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Kelly Gorham has been missing since Thursday, August 7, 2007 when she failed to show up at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME. Police are calling Kelly Gorham’s disappearance suspicious. 
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- Gorham is 5 feet, 2 inches tall
- 140 pounds
- blonde hair
- blue eyes
- Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Michael Zabarsky at 657-3030.
Kelly Gorham, missing Alfred woman.A 30-year-old nursing student from Alfred who was last seen eight days ago was responsible and conscientious, making her sudden disappearance particularly alarming, Maine State Police said Wednesday. Kelly Gorham, who lived by herself in an apartment over a garage on Water Street, was last seen by her landlord and another neighbor at about 11 p.m. on Aug. 7, said state police Lt. Brian McDonough. When she didn’t show up for her job as an intern at Maine Medical Center in Portland at 1 p.m. the next day, a co-worker called state police. (Portland Press Herald)
UPDATE I Searchers find ‘evidence,’ but not woman
Search teams on foot and in the air fanned out over 268 square miles Saturday during a full-day search for Kelly Gorham, a nursing student missing for nearly two weeks. But the intensive hunt turned up no sign of Gorham and no immediate breakthrough in the case. Searchers found some undisclosed items in the woods in the vicinity of Gorham’s apartment, but officials downplayed their significance. “We found evidence. They’ll make assessments about what value they’ll have in the investigation,” said Lt. Pat Dorian of the Maine Warden Service. “Obviously, we did not find Kelly and that’s what we were hoping for.”
UPDATE II: Searchers find evidence but student remains missing
Wardens downplayed the significance of items found Saturday in woods in the vicinity of Kelly Gorham’s apartment. The items will be analyzed by detectives. “We found evidence. They’ll make assessments about what value they’ll have in the investigation,” said Lt. Pat Dorian of the Maine Warden Service. So far, state police detectives have conducted about 75 interviews and processed several cars in connection with the case. Investigators believe someone knows about her location, said Maine State Police Lt. Brian McDonough. On Friday, Gorham’s mother and authorities appealed for help. “All of you people, please, dig down deep to that goodness and if you know anything, pick up the phone. Help us find our Kelly,” Pauline Gorham said.
UPDATE III: Kelly Gorham Found Deceased in Northern New Hampshire
The body of Kelly Gorham was found in Stewartstown, NH. She was buried on land that belonged to her ex-fiance’s family in northern New Hampshire. Ex-fiance, Jason Twardus had denied any involvement in Kelly Gorham’s disappearance; however, all signs point to the obvious.
Carlson said Jason Twardus has been questioned by police since the disappearance, which came two months after the couple broke off their engagement. He said Twardus denies any involvement in Gorham’s death.
The day after they raided the Twardus home in Rochester, investigators headed to Stewartstown. “The father told them where he had a piece of land, and that’s where they found the body,” Carlson said.
He said he spoke to Jason Twardus around 3 p.m. Wednesday and he maintained his innocence. “I said, ‘Everything is pointing to you.’ He said, ‘I know it is and I’m scared to death.’ ” (Portland Press Herald)
Missing Maine Nurse Found in N.H. Grave
Police Do Not Know the Cause of Kelly Gorham’s Death, but Ruled It a Homicide
August 19th, 2007 at 10:36am
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14 year old, high school freshman Diana Janna Karasev has been missing since Friday when she is believed to have met a man that she met on the internet. She was last seen at 2:30 pm on Friday afternoon. When will teens ever learn about the dangers of meeting people that they have met on-line?
Police said late Saturday night they believe Diana Janna Karasev, a freshman at Etowah High School, left the school with an unknown male she may have met online. Karasev, who goes by “Ester,” was last seen at the school at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
Karasev is white, 5-foot-3, weighs about 105 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. At the time of her disappearance, she was wearing a red shirt and black hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with information should call the Cherokee sheriff’s office at 678-493-4080. (AJC)
UPDATE I: Missing 14-year-old found at boyfriend’s house
A 14-year-old girl missing for two days was found Sunday afternoon at her boyfriend’s house. Police said fears that she may have gone to meet someone she met online were unfounded.
The girl, Dianna Janna Karasev, who goes by the name of Ester, was charged with a misdemeanor for running away, according to Sgt. Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:15pm
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54 year old Steve Harrison, the pioneering brewery’s vice president of sales of Sierra 
Nevada Brewing Company has been missing since Tuesday, August 7, 2007. He was last seen Monday night and failed to show up for work on Tuesday. The search continues with family friends, co-workers and law enforcement.
