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As investigators are still looking for answers as to the cause of the catastrophic I-35W bridge collapse, searchers continue look for the missing. Due to the severity and massive catastrophic condition of the bridge collapse, many may be trapped beneath the tons of concrete. Divers spent a third day looking for the missing to no avail. Today, the police made public a list of the eight people who continue to be missing following the bridge collapse. However, police stated that there may be others who have not yet been reported as missing.
Investigators have names that haven’t been connected to the bridge, and divers and recovery workers have found license plate numbers that don’t belong to an identified missing person or survivor, authorities said.
The Associated Press earlier identified five of the missing, who all appeared on the police list: Christine Sacorafas, 45, a recent transplant to Minnesota who was on her way to teach a Greek folk dancing class; Greg Jolstad, 45, a construction worker who was operating a skid loader on the bridge; Peter Hausmann, 47, a former missionary heading to pick up a friend; and Somali immigrant Sadiya Sahal, 23, a pregnant nursing student traveling with her 2-year-old daughter, Hanah.
The police list also included Richard Chit, Vera Peck and Scott Sathers. No information was included about them. (ABC News)
It is obviously a terribly trying time for family and friends of victims wait for the searches to bring their loved ones home.
A look at some of the people missing in Wednesday’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis
Police ID 8 still missing after Minnesota bridge collapse
As investigators probed what caused an interstate bridge packed with rush-hour traffic to collapse into the Mississippi River this week, Minneapolis police Saturday night issued a statement naming the eight people — including a 2-year-old girl — still missing in the murky waters.
UPDATE I: 9th body found at Minnesota bridge site
MINNEAPOLIS – Divers found another body in the Mississippi River on Sunday, 11 days after a highway bridge collapsed into the fast-flowing water, raising the official death toll to nine.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the body as 20-year-old Richard Chit of St. Anthony. His mother, 50-year-old Vera Peck of Bloomington, is still missing.
The other three people known to be missing are Christine Sacorafas, 45, of White Bear Lake; Greg Jolstad, 45, of Mora; and Scott Sathers, 29, of Maple Grove.
August 4th, 2007 at 10:03pm
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Authorities are investigating a possible sighting of a girl resembling four-year-old missing 
Madeleine McCann. The sighting of Madeleine McCann took place in a restaurant in the Dutch-speaking town of Tongeren, near the Dutch border east of Brussels. She was reportedly with a man and a woman who were acting suspiciously. Authorities will be doing DNA testing on a bottle taken from the restaurant.
DNA test results are expected next week on a bottle taken from a restaurant where a girl resembling four-year-old Madeleine was seen drinking, local prosecutor Katja Van Doren said.
A child psychologist reported seeing the girl with a man and woman in the restaurant in the Dutch-speaking town of Tongeren, near the Dutch border east of Brussels.
The three people drove away in a black Volvo with Belgian plates, local police said, stressing that the number plate could be false.
The couple were said to have been acting in a suspicious manner.
Belgian police have issued an identikit picture of the man involved, said to be in his 40s with black hair and stubble on his prominent chin.
He was said to speak with a Dutch accent, while the woman, who also had dark hair, spoke to him in English.
Madeleine McCann sighting treated seriously
- Police release computer image of suspect
- Couple fled cafe before challenged
- Girl turned around at “Madeleine” call
An artist’s impression, released by Belgian police Aug. 3, 2007, shows a man who had been seen with a small girl sitting at the terrace of the roadside cafe “De Pauze” in the eastern town of Tongeren near the Dutch border.
Madeleine sighting puts Belgium on alert
Officers have taken a fruit milkshake bottle the child had been seen drinking from away for analysis but there are as yet no results, a police spokeswoman said yesterday.
Jolien Houbrech: Served suspects
Jolien Houbrechts, a waitress in “De Pauze” bar, described how she was approached by the witness on Saturday afternoon.
“The woman said to me that the couple looked strange and the girl looked like Maddie. I told her to call the police,” she said.
Madeleine McCann Scared Monkeys Forum Discussion
August 4th, 2007 at 12:34am
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The body of 26 year old, 9 month pregnant Jessie Davis was found in June 24, 2007 along with her full term fetus. It is believed by authorities that Jessie Davis was killed in her home near North Canton on June 14. However, the Summit County Medical Examiner ruled Jessie Davis’ death a homicide; however, she could not determine the exact cause of death.
Summit County Medical Examiner Lisa Kohler ruled that the manner of death was a homicide but offered no other details in a news release.
