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20 year old Latasha Norman, a Jackson State University student has been 
missing since November 13, 2007. Latasha Norman was last seen at the end of an afternoon class Nov. 13. She has recently, according to reports, been the target of of attacks.
In recent weeks, Norman had been the target of attacks. Someone slashed her car tires and removed the vehicle’s license plate. Her father instructed her to file reports with the campus police, and she did. Last week, an ex-boyfriend of Norman’s was charged with hitting her last month. He has withdrawn as a student from Jackson State, university officials said Wednesday. (Washington Post)
Missing Woman Coverage a Black and White Issue?
Why does one missing woman get all the attention while another woman’s story becomes a buried headline? Jackson, Miss., Police Chief Malcolm McMillin, who has been heading a search over the past eight days for 20-year-old Latasha Norman, thinks he knows one reason why. “As far as the interest by the national media in the story, I think race probably had an impact,” the police chief said.
Family Confident Missing JSU Student Is Alive The search continues tonight for the missing Jackson state student
After one week, very few clues have turned up on the wherabouts of Latasha. She was last seen leaving an accounting class at Jackson state around 2:30 Tuesday November 13th. Her father Danny Bolden, “It’s been seven days now we’d like to bring this to a closure, just like the chief said we don’t have any leads yet we don’t know were still investigating, were crying out for help.” During a briefing on campus, investigators said they were limited in what they could say about Latasha’s case. They say they’ve received several tips and are following up on several leads. Hinds County Sheriff and Jackson Police Chief Malcolm McMillin says, “This needs to be national news. We need the rest of the country to have the same kind of concern we have for this.”
No new leads in student’s disappearance
Police reported no new leads Friday in the disappearance of Jackson State University student Latasha Norman, and her father said he’s staying in the Jackson area to be close to the investigation. “We haven’t heard anything new,” said Danny Bolden, of Greenville. He indicated press reports on his missing daughter are helping “keep the case alive.” He said police had told him they were following up on several phone calls but that nothing concrete had come up.
UPDATE I: Mississippi Police Find Missing Student Latasha Norman’s Body, Charge Ex-Boyfriend Stanley Dwayne Cole With Murder
The case of missing Latasha Norman has come to a sad but not surprising ending Sadlly, the body of Latasha Norman was found dead by Mississippi police after her ex-boyfrined, Stanley Dwayne Cole, lead police to the location. Stanley Dwayne Cole has been arrested and charged with Latasha Norman’s murder.
The ex-boyfriend of a missing Jackson State University student was charged with murder Thursday after leading police to her decomposed body in the woods off a quiet Jackson street, authorities said.
Norman’s ex-boyfriend, Stanley Dwayne Cole of Greenville, was charged with murder after being interviewed by detectives on Thursday, said Jackson Police Sgt. Jeffery B. Scott.
“Investigators were able to locate the body based on information developed in the course of the interview,” Scott said.
For further updates and to discuss the case, go to Scared Monkeys Missing Persons forum: Latasha Norman.
November 24th, 2007 at 12:13am
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Authorities are investigating the disappearance of three grandchildren of Southern California Rep. Gary Miller. The disappearance appears to be related to a custody dispute.
The children were reported missing about 1:30 p.m Monday from their Diamond Bar residence east of Los Angeles, sheriff’s officials said.
“We are looking into the disappearance of the children,” sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore told The Associated Press.
Investigators were looking into whether the children were taken by their “non-custodial mother,” said sheriff’s spokeswoman Deputy Aura Sierra, referring to a parent without custody rights.
The children’s parents are divorced and appeared to be in a custody battle, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported on it Web site.
Congressman’s Grandchildren Missing
Police Investigating Possibility Disappearance May Be Related To Custody Dispute
November 20th, 2007 at 08:15am
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Madeleine McCann has been missing since May 2007 when she disappeared while on vacation with her parents in Portugal. Now some interesting news is being reported by the PI hired by the family of Maddy.