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Flyers are posted all over the Chico area, she said, and anyone with information about his disappearance, or his whereabouts, is asked to call Chico police at (530) 897-4900. He is 5 feet 9, between 145 and 160 pounds, and has blond hair and blue eyes.
Steve Harrison, 54, the pioneering brewery’s vice president of sales and reportedly its first employee, was reported missing after he failed to show up for work. He was last seen, at work, on Monday night. His blue Toyota Prius was found Tuesday morning near the Sacramento River, west of Chico.
Butte County’s volunteer search and rescue team is leading the search, and has brought in canine units from Napa County and elsewhere, according to law enforcement sources. A sonar-equipped boat and a California Highway Patrol helicopter have also been enlisted.
More dogs will aid in search for missing man
A massive ground search for Harrison was called off Thursday after three tracking dogs alerted on a spot along the river bank, just yards from where Harrison’s hybrid vehicle was found abandoned Tuesday morning.
Searchers figured he went into the water at that location, and spent Thursday scouring a small section of the river with an underwater camera.
Larish said other dogs brought in Friday also led searchers to the same spot on the bank, but nothing was found in the water.
Larish said yet another group of tracking dogs, from outside the area, will be brought to the river today.
He said the dogs will be allowed to run the river bank up to 1.5 miles downstream. “If they alert on something in that direction, we may expand the search,” Larish said. “But if they maintain their interest in the same area as the other dogs, we’ll probably continue our efforts there,” he said. (Oroville Mercury Register)
UPDATE I: Search Intensifies for Brewery Executive Steve Harrison
The search intensified Monday for a longtime employee of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. But after remaining missing for a week, it now appears the search for Steve Harrison has become a recovery operation.
UPDATE II: Missing Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. executive found dead in river
Harrison was eventually spotted by a private citizen on a WaveRunner, identified by the Chico Enterprise Record as Chico resident Frank Wilson III. Cooley said Wilson was out looking for Harrison, whom he did not know, and spotted him about a half-mile from where Harrison’s blue Prius was found Aug. 6, a mile from Scotty’s Boat Landing.
“He was floating in the water under a snag,” Cooley said. “There were branches and sticks – he blended right in. It would have been a tough one to spot from the air.” (SF Chronicle)
August 12th, 2007 at 11:51am
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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has just come up with a high tech, 21 century version of the milk carton. Instead of missing children on a milk carton, missing children on your computer screen saver. Fantastic idea.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has launched a 21st century take on milk carton advertising: a downloadable computer screensaver that flips through photographs of missing kids.
A picture of missing 3-year-old Shahid Lowther-Ray who went missing in 2002 in California.
Developed in partnership with a private software company, Global Software Applications, the rotating screens display a missing child’s picture and profile, tailored according to the region of the United States where the computer user is located
The 21st Century Milk Carton
More than 4,000 children are missing, said the Center’s executive director, Bob O’Brien. The screensaver is a great way “to get more and more people engaged” in finding kids.
Since the milk carton advertising of the 1980s, the organization has tried working with private companies who fax and regular mail the pictures. Any method to get the pictures to the public works. One in six children featured has been found as a result of someone seeing their picture.
Screensaver replaces milk carton in missing kid search
Download a photo screensaver, and potentially save a missing child. That’s the message from the child-safety group behind the Amber Alert system.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) released in the last week a “Missing Kid Saver,” downloadable software for people running most Windows operating systems. The application will draw on idle computer power to display updated news, information and photos on missing or abducted children from the NCMEC.
August 10th, 2007 at 07:47am
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Hundreds of rescuers are making every effort to free the 6 miners that are still missing in the Utah mine collapse. There has been no contact with the missing miners since the mine collapse.
Hundreds of rescuers broke through walls of rock Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities initially thought it was an earthquake.
Hours after the collapse, searchers had been unable to contact the miners and could not say whether they were dead or alive. If they survived, a mine executive said, they could have enough air and water to last several days.
Crews to attempt contact with 6 trapped in Utah mine
Seismic activity has interrupted Utah mine rescue effort, executive says
Seismic activity “totally shut down” efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground, causing a cave-in that wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine executive said.
Safety Issues Slow Mine Rescue Efforts
The miners have been described by the company and police officials only as being men in their 20s to 40s – three Hispanic and three of mixed European heritage. Their families have all clustered near the mine, and Mr. Murray said they did not want to speak to reporters.
UPDATE I: Drill Reaches Level of Trapped Utah Miners; No Sound Heard
Rescuers drilled through to a pocket in the coal mine where six miners have been trapped, but heard no sound through a microphone that was lowered into the collapsed mine.
The mine’s co-owner remained hopeful that the six men were still alive despite the silence.
