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Southwest: AZ, CA, HI, and NV / Re: Missing Boy: Dwight Stallings--CA--04/2011
« on: June 04, 2012, 08:48:05 PM »
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Southeast: AL, FL, and GA / Re: Missing Teen: Wendy Huggy--FL--04/07/1982
« on: June 04, 2012, 08:10:21 PM »
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/thirty-years-later-pasco-girls-disappearance-still-a-mystery/1223897
Thirty years later, Pasco girl's disappearance still a mystery
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, April 7, 2012
CLEARWATER — Thirty years ago today, Wendy Huggy phoned her grandparents in Pasco County from Countryside Mall to tell them she was getting a ride home from a friend. They never heard from her again.
The couple reported the 16-year-old missing, but finding nothing to indicate foul play, authorities surmised Huggy had disappeared by choice. They closed the case after just 15 days.
Three years later, in 1985, when Huggy's grandparents still hadn't heard from her they inquired about the case again. That's when deputies began to suspect that something untoward may have taken place.
They looked at the case again, but crucial time had been lost.
Today, the scant details of what is known about Huggy's disappearance are tucked inside a Pasco County sheriff's case file that through the years has passed through the hands of eight different investigators. One detective made it an obsession, trying to solve the case until the day he died.
These days, the assumption is that Huggy is dead, her body likely among those of thousands of unidentified homicide victims. It hasn't diminished efforts to find her.
"If we can find her remains, then I can start to find out what happened to her," said Lisa Schoneman, the latest Pasco County sheriff's detective to pursue the case. "She deserves it — to have the world know how she lived and how she died. I think everybody deserves that."
• • •
Wendy Huggy came to Florida looking to rebuild. Though she was only 16, she left behind a husband in her native Illinois. The marriage was an unhappy one, and she intended to leave him for good, her family said.
She moved in with her grandparents, Sidney and Paula Richards in Holiday. She had dropped out of high school, but she wanted to pass a GED test, said her aunt Patty Spragg. Her hope was to attend beauty school.
She had a plan. All she needed was a place to enact it.
"She was a darling little girl and I loved her," said Spragg, 59, of Hudson.
Huggy's mother, Susan Leverence, was a former Playboy bunny. In the 1970s she lived for a time at the Chicago Playboy mansion and traveled the country in Hugh Hefner's Playboy jet as one of the elite "Jet Bunnies."
Leverence, who later worked as a flight attendant for Air Wisconsin Airlines, was often away for long periods of time, unable to devote attention to her daughter. So Huggy came to Florida.
"She had a rough life bouncing back and forth between her mom and my parents," Spragg said. "But to me she didn't seem any different than any other child."
But there was something else, Spragg said. Something few people knew and no one talked about.
Huggy was pregnant.
• • •
Huggy had lived in Florida for two months when she disappeared. Her grandparents dropped her off the morning of April 7, 1982, a few blocks from the Patrician Apartments at Nursery and Belcher roads. She planned to meet up with her uncle, Greg Richards, who was five years her senior and lived in the apartment complex, according to a sheriff's report.
After that, the details become murky. At some point, Huggy met with a friend named Kim and Kim's mother, who also lived at Patrician Apartments, deputies said. They went to Clearwater Beach. Then, Huggy got a ride to Countryside Mall, where she called her grandfather.
She didn't need him to pick her up, she told him. A man named Don was going to bring her home.
A week later, with no word from her, Huggy's grandparents reported her missing. But the case was closed when deputies learned she was married — a fact that made her a legal adult, free to run away if she chose.
It wasn't unlike Huggy to wander away, her family said. But she was supposed to start work at a Wendy's restaurant April 8. They doubted she would have given that up or abandoned her dreams. Above all, they couldn't believe she would never contact them again.
• • •
Of all the cases that Detective Bobby Hamm investigated in his 27 years with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Huggy's was the one that seemed to stick with him the most, his colleagues say. He was a patrol deputy when she went missing. Years later, as a detective in the sheriff's crimes against children unit, he vowed to solve the case.
"She got to him," Schoneman said. "He always said if it was the last thing he did, he would find Wendy. I think he just really felt bad that this young 16-year-old, with her whole life ahead of her, was just gone and nobody knew why."
In 2001, Hamm worked what was perhaps the case's the biggest lead. Investigators that year exhumed the remains of a woman whose body was found floating in the waters off Anna Maria Island in September 1982. A rope was wrapped around her waist and tied to a concrete block. She wore two turquoise rings — similar to jewelry that Huggy was last known to be wearing.
But dental records and a blood comparison with Huggy's mother proved there was no match.
Hamm died in 2007. Four years later, authorities finally identified the remains as those of Amy Rose Hurst, who vanished from New Port Richey in 1982. Her husband, William Hurst, was later charged with her murder.
If nothing else, Spragg says, efforts to find Huggy led to closure for another family — the one bright spot in an otherwise dreadful mystery.
• • •
Few people alive today remember Wendy Huggy. Her grandparents have since died. So has her mother, who always held onto hope of finding her missing daughter.
But some still feel the void she left behind.
Cash Leverence is Huggy's half-brother. Though he never met his sister, having been born after she vanished, he witnessed the effects her disappearance had on their mother.
"She was tore up for years," said Leverence, 29. "It definitely bothered her."
As a child, Leverence remembers periodic phone calls his mother would receive from Florida sheriff's deputies or members of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"She talked about it a little bit, but not too much that I remember," Leverence said. "Growing up with her, you could see the toll it took."
Spragg, too, remembers her sister quickly changing the subject whenever Huggy became a topic of conversation.
"We were all devastated because this is not what you expect or plan for," Spragg said.
She prays that Huggy is still alive somewhere. Even now, there are fleeting moments when she spots a young face at the supermarket or on TV and thinks her niece has returned. But she knows better.
"In my heart of hearts, I doubt very much that she is still with us," Spragg said. "At this point, I don't think we're ever going to know."
Times news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Reach Dan Sullivan at (727) 893-8321 or dsullivan@tampabay.com.
