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Age-progressed to 37 years



Jennifer Lynn Fay

DOB:  Dec 25, 1972
Missing:  Nov 14, 1989
Height:  5'4" (163 cm)
Eyes:  Blue
Race: White
Age at disappearance:  17
Sex:  Female
Weight:  90 lbs (41 kg)
Hair:  Blonde
Missing From:
Brocton, Massachusetts
United States  

Circumstances: Jennifer's photo is shown age-progressed to 37 years. She was last seen leaving her home. She has a scar over her eyebrow.

Contact Information:
Brockton Police Department (Massachusetts)
1-508-941-0200

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[Lori Davis]

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A MOM'S DAILY STRUGGLE: WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIFER FAY?
Investigators donate time to help solve missing child case from '89

By COURTNEY HOLLANDS
The Patriot Ledger

A missing child case never really goes cold for the family and loved ones who are left behind with the painful memories.

Dorothy MacLean's daughter, Jennifer Fay, was 16 when she disappeared from a party down the street from her family's Emerson Avenue apartment in Brockton in November 1989.

‘‘I struggle every day to lead a normal life, not knowing where Jennifer is,'' said a teary MacLean, who lives in Rockland. ‘‘It's really hard.''

Now, 16 years later, MacLean may finally get some closure.

Through the Molly Bish Foundation, an organization that promotes child safety through education and prevention, four local private investigators are donating their time to reopen Jennifer's case.

‘‘We're hoping that this investigation will spark interest again in a fairly dormant case,'' said investigator Phillip White of Brockton.

White, along with investigators Robert Carey of Whitman, Charles Castro of Stoughton and Joseph White of Easton, met with MacLean for the first time in February.

‘‘We must have picked her brain for four hours,'' White said.

So far the team, working with local researcher Michelle Littlefield, has identified 224 people that they want to interview or re-interview in connection with Jennifer's disappearance. They have also launched a web site dedicated to the case and started a toll-free hotline.

‘‘Some of the people might feel more comfortable speaking with a private investigator, than to a cop with a gun and badge,'' he said.

The investigators are also looking at three sites - two in Brockton and one in a bordering town - as potential crime scenes, White said.

Once the weather warms, the team will use special equipment to search the water at one of the sites for a submerged vehicle, he said.

‘‘We can't guarantee anything,'' White said. ‘‘But at the very least, we are bringing the case to the forefront.''

The investigators are not paid for the work they are doing.

‘‘It's a labor of love,'' said Castro, another investigator on the team. ‘‘The more involved you get, the less you think about the time you're donating.''

Investigators estimate that they have put in more than 200 hours over the past two months toward finding Jennifer Fay.

MacLean appreciates the work.

‘‘These guys have done more in two months than police have done in 15 years,'' she said during a meeting with the investigators at White's Brockton home.

Jennifer was baby-sitting for her younger brother and sister the night of Nov. 14, 1989, while her mother was out with friends. Jennifer called a cousin to watch the children while she went to see some friends. She returned home with a boy a short time later to pick up a sweater. That was the last family members saw of her. Friends said they didn't know what happened to her.

Police initially treated the case as a runaway. MacLean had doubts about that theory because Jennifer seemed happy at home.

Today, MacLean still doesn't believe that Jennifer ‘‘just took off on a whim.''

Neither does Jennifer's sister, Yvette Churchill, who was just 11 the night Jennifer vanished.

‘‘Jennifer was very outgoing, spontaneous, funny,'' said Churchill, now 27, of Rockland. ‘‘When she didn't come home, I knew something happened to her. ... We were too close for her to run away.''

Churchill laughs through tears as she paints a picture of Jennifer: the life of the party, hair styled and sprayed just so.

Though the family says that dredging memories and testimony to the surface after more than a decade has been difficult, MacLean finds comfort in the prospect of certainty in Jennifer's case.

‘‘Hopefully, the investigators will find her and find whoever did whatever to her,'' she said. ‘‘We'd rather find her alive. But I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.''

If you have any information about the Jennifer Fay case, or to find out more about it, visit www.whereisjennifer.org; or call the toll-free hotline 866-882-2626.

[Lori Davis]

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Police Search Pond In '89 Missing Teen Case
Investigators '80 Percent Sure' Of Person, Motive Behind Disappearance
POSTED: 12:08 pm EDT May 25, 2008
UPDATED: 2:05 pm EDT May 25, 2008

AVON, Mass. -- Private investigators and volunteers searched near a pond Saturday for any sign of Jennifer Fay, a teen who went missing in 1989.

