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[Denise]

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: February 11, 1976 from Kettering, Ohio
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: October 27, 1962
Age at time of disappearance: 13 years old

Height and Weight: 5'0, 102 - 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes.

Lloyd attempted suicide by slashing her wrists approximately six months prior to her 1976 disappearance and may have scars as a result. She has freckles across her nose and a gap between her two front teeth. Her ears are pierced.
Clothing Description: Possibly jeans, a t-shirt and a jacket.


Details of Disappearance

Lloyd was babysitting with a friend on February 11, 1976 in her hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Her mother dropped off a meal for Lloyd, her friend and the child they were watching during the evening hours. Lloyd thanked her and gave no indication anything was amiss at the time. It was the last time Lloyd's mother saw her daughter. Her mother returned to the residence sometime after midnight and noticed Lloyd was missing. Lloyd's friend and the child were asleep; when she awoke, she told Lloyd's mother that Lloyd had walked to a convenience store three blocks away to purchase cigarettes. The employee at the business stated that Lloyd had never arrived at the store that night. She has not been seen again. Her mother searched for in the area with her car, but without success.

Lloyd had a history of running away from home, but before she always phoned her family every time she left to assure them she was fine. She has not contacted anyone since vanishing in 1976. Lloyd did not take any personal belongings with her and also left her clothing behind at her home. She left a small amount of money untouched in a savings account as well.

Lloyd's family traveled to California in 1980, four years after she was last seen. They viewed a documentary film regarding the drug angel dust and noticed a girl employed as an extra in the movie who resembled Lloyd. Her family contacted the filmmakers, Dave Bell Associates, and the producers attempted to identify the young woman. She apparently did not sign a release prior to appearing in the film and has never been identified or located. It is not known if the extra was Lloyd. Bell's company produced a documentary about Lloyd's case entitled Whatever Happened To Lori Jean Lloyd?, which was released in the United States in 1981. No solid leads were uncovered after the film aired.

Lloyd was mistakenly reported to have been found in October 2004. The report turned out to be false and she is still missing. Lloyd's case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Kettering Police Department
937-296-2555

Family website:http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-3Y5Wx...0LvNx4oM-?cq=1

Information about Lori Jean provided courtesy of the Charley Project.

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[Denise]

New age progression of Lori:

[Denise]

Posted with permission from Lori's sister, Joni:

"Hello friends, it is that time of the year again. On February 11th 2007, my sister Lori Jean Lloyd will have been missing for 31 years! She is missing and still missed very much by her family. We will not rest until we know what happened to her. In spite of our feelings at time, Lori is NOT a figment of our imagination. Lori Jean Lloyd existed with us in our family for 14 short years. And now she is gone.

As some of you know, Lori's case has recently been reopened to look for new leads and investiagate old ones. The Ketteirng Police Dept has now assigned the case a new detective and he has been interviewing people trying to piece together the truth of her disappearance. After 30 years and now 31, the memories get rusty so it is not an easy task. However, my family and I will not rest until we know what happened to her.

So I am writing this email for two specific reasons.

1. My family and I need your prayers. Every year it is a stark reminder that our chances of finding Lori becomes slimmer. It is also a slap in the face emotionally. We covet yours prayers because it DOES NOT get easier as time goes by!! We also need your prayers about finding her or what has happened to her. We need God to prepare us for the truth! We want the truth! It is what it is and we can't dictate that, but we want to know so we can finally bring some closure to this agony.

2. I want you all to know and ask for your help in spreading the word that the investigation is opened and has taken a new turn. We will be seeking publicity in the near future by offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of Lori and conviction of the perpetrator (if this is the case). A very generous person is giving us $5000.00 for this reward. We will also be opening up a donation fund where others can contribute to this reward in effort to flush out information!!! By sending this out to your mailing list and encouraging them to do the same you can play a part in this recovery. Email is great way to get the word out. I get emails every day where people ask me to send them on and it nothing but fluff. This is serious and real!! Please help!

I have attached pictures and here is an address of my blog that discusses Lori's case. It will contain the information you will need if you want to donate to the reward fund after February 11th, 2007. Yahoo! 360° - Joni's Profile

Thank you, God Bless 100 times for your time! Joni"

[Denise]

Erica Baker's family offers reward for other missing girl

Erica Baker's family offers reward for other missing girl
By Joanne Huist Smith

Staff Writer

Saturday, February 10, 2007

KETTERING — The search for a Kettering teen who disappeared 31 years ago got new vigor on Saturday with the posting of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Lori Jean Lloyd and the conviction of those involved in her disappearance.

"She is still in our hearts," Joni Spencer, Lori Jean's older sister said. "As long a we have breath, we'll continue to search for her."

If alive, Lori Jean would be 45.