[Last modified: Apr 06, 2012 11:26 PM]
Thirty years later, Pasco girl's disappearance still a mystery
By Dan Sullivan, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Saturday, April 7, 2012
CLEARWATER — Thirty years ago today, Wendy Huggy phoned her grandparents in Pasco County from Countryside Mall to tell them she was getting a ride home from a friend. They never heard from her again.
The couple reported the 16-year-old missing, but finding nothing to indicate foul play, authorities surmised Huggy had disappeared by choice. They closed the case after just 15 days.
Three years later, in 1985, when Huggy's grandparents still hadn't heard from her they inquired about the case again. That's when deputies began to suspect that something untoward may have taken place.
They looked at the case again, but crucial time had been lost.
Today, the scant details of what is known about Huggy's disappearance are tucked inside a Pasco County sheriff's case file that through the years has passed through the hands of eight different investigators. One detective made it an obsession, trying to solve the case until the day he died.
These days, the assumption is that Huggy is dead, her body likely among those of thousands of unidentified homicide victims. It hasn't diminished efforts to find her.
"If we can find her remains, then I can start to find out what happened to her," said Lisa Schoneman, the latest Pasco County sheriff's detective to pursue the case. "She deserves it — to have the world know how she lived and how she died. I think everybody deserves that."
• • •
Wendy Huggy came to Florida looking to rebuild. Though she was only 16, she left behind a husband in her native Illinois. The marriage was an unhappy one, and she intended to leave him for good, her family said.
She moved in with her grandparents, Sidney and Paula Richards in Holiday. She had dropped out of high school, but she wanted to pass a GED test, said her aunt Patty Spragg. Her hope was to attend beauty school.
She had a plan. All she needed was a place to enact it.
"She was a darling little girl and I loved her," said Spragg, 59, of Hudson.
Huggy's mother, Susan Leverence, was a former Playboy bunny. In the 1970s she lived for a time at the Chicago Playboy mansion and traveled the country in Hugh Hefner's Playboy jet as one of the elite "Jet Bunnies."
Leverence, who later worked as a flight attendant for Air Wisconsin Airlines, was often away for long periods of time, unable to devote attention to her daughter. So Huggy came to Florida.
"She had a rough life bouncing back and forth between her mom and my parents," Spragg said. "But to me she didn't seem any different than any other child."
But there was something else, Spragg said. Something few people knew and no one talked about.
Huggy was pregnant.
• • •
Huggy had lived in Florida for two months when she disappeared. Her grandparents dropped her off the morning of April 7, 1982, a few blocks from the Patrician Apartments at Nursery and Belcher roads. She planned to meet up with her uncle, Greg Richards, who was five years her senior and lived in the apartment complex, according to a sheriff's report.
After that, the details become murky. At some point, Huggy met with a friend named Kim and Kim's mother, who also lived at Patrician Apartments, deputies said. They went to Clearwater Beach. Then, Huggy got a ride to Countryside Mall, where she called her grandfather.
She didn't need him to pick her up, she told him. A man named Don was going to bring her home.
A week later, with no word from her, Huggy's grandparents reported her missing. But the case was closed when deputies learned she was married — a fact that made her a legal adult, free to run away if she chose.
It wasn't unlike Huggy to wander away, her family said. But she was supposed to start work at a Wendy's restaurant April 8. They doubted she would have given that up or abandoned her dreams. Above all, they couldn't believe she would never contact them again.
• • •
Of all the cases that Detective Bobby Hamm investigated in his 27 years with the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, Huggy's was the one that seemed to stick with him the most, his colleagues say. He was a patrol deputy when she went missing. Years later, as a detective in the sheriff's crimes against children unit, he vowed to solve the case.
"She got to him," Schoneman said. "He always said if it was the last thing he did, he would find Wendy. I think he just really felt bad that this young 16-year-old, with her whole life ahead of her, was just gone and nobody knew why."
In 2001, Hamm worked what was perhaps the case's the biggest lead. Investigators that year exhumed the remains of a woman whose body was found floating in the waters off Anna Maria Island in September 1982. A rope was wrapped around her waist and tied to a concrete block. She wore two turquoise rings — similar to jewelry that Huggy was last known to be wearing.
But dental records and a blood comparison with Huggy's mother proved there was no match.
Hamm died in 2007. Four years later, authorities finally identified the remains as those of Amy Rose Hurst, who vanished from New Port Richey in 1982. Her husband, William Hurst, was later charged with her murder.
If nothing else, Spragg says, efforts to find Huggy led to closure for another family — the one bright spot in an otherwise dreadful mystery.
• • •
Few people alive today remember Wendy Huggy. Her grandparents have since died. So has her mother, who always held onto hope of finding her missing daughter.
But some still feel the void she left behind.
Cash Leverence is Huggy's half-brother. Though he never met his sister, having been born after she vanished, he witnessed the effects her disappearance had on their mother.
"She was tore up for years," said Leverence, 29. "It definitely bothered her."
As a child, Leverence remembers periodic phone calls his mother would receive from Florida sheriff's deputies or members of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"She talked about it a little bit, but not too much that I remember," Leverence said. "Growing up with her, you could see the toll it took."
Spragg, too, remembers her sister quickly changing the subject whenever Huggy became a topic of conversation.
"We were all devastated because this is not what you expect or plan for," Spragg said.
She prays that Huggy is still alive somewhere. Even now, there are fleeting moments when she spots a young face at the supermarket or on TV and thinks her niece has returned. But she knows better.
"In my heart of hearts, I doubt very much that she is still with us," Spragg said. "At this point, I don't think we're ever going to know."
Times news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Reach Dan Sullivan at (727) 893-8321 or dsullivan@tampabay.com.