Francisco Marco, the private investigator for the family of missing Madeleine McCann has stated that he is 100% certain that Madeleine is alive and they are close to finding her. It is believed that the abduction of Madeleine McCann was a carefully planned and organized plot to get Maddy out of the country.
Portuguese investigators are “100 percent sure” missing toddler Madeleine McCann is alive, Britain’s Sunday Mirror reports.
Francisco Marco, a private eye hired by the McCann family to track the missing girl – who would be 4 years old if she’s still alive – told The Mirror he is “sure she was abducted.”
“We are very, very close to finding the kidnapper,” he said.
Madeleine was ‘targeted’ by abductor Gerry McCann says
McCann tells of ‘predator’ belief
Madeleine investigation ‘to finish at Christmas’
November 18th, 2007 at 12:02pm
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13 year old Cori Jessie Baker has been missing since Friday, November 9, 2007 in 
Tulsa, OK. Marquis Milton Bullock, 18, the boyfriend of the girl’s sister, was arrested Monday night. He is being held without bail on first-degree murder and kidnapping complaints. Investigators are searching the Arkansas River for the body of Cori Baker.
TULSA — Divers looking for the body of a 13-year-old girl packed up their gear Wednesday after a full day of searching, but still no body.
Police expected to find the remains of Cori Jessie Baker. Cori was last seen leaving Union Alternative School on Friday afternoon with Marquis Milton Bullock, her older sister’s boyfriend. Bullock, 18, has been jailed on complaints of first-degree murder and kidnapping in connection with the teen’s disappearance.
Marquis Milton Bullock has been arrested after police found a stain that tested positive as blood in his vehicle.
Marquis Milton Bullock, 18, the boyfriend of the girl’s sister, was arrested Monday night. Officers have been searching for Cori since Friday, when she was seen leaving Union Alternative School with Bullock.
According to Bullock’s arrest affidavit, police found a stain that tested positive as blood on the driver’s floor carpet of Bullock’s car. A similar process found blood on Bullock’s shoes, the document states. (News OK)
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: Cori Baker
UPDATE I: Search for missing Tulsa girl’s body suspended
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Tulsa police have called off the search for the body of a missing 13-year-old girl.
They tell 2 News that they no longer believe that the body of Cori Baker is where her alleged killer told them to look.
Baker disappeared last Friday, reportedly after leaving the Union Alternative School with her sister’s boyfriend, Marquis Bullock.
November 15th, 2007 at 12:16am
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Dana’s guests this week include: 9PM ET
- Pam Bosco, close friend of Bolingbrook, IL missing person Stacy Peterson.
- Tim Miller, founder of Texas Equusearch, discussing TES’s recent searches including that of Brandi Laurent, Stacy Peterson and missing Benjamin Stanford. Special Guest appearance, Beth Holloway
- Wendy Murphy, former District Attorney, Law Professior and author of the book And Justice For Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who let Dangerous Criminals Go Free
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- Susan Murphy Milano, Moving Out, Moving On. She is an author and nationally recognized relationship expert, has been a tireless advocate for battered women and children.
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November 12th, 2007 at 08:14pm
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29 year old Brandi Laurent from Kiln, MS had been missing since August 3, 2007. She was last seen on Friday, August 3, 2007 around midnight walking on Fenton-Dedeaux Road in Kiln, Mississippi and has not been seen or heard from since. Texas Equusearch and their volunteers headed to Kiln, MS with Dave Holloway, the father of missing in Aruba teenager Natalee Holloway, to help search for Brandi Laurent. Texas EquuSearch organized a search on Nov. 9, 2007
Texas Group Searches For Missing Hancock County Mother
UPDATE I: We just received a phone call today from Tim Miller of Texas 
EquuSearch … THEY HAVE FOUND THE BODY OF MISSING BRANDI LAURENT. (developing …)
UPDATE II: Multiple search teams under the organization and direction of Texas EquuSearch have located the body of missing 29 year old Brandi Laurent. In less than one hour after the search began, the Harrison County Sheriff’s Mounted Patrol located the remains of Brandi Laurent. Brandi was found in tall grass approximately 6 to 8 feet tall near a power line.
