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[Denise]

Print a poster: http://www.projectja...AdamKellner.pdf


Endangered Missing Adult

If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact:
L.A. County Sheriff's Department at (323) 890-5500

Name:  Adam C. Kellner

Classification:  Endangered Missing Adult  
Date of Birth:  1973-05-03  
Date Missing:  2007-11-07  
From City/State:  Stevenson Ranch, CA  
Missing From (Country):  USA  
Age at Time of Disappearance:  34  
Gender:  Male  
Race:  White  
Height:  67 inches  
Weight:  165 to 175 pounds  
Hair Color:  Brown  
Hair (Other):  Balding in back  
Eye Color:  Brown  
Complexion:  Light  
Identifying Characteristics:  Previously broken arm as teen. Dental and DNA records are available.  
Clothing:  Possibly wearing a black jacket.  

Circumstances of Disappearance:  Unknown. Adam Christopher Kellner was last seen at approximately 9:00pm at his residence in the 25700 block of Hawthorne Pl. in Stevenson Ranch, CA. Adam had returned to the house from the garage, asked a family member if they needed assistance, and then went to bed. At approximately 3:00pm, the following afternoon, family realized that Adam was gone. All of Adam's personal belongings were left at the residence. Adam suffers from schizophrenia and may need medication.  

Investigative Agency:  L.A. County Sheriff's Department  
Phone:  (323) 890-5500  
Investigative Case #:  007-20787-0661-400  
NCIC #:  M-197005139  


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[Denise]

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=d-0qnjjNO7A

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[Denise]

http://www.2020hinds...m-34-years-old/

Los Angeles area alert: Missing son, Adam Kellner, 34 years old.

Dec 15, 2007, 12:34 am Link
by Susan A. Kitchens
Category: LA and SoCal Life

Via an email from Jennifer Warwick, who also posted about this on her blog: Sherrill is looking for her missing son, Adam. He’s been gone since before Thanksgiving from the Stevenson Ranch area (greater Santa Clarita area).

I clicked the YouTube link to see the movie (from a local ABC news story), and experienced a bit of a jolt — I worked with Sherrill during the 90s when she was the Executive Director of PEN Center USA West.

Adam Kellner is 34 years old. Jennifer says: “He has schizophrenia and was doing well on medication, then suddenly disappeared from his home just before Thanksgiving. He has no car and no cell phone. He’s a chain smoker whose cigarettes are still in the house. It’s truly a mystery what has happened to him.”

An excerpt from the email Sherrill wrote that’s quoted in Jennifer’s email I got:

Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 3:08 PM
Subject: My missing son

To all,

I can’t thank you enough for all your efforts to help find my son Adam. While there is still no news, we want to continue to get the word out in as many ways as possible. Taking advantage of new technologies, we uploaded onto YouTube the piece that appeared on ABC7 News on Thanksgiving. We hope that you will send it on to your friends, particularly those who live or work in downtown LA. The only leads we have had said he might be down there, but we really have no idea. Please spread it as far and wide as possible.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=d-0qnjjNO7A
Thanks for everything,
Sherrill

[Kelly]

Project Jason Profile:

Missing Person: Adam Kellner

Date of Birth: 5/3/73
Missing Since: 11/8/07
Missing City: Stevenson Ranch
Missing State: CA
Age at time of disappearance: 34
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Height: 5 ft 7 in
Weight: 175 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Hair (other): Balding in back
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Fair

Characteristics: Previously broken arm as teen. Dental and DNA records are available.

Clothing: Black jacket

Circumstances: Adam simply vanished from on November 8, 2007 with little money ($3-$4), and no ID or transportation. He took nothing with him, including his cigarettes. Due to a mental illness, he had no friends and did not frequent places. He had been stable for more than two years and showed no signs of a psychotic episode. He was not depressed or suicidal. There was no incident that would have provoked his disappearance.

Medical Conditions:Schizophrenia, acid reflux disease

Agency Name: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.
Agency Phone: 323-890-5500
Case Number: 007-20787-0661-400

[Kelly]

Adam has been placed on Project Jason's 18 Wheel Angels campaign. A special poster has been made for him and can be downloaded and printed for placement. More information about the program, and the link for the poster can be found here:

http://projectjason.org/18wheel.shtml

In addition to the campaign, Adam was also featured in a national trucking publication, Independent Contractor. This free magazine is distributed in truck stops nationwide and has a circulation of about 150,000.

Through the Gears and Independent Contractor are two of Target Media Partner's many publications. In partnership with Project Jason, they each feature two missing persons each per month. You can pick up your free copies at a local truck stop, but if it's far from you, you may want to call and ask if they carry that magazine. These are NOT with the regular for purchase magazines.

