How do people go missing? Well, there are many explanations to this question. Kidnappings, disappearing by choice, death at sea, running away, and so many more things can answer how people go missing. However, maybe there is a more important question. Why do people go missing? A child goes missing in the United States every 40 seconds. With adults and children together just in the United States that equals about 2,300 every day and over 800,000 every year. The worldwide estimate is that over 8,000,000 people go missing annually. Most of the cases are resolved, but not all of them. “So at the end of 2012, of those 661,000 minus the canceled, we had 2,079 cases that remained at the end of the year unresolved.” explained Todd Matthews, the director of communications of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
Why have we not found these people? Many people ask this question and there is not an obvious answer. When police first get a report of a missing person they identify what level of risk the person is in. There are 3 classifications of risks: low, medium, and high. Low risk means that the person is in no apparent danger from others or to themselves. Missing people under the age of 18 should not ever be put into the low risk category. Medium risk means that they are likely in danger or dangerous to themselves or others. High risk means that the person is very likely to be in immediate danger or the victim of a serious crime. However, that being said, it is extremely rare to have an abduction or murder case. They do happen, but most missing people are runaways or just wanted to start a new life. After the police assess the risk, they may send out officers. Officers are sent immediately if it is a high risk case. Als...
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...is topic because all we hear about of missing people is what the media wants to tell us. I thought it would be interesting to research information about why people go missing for myself and not just believe what is fed to me. I also find it very interesting how people can seemingly disappear out of thin air with no explanation. It is truly baffling how people can be gone forever with no one wondering where they went. I also do believe that the U.S. has a good process to finding missing people, and the only thing I would change is that officers should be sent out for every case, not just the most urgent ones. Families are still hurting and wondering where a member of their family went, even if they aren’t in high danger. If you are over 18 and do decide to go missing, just remember that you may not be breaking the law, but chances are you are breaking someone's heart.
Alicia Pereira was the first. In 1972, five-year-old Alicia disappeared after her brother left her alone in a hotel lobby. One minute she was playing around, and the next she was gone. Rand was the prime suspect in this case. Although they never proved Andre killed her, little Alicia was never seen again. There isn't much to his next victim. Her name was Audrey Lyn Nerenberg, and she was 18 years old. Just like Alicia, Audrey was never seen again after the day she went missing in 1977. In 1981, Holly Ann Hughes, a seven-year-old girl did not return home after she went with a friend to get candy from a local store. Andre Rand saw Holly at the store, drove by her in his Volkswagen, pulled her in, and drove off. Holly’s parents filled out a Missing Person’s report. Unfortunately, they never got their daughter back. Why did Rand leave her friend? Who knows why. Tiahease Jackson, in 1983, was 11 years old when she went missing. She did not return home after her mother sent her to get groceries. Tiahease was last seen on August 14th, 1983. This was 12 days after Andre was released from a previous prison sentence. Like Alicia, Audrey, and Holly, Tiahease was never seen again. Henry was his oldest victim, at the age of 22. In 1984, Henry Gafforio disappeared. Some say, Henry was “slow.” Not physically slow, but mentally slow. He was last seen with Rand at a local diner. Now this next
: Honeywell, which is a diversified technology and manufacturing company that addresses a few of the world’s toughest challenges with technology partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and decided to launch the Got 2B safe program, it was the result of two negative factors. First, a majority of the programs that are already established focuses on finding children once they have gone missing, and second there aren’t any programs preventing child abduction. The Got 2b safe program provided teachers with the necessary material to educate children about safety; the success of the program has earned Got 2B safe eight corporate responsibility awards and a Silver Anvil Award. The cause for Honeywell’s concern
The documentary, Lost Sparrow, is a very compelling production of one man’s quest to not only help his family deal with some of the trauma’s they had long been suffering from, it was also created to tell the story and hopefully shed some light on the conflicting story of the disappearance and death of his Native American adoptive brothers, Bobby and Tyler. Initially my overall takeaway from this documentary was a mixture of curiosity which quickly turned into confusion. “How did the boys (Bobby and Tyler) end up on the tracks?” and “Why were they running away in the first place?” were two questions that confused, lead me to be curious, and slightly suspicious very early in the viewing. Upon initial completion of the documentary my sole thought
[1] How I came to choose Missing as the focus of my project is as a result of the learning experience I have been engaged in during my college career. Having first seen the film for a class, I thought of it as nothing more than a movie about something monumental that happened in Chile more than two decades ago. I watched it, unhappily, thinking about all the other things I could be doing, and even falling asleep during some of it. In the time between my first viewing of Missing and embarking on this most recent project, I have learned a great deal about history, politics, and people. My views on all three of those subjects are constantly changing, with each new piece of information I receive further complicating my thoughts. Missing has gone from a movie, the title of which I had difficulty recalling, to being a thought provoking exposition that has forced me to examine, evaluate, and reevaluate almost everything that had once been certain in my own mind.
