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Located Safe: Georgina Lynn DeJesus -- OH -- 04/02/2004
Dan:
Originally Posted on 04/02/04
by Kelly
Age-progressed to 19 years
Georgina Lynn DeJesus
DOB: Feb 13, 1990
Missing Date: Apr 2, 2004
Height: 5'1" (155 cm)
Eyes: Brown
Race: Hispanic
Age at time of disappearance: 14
Sex: Female
Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg)
Hair: Brown
Missing From:
Cleveland Ohio
United States
Georgina's photo is shown age-progressed to 19 years. She was last seen on April 2, 2004. Georgina may still be in the local area. Her ears are pierced and she has a second piercing in the cartilage of her right ear. Georgina has a birthmark on her right leg and a birthmark on the right side of her chest. She may go by the nickname Gina.
Contact Information:
Cleveland Police Department (Ohio)
1-216-621-1234
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Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
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Dan:
CLEVELAND - It was a difficult Easter weekend for the family of missing 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.
The search for the Cleveland teenager, now well into its second week, continues. However, there's still no sign of Gina, who vanished without a trace two Fridays ago.
Now the grass-roots search is going national. Family traveling from Tennessee over the holiday weekend posted pictures of Gina at rest stops along the way.
Also, another search team is moving into the Cleveland area. Detectives with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have been called in to assist.
Local police and Mayor Jane Campbell are planning another news conference to update the public on the status of the search.
Stick with 19 Action News for that important information and other details regarding the search for Gina.
Elsewhere, 19 Action News reported that officers checked surveillance cameras at the skating center in Brook Park, where Gina (pictured, above) had planned on attending a party on the night that she ultimately disappeared. Unfortunately, there were no cameras set up in the establishment, and no one recalls Gina attending.
MacFarlane also reported that the FBI spent part of Thursday questioning the missing girl's best friend -- believed to be the last person to see Gina before she vanished.
"We were laughing and giggling and joking around," Gina's best friend exclusively told 19 Action News.
When asked if Gina being grounded by her parents for smoking could have instigated her to run away, especially considering she was not being allowed to go to the skating party later that night, her friend said it wasn't likely.
"When she was around me, she wasn't upset at all," she said.
Detectives with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also came to Cleveland with a special unit last fall when Shakira Johnson disappeared. They call the special unit Team Adam.
In one year, Team Adam has searched for 93 children and found 86 of those kids. Eleven of those found, however, were already dead, including Shakira.
Team Adam getting directly involved in the search for Gina DeJesus can only help the situation. In fact, the agency is already faxing out flyers all across the state.
Gina vanished without a trace on April 2. She was last seen at approximately 2:30 p.m. when she was making her way home from the middle school she attends. The seventh-grader takes special education classes.
No Amber Alert has been issued in this case because there is no evidence that would help to target a specific suspect or vehicle. However, Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell held a news conference to assure the public that city authorities and the FBI are doing everything they can to find Gina.
Police and FBI are interviewing neighbors and checking vacant homes and lots. The FBI used a bloodhound that tracked her scent several blocks.
The missing teen's family joined the mayor and other community leaders to plead for Gina's safe return.
"It's refreshing to know that perfect strangers care about our darling Gina," relative Sylvia Colon said. "Gina, if you're listening, it's OK. Call us. No one's going to be angry. We just want to get you home."
Gina's family is not alone in their pain. Eleven-year-old Shakira Johnson was abducted and killed last year. Her mother, Alisa Randle, knows what Gina's family is going through.
"I'm just here to support them," Randle said. "I pray that they don't have to go through what I went through. Keep on praying. Don't stop."
Randle's words touched the DeJesus family.
"She gave me a lot of thoughts not to give up, and to keep the faith between our kids," Gina's father, Felix DeJesus, said.
The two families shared hugs and tears as the DeJesus family continues to hold onto hope that their bundle of joy makes it home safely.
"Even though hers is gone, mine is still alive. I pray to God that mine comes home," Felix said.
Gina DeJesus, who stands at 5'2" tall and weighs approximately 130 pounds, was last seen wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, black slacks that flair at the bottom, a powder-blue hooded coat with powder-blue Phat Farm shoes.
Dan:
Originally posted on 04/25/04
Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry on America's Most Wanted
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Reported by Paul Thomas
POSTED: Sunday, April 18, 2004 1:11:41 PM
UPDATED: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:15:31 PM
www.wkyc.com
CLEVELAND -- The stories of missing Cleveland teens Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry were highlighted on the show America's Most Wanted Saturday.
Berry's story has been on the program before but it was the first time that a national TV audience saw and heard DeJesus' story. And her family hopes the national exposure will lead investigators to Gina.
When Felix DeJesus got his mail Saturday, there was a welcome surprise inside -- his daughter's smiling face.
Mail carriers are delivering fliers featuring DeJesus.
Fourteen-year-old DeJesus disappeared Friday, April 2nd.
"Any help is appreciated," her father says.
Appreciated too, any method of getting the word out to people who don't know she's missing.
"Because I know somebody had to see something," Felix DeJesus says.
"Maybe she's not in Ohio. It's very important [to get Gina's story out]," Mayra DeJesus, Gina's sister, says.
So Gina's family gathered around the TV, hands clasped, hopes raised to watch Most Wanted.
The show also gave life to the story of another missing Cleveland teen, Amanda Berry.
The 17-year-old was last seen one year ago, only six blocks away from where DeJesus disappeared.
Dan:
Originally posted on 04/23/04
Agents from FBI headquarters assist in search for Gina
Saturday, May 08, 2004
Agents from FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., were in Cleveland this week to help investigate the disappearance of Georgina DeJesus.
Georgina, known as Gina, disappeared five weeks ago while walking home from Wilbur Wright Middle School. She was last seen about 3 p.m. April 2 near West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue.
Since then, police and FBI agents have interviewed more than 100 people and have given polygraphs to several of them. Officers with the Regional Tran sit Authority have helped search desolate areas and homes on the West Side, and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office has checked on the whereabouts of known sex offenders.
Still, there is no sign of 14-year-old Gina.
This week, agents from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit who are well-versed in missing- child cases and have experience interviewing suspects and family members made several suggestions to Cleveland investigators. Among them: that posters about Gina's disappearance be written in both Spanish and English; and that exact replicas of the clothes she wore when she disappeared be shown to the media, along with an aerial map of Gina's path from school that day.
"They are confident that there is someone out there who has information that would resolve this investigation," said Special Agent Bob Hawk, of the FBI's Cleveland office. "And we remain optimistic. We hope she does return."
Hawk stressed that anyone with information about Gina's disappearance should call a newly established tip line. Calls are kept confidential, and all tips are investigated. The hot line is 1-888-660-5437.
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaind...5835200800.xml
Dan:
Originally Posted on 05/22/04
http://www.newsnet5.com/crimestopper...04/detail.html
Reward Increased For Information About Missing Girls
$20,000 Offered For Recovery Of 2 Cleveland Teens
POSTED: 4:32 pm EDT May 21, 2004
UPDATED: 4:47 pm EDT May 21, 2004
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland police and the FBI, in conjunction with Crime Stoppers, have increased the reward offered for information leading to the recovery of two missing Cleveland girls, reported NewsChannel5.
Gina DeJesus, 14, has been missing for almost two months, and 18-year-old Amanda Berry has been missing for more than a year. Both girls disappeared on the city's west side.
A reward of $20,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for their disappearances.
If you have any information about either of the missing teens, call Crime Stoppers at (216) 252-7463.
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