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Philip Merrill, 72, an experienced sailor and chairman of the board of Capital-Gazette
Communications Inc went missing Saturday after he sent out sailing alone his 41-foot sailboat. Two boaters found the sailboat adrift Saturday evening near Plum Point and no sign of Philip Merrill. Rescue crews using helicopters and boats searched 100 square miles of the Chesapeake Bay over the weekend and today.
Merrill, 72, had taken his 41-foot sailboat, the “Merrilly,” out alone Saturday. He typically followed an 18-mile round trip without wearing a lifejacket, Chaney said.
Two boaters found the sailboat adrift Saturday evening near Plum Point, about 25 miles south of Annapolis and 40 miles south of his home in Arnold, and called police, officials said.
Rescue crews believe Merrill likely fell overboard since his wallet was on board and there was no damage to the boat, officials said. The wind was gusting up to 25 mph on Saturday, creating conditions that could be difficult for a single sailor alone, Chaney said. (FOX News)
Coast Guard spokesman
Crews Resume Search for Annapolis Publisher Small Boats, Helicopters, and C-130 Aircraft Search Area
Rescuers have resumed their Chesapeake Bay search for Philip Merrill, the firebrand newspaper publisher and diplomat whose 41-foot sailboat was found drifting alone Saturday in strong winds.
Rescue crews from the Coast Guard and the Maryland Natural Resources Police have been using small boats, helicopters and a C-130 aircraft to search an area roughly 25 miles by 8 eight miles, said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr.Adam Mach.
A pair of passing jet skiers spotted Merrill’s unmanned boat, Merrilly, about 20 miles south of Annapolis on Saturday evening. The search was halted at midnight Sunday, then resumed this morning at 5:30 a.m. (Washington Post)
June 12th, 2006 at 11:25am
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Representatives of the Cruise Lines International Association, CLIA, has asked the Coast Guard to draft a “comprehensive reporting regime” for cruise lines to follow. This in the wake of the widely publicized disappearance of George Allen Smith IV aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise. The controversy surrounding George Smith’s disappearance lead to a Congressional hearing lead by US Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT.
U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., also held hearings on cruise line safety, questioning whether the industry did enough to track and report crime and other problems that occur on its ships.
Crye said that while cases of missing passengers, injuries and crimes aboard cruise ships are rare, the public scrutiny has caused the industry to consider establishing more uniform reporting standards.
Shays’ hearing raised questions about who is contacted and under what circumstances should the contact be made. Multiple agencies, such as the FBI, U.S. Coast Guard and foreign police, can sometimes get involved, although they each have different reporting standards. Crye said his trade group has asked the Coast Guard to draft a “comprehensive reporting regime” for cruise lines to follow.
“We’re ready to execute it as an industry,” Crye said.
(Greenwhich Times)
Comments from the Shays hearings on the cruise line industry and safety issues.
“Ocean travel puts passengers and crew in a distant, isolated environment and subjects them to unique risks and vulnerabilities. Like small cities, cruise ships experience crimes — from petty to profoundly tragic. But city dwellers know the risks of urban life, and no one falls off a city never to be heard from again. Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.
“Jurisdictional and bureaucratic tangles can also impede investigation and resolution of crimes at sea. For purely economic reasons, most commercial ships fly under foreign flags. Passengers cannot assume the protection of U.S. laws and law enforcement will be available in time, if at all. When events involve citizens of different nations, in the territorial waters of a third, all three can assert some jurisdictional claim. While these legal and diplomatic niceties are being resolved, the crime trail grows cold and crucial evidence may go overboard or melt into the crowd ashore.
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Victims rights advocates; however, hope that Shays and Congress will pass legislation rather than hoping that the cruise line industry voluntarily complies with incidents reports. One would think that if the cruise line had been sincere it would not have taken all the negative publicity to act now. The George Smith case shed a spot light on the cruise ship industry as the Smith family has been unrelenting in their efforts for answers and laws/guidelines for cruise ships to adhere to so such events never occur again. The Smith family and Congress took notice of the numerous occurrences that has happened aboard cruise lines. They have had their chance to fix the problem, now its time for someone to tell them what to do.
