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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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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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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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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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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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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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50 year old Francine Tate is missing in Madison, WI. What has been going on lately in the state of Wisconsin? There have been a rash of missing persons and murders of woman lately in the state. First there was Kelly Nolan, then Mahalia Xiong and now Francine Tate. Are they separate random acts or is there a serial killer in WI?
Name: Francine Tate
Age: 50
Sex: Female
Race: White
Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
Height: 5’4″
Weight: 110 lbs.
Missing from: Town of Windsor
Missing since: July 17, 2007
Francine Tate, 50, hasn’t been seen or heard from since around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday when she was in Madison, WISC-TV reported.
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- Tate has brown eyes
- brown hair
- 5 feet 4 inches
- weighs about 110 pounds
- She drives a burgundy 1997 Toyota Corolla
Authorities said they do not suspect foul play but they said that her absence is uncharacteristic.
Those with information on Tate’s whereabouts are asked to call the Dane County Sheriff’s Department at 608-284-6800.
Woman vanishes: family, friends seek answers
Francine Tate, 50, was last seen at a prayer meeting on Madison’s east side Tuesday night, and people attending the meeting saw nothing amiss.
“At the end, she gave someone a hug and walked out the door,” said Pastor Joel Alberti of Mad City Church. “We assumed she was on her way home.”
Francine’s brother-in-law, Dee Thompson of Madison, said her disappearance was “way out of character for her.” (The Capital Times)
Go to http://www.francinetate.com/ for further information
UPDATE I: Family Offers $15,000 For Information Leading To Missing Woman
Francine Tate was last seen leaving a prayer meeting at the Mad City Church office.
Family spokesman Dee Thompson said the money came from personal donations and a corporate gift from American Family Insurance, where Tate’s husband works.
The Dane County Sheriff’s Department said Tate and her husband took in a stranger they knew only as Randy the night before she disappeared. They met the man through their affiliation with the church.
UPDATE II: Police want to question a border who stayed at a missing woman’s home before she disappeared
Detectives are interested in speaking with a house guest that Steve and Francine Tate took into their home shortly before Francine’s disappearance. The man, who is only know to the Tates as “Randy” was someone they met through their affiliation with Mad City Church.
It is believed that Randy has left the Madison area and is traveling west toward South Dakota. Randy is not considered a suspect in this case, however, detectives would like to speak with him to see if he could provide any information that may prove helpful in finding Francine Tate.
UPDATE I: Missing Dane County woman, Francine Tate, found safe
A Madison-area woman missing for more than a week has been found safe in northern Wisconsin, authorities said.
Francine Tate, 50, was unharmed and the Dane County Sheriff’s Department is still investigating why she disappeared, a department press release said.
Kent Gobble, a 40-year-old transient wanted for questioning in Tate’s July 17 disappearance was located in Minnesota today, a day after being spotted in Milwaukee.
Tate found alive and well
Francine Tate, the Town of Windsor woman missing since last week, was found alive and well this afternoon in northern Wisconsin, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.
Tate was found alone in her parked car by a law enforcement officer on routine patrol. The officer recognized the Tate vehicle from a description that had been widely distributed, said Sheriff’s spokeswoman Elise Schaffer.
Sheriff’s officials are not commenting on what led to Tate’s disappearance until they are able to interview her, Schaffer said.
Tate’s family was en route to pick her up late Wednesday afternoon. Schaffer said.
Randall Kent Gobble, a houseguest who had stayed with the Tates shortly before Francine Tate disappeared and was being sought by authorities who wanted to speak with him about the case, was found by Dane County Sheriff’s detectives in Minnesota shortly before Tate was found, Schaffer said. Gobble did not play a role in locating Tate, she said,
July 19th, 2007 at 09:40pm
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Theresa Parker has been missing since March 21, 2007. Today there was an arrest in the case. Harbin Caffin was arrested on three felony warrants obtained by the state Bureau of Investigation in connection with the disappearance of 911 operator Theresa Parker.
LaFayette police officer Harbin Chaffin was nabbed on three felony warrants obtained by the state Bureau of Investigation in connection with the disappearance of Theresa Parker, 41.
Chaffin was arrested in Mobile, Al., on one count violation of oath by a public officer, one count tampering with evidence and one count computer invasion privacy.
He had already been arrested once in the case. In April, officials charged him with making false statements to police. (Fox)
Sam Parker is a sergeant on the same police force as Harbin Chaffin. Chaffin is the next-in-line supervisor on the same shift as Sam Parker. Sam and Theresa Parker were in the midst of a divorce. Sam Parker is considered a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife. Did he have help in possibly harming Theresa Parker.
July 17th, 2007 at 09:36pm
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