Twilight Of Innocence: The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts  by James Jessen Badal -- One of the nation’s first highly publicized missing child cases was ten-year-old Beverly Potts, last seen at 9:00 p.m., August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland’s West Side. She and her neighbor friend Patricia Swing had gone to see the Showagon—a troupe of performers that traveled around Cleveland’s parks giving free performances. Patricia had to be home before dark, but Beverly could stay until the show was over. When she was not home by 9:30, her father, Robert, went looking for her. At 10:30 he called the police. Beverly disappeared without a trace. Badal reexamines the events leading to Beverly's disappearance, the police investigation, and the sensational publicity. Interviews with detectives assigned to this open case and examination of police records provide a chronology of false leads and hoaxes in this disturbing case. Badal draws comparisons between investigative techniques of the time and more modern ones and examines the social and historical context in his analysis of the more than half-century of public fascination with this case.
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 Lubbock Texas honors student, Joanna Rogers, was
16 when she went to bed May 4th 2004 and was gone the next
morning. All her "stuff" was at home - cell phone,
purse, money, etc. She's been gone for over a year and
there's no clue of what happened to her. Joanna was looking
forward to a dance recital and had no history of running
away. She is now over 18 years old, 5'5" tall, 125 pounds, with (dyed) red hair and hazel eyes. Her navel is pierced. She answers to nickname "Jo." If
you have information regarding the whereabouts of Joanna
Rogers, please contact the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office
at 1-806-775-1601
or 1-806-775-1604 or pcarr@co.lubbock.tx.us Or call anonymously
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Case
Number: NCMC988018
If
you see
Joanna,
please
call 911
or your
local
law enforcement
agency
immediately.
 Natalee Holloway,
18,
5'4'' 110 lbs, blond hair, blue eyes, a graduating honor student at Birmingham, Alabam's Mountain Brook High School was on a senior trip with classmates in the Caribbean island of Aruba. She was last seen Monday, May 30, 2005 at approximately 0130 hours leaving Carlos 'n' Charlie's nightclub in Oranjestad. After missing her return flight home, Natalee's passport and luggage were discovered her hotel room. Foul play is suspected. it is possible that she may have been taken off the island against her will. (Spanish) There is a $250,000 reward for information that solve this case. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Natalee, contact the FBI Tip Line at 1-877-628-2533 or dial 9-1-1 for emergency.
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart -- by Maggie Haberman, Jeane MacIntosh-- On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom. For months a massive manhunt was undertaken. March of the following year, Elizabeth was discovered alive a few miles from her home, prisoner of a self proclaimed Messiah and his wife. What happened to Elizabeth during 9 months in captivity is shocking. Startling information about the controversial investigation.
Unknown Suspects Photo listings
Search Unclaimed Persons -- Coroner's Departments, Medical Examiner's offices and Sheriff's departments often conduct an investigation for which a deceased persons identity is known, however, family could not be located, the deceased loved one is buried or cremated at the expense of a governmental agency.
Crying
wolf creates danger: Police chief fears for the real victims,
the cities and towns, and others Curt
Brown, Star Tribune
Washington state has 2,056 missing-person cases, dating back to the early 1960s.
If you have any information on former residents, staff or board members of the Monroe Harding Children's Home, Nashville: Tennessee call Bonnie Bogen at 298-5573, Ext. 115.
ID-Wanted.org -- Intended for Law Enforcement use in indentifying unknown individuals, locating fugitives and missing persons. Images may be disturbing or offensive.
Canadian officials investigating a case involving 50 missing women have made an arrest. In custody, pig farm owner Robert Pickton, charged with two counts of first degree murder. Police say there are many questions that remain unanswered.
 True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel Disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel recounts the murderer who assumed his identity and examines his own fall from journalistic grace, in 2002, at the Times,
Finkel, was fired for fabricating a story about a child
laborer in Africa.. As the story of his downfall become
public, he learned Christian Longo, was arrested in Mexico
for the murder of his wife and three small children in
Oregon, had been living under an assumed identity: Sensing
a story-Finkel contacted Longo, initiating a relationship
that became complex over the course of Longo's trial
and conviction. Finkel makes no excuses for his actions.
Nor does he deny his own narcissism--a narcissism that
allowed him to rationalize his own lies as surely as
Longo rationalized his crimes. Ultimately, Finkel says,
his year with Longo taught him "how a person's life could spiral completely out of control; how one could get lost in a haze of dishonesty; and how these things could have dire consequences." The
lesson, Finkel need not add, applies as much to the disgraced
writer as it does to the killer.
Finding Susan is
Molly Hurley Moran's pointed exploration of the disappearance
of her sister and her family's descent into the surreal
world of psychics and detectives they once dismissed
as the stuff of Lifetime movies. Susan Hurley Harrison
disappeared from upscale Ruxton, Maryland on August 5,
1994. Her body was discovered in the woods of northern
Maryland two years later and her death was ruled a homicide.
Although Susan's case drew substantial media attention-including
a spot on Unsolved Mysteries-no one has been charged
with her murder. In piecing together Susan's final years,
Moran grew to believe her sister was a victim of domestic
violence. A slender and stylish blond, Susan was haunted
by her "lace-curtain Irish" ancestry and her mother's frightening drinking problem as she tried to rise into the upper-class world. A devoted mother and talented woman who enjoyed domestic arts, left her husband for wealthy Baltimore businessman Jim Harrison, with whom she shared a violent union. Mirroring elements of high-profile cases from Laci Peterson to Nicole Brown Simpson, "Finding Susan" is
chronicle of that details the helplessness experienced
by families of missing persons and calls attention to
our blindness to domestic abuse.
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Burned Alive - Tommy Antonakos was a wealthy computer expert devoted to his 20-year-old daughter Kimberly. But early in 1995, Kimberly disappeared - she was never seen alive again. This is the story of one father's long search: for his child's killer; for justice; and for some kind of peace of mind.
The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Private Investigating by
Steven Kerry Brown 
Missing Person by Don M Ulmer, Walter H Hesse -- Retired Marine Corps and novelist Sergeant Major Michael Kincaid was approached by a woman to locate her son, missing for twenty years. Kincaid finds intrigue, greed, violence and murder.
Missing Persons: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, the Abducted and the Escaped by
Fay Faron --
Fay Faron, a regular guest on Oprah!, has written an informative, guide for anyone writing about detectives and missing persons (MPs). Missing Persons tells
us who is most likely to become a private investigator
(PI), who is likely to go missing (or merely misplaced),
and who would want to find them (hint: "the working PI's motto often is 'The client is not always right and often is not even sane.'"). We learn how and why people hide their whereabouts, and how to go about locating them. While 95 percent of a PI's work is done sitting at a desk, says Faron, "sooner or later your detective has to actually get off his duff and go out into the real world and burn up some calories." This is called "gumshoeing," and includes such scintillating activities as surveillance ("newspaper reading, coffee drinking and bladder rending") and dumpster-diving ("although I'd sooner admit to wearing Tan- In-A-Bottle to my high school reunion, I will concede there are lots of treasures to be found in day-to-day debris"). The appendices list PI licensing requirements by state and state laws regarding taping telephone conversations and such, so you don't make a fool of yourself. Faron works in fabulous, unbelievable examples from her 15 years in the business and lines such as this, about one MP who was discovered to be alive, not dead: "Dr.
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