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28 year old Kelly Morris was last seen on September 3, 2008 by her husband, Scott, and children at their home at 3220 Tump Wilkins Road in Stem, NC. The following morning, September 4, firefighters with the Stem and Providence fire departments responded to a house fire at 3220 Tump Wilkins Road.
Kelly Morris missing
On the morning of September 4, 2008, firefighters with the Stem and Providence fire departments responded to a house fire at 3220 Tump Wilkins Road. The house and much of its contents were destroyed; however, firefighters were able to determine that the residents, 34-year-old William Scott Morris and his wife, 28-year-old Kelly Currin Morris, were not home when the fire broke out.
William Morris was allegedly at his towing business in Creedmoor and the couple’s two young children, ages 8 and 5, were in school at the time of the incident. It was initially believed that Kelly was in Raleigh, where she worked for Nationwide Insurance; however, investigators soon learned that she never showed up for work that morning.
The next day, authorities found Kelly Morris’ car and personal belongings in an undeveloped subdivision about a mile from the home, shortly after firefighters responded to a fire at the residence. Authorities have not named any suspects, but have stated that Scott Morris is a person of interest in Kelly Morris’ disappearance.
The family of Kelly Morris is offering a $30,000 reward for information that leads to finding her and NC Gov. Mike Easley has added $5,000.
Family members say they will not stop searching and urge anyone with any information to contact Granville County sheriff’s investigators at 919-693-3213 or a volunteer search line at 919-812-2310.
To further discuss the case, get updates and provide opinions go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Kelly Currin Morris.
UPDATE I: Dive teams continue search for missing Granville mom
UPDATE II: Texas mounted search team helps search for Morris
UPDATE III: Texas search team looks for missing Stem woman
A high-profile team continued to search on Saturday for a missing Granville County woman.
Texas EquuSearch has sent crews to North Carolina to help look for Kelly Morris. They also plan to conduct a search for a woman missing from Gastonia, its members said on their Web site.
On Saturday crews searched a 15-mile radius. They used side-sonar technology in ponds and Falls Lake. An airplane with a remote control camera was also used to scan wooded areas. The group also looked down wells with special cameras.
“I think we have plenty of tools. We have plenty of resources (and) a lot of determination on the part of the searchers, now we just need a little bit of luck to go along with it,” Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller said.
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October 19th, 2008 at 01:38pm
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It has been more than one year since Steve Fossett went missing went his plane, a single-engine, Citabria Super Decathlon disappearance. For months searches were conducted to no avail, until now. The main two remaining questions in the mystery of missing adventurer Steve Fossett:
- Where are his remains
- What caused his single-engine airplane to slam into a steep granite slope seven miles west of this town?
Steve Fossett ID
Wednesday, a hiker found identification documents, some of which were confirmed by the Federal Aviation Administration and local police to match up with the American adventurer Steve Fossett. His plane was found about 1/4 mile from where his id documents were found. Searchers find Fossett’s plane but not his body.
UPDATE I: Ctv is reporting that human remains have been found scattered amid the wreckage of his plane in eastern California.
Wreckage from a plane belonging to Steve Fossett is seen in a handout photo released by the Mono County Sheriff’s Search, Ctv
The National Transportation Safety Board would not reveal what exactly was found, but they said the discovery was enough to provide the coroner’s office with a DNA sample.
Earlier in the day, Madera County sheriff John Anderson said the single-engine aircraft Fossett was piloting likely crashed head-on into the mountainside in the Inyo National Forest near the town of Mammoth Lakes.
Most of the fuselage disintegrated on impact, and the engine was found quite a distance away, Anderson said.
The discovery of the remains came after Anderson said searchers would walk arm-to-arm for about a kilometre-and-a-half around the crash site.
Wreckage of Fossett’s plane, and remains, found
A small piece of bone was found amid a field of debris 400 feet long and 150 feet wide in a steep section of the mountain range, the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference Thursday. Some personal effects also were found at the site.
Officials conflicted on whether they had confirmed the remains were human.
“We don’t know if it’s human. It certainly could be,” Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said late Thursday, hours after the leader of the NTSB had said the remains were those of a person. “I refuse to speculate.”
NY Times: Remains Are Found at Site of Fossett Plane Crash
UPDATE II: Wreckage of Steve Fossett’s Plane Airlifted
A helicopter removes bundles of twisted metal from the remote, rugged area. Federal investigators plan to begin examining the parts next week. And searchers discover three more bone fragments.