The Boston Globe reported a small clue led them to the area.

Private investigators said someone remembered that Fay used to gather there with friends. It was a spot that was out of sight of police and unknown to parents, the Globe reported.

"Our searches have taken us as far as Texas," private investigator Phil White told the Globe. White took on the case with four other investigators in 2005.

White told the Globe the they are “80 percent sure” they have identified the person and motive behind Fay’s disappearance.

Investigators told the Globe they did not know if they found anything significant in their search of the pond.

Anyone with information about Fay’s disappearance can call the investigators at 508-584-4747.

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Bones of woman found in Berkley

By Maureen Boyle
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
Posted Nov 14, 2008 @ 06:10 AM
Last update Nov 14, 2008 @ 08:17 AM

BERKLEY — For nearly two weeks, investigators quietly tried to identify the skeletal remains of a woman discovered near railroad tracks in town, hoping to bring closure to a family somewhere in the region.

They compared the remains with information in several high-profile missing persons cases — including Taunton mother Debbie Melo, who went missing in Weymouth in 2000 after an argument with her husband, and two New Bedford women who went missing in 1988 and are believed victims of a serial killer.

None were a match.

Now, authorities are hoping someone will recognize the description of the dead woman.

“If there is anyone out there who may know who she may be, we want them to come forward,” said Gregg Miliote, spokesman for Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter.

Investigators concealed the Oct. 29 discovery of the bones initially, in case the victim was one of the high-profile missing persons — and suspected murder — cases.

The state medical examiner and an archeologist examined the remains and determined the victim was a white woman, between 25 and 35 years old. She had a metal plate in her arm.

Experts were not able to pinpoint the time of her death, only saying it was sometime between three and 20 years ago.

Miliote said authorities are now turning to experts who will try to reconstruct what they believe her face may have looked like in another attempt to identify her. That, however, will take weeks.

The remains were found off Plain Street in Berkley on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2:45 p.m. by a property owner, about 500 feet from the railroad tracks.

“He was clearing brush in the wooded back of his five-acre property when he noticed what appeared to be a human skull several feet away from where he was working,” Miliote said.

The skull and other bones were later found at the scene. A state police dog trained to find bodies was also called to the scene.

The woman is one of more than 1,400 unidentified dead entered into the National Crime Information Center missing persons database each year.

Dorothy MacLean, whose daughter Jennifer Fay went missing in Brockton 19 years ago today, said she — like most families of the missing —has mixed feelings every time remains are discovered.

“It is like, do you want it to be Jennifer or do you want to think she is still alive,” MacLean said. “That is what I go through. I want to believe she is alive, I don’t want her to be dead, but I would like to have some closure at the same time.”

Her daughter was ruled out by investigators as the person found in Berkley.

MacLean, formerly of Rockland, said families agonize for years, not knowing what happened to their missing loved ones.

“It is awful,” she said. “Every time they find remains somewhere, I have to prepare myself that it could possibly be my daughter.”

[Lori Davis]

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Search resumes in Brockton case open since 1989
Sunday, November 16, 2008


BROCKTON, Mass. -- Investigators have resumed an almost two-decade old search for a girl who went missing at age 16.

Jennifer Fay went missing in 1989 and was never heard from again.  She was last seen leaving her home with friends.

She was treated as a runaway until another teenager from Massachusetts went missing and raised suspicions.

State, local, and MBTA Police now have the help of a private investigator to continue working on the unsolved case.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children urges anyone with information on Jennifer's disappearance to contact them.

The toll-free 24-hour a day hotline can be reached at: 1-800-THE-LOST.

Related Link:  www.whereisjennifer.org/jennifer/

[Lori Davis]

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Volunteers Won't Give Up Search For Missing Teen
Nov 16, 2008 4:31 pm US/Eastern
Jim Smith, WBZ Reporter

BROCKTON (WBZ) ― Teams of search dogs look for a scent – groping for any evidence they can find, any evidence to solve a missing person case now nearly two decades old.

It's been 19 years since 16-year-old Jennifer Fay of Brockton disappeared. She went out with friends on a November night in 1989 and was never seen again.

Jennifer's mom can only watch the search teams, pray for answers and thank investigators. "I don't know where I would be without them," she said. "They've been great. They really have. And the team of detectives that are on Jen's case, they're just unbelievable. We're not gonna stop until we find her."

