack, who was the Sheriff's Office lead detective, said he was asked by then-Sheriff James B. "Jimmy" Johnson to pull the case file on Danny Barter. When he went looking, he found there was none.
Nowadays, a missing child case would generate a file that would overwhelm a kitchen table, Mack said.
In 1959, however, case files in rural Baldwin County were stored in the heads of detectives, or perhaps on a scrap of paper in a lawman's pocket. As such, the sheriff said, records of Barter's disappearance and the subsequent investigation exist solely in dusty newspaper clippings and the memories of family members, like sisters Wanda McNelly and Theresa White.
The story that those clippings tell starts 49 years ago on a Wednesday morning at a campsite on the eastern banks of Perdido Bay.
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The Barter family — parents Maxine and Paul, four of their six children, an uncle and a cousin — was on vacation, camping on a Lillian-area lot where they planned to one day build a home. At about 9:45 a.m., they noticed Danny was gone. There was no trace of him, not the gray boxer shorts he was wearing, not the Nehi soda bottle he was drinking from, not the footprints his bare feet would have left on the beach had he wandered into the bay.
By afternoon, some 150 people were searching on foot, by boat and from the air. There were Baldwin County sheriff's deputies, Foley firefighters, volunteers and enlisted men from Pensacola Naval Air Station.
The following day, there were about 500 searchers. The bottom of the bay was dragged; sinkholes and thickets were scoured. On the third day, bloodhounds were brought to the scene. They repeatedly tracked the boy's scent to the same spot on a nearby road.
By the weekend, the search grew more grim: Dynamite was tossed into the bay in hopes of jarring a body loose. Alligators were hunted down and gutted, their insides examined for traces of the child.
Danny Barter was terrified of water, and so for years many in law enforcement — ruling out an accidental drowning — supposed he was stealthily snatched by an alligator. There were some who thought that he may have been abducted, but aside from the parents' recollection of a peeping Tom in their Mobile neighborhood and a suspicious man at a Lillian grocery store, there was nothing to convince investigators that Barter was kidnapped, Mack said.
Today, though, abduction is the prevailing theory, giving Barter's family and investigators hope that the boy who disappeared nearly a half-century ago might turn up somewhere as a grown man with a lot to learn about himself.
As such, the Sheriff's Office has started asking around for those who recall the disappearance, looking for new clues to surface. The FBI has become involved, helping local detectives conduct out-of-state interviews, Arthur said. And Mack said there has been a drive to get nationally televised crime shows to take an interest in the case.
Even the use of a medium has been contemplated, Arthur said, though costs have so far prevented a psychic from being hired.
On Tuesday, Arthur, Mack and Barter's sisters urged their audience to take the story to friends and neighbors, to make the case the talk of the town in hopes of turning up forgotten details.
"Time is of the essence; we're not getting any younger," Mack said. "In cases like this it's often the things you don't think are important that turn out to be important."
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/inde...ll=3&thispage=1
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| NCMA |
| Posted by Ell - 07-14-08 17:55 - 0 comments |
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BE HEARDCall your congressperson today!
Thank you to everyone that has already been supportive of the NCMA and H.R.423. You may not have expected to hear from us again so soon, but this is truly a critical moment for the NCMA.
Tomorrow, Tuesday July, 15 at 2PM, Kristen's Act is getting some well deserved attention in congress. Make sure your congressperson knows how you feel.
Now is the perfect time to encourage your Representative knows what you expect of them. You can call your congressperson at 202-224-3121 and ask for them by name or provide your zip code and the operator will look up your Representative. Below is an example script for your phone call:
"Hi, my name is John Smith, I live in Hampton, VA and I have a close family member that has gone missing. I am calling concerning H.R.423, Kristen's Act Re-authorization of 2007. This bill provides funding to the NCMA, an organization which provides support to missing persons and law enforcement agents. The Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security is holding a hearing on this bill Tuesday July, 15 at 2PM and I want to urge you to voice your support to the subcommittee before or during this time."
Want to get more involved? We welcome your support, please take a look at our advocacy page for more ideas on how you can support H.R.423.
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| Colorado to hold Cold Case Forum |
| Posted by Ell - 06-23-08 15:32 - 0 comments |
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Boulder....
Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons will host a forum this week to address the growing number of unsolved murders in Colorado.
The event starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St.
