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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Missing-Flight-Attendant-Who-Walked-Out-of-LaGuardia-Airport-Found-Dead-393794881.html Remains of Missing Flight Attendant from Queens Found: Family, Police By Natalie Pasquarella 9/16/2016 The body of the Delta flight attendant who went missing in January, when she apparently quit her job ahead of a flight and walked out of LaGuardia Airport, has been found, her parents tell NBC 4 New York. Family members had been searching for 30-year-old Sierra Shields since she was last seen walking out of the airport on Jan. 14. Her family says police contacted them and said they found their daughter's remains. It's not clear how she died. During an unrelated briefing with reporters Thursday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Bob Boyce said bones had washed up on Rikers Island, and that "we believe we've identified that female from the clothing that washed up with the bones." "It appears to be -- and we haven't made an ID on it yet -- from someone who took their own life and jumped in the water," he said. He continued, "That person went missing earlier this year. The clothes that were recovered were very distinctive. We believe we're on the right track, but the OCME has to do their work first." Police said Friday correction offers on the Rikers Island jail complex were training when they found the remains. Shields' family said in a statement Friday, "We are eternally grateful for the outpouring of love and support for our beautiful sweet Sierra. We are truly thankful for how God used Sierra's life to reflect the beauty of His Kingdom. Our family is requesting privacy at this time as we cherish the memory of our precious Sierra." Sierra's mother, Donna Shields, previously told NBC 4 New York her daughter left her apartment in Queens, and like she always did, walked nearly two miles to LaGuardia Airport, where she was scheduled to work a flight originating there. Hours before her scheduled shift, she asked her supervisor if she could speak to her union representative, but the union representative wasn't there. Sierra wouldn't tell her supervisor why she wanted to speak to her -- which was out of character for her because the two were close. Sierra then left her work pass on her supervisor's desk and walked out of the terminal. Surveillance video shows Sierra walking out of Marine Terminal, but it's not clear which direction she went. Police have not released the video, but her family said it only showed about three seconds of her walking. She was wearing her flight attendant dress, but not her full uniform. Her family previously said she does not have a history of depression, and described her as a person who would go out of her way to help others. They fear it was her generosity that may have gotten her into trouble. "My gut tells me she was helping someone," her mother, Donna Shields, told NBC 4 New York in May, when she and Sierra's father flew in from Chicago to look for their daughter. "We don't know who she may have met. She is just... We just don't know. It's hard not knowing," Donna Shields said at the time. Source: Remains of Missing Flight Attendant from Queens Found: Family, Police | NBC New York http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Missing-Flight-Attendant-Who-Walked-Out-of-LaGuardia-Airport-Found-Dead-393794881.html#ixzz4KnvUFlYv Follow us: @nbcnewyork on Twitter | NBCNewYork on Facebook Her family says police contacted them and said they found their daughter's remains. It's not clear how she died. During an unrelated briefing with reporters Thursday, NYPD Chief of Detectives Bob Boyce said bones had washed up on Rikers Island, and that "we believe we've identified that female from the clothing that washed up with the bones." "It appears to be -- and we haven't made an ID on it yet -- from someone who took their own life and jumped in the water," he said. He continued, "That person went missing earlier this year. The clothes that were recovered were very distinctive. We believe we're on the right track, but the OCME has to do their work first." Police said Friday correction offers on the Rikers Island jail complex were training when they found the remains. Shields' family said in a statement Friday, "We are eternally grateful for the outpouring of love and support for our beautiful sweet Sierra. We are truly thankful for how God used Sierra's life to reflect the beauty of His Kingdom. Our family is requesting privacy at this time as we cherish the memory of our precious Sierra." Sierra's mother, Donna Shields, previously told NBC 4 New York her daughter left her apartment in Queens, and like she always did, walked nearly two miles to LaGuardia Airport, where she was scheduled to work a flight originating there. Hours before her scheduled shift, she asked her supervisor if she could speak to her union representative, but the union representative wasn't there. Sierra wouldn't tell her supervisor why she wanted to speak to her -- which was out of character for her because the two were close. Sierra then left her work pass on her supervisor's desk and walked out of the terminal. Surveillance video shows Sierra walking out of Marine Terminal, but it's not clear which direction she went. Police have not released the video, but her family said it only showed about three seconds of her walking. She was wearing her flight attendant dress, but not her full uniform. Her family previously said she does not have a history of depression, and described her as a person who would go out of her way to help others. They fear it was her generosity that may have gotten her into trouble. "My gut tells me she was helping someone," her mother, Donna Shields, told NBC 4 New York in May, when she and Sierra's father flew in from Chicago to look for their daughter. "We don't know who she may have met. She is just... We just don't know. It's hard not knowing," Donna Shields said at the time.