Over the years, hundreds of people have conducted several searches like the one on Sunday, but that doesn't mean anyone's giving up.

The latest search is a team effort, transit police, private investigators and even a psychic – all of them dedicated to ending the agony of a family.

"You see her mother waiting here, and that's what drives you guys?" asked WBZ's Jim Smith.

"It sure does," said investigator Charles Castro. "We've been doing this for about four years now, and we're not gonna rest until we have some closure on this case."

On Sunday, search teams did not find Jennifer, but they did discover possible new leads that will be passed on to state police.

In the meantime, a mother's search goes on.

The search for Jennifer Fay is being coordinated through the Molly Bish Foundation. The private investigators and dog teams have donated their time for free.

[Jenn]

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Nov 20, 2008 11:44 pm US/Eastern

Investigators Make Big Break In Missing Teen Case

BROCKTON (WBZ) - Investigators are calling it a big break in a case that had nearly gone cold.

A team of private detectives has uncovered physical evidence near some train tracks in Brockton.

It's an area where Jennifer Fay used to hang out with her friends back when she disappeared in 1989. She was 16-years old.

"We don't want to get our hopes up too high. We believe this is huge. We believe that this is a very important piece to the puzzle. Will we be bringing Jennifer home this week? We don't know," said Michelle Littleton, one of five investigators working on the case pro-bono through the Molly Bish Foundation.

After the discovery, they brought in trained search dogs last weekend. Two out of three dogs got a positive hit for human remains. "Their accuracy is pretty amazing," said Littleton.

Massachusetts State police working with the District Attorney are now following up with their own search.

No word yet on whether their dogs have been able to confirm the new lead.

[Lori Davis]

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Investigators revisit decades-old disappearance of teenager
11/21/2008

(NECN: Brad Puffer, Brockton, Mass.) - A family has been waiting 19 years, wondering what happened to their teenage girl. Now, a team of investigators working on the case of Jennifer Lynn Fay say they have found new evidence they hope will finally bring closure.

Her name is Jennifer Lynn Fay and she was just 16-years-old when she went missing in 1989. But now a team of private investigators - working pro bono - are following some promising new leads.

"On a couple of different occasions we've looked at this area as a place that was familiar to Jennifer and we've been able to uncover some new information and have been able to turn it over to the State Police."

Michelle Littlefield has been working on the case for the past four years. Her team recently returned to this area near these MBTA tracks in Brockton. They found physical evidence, evidence they cannot describe, but suggest, could be a major break.

"Clearly this is the biggest lead you've uncovered?"

"This lead has definitely given us the most hope."

And when investigators returned here with dogs, those dogs provided even more hope this mystery would finally be solved.

"We had three dogs out there last weekend, two out of three indicated there may be human remains in that area."

Jennifer Fay was last scene leaving a party and getting into a car. This area being searched is just a short distance from that location and a place Jennifer often came with friends to hang out.

So state police came to this same location Thursday with their own dog. The results of that search not yet known. And investigators do not want to get hopes too high. After all just a few years ago another search that seemed hopeful at first, turned out to be just false leads.

"As a mother I can't imagine waking up every morning and going to bed every night and not knowing if my child is dead or alive and not knowing where my child is, is got to be the hardest pain for anyone to face."

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children urges anyone with information on Jennifer's disappearance to contact them.

The toll-free 24-hour a day hotline can be reached at: 1-800-THE-LOST.

[Jenn]

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Mom hopes missing girls body finally found

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - Updated 21d 11h ago

The distraught mother of a Brockton teen who went missing almost two decades ago said she hopes the latest lead in the cold-case investigation into her daughters disappearance will finally bring closure.

The hope is that its her and we can finally bring her home, said Dottie MacLean, whose 16-year-old daughter, Jennifer Lynn Fay, disappeared in 1989. Thats what I hope for every time and thats what I go through every time - I think it could be my Jen.

Sunday, two cadaver-sniffing dogs hit on a scent in a wooded area in Brockton near where Fay was last seen, said Phil White, one of five private investigators working Fays case with support from the Molly Bish Foundation. The state police lieutenant handling the case reviewed the scene yesterday and may bring a canine back this week, said White, who has worked Fays case probono for several years.
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A spokeswoman for the Plymouth County District Attorney said her office is in communication with Whites team but declined to comment on whether state police will bring in dogs.