“Based on our examination of the remains, as well as consideration of supplemental laboratory testing and investigative findings, her cause of death will be listed as unspecified homicidal violence,” Kohler said.
Investigators previously stated that the advanced decomposition of the body would make determining a cause difficult. (Fox News)
Bobby Cutts Jr. has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Davis and her unborn child.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:13pm
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5 year old Alondra Diaz-Garcia has been missing since June 1, 2007 when she was reportedly kidnapped by her non-custodial father, Reynaldo Diaz. She has not been seen since.
- Alondra weighs about 38 pounds
- brown eyes
- brown hair
- nearly 4-feet tall
- was last wearing denim pants and a orange and yellow shirt
Texas EquuSearch volunteers are searching for the girl near Kendleton.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a warrant was issued for Diaz, 38, on July 2.
Mother frantic to find missing daughter last seen with her father
The girl’s mother says she and Diaz were divorced and he was scheduled to visit the girl June 1. The mother dropped her off with her father at a McDonald’s on Gessner and Bissonnet and hasn’t been seen since.
“I believe he is in Kendleton. He has a ranch there with his brothers and I am certain he has taken my daughter there,” said the girl’s mother Dorotea Garcia. (ABC 13)
UPDATE I: Local search for girl called off
A search for a missing Houston girl has been called off in an area in Kendleton and searchers will start looking elsewhere, an official with Texas EquuSearch said this morning.
No trace of Diaz-Garcia has been found, said Frank Black, search coordinator for Texas EquuSearch. He said searchers did not want to say exactly where they would look next as they did not want to potentially tip their hand to Diaz.
UPDATE II: Mother belived that ex-husband Reynaldo Diaz kidnapped Alondra Diaz-Garcia
She believes her ex-husband may have taken the girl to California or Mexico.
“He is a hot-tempered man. His reactions are very strong. He just did this probably on revenge,” Doroeta Garcia said.
She said he may have quit his job and taken $30,000 out of the bank before disappearing.
“Sometimes it’s a very dangerous situation, and sometimes it’s a situation where the parent may not be abiding by orders and hiding the child, and maybe not being physically harmed but some sort of emotional harm,” Harris Co. Assistant D.A. Jane Waters said.
In the case of Diaz-Garcia, a custody agreement had been in place since the divorce in 2005.
July 31st, 2007 at 06:58am
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According to Texas EquuSearch, they are planing to go to California this Wednesday, August 1, 2007 to help search for the missing 19 year old Donna Jou. Donna has not been heard from since June 23, 2007 when she attended a party. The family of Donna Jou contacted TES in hopes that they may be able to help find Donna Jou.
Texas EquuSearch stated that they look forward working with law enforcement to help aide in the process of bringing the missing Donna Jou home to her family. Its Texas EquuSearch’s motto, “You are not Alone,” and TES hopes that between the family, law enforcement and themselves, they can bring a resolution to this missing persons case and Donna Jou home to her family.
Recently 35-year-old John Burgess was arrested in Florida on separate charges; however, he remains a prime suspect in Donna Jou’s disappearance.
Sex offender arrested in coed’s disappearance
A registered sex offender sought in connection with the disappearance of 19-year-old Donna Jou of Rancho Santa Margarita was in custody in Florida today, but her whereabouts remain unknown.
John Burgess, 35, who calls himself SinJin Stevens and has his mother and other relatives in Florida, was arrested Tuesday in Jacksonville after he was seen on a bicycle near a motel dropping a clear plastic bag that officials said contained rock cocaine.
Missing teen’s father, Reza Jou, begs for help
Anguishing about his daughter’s disappearance more than a month ago, Reza Jou asked Monday for the governors of California and Florida to expedite the extradition of a convicted sex offender who could know the teen’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Burgess isn’t cooperating with Orange County investigators from California who interviewed him in Florida about Jou’s disappearance.
Jou’s father wants Burgess taken to Los Angeles for questioning. Reza Jou asked attorneys general, governors and Burgess’ mother to intervene.
“He is in jail in Jacksonville, Fla., using his constitutional right not to speak about my daughter’s whereabouts,” Jou said. “This is a very urgent matter. My child’s life is in danger.”
Jou said he’d received no response to his urgent plea, but The Daily News contacted California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office for comment.
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July 30th, 2007 at 04:36pm
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30 year old Mary Byrne Smith was last seen on March 24, 2007 when she attended a women’s religious conference. Following the conference she was never seen not heard from since. Beth Byrne Smith is married to the Reverend Jason Lee Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Summerdale, AL.
