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15 year old Chawntel Smith of Bartow, FL and her 4 week old daughter Asariela Garcia-Smith were reported missing by her mother at around 8:40 p.m. on Friday. Chawntel Smith and her daughter Asariela Garcia-Smith were last seen at a friend’s home in Haines City, FL on Friday afternoon.
Chawntel Smith Description:
- brown eyes
- brown hair with lighter ends that is longer than her shoulders
- 5-foot-4
- weighs about 140 pounds
- was last seen wearing a long, red skirt and red shirt
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Asariela Garcia-Smith her four week old daughter flew to Mexico City, Mexico on Friday, May 1 on a 5:00 p.m on an Aero Mexico flight out of Orlando International Airport
Detectives have confirmed with U.S. federal agencies that 15-year-old Chawntel B. Smith and her four week old daughter, Asariela Garcia-Smith, flew to Mexico City, Mexico yesterday, Friday, May 1 on a 5:00 p.m. They flew an Aero Mexico flight out of Orlando International Airport. She was traveling using her own passport and officials confirm she had an infant traveling with her. It is unclear why she traveled to Mexico.
Polk Detectives are working with Mexican authorities in an attempt to locate Chawntel and her daughter, who are still missing. Detectives are still investigating the circumstances leading up to her leaving the country, including who, if anyone, helped her with travel arrangements.
Chawntel and Asariela were reported missing by her mother at around 8:40 p.m. on Friday. Detectives say Chawntel took her daughter to a friend’s home in Haines City, but later left that home, located at 1424 Wood Avenue, with an unknown woman who friends say had picked her up before. The woman was driving a red SUV, officials said.
No one has heard from her since Chawntel spoke to another resident at that Haines City home just after 4 pm.
Both live at 3466 3rd Ave Bartow, FL with Chawntel’s mother, Lorraine Ketchum.
Detectives are working the Mexican officials to find the girl and her baby.
Chawntel had talked about visiting Guatemala to visit a man who she says is the father of her baby, Chawntel’s mother said.
Anyone with information should call the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at (863) 534-6200 or 1-800-226-0344.
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:20pm
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Carolyn Bossany and her two children, 7 year old son George and her 10 year old daughter Claire, have been missing since Wednesday morning, April 29, 2009. Carolyn Bossany was bringing her children to school; however, they never arrived and she never returned home.
Police in suburban Downers Grove are looking for a mother and her two children who have been missing since Wednesday morning.
Carolyn Bossany left home Wednesday morning to drive her 7-year old son George and her 10-year-old daughter Claire to school. She did not return home and the children did not arrive at school. They were last seen riding in a gray 2005 Nissan Altima with Illinois license plates LBR1834.
According to reports from the police, Carolyn Bossany has exhibited some erratic behavior over the last few days where the safety of her and the children are a concern.
Description of Missing Persons:
Carolyn Bossany is 38 years old, 5-foot-10, 150 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a T-shirt, blue jeans and a light blue coat.
Claire Bossany stands 4 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 80 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen clad in a T-shirt and blue jeans.
George Bossany stands 4 feet tall, weighs 50 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a T-shirt, blue jeans and a dark, hooded sweatshirt.
Carolyn Bossany was driving a gray 2005 Nissan Altima with an Illinois license plate of LBR1834.
If anyone has seen the family or who has any other information concerning the case, please call the Downers Grove police at 630-434-4600.
April 29th, 2009 at 09:32pm
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8 year old Victoria Stafford has been missing since Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in Ontario, Canada. Victoria Stafford was last seen Wednesday afternoon leaving Oliver Stephens Public School, where she was a Grade 3 student.
Tori’s Description:
- four-feet, five inches (134 centimeters) tall
- weighing 62 pounds (28 kilograms).
- blue eyes
- blonde hair cut just below her ears
- She was last seen after she left Oliver Stephens public school about 3:30 p.m.
- Reportedly wearing a green shirt, a denim skirt, black and white shoes, and a black Hannah Montana jacket with white fur-lined hood.
- She may have been carrying a purple and pink Bratz purse
Facebook that has been set up to help find missing Victoria “Tori” Stafford. Family makes Facebook plea for missing 8 year old.
The 3rd grade student, known as Tori, was last seem on a surveillance video walking with an unidentified woman as she left school Wednesday afternoon in the city of 35,000 east of London
VIDEO (woman walking with Tori at the 1:40 minute mark)
VIDEO can also be viewed here.