Contractors finished plucking parts of adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane from remote wilderness in the Sierra Nevada this afternoon, preparing the wreckage for analysis by the National Transportation Safety Board.
UPDATE III: Remnants of Fossett’s plane may provide clues
A piece of wreckage from a plane with the tail number N24OR, which belonged to Steve Fossett, is seen on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, in a handout photo released by the Mono County Sheriff’s Search & Rescue. (Mono County Sheriff / AP)
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:29pm
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21 year old Jennifer Lee Hampton from Waterloo, AL has been missing since 9:00 
pm Friday, September 19, 2008 in Knoxville, TN. Jennifer Lee Hampton was last seen by a co-worker just outside her hotel room at a Days Inn in Knoxville. Police are suspecting foul play. According to police, Hampton’s cell phone was also left in the room
A 911 call from one of Hampton’s co-workers was made Saturday after Hampton didn’t show up for work and was not in her hotel room, according to Knoxville Police spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
“Officers briefly looked into the room and thought what they saw was suspicious,” DeBusk told ABC News. “We believe that she was a victim of foul play.”
Police declined to say what evidence in the room made investigators suspicious, but Mama Blues owner Steve Barnhill told ABC News that he understood there was no forced entry into the hotel room and sheets were ripped off one of the beds.
Since her disappearance, police have searched for Hampton both in the hotel and in the surrounding area.
“Saturday night through Sunday we used a search-and-recovery team to search the immediate area. We also used tracking dogs,” DeBusk said. “Yesterday we used more than four dozen of our officers to ‘grid search’ in a wetland area that was near the hotel.”
Police have questioned family, co-workers and friends but said they did not have any suspects yet.
“We have conducted numerous interviews,” DeBusk said. “We have re-interviewed several individuals.”
Searches Continue for Missing Jennifer Lee Hampton
Police first combed the Turkey Creek wetlands near her hotel Monday. Thursday, tips pointed them toward the Cedar Bluff and Winston road areas. And today, they continued in boats on Fort Loudoun Lake, staging their command post in Carl Cowan Park.
Two dozen search and recovery members equipped with sonar and recovery dogs hit the water in five boats early Friday morning and searched 14 miles of river front. But all they found was more water. Despite a search that continually comes up empty handed, officials haven’t given up hope.
“We feel confident that we’re going to be able to break this case but it’s taking time,” said Knoxville Police spokesperson, Darrell DeBusk.
Hampton’s family hired attorney Eddie Daniel to help them get the word out about her disappearance.
2 men questioned at Days Inn, where Jennifer Hampton stayed, arrested on bogus IDs
UPDATE I: Body Found in Clinch River Fitting Description of Missing Jennifer Hampton
A body has been recovered a young white woman from the Clinch River near the Anderson County-Knox County line. There was been no positive ID; however, the inittial decription fits that of missing 21 year old Jennifer Lee Hampton. The family awaits an autopsy for a positive ID.
A fisherman spotted the woman’s body around 8:30 a.m. near Edgemoor Road off Pellissippi Parkway, Knoxville Police Department Lt. Doug Stiles said.
The body appeared to be that of a white female, Stiles said. He wouldn’t comment on whether the body showed signs of foul play. It was taken to the University of Tennessee forensics center for autopsy and identification.
“We’re waiting on the results of the autopsy,” Stiles said.
UPDATE II: Body identified as missing 21 year old Jennifer Lee Hampton
Medical examiners made the positive identification on 21-year-old Jennifer Lee Hampton within an hour after her medical records from Florence arrived in Knoxville.
“The records arrived late this afternoon and it did not take long for the medical examiner to make the determination,” said Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:56pm
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23 year old New York City school teacher Hannah Upp has been missing 
since the afternoon of August 29, 2008. According to reports Hannah Upp was last seen in her Hamilton Heights apartment on the afternoon of 8/29/08. Upp has been described as a “very smart, very sensible young woman who is always aware of where she is and what’s going on around her, and who is conscious of the fact that not everyone she may meet has good intentions.”
According to Upp’s friends, she has planned to go away for the weekend and return on Saturday or Sunday. However, when Upp had not returned by Monday night they began to get concerned. Upp’s disappearance has baffled family and friends as she has all but vanished without a trace.
Upp’s two roommates, a man and a woman, became worried about her Sunday night when they hadn’t heard from her, roommate Samantha Gallardo, 25, told ABCNews.com.