The location where Brandi Laurent’s body was found was less than one mile from where she lived on Kiln, MS off of Road 528 and 530. Reports are that her clothing was the first indication that this was the body of missing Brandi Laurent.
Kudos to law enforcement and the multiple search teams and their cooperation in helping the family of Brandi Laurent and bringing them answers and Brandi home. This search effort represents the best of what can happen when law enforcement and search teams all cooperate for the greater good. We spoke with TES Case Manager Cindy Wisdom this afternoon, she stated that all the search teams and law enforcement worked together to accomplish the outcome to bring closure and answers to the family of Brandi Laurent.
It probably will not be long before Brandi’s husband, Leo, will have to be doing some explaining to law enforcement. Its only a matter of time.
Searchers find body that may be woman missing since August
Search and rescue workers believe they have found the body of a woman who has been missing since Aug. 3.
The body found Saturday morning is believed to be that of 29 year-old Brandi Hawkins Laurent who disappeared after a marital spat with her husband.
According information provided by law enforcement officers in the days following her disappearance, Laurent left her home on the night of Aug. 3, with no keys, cell phone or wallet after she and her husband had engaged in an argument.
November 10th, 2007 at 02:07pm
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The case if missing 9 year old Rowan Ford is disturbing on so many levels. One account that hits home and describes the the fact that there are just no words to describe such a heinous and senseless murder of an innocent 4th grader comes from “It is the Little Things” blog. How many times must we see that our children have been failed?
Two men have been arrested; however, no names released yet.
Two men have been arrested in the death of 9 year old Rowan Ford. Rowan Ford was reported missing after her mother, Colleen Spears, returned home early Nov. 3 from a night shift at a Wal-Mart. Her body was found on private land about 10 miles south of the girl’s hometown of Stella. Authorities have determined Rowan’s death to be a homicide; however, they have not provided a cause of death yet. Authorities believe that Rowan Ford was killed in Barry County.
Two men have been arrested in the death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found Friday in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri, authorities said. Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland identified one as a 24-year-old male and the other as a man of about the same age. (YAHOO News)
In another case of do not leave your child unattended and always check on your children when you return home, we are presented with the following account from the stepfather.
The girl’s stepfather, David Spears, told investigators he and two male friends were with Rowan the night before until they went out around 10:45 p.m. He returned home around midnight but did not check on the girl, Copeland said.
David Spears also later told authorities that he called his mother sometime after 1 a.m. and asked to use her vehicle, Copeland has said. She took it to him about half an hour later, then stayed at his house while her son left in her vehicle for about 5 1/2 hours, Copeland has said.
Copeland also has said that Spears has not been able to explain what he did during that time. He has not been accused of a crime.
Two are in custody for kidnapping, murder of girl
Cross posted at Scared Monkeys.com
UPDATE I: Girl’s Stepdad Denies Involvement in Disappearance
The stepfather of 9-year-old Rowan Ford denies any role in her death. David Spears left her alone Friday night when he went out with friends.
Law enforcement officials have said they are bothered by inconsistencies in Spears’ account of that night and the following day.
UPDATE II: Police Arrest Stepfather David Spears for Alleged Murder of Missouri Girl
The stepfather of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found Friday in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri was arrested in her death.
Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland confirmed late Friday night that David Spears, 24, was arrested in the death of Rowan Ford.
“The stepfather was a possible suspect,” Copeland told The Associated Press. “I will confirm that he has been arrested, as well as one of his friends.”
Copeland said a 24-year-old man from Wheaton, in adjacent Barry County, was also arrested. Charges had not been filed as of Friday night.