However, there is now an update in this missing persons case that is rather peculiar. Mary Byrne Smith is reported as being on video tape at a pawn shop in Bossier City, LA, the day she disappeared hawking her wedding ring. It would seem that Mary Byrne Smith wants to be missing.
The wife of an Alabama minister missing since March sold her wedding ring at a pawnshop on the day she disappeared, police said Thursday.
Mary Byrne “Beth” Smith, 30, is seen on surveillance video from a Bossier City, La., pawnshop hocking her wedding ring the morning she was reported missing, Bossier City police said.
The store security camera shows Smith wearing a purple shirt and exiting the shop at 11:36 a.m. on March 24, the same day she disappeared from Living Proof Live, a women’s conference she was attending with her friend Jenny Gipson at the Bossier City CenturyTel Center. (FOX News)
Minister’s missing wife pawned wedding ring
UPDATE I: Missing Mary Byrne Smith Found Safe Working Under Alias in New York
It appears that the wife of an Alabama minister, Mary Byrne Smith, wanted to be missing afterall. Mary Byrne Smith was located safe and working in a fast food restaurant in New York state under an alias.
Louisiana police located Mary Byrne Smith alive and well in New York state on Friday. The 30-year-old kindergarten teacher had been working under an assumed name at a fast-food restaurant.
“We know it’s her,” Bossier City Police Chief Mike Halphen said at a press conference Monday. “She did not want us to disclose the reasons why she left, and she did not want us to disclose where she is living.”
She does not face criminal charges, he said.
“People have their reasons for wanting to start a new life and that was her choosing,” Halphen said. “And again, we encouraged her very, very hard to contact her family and at least talk with her children and we believe that she will.” (Fox News)
UPDATE II: Missing Minister’s Wife Returns to Alabama From New York
Who says you can’t go home again? Missing for four months and located in New York state, Mary Byrne Smith, the wife of an Alabama minister returns home.
A minister’s wife who disappeared from a religious conference in Louisiana, only to be located four months later living in New York, knows she made a “serious mistake” by leaving and has returned home to Alabama to be with her two children, her lawyer said Thursday.
July 27th, 2007 at 07:26am
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19 year old Donna Jou has been missing since June 23, 2007. Now it appears that there may be a break in the case. Police in Florida have arrested sec offender, John Stevens Burgess. Jacksonville police spotted John Stevens Burgess trying to dispose of a bag of crack cocaine outside a Motel 6. Burgess is also a person of interest in the disappearance of Donna Jou.
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Police in Jacksonville, Fla., arrested John Steven Burgess, 35, who also goes by the name Sinjin Stevens, on a drug charge Tuesday, Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office in Orange County, Calif., confirmed to ABC News.
Burgess, a convicted sex offender, is a person of interest in the disappearance of Donna Jou, a 19-year-old who had just finished her freshman year at San Diego State University and who met Burgess on the Web site Craig’s List. (ABC)
Man arrested in Florida in case of Orange County missing student
Amormino said homicide investigators from Orange County were in Florida, where Burgess is currently being held on a drug charge and for failing to register as a sex offender.
Burgess has not been charged in connection with Jou’s disappearance, but authorities remain suspicious.
“This is another very suspicious act,” Amormino said. “He is clear across the country and he chose not to speak with investigators.”
Missing Persons Forum: Donna Jou
UPDATE I: Truck Found In Florida In Case Of Missing OC Woman
Police have found the missing truck of a man arrested in Florida. He is wanted for questioning in the disappearance of a 19-year-old San Diego State coed.
Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino says extensive media coverage of Burgess’ arrest led an anonymous tipster to call police with the location of the man’s 1998 blue Ford Ranger truck. Amormino says the truck was found in the Jacksonville area and is being processed by forensic investigators.
Truck is located in hunt for O.C. teen
“Forensic personnel are going through that truck with a fine-tooth comb in an attempt to locate any type of evidence which may lead us to [Jou's] whereabouts or what might have happened to her,” Amormino said.
Jou and Burgess apparently met on Craigslist.com. She was last seen June 23, when Burgess allegedly picked her up for a date at her mother’s Rancho Santa Margarita home and took her to a party at his rented West Los Angeles home, authorities said.
On July 8, the license plate of a pickup truck and a motorcycle helmet belonging to Burgess were found – along with rope, rubber gloves and a scrubbing brush – near railroad tracks about 1 1/2 miles from his house. (LA Times)
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39 year old Amy Mullins has been missing since approximately 9:30 am on Saturday, July 21, 2007 in Rochester, WA. Amy Mullin’s car was found outside her home, door open and keys in the ignition.