Thousands of children are kidnapped each year. However, one of the most famous kidnappings was the Lindbergh Kidnapping in 1932. The kidnapping was called, “The Crime of the Century”. After much hard work, detectives were able to find the kidnapper, Bruno Hauptmann. Evidence of ransom notes, possession of ransom money, and access to tools make Bruno Hauptmann guilty in the Lindbergh Kidnapping.
Leaving Atlanta is a story of child disappearance. Tayari Jones, the author of Leaving Atlanta, grew up in this horrible time. She wrote about her experience growing up during this time, and also talked with us about it while visiting Peace College. By hearing her speak about these horrible events, it made me want to read the book even more. She also gave you a feeling as if you were there with her and experiencing the same thing. The book along with her speech gives better detail into this great mystery.
Elmore, Mick. "The Hunt for Those Missing Gets Harder." US News and World Report 128, no. 7 (February 21, 2000): 36.
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the narrator attempts to understand the relationship between humans and nature and finds herself concluding that they are intertwined due to humans’ underlying need to take away from nature, whether through the act of poetic imagination or through the exploitation and contamination of nature. Bishop’s view of nature changes from one where it is an unknown, mysterious, and fearful presence that is antagonistic, to one that characterizes nature as being resilient when faced against harm and often victimized by people. Mary Oliver’s poem also titled “The Fish” offers a response to Bishop’s idea that people are harming nature, by providing another reason as to why people are harming nature, which is due to how people are unable to view nature as something that exists and goes beyond the purpose of serving human needs and offers a different interpretation of the relationship between man and nature. Oliver believes that nature serves as subsidence for humans, both physically and spiritually. Unlike Bishop who finds peace through understanding her role in nature’s plight and acceptance at the merging between the natural and human worlds, Oliver finds that through the literal act of consuming nature can she obtain a form of empowerment that allows her to become one with nature.
The second case is of a married woman that already one child being kidnapped. She went into a clinic for a headache and ended up drugged and kidnapped. She ended up having to leave her child by the man behind when she escaped. Even though they know the man that kidnapped her, he will most likely never be prosecuted. She will probably never see her second child again either; it was the man’s only son.
...ta Bank, the disappeared, and the relatives of the disappeared are still being found and identified presently.
Steidel, S.(Ed.). (2000). Missing and Abducted Children: A Law Enforcement Guide to Case Investigation and Program Management. Washington, D.C.: OJJDP
Some of this is due to the fact that people don’t believe that the proper authorities would be of much help. The bulk of this however, is because people are scared. They are scared to call in a murder that they witness because they don’t have the killer to come after them. Other times they are scared because they think that it is embarrassing and they don’t want people to know about it. Take rape for example. According to Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network Organization, only 40% of rapes are actually reported to the police and a whopping 3% of rapists actually serve a day in jail. This is a very frightening statistic, especially if you are of illegal residency in
Over 15 kids Amanda! 15 kids are missing and you truly believe that they’ve all run away?
A constant sight on the news or internet is of a missing person. Studies by the crimelibrary say that over 800,000 people go missing every year (4). Of those, a little over half are men, half are ethnic minorities and around 50,000 are adults. For such democratic statistics, one would imagine that there would be an equal amount of media coverage for these demographics, yet that is not true. If we observe carefully, we can see that the media tends to follow a certain pattern with who they pick to report on. Usually they are young, pretty blonde girls. At the very least they are likely to be women. Going by what we see, it would be a fair assumption to say that most individuals who go missing are female, youth or Caucasian, yet the statistics speak otherwise.
KEDGWICK – Maurice Wellington, 13, has been reported missing from his home in the town Kedgwick for the past 48 hours. There are four suspects in this investigation, all of which are residents of Kedgwick. Maurice was last seen with another boy at Highland Park, however both of their whereabouts are unknown.