[Last modified: Apr 06, 2012 11:26 PM]
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Southeast: AL, FL, and GA / Re: Missing Teen: Wendy Huggy--FL--04/07/1982
« on: June 04, 2012, 08:05:38 PM »
Charley Project Profile for Wendy: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/huggy_wendy.html
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5074/0/
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5074/0/
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Southeast: AL, FL, and GA / Missing Teen: Wendy Huggy--FL--04/07/1982
« on: June 04, 2012, 08:04:27 PM »
http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=601962&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US
Endangered Missing
WENDY HUGGY
Age Progressed
DOB: Jul 21, 1965
Age at Missing: 16
Missing: Apr 7, 1982
Missing From: CLEARWATER, FL
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'9" (175cm)
Weight: 110lbs (50kg)
Wendy's photo is shown age-progressed to 44 years. She was last seen on April 7, 1982 when she left from a relative's home to spend the day at the beach with some friends. Wendy was due to return home later that same night but she did not and she has not been seen or heard from since. She has a circular scar in the middle of her left thigh. Wendy may use the alias last name of Freeman.
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Florida Department of Law Enforcement 1-888-356-4774
Endangered Missing
WENDY HUGGY
Age Progressed
DOB: Jul 21, 1965
Age at Missing: 16
Missing: Apr 7, 1982
Missing From: CLEARWATER, FL
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'9" (175cm)
Weight: 110lbs (50kg)
Wendy's photo is shown age-progressed to 44 years. She was last seen on April 7, 1982 when she left from a relative's home to spend the day at the beach with some friends. Wendy was due to return home later that same night but she did not and she has not been seen or heard from since. She has a circular scar in the middle of her left thigh. Wendy may use the alias last name of Freeman.
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Florida Department of Law Enforcement 1-888-356-4774
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Northwest: AK, ID, OR, and WA / Re: Missing Woman: Alyssa A. McLemore--WA--04/09/2009
« on: June 01, 2012, 08:12:27 AM »
http://www.kentreporter.com/news/146488695.html
Missing: Still no answers about Kent woman 3 years after disappearance
By STEVE HUNTER Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter
April 6, 2012 · 4:54 PM
Friends, family and the Kent Police all seem to come up with the same response about the disappearance three years ago of 21-year-old Alyssa McLemore.
"Nothing has changed in three years, sadly," said Melissa Moore, a best friend of the Kent woman.
Kent detectives have three binders of information about McLemore since she went missing April 9, 2009.
"We review the investigation to date to see if there were things we missed," said Detective Sgt. John Pagel. "There have not been any new leads that have panned out."
McLemore was last heard from the evening of April 9 when her grandmother told her that McLemore's mother was very ill. Her mother died three days after McLemore's disappearance.
Detectives discovered early on in the investigation that at about 9:15 p.m. April 10, someone called 911 from McLemore's cell phone. A female voice was heard asking for help before the call ended.
The phone did not have a Global Positioning System sensor, so the general location of where the call originated is unknown. The phone number listed on 911 records indicated McLemore as the owner of the phone. The phone was out of service a few days after the 911 call and no longer took phone messages.
"It was very unlike her not to be in communication with her family," Pagel said.
Moore, of Bellevue, said there's no way McLemore would walk away from her then-3-year-old daughter, her grandmother, mother or her sister. McLemore's daughter splits time with the young girl's father and the McLemore family.
"If she was able to be here, she'd be raising her daughter and be here for her family," Moore said. "She wouldn't choose not to be here."
Detectives thought they might have a lead when they heard last year about a young woman's body found in Lewis County but it wasn't McLemore. An investigator with the King County Medical Examiner's Office is familiar with McLemore's case and keeps an eye out for any young women brought to the medical examiner that might match the description and clothing of McLemore, Pagel said.
McLemore reportedly was last seen by a witness near 30th Avenue South and Kent-Des Moines Road in Kent when she was approached by a pickup, but police don't know who drove the pickup. The witness described the pickup as green, a 1990s model, possibly with an Oregon license plate.
A second witness told police that McLemore had been seen at an unspecified date prior to her disappearance with a white man in his 50s or 60s, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 175 to 185 pounds. That man reportedly drives a green pickup and had some type of connection with McLemore.
Moore spent a lot of time initially spreading the word about McLemore in an effort to find her missing friend. But she said it became too time consuming as she tries to live her life and raise her own family.
A Facebook page updates information about McLemore. But three years later, there are more questions than answers.
McLemore, unemployed at the time of her disappearance, lived with her grandmother, mother and daughter in Kent. She attended Kent-Meridian High School for about a year before dropping out. Her grandmother has since moved to Auburn because she no longer needed such a big home.
"She (her grandmother) wanted to put the word out that the family has relocated to Auburn from Kent," Moore said. "She's concerned because if Alyssa goes to the home she always knew, they would not be home."
Maybe one day answers will be found about what happened to Alyssa McLemore.
"There's been tons of prayers," Moore said.
Missing: Still no answers about Kent woman 3 years after disappearance
By STEVE HUNTER Kent Reporter Courts, government reporter
April 6, 2012 · 4:54 PM
Friends, family and the Kent Police all seem to come up with the same response about the disappearance three years ago of 21-year-old Alyssa McLemore.
"Nothing has changed in three years, sadly," said Melissa Moore, a best friend of the Kent woman.
Kent detectives have three binders of information about McLemore since she went missing April 9, 2009.
"We review the investigation to date to see if there were things we missed," said Detective Sgt. John Pagel. "There have not been any new leads that have panned out."
McLemore was last heard from the evening of April 9 when her grandmother told her that McLemore's mother was very ill. Her mother died three days after McLemore's disappearance.
Detectives discovered early on in the investigation that at about 9:15 p.m. April 10, someone called 911 from McLemore's cell phone. A female voice was heard asking for help before the call ended.
The phone did not have a Global Positioning System sensor, so the general location of where the call originated is unknown. The phone number listed on 911 records indicated McLemore as the owner of the phone. The phone was out of service a few days after the 911 call and no longer took phone messages.
"It was very unlike her not to be in communication with her family," Pagel said.
Moore, of Bellevue, said there's no way McLemore would walk away from her then-3-year-old daughter, her grandmother, mother or her sister. McLemore's daughter splits time with the young girl's father and the McLemore family.
"If she was able to be here, she'd be raising her daughter and be here for her family," Moore said. "She wouldn't choose not to be here."
