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[Jenn]

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Tropicana, Atlantic City
February 18, 2010 / News / Park Slope

Park Slope woman, 40, disappears

By Andy Campbell The Brooklyn Paper


Park Sloper Marion McCleneghan, 40, has disappeared. She was last seen leaving a party in the neighborhood on Feb. 6.

Have you seen Park Sloper Marion McCleneghan?

The 40-year-old 14th Street woman was last seen leaving a party at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue on Feb. 6 and hasn’t called friends or family since.

Now her husband, brother and sister-in-law have begun a frantic search including cold calls and fliers all over the neighborhood.

“This is totally out of character for her,” said Ben Sodo, McCleneghan’s husband, who said the two were recently separated and living apart, but were in daily, friendly contact.

“She just got a new job, she’s extremely happy, and she wouldn’t just pack up and leave,” he said.

A neighbor who last saw McCleneghan told Sodo that the missing woman left the party at around 2 am. When Sodo couldn’t reach her for days and her phone went straight to voicemail, he knew something was up.

“She was at a neighbor’s house, a few blocks from where she lives,” Sodo said. “Something must have happened if she disappeared in that short distance.”

He said McCleneghan was seeing a therapist who was treating her minor anxiety problems, but that the condition and medication didn’t affect her “extremely smart, alert, well-spoken” demeanor.

An NYPD detective on the case said he could not comment, except to say that McCleneghan’s case is a priority. She’s described as 5-foot-10, 150 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.


Anyone with information on McCleneghan’s whereabouts is asked to call Det. Gibbons at (718) 636-6483. Give case number 109 for reference.

[Jenn]

http://gothamist.com..._is_missing.php

Park Slope Woman Is Missing

A 40-year-old Park Slope woman has gone missing. Marion McCleneghan was last seen leaving a party at 14th Street and 7th Avenue on February 6th, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Friends and family haven't seen her since, and an NYPD detective says "the case is a priority."

While McCleneghan is described as "happy, extremely smart, alert, well-spoken," she was in therapy for minor anxiety issues, and had recently separated from her husband. However, those closest to her—including her husband, Ben Sodo—believe her disappearance is suspicious, saying "she wouldn't just pack up and leave."

A neighbor last saw McCleneghan, and told Sodo that she left the party, which was just a few blocks from her own home, around 2 am. Sodo says, “Something must have happened if she disappeared in that short distance.”

McCleneghan, pictured, is 5' 10" and 150 lbs, with brown hair and blue eyes.

[Jenn]

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Police, Family Search for Missing N.Y. Woman

Thursday, February 18, 2010

A Brooklyn, New York, woman vanished after leaving a party on Feb. 6 and has not been seen or heard from since, The Brooklyn Paper reported.

Marion McCleneghan, 40, left a party at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue around 2 a.m., according to a neighbor who was the last person to see her, the paper reported.

“This is totally out of character for her,” Ben Sodo, McCleneghan’s husband, told the paper.

The couple recently separated, but Sodo said they were in friendly, daily contact with each other before McCleneghan disappeared.

“She just got a new job, she’s extremely happy, and she wouldn’t just pack up and leave,” Sodo said, according to the paper.

Sodo said he became concerned after he couldn’t get in touch with her and her phone kept going straight to voicemail.

“She was at a neighbor’s house, a few blocks from where she lives,” Sodo said, referring to where McCleneghan was last seen the night she vanished.

“Something must have happened if she disappeared in that short distance.”

An NYPD detective called McCleneghan’s case a priority, the paper reported.

She is described as 5-foot-10, 150 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, according to the paper.

Police are asking anyone with information about McCleneghan’s whereabouts to contact Detective Gibbons at (718) 636-6483 and reference case 109.

[Lori Davis]

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Missing Park Slope Woman Was Fighting With Boyfriend

By Jen Carlson in News on February 19, 2010 10:50 AM

Marion McCleneghan and her boyfriendUnsurprisingly, there is more to the story of the missing Park Slope woman. The NY Post delves deeper into the disappearance of 40-year-old Marion McCleneghan, coming out with a noteworthy bit of information: she has a boyfriend, and she was seen having a loud fight with him the night she allegedly went missing.

Richard Eric Sosa has been dating the recently separated McCleneghan, whom he lives just 8 doors from. He had hosted the party she attended on the night she was last seen, and allegedly fought with him there, before leaving at 2 a.m. Sosa has a scratch on his face; and while the paper reports he had been cooperating with the investigation, when asked to take a polygraph test, he got a lawyer. Currently, however, he's not being treated as a suspect.

