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[Kelly]

Ilya Lastovkin and Bianca Piper are Project Jason's featured missing persons for January of 2010. The image you see below, with links to their news and information threads, is on the main page of the Project Jason website. This is one means of awareness for their cases, and with a high average of daily hits to the site, we'll reach many with their stories.

If your missing loved one is not registered with us for services, please click here: http://www.projectja...rg/report.shtml

[Jenn]

NamUs Profile for Bianca: https://www.findthem....org/cases/4242

[Kelly]

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

[Jenn]

http://www.stltoday....F3?OpenDocument

Family of missing Lincoln County teen Bianca Piper still holds out hope

By Susan Weich ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 03/11/2010

LINCOLN COUNTY — The family of missing teen Bianca Piper is hoping for a miracle ending like Shawn Hornbeck's.

Five years ago Wednesday, Bianca, then 13, disappeared from her neighborhood in Lincoln County after her mother, Shannon Tanner, drove her to a bridge down the street from their home and let her out to walk home after an argument.

Tanner thought walking back to their home on the gravel road would give Bianca a chance to calm down after a quarrel over chores. The girl suffers from bipolar and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, and the walks were recommended by her therapist, Tanner said.

After weeks of searching, police said they believed Bianca was a victim of foul play.

"There's nothing really new to report, unfortunately," Lincoln County sheriff's detective Chris Bartlett said Wednesday.

Bartlett, who has worked on Bianca's case from the beginning, said the department had been surveying other cases across the United States trying to find a similar connection, but hadn't found anything.

In the past year, many things have changed for Bianca's family, said Carol Young, Bianca's grandmother. Bianca's father, David Piper, 54, died of a heart attack in the fall.

"I'm sure that the stress from worrying about his daughter probably had a lot to do with it, because every time I talked to him, he just dwelled on it," Young said. "He did let it get him down."

Bianca's mother moved from her home in Foley to an apartment in St. Charles.

"She stayed in that house for a long time, but she recently moved into an apartment, and she had to pack up all of Bianca's belongings, and that was rough," Young said.

Bianca would be 18 now, and Young said it was strange to think of her as a grown-up.

"You kind of wonder if she would be into the same kind of music and clothes that her sisters are into," she said. "When she disappeared, she was into horses and Barbies; she was still a little girl at heart."

Young said Tanner and her friends handed out on Wednesday fliers with information about Bianca, as they have for the past four years on the anniversary. They remain hopeful that, like Hornbeck, Bianca will be found alive.

"If Bianca's still out there, we have a lot of catching up to do, and if she's not, I wish somebody would come forward and say this is what we know, and let us get on with our lives," Young said.

Anyone with information about Bianca is asked to call the sheriff's department at 636-528-8546.

[Jenn]

http://www.ksdk.com/...=202814&catid=3

Bianca Piper's mother not giving up her search for her missing daughter

May 25, 2010

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KSDK -- More than five years have passed since a Lincoln County family started the search for their missing daughter.

Bianca Piper disappeared in march 2005. Her mother, Shannon Tanner, said she dropped off her then 13-year-old daughter about a mile from her home - hoping to calm her down after an argument.

Since Bianca's disappearance, authorities have followed up on hundreds of leads... but there is still no sign of the teen.

Tuesday is National Missing Children's Day.  It's a day set aside to bring awareness to the public about the growing problem of missing children.

Shannon Tanner talked with Jennifer Blome Tuesday morning about the search for her daughter.

[Lori Davis]

Smart uses sentencing to call attention to missing children cases

By Melinda Rogers
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published May 25 2011 08:27PM
Updated May 26, 2011 06:39AM

Elizabeth Smart walked out of the federal courthouse Wednesday with renewed energy for her future.

“Today is the end of a very long chapter and the beginning of a very beautiful chapter for me,” she beamed to a crowd anxious to hear where she’s headed after the sentencing of Brian David Mitchell.

Excerpt...

On Wednesday, National Missing Children’s Day, Smart held up photos of girls whose cases are similar to her own: Bianca Piper, of Missouri; Holly Lynn Bobo, of Tennessee; and Jennifer Kesse, of Florida. The difference is those girls haven’t made it home yet.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.co...nesday.html.csp

[Lori Davis]

Missing children remembered - Missing children from Missouri

Written by Mary Rupert
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 15:00

Kenny Carter sang "Among the Missing" at the National Missing Children's Day event May 25 at Kansas City, Kansas, City Hall. (Staff photo by Mary Rupert)

Missing children from Missouri:

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BIANCA PIPER 2005

Read more: http://www.wyandotte...embered?start=3

[Shannon]

http://fox2now.com/2...-missouri-kids/

Cold Cases: Police Still Searching For Missing Missouri Kids

Posted on: 5:12 pm, May 7, 2013
updated on: 05:16pm, May 7, 2013

ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Forty-six people are on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website in Missouri.