http://www.oregonlive.com/cycling/index.ssf/2016/09/cycle_oregon_volunteer_mark_bo.html Cycle Oregon volunteer Mark Bosworth vanished 5 years ago; his Fund provides legacy By Allan Brettman | The Oregonian/OregonLive on September 17, 2016 at 8:00 AM GLENDALE – It's been five years since Cycle Oregon volunteer Mark Bosworth went missing on the last day of the 2011 ride. Hours after Bosworth's disappearance on Sept. 16, 2011, a massive search was launched in and around Riddle, the next-to-last community the weeklong bike ride visited, and the last place Bosworth was seen. His disappearance remains a mystery. On Friday, Bosworth's wife, Julie Bosworth, and their daughters, Kelly and Claire, stopped in Riddle to pause and remember that time five years ago in the Douglas County community. Then they continued driving south on Interstate 5 to Glendale, where they celebrated with five people a continued legacy of Mark Bosworth's participation with Cycle Oregon. Julie, Kelly and Claire – as well as Bosworth's look-alike brother, Eric – had dinner with the five winners of this year's Mark Bosworth Fund. The fund pays a first-time rider's entry fee – which was $985 this year – plus $100 for other expenses. Mark Bosworth, family members say, loved Cycle Oregon and was concerned the cost of the ride was prohibitive to people who otherwise would have wanted to participate in the event. While the fund was initially intended to pay a single entry fee each year, the Bosworth's said they found the application essays of the fund recipients to be too compelling to limit the award to one or even two riders. This year, the fund paid for three entry fees; also, Cycle Oregon co-sponsor Johnson RV donated two of its entries to the fund. This is the fourth year the fund has provided at least one entry fee. The fund recipients this year were Hagen Hammons of Raleigh, N.C.; Monique Ybarra of Hillsboro; Trina Kanewa of Springfield; Oscar Fernandez of Portland; and Carly Reimer of Del Rio, Texas. The fund has $15,000 and needs more donations to sustain continued gifts to worthy, first-time riders, Julie Bosworth said. Donations can be made through the fund's website, markbosworthfund.org.

http://www.modbee.com/news/article101148902.html September 10, 2016 5:25 PM Families of missing gather in Columbia By Jeff Jardine jjardine@modbee.com With nearly two dozen people missing or unaccounted for in Tuolumne County since 1980, family members and friends came together at Columbia State Historic Park on Saturday for the first Tuolumne County Missing Persons Awareness Day. About 75 people attended the event, which included a group prayer and testimonies by some family members about their missing loved ones. The event was organized by private investigator Chuck Jones; his wife, Andrea; former Carole Sund-Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation Director Kim Petersen; and Linda Hatter, whose son, Allen Martin, disappeared in February and is still one of the missing. The families of seven of the missing were represented: Carl Knight (April 2008), Allen Martin (February 2016), Nita Mayo (August 2005), Troy Galloway (March 2016), Darvis Lee Jr. (October 2010), Willie Elgen (January 2011) and Patty Tolhurst (April 2014). The organizers hope to make it an annual event aimed at keeping the cases in the public eye in hopes of gaining information that will bring them answers.