Ben Soto, the man she recently separated from, says her wallet was found in her home, as well as her cell phone—he says it was turned off, which is unusual. But some things were missing, like her two laptop computers and a stack of handwritten journals. But Soto says, "I just don't think she went crazy and went off the deep end."
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She is described as 5-foot-10, 150 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes, according to the paper.

Police are asking anyone with information about McCleneghan’s whereabouts to contact Detective Gibbons at (718) 636-6483 and reference case 109.

[Denise Harrison]

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Police Intensify Search for Missing N.Y. Woman

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Investigators climbed into Dumpsters and inched over rooftops yesterday as the search intensified for a Brooklyn, N.Y., woman who vanished two weeks ago after arguing with her boyfriend.

Marion McCleneghan, 40, vanished at about 2 a.m. on Feb. 7 leaving a party at Richard Eric Sosa's home on 14th Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope.

Sources said that she was spotted twice since then — once in a deli and once outside her home.

Sosa yesterday insisted "I'm cooperating," but investigators have suggested he's been less than helpful.

Sosa told friends and relatives that McCleneghan was the last guest to leave.

"I think something bad happened, and I think it was in that house," said McCleneghan's mom, Barbara Sullivan. "The clothes she was wearing the night of that party weren't in her apartment. She never went home."

[Lori Davis]

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Police Search Dumpsters, Rooftops For Missing Woman
02/20/2010

The search for Marion McCleneghan continues, after the 40-year-old Park Slope woman disappeared nearly two weeks ago. She was allegedly last seen at 2 a.m. on February 7th leaving her boyfriend's home, just eight doors down from her own apartment.

McCleneghan, who is separated from her husband, Ben Soto, was at her boyfriend's house for a party. Richard Eric Sosa says she was the last to leave his home that night, and friends say she had been fighting with him. Yesterday it was reported that Sosa had a scratch on his face when he first spoke to investigators, but wasn't being treated as a suspect. He has now gotten himself a lawyer, after police asked him to take a polygraph test.

Today the Post reports that investigators have been digging in dumpsters and scanning rooftops for the woman. Sources now say she has been spotted twice since leaving her boyfriend's—once she was seen outside of her home, and a friend says she was also "spotted at a bodega in Park Slope on Tuesday February 9th, [but] has not had contact with friends or family since Feb. 6th, and her last bank and phone records also occurred on the 6th."

McCleneghan's mother says, "I think something bad happened, and I think it was in that [Sosa's] house. The clothes she was wearing the night of that party weren't in her apartment. She never went home." However, her two laptop computers and a stack of her journals were missing from her home, where her wallet and cell phone were also found.

Police are asking anyone with information about McCleneghan’s whereabouts to contact Detective Gibbons at (718) 636-6483 and reference case 109.

[Lori Davis]

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Missing Woman Said She Was Going To Long Island
By Jen Carlson in News on February 22, 2010 5:50 PM

As the search for Marion McCleneghan continues, more details surrounding the 40-year-old Park Slope woman's disappearance are coming to light. She was allegedly at her local deli a full day after fighting with her boyfriend at his home. The owner of La Dolce Vita told McCleneghan's mother this morning that her daughter came in on February 8th at 7 p.m. In tears, she told him, "Goodbye—you won’t be seeing me anymore." She said she was going to Long Island.

Previously it had been reported that the last person to see McCleneghan was her boyfriend, Richard Eric Sosa—whose house she left on the 7th "in a huff." Her mother now says the two were in the process of breaking up. Sosa still isn't listed as a suspect, though he had a scratch on his face after the disappearance, and has since gotten a lawyer. While the clothes she was wearing that night weren't found in her apartment, her cell phone and wallet were—though her two laptop computers and her stack of journals were gone.

Also noteworthy, while her husband (who she is separated from) originally described her as "happy," her mother says she was in therapy and "was having a rough year—first she lost a friend, then her father and two aunts," and had allegedly been regretting the aforementioned separation.
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[Jenn]

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February 22, 2010 / News / Park Slope

New details about missing Slope woman

By Andy Campbell The Brooklyn Paper

The Park Slope woman whose disappearance has stunned the neighborhood for more than a week was last seen at a deli near her 14th Street home a full day after she allegedly vanished after a fight with her boyfriend.

Mike Haden, the owner of La Dolce Vita deli at the corner of Seventh Avenue, told Marion McCleneghan’s mother this morning that the 40-year-old woman was in tears when she came into the shop on Feb. 8 at around 7 pm.