Investigators, who call the woman a “person of interest,” are checking dozens of tips from the public about her identity, and are now working with a profiler to try to find out more about her.
“All police have to go on is that grainy surveillance video,” the CBC’s Christine Birak reported.
“Even the police and Victoria’s parents have said it’s strange because Victoria is not leaving against her will. It almost seems as if she knows who this woman is.”
Description of woman in the video:
- Woman between 19 and 25 years old
- between 120 and 125 pounds
- straight long black hair in a ponytail
- She was wearing a white coat and black jeans
There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to her daughter’s safe return.
Anyone with information can call police at (519) 537-2323 or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS.
UPDATE I: Where’s little Tori? The Oxford Community Police are requesting the assistance of the public (pdf)
“I want my daughter home,” birth father Rodney Stafford said in Southside Park Saturday afternoon. “I want her home.”
Code Amber News Service (CANS) issued a missing endangered person alert on Saturday.
Dozens of police from Oxford, Waterloo Region and London, including dog search teams and trained London search and rescue volunteers, joined the search today. A large-scale search effort involving neighbouring police forces and hundreds of volunteers has scoured numerous lakes, ponds, wooded areas, brushes and properties .
Police say they don’t have enough evidence to even declare her disappearance a result of foul play. They’ve had hundreds of tips from the public.
“Everybody in Canada has Victoria in their hearts right now,” said Woodstock Community Police Const. Laurie-Anne Maitland.
UPDATE II: Hundreds attend vigil for missing Ont. girl
UPDATE III: Ground Search Ends for Missing Tori Stafford
Authorities said Monday they had ended their ground search for a missing 8-year-old Canadian girl a video shows walking off with an unknown woman.
Police keep insisting that Tori walked off willingly with the unknown female from the video; however, how do we know that the person did not lie to the young girl in order to gain her trust? What, like an abductor has never told a victim a lie to get them to go with them?
UPDATE IV: ‘America’s Most Wanted’ reaching out to help in Victoria Stafford case
UPDATE V: Missing Tori Stafford Case Now Considered an Abduction
The case of missing eight-year-old schoolgirl Victoria “Tori” Stafford has now been declared an abduction by the OPP veteran investigator taking over the case.
As was reported in Friday’s edition of The London Free Press, Det.-Insp Bill Renton made that announcement at a morning press during which Oxford police Chief Ron Fraser said Renton was taking over as “case manager” from a local officer.
UPDATE VI: New Searches for Missing Tori Stafford and Family Realeases Video
On Friday, the Ontario Provincial Police took the lead on the investigation from the Oxford Community Police, a move that made Tara McDonald “very, very happy.”
Her daughter Victoria Stafford did not come home after school on April 8. The third-grade student was last seen on surveillance video walking with an unknown woman.
Though the Oxford Community Police canvassed the neighbourhood and performed an extensive ground search, the OPP was knocking on doors once again over the weekend.
The Under Water Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) scoured waterways in Woodstock, using a sonar device on a pond close to Victoria’s school and other small bodies of water. So far, they haven’t found anything.
“I feel confident. Not that I didn’t before, you know, but I feel better that there’s fresh eyes,” McDonald added
April 12th, 2009 at 11:29pm
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8 year old Sandra Cantu has been missing since March 27, 2009. Just recently the 
police released video surveillance footage showing the missing girl skipping along a neighborhood street the same day she disappeared.
Now there is news out of Tracy, CA that a suspicious sealed container has been found by a farm team draining an irrigation pond about two miles from Orchard Estate, Sandra’s neighborhood.
“We have no indication that there is anyone or anything in that container,” Tracy Police Department spokesperson Tony Sheneman said Monday afternoon. “But it is important to proceed with caution and with due diligence.”
For the full and breaking story, go to Blink on Crime.
UPDATE I: 8 Year Old Sandra Cantu Found Deceased in Suitcase
The case of missing Sandra Cantu has come to a sad end. Police have confirmed that the remains of eight year old Sandra Cantu have been recovered from a suitcase. For more details go to Blink on Crime.
Our prayers go out the to family and friends of this precious child.
April 6th, 2009 at 08:34pm
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The Schade family, Matt, Rowena, Devon, 11, and Sean, 8 are missing and have not been seen since March 20, 2009. The family left their home in Creighton, Nebraska in a black Ford Taurus, license plate number 12-G997, under what the sheriff says is allegations of possible family violence.
“We had had a report of family violence, and that is why we started the investigation. At the time the Deputy returned on the 20th, we had no grounds at that time to continue the investigation,” Janecek said.