Thirteen cruisers are presumed to have gone overboard in the past two years, according to the International Council of Cruise Lines. Nearly 11 million people took cruises in 2004 — 8.3 million of them Americans, the council says.
According to the FBI, about 50 U.S. cruisers are crime victims or disappear each year. Half the reported incidents involve sexual assaults; 20% are assaults; and 10% involve a missing person.
Shays said in an interview Thursday that cruise lines aren’t forthcoming about reporting bad things that happen to passengers. “Statistics are only provided on a voluntary basis,” he said. “They have a huge incentive to underplay crime.”
(USA Today)
June 10th, 2006 at 05:34pm
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Bertha Martinez, 46, from Taylor, TX has been missing since last Friday when she 
failed to return home Thursday night. Her husband reported her missing.
Martinez’s family has not heard from her. They suspect foul play.
Martinez was last seen Friday at Megarabbit on Jarrett Way in North Austin. She was wearing a white shirt and black capri pants.
(News 8 Austin)
Anyone who may have seen her is asked to call the Taylor Police Department at (512) 352-5551.
June 8th, 2006 at 12:14am
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Could Patrick McDermott really be alive? The boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John was
reported missing from a fishing trip last year. The American cameraman,43 year old Patrick McDermott reportedly vanished during an overnight fishing expedition off California’s San Pedro coastline between June 30 and July 1, 2005. However, he has been reported as being seen in Mexico according to three witnesses. It is rumored that he possibly faked his disappearance to avoid debts and a possible jail sentence and unpaid child support.
Here’s a twist we didn’t see coming – Olivia Newton-John’s missing boyfriend Patrick McDermott is apparently alive and living in Mexico.
An investigation by an Aussie tabloid has found three witnesses – a bar owner, a surf camp owner and a businessman – who all claim to have seen him on the remote Baja Peninsula as recently as 10 days ago. (ABC News: Arts & Entertainment) 
Singer’s missing boyfriend ‘seen’
(CNN) — The missing boyfriend of Australian singer Olivia Newton-John may be alive and living in Mexico, according to a report in a Sydney newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.
Patrick McDermott, 48, who had been the “Grease” star’s boyfriend for nine years, disappeared in June last year.
He was reported to have fallen overboard while on the fishing boat Freedom, which made an overnight trip out of San Pedro in Los Angeles.
This story just gets more and more strange. The Daily Telegraph is speculating that Patrick McDermott faked his own death to avoid a jail term.
The newspaper said there was speculation that McDermott may have attempted to fake his death to escape mounting debts and a possible jail term over unpaid child support for his son Chance from his marriage to actress Yvett Nipar.
It said the fishing boat Freedom made a previously unknown stop for fuel that would have allowed McDermott to leave the vessel.
According to the Daily Telegraph, the galley chef on Freedom is now the key witness for investigators.
A galley chef on Freedom is now the key witness for investigators and will be compelled to answer questions about
McDermott’s last movements. McDermott can be traced to at least two towns on the Baja Peninsula: the small village of Todos Santos and the bustling holiday mecca of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip.
In Todos Santos, about 80km north of Cabo San Lucas, a Mexican bar owner said he was positive McDermott had been in his bar about three months ago.
Olivia’s boyfriend ‘sighted’
The newspaper says the sightings come as a US grand jury prepares to investigate the disappearance of McDermott, who was Newton-John’s boyfriend for nine years. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
June 5th, 2006 at 08:07am
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Jose Javier Cruz, 34, the son of Houston Astros sports icon is missing. Jose Javier 
Cruz was last seen at his home about 12 days ago. His pick up burned out pick up truck was found ten days ago near Katy Mills Mall. Texas Equusearch is volunteering in the search.
Jose Javier Cruz, 34, was last seen at his home about 12 days ago. But a pickup truck registered to his wife was found burned out near Katy Mills Mall about ten days ago and now Equusearch volunteers are searching the area around the mall for Cruz.