Detectives thought they might have a lead when they heard last year about a young woman's body found in Lewis County but it wasn't McLemore. An investigator with the King County Medical Examiner's Office is familiar with McLemore's case and keeps an eye out for any young women brought to the medical examiner that might match the description and clothing of McLemore, Pagel said.
McLemore reportedly was last seen by a witness near 30th Avenue South and Kent-Des Moines Road in Kent when she was approached by a pickup, but police don't know who drove the pickup. The witness described the pickup as green, a 1990s model, possibly with an Oregon license plate.
A second witness told police that McLemore had been seen at an unspecified date prior to her disappearance with a white man in his 50s or 60s, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 175 to 185 pounds. That man reportedly drives a green pickup and had some type of connection with McLemore.
Moore spent a lot of time initially spreading the word about McLemore in an effort to find her missing friend. But she said it became too time consuming as she tries to live her life and raise her own family.
A Facebook page updates information about McLemore. But three years later, there are more questions than answers.
McLemore, unemployed at the time of her disappearance, lived with her grandmother, mother and daughter in Kent. She attended Kent-Meridian High School for about a year before dropping out. Her grandmother has since moved to Auburn because she no longer needed such a big home.
"She (her grandmother) wanted to put the word out that the family has relocated to Auburn from Kent," Moore said. "She's concerned because if Alyssa goes to the home she always knew, they would not be home."
Maybe one day answers will be found about what happened to Alyssa McLemore.
"There's been tons of prayers," Moore said.
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East: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY and PA / Re: Missing Family: Leslie, Julie and Timothy Guthrie--NY--02/1977
« on: May 31, 2012, 09:02:45 PM »
NCMEC poster for Julie and Timothy:
http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=777216&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US
Age-Progression Photo for Leslie:
http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=777216&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US
Age-Progression Photo for Leslie:
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East: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY and PA / Re: Missing Family: Leslie, Julie and Timothy Guthrie--NY--02/1977
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:59:31 PM »24
East: DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY and PA / Missing Family: Leslie, Julie and Timothy Guthrie--NY--02/1977
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:57:31 PM »
http://www.record-review.com/record-review/Record-Review_2_17_12_missing_family.html
Thirty-five years later, missing family case still a mystery
February 17, 2012 By JOHN ROCHE
An age-enhanced image of how Timothy Guthrie Jr. and his sister Julie Guthrie might look today. He was 3 years old and she was 6 years old when they disappeared from Katonah 35 years ago with their mother, Leslie Guthrie, pictured here in a photo from the late 1960s.
On Feb. 5, 1977, Leslie Guthrie got into a car with her young son and daughter and drove off from the family’s Katonah home, never to be seen again.
Now, 35 years later, the search for the mother and her two children continues, although their disappearance remains as much a mystery as it did the day they were last seen.
“A case likes this never ends unless it’s solved, because the case never ends for the family,” Detective Matt DiBiase of the Bedford Police Department said this week, just days after the anniversary of the disappearance. “It remains an active investigation.”
There have been few leads in the three and a half decades since the trio went missing, and none that ever went anywhere, according to the Bedford police. But Chief William Hayes and Detective DiBiase are hoping that age-enhanced photos of Julie, who was 6 when she disappeared, and her brother Timothy Jr., who was 3, might lead to information that could crack the cold case.
“The age-enhanced photos that were created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are intended to depict what Julie and Timothy Guthrie Jr. might look like today,” Detective DiBiase said. “Because they were so young when they went missing, they may or may not have any idea of what the circumstances were in 1977. Perhaps these photos might lead to someone recognizing them, or even Julie and Timothy recognizing themselves.”
A Guthrie family photo of Julie, 6, and Timothy Jr., 3, taken before both children and their mother went missing in February 1977.
Leslie Guthrie was 29 when she picked her kids up about 1 p.m. on Feb. 5. She and her husband, Timothy Guthrie Sr., were separated, but by all accounts, there were no apparent signs she was planning to take off for good. When she drove away from the family’s home at 7 Grandview Avenue in a 1974 Ford Maverick, it was the last time anyone ever reported seeing the young mother, her two kids or the white car with the green top.
“There was never even a trace of them after that,” Detective DiBiase said last week.
Mr. Guthrie didn’t become concerned when the kids didn’t come home that night, because it wasn’t unheard of for them to spend the night with their mother in White Plains, where his estranged wife was living with her mother. When he called the Bedford police to report them missing about 7 p.m. on Feb. 6, about 30 hours after he watched them drive off for an afternoon together, an investigation was launched that still remains active to this day.
“Timothy Guthrie Sr. was cleared back then, and is not considered a suspect or a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife and children,” Detective DiBiase said. “He was thoroughly investigated back then, as any spouse would be in a case like this, but he was fully cleared.”
In fact, Mr. Guthrie not only fully cooperated with the police investigation into his family’s disappearance but also hired a private investigator and spent significant time and money trying to locate them on his own, according to Detective DiBiase.
“He basically spent his life savings trying to find them, even so far as flying two detectives from our department across the country with him to pursue a lead,” the detective explained. “Nothing ever came from that, nor from any other information we received over the years.”
If someone went missing today, doing so without a trace — voluntarily or otherwise — would be more difficult, according to police, because of how anyone can be tracked by computer usage, cellphone signals, credit cards, ATM withdrawals, even video cameras on roadways and elsewhere in the region.
Driver’s licenses and other identification were simply paper documents in 1977, Detective DiBiase said, “so it was a lot easier to assume a different identity than it would be now.” There were no fingerprints on record for her or the children.
Mrs. Guthrie did not withdraw a large amount of money before or after picking up her kids, not did she take any of her personal belongings or clothes, according to police. “She didn’t do anything or say anything that would lead anyone around her, family or friends, to think she might be leaving for good with her kids,” Detective DiBiase said. “And nothing ever turned up that would indicate any sort of foul play or accident. There was just nothing at all.”
Mr. Guthrie eventually moved from Katonah, and lives out of state. Leslie Guthrie’s mother died apparently without ever knowing what happened to her daughter or grandchildren.
Still, the Bedford police press on with their investigation, said Detective DiBiase, who took on the cold case in 2004.