We hope this helps in the search for Adam. Please consider printing and placing a poster in businesses in your community.



Thank you.

Kelly, Project Jason

[Kelly]

This story was written exclusively for the 18 Wheel Angels campaign by Adam's mother, Sherrill:


HELP FIND ADAM

By Sherrill Britton, Adam's mother


My younger son, Adam Kellner, vanished from my home, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, on November 8, 2007. He was last seen the previous night when he asked my husband, who was recovering from knee replacement surgery, if he needed help up the stairs to bed. I was away overnight on a business trip, and Adam was doing exactly what I needed him to do. Since Adam often slept late, my husband didn't realize he hadn't seen him until about 3:00 the next afternoon. He looked for him in the garage where he smoked and upstairs in his bedroom—Adam was nowhere to be found. My cell phone rang as I was coming back to Los Angeles, and I heard the words I will never forget, "I can't find Adam."

Adam, who is 35, suffers from schizophrenia, but he was stable at the time of his disappearance. He took his medications regularly and in fact it appears he took them on the morning of the 8th. There was no incident that would have provoked his disappearance: o arguments or disagreements. He didn't take any clothes or ID; he had no transportation and only a few dollars. He didn't even take his cigarettes, and he smoked a pack and a half a day. He always wore a hat, both indoors and out, because he was embarrassed about the bald spot on the back of his head. All his hats were left behind. He didn't have a driver's license or cell phone. His psychiatrist does not believe he was suicidal and was shocked to hear the news. Adam simply vanished, so far without a trace.

As hard as it is to get publicity about a missing adult, it's even harder to get people' attention when that person suffers from a mental illness. There is so much misunderstanding and even fear about people with schizophrenia. Adam is not a paranoid schizophrenic; he is not violent or aggressive. He simply hears voices, and thankfully, they give him comfort. He is extremely isolated—in fact he hadn't left the house for months prior to his disappearance except to take a  bus to doctors' appointments. He was not able to hold down a job and spent his time smoking in the garage or listening to music in his room.

Prior to his illness, Adam was a happy, social boy. He grew up in a loving family in Miami, Florida with his older brother. He had lots of friends and was a good athlete who played soccer and tennis from an early age. After graduation from high school, he went off to college in central Florida. Like many people who come down with a mental illness, he began experiencing problems as a young adult. He flunked out after his freshman year and began experimenting with drugs. Little did we know that he was self-medicating, trying to justify the voices in his head.

It took several years to finally figure out what was happening to Adam. I had remarried and moved to Los Angeles. Adam came to live with my husband and me in 1994, and we began the process of obtaining a diagnosis, getting him off drugs and putting him on the right medications. Living with someone with schizophrenia is difficult and stressful, but you do learn to manage and to identify psychotic behavior. Adam was NOT experiencing a psychotic episode when he disappeared; he was stable and coherent.

I filed a missing person's report with the LA County Sheriff's Department immediately because this was extremely unusual behavior for Adam. They tell me this is a hard case to solve since he didn't have friends, didn't frequent places and couldn't be traced through a cell phone, credit cards or a car. They don't think a crime has been committed so limited resources were applied to his case:  taking a report, issuing press releases and monitoring databases.

We have tried everything we know to do:

*  Distributed fliers throughout the local area.
•  Talked to bus drivers who might have picked him up.
•  Sent press releases to the media—The Los Angeles Times and the Daily News printed small articles. The local ABC affiliate covered the story, and we uploaded the piece to YouTube: Help us Find Adam
•  Searched Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles for several months due to alleged sightings down there and distributed many fliers, including some with a reward.
•  Hired a private investigator to follow-up on Skid Row.
•  Called and faxed fliers to hospitals and morgues within a 90-mile radius.
•  Contacted homeless shelters and missions around Southern California.
•  Filed reports with National Center for Missing Adults and California Dept. of Justice Missing and Unidentified Missing Person's Unit.
•  Created a page on Facebook
•  Gave dental records and DNA samples to the Sheriff's Dept.

Since Adam didn't have a car and none of the bus drivers remembered picking him up, we wonder if he might have hitched a ride. We live two miles from Interstate 5 in Santa Clarita, which is a major north/south corridor in Southern California for truckers. Someone may have seen him or even picked him up. That's why I am appealing to 18 Wheel Angels to distribute his flyer, spread the word and keep an eye out for him. Adam could still be in California or somehow made his way back to Florida where his brother lives. He could be anywhere so please do what you can to help. If you have information, please call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at 323-890-5500 and speak with Detective Abraham.