Jose Javier Cruz is an Hispanic male about six-feet tall and about 170 pounds. If you have any information about where he may be, you’re asked to call Houston police.
(KTRK)
According to Texas Equusearch a tentative search is being planned for Thursday, June 1, 2006.
A large scale search is tentatively planned for Thursday, June 1st, 2006, beginning at 9am. Our command center will be located at the Houston Christian High School located at 2700 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77043 (click link for map).
POSTER OF MISSING JOSE JAVIER CRUZ
According to reports, Jose Javier Cruz was last seen driving to pick up his 11 year old daughter from school. He never arrived at the school and his truck was found on fire in Katy at about 4 a.m. May 20.
Texas Equusearch plans to search in the Addicks area in Fort Bend County on Wednesday according to Tim Miller.
“Time is not on our side,” said Tim Miller, director of Texas Equusearch. “Being gone a week, the vehicle being found burned out and no contact whatsoever, it just does not sound good. I don’t want to sugarcoat anything. This one doesn’t appear, right now, like it’s going to have a good ending.”
Description of Jose Javier Cruz: 
Name: Jose Javier Cruz
Date Missing: 05/19/2006
Missing From: Houston, TX
DOB: 10/14/1971
Age: 34 years old
Hair Color: Black short
Height: 6’0
Weight: 170lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Sex: Male
Race: Hispanic
Complexion: Olive
Police/Sheriff: Katy Police Department
Officer/Deputy Name: Det Hughes
Officer’s Phone #: 281/3914848
Officer’s Case #: 2006845
TES Case #: 06569
Astros coach’s son missing after pickup truck fire
“We are listing him as a missing person in danger because he is not answering his cell phone,” Dickerson said Tuesday.
Dickerson said firefighters were called to the 1200 block of Pin Oak a few minutes after 4 a.m. on May 20 to extinguish flames coming from a 2005 Chevrolet pickup.
Officers searched the area around the burned truck but found nothing.
(Houston Chronicle)
Son of Astros first base coach missing
Jose Javier Cruz, 34, last talked to family members May 19 at his Houston home in the 10300 block of Huntington Place, said Katy police Capt. Gay Dickerson.
(KHOU)
UPDATE FROM EQUUSEARCH: (6/1/06 10:00 PM EDT) The search continues for Jose Javier Cruz
Texas EquuSearch will continue the search for Jose Javier Cruz on Friday, June 2nd, beginning at 9am. We will need ground searchers, ATV’s, and horses. The search will continue on Saturday if we come up empty handed Friday. Our command center is located at the Houston Christian High School located at 2700 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77043.
Please ask your viewers/readers to contact Texas EquuSearch at 281/309-9500 with any tips or leads. They can also obtain a copy of Jose’s poster from our website www.TXEQ.org
May 31st, 2006 at 01:00pm
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Sandra Eubank Gregory, 34, a Birmingham, AL attorney was abducted from a 
parking lot outside of her downtown law office at 8:30 AM EDT and is presently missing. She was forced in to her four-door Lexus RX 300. According to reports, there have been several withdrawals from ATM’s at three AmSouth banks.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Birmingham police have surrounded a greenish-gray Lexus in a public housing community in search of a female lawyer who was abducted at gunpoint Wednesday morning, The Birmingham News reported.
Sandra Eubank Gregory, 34, was allegedly abducted from a parking lot outside of her downtown law office at 8:32 a.m. EDT and forced into her four-door Lexus RX 300. The Birmingham News reported that police were scouring the Cooper Green public housing community in West Birmingham late Wednesday afternoon in their search for Gregory, who is also believed to have withdrawn money under the threat of force from several ATMs.
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Gregory was wearing a red tank top, black capri pants and several hoop earrings, Irby said. The gunman was described as wearing a striped, short-sleeve shirt with dark pants and sunglasses.
Gunman abducts Alabama attorneyThe license plate of the 2000 vehicle is 1C4850G. An empty baby seat was probably in the car, police said.