UPDATE III: Stepfather and friend charged with murder and rape of 9-year-old
Discuss the case at the Scared Monkeys Missing Persons Forum: Rowan Ford
November 10th, 2007 at 01:25am
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Drew Peterson, the husband of missing Stacy Peterson, was officially named a 
suspect today by police. Although previously not named a suspect, it was rather obvious that all signs pointed to Drew Peterson as the most likely individual that police were focusing on in the disappearance of his wife.
His actions have been peculiar to say the least and it would appear according to reports that the pressure may be reaching a breaking point.
“I would say right now that Drew Peterson has gone from being a person of interest to clearly being a suspect,” in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said during a news conference. “I would say this case has shifted from a missing-person case to a possible homicide case.”
Pictures of Stacy Peterson
Also today, authorities have announced that they will exhume the body of Drew Peterson’s 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio, who died in 2004.
(Kathleen Savio)
Peterson’s third wife was Kathleen Savio. Her niece, Melissa Marie Doman, said family members support the decision by the Will County state’s attorney’s office to exhume Savio’s body.
Family members have long suspected that Savio didn’t drown accidentally in her bath tub as ruled by the coroner’s office, Doman said.
“I am all for it, along with the rest of my family, because something just was never right,” said Doman. “I can’t really say who, but someone did something. I don’t think it was an accident.”
Officials may exhume body of Drew Peterson’s 3rd wife
Cop Suspected in Wife’s Disappearance
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Authorities probing the disappearance of a police officer’s wife said Friday he is now considered a suspect in a potential homicide investigation, and that the death of an ex-wife three years ago appeared to have been staged as an accidental drowning.
Authorities received court approval to exhume the body of an ex-wife of Bolingbrook Sgt. Drew Peterson as they continued the search for his wife, Stacy, who was last seen Oct. 28.
Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said Peterson, 53, has moved from being a person of interest in the disappearance of his 23-year-old wife to “clearly being a suspect.” Dobrich also said the case was now a potential homicide investigation.
“We have mixed emotions right now,” said Pamela Bosco, Stacy Peterson’s adoptive stepmother. “We’re sad, but we needed to move on, and this is something we’ve needed to hear for a long time.”
Authorities: Cop is a suspect in wife’s vanishing
Stacy Peterson’s Close Friend, Pamela Bosco, Speaks Out
UPDATE I: Geraldo interviews Drew Peterson
With the media camp growing outside his Bolingbrook home, Sgt. Drew Peterson took his case to Geraldo Rivera Saturday.
Off-camera, he insisted he had nothing to do with his wife’s disappearance and complained to the Fox Network broadcaster that stress caused by media coverage has caused him to lose 25 pounds.
The interview came on a day when more than 100 volunteers — though not Peterson — scoured forest preserves and ponds looking without success for 23-year-old Stacy Peterson.
In another twist, two of Stacy Peterson’s relatives entered the couple’s home and removed the ashes of Stacy’s deceased sister, who died last year of cancer.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:29pm
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A “Missing Child Alert” has been issued by the Alabama Department of Public 
Safety for missing 17 year old Benjamin Stanford. Ben Stanford has been missing since November 5, 2007 when he was last seen on Monday in Anniston and his vehicle was later found in Villa Rica, GA. Stanford is a senior at the Donoho school in Anniston. Benjamin Stanford is the grandson of Alabama State Senator Jim Preuitt. Law enforcement in both Alabama and Georgia are looking for the missing teen.
Benjamin Stanford Description:
- weight 140 pounds
- brown hair
- green eyes
- He was last seen wearing a white ball cap, rust colored jeans and a long-sleeved fleece shirt that was dark gray and purple.
- Another report states that he was wearing rust colored Carhartt jeans, a long sleeve dark gray and purple shirt and a white Polo ball cap.
MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Law enforcement in Alabama and Georgia are searching for the 17-year-old grandson of an Alabama state senator.