At first, when a loved one is missing, you are sure he will walk back in the house or call home. You can't imagine how this heartbreak can continue indefinitely. As time goes on, you begin to think you may never find him or know what happened. As long as you are doing something ”anything” to search for him, you are able to keep hope alive. I appreciate the role truck drivers are playing in helping me maintain that hope.

[Kelly]

AAN Annual Missing date notify sent. Code 28.

Help us find the missing: Become an AAN Member
http://www.projectja.../awareness.html

Adam has been missing for one year today. Our thoughts and prayer are with his family.

[Kelly]

Project Jason and CDLJobs.com Announce Alliance

CDLJobs.com, a subsidiary of Williams Media Group, and Project Jason, a 501 c 3 nonprofit organization which assists families of missing persons, has announced an alliance. CDLJobs.com will promote Project Jason’s Awareness Angels Network program in their monthly online magazine.

Awareness Angels Network (AAN). AAN, begun by Project Jason in 2008, provides a way for the public to assist the families of missing persons. Missing persons posters designed specifically for the AAN program are disseminated via email to those enrolled in the program. Participants can then upload the posters to websites, print and place the posters in public areas, and forward them to their contacts. The program helps spread the word and increase the chances of finding the person.

Each month, CDLJobs.com will publish a full color ad in their popular online magazine which will feature 5 of Project Jason’s missing person cases from across the country. The ad has clickable links which take the reader to additional information about the missing person, and a link to their printable poster.  Readers are encouraged to sign up for the AAN program and help with poster distribution. “You can be a Hero” is the theme of the joint venture.

“We’re very grateful for this opportunity to have another avenue of awareness for our missing person cases,” said Kelly Jolkowski, President and Founder of Project Jason. “Each poster placed represents a chance to help bring a missing loved one back home.” Project Jason staff will select the cases for the monthly ad.


Project Jason June 2009 CDLJobs.com Online Magazine Ad

In the June issue, the following missing persons were featured:

Bobbi Ann Campbell, missing from Salt Lake City, UT since 1/7/1995
http://projectjason....hp?topic=1432.0

Jason Jolkowski, missing from Omaha, NE since 6/13/2001
http://projectjason....php?topic=131.0

Adam Kellner, missing from Stevenson Ranch, CA since 7/08/2007
http://projectjason....hp?topic=2895.0

Becky Kraemer, missing from Milwaukee, WI since 12/15/2003
http://projectjason....php?topic=720.0

Annita Price, missing from Moundsville, WV since 5/28/1974
http://projectjason....hp?topic=5832.0


To see the June issue of the online magazine, please go to http://www.cdljobs.c...zine/JUNE09.htm 
An introduction to Project Jason and AAN is on page 12 and the ad is on page 13.  (Use the arrows at the top center of the page to advance the pages, and use the zoom button to increase the page size.)

About Williams Media Group and CDLJobs.com

Williams Media Group began in March of 1999, and specializes in advertising for the truck driving recruitment industry. CDLJobs.com, a subsidiary, offers the most comprehensive listings of truck jobs industry interests available. It features: up-to-date news; a trucker's blog for driver comments; links to other sites of industry interest; and notices of driving opportunities from across the country. The site gets thousands of visitors on a daily basis. 

About Project Jason

Project Jason, founded in 2003, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting the families of missing persons, and creating and increasing public awareness of missing people through a variety of outreach and educational activities. Project Jason brings hope and assistance to families of the missing by providing resources and support. The organization is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

For more information about Project Jason’s objectives, activities and services, go to http://www.projectjason.org

[Kelly]

AAN Annual Poster Notify Sent to AAN Subscribers  Code 73

Help us find the missing: Become an AAN Member and receive notifications about missing persons via email.

Click here to become a part of the solution: http://www.projectja...awareness.shtml

[Lori Davis]

http://blogs.discove...er-kellner.html

Help Find Adam Christopher Kellner
February 03, 2010

It is no secret that families of the missing have a difficult time getting public attention for their loved one's case. As difficult as that job is, it is that much harder when the person missing suffers from a mental illness. Such is the case of Adam Christopher Kellner, a 36-year-old man who was reported missing from Stevenson Ranch, Calif., on Nov. 7, 2007.

"Adam was last seen the previous night when he asked my husband, who was recovering from knee replacement surgery, if he needed help up the stairs to bed," said Adam's mother, Sherrill W. Britton, in an interview with Investigation Discovery. "I was away overnight on a business trip, and Adam was doing exactly what I needed him to do. Since Adam often slept late, my husband didn't realize he hadn't seen him until about 3:00 the next afternoon. He looked for him in the garage where he smoked and upstairs in his bedroom, but Adam was nowhere to be found. My cell phone rang as I was coming back to Los Angeles, and I heard the words I will never forget: 'I can't find Adam.'"