A neighbor found Mullins’ car outside her house with the driver’s side door open. Mullins’ keys were in the ignition, her dog was in the car and her purse was sitting on her seat. Even a warm cup of coffee was left behind.
Deputies are treating the case as a crime based on the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
Investigators have not named any suspects in the case, but they said they want to question Mullins’ estranged husband, Steve Mullins. They believe he may know something about her whereabouts, and Amy Mullins’ family members agree. (KOMO-TV)
What has seem to be a continuing pattern that although police have not named any suspects or persons of interests, they want to question the estranged husband Steve Mullins.
Investigators have not named any suspects in the case, but they said they want to question Mullins’ estranged husband, Steve Mullins. They believe he may know something about her whereabouts, and Amy Mullins’ family members agree.
“We’re pretty sure, from remarks he’s made to his family, that he obviously has had some involvement in what’s going on, and would know possible where Amy is at this time,” said her mother, Cheryl Ditmar.
Relatives said Steve Mullins has not returned any phone calls and may be headed to California.
The family has created a web site, helpfindamy.com. If any one has any information regarding missing Amy Mullins Steve Mullins’ whereabouts, please contact the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office at 360-786-5500.
UPDATE I: Body of missing Rochester, WA, woman found
Friends and family members who were searching a field in Rochester found Amy Mullins’ body around 2:45 p.m. Monday.
Her body had “suffered significant trauma” and had been concealed, Lt. Chris Mealy of the Thurston County sheriff’s office said.
Family finds Mullins in area already combed by police
July 23rd, 2007 at 06:50am
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34 year old Linda Renee Innocent, a hospice care worker has been missing since Sunday, July 15, 2007. She has not been seen since she left work at an unincorporated Fort Lauderdale neighborhood near State Road 441 and Davie Boulevard. Linda Renee Innocent reportedly called her fiancée at 8:15pm, the night she disappearance on her way home.
According to family a member, Innocent was on her way home Sunday night to meet her fiancé for a date. “She called him at about 8:15 p.m., asking him to make sure he’s ready so they could out to their reservation at a restaurant,” said Innocent’s sister Juny Bernadin.
“I was just like, ‘OK, I’m just going to get ready and I will wait for you when you get here.’ I didn’t think anything of it,” said Innocent’s fiancé Derek Francis.
That Sunday before Innocent vanished a relative of Innocent’s patient who asked not be identified, recalls her mood that day. “Everything was nice, she was a very good worker. I know Linda was having some problems on the telephone. A lot of times she’d come out on the porch and she would start crying,” he said. However, by the end of the day her mood had improved. (WSVN)
A troubling scenario is that one of her last calls on her cell according to authorities was made to her ex-boyfriend.
How many cases have we read about where a former boyfriend cannot let a person go forward in their live without dire consequences. The fact that she had a restraining order against him just makes the situation more troubling.
Police say her last few phone calls Sunday night were made to a former boyfriend who she has a restraining order against. However, authorities say there is no evidence of any crime. They are just looking for any information that will bring her home safely.
Linda Renee Innocent left work in her black 2005 four-door Audi with tags X61-9JM. Authorities are still trying to locate the vehicle. If anyone has any information regarding the missing Linda Renee Innocent, please call 954-321-4240.
Mother Of Four Missing From Broward Co.
According to family members, it was not like Linda Renee Innocent to leave her children without letting anyone know where she was going. Her four children are ages 14, 10, 8 and 2.
“We don’t believe that she left on her own will,” she said. “She’s somewhere where she probably doesn’t want to be. Linda has never done anything like this. If she’s traveling or going out of town, it’s with her kids.”
Scared Monkeys Missing Person Forum: Linda Renee Innocent
UPDATE I: The Search For Missing Sunrise Woman Expands
Decription of Linda Renee Innocent
Linda Innocent’s Vehicle, black, four-door, 2005 Audi A-4 with a Florida tag of X61-9JM
BSO investigators are checking to see if an ex-con – ex-boyfriend has any information. BSO spokesman Hugh Graf said Innocent had a restraining order brought against this boyfriend last month. Yet despite this court order, investigators say there was recent contact – in fact – it was just around the time she was last seen.
“The last three phone calls made on Linda’s cell phone were to this ex-boyfriend,” said Graf, “and the latest one was 9 o’clock pm the evening that she went missing.” (CBS4)
UPDATE I: Linda Renee Innocent Found Deceased in the trunk of her car parked at Miami International Airport. Linda Renee Innocent had feared for her life and it would most certainly appear she had just cause. Our system; however, failed another victim.