According to Gallardo, Upp’s other roommate, fellow teacher Manny Ramirez, searched her room and saw that her purse, wallet, cell phone, ATM card and subway card were all there.
“My roommate woke me up and we went down to the police station. They didn’t seem too concerned about it at first, but at 4 a.m. that night there were already detectives in our apartment,” Gallardo said. “There’s been police in our apartment since.”
Hannah Upp, Thurgood Marshall Academy school teacher missing
A $10,000 reward has been offered for help in finding the missing NYC school teacher, Hannah Upp. The United Federation of Teachers has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Hannah Upp’s return.
More than a week after teacher went missing, her mother begs for clues
Anyone with any information regarding Hannah Upp is asked to contact Detective Perez, 30th Precinct Detective Squad, at 212-690-8842 or 212-690-8843.
UPDATE I: Missing teacher Hannah Upp spotted at store in Midtown Manhattan
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September 6th, 2008 at 06:56pm
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35 year old Tony Jacquet has been missing since Monday, 9/1/08, when he was last seen going on a hike. Jacquet was seen walking his dog and believed to have been going on a hike in the Falls area. On Tuesday, neighbors reported seeing Jaquet’s dog; however, he was no where to be found. According to reports Tony Jacquet has a serious medical condition and takes medications daily critical to his well-being. Time is of the essence in order to locate missing Tony Jacquet as he suffers from violent seizures as a result of a head injury he suffered in a past automobile accident.
Tony Jacquet Description:
- Jacquet is 35 years old
- 6 feet 2 inches tall
- weighs 180 pounds
- green eyes
- curly brown hair
- full beard and mustache.
- He was last seen wearing a blue t-shirt with green sleeves, tan colored shorts and brown hiking shoes
Jacquet was last seen walking with his dog, Scamper, east on Valley of the Falls Drive on Monday between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., and was believed to be going on a hike in the Falls area.
Search resumes for missing Forest Falls man
Some 30 searchers are resuming the hunt this morning for a Forest Falls man who went for a walk and his dog returned without him, according to San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials.
UPDATE I: Sad Ending … Tny Jacquet Found Deceased
It was a tragic ending to the story of missing hiker, 35-year-old Tony Jacquet. Although Jacquet’s family says his death is devastating news, they say, at least there is some form of closure.
“It didn’t come out the way we wanted to but Tony did what he loved the most and we’re okay with that,” said Normand Jacquet, the hiker’s father.
September 6th, 2008 at 02:38pm
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51 year old Josephine Frenna from Fort Lauderdale, FL has been missing since Thursday, August 21, 2008. Josephine Frenna had sought a restraining order from her estranged husband, 58 year old Gerardo Di Marco. Not again, looks like another case of a divorce going terrible wrong. Why can’t people just allow the other to walk away?
Josephine Frenna
Josephine Frenna, 51, who recently moved from Canada, previously told a Broward County judge that she and her son were “affraid for our life” because her estranged husband, Gerardo Di Marco, is “violent” and “dangerous,” the Herald reported.
Di Marco filed for divorce last week, and Frenna was scheduled to be in court Friday for a hearing on the restraining order against him.
Frenna’s 14-year-old son became suspicious Thursday when he returned from school to find his mother’s car, purse and cell phone, but no trace of her. Police have searched nearby apartments, hospitals, jails and airlines with no luck.
Frenna’s family and friends have been interviewed as well. De Marco was located Friday by Fort Lauderdale police and has been cooperative, police told the Herald.
”We want to find out what happened,” Steve Stabile, a family spokesman, said.
According to Det. Kathy Collins, a Fort Lauderdale Police spokeswoman, “there is no evidence that a crime was committed;” however, the relatives of missing Josephine Frenna fear foul play. Police have also interviewed the estranged husband, Di Marco, whom police said ”is being cooperative,”
She disappeared a day before a court hearing in which she was going to ask a judge to continue a restraining order — first issued in July — against her estranged husband, 58-year-old Gerardo Di Marco.
He filed for divorce last week.
Although Frenna was absent from the hearing, Broward Circuit Court Judge Jack Tuter extended the restraining order, according to Michael Emery, Frenna’s attorney.
”I have not heard anything about Josephine,” Emery said.
”She was supposed to have come Thursday to see me,” he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Lauderdale police at 954-828-5700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
UPDATE I: Investigators Check to See if Body Is Missing Florida Mom Josephine Frenna
U.S. Coast Guard officials found the body of a woman clad in a blue bathing suit about 20 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet early Sunday afternoon, the Miami Herald reports.