According to Sherrill, Adam suffers from schizophrenia but was stable at the time of his disappearance. He took his medications regularly and is believed to have taken them on the morning of his disappearance.

"There was no incident that would have provoked his disappearance—no arguments or disagreements," Sherrill said. "He didn't take any clothes or ID; he had no transportation and only a few dollars. He didn't even take his cigarettes, and he smoked a pack and a half a day. He always wore a hat, both indoors and out, because he was embarrassed about the bald spot on the back of his head. All his hats were left behind. He didn't have a driver's license or cell phone. His psychiatrist does not believe he was suicidal and was shocked to hear the news. Adam simply vanished, so far, without a trace."

Sherrill says people often misunderstand her son's illness and mistakenly believe that people should be afraid of individuals who suffer from schizophrenia. She believes this is part of the reason that people are not taking notice of her son's case.

"Adam is not a paranoid schizophrenic; he is not violent or aggressive," she said. "He simply hears voices and, thankfully, they give him comfort. He is extremely isolated—in fact, he hadn't left the house for months prior to his disappearance except to take a bus to doctors' appointments. He was not able to hold down a job and spent his time smoking in the garage or listening to music in his room."

Prior to his illness, Adam was a happy and social man who grew up in a loving family in Miami, Fla. He had a lot of friends and was a good athlete who excelled at soccer and tennis. It was not until after his high school graduation that Adam began to exhibit problems.

"He went off to college at Stetson. Like many people who come down with a mental illness, he began experiencing problems as a young adult," Sherrill said. "He flunked out after his freshman year and began experimenting with drugs. Little did we know that he was self-medicating, trying to justify the voices in his head."

Sherrill says it took several years to finally figure out what was happening to Adam. By this time, she had remarried and moved to Los Angeles. In 1994, Adam came to live her and her husband, at which time they began the process of getting him off drugs and obtaining a diagnosis.

"Living with someone with schizophrenia is difficult and stressful, but you do learn to manage and to identify psychotic behavior," Sherrill said. "Adam was not experiencing a psychotic episode when he disappeared; he was stable and coherent."

Following Adam's disappearance, Sherrill filed a missing person report with the LA County Sheriff's Department. Unfortunately, they had few resources to offer her.

"They told me this is a hard case to solve since he didn't have friends, didn't frequent places and couldn't be traced through a cell phone, credit cards or a car," she said. "They don't think a crime has been committed, so limited resources were applied to his case—taking a report, issuing press releases and monitoring databases."

Despite the lack of assistance in Adam's case, his family has kept the search active by distributing fliers throughout the local area, contacting bus drivers and shelters throughout the state and searching areas they suspect he might have gone. They have also enlisted the help of a private investigator and filed a report with the National Center for Missing Adults, Project Jason, and the California Dept. of Justice Missing and Unidentified Missing Person's Unit. Unfortunately, none of those steps have resulted in discovering what happened to Adam, but his mother is adamant that she will continue search until he is found.

"At first, when Adam disappeared, I was sure he would walk back in the house or call home. I can't imagine how this heartbreak can continue indefinitely," Sherrill said. "As time goes on, I begin to think I may never find him or know what happened. As long as I am doing something—anything—to search for him, I am able to keep hope alive."

Adam Kellner is described as a white male, 5' 7" tall, 165 to 175 pounds, with brown hair (with a bald spot near the back of his head) and brown eyes. Anyone with information in this case is asked to contact Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective T. Abraham, at 323-890-5500 or via email, at TLAbraha@lasd.org.

[Jenn]

NamUs profile for Adam: https://www.findthem....org/cases/4748

[Kelly]

http://www.jewishjou..._adam_20100505/

May 4, 2010

Family Still Asking, ‘Where Is Adam?’

By Gina Nahai


Thursday morning, Adam woke up, took his medication and vanished. Just like that. A drop of water in the desert at high noon. A 34-year-old man with a round face and the temperament of a boy in his late teens, wearing a black jacket and pajama bottoms. One minute he’s standing in the middle of his mother’s kitchen in Stevenson Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley; the next minute he’s nowhere.

I write this kind of story in my novels, and people call it Magical Realism. I keep saying there’s no magic, just too much reality in these tales, that some people’s reality is just bigger, more crushing, maybe also more incomprehensible than others, and that it has nothing to do with what piece of history or part of the world they occupy.

They look for him throughout the house, up and down the streets of the affluent neighborhood with the clean, sunny streets and kids running around, at the bus stop a block away, in the park three blocks away. They call the police, talk to the neighbors. They search hospitals and the morgue, put up fliers everywhere. They know he had little, if any, money on him, no ID, cell phone or credit cards. He was out of shape and couldn’t have walked very far, had no friends or even acquaintances, hadn’t left the house for months before that Thursday, and, at any rate, who says he left the house that day, either? No one saw him go anywhere; they just know he was in the kitchen because that’s where he kept his meds, and that he took them because the little box that said Thursday was empty. There was no note, no sign of foul play, no conceivable reason for Adam to want to disappear.

