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[Lori Davis]

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Dori Ann Myers missing person cold case: Family searching for loved one for 7 years

Posted: 01/15/2013
By: Jon Shainman

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - Donajean Kapp has been on a mission since January of 2006. That year, on the night of the 11th, her sister Dori Ann Myers was last seen with two men at the St. Lucie Inn bar in Fort Pierce.

"Why is it that nobody has come forward saying 'I remember seeing them that night?' " she asked from the patio of her parents home Tuesday in Melbourne.

Dori Ann Myers' Lakewood Park home would soon become a crime scene.  Neighbors said they heard arguing, and a few hours later saw Myers car driving away moments before the house was ablaze.
It was arson.  Myers two pets were found dead inside.

"There's no way she would have ever left her animals, there's no way she would have burned her house down," said Kapp.

Investigators say Myers was abducted.  Her car was found 80 miles away at a Lake Okeechobee boat ramp in Glades County. It had been torched.

"It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life until we find out exactly what happened to her," said Myers' father Dale Curry.

Curry made the national talk show circuit for a while trying to keep the story in the news.  That role has passed to Kapp, who says living in limbo, is a terrible place to be.

"Seven years is a long time for somebody to know something and not have the conscience to come forward and say we know something," said Kapp.

Although Myers, who grew up as Dori Ann Curry,  has been legally declared dead, the family will not give up that glimmer of hope.

A spokesman with the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday they don't have any new information in this case.  They have some leads and information, just not enough.

[Lori Davis]

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Dori Myers cold case: Sibling searches for sister missing for 8 years

SLC woman abducted and home torched in 2006

 

Posted: 01/15/2014 at 5:33 PM

By: Jon Shainman By: Jon Shainman

 

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - Donajean Kapp doesn't visit the old Lakewood Park home of her sister very often.

 

In January of 2006, arsonists struck the home of Dori Ann Myers.

 

"That's where it was.  It was in this room, by this bedroom and the front door," said Kapp as she points out where the fire started behind the still boarded up windows

 

Two pets of Myers were killed and she was abducted.  Her car was found three hours later, and 80 miles away at a boat ramp in Glades County. 

 

Her body has never been found, but eight years seems like eight minutes ago to Kapp.

 

"I can see her running out that door and jumping up on me and giving me hugs you know," said Kapp tearfully.

 

The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office looks at this case monthly, but no one knows what happened to Myers.

 

Myers has officially been declared dead but Kapp, who now lives in North Florida, hopes to organize a search through the Cue Center For Missing Persons , an organization she now volunteers for.

 

"I'm ready for whatever resolution there is, I just want some answers.  I want to know what happened and I want justice for her," said Kapp.

 

If you have any information on where Dori Ann Myers is, contact the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-TIPS.

[Kelly]

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Monday, 29 December 2014

 

Missing Persons: Help Bring The Lost Home

 

This month's edition honors those missing during the Christmas and New Year's holidays. This time of year can bring excruciating pain to the families of missing persons. Traditions are shattered as families try to make sense of a traumatic event and how each facet of life is altered, especially moments and days we expect to be joy-filled. They struggle to recapture the meaning of the season when dark thoughts and fears prevail.

 

With your help to spread the word about these missing persons, families are once again given hope, and then the world seems to come alive again for them with the goodness and light that comes from kindness and love for one another.

 

If you are so moved, please consider Project Jason and the families of the missing in your charitable donation giving plan. Project Jason and CDLjobs.com extend our warmest holiday wishes to you and yours.

 

Missing Person Campaign Information - December 2014

 

Please take a moment of your time to view the December 2014 campaign featured below. You may click on the image to print and share the poster and help reunite families.

 

 

Click On The Faces Below For More Information

 

Name: Beverly Meadows

 

Date of Birth: 12/31/1959
Date Missing: 12/26/2008
Age at time of disappearance: 48
Missing From: Marshall, TX
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 3 in
Weight: Approx. 240
Hair Color: Dark Brown, some gray
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Complexion: Medium

Identifying Characteristics: Small mole under left eye

Clothing: Navy blue pull on shirt with Harley-Davidson emblem on the front, Blue jeans and flip-flop shoes

 

Beverly was last seen at the Community Care Nursing Home in Marshall, Texas, where she was a resident. It is believed that she walked out of the facility and did not take any personal belongings with her. She has medical conditions that require her to take medication daily.

 

If you have information regarding Beverly, please contact the Marshall Texas Police Department at (903) 935-4546.
 