The forum will bring together victims' families, members of law enforcement and legislators to discuss how to deal with Colorado's 1,300 unsolved murders, the most effective use of law enforcement resources and useful roles for the public and families of the victims. A database of victims from 1970 to the present and the results of a public opinion poll will be presented.
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| NCMA Looking for Advocates |
| Posted by Ell - 06-16-08 23:30 - 5 comments |
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We are seeking a family member of a missing person from every state on the country to serve as an NCMA spokesperson and work with local and national media, legislators, and the public to help bring awareness to missing adults and further the mission of NCMA.
If you are interested, please email us at Advocacy@missingadults.org
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| June 17 day of remembrance for Missouri's missing |
| Posted by Ell - 06-14-08 16:16 - 0 comments |
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Governor Blunt declares June 17 day of remembrance for Missouri's missing
Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:56 AM CDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- For the first time in Missouri, families of the missing and law enforcement officials will converge at the state capitol in honor of all missing and unidentified persons in Missouri.
The number of missing and unidentified persons in Missouri is growing every day. As of June 1, the National Crime Information Center lists 1,462 missing persons and at least 48 unidentified bodies in Missouri.
With the assistance of Gov. Matt Blunt, the missing and unidentified persons in Missouri will be remembered on June 17 through a proclamation that dedicates that day to each and every person who no longer has a voice.
In April, members of Missouri Missing, a not-for-profit organization based in Jefferson City, asked Gov. Blunt to declare June 17, 2008, as the official Missing and Unidentified Persons Awareness Day for the State of Missouri.
A ceremony will be held in the Missouri State Capitol first floor Rotunda from 1-5 p.m., Tuesday, to honor this special day. Information about the missing and unidentified will be available throughout the afternoon.
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Missouri Missing will offer adult identification kits including the Living Will for the Missing, DNA swabs, fingerprinting and information booklets.
The Missouri State Coordinator for the MOCHIP program Nick Cichielo and the International President of the CHIP program John Hess will be at the event.
The CHIP program is a comprehensive child identification and protection tool designed to give families a measure of protection against the ever-increasing problem of missing children. The program is provided free of charge to every family who wishes to participate.
All identifying items generated at MOCHIP events are placed in a pack and given to the parent or guardian to take home for safekeeping. Should their child become missing, the pack can then be provided to law enforcement to aid in recovery and identification.
Families of the missing from across the state are invited to share in this historical event.
Cole County Sheriff Greg White is scheduled to speak on the importance of this event and the importance of the awareness of missing and unidentified persons.
The event is free and open to the public.
Missouri Missing was organized in 2007 by Peggy Florence and Marianne Asher-Chapman - the mothers of missing Jasmine Haslag and Angie Yarnell in an effort to educate the families of the missing on procedure and resources available, educate the public about the plight of the missing and the families left behind, and to assist law enforcement by providing information.
For more information contact 573-338-3898 or visit MissouriMissing.org
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| Coroner Seeks Help |
| Posted by Rubybegonia - 06-10-08 02:13 - 0 comments |
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Coroner Seeks Identities of Killer's Victims
By MONICA RHOR,AP
Posted: 2008-06-09 13:22:36
Filed Under: Crime News, Nation News
HOUSTON (June 8) - One after another, as a steamy summer evening faded from dusk to darkness, the bodies of young boys were pulled from the dirt floor of boat stall No. 11.
By night's end on Aug. 8, 1973, eight corpses had been recovered from makeshift graves. The next day, nine more were discovered inside the corrugated metal shed in southwest Houston.
Heating Up a Cold CaseLSU / Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services / APHoping to learn the identities of three bodies found in 1973, the Houston medical examiner's office released these digital images showing what their faces may have looked like. The three were among 27 males slain by area serial killer Dean Corll. The other 24 victims have all been identified.
Another 10 bodies were found on remote High Island beach, 80 miles east of Houston, and in a wooded area near Lake Sam Rayburn in East Texas.
Twenty-seven dead. Some as young as 13, none older than 21. All victims of one killer, Dean Corll, and his two teenage accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks.
The term serial killer had not yet been coined, so this unfolding horror was simply called the Houston Mass Murders - at the time, the worst in U.S. history.
Most of the bodies were badly decomposed, their identities obscured by time and elements. A few were buried with mementos that whispered of their youth and the fashions of the day: a brown fringed leather jacket, ankle-high leather boots, shorts in a tie-dyed pattern.
The condition of their bodies hinted of agony in their final minutes.