The reward is being offered by the Erica Baker Recovery Center, founded by another Kettering family haunted by similar heartache. Nine-year-old Erica vanished Feb. 7, 1999, while walking her dog near the Kettering Recreation Center. That investigation continues. An anonymous tip triggered an unsuccessful search for Erica in the Caesar Creek region two weeks ago.

The tremendous support from the community offered to Erica's family led them to reach out to the Lloyds.

"What we are doing, is passing along that support," said Erica's grandmother, Pamela Schmidt of Kettering. "We just want to help them find the truth."

Lori Jean was 14 on Feb. 11, 1975 when she walked out of her mother's home on Annabelle Drive around 11 p.m. and never returned. A girlfriend later said Lori Jean told her she was going for cigarettes at a neighborhood convenience store, but clerks there said she never arrived.

A girlfriend of Lori Jean's told the family not long after the disappearance that Lori Jean was going to meet a boy that night who had promised to take her to California so she could live with her estranged father. The girlfriend didn't know the boy's name, so police had no leads.

"Way back then...every child was treated as a runaway. They weren't even required to take a report," Schmidt said.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, using DNA markers from her mother and sister, have recently begun comparing Lori Jean's DNA to that of Jane Doe's across the country. Her dental records also have been fed into the National Crime Information Center database.

Work on the national level triggered a new investigation in Kettering.

"It's a difficult case, because of its age," Kettering Det. Robert Green said. "We're interviewing people who knew her."

Lori Jean's family and the police ask anyone with information to call 937-296-2572,

"Today with all this wonderful support from the Erica Baker Recovery Center and the new DNA technology, we might have a chance," Spencer said.

[Denise]

Hope Lingers That 30-Year-Old Missing Child Case Will Be Solved - News

Hope Lingers That 30-Year-Old Missing Child Case Will Be Solved

POSTED: 10:35 pm EST February 10, 2007
UPDATED: 11:14 pm EST February 10, 2007

(KETTERING) There is new hope that a 30-year-old missing child case will finally be solved.

It was Feb. 10, 1976, when 14 year old Lori Jean Lloyd disappeared as she walked to a 7-Eleven on Wilmington Pike.

The store is gone, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance has lingered into the next milennium.

Lori's disappearance still haunts her family, they said. They said they take small comfort from long-ago photographs and memories.

"The last time I seen Lori, I brought her home a pizza, and she come running out to the car to get the pizza. She said, 'I love you, Mommy, have a good dinner,'" recalled Lori's mother Anita Smith.

Now, another Kettering family is stepping up to help solve the mystery. The Bakers are still looking for their daughter Erica, eight years after she disappeared from the Kettering Recreation Center.

"Unfortunately, the Lloyds and Bakers belong to an exclusive club, a club we don't want anyone else to join," said Pam Schmidt, Erica's grandmother.

The Baker family is using $5,000 from Erica's search fund as a reward for information in the Lori Lloyd investigation.

Reward posters are going up using so-called "age progression" techniques, to show what Lori Lloyd may look like today.

And Kettering Police are reopening the Lloyd probe because they believe new kinds of D.N.A. testing may help zero in on clues in the disappearance.

Pam Schmidt, Erica's grandmother, said time definitely doesn't heal all wounds. "Our urgency to find Erica is the same today as it was eight years ago. Their urgency to find Lori is the same as it was 31 years ago. We just want to know the truth and bring the children home."

[Denise]

http://bakerst221b.blogspot.com/

Saturday, August 05, 2006
Lori Jean Lloyd ~ New Age Enhanced Photo

Update... Lori Jean Lloyd is still missing, but her sister Joni hasn't given up on finding her. Joni keeps a Yahoo 360 blog of her search for Lori Jean. She was mistakenly reported to have been found in October 2004. The report was false and she is still missing. Lori Jean’s case remains unsolved.

Lloyd was babysitting with a friend on February 11, 1976 in her hometown of Kettering, Ohio. Her mother dropped off a meal for Lloyd, her friend and the child they were watching during the evening hours. Lloyd thanked her and gave no indication anything was amiss at the time. It was the last time Lloyd's mother saw her daughter. Her mother returned to the residence sometime after midnight and noticed Lloyd was missing. Lloyd's friend and the child were asleep; when she awoke, she told Lloyd's mother that Lloyd had walked to a convenience store three blocks away to purchase cigarettes. The employee at the business stated that Lloyd had never arrived at the store that night. She has not been seen again. Her mother searched for in the area with her car, but without success.

Missing Since: February 11, 1976 from Kettering, Ohio
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: October 27, 1962
Age: 14 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0, 102 - 110 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes. Lloyd attempted suicide by slashing her wrists approximately six months prior to her 1976 disappearance and may have scars as a result. She has freckles across her nose and a gap between her two front teeth. Her ears are pierced.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Possibly jeans, a t-shirt and a jacket.