Two days later, when the family couldn’t be located, the Knox County Sheriff started an investigation into their disappearance.
“We would just like to find out that they are all right and the family is tremendously worried,” said Janecek.
Investigators Search For Missing Neb. Family; Investigators Say Violence May Be Factor
“We had had a report of family violence, and that is why we started the investigation,” said Knox County Sheriff Jim Janecek.
Deputies said they had no grounds to continue the investigation when they contacted the family on March 20. Two days later, the family was gone, prompting the start of the disappearance investigation, according to KTIV.
“We would just like to find out that they are all right and the family is tremendously worried,” Janecek said.
UPDATE I: Law Enforcement Scour South Dakota Black Hills for Wanted Man and Family After Disappearance
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April 5th, 2009 at 06:19pm
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued for 12 year old Sarah Norton in Florida. She is reported to have run out of her home after an argument with her grand mother. The 12 year old girl Manatee County girl was last seen at 10:00 AM on Saturday after having left her West Bradenton home, when she got into a red Jeep Cherokee with FL tags being driven by a middle aged man wearing sunglasses
12 year old Sarah Norton missing
Sarah Norton walked away from her home at 5515 Second Avenue in West Bradenton and was seen getting into a newer model red Cherokee with Florida tags in the 7500 block of West Manatee Avenue, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. A white man, between 45 and 50 years and wearing glasses, was driving, the sheriff’s office said.
Sarah Norton Description:
- 5 feet, 3 inches tall
- weighs 93 pounds
- brown hair
- brown eyes
- She was last seen wearing a gray sports bra, denim shorts and no shoes. She wears glasses.
Sarah Norton lives with her grandparents, mother and two siblings in a residence in the 5500 block of 2nd Ave. Dr. West and is said to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
She suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and doesn’t go out of the house much,” said Claar. “There is a path near our house where she takes walks, but she doesn’t know anyone. We are very, very concerned.”
Sarah is on medication and could be mentally unstable.
If anyone has any information regarding Sarah Norton, please call the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office at (941) 747-3011
UPDATE I: Amber Alert Canceled, Sarah Norton Found Safe
A missing 12-year-old girl has returned home, and the Amber Alert for her has been cancelled.
According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Sarah Norton returned to her house, and detectives will be interviewing her to see where she has been.
She had last been seen Saturday morning by neighbors near her home.
March 29th, 2009 at 03:58pm
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Two year old William Eschenbach has been missing since Tuesday afternoon, March 17, 2009, at approximately 4:45pm. The 2 year old South Carolina boy was last seen playing in the back yard of his home.
2 year old William Eschenbach
William Eschenbach is described as white, with blond hair and wearing a green shirt and grey pants.
As of 9 p.m., deputies said that nearly 30 volunteers have showed up at the command center to offer their assistance. They said that anyone who would like to help with the search should call the sheriff’s office before they go to the scene to make sure they are needed. They asked volunteers to stay out of the woods.
“We don’t want anybody in woods right now,” said Master Deputy Harry Cline. “Search and rescue dogs are out there and they work off air scent and turned over vegatation and stuff like that.”
To discuss the case, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons Forum
UPDATE I: Body of Missing 2 Year Old William Eschenbach Found in River near his Spartanburg home
Sadly, the body of 2 year old missing William Eschenback was found today at approximately 11:30 am Wednesday morning in the swollen Tyger River near his home. The body of William Eschenbach was found about a miles away from his home. The police do not suspect fowl play as the two year old boy wandered out of his family’s yard the day before Tuesday afternoon.
The body of a 2-year-old South Carolina boy was found in a river swollen by recent rains Wednesday a day after the child wandered out of his family’s yard near Spartanburg, authorities said.
Searchers found the body of William Eschenbach around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in a river about a mile from his home, said Master Deputy Tony Ivey, spokesman for the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
“It’s real tragic thing to happen to a family,” Ivey said.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:55pm
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Police in Frankfort, KY have issued an AMBER ALERT for 2 year old Brenna Woodside. She was last seen at 6:30 AM when her father, Miles Woodside picked her up for visitation. He was supposed to return her to her mother at 4 PM. Friday and never showed. Police say that Miles Woodside is armed and potentially dangerous.
Police say Woodside is armed and possibly dangerous due to “suicidal tendencies.”
He was last seen driving a 1997 Lincoln Towncar, Kentucky license plate number 064BAA.
Breanna has straight blonde hair that falls past her shoulders and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing purple sweat pants and a purple and pink striped shirt.