http://www.modbee.com/news/article101148902.html September 10, 2016 5:25 PM Families of missing gather in Columbia By Jeff Jardine jjardine@modbee.com With nearly two dozen people missing or unaccounted for in Tuolumne County since 1980, family members and friends came together at Columbia State Historic Park on Saturday for the first Tuolumne County Missing Persons Awareness Day. About 75 people attended the event, which included a group prayer and testimonies by some family members about their missing loved ones. The event was organized by private investigator Chuck Jones; his wife, Andrea; former Carole Sund-Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation Director Kim Petersen; and Linda Hatter, whose son, Allen Martin, disappeared in February and is still one of the missing. The families of seven of the missing were represented: Carl Knight (April 2008), Allen Martin (February 2016), Nita Mayo (August 2005), Troy Galloway (March 2016), Darvis Lee Jr. (October 2010), Willie Elgen (January 2011) and Patty Tolhurst (April 2014). The organizers hope to make it an annual event aimed at keeping the cases in the public eye in hopes of gaining information that will bring them answers. Read more here: http://www.modbee.com/news/article101148902.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.people.com/article/mother-missing-kara-speaks-out-kylr-yust-arrested-burning-allegedly-jessica-runions?xid=rss-topheadlines Mother of Missouri Woman Missing Since 2007 Sees Eerie Similarities in Current Case of Missing Woman By Harriet Sokmensuer @HGSokmensuer 09/16/2016 AT 05:05 PM EDT Rhonda Beckford has been searching for answers ever since her daughter, Kara Kopetsky, went missing on May 4, 2007. The 17-year-old was last seen leaving her Belton, Missouri, high school during a free period. She was never seen or heard from again. Four or five people saw Kara in the hallway before she was seen on the school's security cameras leaving campus, Beckford says, but no one knew where she went. "That's the big question," Beckford tells PEOPLE. "What happened?" Now, Beckford hopes she is on the path to an answer. Kylr Yust, 28, once a suspect in her daughter's disappearance, has been arrested in connection to another missing Missouri woman. Jessica Runions was last seen leaving a party on Sept. 8 with Yust, a friend of her boyfriend, according to police. On Sunday, authorities discovered Jessica's empty and burned SUV on the side of the road. Yust was arrested in Benton County, Missouri, on Tuesday for allegedly knowingly burning Jessica's vehicle. He has not been charged with the 21-year-old's disappearance. Kara and Yust dated for nine months when they were teenagers in 2007, Beckford tells PEOPLE. Days before she went missing, Kara filed a restraining order against Yust, alleging he was violent towards her, a Cass County official tells PEOPLE. "We tried to tell her that he wasn’t good for her but that just drew them closer together," Beckford tells PEOPLE. Finally, a week before her disappearance, Beckford says Kara decided she'd had enough. Runnions was last seen leaving a party on Sept. 8 with Yust, a friend of her boyfriend, according to police. On Sunday, authorities discovered Jessica's empty and burned SUV on the side of the road. Yust was arrested in Benton County, Missouri, on Tuesday for allegedly knowingl "[She] started to mature and see him for who he was," Beckford tells PEOPLE. "They say that [that moment of realization] is the most dangerous time because the abuser doesn’t want to let the abused go." Police questioned Yust about Kara's disappearance but the then 18-year-old told authorities he was out of town visiting a sick relative. (Yust's family declined PEOPLE's request for comment.) He was never charged. "You have to hold on to some sort of hope that she's out there but as time went on we realized that she wasn't going to come home," Beckford says. Beckford says Kara's room hasn't been touched since she went missing. Recently, Beckford has thought about cleaning it out. "It's emotionally hard [to see it every day], especially when you know she's not coming home," Beckford tells PEOPLE. "But [her brother] says even if you clean it out it's still going to be Kara's room." A History of Violence Since his ex's disappearance, Yust has been in trouble with the law, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE. I n September 2011, Yust pleaded guilty to domestic violence after choking and striking his then-pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend, according to a police report obtained by PEOPLE. The victim claimed Yust told her, "I've killed people before, even ex-girlfriends out of sheer jealousy. I will kill you," the report states. The victim also alleged Yust told her he had killed her three kittens and would kill her family if she went to police, the report states. A Kansas City judge filed an order of protection, but the order was later dismissed, court records show. In 2013, Yust was sentenced to four years for drug trafficking. He was released after serving three years, according to court documents. Beckford says she and her family make a point of having a family member at every one of Yust's court hearings. "Kara has not been forgotten and we're not going away," Beckford says. "We're not giving up." Jessica's Family: 'We're Heartbroken' Jessica Runions' family tells PEOPLE they're staying positive by leaning on each other and their faith since her disappearance. "We're heartbroken," Jessica's grandmother, Linda Runions, tells PEOPLE. "We're hoping to hear something soon." Jessica was a baker at a local retirement home and was hoping to attend culinary school, her family tells PEOPLE. Rhonda Beckford tells PEOPLE she understands what Jessica's family is going through – especially her mother. "Her world has changed and she doesn't know how to adjust to it. Nobody does. You shouldn't have to," Beckford says. On Wednesday, investigators searched the home of Yust's grandfather looking for items belonging to Jessica including an iPhone, purse, and car keys, according a search warrant obtained by PEOPLE. Authorities left the home with a blue plaid shirt, a Q-tip with blood and an alcohol pad with blood, the warrant states. Yust has not been assigned an attorney and is being held on a $50,000 bond. A Jackson County judge entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Yust. Both Kara's and Jessica's family plan on attending his trial. "[Kara], we're never going to give up," Beckford says she's telling her daughter. "When you're found and brought home we're going to put you to rest like you should be."