Sgt. Frank Sousa of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department told FOXNews.com that they expected results of the dental records check to be completed on Tuesday.
Woman found off inlet drowned, sheriff’s office says
An autopsy shows that drowning was the cause of death of the woman whose body was found about 24 miles east of the Sebastian Inlet over the weekend, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.
Fort Lauderdale detectives traveled to St. Lucie today to see whether the body is Josephine Frenna, 51, a Fort Lauderdale woman who vanished Thursday morning.
UPDATE II: Body Found Off Fla. Coast ID’d as Missing Mom; Death Ruled a Drowning, but Probe of Circumstances Continues
UPDATE III: Police: Keys found on beach belong to drowned Lauderdale woman
FORT LAUDERDALE – A set of keys found in a bag on a beach belong to a Fort Lauderdale woman who went missing and later was discovered dead in the ocean, police said today.
Although police have not officially determined whether Josephine Frenna’s death was accidental, the finding of the bag suggests that she could have gone for a swim in the ocean before she vanished.
But Frenna’s family held a news conference today to dispute that.
“There is no way that Josephine went into the water of her own volition,” family friend Steve Stabile said at the condo building along Galt Ocean Mile where Frenna lived.
To further discuss the case of missinh Josephine Frenna, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:04pm
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66 year old University of Iowa Professor Arthur Miller has been missing since 
Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Police put his name on a national missing persons list Wednesday; however, think Arthur Miller may have committed suicide. Miller was charged on August 8 with four felony counts of accepting bribes and released without bail. Miller was accused of offering higher grades to female students in exchange for sexual favors.
“I think it’s likely that sooner or later it will turn up,” he said of the rifle.
Miller’s car was found in the park Wednesday afternoon with his wallet and cell phone inside and some rifle ammunition in the trunk with three shells missing.
Miller was accused of offering higher grades to female students in exchange for sexual favors. He was charged Aug. 8 with four felony counts of accepting bribes and released without bail.
CNN: Prof in A’s-for-sex scandal missing, may be dead
After six hours of searching Hickory Hill Park Wednesday with an infrared-equipped plane, police were unable to find missing University of Iowa Professor Arthur Miller.
Police believe Miller was in the park after his red BMW was found in a parking lot at Hickory Hill Park.
Miller, who police say may be dead, is thought to have a rifle with him.
The UI faculty member was charged on August 8 with four counts of accepting a bribe. More accusers have contacted authorities about Miller, said Charles Green, the assistant vice president for the UI police
The family of a missing University of Iowa professor have given up hope of finding him alive
Miller, 66, of 1700 N. Dubuque Road, has been missing since Tuesday morning. Police searched for him Wednesday afternoon until dusk and from sunrise to 6 p.m. Thursday but have not found him or the high-powered rifle he purchased June 13.
Police also have said they suspect Miller already is dead, based on a “cryptic” note he left his wife, Natasha Ivanova, before vanishing.
UPDATE I: Police find body in park where professor went missing
Police state that a hiker has found a body in the park where University of Iowa professor, Arthur Miller, went missing. Although it has not yet been confirmed that the body is that of Arthur Miller, one can pretty much surmise that it is. The body was found in a secluded portion of Hickory Hill Park.
Body May Be Missing UI Professor
The clothing found on the body and a blanket near it are similar to items police said Miller was wearing and carrying with him.
Miller also had a shotgun with him, but police have not yet revealed how the person discovered Sunday died.
August 23rd, 2008 at 05:52pm
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27 year old backpacker from Kentucky, Yi-Jien Hwa, is missing on Montana’a Glacier National Park. Park officials say Yi-Jien Hwa was last seen at the St. Mary Visitor Center on August 11, 2008. His car was found in the Logan Pass Visitor Center parking lot. He was believed to be hiking alone.
Description Yi-Jien Hwa: 
- 6 feet, 1 inch tall
- weighs about 170 pounds
- He is believed to be carrying a blue Kelty backpack and trekking poles, along with other equipment, and might be wearing dark-colored clothing.
WEST GLACIER, Mont. — Searchers on Friday found no sign of a 27-year-old Kentucky man who was four days overdue from a lengthy backcountry hike in Glacier National Park.