Two cardboard file boxes containing all the paperwork and other items related to the Guthrie case sit atop a shelf across from Detective DiBiase’s desk. Occasionally, he’ll pull the boxes down and go over the contents, hoping something will jump out at him.
“It comes and goes in terms of the attention on the case, but it never goes away,” he said. “It’s always there.”
From time to time, the investigation seems to pick up steam, only to lead to more dead ends.
In 1993, other detectives chased down a possible development when Leslie Guthrie’s mother started receiving odd calls from someone who knew basic information about the case. It turned out to be a relative with emotional problems who could not have been involved in the 1977 disappearance.
In 2006, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children opened a file on the Guthrie children, but dropped it soon after. Because the children weren’t the subject of a custody fight and there were no allegations of mistreatment, the center, known as NCMEC, determined the case didn’t fit the necessary criteria.
But in 2009, NCMEC reopened the case, and created age-enhanced photos of Julie and Timothy Jr., and also distributed fliers about the case nationally and online.
“In the year or two after that, we got maybe two dozen leads from all over the country because of NCMEC’s involvement in the case, but nothing ended up being of substance or value,” the detective said. “We haven’t gotten any calls about it since late 2010.”
Detective DiBiase said that although DNA evidence and tracking was not in place in the 1970s, DNA believed to be that of Mrs. Guthrie and possibly one or both of the children was recorded in the fall of 2006. “We got some DNA off two toothbrushes that she and the kids might have used that we had from the original investigation,” he said. “There was DNA from three people on two toothbrushes, and that was sent to the University of North Texas, which is the central location for DNA testing. So far, there have been no hits from that, but now it’s in the national database.”
Although Detective DiBiase said he’s hopeful that the age-enhanced photos or the attention from NCMEC around the 35th anniversary of the disappearance might result in some leads, he stops short of expressing optimism that the case will ever be solved.
“I just don’t know,” he said. “It’s been so many years. One of the things about this case has always been that we have nothing to go on. Nothing. That’s unusual. So the same questions remain today, 35 years after, as they did right when it happened. Did she just take off with the kids? Did she intend to just spend the day with her kids and something happened to them? It’s just so wide open.”
The Guthrie case is one of two open missing persons investigations in the Bedford Police Department, both assigned to Detective DiBiase. The other involves the disappearance of a Bedford Hills business owner, George Primavera, who went missing from a parking lot on Adams Street on March 17, 1988.
He said he’d like to solve that case, too, but most of all, he’d like to be able to call Mr. Guthrie and tell him what really happened to his wife, daughter and son.
“It bothers me, and I guess it always will, unless it gets solved,” Detective DiBiase said. “This case originally belonged to another detective, Ted Wyskida, who is retired now, and it still bothers him. In fact, he and I talked on the phone last week on the anniversary. There are just some cases that stay with you.”
Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the Bedford Police Department at 914-241-3111.
Thirty-five years later, missing family case still a mystery
February 17, 2012 By JOHN ROCHE
An age-enhanced image of how Timothy Guthrie Jr. and his sister Julie Guthrie might look today. He was 3 years old and she was 6 years old when they disappeared from Katonah 35 years ago with their mother, Leslie Guthrie, pictured here in a photo from the late 1960s.
On Feb. 5, 1977, Leslie Guthrie got into a car with her young son and daughter and drove off from the family’s Katonah home, never to be seen again.
Now, 35 years later, the search for the mother and her two children continues, although their disappearance remains as much a mystery as it did the day they were last seen.
“A case likes this never ends unless it’s solved, because the case never ends for the family,” Detective Matt DiBiase of the Bedford Police Department said this week, just days after the anniversary of the disappearance. “It remains an active investigation.”
There have been few leads in the three and a half decades since the trio went missing, and none that ever went anywhere, according to the Bedford police. But Chief William Hayes and Detective DiBiase are hoping that age-enhanced photos of Julie, who was 6 when she disappeared, and her brother Timothy Jr., who was 3, might lead to information that could crack the cold case.
“The age-enhanced photos that were created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are intended to depict what Julie and Timothy Guthrie Jr. might look like today,” Detective DiBiase said. “Because they were so young when they went missing, they may or may not have any idea of what the circumstances were in 1977. Perhaps these photos might lead to someone recognizing them, or even Julie and Timothy recognizing themselves.”
A Guthrie family photo of Julie, 6, and Timothy Jr., 3, taken before both children and their mother went missing in February 1977.
Leslie Guthrie was 29 when she picked her kids up about 1 p.m. on Feb. 5. She and her husband, Timothy Guthrie Sr., were separated, but by all accounts, there were no apparent signs she was planning to take off for good. When she drove away from the family’s home at 7 Grandview Avenue in a 1974 Ford Maverick, it was the last time anyone ever reported seeing the young mother, her two kids or the white car with the green top.
“There was never even a trace of them after that,” Detective DiBiase said last week.
Mr. Guthrie didn’t become concerned when the kids didn’t come home that night, because it wasn’t unheard of for them to spend the night with their mother in White Plains, where his estranged wife was living with her mother. When he called the Bedford police to report them missing about 7 p.m. on Feb. 6, about 30 hours after he watched them drive off for an afternoon together, an investigation was launched that still remains active to this day.
“Timothy Guthrie Sr. was cleared back then, and is not considered a suspect or a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife and children,” Detective DiBiase said. “He was thoroughly investigated back then, as any spouse would be in a case like this, but he was fully cleared.”
In fact, Mr. Guthrie not only fully cooperated with the police investigation into his family’s disappearance but also hired a private investigator and spent significant time and money trying to locate them on his own, according to Detective DiBiase.
“He basically spent his life savings trying to find them, even so far as flying two detectives from our department across the country with him to pursue a lead,” the detective explained. “Nothing ever came from that, nor from any other information we received over the years.”
If someone went missing today, doing so without a trace — voluntarily or otherwise — would be more difficult, according to police, because of how anyone can be tracked by computer usage, cellphone signals, credit cards, ATM withdrawals, even video cameras on roadways and elsewhere in the region.