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/daughters-were-right-woman-slain-years-ago-in-pike-county/article_93b9cd90-0c16-5231-8118-deed723c9053.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share Overlooked fingerprint was key to finding Metro East woman missing for 26 years By Christine Byers St. Louis Post-Dispatch 9/14/2016 DUPO • Melody Day spent most of the past 26 years searching for clues to find her missing mother — and collecting records and online information that might someday help identify a body, if it came to that. On Tuesday, she said she was disappointed to learn that the key to the mystery had been sitting unnoticed in a Missouri Highway Patrol file. In 2010, Day had learned from a Facebook posting that the decomposing body of a woman who apparently was beaten to death, had been found Aug. 26, 1990, in a secluded area of Pike County, Mo. That was the same month her mother, Cynthia Day, 38, was last seen. There were similarities. Both women had hysterectomies, for example, and similar jewelry, body size and hair color. Melody Day believed it was her mother. But she and her sister, Kimberly Day, both of Dupo, were told by Pike County sheriff’s officials there was no way to be sure. DNA testing was not available in 1990. And there was no tissue left to test, because the victim’s bones had been boiled to preserve them and accommodate an attempt at facial reconstruction. The women feared they would never know for sure. But the Facebook friend with the original posting called the Missouri Highway Patrol on July 26, asking investigators to see if there was anything available to help. It turned out, there was. Pike County Sheriff Stephen Korte said Tuesday that an overlooked single thumbprint was discovered in Highway Patrol files, unbeknownst to his investigators. A match was confirmed with an Illinois misdemeanor arrest file, and the sisters were told Monday. They said it felt like a slap in the face. “We told them to look for fingerprints,” said Melody Day, 44, in an interview at her home Tuesday. “And all this time, this thumbprint has been sitting there.” The family had kept faith of finding Cynthia Day, or her remains. Melody Day’s daughter, Kimiel Day, named her 7-year-old daughter Kimia Faith Louise — Louise for Cynthia Day’s middle name and Faith for the hope they held. “For it to be solved simply by a fingerprint leaves you astounded,” Kimiel Day said Tuesday. “It’s crazy.” Korte said problems with the case track back to failure of police in the now-defunct Metro East stockyard village of National City, at the edge of East St. Louis, to record a missing-person report. He said that made her disappearance invisible to Pike County detectives as they tried to identify the body. The sheriff said the identification of Day’s remains will help the investigation, and that police have a “person of interest.” Since the Day sisters came to his department six years ago, Korte said, his officers have researched the latest forensic technology and talked with specialists. He said he is unsure why the fingerprint never made it to his agency from the Highway Patrol. “We assumed we had everything they had in our case file,” Korte said. “I spoke to the lead investigator we had on the case and he said he didn’t know that a print even existed.” Melody Day said her Facebook friend had queried the patrol directly, knowing it keeps fingerprint records. The sisters’ frustration has been featured in the past in the Post-Dispatch and on TV’s “Dateline” and the Discovery Channel, as well as other media. They believe their mother’s bones are still in a forensic lab in Colorado. The family plans to have them cremated, and to divide the ashes among them. Kimberly Day, 42, is struggling with the transition from having a missing mother to a murdered mother. “It’s like I’ve got to start life over,” she said, tears welling in her eyes. “You get used to people saying, ‘Oh, she’s just missing,’ and you’re living off that hope. Now you’re not living off that hope.” The sisters last saw their mother Aug. 10, 1990. Kimberly took her newborn son and Melody, then a recent high school graduate, to a motel in Fairmont City where Cynthia Day lived with a boyfriend. They said she spoke of leaving him. When they returned several days later, their mother and the boyfriend were gone. The boyfriend later told police he saw Cynthia Day get into a truck in National City. It was a known prostitution stroll. The daughters have heard that their mother may have been a prostitute and drug abuser. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call the Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control at 636-300-2800 or the sheriff’s office at 573-342-3202.

http://fox4kc.com/2016/09/11/man-taken-into-custody-in-edwards-mo-in-connection-with-missing-raymore-woman/ Man once questioned in 2007 disappearance of Belton teen arrested in connection to another missing woman Posted 4:29 pm, September 11, 2016, by FOX 4 Newsroom, Updated at 08:18pm, September 11, 2016 EDWARDS, Mo. — A man wanted for questioning regarding the disappearance of a Raymore woman has been taken into custody, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Kylr Yust, 28, was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m. Sunday at his family’s property in Edwards, Mo., a city about two hours southeast of Kansas City. The family of 21-year-old Jessica Runions said she was last seen leaving a house with Yust on Thursday night. Yust was taken into custody on an arrest warrant on charges for Knowingly Burning in relation to Runions’ vehicle, which was found burned in Kansas City on Saturday. Yust is the former boyfriend of Kara Kopetsky, a Belton teen who went missing in a highly publicized case in 2007 and has still not been found. Yust has also been in trouble in the past on drug trafficking charges, as well as animal abuse charges. Yust is now being held in the Benton County jail. Missouri Search and Rescue have searched two large areas twice, but Runions remains missing.