Name: Lawrence Riegel

 

Alias: Larry
Date of Birth: 12/15/1952
Date Missing: 12/26/2009
Age at time of disappearance: 58
City Missing From: Yakima, WA
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Height: 6 ft 2 in
Weight: 200 lbs
Hair Color: Grey
Eye Color: Hazel

 

Identifying Characteristics: Prominent scar on right side of neck from a recent surgery, surgical scars on left knee, occasionally wears glasses

 

Larry was last seen by his mother at his home in Yakima, WA on the evening of December 25, 2009. He also made phone contact with several family members and friends on that day. He did not show up as promised to a family event the next day, and no one has seen or heard from him since. His phone has not been used, and he has not accessed his bank accounts. His family states that Larry calls his son and closest friends daily and visits and calls his mother and other family and friends regularly.

 

Please call the Yakima Police Department at (509) 576-6573, if you may be able to reunite Larry with his family.
 

 

Name: Kerry Graham

 

Alias Karla
Date of Birth: 11/12/1963
Date Missing: 12/24/1979
Age at time of disappearance: 16
Missing From: Forestville, CA
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 4 ft 11 in
Weight: 92 lbs
Hair Color: Dark Blonde
Eye Color: Green

Identifying Characteristics: At the time of her disappearance, she needed glasses. She smokes cigarettes.

Clothing: She was wearing high-waisted pants with a tucked-in short sleeve, fuzzy jacket and platform shoes.

Jewelry: She wore multiple rings on each finger, a choker style necklace, bracelets, and a watch with a chain-like band.

 

Kerry was last seen walking downhill from her parents house to River Rd with a female friend. Neither girl has been seen or heard from again. They had friends in New Jersey and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 

Please contact the Sonoma California County Sheriff at (707) 565-2650 with any information.

Name: Dori Myers

 

Date of Birth: 09/03/1962
Date Missing: 01/11/2006
Age at time of disappearance: 43
City Missing From: Ft. Pierce, FL
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 FT 3 IN
Weight: 110 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Complexion: Fair Identifying Characteristics: Dori has tattoos on her back, earlobe, left leg and abdomen. She wears glasses and/or contacts.

Jewelry: Gold Harley necklace, "Lil Sis" pendant on chain

 

Dori was last seen with 2 unidentified males at her home. Neighbors reported that Dori's house was on fire at 3:00 AM. They stated they saw her car going down the street. The car was found 5 hours later burned.

 

If you have information regarding Dori's disappearance, please call the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office at (772) 462-3230.

 

 

Name: Bobbi Ann Campbell

 

Date of Birth: 04/25/70
Missing Since: 1/7/1995
Missing From: Salt Lake City, UT
Age at time of disappearance: 24
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 1in
Weight: 105
Hair Color: blonde
Eye Color: blue/green

 

Characteristics: She has a 2 inch scar on her right shoulder and several tattoos: a rose on her left calf, and a mushroom and sunbeam on her right leg..

 

Bobbi Ann went to the grocery store and left her daughter at a friends house and was never heard from again.

 

Please contact the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office at (801) 743-7000 if you have information to report.

Name: April Wiss

 

 

Date of Birth: Sep 1, 1983
Missing: Jan 11, 2000
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Missing From: Wichita, KS

 

April was last seen on January 11, 2000 at her residence in Wichita, Kansas. She has three dots tattooed on her left hand and she also has scars on her left hand.

 

She was last seen leaving an apartment complex in the 500 block of Marion Road in Wichita, Kansas on January 11, 2000. Her friend told authorities that she saw Wiss heading towards Pawnee Street and Broadway Street between 10:00 PM - 10:30 PM that evening. Investigators believe that she may have had her pager, apartment keys and wallet with her as well.

 

April has never been heard from again. She was scheduled to testify in a felony trial two days after her disappearance. Authorities do not know if her disappearance is connected to the trial or if other factors are involved in her case. While she was initially classified as a runaway, investigators have since stated that she vanished under unclear circumstances.

 

Please contact the Wichita Police Department at (316) 337-6552 with information regarding April's disappearance.
 

Name: Carlos Diaz

 

Date of Birth: 11/10/1954
Date Missing: 12/23/1986
Age at time of disappearance: 32
Missing From: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic
Height: 5 ft 7 in
Weight: 170 lbs
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Complexion: Fair

 

Identifying Characteristics: Has the initials C.D tattooed on his left hand

 

Carlos was last seen at his family's home. The family dog died and he went to bury the animal. He did not have any identification with him. After a long period of time, Carlos' brother went to look for him and found that the dog was still not buried. Carlos was never seen again. Carlos left behind a baby daughter and family. His family feels he would have never left on his own. Carlos had previously suffered a head injury and has another medical condition. Doctors stated it was possible that Carlos could have memory loss.

 

If you have information to report to help find Carlos, please contact the New York City Police Department at (212) 473-2042.

 

 

Help Support the Project Jason Cause

 

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[Deborah]

Dori is still missing.