That was two-and-a-half years ago, on Nov. 8, 2007. Since then, Adam Kellner’s family has exhausted every resource and chased every red herring, and, still, they know no more now than they did on that first day. His mother, Sherrill Britton, is associate vice president of university relations at Loyola Marymount University. She has a too-long commute to work and might have moved closer to LMU, but she can’t take a chance that Adam will come back to the house and find someone else living there. For months after his disappearance, she left the door unlocked at night, certain he would wander in while she slept. She kept a pair of shoes and a jacket in the trunk of her car, for when she found him during one of her searches on Skid Row. She hasn’t even thrown out the half-empty pack of cigarettes he left in the garage.

I knew Sherrill when she was executive director of PEN West. Among other things, she organized and managed human rights campaigns on behalf of writers who were condemned to death, or imprisoned, or just gone missing, because of their work. That was in places like China and Kenya and the Soviet Union. I wonder if she thinks about that now — now that she’s searching for her own missing son; if any of us ever believes that kind of thing can actually happen, until it does.

The difference between fact and fiction, between a great novel, say, and a well-written biography, is not the “what happened.” Whatever event we make up in fiction has already happened a thousand times in real life. The difference is the “why” — why did Adam Kellner suddenly become invisible? Why hasn’t anyone been able to find a trace of him? Why would he have left — if he did leave — and why hasn’t he made contact?

Adam took medication because he had been hearing voices since he was in his late teens. Before that, he was a good athlete and an outgoing, popular kid. Afterward, he withdrew into a quiet, peaceful, domestic life in which his only companions were the girls that only he could see. He liked the girls and they liked him; he was a happy schizophrenic, the kind that takes out the trash for his mother and offers to help his ailing stepfather up the stairs and has too much going on at home to ever want to step out.

I once wrote a novel about a boy who became invisible except to his mother and sister. He had been a rambunctious, adventurous kid until he lost his hearing and withdrew into his own, soundless orbit. Long after everyone else believed him dead, the Ghost Brother kept returning to his mother’s and sister’s homes, asking to be let in, waiting for them to make him manifest to the rest of the world, to point him out and say, “Look here, it’s my son, my brother, he’s come back from the land of the unseen, older and wiser, yes, and not entirely unscathed, but he’s real and in the flesh, he’s materialized because I’ve been telling his story everywhere I could, to anyone who’d listen, year after brutal, heart-breaking year, even after I knew I should give up hope, I sent the words, the pieces of his legend, into the abyss until one by one, those words came together, formed a sentence, then a page, and for once, life imitated art and the story became the person and walked back in through that same door I had left unlocked.”

Adam’s mother and older brother are counting on this — the power of words — to bring him back.

To read more about Adam, visit Help Us Find Adam Kellner on Facebook.

[Jenn]

http://www.thenervou...r-is-somewhere/

Adam Kellner is Somewhere

by LITSA DREMOUSIS  29 June 2010

Sherrill Britton, an associate vice president at Loyola Marymount University, laughs only once during our 45 minute phone conversation. “Adam used to wear a black ski cap and I hated it and made him wear a baseball cap when he left the house,” she says, referring to her 35 year-old son’s sartorial choices with loving disapproval. Her brief chuckle sounds fraught with exhaustion, though, as if even mirth requires effort now. It is late afternoon on a recent Monday and I assume she is in her office, but I don’t ask because for the past two and a half years she has had to reveal so much so often, I want to accord her whatever scrap of privacy is possible. Also, as Britton would be the first to agree, where she might be located is beside the point.

Britton last saw her youngest son, Adam Kellner, early November 2007 in the comfortable Stevenson Ranch, California house they shared with Britton’s second husband, Leonard, who died last year. The loss of one’s partner is, of course, searing, but Britton lives with a still deeper pain: Adam occupies the netherworld of the missing. Britton was away on an overnight business trip the evening of Wednesday the 7th when Adam offered his ailing stepfather assistance climbing the stairs before bed. Despite the schizophrenia with which Adam had lived since young adulthood, when it became clear his newly askew behavior was more than collegiate posturing, he remained warm toward his mother and stepfather, if remote from nearly everyone else. Which augments the mystery of what occurred next.