http://journalstar.com/news/local/marilyn-alexander-children-said-there-can-t-be-closure-until/article_2d1c30ed-de34-5add-a8b8-fae521e87f5c.html Marilyn Alexander: Children said there can't be closure until mystery solved NICHOLAS BERGIN Lincoln Journal Star 9/5/2016 HASTINGS -- Marilyn Alexander disappeared on Sept. 20, 2001. Her family believes she was the victim of domestic violence, her homicide unpunished. Yet without proof, they wonder: Is she out there nearly 15 years later? Is she being held against her will? Did she leave to start a new life without her husband and four children? “There have been a lot of times when I’ve been driving somewhere, and I stopped and turned around, because I thought I saw someone that looked like her,” said Marilyn Alexander's oldest child, Elizabeth Morris, now 36. Her younger sister, 26-year-old Emilea Sells, recently drove to the Rosebud Casino near Valentine with her husband, but spent the trip hoping she wouldn’t find her mom feeding coins into a slot machine. “If she is still alive, that means she left everybody. I can’t see her doing that,” Sells said. Marilyn Alexander was 39 when she disappeared. It was several years before the 2004 launch of Facebook, which families often turn to now to help find missing loved ones. n the initial days and weeks, her disappearance got little attention. She had suffered from occasional depression, and she drank and gambled. She had gone off on her own before but had always made sure her children had a place to stay, either with her parents or sister. Then workers at the gas station she managed found checks she wrote to the business but didn’t cash. Police got a warrant for her arrest on suspicion of theft. “We’re not going to lie. She was an alcoholic, and she had a gambling problem,” said Cheryl Thiel, Alexander’s sister. “Police treated her as a runaway, as a criminal that ran away from her crime,” Ed Thiel, her brother-in-law, added. About a month after she disappeared, her car was found north of Red Cloud. In the car there were beer cans and a money bag with uncashed checks but no cash. Her brother and ex-husband were members of the Red Cloud Fire Department and got fellow volunteers to help scour nearby fields. Things didn’t add up to those who knew her. They say she wouldn’t have left without arranging for a place for her children to stay. None of her belongings were missing, not even the pillow she had refused to sleep without for years. She once forced her ex-husband to drive hours to get that pillow after she forgot it at a hotel. Her dad, Laurence “Abie” Johnson, a former Hastings police detective, would have bailed her out of legal trouble, paid her debts and hired her an attorney; and Marilyn Alexander knew that, Cheryl Thiel said. At the time, family wondered whether she had fled from her husband, Robert Alexander, and sought help at a women’s shelter. Morris, her oldest daughter, called them all. “All they would say is, 'If she’s here, she is going to have to contact you herself,'" she said. “At that point, it kind of gave us a little bit of hope.” Amy Evans, executive director of Friendship Home, a Lincoln shelter, sympathized with the heartache Marilyn Alexander's family felt, but said the danger domestic violence victims face makes secrecy essential. I just can't imagine what that must have been like for her to so desperately be looking for her mother and not be able to get the answers that she needed," Evans said. "However, we as a domestic violence shelter can't know who the person calling actually is and whether the victim would want information disclosed to that person." Evans said if the Friendship Home knows how to contact a person whose family is looking for them, staff will pass on a message and ask whether it's OK to give a message back to the person who called. The month before Alexander disappeared, she had suffered a cut going through a glass door of a gun cabinet during a fight with Robert. He wouldn’t let her get it treated at a hospital. “I told her at that point she needed to leave him and get away,” Morris said. “But she said she didn’t want to have another failed marriage.” The most dangerous time for a woman in an abusive relationship is when she's leaving, said Patsy Martin, communications coordinator for Voices of Hope, a Lincoln-based nonprofit that works with victims of abuse and sexual assault. The Nebraska State Patrol recorded 22 domestic violence-related deaths involving 17 perpetrators from 2012 to 2013, the most recent dates for which figures are publicly available. All the deaths happened in a heterosexual relationship with a male abuser. In some cases, the person killed was a child or someone else close to the abuse victim. Marilyn Alexander’s dad suspected his son-in-law of murder. Adams County Sheriff Gregg Magee said area law enforcement respected Johnson, who died in 2007 without getting closure in the most personal case of his life. Johnson brought his suspicions to investigators, Magee said, but officers were never able to prove Alexander died. Robert Alexander took a lie detector test, which indicated he answered questions truthfully, according to documentation provided by Marilyn's family. It wasn’t enough to convince Johnson, who hired a private detective and paid to have a cadaver dog search the septic tank of the