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From The BYU News Net, a new program in Utah started Monday to help find missing people who may be in danger. The Endangered Person Advisory is an alternative to the Amber Alert.
The state on Monday activated a new program to help find missing people who may be in danger.
The Endangered Person Advisory is an alternative to the Amber Alert, which is a plan to quickly notify public agencies, the media and the public if a child is missing and believed to be in danger.
The Endangered Person Advisory can be used to try to find people who have disappeared, from an elderly person with Alzheimer’s disease to a 14-year-old girl with questionable correspondence on her computer, the state attorney general’s office said.
“We could have used something like this,” Jody Hawkins, the mother of Brennan Hawkins, 11, who was lost in the mountains without food or water for four days, said in a statement.
“We needed the public’s help and we needed it immediately. The Endangered Person Advisory will be a real blessing for other parents searching for their children.”
As authorities have stated, this program will be yet another useful resource in the finding of people in danger used to supplement existing alert programs.
“The Amber Alert has been an extremely effective tool for bringing abducted children home,” Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said in a statement. “With the addition of the Endangered Person Advisory, police officers have a simple, clear-cut plan for finding others who may be in danger.”
Under the current Amber Alert system, newspapers, television and radio stations are told when a child is missing and believed to be in danger. Electronic highway signs also can flash information to drivers on major roads, with details such as a child’s description or the description of a suspect’s car.
September 20th, 2005 at 07:00pm
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According to The Times Dispatch, search dogs got hits and could smell Taylor Behl but did not find her.
The dog could smell her, but he couldn’t find her.
The scent of Taylor Marie Behl, a missing Virginia Commonwealth University freshman, was one of two scents that were picked up by a Louisa County police dog brought in Saturday night to search her recovered car.
The other scent produced what police chief Rodney Monroe described as a “successful track,” which produced several leads that investigators were aggressively pursuing last night. Monroe would not say what the dog discovered or where its nose led investigators.
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September 20th, 2005 at 01:16am
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Erin Nembhard, 15-year-old, was whispering into the telephone around 10:30 p.m. Friday. Less than an hour later, the teen was gone. Her family hasn’t seen her since.
Both Nembhard and authorities fear that the girl fell into a trap set by Internet predators. Police said a convicted sex offender was the last person to admit seeing her in his Opa-locka home in Miami-Dade County, more than 100 miles away from the Nembhards’ home on Aurora Drive.
Investigators said Erin Nembhard crawled out of her bedroom window with a suitcase filled with clothes and a bookbag late Friday and drove off with a man whom she had met in an Internet chat room. The man, Eduardo Narvaez, 21, first drove her to his Miami residence before taking her to the sex offender’s home early Saturday, Capt. Scott Bartal said.
The sex offender, identified as Corey L. Witty, 35, admitted to police that Nembhard spent nearly two days with him, but that she left unharmed around 2:30 p.m. Sunday, investigators said. Detectives found her belongings inside Witty’s residence. He told police he did not know where she went.
Another example of the danders parents face when their children are on-line in chat rooms.
Witty was arrested Sunday on unrelated charges of failing to register as a sex offender in Miami-Dade County. He was being held in the county jail on $5,000 bail, jail officials said.
Witty had served time for sexual battery and lewd and lascivious assault convictions dating back to 1999, according to records. The victim was younger than 16.
Picture of Erin Nembhard
Anyone with information on Nembhard’s disappearance is asked to call the Port St. Lucie Police Department at (772) 871-5001 or Treasure Coast Crimestoppers at (800) 273-TIPS (8477).
September 20th, 2005 at 01:03am
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According to The South Bend Tribune, more than two thousand children still remain missing or separated after Hurricane Katrina in AL, LA and MS.
More than 2,000 children from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are still missing or separated from at least one parent or other caregiver, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is maintaining a database of the missing.
So far, more than 750 children from Louisiana have been reunited with their families. Fifty had been placed in foster care, but the vast majority of the separated are believed to be with relatives or family friends, scattered across the country.
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September 20th, 2005 at 12:39am
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A new program called “A Child Is Missing” started Monday across Pennsylvania
It works just like this — a person goes missing, and a police officer calls ACIM. The officer gives pertinent information — such as where they were last seen and a good description. Within 15 minutes, thousands of calls go out.
The major difference between this missing persons program and The Amber Alert one is the following:
And unlike the Amber Alert system, which only is used for stranger abductions and has taken up to three hours in some cases to activate, ACIM is a rapid response system for runaways, Alzheimer’s patients, children and college students.
If you have a cell phone or an unlisted home number, you can also register those numbers with “A Child is Missing” and they contact you there. All you have to do is log on to their Web site, achildismissing.org.
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September 20th, 2005 at 12:30am
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The family of missing teen Taylor Behl is preparing to offer a $10,000 reward as search efforts intensify.
The family of missing VCU student Taylor Behl is preparing to offer a $10,000 reward as search efforts intensify. We’ve learned Behl’s mother may officially announce the reward in a news conference as early as this morning.
Behl’s friends and family are also aiding in the investigation with a website that has Behl’s description, pictures, phone numbers and more.
“I think it makes it much more puzzling…Ohio, who does she know from Ohio, or you know if she’s with someone from Ohio, or if someone from Ohio has taken her..i don’t know,” says Pelasara.