MacLean has gotten her hopes up in the past. On Memorial Day weekend, Whites search team focused on another area in Brockton. In 2005, MacLean went to Texas on a tip that Fay was living there. She met the woman, whom she said had eyes like Fay, but it wasnt her daughter.Fay, a 90-pound, blond, blue-eyed high schooler, went missing on Nov. 14, 1989. White said she was last seen getting into a car after a party.

[Kelly]

Project Jason Profile:

Name:  Jennifer Fay

[img width=320 height=400]http://www.missingki...CMC762300e1.jpg[/img]
                                                                                              Age Progression to 32 Years

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

Identifying Characteristics:  Jen has a scar above her eyebrow.

Circumstances of Disappearance:  Jennifer 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 her her home. Jennifer was never seen again. 

Investigative Agency:  Massachusetts State Police
Agency Phone:  (866) 882-2626

Family Website: www.WhereIsJennifer.org

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Raynham woman encouraged by story of missing girl found alive

By Maureen Boyle
Fri Aug 28, 2009, 11:57 PM EDT

RAYNHAM - Dorothy MacLean watched the TV news reports detailing how a California girl abducted at age 11 — and feared dead — was found alive, 18 years later.

Tears streamed down her face as she stared at the screen.

“I kept thinking, that would be so great if that would happen to me,” said MacLean of Raynham, formerly of Rockland.

For years after her daughter Jennifer Fay went missing at age 16 on the streets of Brockton in 1989, MacLean clung to the hope the teen would come home unharmed.

Then, after more than a decade passed, MacLean prayed she would be able to find — and bury — her remains.

Now, MacLean feels hope flickering once again amid the news that Jaycee Lee Dugard, abducted from in front of her South Lake Tahoe, Calif., home in 1991, was found alive.

“Hopefully, this is a sign that everyone is wrong and she’s out there,” MacLean said of her daughter.

Fay went missing on Nov. 14, 1989, in Brockton, where her family then lived, and the last known sighting of her was on Broad Street.

Over the years, state and Brockton police interviewed dozens of people from Florida to Maine to find clues to what happened to Fay.

Some people claimed Fay was alive. Others claimed she had been killed. Investigators searched spots in Brockton and neighboring towns, where some people claimed Fay’s remains — or evidence — may be located.

MacLean slowly, in recently years, began to accept — just as the Dugard family had — that her daughter may be dead.

Too many years had passed. Too few signs of hope.

Then, news broke in California that a child long feared dead was alive. In 1991, Dugard was walking to a bus stop when she was pulled into a car by two people, kicking and screaming — a kidnapping witnessed by her stepfather.

Authorities allege Phillip Garrido, 58, of California, a convicted rapist, kept Jaycee Dugard, now 29, hidden in a “secret backyard.” Over the years, she gave birth to two children he fathered. Garrido and his wife are now under arrest and held on $1 million bail.

MacLean said the California case provides an emotional lifeline to her as the search for Jennifer continues.

“All the old feelings come back: that she is out there and coming home,” she said.

In the weeks before the California girl was found alive, MacLean had a dream about her daughter. In it, she walks into a house and sees Jennifer.

“She was okay,” MacLean said. Then, in an instant, Jennifer is gone.

[Kelly]

Jennifer has been placed on Project Jason's 18 Wheel Angels campaign. A special poster has been made for her 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, Jennifer was also featured in a national trucking publications, either Independent Contractor or TruckJobSeekers. These free magazines are distributed in truck stops nationwide and have a circulation of about 150,000.

Independent Contractor and TruckJobSeekers 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 Jennifer. Please consider printing and placing a poster in businesses in your community.



Thank you.

Kelly, Project Jason

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Mass. Family Hopes For Clues In 20-year-old Case
Nov 15, 2009 4:05 pm US/Eastern

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) ― A mother says she has not given up hope on finding out what happened to her teenage daughter who disappeared in Brockton 20 years ago.

On Saturday, the family of 16-year-old Jennifer Fay retraced her last steps on the anniversary of her disappearance, walking down Main Street.

The missing girl's mother, Dorothy MacLean, says the family will keep searching and not give up. She believes someone in town knows what happened to her daughter.

Fay was supposed to be baby-sitting her 11-year-old sister and 4-year-old brother on the night of Nov. 14, 1989, when she asked a cousin to look after her siblings and set out for a party near her home.