Video from the scene shows a man approach her as she gets out of the driver’s side of her vehicle. After a brief struggle, he pushes her back into the passenger side. (Watch a man walk up on Gregory as she gets out of her vehicle — 2:29)
(CNN)
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UPDATE (6:50 pm EDT): Abducted Alabama Attorney Found Alive, Suspect in Custody
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A female lawyer allegedly abducted at gunpoint Wednesday has been found alive at a motel and a male suspect has been taken into custody, according to local police.
After a large-scale search, Sandra Eubank GregorySandra Eubank Gregory, 34, was discovered at a Comfort Inn in Homewood, Ala., and was being treated by paramedics. At least one weapon and money were also found.
Lt. Henry Irby told reporters Wednesday evening that Gregory appeared to be “all right.” He declined to comment further on her condition.
Police swarmed the Comfort Inn around 5:20 p.m. and arrested a man who fit the suspect’s description, holding him down on a walkway outside the second-floor motel room before putting him in the back of a police car.
(Fox News)
May 31st, 2006 at 01:00pm
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Missing CFK Kicker of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Duncan O’Mahony, had been missing since Friday failed to show to training camp. He was last seen Friday at the Calgary’s airport.
In a Monday news release, the family said O’Mahony is safe, and asked for privacy so they can “bring this situation to a close.”
Neither the football club or Ross Gurney, O’Mahony’s Vancouver-based agent, have commented yet.
Brendan Taman, the Blue Bombers’ general manager, said his team is concerned about O’Mahony, but has to start looking for a new kicker.
When he last spoke with O’Mahony, Taman said there was nothing in the conversation that would suggest anything was wrong.
“Duncan O’Mahony hasn’t shown for training camp due to personal issues,” said O’Mahony’s family in a statement made through the Blue Bombers earlier on Monday.
“We are having difficulties in reaching him. There is a concern for his welfare. We therefore ask that anyone who knows where he is either contact the family or the club.”
(CTV)
Update: Family Says Missing CFL Kicker Found
His family said Monday that he is safe and also asked for privacy so they can “bring this situation to a close.” There was no comment from the Blue Bombers or O’Mahony’s agent, Vancouver-based Ross Gurney.
(Forbes)
May 22nd, 2006 at 11:30pm
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Another missing person reported from a Royal Caribbean cruise. 21-year old Daniel 
Dipiero, of Augusto, Ohio, was reported missing from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Mariner of the Seas, during a trip from Cape Canaveral to the Bahamas.
Daniel Dipiero, of Augusto, Ohio, was reported missing around 11 a.m. Monday from the Mariner of the Seas. Dipiero’s friends reported his disappearance Monday after realizing he had not slept in the cabin they shared, Royal Caribbean International spokesman Michael Sheehan said in a statement.
A review of ship camera footage last showed Dipiero around 2:15 a.m. Monday on the fourth deck, leaning on a rail near the front of the ship, Coast Guard Petty Officer Dana Warr said.
The Bahamian Coast Guard and Royal Caribbean officials were helping search for Dipiero. The FBI and the man’s family were also notified, according to the cruise line. (Fox News)
Ohio Man Missing From Cruise Ship
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The search continues for a Mahoning County man who is believed to have fallen overboard on a cruise ship. Officials said Daniel DiPiero, 21, of Canfield, went back to his room on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship late Sunday night and has not been seen since. (WTOV9)
FBI Notified After Cruise Ship Passenger Mysteriously Vanishes
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching an area between Cape Canaveral, Fla., and the Bahamas for a 21-year-old man who mysteriously vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Local 6 News has learned.
Officials said Daniel DiPiero of Ohio was last seen Monday on board the Mariner of the Seas ship.
DiPiero told travel companions that he was going to his room to go to bed.
The following day, when it was discovered that he did not sleep in his cabin, authorities were notified, Local 6 reporter Donald Forbes said. (WKMG6)
UPDATE: FBI: Tape Indicates When Missing Man Went Overboard
After the FBI and the Coast Guard reviewed surveillance video from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, the search for a missing man was called off after it was determined that he went overboard early Monday morning.