Driver’s licenses and other identification were simply paper documents in 1977, Detective DiBiase said, “so it was a lot easier to assume a different identity than it would be now.” There were no fingerprints on record for her or the children.
Mrs. Guthrie did not withdraw a large amount of money before or after picking up her kids, not did she take any of her personal belongings or clothes, according to police. “She didn’t do anything or say anything that would lead anyone around her, family or friends, to think she might be leaving for good with her kids,” Detective DiBiase said. “And nothing ever turned up that would indicate any sort of foul play or accident. There was just nothing at all.”
Mr. Guthrie eventually moved from Katonah, and lives out of state. Leslie Guthrie’s mother died apparently without ever knowing what happened to her daughter or grandchildren.
Still, the Bedford police press on with their investigation, said Detective DiBiase, who took on the cold case in 2004.
Two cardboard file boxes containing all the paperwork and other items related to the Guthrie case sit atop a shelf across from Detective DiBiase’s desk. Occasionally, he’ll pull the boxes down and go over the contents, hoping something will jump out at him.
“It comes and goes in terms of the attention on the case, but it never goes away,” he said. “It’s always there.”
From time to time, the investigation seems to pick up steam, only to lead to more dead ends.
In 1993, other detectives chased down a possible development when Leslie Guthrie’s mother started receiving odd calls from someone who knew basic information about the case. It turned out to be a relative with emotional problems who could not have been involved in the 1977 disappearance.
In 2006, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children opened a file on the Guthrie children, but dropped it soon after. Because the children weren’t the subject of a custody fight and there were no allegations of mistreatment, the center, known as NCMEC, determined the case didn’t fit the necessary criteria.
But in 2009, NCMEC reopened the case, and created age-enhanced photos of Julie and Timothy Jr., and also distributed fliers about the case nationally and online.
“In the year or two after that, we got maybe two dozen leads from all over the country because of NCMEC’s involvement in the case, but nothing ended up being of substance or value,” the detective said. “We haven’t gotten any calls about it since late 2010.”
Detective DiBiase said that although DNA evidence and tracking was not in place in the 1970s, DNA believed to be that of Mrs. Guthrie and possibly one or both of the children was recorded in the fall of 2006. “We got some DNA off two toothbrushes that she and the kids might have used that we had from the original investigation,” he said. “There was DNA from three people on two toothbrushes, and that was sent to the University of North Texas, which is the central location for DNA testing. So far, there have been no hits from that, but now it’s in the national database.”
Although Detective DiBiase said he’s hopeful that the age-enhanced photos or the attention from NCMEC around the 35th anniversary of the disappearance might result in some leads, he stops short of expressing optimism that the case will ever be solved.
“I just don’t know,” he said. “It’s been so many years. One of the things about this case has always been that we have nothing to go on. Nothing. That’s unusual. So the same questions remain today, 35 years after, as they did right when it happened. Did she just take off with the kids? Did she intend to just spend the day with her kids and something happened to them? It’s just so wide open.”
The Guthrie case is one of two open missing persons investigations in the Bedford Police Department, both assigned to Detective DiBiase. The other involves the disappearance of a Bedford Hills business owner, George Primavera, who went missing from a parking lot on Adams Street on March 17, 1988.
He said he’d like to solve that case, too, but most of all, he’d like to be able to call Mr. Guthrie and tell him what really happened to his wife, daughter and son.
“It bothers me, and I guess it always will, unless it gets solved,” Detective DiBiase said. “This case originally belonged to another detective, Ted Wyskida, who is retired now, and it still bothers him. In fact, he and I talked on the phone last week on the anniversary. There are just some cases that stay with you.”
Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the Bedford Police Department at 914-241-3111.
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Blue Ridge: TN, VA and WV / Re: Missing Girl: Marlena Childress--TN--04/16/1987
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:45:56 PM »
Charley Project Profile for Marlena: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/childress_marlena.html
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5342/1/
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5342/1/
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Blue Ridge: TN, VA and WV / Missing Girl: Marlena Childress--TN--04/16/1987
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:44:36 PM »
http://missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=600739&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US
NonFamily Abduction
MARLENA CHILDRESS
Age Progressed
DOB: Feb 17, 1983
Age at Missing: 4 years old
Missing: Apr 16, 1987
Missing From: UNION CITY, TN
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Lt. Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 4'0" (122cm)
Weight: 38lbs (17kg)
Marlena's photo is shown age-progressed to 29 years. She was last seen in her front yard. When last seen, Marlena had stainless steel caps on her top and bottom teeth. Her eyes are blue/hazel.
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Union City Police Department (Tennessee) - Missing Persons Unit - 1-731-885-1515
NonFamily Abduction
MARLENA CHILDRESS
Age Progressed
DOB: Feb 17, 1983
Age at Missing: 4 years old
Missing: Apr 16, 1987
Missing From: UNION CITY, TN
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Lt. Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 4'0" (122cm)
Weight: 38lbs (17kg)
Marlena's photo is shown age-progressed to 29 years. She was last seen in her front yard. When last seen, Marlena had stainless steel caps on her top and bottom teeth. Her eyes are blue/hazel.
ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Union City Police Department (Tennessee) - Missing Persons Unit - 1-731-885-1515
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Blue Ridge: TN, VA and WV / Re: Missing Man: Kevin Floyd Baker--VA--09/12/2007
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:37:05 PM »
Charley Project Profile for Kevin: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/baker_kevin.html
28
Blue Ridge: TN, VA and WV / Missing Man: Kevin Floyd Baker--VA--09/12/2007
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:35:15 PM »
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/7637/0/
Case Information
Status Missing
First name Kevin
Middle name Floyd
Last name Baker
Date LKA September 12, 2007 08:37
Date entered 07/06/2010
Age LKA 31 to years old
Age now 35 years old
Race Black/African American
Sex Male
Height (inches) 74.0
Weight (pounds) 150.0
Circumstances
City Virginia Beach
State Virginia
County Virginia Beach City
Circumstances
Kevin Floyd Baker, 30, was reported missing by a friend on Wednesday. A subsequent police investigation found that Baker had not showed up for work all week and had not been seen by neighbors since 1 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.