A private investigator says the teen was seen leaning into a vehicle and talking to a driver.

[Kelly]

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Cold case burns for missing girl’s Brockton family

By Natalie Sherman
Sunday, November 14, 2010 - Updated 11 hours ago




Twenty-one years ago tonight, a blond-haired, blue-eyed 16-year-old girl slipped out of her Brockton home to party with a couple of friends.

She never came home.

“I can never let it go. I can’t. I have to find her,” said Dottie MacLean, still stunned by the disappearance of her daughter, Jennifer Fay. “I know whoever took Jennifer’s life — they know where she is. Drop a line, drop a phone call. Just tell me where she is.”

Tonight, on the anniversary of Fay’s disappearance, the family will hold a candlelight vigil. They and others will retrace her last steps, starting at 5 p.m. at the St. Edith Stein Church in Brockton, an effort to keep the story alive and, they hope, produce new leads that will reveal Fay’s whereabouts.

“We have a pretty good idea of who, what, where, when, why,” said Michelle Littlefield, one of four private investigators currently on the case. “It’s just a matter of finding Jennifer.”

The night of her disappearance, Fay was supposed to stay at home and watch her two younger siblings, ages 11 and 4. Instead, the aspiring actress, a fan of Bon Jovi and “Stairway to Heaven,” asked a cousin to babysit for her and went to a nearby party with two friends. They went to a liquor store, then returned home briefly so Fay could pick up a jacket.

“That was the last time I saw Jen,” said her sister, Yvette Churchill, who was 11 at the time. “I know I didn’t want her to leave that night. I was upset about it. I knew something was going to happen.”

When MacLean reported Fay’s disappearance to local police, they initially dismissed the case as a runaway — something she had done before, MacLean said, though she had always called home.

The case quickly ran cold. In the next few months, the family waited for her return and became convinced foul play was involved. At times, they would answer the phone only to hear silence on the other end of the line.

“As soon as I would say, ‘Jen? Jen? Is that you?’” they would hang up,” Churchill said. “I didn’t want to move after that.”

In 2005, a team of private investigators took on the case pro bono. After thousands of hours and more than 200 new interviews, they tracked down one of two friends Fay was with that night. He told them that when he parted ways with Fay, he had seen her speaking to a man in a car — information he had kept from police at the time because there was a warrant out for his arrest, Littlefield said.

“We’ve put together 90, 95 percent of the puzzle and someone has the information we need to put that last piece of the puzzle in place,” Littlefield said.

As Fay’s Christmas birthday approaches, MacLean said the lack of closure continues to haunt the family.

“Just not knowing and not being able to do something for 21 years... It’s heart wrenching, and I go through it every single year, not to mention every day,” MacLean said. “I just hope somebody that knows something will come forward and finally put a rest to this, so I can find her and bring her home.”

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Crime Files: Bob Ward updates cases of missing person, two murders

Posted: Nov 15, 2012 9:21 PM EST Updated: Nov 16, 2012 12:46 PM EST

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) FOX 25 crime reporter Bob Ward updated three different cases during the FOX 25 News at 10 on Thursday.

Jennifer Fay

It was 23 years ago on Wednesday that Jennifer disappeared from Brockton. Bob says a lot of people are working hard to bring Jennifer home.

On Nov. 14, 1989, Jennifer disappeared a few doors away from her own home. Authorities thought Jennifer was a runaway, but no one believes that now.

On the night Jennifer disappeared, she was supposed to be babysitting her younger sister. Instead, she got out of the house and hung around with friends in her neighborhood and then vanished.

There is a team of private investigators who have been working on Jennifer's case for years. They've conducted extensive searches and developed persons of interest. They have a new area they hope to be searching soon.

In addition to the private investigators, there is an army of family and friends keeping Jennifer's story alive. On Saturday, they are holding an all-day fundraiser in Brockton to help keep this case going.

Jennifer's mother, Dottie, would like nothing more than to bring Jennifer home. There is a $10,000 reward on the table.

Johann Miranda

Johann was shot to death in Lawrence early in the morning on New Year's Eve in front of a dozen eyewitnesses.

Johann's sister tells Bob Ward that she understands the shooter was making derogatory remarks about Johann's Dominican heritage just before he opened fire.

The Essex County District Attorney's Office released surveillance video to FOX 25 which shows three men running to a waiting car immediately after the murder. One of the men has a severe limp.

Police want to talk to those three men. Call Mass. State Police if you can help.