“It’s been a long, frustrating ride,” Britton says plaintively. “But we keep hope alive.” As a result of Adam’s illness and medications, he frequently slept past noon, so his stepfather had no reason to worry when he didn’t see him at breakfast Thursday morning, particularly as Adam hadn’t left the house for months. The call Britton received hours later remains indelibly etched: her husband couldn’t find Adam. For years, Britton had laid out Adam’s meds in a day-of-the-week dispenser. Thursday’s pills were gone and, unlikely as it seemed, so was her son.

“I still feel like I’m going to see him on the corner of our block,” Britton continues bewilderedly, as if the facts she’s relaying can’t be real, despite imbuing each facet of her life. “You think you’re going to find him. At first you think it will last a day, maybe two or three. You can’t believe it will go on this long.”

It was reasonable to conclude Adam would appear soon: an avid smoker who was self-conscious about his bald spot, his cigarettes and hats remained, as his did his keys and wallet. He was out of shape, receiving no exercise except climbing the home’s stairs, so it was hard to fathom he could get far. And, crucially, he was stable under the circumstances.

“At some point, you settle for stable,” Britton says. “He had a job years ago, but the stress of losing it caused a psychotic break. But he had been stable for quite some time. If you live with someone with schizophrenia for fifteen years, you can tell if he is having a psychotic episode. Adam wasn’t psychotic.”

Nor was he paranoid or violent. When he heard voices, Adam believed they were his girlfriends and, poignantly, found them comforting. “There’s so much misunderstanding about schizophrenia, but Adam is a sweet young man. He would take out the trash when my husband was ill. He always brought me a Mothers Day gift.”

Britton and her eldest son, Douglas, think the common fallacy that all schizophrenics are dangerous or out of control hindered the search for Adam from the start. Britton filed a missing person’s report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and for awhile, police conscientiously searched. Unable to find evidence of a crime or foul play, however, they concluded Adam had run away or wandered off, though they discovered no proof of this, either.

Which begat an obstacle-strewn maze for Britton and her family. A local television station ran a segment on Adam’s disappearance and the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News each ran short pieces, all of which led to scattered and nebulous reports that he had been spotted roughly 30 miles south on Los Angeles’ Skid Row.

“I’m sure it was a ‘slow news day’ and that’s how we got coverage, but I was so grateful, so appreciative someone cared,” Britton says.  “Douglas and I went to the L.A. missions and handed out fliers with Adam’s photo and information. A security guard said he’d seen him. A homeless couple who essentially adopted us called to say Adam had been picked up by cops. Someone else said he was spotted getting on a bus and asking directions to Santa Clarita, the valley in which our home in Stevenson Ranch is located. But Santa Clarita is a bedroom community. A new face might stand out on Skid Row, but Adam would have been disheveled by then and definitely would have stood out in Santa Clarita.” Each report turned out to be false and Britton doesn’t believe Adam was ever sighted.

“People wanted to help us and felt for us and I think that colored their perceptions. We had people tell us they wished their families would look for them. One woman, who was probably a prostitute was quite kind and said she knew everyone’s faces but she hadn’t seen him. There’s a humanity on Skid Row,” she says and pauses. “It’s scary when you’re driving through but it’s different when you’re walking around.”

Since those early weeks, Britton has hired a private investigator, faxed fliers to hospitals and morgues within a 90 mile radius, given Adam’s dental records and DNA samples to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, and filed reports with the National Center for Missing Adults and the California Department of Justice Missing and Unidentified Missing Person’s Unit. Her home’s proximity to I-5 spurred her to place an ad in a trucker magazine and to contact the 18 Wheel Project, a coalition of truckers who help search for missing individuals. “I’m a very private person, or I was before this. I had to allow people in and I’ve been grateful for their help,” she says.

But Britton’s anguish is palpable, particularly as she describes begging the Sheriff’s Office to search the dense wilderness near her house and trying to procure a helicopter company to do the same, each to no avail.

She recently donated her deceased husband’s clothes to one of the L.A. shelters that helped in her family’s search, explaining, “When you’re doing nothing, you’re giving up. And we don’t give up. But Adam’s clothes and shoes remain in his closet. I haven’t even been able to move his half-pack of cigarettes and lighter from his spot in the garage.”

Then her voice cracks. “When I was at Loyola’s baccalaureate mass recently, the priest asked everyone to reach out to put their hand on a family member. Some people had seven hands on them. I started crying because I had no one.”

[Jenn]

Charley Project profile for Adam: http://www.charleypr...llner_adam.html

[Lori Davis]

http://www.lacrimest...rg/missing.aspx

Missing As Of: 11/7/2007
Last Known Location
At residence, Hawthorne Place, Stevenson Ranch, CA

Name: ADAM CHRISTOPHER KELLNER
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Age at time of disappearance: 34
DOB: 5/3/1973
Height: 5ft 7in
Weight: 165 lbs
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
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Case: FCN #2320731300089
Other ID: NCIC #M197005139

Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff`s Department are seeking the public`s assistance in locating Adam Christopher Kellner.