Police Information
Title Det
First name Angela
Last name Murphy
Phone 757-385-4023
Email amurphy@vbgov.com
Case number 2007-056387
Jurisdiction Local
Agency Virginia Beach Police Department
Address 1 2509 Princess Anne
Address 2 BLDG 11
City Virginia Beach
State Virginia
Zip code 23456
Case Information
Status Missing
First name Kevin
Middle name Floyd
Last name Baker
Date LKA September 12, 2007 08:37
Date entered 07/06/2010
Age LKA 31 to years old
Age now 35 years old
Race Black/African American
Sex Male
Height (inches) 74.0
Weight (pounds) 150.0
Circumstances
City Virginia Beach
State Virginia
County Virginia Beach City
Circumstances
Kevin Floyd Baker, 30, was reported missing by a friend on Wednesday. A subsequent police investigation found that Baker had not showed up for work all week and had not been seen by neighbors since 1 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.
Police Information
Title Det
First name Angela
Last name Murphy
Phone 757-385-4023
Email amurphy@vbgov.com
Case number 2007-056387
Jurisdiction Local
Agency Virginia Beach Police Department
Address 1 2509 Princess Anne
Address 2 BLDG 11
City Virginia Beach
State Virginia
Zip code 23456
29
Missing Person's Issues, Education, and Prevention / Re: Resolving Unidentified Persons Cases
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:28:50 PM »
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/missing-years-victim-was-right-here/article_2d600531-b603-5119-9823-eb08f7fb72cd.html
Missing 30 years, victim was right here
Unidentified remains stored in ME's office for decades.
Jeanne Overstreet disappeared nearly 30 years ago.
April 14, 2012 12:00 am • Kimberly Matas Arizona Daily Star
The 19-year-old hotel maid was planning to meet a friend downtown for lunch on Sept. 3, 1982, but she never showed up.
With no leads, her case turned cold.
A DNA sample given by her sister in 2004 was run though a national missing-person database but came to nothing.
This week, however, Overstreet's family got word that their daughter's remains had been found. They'd been in storage at the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office for the last 29 years.
"It's a complete miracle. It's just amazing," said Overstreet's sister, Jackie Dugan, of Benson.
"The remains were found in 1983, but we didn't have the DNA back then and because her records had been lost, they didn't know who she was," she said. "The medical examiner in Tucson had her remains all this time."
At the time Dugan submitted her DNA sample to law enforcement, her sister's DNA hadn't yet been collected.
In August 2010, using grant money, Bruce Anderson, forensic anthropologist for the ME's office, began submitting DNA samples for testing from unidentified skeletal remains found in Southern Arizona.
Most of the 800 or so samples submitted to date are from remains found in the last decade, which coincided with a major influx of undocumented border crossers. Almost 100 other individuals discovered in the 1970s, '80s and early '90s are more likely unidentified U.S. citizens, said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Gregory Hess.
Last September, a little more than a year after Anderson submitted the sample that would turn out to be from Overstreet, her parents, Barbara Pike and John Overstreet, had their DNA samples collected for a national missing-persons database. The family got a telephone call Tuesday telling them a match was found.
"Jeanne was the first success story, if you can call it that, taking a very old case and using new technologies to figure out who she was," Anderson said.
"It is the best part of my job. Any time we're successful in finding out who a Jane Doe is, I can feel good about what I do," he said, noting that his elation is always tempered by the knowledge that his discovery will be the worst news the family of a missing loved one can receive.
In 1983, 14 months after Overstreet disappeared, a Pinal County sheriff's deputy found skeletal remains just off the shoulder of Florence Highway about five miles north of Oracle Junction 14. They were given to Walter Birkby, Pima County's forensic anthropologist at the time. His analysis of the remains were thorough, but he could not determine a cause of death. Included in Birkby's report was a detailed dental chart he'd drawn up based on the remains.
This week Anderson re-examined the remains before giving them to the family for cremation, and confirmed Birkby's findings.
Though Dugan is relieved her sister's remains have been identified, she harbors bitterness that the connection wasn't made decades earlier. Soon after Overstreet's disappearance, Dugan said she gave Tucson Police Department investigators her sister's dental records to use as comparison if remains were found. Those records never got to the Medical Examiner's Office, and Overstreet's missing-persons file seems to have disappeared altogether, said Dugan. After the family was told of the DNA match this week, a TPD representative asked Dugan for copies of any police records they may have retained.
"I didn't know not to give originals back then," Dugan said. "I couldn't get her dental records replaced, and if the dental records hadn't been lost they might have identified her in '83.
"There's some anger that they had her this long. All this time we've looked."
TPD did not respond to several calls and emails Thursday and Friday about the Overstreet case.
On the day she disappeared, the petite Overstreet, a 1981 graduate of Santa Rita High School, left her midtown home around noon to hitchhike downtown and meet her boyfriend for lunch. She never made it to the restaurant.
Overstreet still had a paycheck waiting for her at the hotel where she worked. She had planned to use the money to make a final payment on a car she was buying so she wouldn't have to hitchhike anymore, Dugan said.
"My mom never gave up hope that she was alive," Dugan said. "This hit my mom so hard. She was in complete denial. We all, after some time, said, 'Something happened to her. She's not with us anymore.' But we always had that little bit of hope. We'd see somebody who looked like her, a blond girl, and just couldn't help but look.
"Right now the emotions are very up and down. We now at least know where she is. That's going to be very helpful, but there's still always going to be the question of what happened," Dugan said.
"I don't know that we'll ever get an answer to that, but I'm relieved - and I think my family is, too - that we now know where she is and we can put her to rest."
Memorial is planned for Monday
A memorial for Jeanne Overstreet is planned for 10:30 a.m. Monday at Pantano Riding Stables, 4450 S. Houghton Road.
"My sister loved horses. While she was growing up she had a collection of different types of (toy) horses," her sister, Jackie Dugan, said.
After learning earlier this week that her sister's remains had been identified after 30 years, she drove past the stables and decided it was the perfect setting at which to honor her sister.