Timothy Walker

Timothy's case was solved because of surveillance video. He was murdered on the steps of his grandmother's house in Lawrence. Surveillance video shows the gunman before and after the murder.

District Attorney Jon Blodgett tells Bob Ward that his previous story on Timothy's murder, as well as the video, led directly to the arrest of Rafael Martinez.

Timothy's mother tells Bob that the trial of her son's alleged killer begins on Feb 11.

[Kelly]

http://www.enterpris.../NEWS/141117245


After 25 years, search for Jennifer Fay continues
Despite 25 years of frustration, family refuses to give up hope. Jennifer Fay of Brockton went missing 25 years ago when she was 16.

By Benjamin Paulin
The Enterprise
Posted Nov. 15, 2014 @ 7:57 pm
Updated Nov 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM

BROCKTON – Friday marked the 25th anniversary of when 16-year-old Jennifer Fay left her Brockton home to meet friends and never returned.

For Fay’s mother, Dorothy MacLean, it’s been 25 years of sadness, longing, frustration and hope in the midst of a parent’s worst nightmare.

Jennifer was babysitting for her younger brother and sister the night of Nov. 14, 1989, while her mother was out with friends. Jennifer called a cousin to watch the children while she went to see some friends. She returned home with a boy a short time later to pick up a sweater. That was the last family members saw of her. Friends said they didn’t know what happened.

The days, weeks, months, years and decades that have gone by since Fay went missing have taken its toll on MacLean and her family.

“Each year I hope that somebody is going to come forward and tell me where she is, what happened. It’s been 25 years now and they’ve never done it,” said MacLean. “Not having her. Not knowing where she is. Every day I get up and wonder ‘Am I going to find her today?’ and then they find these girl’s bodies and think ‘Is that Jennifer?’ ”

Several instances in the last 25 years highlight the misery MacLean has gone through:

In 2013, human bones were found in a wooded area off Foothill Road and East Street in Brockton. The bones were later determined to be from a man.

In December 2007, a woman contacted MacLean and told her that her ex-boyfriend killed Fay and buried her in Weymouth. Investigators learned the woman’s visit was hoax and that she was trying to get back at her ex-boyfriend.

In September 2005, MacLean flew with her sister to Corpus Christi, Texas after someone called in a tip that a woman resembling her daughter was living on a military base there. MacLean stood face-to-face with the woman and knew right away it wasn’t Jennifer.

In 2003, investigators got a tip Fay had been murdered and was in a car sunken in a pond close to her house just outside Brockton. MacLean said it was winter and they had to wait months for warmer weather until a search could be conducted.

“After that I said I don’t want to know anything unless it’s something real,” MacLean said. “I don’t need to know any details like that because I don’t need to have that.”

FRESH EYES ON CASE

In January, Brockton police Lt. Kenneth LeGrice and another detective volunteered to take on Fay’s case and began re-interviewing people police spoke to 25 years ago.

“For being one of the few that were here when it actually occurred I felt it was definitely worth investigating it to see if we could come up with something,” LeGrice said. “It has always been on everybody’s mind that was here at the time.”

Fay’s case is the longest open active missing person’s case in Brockton, LeGrice said, and has had several investigators.

“We’re finding out more and more just about what happened that day and the circumstances around it and the days leading up to it,” LeGrice said. “This has been weighing on somebody for 25 years now, so somebody knows what happened.”

Private investigator Michelle Littlefield has been working Fay’s case since 2005. She has interviewed over 300 people.

“These older cases really don’t get the attention that the family hopes they should get. Local and state police try to do the best with what they have but they don’t always have the resources,” Littlefield said.

“We have followed every single lead that we’ve gotten, every email that we’ve gotten every phone call that we’ve gotten,” Littlefield said. “There are some people that we’ve gone back to three or four or five times.”

ROADS TO NOWHERE

The search has led investigators from Maine to Florida to interview potential witnesses.

Search parties have trudged through wooded areas in Brockton, West Bridgewater, Holbrook and Avon.

Police have used dogs trained to find human corpses, special sonar equipment to search bodies of water, special investigators assigned by local and state police and private investigators working pro bono through the Molly Bish Foundation, which enlists private investigators to help find missing children.

Each time the search has found no trace of Fay.

RETRACING STEPS

On Friday, a candlelight vigil that her family has led each year since 2004 started in the parking lot of St. Edith Stein Church, where a brief prayer was said. The church was where Fay had her first communion.