“She said to him, ‘Goodbye — you won’t be seeing me anymore,” McCleneghan’s mother, Barbara Sullivan, told The Brooklyn Paper. “She said she was headed to Long Island.”

That testimony is contrary to reports that McCleneghan was last seen leaving a party at her boyfriend’s 14th Street home at 2 am on Feb. 7, just a few doors down from her own apartment.

The boyfriend, Richard Eric Sosa, has been unreachable.

Sullivan said that Sosa and her daughter were “drinking buddies,” and that McCleneghan had intended to spend the night of Feb. 7 at Sosa’s place. But the two quarrelled and McCleneghan left the party “in a huff,” Sullivan said.

That explains why initial reports suggested that Sosa had been the last person to see McCleneghan. The Post reported that Sosa had a scratch on his face and that he was initially cooperating with police, but has since gotten a lawyer.

Sullivan said that Sosa and her daughter were in the process of breaking up — the latest trauma for McCleneghan, who is undergoing therapy for anxiety.

“She was having a rough year — first she lost a friend, then her father and two aunts,” said Sullivan, who also mentioned that McCleneghan had been regretting her decision to separate from her husband, Benjamin Soto.

Sullivan said she doesn’t know what McCleneghan’s somber “goodbye” implies, but she remains suspicious about several factors in the disappearance. Her daughter left two packs of unopened cigarettes and $300 at home before she vanished, and hasn’t used or answered her phone since. Plus, the only person McCleneghan knows in Long Island is her brother, who hasn’t heard from her, Sullivan said.

Soto and other members of McCleneghan’s family admit McCleneghan was having some emotional issues, but said her condition and medication didn’t affect her “extremely smart, alert, well-spoken” demeanor.

Soto noted that the two were in consistent, friendly contact despite the separation, and can’t believe that she might run away.

“She just got a new job, she’s extremely happy, and she wouldn’t just pack up and leave,” he said.

A detective on the case said the search for McCleneghan is a priority. Sullivan’s talk with deli workers revealed that her daughter was last seen wearing jeans, a bright-colored shirt, a baseball cap and a “big pocketbook.” She had her hair down.

Anyone with information on Marion’s whereabouts is asked to call NYPD Det. Gibbons at (718) 636-6483. Give case number 109 for reference.

[Lori Davis]

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Blizzard blind sides search for Marion
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:17 PM EST
Courier-Life Publications
Thomas Tracy

A search for Marion McCleneghan sparked by a friend’s Facebook page was forced to end before it began Saturday thanks to last week’s storm.

John Negron, who created the event page, made the sad announcement late Friday, dashing some hopes that the search could at least help people pick up McCleneghan’s trail.

“Due to the inclement weather we have been having, it comes as a disappointment that we will need to cancel the search for Marion tomorrow Saturday the 27th” he wrote. “A new posting will be coming soon with a new date in hopes that we may find her.. please keep this in mind as we need all the help we can get, whether you knew her or not.”

McCleneghan, 45, was reported missing on the week of February 8.

While initial accounts have her disappearing following a party near her home on 14th Street, a further investigation revealed that McCleneghan was seen in the neighborhood at least once the day after the party, when she reportedly told a clerk at a local deli that she was going to Long Island.

Police said that after the party, either McCleneghan or someone else entered her apartment and removed her laptop computer and several journals.

Yet the lack of any evidence of foul play -- save for the reported caginess of her boyfriend, who refused an investigator’s request to take a lie detector test -- has led many to believe that McCleneghan’s is fine and simply doesn’t want to be found right now.

McCleneghan’s mother told the Brooklyn Paper, a CNG sister publication, last week that her daughter was seeing a therapist and was “having a rough year” marred with a separation from her husband and the loss of her father and other family members.

Yet until she resurfaces neither the police nor worried friends and neighbors are going to stop looking for her.

Negron has already rescheduled the search of Prospect Park, Park Slope and its environs for this Saturday, March 6 beginning at 10 a.m. Those wishing to help can meet at the corner of 14th Street and 15th Avenue, he said.

Those wishing to learn more about the search can go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=317628127404&ref=mf.

McCleneghan’s family also has a Facebook page dedicated to the search, which can be found at http://www.facebook....8127404&ref=mf#!/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=393715517587.

Anyone with information regarding McCleneghan’s whereabouts is urged to come forward.

Calls can be made to Detective Gibbons at 718-636-6483. Please refer to case #109, complaint #445.