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If anyone has any information, they are asked to call 911 or Frankfort police at 502-875-8582.
UPDATE I: Search Continues For Missing Girl
March 1st, 2009 at 05:33pm
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A Morgan Nick Amber Alert was issued late Tuesday (02/10/09) for 3 year old Dominick Wesley Arceneaux in Arkansas. The Ouachita County Sheriff Department are considering three possibilities: the boy fell in the lake, he wandered off and got lost in the woods, or he was kidnapped. However, authorities are leaning toward the possibility that Dominick Wesley Arceneaux was kidnapped from his Chidester home Tuesday afternoon.
Dominick Wesley Arceneaux Description:
- white with a dark complexion
- 3 feet tall
- 38 pounds
- brown eyes
- short brown hair
- The child was wearing a pair of blue jean shorts with red stitching on the pockets
For nearly six hours Wednesday, the Game and Fish dive team searched the shoreline of White Oak Lake. Arceneaux was last seen behind his family’s mobile home, which is only 50 feet away from the lake.
Sheriff David Norwood say he was playing with the family dog and his wheelbarrow around two o’clock Tuesday afternoon. He went inside to remove his shoes and five minutes later, his mother and aunt, who were inside the home, heard silence. They went outside and discovered the boy had vanished.
If anyone has any information regarding missing Dominick Wesley Arceneaux, please contact the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Department at (870) 837-2200.
To discuss the case of missing Dominick Wesley Arceneaux, get updates or to provide your own thoughts and opinions, go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum.
UPDATE I: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children get involved in missing 3 year old Arkansas Boy case.
UPDATE II: Search Intensifies for Missing 3-Year-Old Arkansas Boy
Local, state and federal agents, along with members of the National Guard and volunteers, have joined the hunt for the boy — but without success.
Sheriff David Norwood said Friday afternoon there was still no hint of what may have happened to the toddler.
“We’re following anything we can,” Norwood said. “It would be different if we knew he’d been kidnapped, where you can take your efforts away from searching the lake, searching the woods. You could focus on finding a car or whatever other clues were available.”
The Arkansas National Guard has designed a grid search of 60 soldiers to blanket the area, Norwood said.
UPDATE III: Arkansas National Guard Search while FBI agents questioning every sex offender in a 40-mile radius
The issue may not be so much that the bar was closed at the time Dominick Arceneaux went missing, but the individuals who may have previously frequented the bar and previously saw the 3 year old boy.
Dominick’s grandmother, Martha Cortez, who drove in from Louisiana earlier this week, said she is suspicious of the bar near the family’s trailer. The Wild Horse Saloon is owned by her sister and brother-in-law. The bar gave her a bad feeling.
“I just feel like – something right there – at that barroom,” Cortez said without finishing her thought.
Jack Mitchell, who owns the bar, said earlier this week that it was closed Monday and Tuesday.
UPDATE IV: Sad Conclusion, Body found identified as missing Dominick Arceneaux
Searchers on Wednesday found the body of a 3-year-old Chidester boy missing for more than a week, only a few hundred feet down the shoreline from where his mother kept an anxious vigil on White Oak Lake.
Ouachita County Sheriff David Norwood told The Associated Press that rescuers found the body of Dominick Arceneaux, barefoot and clad in blue jean shorts, floating in the water around 11:45 a.m. Dominick’s body rested on the water only 10 feet from the shore, Norwood said.
Dominick’s body was taken to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for an autopsy.
February 14th, 2009 at 09:22pm
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38 year old Lisa Ruelas and her sons, Gabriel, 10, and Evan, 5, had been missing since Thursday, February 5, 2009. An AMBER ALERT was issued for Lisa Ruelas, Evan Ruelas and Gabriel Ruelas.
It was feared that she might kill herself and her two children as Lisa Ruelas’ husband had died approximately 18 months ago and is was suspected that she could be depressed. Altadena Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department stated that Lisa Ruelas had left a desperate letter alluding to plans to commit suicide after taking the lives of her two sons.
However, LA county authorities were notified late Friday night that Lisa Ruelas and her sons, Gabriel and Evan were found safe in Ixtapa, Mexico approximately 190 miles southwest of Mexico City.
The Los Angeles Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was notified at about 11 p.m. Friday that Lisa Ruelas, 38, and her sons had been found in Ixtapa, Deputy Byron Ward said.
Gabriel, 10, and Evan, 5, were “safe and sound” and Ruelas was taken into custody, he said.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:08am
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