Park officials say Yi-Jien Hwa was last seen at the St. Mary Visitor Center on Aug. 11, the first day of a hike that he planned to end Monday at Kintla Lake. His car was found in the Logan Pass Visitor Center parking lot. He was believed to be hiking alone.
Park spokeswoman Norma Sosa said improved weather Friday allowed one helicopter to join the search.
Searchers in Montana look for Asbury student
Yi-Jien Hwa, 27, an Asbury Theological Seminary student originally from Malaysia, was to have returned from the hike Monday. He is thought to have been hiking alone.
Hwa’s family notified park officials Tuesday night that they had not heard from him since Aug. 11, the first day of the hike, and he had not contacted them as agreed when the hike was supposed to end at Kintla Lake near the U.S.-Canada border.
Search is on for missing hiker
August 23rd, 2008 at 05:30pm
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A family of four from Texas is missing. The Plane that Tommy Jacomini was piloting has vanished without a trace. Aboard the Cesna 182 was the pilot, Tommy Jacomini, his wife, Susie, and their two young children, 8-year-old Tommy Jr. and 6-year-old Victoria. small plane that took off Friday bound for Texas but did not reach its destination. Officials said that he never filed a flight plan and no distress call was received.
Tommy Jacomini (back right), his wife Susie (back left), and their son Thomas (front right) and daughter Vivi (front left)
A family of four vanished without a trace after its small private plane took off from Steamboat Springs, Colo., KPRC Local 2 reported Saturday.
On the Cessna 182 four-seat plane was the pilot, Tommy Jacomini, his wife, Susie, and their two young children, 8-year-old Tommy Jr. and 6-year-old Victoria.
The family was headed back home to its ranch in Brenham, Texas. The family never reached its intended destination.
Tim Miller and Texas Equusearch will try and help in the search for the missing Jacomini family.
Miller said he would be involved in flyovers and will also use drone airplanes.
“Hopefully, we can get out there and bring the resources to bring this to a close,” he said.
Search Underway for Plane Carrying Texas Family of 4
UPDATE I: Hiker Finds Plane Wreckage Near Where Plane reportedly Disappeared
This is not looking good for the hope of any survivors from the missing Cesna 182 and the Jacomini family.
Rescue crews were en route Sunday to a Colorado mountain pass where a hiker reported finding wreckage Sunday near the search area where a Texas family’s plane disappeared.
Summit County sheriff’s spokeswoman Paulette Horr said authorities were trying to verify the report about the plane wreckage near Georgia Pass east of Breckenridge, about 65 miles west of Denver.
UPDATE II: Plane wreck discovered on Georgia Pass
A plane wreckage has been discovered on the Georgia Pass; however, authorities have not yet confirmed if plane is missing aircraft out of Steamboat Springs
SUMMIT COUNTY — A hiker summiting Mt. Guyot just east of Breckenridge called 911 this morning after discovering the remains of a small plane crash, but authorities have not yet confirmed if it is the same plane that went missing Saturday morning out of Steamboat Springs .
The Summit County Communication Center received a call on Saturday morning from Routt County advising an aircraft that left from Steamboat Springs on Friday morning, but it had not reached it’s destination in the Houston, Texas area.
UPDATE III: Texas family’s plane found; no survivors
Houston family killed in plane crash
Sad news to report in the case of the missing Jacomini family from Texas.I investigators have confirmed that they have found the Jacomini’s plane in Colorado and that there were no survivors. God bless them all and may they rest in peace.
UPDATE IV: Jacomini family killed in plane crash to be laid to rest
How absolutely sad and gut wrenching … an entire family to be laid to rest … God bless them.
August 17th, 2008 at 04:05pm
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Nadia Bouteldjan went missing 11 years ago in May 1997 when she was nine years old. It was suspected that her Algerian father had kidnapped her and fled with her abroad. Nada Bouteldjan and her father were spotted in Britain in 1997 but after that all trace of them disappeared. Nadia Bouteldjan has been found at the age of 20; however, she has refused to disclose what happened to her.
Nadia Bouteldja
In 2006, after Bouteldjan turned 18, she contacted her mother and began what would become a two-year correspondence by e-mail. She finally agreed to meet her mother, together with police, in Luxembourg in July.
However, the young woman did not want to tell police about her disappearance, her whereabouts for the past 11 years, nor where she lives now or what had happened to her over the years.
“She did not want to tell us what had happened,” Kaski said, adding that Bouteldjan behaved suspiciously towards authorities.
August 16th, 2008 at 03:19pm
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