Some of the notable cases include:

Gina Dawn Brooks who disappeared August 5, 1989 from Fredricktown. She was last seen riding her bicycle, it was later found abandoned on High Street.

Arlin Henderson was last seen July 25, 1991 in Moscow Mills riding his bike.

Christian Ferguson, disappeared June 11, 2003 in St. Louis when he was 9 years old.

Bianca Piper left for a walk from her Foley, Missouri home March 10, 2005 and never returned.

Heather Kullorn was a prominent missing child case. She disappeared on July 15th, 1999.

[Deborah]

Bianca has not been located.

 

https://www2.fbi.gov...idnap/piper.htm

[Kelly]

http://www.stltoday....cd283629fa.html

Family marking 10th anniversary of missing Foley girl with fading hope

By Susan Weich St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 7, 2015

LINCOLN COUNTY • Ten years after the 13-year-old girl who loved horses, Barbies and the color purple disappeared without a trace, hope is hard to come by, her mother says.

Shannon Tanner hasn’t given up on finding her daughter, Bianca Piper, alive, but every year it’s gotten harder to commemorate the anniversary of her disappearance.

One year, Tanner said she did nothing to mark the day, and she regretted it.

“Whether we pass out fliers or sit at home and grieve, we still have to go through the emotion of what the day is, and I’d rather be out there trying to make sure everybody remembers her,” she said.

Tuesday marks 10 years since Bianca was last seen. On March 10, 2005, Tanner drove her to a bridge down the street from their home on a remote, winding, gravel road in Foley and let her out to walk back home after an argument. It was a snowy night, and Bianca was wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes and an Adidas hoodie.

The two had argued over Bianca’s not doing the dishes. The teen suffered from bipolar and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, and the walks were recommended by a mental health therapist to calm her.

Bianca was on several different medications to help control her mood swings and aggressive tendencies.

A massive search of 270 square miles turned up no leads. Police said they suspected Bianca had been a victim of foul play.

In the decade since then, police have investigated hundreds of leads — many of them coming in after two other missing children, Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby, were found alive in Kirkwood after their abductions by pizzeria manager Michael Devlin.

On at least one occasion, police called Bianca’s family to come meet with a girl who they thought might be Bianca. Those days renewed Tanner’s faith that Bianca would be found, but it was short-lived, she said.

This year, Tanner said she, some family including one of Bianca’s two older sisters, and friends plan to hand out fliers in Lincoln and St. Charles counties. At 5 p.m. Sunday, they’ll meet at Winfield Middle School, where Bianca had been a student, for a short ceremony.


“My mom got some paper lanterns that you light and then they float off,” Tanner said. “I thought they would be pretty, glowing in the evening sky.”

New electronic billboards on Interstate 70 and Highway 370 in St. Charles County also note the anniversary. They have the latest age-progression photo of Bianca, which was made five years ago.

The process of getting a new photo was too hard emotionally to do again, Tanner said.

“I can’t even explain what kind of a feeling it is, but when you see your daughter grow up and change, it’s something you want to see in person,” she said. “The last one that we had made, it took me two or three weeks to open the poster. I had to really get up the courage to do it.”

Tanner said she had asked her friends on Facebook to replace their profile picture with Bianca’s on Tuesday too, as a way of getting the word out.

Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies say they get between six and a dozen leads a year on Bianca’s case, and they review all of the evidence annually.

Capt. Mike Merkel said leads were usually checked out first by officials with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and then forwarded to police if they have merit.

“Unfortunately, the few leads we’ve gotten, none of them have panned out,” he said.

Since her daughter’s disappearance, Tanner moved to a home in St. Charles County that she’s decorated with mementos of Bianca — photos, pictures Bianca made and schoolwork in her daughter’s handwriting.

She also kept two electronic candles in the windows in the living room. Bianca, who was born the day after Christmas, always had decorative lights hanging in her bedroom windows.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s been 10 years, but it really has,” Tanner said. “You just have to trudge on and invest more time in the family that you have here. That and keep to passing out the fliers. It’s really about the only thing I know to do.”