The Alabama Department of Public Safety issued a missing child alert Wednesday for Benjamin Stanford, who was last seen Monday morning in Anniston. His vehicle, a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was later found on Interstate 20 in Villa Rica, Ga., police said.
Stanford is a senior at Donoho School in Anniston and is the grandson of state Sen. Jim Preuitt, D-Talladega.
If anyone has any information regarding Ben Stanford’s disappearance, please call the Lincoln Police Department at 205-763-7777.
UPDATE I: Reward offered as 2-state search continues for missing Lincoln teen
ERA King Real Estate, where his mother, Lynne Stanford, works, has announced a $20,000 reward for valid information “leading to Ben’s safe return,” according to a mass e-mail that went out Thursday evening.
UPDATE II: Call for Volunteers in Search for Missing St. Senator’s Grandson, TES to help search for missing Ben Sanford
UPDATE III: Body Fitting Description Of Ben Stanford Found
Authorities have recovered a body fitting the description of the grandson of Senator Jim Preuitt.
The body was located about one mile away from his vehicle in the woods near Interstate 20 in Villa Rica, Ga.
Authorities are waiting on the Medical Examiner to release the identity of the body.
UPDATE IV: Body of Alabama senator’s grandson identified
The body of the teenage grandson of an Alabama state senator has been found about 1,000 feet from where his vehicle was located last week along Interstate 20, the senator said Tuesday.
State Sen. Jim Preuitt said Alabama state trooper officials have notified him that the body found Tuesday was that of his 17-year-old grandson, Benjamin Stanford.
“Bless his heart. He was the apple of my eye. He was just so lovable. We can’t believe it has happened,” Preuitt told The Associated Press.
UPDATE V: Report: Autopsy Rules Stanford Death Suicide
WSFA 12 News has learned through published reports that the Carroll County, Georgia coroner and Georgia Bureau of Investigation have concluded an autopsy of Benjamin Stanford’s remains.
The report indicates Stanford died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
For more updates and discussion regarding missing Ben Stanford, go to Scared Monkeys Missing Person forum.
November 9th, 2007 at 08:11am
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TES and the Family of Stacy Peterson needs your Help
Tim Miller and the volunteers of Texas EquuSearch have joined the search to help find missing Stacy Peterson. The family of Stacy Peterson contacted TES, the non-profit search organization, in an effort to help find their missing loved one. Stacy Ann Peterson has been missing since 10/28/07.
Speaking with Tim Miller this evening he asked that anyone in the Bolingbrook, IL come out and help search and also take part in helping out with the Command Center located at the Westbrook Christian Church in Bolingbrook.
The command center for the Texas EquuSearch team will be the Westbrook Christian Church at 1175 Lily Cache Lane in Bolingbrook. All search volunteers for tomorrow need to be there at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow
Stacy Peterson – search update 11/05/07
Cassandra Cales, Stacy’s sister, contacted EquuSearch and asked for the national organization’s help, said Cindy Wisdom, case manager for the not-for-profit group founded in 2000 to help authorities find missing people.
“We don’t enter a case unless family or law enforcement contacts us, and we don’t move forward with a case unless law enforcement agrees to work with us,” Wisdom said, adding the group has opened cases on more than 800 missing people and found 300—and the remains of 76 others. “The idea is to bring home missing persons, dead or alive.” (Chicago Tribune)
Texas search team to help in Peterson case
Meanwhile, representatives from The Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, an all-volunteer group with resources that include divers, helicopters, dog teams, horses and foot teams, were set to help in the search.
Family friend Bruce Zidarich said Peterson’s relatives had reached out to the group last week, and they had agreed to help.
For more updates and information go to MissingExploited.com.
To discuss the case and for updated go to Scared Monkey Forum: Stacy Ann Peterson 23, Bolingbrook IL – Missing 10/28/07
November 6th, 2007 at 12:34am
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