Linda Renee Innocent feared for her life.
Last month, the hospice nurse and mother of four filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, Vernon Howard, claiming he beat her while she was pregnant and stalked her.
”I know he will kill me because he threaten[ed] me before,” Innocent, 34, of Sunrise, wrote in a court statement.
On Tuesday, nine days after Innocent went missing, her body was found inside the trunk of her black Audi, parked in a garage at Miami International Airport, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. (Miami Herald)
Missing Sunrise woman found in trunk of her car
UPDATE II: Ex-Boyfriend Vernon Howard Person of Interest in Murder of Linda Renee Innocent
Innocent’s ex-boyfriend, 37-year-old Vernon Howard, is in jail on federal charges on a $25,000 bond. His family said that once he gets out of jail they hope he will be able to help police find the truth about Innocent’s death.
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:52pm
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42 year old Terapon Adhahn, accused child rapists and sex offender, will be charged with 
aggravated murder for the kidnapping and killing of 12-year-old Zina Linnik
Facing a possible death sentence if convicted, Adhahn will be arraigned Monday on the murder charge. Zina was abducted from her family’s Tacoma neighborhood July 4 and later found dead in east Pierce County.
Adhahn currently faces 12 felony counts related to the rape of two other girls. He pleaded not guilty Thursday to 10 rape counts, a kidnapping charge and a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
As Terapon Adhahn pleaded not guilty to the charges before him; investigators are looking to Terapon’s past to see just how many other children he may have sexually assaulted, raped and murdered.
Adhahn, a 42-year-old handyman and former Army Ranger, pleaded not guilty to 12 felony counts accusing him of repeatedly raping two girls, and failing to register as a sex offender after a 1990 incest conviction.
So much for the Judges in this country who believe that these predators will not repeat their crimes.
Mr. Adhahn is suspected in the murder of one young girl in the Tacoma area and is a “person of interest” in the death of another girl, according KING-TV in Seattle. He has also been charged with the 2000 kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old girl who was found duct taped to a tree in the Seattle area and with the rape of another girl. (Dallas News)
The search for potential other victims continues. Did Terapon Adahn kill Amber Hagerman also?
Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman disappeared while riding her bicycle near her grandparents’ house in 1996. Her body was found four days after she vanished.
The search for victims has spread as far as Texas, where investigators are trying to determine whether Adhahn is responsible for the 1996 slaying that inspired the national “Amber Alert” missing-child notification system.
In the Pierce County case, investigators believe Adhahn sexually assaulted one girl at least 150 times — once at gunpoint — during the four years she lived with him at a Spanaway home. He also faces charges in the 2000 abduction and rape of an 11-year-old Tacoma girl who was left bound and bleeding in a remote, wooded section of Fort Lewis.
After Thursday’s court hearing, Loni Rasmussen, younger sister of the Fort Lewis victim, said finally seeing the man accused of brutalizing her sister seven years ago inspired fear and anger, and also relief.
“I hate what he did to my sister,” Rasmussen said. (Seattle PI)
So how is this child predator linked to the death of Amber Hagerman?
Amber disappeared Jan. 13, 1996. Her body was found four days later.
Adhahn’s mother and brother live in nearby Forth Worth, but it is not known whether Adhahn was in the area when Amber vanished. Court documents indicate Adhahn attended a sex-offenders group meeting in Tacoma on Jan. 9, 1996, four days before Amber disappeared. He also attended a group meeting in Tacoma on Jan. 16, a day before her body was found.
UPDATE I: Adhahn may be linked to 1995 abduction
Is it possible that Adhahn could be linked to crimes that took place as far back as 1995? Could Terapon Adhahn be connected in a 1995 abduction and assault of a 21 year old convenience store clerk? According to records, Terapon Adhahn was living seven blocks away from the convenience store where the clerk was abducted in November 1995. Abhahn also attended a group therapy session for sex offenders in Tacoma hours before the abduction took place. Coincidence or connected?
Tacoma police are investigating whether Terapon Adhahn was involved in the 1995 abduction, assault and shooting of a 21-year-old convenience store clerk.
The woman, who was left for dead near Fort Lewis Golf Course, now says she believes her attacker may have been the man charged this week with abducting and killing a 12-year-old girl who was snatched from an alley behind her family’s Tacoma home on July 4th. (KOMO-TV)
July 21st, 2007 at 01:15pm
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