Alexander home near Hastings. The rest of the family looked to Johnson for guidance, and he told them to put their faith in law enforcement. Years later, they wonder whether evidence was lost during those first weeks, when police considered it a case of a woman running from the law. The night before Alexander disappeared, she tucked her two youngest children into bed, like she did every night. Everything seemed normal, said Sells, 11 at the time. Her brother, David, was 9. “She told us she loved us,” Sells said. Their older siblings were grown and out of the house. Morris had her own family, and Tim Flesner was attending college in Lincoln, where he still lives. Marilyn Alexander woke early Sept. 20, 2001, and left the house before her kids got up for school. She managed the Time Saver gas station and had to open. Ed Thiel was the last member of the family to see her when he stopped at the station. “She was not her normal giddy self,” he said. “She was kind of depressed, said she had to go back home and do something, then had to pay a bill.” What happened after that is a mystery. A man claimed to have seen her at a Lincoln bar that day drinking beer and watching the Huskers play football, which police considered the last time she was seen alive. But her family thinks he was mistaken about the date she was there. She had been at the bar a week prior, before she went missing, watching a football game. When the younger children got home from school that day, they found their stepdad shampooing the carpet. It was odd for him to be home that time of day, Sells said, and even more unusual for him to be doing housework. That weekend, Robert Alexander moved the kids to their father’s house in Red Cloud. He filed for divorce about a month later. Robert Alexander died in March 2003 when his truck crashed about 5 miles north of Harvard. Marilyn Alexander remains on the Nebraska State Patrol’s Missing Persons Clearinghouse. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office still has an active missing person case and criminal case, to make it easier to search national databases for mention of her. They also have samples of her hair and DNA. She doesn’t have a headstone or memorial and never got an obituary. Her children believe she’s dead, but they’ve been unable to properly mourn, Morris said. “Even if we had a stone somewhere, there’s never going to be closure."

http://journalstar.com/regina-bos-someone-knows-what-happened-to-her/article_bef73035-8439-52d9-8f1f-fbd2251ee429.html Regina Bos: 'Someone knows what happened to her' CINDY LANGE-KUBICK Lincoln Journal Star 9/6/2016 fter nearly 16 years, the tips still come in. Jailhouse informants. Strangers from area codes across the country. And Ken Koziol checks them all, hoping one will finally lead to Regina Bos, the musical mother of three who left Duggan’s Pub at the end of open mic night on Oct. 17, 2000, put her guitar in her trunk and then disappeared. More than 100 tips have been investigated, the sergeant with the Lincoln Police Department said. Greg Sorensen, the first LPD detective on the Bos case, has retired; the second has moved to another unit. “We really want to find out what happened to Gina,” Koziol said. “It’s on so many officers’ minds.” The high-profile case has an electronic file thousands of pages long, among the largest Koziol can remember in his 38 years on the force. The cold case is classified as a missing persons case, although it’s highly unlikely Bos, 40 when she disappeared, is alive. Koziol declined to detail the leads the department has chased, citing the open investigation. “There are so many jailhouse rumors that go around, but it’s the same thing over and over.” And nothing has led to Bos, a middle child in a large, close-knit family who was waiting for a Habitat for Humanity house and had begun a new job when she vanished. Koziol remains in contact with Bos’ sister, Jannel Rap, who became the family’s spokeswoman early in the search. The California musician flew to Lincoln to help paper the city with fliers featuring her sister’s photo in the days after she vanished. She started the Squeaky Wheel Tour, traveling the country performing and bringing attention to Gina and others who are missing in the cities she visited. She started 411 GINA, a website with a hotline for tips about her sister’s whereabouts. In the beginning, every lead brought hope, Rap said. Over time, the family tempered its expectations. “Eventually, we learned for our own emotional health not to believe or count on anything until we knew there was some validity to it.” But even seemingly solid tips never panned out. Earlier this year, Rap canceled the 800 number associated with the 411 GINA website, saving money by switching to a cellphone. She was surprised by the feelings that accompanied her decision. “It’s a phone number, for goodness sake,” she wrote on Facebook. “But it’s not just any number. It’s a phone number that takes me back to that unimaginable moment when I heard those words ‘Gina is missing.’ “We had high hopes for that number and for this cause. We couldn’t find Gina, but perhaps there is hope for someone else’s ‘Gina.’” The case will remain open until Bos is found, Koziol said. “Someone knows what happened to her. Hopefully one day they will finally find it in their soul to come forward.”