"It's in remembrance of her, for her to be at peace. She's home now," Dugan said.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (www.missingkids.com).
Central resource center is at your disposal
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a centralized repository and resource center for the records of missing persons and unidentified human remains.
NamUs, a program run by the U.S. Department of Justice, is a free, online system that can be searched by medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement officials and the general public from all over the country in hopes of resolving these cases. For family members of the missing, that means the ability to print missing-persons posters, receive free DNA testing for comparison to unidentified remains in the FBI's CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database, and access links to the offices of law enforcement agencies and medical examiners as well as victims assistance groups.
Go to www.namus.gov for more information.
Missing 30 years, victim was right here
Unidentified remains stored in ME's office for decades.
Jeanne Overstreet disappeared nearly 30 years ago.
April 14, 2012 12:00 am • Kimberly Matas Arizona Daily Star
The 19-year-old hotel maid was planning to meet a friend downtown for lunch on Sept. 3, 1982, but she never showed up.
With no leads, her case turned cold.
A DNA sample given by her sister in 2004 was run though a national missing-person database but came to nothing.
This week, however, Overstreet's family got word that their daughter's remains had been found. They'd been in storage at the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office for the last 29 years.
"It's a complete miracle. It's just amazing," said Overstreet's sister, Jackie Dugan, of Benson.
"The remains were found in 1983, but we didn't have the DNA back then and because her records had been lost, they didn't know who she was," she said. "The medical examiner in Tucson had her remains all this time."
At the time Dugan submitted her DNA sample to law enforcement, her sister's DNA hadn't yet been collected.
In August 2010, using grant money, Bruce Anderson, forensic anthropologist for the ME's office, began submitting DNA samples for testing from unidentified skeletal remains found in Southern Arizona.
Most of the 800 or so samples submitted to date are from remains found in the last decade, which coincided with a major influx of undocumented border crossers. Almost 100 other individuals discovered in the 1970s, '80s and early '90s are more likely unidentified U.S. citizens, said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Gregory Hess.
Last September, a little more than a year after Anderson submitted the sample that would turn out to be from Overstreet, her parents, Barbara Pike and John Overstreet, had their DNA samples collected for a national missing-persons database. The family got a telephone call Tuesday telling them a match was found.
"Jeanne was the first success story, if you can call it that, taking a very old case and using new technologies to figure out who she was," Anderson said.
"It is the best part of my job. Any time we're successful in finding out who a Jane Doe is, I can feel good about what I do," he said, noting that his elation is always tempered by the knowledge that his discovery will be the worst news the family of a missing loved one can receive.
In 1983, 14 months after Overstreet disappeared, a Pinal County sheriff's deputy found skeletal remains just off the shoulder of Florence Highway about five miles north of Oracle Junction 14. They were given to Walter Birkby, Pima County's forensic anthropologist at the time. His analysis of the remains were thorough, but he could not determine a cause of death. Included in Birkby's report was a detailed dental chart he'd drawn up based on the remains.
This week Anderson re-examined the remains before giving them to the family for cremation, and confirmed Birkby's findings.
Though Dugan is relieved her sister's remains have been identified, she harbors bitterness that the connection wasn't made decades earlier. Soon after Overstreet's disappearance, Dugan said she gave Tucson Police Department investigators her sister's dental records to use as comparison if remains were found. Those records never got to the Medical Examiner's Office, and Overstreet's missing-persons file seems to have disappeared altogether, said Dugan. After the family was told of the DNA match this week, a TPD representative asked Dugan for copies of any police records they may have retained.
"I didn't know not to give originals back then," Dugan said. "I couldn't get her dental records replaced, and if the dental records hadn't been lost they might have identified her in '83.
"There's some anger that they had her this long. All this time we've looked."
TPD did not respond to several calls and emails Thursday and Friday about the Overstreet case.
On the day she disappeared, the petite Overstreet, a 1981 graduate of Santa Rita High School, left her midtown home around noon to hitchhike downtown and meet her boyfriend for lunch. She never made it to the restaurant.
Overstreet still had a paycheck waiting for her at the hotel where she worked. She had planned to use the money to make a final payment on a car she was buying so she wouldn't have to hitchhike anymore, Dugan said.
"My mom never gave up hope that she was alive," Dugan said. "This hit my mom so hard. She was in complete denial. We all, after some time, said, 'Something happened to her. She's not with us anymore.' But we always had that little bit of hope. We'd see somebody who looked like her, a blond girl, and just couldn't help but look.
"Right now the emotions are very up and down. We now at least know where she is. That's going to be very helpful, but there's still always going to be the question of what happened," Dugan said.
"I don't know that we'll ever get an answer to that, but I'm relieved - and I think my family is, too - that we now know where she is and we can put her to rest."
Memorial is planned for Monday
A memorial for Jeanne Overstreet is planned for 10:30 a.m. Monday at Pantano Riding Stables, 4450 S. Houghton Road.
"My sister loved horses. While she was growing up she had a collection of different types of (toy) horses," her sister, Jackie Dugan, said.
After learning earlier this week that her sister's remains had been identified after 30 years, she drove past the stables and decided it was the perfect setting at which to honor her sister.
"It's in remembrance of her, for her to be at peace. She's home now," Dugan said.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (www.missingkids.com).
Central resource center is at your disposal
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a centralized repository and resource center for the records of missing persons and unidentified human remains.
NamUs, a program run by the U.S. Department of Justice, is a free, online system that can be searched by medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement officials and the general public from all over the country in hopes of resolving these cases. For family members of the missing, that means the ability to print missing-persons posters, receive free DNA testing for comparison to unidentified remains in the FBI's CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) database, and access links to the offices of law enforcement agencies and medical examiners as well as victims assistance groups.
Go to www.namus.gov for more information.
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Blue Ridge: TN, VA and WV / Re: Missing Girl: Brittany Renee Williams--VA--08/18/2000
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:23:56 PM »
Charley Project Profile: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/williams_brittany.html
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/6809/0/
NamUs Profile: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/6809/0/