Police confirm evidence was seized from Taylor’s car before turning it over to the FBI for forensic testing. Pelasara says no word yet on results but she’s counting on them to lead the way to her daughter.
“I think we’re that much closer to finding her and I think once the FBI finish their analysis, I’m praying to God it will bring new information that will take us right to her.”
Photos of Taylor from web site “S”.
Hat Tip: MsPooh
If you have any information, you are asked to call the Tipline at 514-TIPS.
September 19th, 2005 at 05:20pm
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CBS is Reporting on their web page:
Though he’s not a suspect in the case, the man was one of the last people to see Taylor the night she disappeared.
“They had been talking for a while online,” Cino says, “and it’s possible she considered him a confidant of sorts. She couldn’t have known too many people around here at that point.”
Taylor left her dorm room and vanished after taking only her cell phone, student ID, a little cash, and the keys to her car, police say. That car was spotted over the weekend by an off-duty officer.
“It’s a very big piece in the puzzle,” Richmond Police Chief Raymond Monroe says, “and, hopefully, once we have an opportunity to search the vehicle further, it can give us more information.”
The Times Dispatch also reports:
The dog could smell her, but he couldn’t find her.
The scent of Taylor Marie Behl, a missing Virginia Commonwealth University freshman, was one of two scents that were picked up by a Louisa County police dog brought in Saturday night to search her recovered car.
The other scent produced what police chief Rodney Monroe described as a “successful track,” which produced several leads that investigators were aggressively pursuing last night. Monroe would not say what the dog discovered or where its nose led investigators.
But the lead was a sign of further progress in the intensive criminal investigation into the disappearance of the 17-year-old Vienna girl, who has not been seen or heard from since leaving her dorm room two weeks ago on Sept. 5.
September 19th, 2005 at 04:33pm
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Following the discovery yesterday of Taylor Behl’s 1997 Ford Escort police seem to think that Taylor Behl may have possibly been abducted.
“The fact that [Behl is] 17 years old and there have been no traces of her, we don’t think someone of her age could pull something like this off so easily on her own,” Richmond police Chief Rodney D. Monroe said in a telephone interview. “That leads us to lean toward the idea that she might have met with foul play or was abducted.”
Until yesterday, police had said that although they were concerned for the teenager’s safety, they did not suspect foul play in Behl’s disappearance. Evidence suggested otherwise, they had said, and indicated that Behl had willingly driven from the campus, where she lived in a dorm.
Monroe said investigators put the sedan under surveillance for about 12 hours. When no one returned to claim it, he said, the vehicle was impounded and turned over to the FBI for processing. He said a team of officers canvassed the neighborhood Saturday evening, and several canines were dispatched to the area.
The dogs “hit on a few things,” Monroe said, although he declined to elaborate. Those leads were being followed yesterday, he said.
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September 19th, 2005 at 12:56am
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According to WAVY10, Richmond police have found the car of missing Virgina Common Wealth Student, Taylor Behl, a mile and half from the dorm. Police state that the vehicle’s Virginia license plate had been replaced with plates from Ohio.
RICHMOND, Va. Richmond police say they’ve found the car of missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl about a mile and half from the dorm where she was last seen nearly two weeks ago.
Police Chief Rodney Monroe says an off-duty police officer found Behl’s car this morning. Its Virginia license plate had been replaced with plates from Ohio. Police put the car under surveillance, but went ahead and impounded it tonight after no one attempted to move it.
The F-B-I was called to do a forensic investigation of the car and a K-9 team was brought to the scene to try to get Behl’s scent.
Posters featuring the smiling Behl have been posted around campus since she disappeared September 5th.
People with information about Behl’s whereabouts are asked to call 8-7-7-2-4-4-H-E-L-P.
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September 17th, 2005 at 11:45pm
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From the September 15, 2005 Nancy Grace Transcript, Taylor Behl is referenced in the “Trial Tracking.” It may not be long before missing teen, Taylor Behl becomes the next widely reported case in the MSM. Taylor has been missing since September 5, 2005.
GRACE: Very quickly, to “Trial Tracking.” Authorities now calling the search for Taylor Behl, 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student, a criminal investigation. Last seen 10 days ago leaving her dorm room to give her roommate a chance to have a date with her boyfriend. There`s been no activity on her bank account or cell. Taylor`s white Ford Escort is also missing.
JANET PELASARA, MOTHER OF MISSING GIRL: She left her room, her dorm room at 10:00 o`clock-ish and told her roommate she`d be back in a couple hours and took her car keys and her student ID, and that`s it. That`s where the story`s ended.
GRACE: If you have any information on this girl, Taylor Behl, please contact the Richmond police, 804-514-8477.
UPDATE: September 16, 2005 – “On the Record” weeknights at 10 p.m. ET with Greta Van Susteren:
Do police have new evidence in their search for missing Virginia college student, Taylor Behl? We’ll ask Cynthia Price with the Richmond Police Department, and Taylor’s mother, Janet Pelasara.
Missing Taylor Behl seems to have moved to the level of national news prominence. One can only hope that the exposure can help find Taylor Behl.
September 16th, 2005 at 09:35am
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