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/03/us/jacob-wetterling-remains-found/ Jacob Wetterling: Remains of missing Minnesota boy found, authorities say By Ralph Ellis and Ray Sanchez, CNN 9/4/2016 (CNN)The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, the Stearns County Sheriff\'s Office said Saturday. \"The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling\'s earlier today,\" a news release said. The release didn\'t say whether anybody has been charged. The sheriff\'s office said investigators will evaluate new evidence and \"expect to be in a position to provide more detailed information early next week.\" The abduction of the 11-year-old boy led to the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, which requires states to maintain sex offender registries and guidelines. Child pornography suspect Danny James Heinrich, who was questioned in the Wetterling case, gave information that led authorities to the remains, said CNN affiliate WCCO and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, quoting unnamed sources. Patty Wetterling, Jacob\'s mother who became an advocate for families of missing children, told CNN in a text, \"Our hearts are broken. There are no words.\" She declined further comment. Jacob disappeared on a dark road in central Minnesota on the night of October 22, 1989. Jacob had been at home with his two younger siblings, Trevor, 10, and Carmen, 8, and Jacob\'s friend Aaron Larsen, 11, while Patty and Jerry Wetterling attended a dinner party about 20 minutes away. Wetterling, who lived in rural St. Joseph, his brother and a friend were coming home from a convenience store on bikes and a scooter when a man wearing a stocking mask and holding a gun approached. The man asked the boys their ages, grabbed Jacob and told the others to run into the woods or else he\'d shoot, Jacob\'s father has said, recounting what his other son told police. The case garnered worldwide attention and was recently featured on the CNN series \"The Hunt with John Walsh.\" s news of the disappearance spread, FBI agents and National Guard troops descended on St. Joseph to aid in the search. Tens of thousands of tips surfaced in the weeks that followed, but none led to an arrest or, until now, discovery of the boy\'s remains. In October 2015, authorities announced a development: Heinrich, 52, was questioned in the abduction. Investigators interviewed Heinrich about Jacob\'s disappearance, according to Andrew M. Luger, the US attorney for Minnesota. Heinrich denied involvement, authorities said. At that time, no charges were filed in the Wetterling case. Heinrich has not been named a suspect in the case. Since her son\'s kidnapping, Patty Wetterling helped create the sex offender registry for Minnesota and subsequently for the nation. She also helped build Team HOPE -- Help Offering Parents Empowerment -- a parent-to-parent mentoring program for mothers and fathers in similar situations. \"Most parents know nothing about child abduction, so when it happens you just scramble for what\'s out there,\" Wetterling said in 2014. Jacob would have turned 38 in February. \"Jacob was a fun, active, athletic, kind, 11-year-old boy who loved peanut butter and football,\" his mother wrote in 2014. \"He was most known for his sense of fairness.\" Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton issued a statement saying, \"Today, we continue to offer our love and support, as the Wetterling family finally brings their son home to rest.\" The Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, a foundation that provides education on the exploitation of children, said Saturday: \"We are in deep grief. We didn\'t want Jacob\'s story to end this way.\"

Tina's sister, Sharon, has passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. Our condolences to the family.

http://www.ksla.com/story/32942116/a-decade-later-missing-bossier-mans-family-still-looking-for-closure#.V8dKtmBsqnY.facebook A decade later, missing Bossier man's family still looking for closure Wednesday, August 31st 2016, 1:41 pm PDT Wednesday, August 31st 2016, 1:55 pm PDT By KSLA Staff BOSSIER PARISH, LA (KSLA) - A decade later, a family still is searching for an answer as to what happened to one of their loved ones. linton Devon Nelson's disappearance from Princeton. Last year, Nelson's mother traveled here from South Dakota to place flyers throughout the Bossier Parish area. Carolyn Johnson's goal was and continues to be to keep alive hope of learning what became of her son. Authorities and Nelson's family members believe he is dead. His family has offered a reward for the recovery of his remains. A posting Aug. 25 on a Facebook page about Nelson sums up his family's continued anguish. "Crazy this is from 2011. Clinton disappeared in 2006. I am not convinced that Larry was involved but I am convinced that several at the party were! September 1st marks 10 years!!!!! Yes I said that right, 10 years of life my son has missed out on. 10 years of pain his family has suffered through! 10 years of no answers. If this is not scary to you, it should be! If it can happen to us, it can happen to anyone!" The story of Nelson's disappearance has received national attention, yet there has been no arrest in the case. "There is someone out there who has the missing piece to the puzzle," Bossier sheriff's office spokesman Josh Cagle said. At the time of his disappearance, Nelson was living with his father in Haughton and working on an oil rig. He last was seen about 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1, 2006, leaving a party at a friend's residence near U.S. Highway 80 at Ward Lane in Princeton. Bossier Parish investigators continue to encourage anyone with information about Nelson to step forward by calling the sheriff’s office at (318) 965-2203 or Bossier Crime Stoppers at (318) 424-4100.