 

 St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office
Agency Phone:  (772) 462-3230
Investigative Case #:  1-06-000-459

[Kelly]

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Sister of long missing Lakewood Park woman keeps memory, fight alive

6/16/16
By Nicholas Samuel of TCPalm

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — When Dori Ann Myers disappeared from her Lakewood Park home on Jan. 11, 2006, the only clues to her disappearance were her house and car engulfed in flames.

Ten years later, Donajean Kapp keeps her sister's memory alive by distributing posters and "justice4Dori" bracelets at the annual Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she volunteers as a Florida outreach coordinator.

She started as a volunteer for the nonprofit shortly after her sister's disappearance. Now she produces missing person posters, conference posters and booklets for families with a missing relative.

Whoever did this to her sister "tried to extinguish all signs of her by setting her house and car on fire, but she was full of life," Kapp said. "This case is so odd. It doesn't make any sense."

She finds her work rewarding, particularly because of the mystery that surrounds her sister's disappearance.

"It's healing to talk to other families that are new to this. You can give them comfort because you've already been there," Kapp said. "People want you to forget about it. Until I find out what happened to her, I can't let it go."

Ron Wentz, the detective assigned to Myers' case at the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office, said he spoke with Kapp in January, the month of the 10-year anniversary of her sister's disappearance.

"She was very emotional. Every phone call is emotional," Wentz said. "They have no closure."

Kapp, 56, of Jasper in North Florida, said there was nothing new Wentz could tell her about the investigation.

She said her little sister, whom she called her little tag-along, spoke her mind and was her best friend. She said they both solved puzzles together.

She cried as she read a poem she wrote dedicated to Myers after she disappeared.

"My heart is breaking and always aching for my little tag-along," Kapp read. "Please come home little sis, there are so many things we have to see. Please come home and tag-along with me."

For the first three years after her disappearance, detectives interviewed hundreds of people and searched in four counties for Myers, Wentz said.

The case is still alive and detectives have continued to look into the Lakewood Park and Glades County areas. However, there haven't been any promising leads or new information.

Myers' car was found completely burned in Glades County three hours after she disappeared. Wentz is the only detective still working the case since it began, Kapp said.

"I appreciate that he will not give up on the case," Kapp said. "That gives me hope."

WHAT HAPPENED

Kapp said Myers was a successful hair dresser who rented a booth at a hair salon in Vero Beach.

"She had the same clients for years," Kapp said.

The day Myers disappeared, she was last seen at the St. Lucie Inn in the 2100 block of Old Dixie Highway, where she met two men, according to the missing person site.

The men told Myers they were Marines wounded in Iraq and they needed a place to stay for the night.

She made her last phone call at 9:30 p.m. to her ex-boyfriend Joe Jones and told him she made up a bed for one of the Marines on her sofa and one for the other on a foldout bed, the missing person site shows.

Neighbors said they heard loud noises coming from the Lakewood Park house about 12:30 a.m. and saw Myers' 1998 black Toyota sedan drive from the house about 3 a.m. as a fire began.

"They didn't see her driving the car, but they heard the car leaving," Kapp said.

Firefighters responded to the fire about 3: 15 a.m. at Myers' home in the 8400 block of Salerno Road, where they found the two-bedroom, single-family home engulfed in flames.

Kapp said her sister was not home during the blaze, but both her pets died in the fire. Detectives said they believe the Marines took Myers by force.

"They're still out there; that's a scary thought," Kapp said.

Deputies from the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office found Myers' car burned three hours later near a public boat ramp in Moore Haven in Glades County, 80 miles from her Lakewood Park home.

NEVER GIVE UP

Kapp said Myers, who was 43 at the time of her disappearance, has been declared legally dead since 2007.

"We're looking for any evidence related to her disappearance, logically including her body," Wentz said.

Myers' son, Jesse King, 31, said he feels like her disappearance is now a cold case.

"Detectives are doing all they can. It doesn't get any easier," King said.

National TV shows such as "Nancy Grace" and the Fox News show "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" both aired coverage of the Myers case in 2006, Kapp said.

Dale L. Curry pushed to get his daughter's case on the TV show "America's Most Wanted".

Curry died April 22, 2015. His last wish was to set up a billboard for Myers and to know she wasn't forgotten until justice was served, Kapp said.

"We're working to find someone who will donate the space," Kapp said.

To date, Florida has 37 missing people.

Besides Myers, the Treasure Coast has another missing person — Patrick DiFrancesco of Fort Pierce.

He was 24 at the time of his disappearance and was last seen at a friend's house on Sunrise Drive in the city on Aug. 26, 1985.

Kapp said deep in her heart, she will never get over the fact it has been 10 years and her sister is still missing.

"So much time has gone by and the circumstances are horrible," Kapp said. "I just want to know what happened."