August 8th, 2007 at 12:38am
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Greenville, SC police are searching for 4 year old Javeion Mayes who went missing earlier this morning. Police officials activated a Missing Child Alert into effect; an auto-call system that will alert residents within a 3 mile radius of the home that the child is missing. The police have not issued an AMBER Alert as they believe the boy just wandered off.
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August 7th, 2007 at 11:59pm
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007 represents the two years since Nita Mayo went missing. 
Tracy Mayo asked us if we could not post the following. Please help the family search for Nita Mayo …
A major search is being organized for missing Hawthorne, Nevada woman, Nita Mayo on Saturday and Sunday, August 18th and 19th. Volunteers are needed to help with this search and recovery effort.
The family of Nita Mayo is urgently asking for help from SAR dog teams that have been trained & certified, especially in Forensic Search, and are available the weekend of August 18th & 19th, 2007.
Nita Mayo has been missing since August 8, 2005 when she had breakfast with a friend before leaving Hawthorne, NV for a day trip over the Sonora Pass. She has not been seen since. NitaMayo
We feel it is absolutely imperative to get as many people as possible participating in this search. If you are available on either Saturday or Sunday, please join us in helping this family in their continued search for their Mother….your support is greatly appreciated. The search area is ~1 hour east of Sonora, CA on Hwy 108.
If you are able to help (or for more information) please contact Mike or Bridget Melson at 925.600.8084 x5 or or Tracy Mayo 701-730-4949
August 7th, 2007 at 11:07pm
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Kenny Ebarb has been missing since July 17, 2005 in the vicinity of the 21000 block of Countryside Rd. near FM 1960 East. The next day, July 16, 2005, Ebarb’s truck was found, abandoned and burned, about 23 miles away, in Huffman, TX. For two years, Ebarb’s family has dealt with Kenny’s disappearance with a range of emotions from hope to despair, frustration to anger, grief to loneliness not knowing what happened or having recovered his body. The case was deemed a homicide without a body.
More than 400 people including the Ebarb family and Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch attended The 21st annual meeting of Parents of Murdered Children. So many times we forget about the pain and anguish that family members go through after their loved one’s body is found. It can be even worse psychologically for those left behind when a body is never found. They are just left to wonder and anguish over what happened. Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch said during the conference:
The couple were joined in the hotel lobby by Tim Miller, founder of Texas Equusearch. Miller said cases of missing young men are “often overlooked or ignored” by the media, which “tends to focus on cases of missing women, or children.”
Miller was the luncheon speaker at the convention. Still, he took time to sit with the Ebarbs, gently advising them to attend one of the many workshops held for parents, relatives and siblings of murder victims.
“Everybody in this room thinks they’ve gone through the worst possible thing – losing a child,” Miller said. “I can tell them they have not. The worst possible thing is what you two are going through – not knowing. Not having that closure that allows you to fully grieve.” (Houston Chronicle)
The families of murdered and missing loved ones are a breed apart and have special issues and problems that none of us could even begin to relate to. Please remember that even after their family members are found. That although their missing loved one has been returned home, their grieving process goes on for years.
August 5th, 2007 at 12:54pm
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Brian Rooney, 36, was charged with aggravated murder in the Oct. 7 death of Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a University of Vermont senior who turned up dead six days after disappearing while walking back to campus after a night out with friends.
However, the voice of slain UVM student, Michelle Gardner-Quinn has not been silenced. Her essay, “This I believe,” will be featured this weekend. Special people are never silenced and hold a legacy for others to learn from. READ OR LISTEN to the essay HERE.
An essay written by Michelle Gardner-Quinn will be featured Sunday morning as part of “This I Believe” during Weekend Edition on Vermont Public Radio. It will be read by one of her professors, Cecilia Danks. Danks is the Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy at the University of Vermont. Weekend Edition airs 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. Sunday on VPR.
This I Believe is a national media project that invites people from all walks of life to write and speak aloud brief essays describing the core values that guide their lives. Each week, uniquely human voices of American citizens explore our hopes and ideals. The series has resonated with listeners, appreciative of civil discourse that’s honest and respectful, authentic and intimate.
VPR can be heard at 107.9 FM in Burlington, 89.5 FM in Windsor, 88.7 FM in Rutland, 88.5 FM in St. Johnsbury, 94.3 FM in Bennington, 92.5 in Manchester, 94.5 in Brattleboro, 95.3 in Middlebury, 94.1 in Montpelier and online at vpr.net. VPR is also available in HD at 107.9-HD1 in northern Vermont, 89.5-HD1 in the Upper Valley and at 94.3-HD1 in Bennington. (Times Argus)
August 5th, 2007 at 11:45am
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