[Jenn]

Charley Project Profile for Marion: http://www.charleypr...odo_marion.html

[Lori Davis]

https://www.findthem...g/cases/5473/0/
NamUs profile for Marion McCleneghan-Soto - Case 5473

[Lori Davis]

http://bayridgejourn...isappeared.html

 

The Disappeared

11/2/14

Posted by Kip at Sunday, November 02, 2014   

 

"Mid-Life Missing Persons", an item from Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, is the first mainstream media mention I've seen of something I've puzzled over in recent years: has the number of missing people in New York City been going up, or are we simply more aware of the disappearances now due to the proliferation of social media outlets like Facebook?

 

According to Stasi disappearances of mid-life people in the New York City area have risen in recent years, including that, in January of this year, of 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter David Bird, a Long Hills New Jersery resident who went for a walk without his cell phone or ID and vanished.

 

Bird is just one of dozens, Stasi said, who have gone missing in mid-life from the New York City area and never been found. Forty-year-old Marion McCleneghan, who disappeared on February 7, 2010 near her apartment at 344 14th Street in the Park Slope area, is one of the missing, but you wouldn't know that from the NYPD's sparcely-populated missing persons Brooklyn web page, because McCleneghan's name doesn't appear there.

 

In southern Brookyn, based on the frequent Facebook posts, it's typically teens or memory-impaired or disabled elderly people who are disappearing, but the Brooklyn numbers, as with Stasi's mid-life missing, seem to be growing.

 

Nationally, the number of missing persons has risen dramatically in recent years. According to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, missing persons reports have increased six-fold, due in part to population growth. But it's not clear whether there has been a parallel uptick in the number of missing persons in New York City.

 

According to the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, more than 13,000 people were reported missing in New York City last year. Some, including at least 200 children, have been classified as long-term missing. Nationally, according to the OCME, there are more than 87,000 active missing persons cases, and tens of thousands more reports regarding unidentified persons for whom little to no information has been entered into national databases.

 

Missing Persons Day at OCME

 

The city has begun a comprehensive review of all the unidentified human remains it has, using the latest technology, but in addition to DNA test results, it needs more information about missing persons in order to identify the remains. That's where the families and friends of the missing can help.

 

From 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Saturday, November 8, OCME, which assists in identifying human remains (including family reference samples) and finding missing persons, will host a "Missing Persons Day" for families and friends of long-term missing persons, at its headquarters at 421 East 26th Street (at 1st Avenue.)

 

This first-ever event will connect searchers with resources that can help them identify and locate their loved ones. At the event, families and friends of the long-term missing (60 or more days) can talk in person with professionals and provide them with information that might help identify the missing. Emotional and spiritual support services will also be available.

 

All are welcome, but families and friends who want to meet with forensic professionals at OCME should schedule in advance by calling (212) 323-1201. Providing information, which will be used for identification purposes only, is voluntary.

 

(OCME does not take Missing Persons reports. Missing persons reports must be made to the local NYPD precinct or by phone to the NYPD Missing Persons Unit at (212) 694-7782.)

 

Missing persons remains a murky, contested, confounding area of law enforcement. Families of the missing, particularly those who happen to be black or brown, complain that police, assisted by weak reporting laws, delay, turn away and fail to diligently pursue missing persons cases, leaving families in limbo for years. And families searching for missing loved ones confront a confusing welter of overlapping authorities and information in their search, including a jumble of government and non-government web pages, databases and registries on the local, state and national levels.

 

 

Patrick Alford, a foster child who went missing in Brooklyn in 2010, has never been found.

 

In an effort to make the process more coherent, the U.S. Department of Justice launched the DNA Initiative, which maximizes law enforcement's use of DNA technology to identify human remains, in 2003.

 

In 2005, the National Missing Persons Task Force created the NamUs databases to make information more accessible to all stakeholders in missing persons and human remains identification cases.

 

Through the NamUs databases, every jurisdiction can access free DNA testing of unidentified human remains and family reference-sample kits. All stakeholders can now collaborate in the process of identifying the thousands of unidentified human remains in the U.S.

 

In most jurisdictions, reporting adult missing persons cases is entirely voluntary. Only a handful of states -- and New York is apparently not one of them -- have laws requiring law enforcement to accept missing persons reports for adults. NamUs attempts to address this problem by working with state clearinghouses and the public to ensure that local data gets inputted into NamUs and other national databases.

 

NamUs users can access two databases: the Unidentified Persons database and the Missing Persons database. But you won't find Marian McCleneghan there, either.

[Deborah]

Marion is still missing.

 

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