Some were wrapped in plastic, and encased by a thin layer of lime powder. Others had cords wrapped around their necks, and tape strapped around their feet and mouths. A few had been sexually mutilated. One boy was found curled in a fetal position.
All over Houston, all over the country, parents of missing boys learned of the murders and feared the worst. In the working-class Houston neighborhood where Henley and Brooks lived, where Corll had once owned a candy shop across from an elementary school, where dozens of boys had seemed to vanish over the previous three years, the dread was almost unbearable.
Were our boys, our sons, among the dead?
For some families, the answer would come swiftly. For others, it would take decades. But some have been trapped in a limbo that has stretched from the Nixon administration into the 21st century.
Three bodies remain - three young men, believed to have been 15 to 20 years old, their bodies chilled to 38 degrees in the long-term storage unit of the Harris County medical examiner's office.
The 11th and 16th bodies unearthed from Southwest Boat Storage. One of the young men found at Lake Sam Rayburn.
ML73-3349. ML73-3356. ML73-3378.
Nameless. But not forgotten.
Not by Sharon Derrick, a forensic anthropologist with the medical examiner's office. Not by the families who still contact her, seeking word of long-vanished sons and brothers.
At the coroner's office, the search for their identities has not ended. Instead, it has intensified.
Parents and other relatives are aging. Many have passed away. The window for finding family members is closing - and with it, the possibility of finding the names to match the numbers.
"We need to get the word out, because at some point before too awful long, there won't be anyone living that will have memories of them," said Derrick. "We really need to push this."
She displays three images - forensic facial approximations - that show what the three might have looked like at the time of their deaths.
One wore a navy blue jacket with red lining, and denim jeans with a 30-inch waist. He was buried with an orange plastic pocket comb. Another had cowboy boots, corduroy slacks, red, green and blue-striped swim trunks and a knotted rope bracelet popular in the 1970s.
Also found with the boys: a tie-dyed tee-shirt emblazoned with a peace sign.
"I can't quite let go of them yet. I've spent long hours with their remains and I've seen what they went through and I just want them to be taken care of," said Derrick. She speaks of the three victims with an almost maternal tenderness, her hands brushing across the images as if caressing their cheeks.
Somewhere, in the voluminous police case file of the murders, yellowed news clippings, and 12-inch stack of old missing persons reports, Derrick believes there may be some name, some incident, some clue that might lead her to the right families.
Somewhere, in the hundreds of plaintive letters written by parents trying to find lost sons, there may lie the path to the three nameless boys' identities:
"I have a son missing who was, when last heard from, 'heading toward Texas.' If he is among those found, would you please notify me?"
"Dear Officers! I am watching the terrible news from Houston ... our Dear Son is missing for a long time. He is very handsome and proud and I fear the worst."
"I know you are getting thousands of letters like this one but I just have to try to find out something. ..."
The night he disappeared, on Aug. 3, 1973, 13-year-old James Dreymala hopped on his red bicycle and went out for a ride.
He never came home — like Marty Ray Jones and Charles Cobble, who slipped from sight two weeks earlier, and James Eugene Glass and Danny Michael Yates, who had vanished from an evangelical rally three years before.
Like so many boys from the Houston Heights, then a working-class neighborhood of bungalows and Victorian cottages, James just vanished.
Anguished parents called police, filed missing persons reports, questioned friends and classmates, but they could find no sign of the missing boys — until Aug. 8, 1973, when Elmer Wayne Henley called police in the Houston suburb of Pasadena to report a shooting.
The 17-year-old high school dropout said he had killed Dean Corll after the 33-year-old electric company employee threatened to rape and kill Henley and two other teenagers who had gone to party at Corll's modest bungalow.
But there was more.
Henley, a slight boy with a sagging mustache, also told police that Corll — a former resident of the Heights who was known to socialize with teenagers — had sexually tortured and killed more than 20 boys over the previous three years. The bodies, Henley said, were buried in a boat storage unit Corll had rented in southwest Houston.
The scene inside Corll's house seemed to back up Henley's outlandish claims, recalled David Mullican, the now-retired Pasadena homicide detective who investigated the case. There, police found a plywood board with holes cut out for handcuffs and restraints, plastic sheeting covering a bedroom floor, and a toolbox filled with a variety of sexual devices.
Then, Henley led police to the storage shed.