The group of family members and friends then walked several blocks to Broad Street, retracing what is believed to be her last known steps, in the latest attempt to learn what happened.

The first vigil for Fay, held 15 years after her disappearance in 2004, was held outside Rice’s Market, a place Fay went the night she left home forever. At the time it was the last place she was believed to have been seen.

Going back to where she knows her daughter had gone that night may stir peoples’ memories and consciences, MacLean said.

GETTING WORD OUT

In addition to the vigil, MacLean and her family have taken several steps to keep Jennifer alive in people’s minds, something she hopes will lead to someone coming forward with information.

In 2009, the Jennifer Fay Foundation was established. Twenty years after she went missing, the foundation raised $6,000 for a reward for information on the possible whereabouts of Jennifer.

Several fundraisers have been held to raise money for the search efforts over the years.

Members of MacLean’s family have gone to the annual “Missing Children’s Day” at the Statehouse to spread awareness for missing children in Massachusetts.

They took to social media and made Facebook pages and set up a website, www.whereisjennifer.org, about the case and has an age-progressed image of what Fay may look like now.

NEVER A RUNAWAY

Police initially believed Fay had run away from home. In her heart, MacLean didn’t believe it because her daughter was a happy, vivacious teenager who loved her family.

In 2005, through the Molly Bish Foundation, a group of private detectives from the area, including Littlefield, began volunteering their time.

“When we took the case in 2005 we started out just literally doing dozens and dozens of interviews every month,” Littlefield said. “Right away we developed some distinct possibilities and we’ve narrowed it down and we’ve eliminated all possibilities except for one.”

In the past four to five years, interviews conducted by Littlefield and other investigators have led them to believe Fay may have died or was killed and was buried on a private property in Brockton.

Littlefield has been working closely with the Brockton property owner who has allowed them to search part of the property. Littlefield said she is hoping for further searches of the property in the future.

“All of the information we have received over the past four or five years points to that location,” Littlefield said. “We firmly believe that Jennifer met with people that she knew, that she never left her neighborhood that evening. They were people that she knew and trusted; they were her neighbors and friends. Whether it was an accident or whatever may have happened we believe that this group of people were involved.”

For MacLean, she is hoping the searching will end soon to give her family some closure.

“I’ve never given up hope and I never will,” MacLean said. “It just gives me hope to know that there’s people out there that still care.”

“For being one of the few that were here when it actually occurred I felt it was definitely worth investigating it to see if we could come up with something,” LeGrice said. “It has always been on everybody’s mind that was here at the time.”

Fay’s case is the longest open active missing person’s case in Brockton, LeGrice said, and has had several investigators.

“We’re finding out more and more just about what happened that day and the circumstances around it and the days leading up to it,” LeGrice said. “This has been weighing on somebody for 25 years now, so somebody knows what happened.”

Private investigator Michelle Littlefield has been working Fay’s case since 2005. She has interviewed over 300 people.

“These older cases really don’t get the attention that the family hopes they should get. Local and state police try to do the best with what they have but they don’t always have the resources,” Littlefield said.

“We have followed every single lead that we’ve gotten, every email that we’ve gotten every phone call that we’ve gotten,” Littlefield said. “There are some people that we’ve gone back to three or four or five times.”

ROADS TO NOWHERE

The search has led investigators from Maine to Florida to interview potential witnesses.

Search parties have trudged through wooded areas in Brockton, West Bridgewater, Holbrook and Avon.

Police have used dogs trained to find human corpses, special sonar equipment to search bodies of water, special investigators assigned by local and state police and private investigators working pro bono through the Molly Bish Foundation, which enlists private investigators to help find missing children.

Each time the search has found no trace of Fay.

RETRACING STEPS

On Friday, a candlelight vigil that her family has led each year since 2004 started in the parking lot of St. Edith Stein Church, where a brief prayer was said. The church was where Fay had her first communion.

The group of family members and friends then walked several blocks to Broad Street, retracing what is believed to be her last known steps, in the latest attempt to learn what happened.

The first vigil for Fay, held 15 years after her disappearance in 2004, was held outside Rice’s Market, a place Fay went the night she left home forever. At the time it was the last place she was believed to have been seen.

Going back to where she knows her daughter had gone that night may stir peoples’ memories and consciences, MacLean said.

[Kelly]

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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!

 

 

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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.

 

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