Category Archives: Missing Persons

South Carolina authorities search for missing toddler

By doris | Published: January 27, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in South Carolina searched intently Thursday for a missing toddler who was last seen nearly two months ago, and whose pregnant mother has been charged with cruelty toward a child. Columbia police Chief Randy Scott told Vinnie Politan, of CNN’s sister network HLN, that law enforcement launched their [...]

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Report: Missing Calif. autistic boy found safe

By doris | Published: September 13, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A missing autistic boy was found Tuesday afternoon after he ran away from school and into the San Bernardino National Forest, NBC Los Angeles reported. Dozens of searchers had been scouring the mountains for Joshua Robb after he fled into the woods near his school Monday morning, [...]

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Missing child sought amid historic tornado season

By doris | Published: May 25, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Piedmont, Oklahoma (CNN) — Teams of rescuers were out Wednesday in Canadian County, Oklahoma, searching land and water for a 3-year-old who went missing in ferocious weather Tuesday. Ryan Hamil was with his mother and his siblings in their home when the storm hit, said Pam Capener, the boy’s great-aunt. “Cole, [...]

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South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

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Shootout at the ‘True Grit’ corral: Which film wins?

By doris | Published: February 23, 2011

Full Story atTODAYmsnbc.msn.com The two versions of “True Grit” are like Athens, Greece, and Athens, Georgia: They’ve got the same name, but they’re in totally different worlds. Yet for all their differences, both Westerns found plenty of fans and got plenty of Oscar attention. John Wayne was named Best Actor for the 1969 original, and [...]

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Authorities believe body found in California canal is abducted boy

By doris | Published: February 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — California authorities extended their condolences Tuesday to the family of Juliani Cardenas, 4, after a body was found that they say matches his physical description. Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said he believes the remains of Jose Esteban Rodriguez, the man accused of abducting the boy, are also in [...]

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Missing Michigan mother, 2nd woman found buried

By doris | Published: January 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of two Michigan women, including a mother who went missing shortly after her children left on the bus for school, authorities said. Investigators found the bodies of Amy Henslee, 30, and Tonya Howarth, 36, Friday morning. They had [...]

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Search continues for boy swiped from grandmother’s arms

By doris | Published: January 22, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A car pulled from a California canal Friday night was not the same vehicle a witness claimed he saw being driven into the water with a young boy trapped inside, the Stanislaus Sheriff’s Department said Saturday. Authorities are continuing to search the canal near the area where a 4-year-old [...]

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Man with the golden voice reunites with his mother

By doris | Published: January 6, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.com.msnbc.com Tune into TODAY on Friday morning to watch an interview with Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice, and his mother Julia Williams. Ted Williams, the homeless man-turned-star who wowed the world with his golden pipes, reunited with his mother, Julia Williams, on Thursday after about 20 years apart. When [...]

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Dead baby found in donation box; police seek mom

By doris | Published: December 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX — A baby from Arizona has been found dead inside a donation box that was shipped to a warehouse in Texas, and Phoenix authorities said Friday it will be extremely difficult to find out who placed the girl there. The child was discovered at a warehouse in McAllen, Texas, on [...]

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Amber Alert issued in Florida for missing Virginia girl

By doris | Published: December 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Florida authorities issued an alert late Wednesday night for a 12-year-old girl that police believe was abducted in Virginia by the boyfriend of her dead mother. The Amber Alert in Florida listed information about Brittany Smith and the man police believe abducted her. Authorities in Virginia launched a search [...]

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Search for 3 missing Mich. boys consumes hometown

By doris | Published: December 3, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com MORENCI, Mich. – Each day for nearly a week, volunteers have trudged through muddy fields and climbed through ditches around this small southern Michigan town, searching for three young brothers last seen at their father’s home on Thanksgiving Day. It’s a search that has consumed Morenci, a town of about 2,000 [...]

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Cops: 3 boys missing after dad’s suicide bid

By doris | Published: November 29, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MORENCI, Mich. — Authorities used planes and search dogs to scour areas along the Michigan-Ohio border Sunday, hoping to find three Michigan boys who were reported missing the same day their father tried to hang himself. Police in Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, said they fear the boys are [...]

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Ex Arrested in NY in Death of Missing Student

By doris | Published: November 28, 2010

Full Story at aolnews.com CLAY, N.Y. (Nov. 27) — A 20-year-old Pennsylvania dance student who vanished last week while on Thanksgiving break in her hometown was killed by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who then dumped her body in a park “like garbage,” a prosecutor said Saturday. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said 21-year-old Steven [...]

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Bodies of missing Ohio trio found in hollow tree

By doris | Published: November 19, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — An unemployed tree-trimmer — arrested after a teenage girl was found bound and gagged in his basement — pointed the way Thursday to a hollow tree where the bodies of her brother, mother and another woman were hidden in garbage bags. The three victims and the rescued [...]

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Girl safe, arrest made in Ohio missing family case

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com HOWARD, Ohio — A 13-year-old girl missing for days was found bound and gagged but alive in a basement Sunday, and authorities hoped a man charged with kidnapping her might lead them to her mother, brother and another woman who disappeared with her. Matthew J. Hoffman, 30, was arrested at his [...]

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Two women, two children missing in Ohio

By doris | Published: November 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Authorities and residents in rural Ohio searched Saturday for two women and two children who have been missing for several days. Blood was found in the Howard home of Tina Herrmann, 32, and her children Sarah Maynard, 13, and Kody Maynard, 10, Knox County Sheriff David Barber said Friday. [...]

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California police find missing 3-year-old boy

By doris | Published: October 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A 3-year-old California boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and sound, authorities said Sunday night. The boy, Dylan Kurihara, had been missing since Saturday after he attended a wedding with his father. A man who had heard about the missing boy found [...]

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Wife of American who went missing at lake pleads for help

By doris | Published: October 12, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Authorities in the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office gave conflicting information Monday over whether authorities are pursuing a pair of suspects in the case of a U.S. citizen who disappeared during a sightseeing trip on the U.S.-Mexican border in South Texas. While Luis Homero Uvalle, a spokesman for the office, [...]

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Data shows balloon descended rapidly; survival ‘unlikely’

By doris | Published: October 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Rome, Italy (CNN) — Race organizers Friday said a balloon carrying two missing Americans over the Adriatic Sea off Italy made a rapid descent during rough weather, conditions which would make their survival “unlikely.” “This is very pessimistic information,” says the statement from the race organization — Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett. [...]

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