Adam Kellner lives on Hawthorne Place, Stevenson Ranch, CA. He was last seen at his residence at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007.  Adam Kellner suffers from schizophrenia.

His family is very concerned and is also asking for the public`s assistance.

Anonymous tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers by either calling 800-222-TIPS (8477), submitting an online webtip by clicking the link below or by texting a tip to CRIMES (274637). When submitting a text tip be sure to enter TIPSLA plus your message.

[Kelly]

http://www.latimes.c...pinion/letters/

Letter to the editor written by Adam's mother in response to a story ran about a missing/recovered child:

Many thanks to the writer, and to the father of Laura, for sharing the pain, anger, fear and guilt that family members of missing persons feel.

Whether it is a little girl like Laura disappearing from a campsite or my son, Adam Kellner, who suffers from schizophrenia, vanishing from my home almost three years ago at the age of 34, there is a common bond that families share.

As the story pointed out, having a missing loved one puts a strain on a marriage and can affect siblings for years to come.

I hope that after all these years, the Bradburys can find peace and finally come to terms with the death of a daughter and sister.

For those of us still searching for our loved ones, the agony and fear of never knowing continues.

Sherrill W. Britton
Stevenson Ranch

[Kelly]

http://www.cdljobs.c...sgiving-edition

 

Help Find Missing Persons - Thanksgiving Edition

This month's edition honors those missing close to Thanksgiving time. As families across the nation sit down together to give thanks, in other homes there is an empty place at the table and unique heartbreak that can only go away with answers, and hopefully, a positive resolution. We also recognize that many of our trucking families are not together, but we give thanks they are on the road, bringing needed goods for all of us.

 

As we grow ever closer to the end of the year, please consider Project Jason and the families of the missing in your charitable donation giving plan. If you feel so moved, please visit Project Jason.

 

Missing Person Campaign Information - November 2014

The November 2014 campaign poster, featured below, identifies just a few of the many, many individuals gone missing.  We know you are rushed during this and every holiday season, but we ask that you take a moment to view these faces. If you are willing, take a moment of your time to print and post a few campaign posters along your truck route. Anything you can do to reunite one of these, or any of the missing persons featured on past campaign posters is most appreciated. We thank you for your time to help!

 

 

Click on Each Image Below For More Information

 

Name: Jesse Ross

Missing Since: 11/21/06
Missing from: Chicago, Illinois
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: 02/18/87
Age at disappearance: 19
Height: 5’10”
Weight: 140 lbs.
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Blue
Race: White
Gender: Male

 

Distinguishing Characteristics: Jesse has a light complexion, freckles, and may wear eyeglasses. He was last seen wearing a green warm-up jacket, white t-shirt, blue jeans, and black jogging shoes.

Jesse was in Chicago for a mock United Nations meeting. He disappeared from the Sheraton Towers hotel in the downtown area on November 21, 2006, at about 2:00 a.m. He was seen on video camera leaving the hotel. He did not appear to be intoxicated. The walk to the hotel he was staying in was ten minutes in a well-lit and recorded area, but none of the cameras captured Jesse's movements. If you have information regarding Jesse's disappearance, please contact the Chicago Police Department at (312) 744-8266.

 

 

Name: Andrew Skelton

Date of Birth: 11/20/2001
Date Missing: 11/26/2010
Age at time of disappearance: 9
Missing From: Morenci, Michigan
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 4 ft 1 in
Weight: 57 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Medium

 

Andrew was last seen wearing brown pajamas with orange trim.

 

Name: Alexander Skelton

Alias: Alex
Date of Birth: 11/04/2003
Date Missing: 11/26/2010
Age at time of disappearance: 7
Missing From: Morenci, Michigan
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 3ft 9 in
Weight: 45 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Medium

Alex has a scar on his chin and near his hairline. He needs glasses for classroom work, but did not have them with him. Alexander was last seen wearing black pajama pants and a grey shirt. He has asthma, but did not have his medication with him.

 

Name: Tanner Skelton

Date of Birth: 10/20/2005
Date Missing: 11/26/2010
Age at time of disappearance: 5
Missing From: Morenci, Michigan
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 3 ft 6 in
Weight: 40 lbs
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Fair

 

Tanner was wearing camouflage pajama bottoms and a Scooby-Doo shirt. Tanner also has asthma, but did not have medication with him.

The brothers have been missing since Thanksgiving weekend, 2010. They went for the holiday to visit with their father and he states that he gave them to an underground organization, which authorities have not found to exist. The boys' father, John Skelton, was sentenced in 2011 to up to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to unlawful imprisonment and for refusal to provide the boys' whereabouts. If you have any information about the brothers disappearance, please reach out to the Morenci, MI Police Department at (517) 458-7141.