"When we opened the door to the boat house, he turned as white as a sheet of paper," Mullican said. "And we knew he was involved."
The next morning, in a rambling confession, Henley told police that he and David Brooks, 18, had procured boys for Corll, who would pay them anywhere from $10 to $200 per victim. Many were friends or acquaintances from the Heights.
Henley and Brooks also helped Corll kill and bury some of the victims, who were strapped to the plywood "torture board" and suffered hours, sometimes days, of unimaginable sexual and physical abuse before they were shot or strangled.
"Those kids suffered a lot," said Mullican. "Henley was kind of ashamed of what he had done, but he wanted to tell us everything."
Inside the boat shed, at High Island, and at Lake Sam Rayburn, Henley pointed to each grave, told police who they would likely find buried there, and how that boy was killed.
"I desired that the entire incident be over with and the only way to completely end it was to give up all the information," Henley said in a recent interview. "It took me way too long to figure out how to get out of it, but once I made that step, I wanted to get all the way out."
There were only a few victims he could not name.
After three days, four bodies had been identified, and the police were flooded with inquiries about missing boys from as far away as Russia.
James Dreymala, the last boy to disappear, was the first body recovered from the boat shed. Not far from his crumpled body was the bicycle he had been riding.
Donald and Jerry Waldrop, 15-year-old and 13-year-old brothers who disappeared on Jan. 30, 1971, after heading to a local bowling alley, were found buried in the same grave.
Billy Lawrence's father recognized Wayne Henley as a boy his 15-year-old son had befriended shortly before he vanished in June 1973. Billy's body was found at Lake Sam Rayburn.
Many of the bodies were not much more than skeletal remains. They were identified through dental records, histories of broken or fractured bones and physical descriptions.
At the end of the first week, 11 boys had been identified, but the number of teenage boys who had vanished from their homes and fit the profile of Corll's victims crept upward of 200.
By July 1974, when Henley was convicted in six of the murders and sentenced to six life terms in prison, 21 victims had been identified. Brooks was convicted of one murder, and also sentenced to life.
It would take more than a decade to identify the next two victims, and another 10 years and the advent of DNA testing to confirm the death of the 24th, 15-year-old Mark Scott.
ML73-3349, ML73-3356 and ML73-3378 still had no names.
One thought has propelled Derrick though months of fruitless investigation.
"Their families need to know," Derrick said. "If there's an 80-year-old mother who has thought, 'Well, maybe my son just didn't love me and just took off and never wanted to see me again,' I would want her to know that he would have come home, that it wasn't his fault he didn't come home."
Last year, Derrick sent samples from the three boys to the University of North Texas for DNA testing, hopeful that advances in technology could result in a breakthrough. She hit the jackpot. There was mitochondrial DNA from all three boys.
Now, she needed a relative to provide a match.
So she again pored through the paperwork. One name caught her eye: Randell Lee Harvey.
The 15-year-old fit the physical description of one of the remaining victims. His disappearance in March 1971 fit the time frame. His last known addresses in the Heights fit the right neighborhood.
And his name turned up again and again.
It was included on a list of 22 missing boys compiled by Houston police 10 days after the bodies were discovered. Another report noted that a local man had mentioned a boy named Randy Harvey had vanished without taking any clothes or personal belongings.
A third report, dated Aug. 11, 1973, shows that police contacted Randy's mother, who had previously filed a missing persons report on her son. They asked her to provide dental records for the medical examiner.
But there was no record of the results, no further mention of his name.
Derrick finally found Lenore McNiel and Donna Lovrek, Randy's two sisters, in Trinity, Texas.
For decades, the two have suspected that their brother was one of the Corll victims. One of Lenore's boyfriends, Malley Winkle, was found in the boat shed, and they had friends among the dead.
Their mother, Frances Conley, died just after Mark Scott was identified through DNA. But she did not want to go in for testing.
"When Randy went missing, she knew in her heart that he was dead. She didn't want to go through that heartbreak again," said Lovrek.
But Lovrek and her sister want to know. In late May, they submitted samples of DNA for comparison with the unidentified victims.
"I tried every resource to find him. It was like he dropped off the face of the earth," said Lovrek. "Now, I'm relieved and scared and terrified that it could be him. Relieved, because if it is him, I can put him to rest. Scared that what happened to other boys, happened to him."
It may take up to two months to get results. But then, perhaps, she'll know, leaving only two nameless young men in the coroner's cold storage.
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