http://local12.com/news/local/where-is-carrie-20-year-search-for-answers-in-womans-murder Where is Carrie: 20-year search for answers in woman's murder By Deb Dixon, WKRC Friday, August 26th 2016 LANCHESTER, Ohio (WKRC) - What happened to Carrie Culberson? Sunday, August 28, it will be 20 years since the 22-year-old woman and her car disappeared from Blanchester. Horror stories whipped through the small town, including the one that had her fed to the lion that guarded the junkyard of her boyfriend's family. Boyfriend Vince Doan was convicted in her murder a year later. That trial that still gets national attention because he was convicted without a body. Even after 20 years, this case is not closed. here was evidence of a violent relationship long before Carrie Culberson disappeared. Vince beat her several times. The photos were used in his aggravated murder trial. He's serving a life sentence; justice for Carrie's family. But her mother wants something else. Carrie’s mother, Debbie, can only imagine how she was killed because of testimony. Such as the woman who said that night Carrie disappeared she saw Vince pull Carrie by the hair, punch her, and tell her, ‘I told you if you ever tried to leave me I'd kill you.’" Then there was the testimony from Vince's sister-in-law. He showed up at his half-brother, Tracey's, house that night. She said Vince and Tracey left with garbage bags and a rifle. Then what? That's what Debbie wants to know. She got away from some of the darkness by moving from Blanchester. There people would tell her what they'd heard. Now she checks the Facebook page, Find Carrie Culberson. In Blanchester Friday, August 26, Vince's father, Lawrence Baker, said everyone lied in the trial. Some of them also testified in half-brother Tracey's obstruction of justice trial. He was convicted. The Blanchester Police Department was also convicted of mishandling the investigation. Part of the settlement was a sculpture at the police station. Major Brad Pickett at the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office said tips still come in after two years. He said they still hope to find her.

http://www.krdo.com/news/hope-still-alive-at-vigil-to-find-kelsie-schelling/41404900#.V8M9_VSsgWY.facebook Hope still alive at vigil to find Kelsie Schelling Colleen Sikora POSTED: 10:40 PM MDT Aug 27, 2016 PUEBLO, Colo. - Kelsie has been missing since 2013 and despite having a prime suspect in the case, police have never been able to get the evidence they need to move the case forward. "We know she's out there,"said Kelsie's father Doug Schelling. "We just all need her back," said Kelsie's mom Laura Saxton. Many gathering Friday night were there to support the family of Kelsie Schelling, who has been missing since February 4, 2013. She drove to Pueblo to tell her boyfriend Dante Lucas she was pregnant. Several days later, police say that someone moved her car from Walmart and abandoned it at St. Mary Corwin Hospital. "Nobody wants to live this, let me tell you," Doug Schelling said, adding that he thought Kelsie would be found a long time ago. "The people that did this, they've got her hid pretty good," Schelling said. "We hoped for something different, it didn't happen," Saxton said. Saxton had hoped that a 20/20 special that aired in May would generate more leads, but that didn't happen. "We were hopeful that CBI would just take over the case, that's not happening," Saxton said. Pueblo Police are still in charge of Kelsie's case, but have asked the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to review it. With no leads this summer, the big question is, "Where is Kelsie?" "We're begging, we're begging for someone to please anonymously tell us where we can find Kelsie," Saxton said. Regardless of the lack of tips and leads, Saxton says the fight doesn't stop. "But I will continue to push and fight for law enforcement to find my daughter," Saxton said. "I just pray it happens, that's what I want more than anything. I want that more than justice." Friday's vigil, was about keeping the faith and hope. "We do have to keep fighting, and when people come out here and support us like this it really helps," Schelling said.