 

 

Name: Adam C. Kellner

Date of Birth: 1973-05-03
Date Missing: 2007-11-07
Missing From: Stevenson Ranch, CA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 34
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 67 inches
Weight: 165 to 175 pounds
Hair Color: Brown
Hair (Other): Balding in back
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Light

 

Adam has previously broken his arm as teen. Dental and DNA records are available. He was possibly wearing a black jacket at the time of his disappearance.

 

Adam Christopher Kellner was last seen at approximately 9:00 pm at his residence in the 25700 block of Hawthorne Pl. in Stevenson Ranch, CA. Adam had returned to the house from the garage, asked a family member if they needed assistance, and then went to bed. At approximately 3:00pm, the following afternoon, family realized that Adam was gone. All of Adam's personal belongings were left at the residence. Adam suffers from schizophrenia and may need medication. If you have information to report, please contact the L.A. County Sheriff's Department at (323) 890-5500.

 

Name: Christina Whittaker

Alias: Christina Whittaker Young
Date of Birth: 03/25/1988
Date Missing: 11/13/2009
Age at time of disappearance: 21
Missing From: Hannibal, Missouri
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 130 lbs.
Hair Color: Red
Hair (other): Shoulder length, naturally curly, but may straighten
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Fair-light

 

Christina has a tattoo on her back, an outline of an angel 10" long and 8" wide on her left shoulder and a tattoo on her left ankle of a green Care Bear about 3" tall. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white v-neck top with a pink tank top underneath, new white Nikes with a pink stripe. Christina wears a ring with a pink stone and cluster of diamonds about 1/2" long.

She was last seen at Rookies Sports Bar around 11:45 p.m. Witnesses say she left the bar by herself and may have also been taking prescription drugs in addition to drinking alcohol. She has fibromyalgia, is bi-polar, and suffers from depression. If you have information pertinent to Christina's case, please call the Hannibal, MO Police Department at (573) 221-0987.

 

Name: Jennifer Fay

Date of Birth: 12/25/1972
Date Missing: 11/14/1989
Age at time of disappearance: 16
Missing From: Brockton, Massachusetts
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 90 lbs
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Fair

 

Jen has a scar above her eyebrow. She was last seen leaving her home with a male friend to attend a gathering of friends near her home. The friend got sick and they went separate ways one block from her home. Jennifer was never seen again. To report information, please contact the Massachusetts State Police by calling toll-free, (866) 882-2626.

 

Name: Joshua Bryan Smith

Alias / Nickname: Josh
Date of Birth: 1977-11-04
Date Missing: 2000-11-04
Missing From: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Age at Time of Disappearance: 23
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 70 inches
Weight: 150 pounds
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Brown

At the time of his disappearance, Josh was wearing a brown or dark colored T-shirt and brown shorts. Joshua left work early on November 4, 2000, and parked his vehicle on Ponte Vedra Blvd. in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. His vehicle was later located and his shoes were found on the beach. Although there have been extensive searches conducted by law enforcement, his whereabouts remain unknown. If you have any information to help reunite Josh with his family, please contact the St. John's Sheriff's Office at 904-669-4987.

 

Name: Aaron Watkins

Date of Birth: 08/23/1989
Date Missing: 11/11/2007
Age at time of disappearance: 18
Missing From: Elizabeth, New Jersey
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Fair

 

Aaron has a pierced tongue and ears, and a mole under his right eye. He was last seen wearing a green baseball cap, black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. Aaron's roommate stated that he last saw Aaron leaving his home in the roommate's vehicle to go to an acquaintance's home. The vehicle was later found by the police parked on the Driscoll Bridge in New Jersey. Divers searched the waters an hour afterward, but there was no sign of Aaron. He has not been seen or heard from since then. There has been no activity on his Social Security account. Aaron was diagnosed with ADHD when he was a young child. If you have any information to report, please contact the Plainfield Police Department at (908) 753-3021.

 

Thank you for your time to review and support the mission of Project Jason. Our hope is that by promoting the Awareness Angels Network to our truck driver visitors, CDLjobs.com is able to help Project Jason disseminate the information that helps to reunite missing persons with their loved ones. Be safe!

[Kelly]

From the Family:

 

"Eight years after Adam's disappearance, we still have no news of what happened to him. However, this past year we were able to remember and honor his accomplishments at the Coral Gables Youth Center. His legacy of sportsmanship and athleticism will endure there, and for that his family is extremely grateful. We also appreciate all those who keep Adam in their thoughts and prayers."