[Kelly]

Lori has been missing for 32 years today. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

[Kelly]

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[Jenn]

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[Lori Davis]

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Guilt haunts families of missing persons

Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012
By Lou Grieco
Staff Writer

KETTERING — When Jim Lloyd reflects on his youngest sister, whom he has not seen for 36 years, tears flow easily, and so do the feelings of guilt.

“I didn’t have time for her,” Lloyd said. “We did tease her a lot.”

His sister, Lori Jean Lloyd, vanished February 10, 1976, as she walked from her family’s home at 3303 Annabelle Drive toward a 7-Eleven on Wilmington Pike to purchase cigarettes. Police don’t believe she ever made it to the store, and the girl, then 14, has not been seen since. Her siblings, including Jim Lloyd, who was 18 when his sister disappeared, and their mother have all struggled with feelings of guilt ever since. This is not uncommon, according to experts.

The Dayton Daily News and News Center 7 spent two months examining cold case homicides and missing persons reports. The family members interviewed described the agony of not knowing what happened to their loved ones, or who was responsible. They discussed going through scenarios repeatedly, trying to get answers for what has been so far unanswerable. They also described examining their own behavior in looking for those answers.

“The idea that’s often discussed is that folks focus on closure,” said Art Jipson, a sociologist and director of criminal justice studies at the University of Dayton. “Mysteries tend to interrupt the usual flow of relationships.”

“I COULDN’T SAVE HER”

Cold cases bring frustration. Some murders go unsolved and killers slip through the cracks. Time passes and the families of the victims lose hope. They also feel guilty because they were not there to help and because there has been no justice for their loved one.

Carla Davis was six months pregnant when she was murdered 13 years ago. What her killer did to her, investigators said, was one of the most gruesome crimes they had ever seen. Carla’s murder also haunts her mother, Rosetta Byrd of Dayton.

“This time I couldn’t save her. I was not there to say goodbye,” said Byrd. “The only thing I can say is Carla, I’m so sorry I wasn’t there to help you. Sorry I wasn’t there when you took your last breath. I’m sorry I was not there to hold you in my arms. Sorry that I let you down.”

In the early morning hours of Aug. 11, 1991, somebody attacked and beat the 21-year-old woman and then set her body on fire.

Rosetta Byrd says she is still struggling because the killer is still free. She says she can’t move on because there has been no justice for Carla.

The Davis case was recently reopened by Detective Patricia Tackett of the Dayton Police Cold Case Unit.

“It breaks my heart when I see this. That’s why I do what I do,” Tackett said.

STRIVING FOR AN UNOBTAINABLE ANSWER

The Lloyds did not speak of Lori’s disappearance for years. In 1999, they began speaking about it after they held a memorial service. That opened up communication, and family members compared notes on what they were thinking and feeling and when.

“I thought she was too trusting,” Jim Lloyd said. “She didn’t think anybody, besides her sisters and brothers, was mean.”

Joni Spencer, the eldest sister, who described herself as a second mother to Lori remembers that “I blew it off” when Lori first went missing, thinking that she had run away again. Their mother, Anita Smith, who developed an alcohol addiction after her daughter’s disappearance, said she even felt guilt about moving from the house on Annabelle, thinking that, if Lori were to return, that’s where she would go.

“I stayed in my house for years, even after I wanted to move,” Smith said.

Anita Ping, whose son Donald has been missing since 2002, said she believes her son is dead. She wakes up thinking about him most mornings, and thinks about him when she lays down to sleep, replaying scenarios in her head about what might have happened.

“This way, you don’t really know who to be mad at,” Ping said. “You pray for that all the time: just let me know.”

Jipson said that family members of cold case victims feel an overwhelming loss of control, leading them to speculate and blame themselves, questioning what they could have done to prevent what happened.

“We strive to find that logical explanation,” Jipson said. “These people have to manage ambiguity and to manage uncertainty in a way that most of us may not ever have to do.”

This is particularly pertinent in disappearance cases, because “you have no evidence to go on. So you have to manufacture evidence,” Jipson said.

People do that by speculating on the ambiguities that existed in the relationships they had with the victim, or to micro-examine the specifics of their own behavior. But in most cases, Jipson said, the answers aren’t there. The survivors likely had nothing to do with the creation of that mystery.

“You can’t possibly plan for every contingency,” Jipson said. “Of course, you’re going to let your child out in the world. You have to.”

Anita Smith, who was having dinner with a friend the night Lori vanished, said she’s gone through all of that. Though she still sometimes expects a knock at the door, she said she knows it’s not likely. The computer-generated pictures of Lori, showing what she would look like at age 50, show a stranger to her, and she wonders if, should Lori ever return to their lives, they could really begin again as family.

But she also wonders if the mystery is really a blessing, she said.

“I don’t know if we could handle what happened to Lori,” Smith said. “Maybe not knowing is not as bad as knowing.”

[Deborah]

Lori is still missing.

 

Kettering Police Department
937-296-2555

[Deborah]

Lori is still missing.

 

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