Royal Caribbean released a statement saying that 21-year-old Daniel DiPiero, of Canfield, Ohio, had been drinking heavily, some of the alcohol having been brought on the ship in violation of Royal Caribbean policy.
“Royal Caribbean learned the following from the FBI’s investigation:
>The young man was served five drinks over a four-hour period — from 8 p.m. to midnight Sunday. During this time, the young man also ate dinner with his six companions, at which point the seven guests shared 1.5 bottles of wine.
>The missing man and his three roommates brought three bottles of liquor onboard the ship, which they concealed in their luggage in violation of Royal Caribbean policy. The young men concealed some the liquor in two large mouthwash bottles. One bottle contained Crown Royal, the other, a combination of two liquors — one named Hypnotic and the other Hennessy cognac. The young men also brought a bottle of Bacardi rum onto the ship in their luggage.
>The four young men consumed the alcohol Sunday afternoon and that evening in both their stateroom and that of their guardian.
>The four videotaped themselves as they drank the alcohol.
>The FBI and Coast Guard thoroughly reviewed the digital video recording captured by the ship’s security systems, which recorded the young man alone on an outside portion of deck 4 on the starboard side of the ship between 12:12 a.m. and 2:16 a.m. Monday. The FBI and Coast Guard indicated to family members that the young man went overboard at 2:16 a.m. Monday and that he was alone at the time.
May 16th, 2006 at 03:07pm
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Mothers Day is usually a joyous day to spend time around mom and thank her for the many things that she has done over the year and years that we have taken for granted. It is also a day to remember our moms if they have since passed. Remember the great times and the special moments.
For some mother’s out there, the mothers of missing children, today is a difficult one. To those mothers of so many missing children we wish you a special Mothers Day and God Bless.
Please read the following post and transcript from the Nancy Grace Show where she had the many mothers of missing children. These moms are a breed a part.
With we wish them a Happy Mother’s Day.
May 14th, 2006 at 12:10pm
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Jodi Huisentruit, the missing news anchor almost 11 years from CBS affiliate KIMT in
Mason City, Iowa may have finally been found. The suspicions of an Iowa farmer, Duane Arnold, may lead to the discovery of Jodi Huisentruit’s remains.
Police have wondered what happened to Jodi Huisentruit, who worked for CBS affiliate KIMT in Mason City, Iowa, since she did not show up for work on June 27, 1995. They have pursued several leads, but a breakthrough in the investigation has been elusive.
They hope an Iowa farmer will be able to give them new clues in the search. Duane Arnold owns a cabin near Eagle Lake, Iowa, and 10 years ago, he said, he reported seeing what he believed was a grave near his cabin. Investigators found nothing, but Arnold remained 
convinced they had dug in the wrong area.
“I really, truly believe she’s right there somewhere,” Arnold said. “I gotta know. I gotta know. It’s just eating me up, lost a lot of sleep. You can’t get it out of your mind.” (ABC News)
This past April, Duane Arnold paid an engineering firm with ground penetrating radar to survey the land around his cabin.
Using radar, the firm said that it had found something that could be a body. Jared Lampe, spokesman for National Ground Penetrating Radar Services Inc., said the area looked like a grave site.
For those not completely familiar with this nearly 11 year old case. It is believed that Jodi Huisentruit was was abducted from the parking lot of her apartment complex in the Key Apartments about 4:30 a.m. on June 27th, 1995. She has never been found.
Read the full account of the case here.
To get all the information and news regarding the disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit go to FindJodi.com
Link to the extensive The Huisentruit news File
Jodi Sue Huisentruit Wiki
After 10 years, no arrests
“Just help, help. That’s basically all I heard,” said Keith Walsh. According to police records, at least five neighbors heard those cries for help. Two people described the cry as not a horrified scream, but one of surprise. Yet no one called police.
read the rest here…
May 9th, 2006 at 01:02pm
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