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Another person reported overboard a cruise ship.
A 39 year old man has fallen overboard the cruise ship Norwegian Sky at approximately 3 am, Saturday April 18, 2009. The man was a passenger on the Norwegian Sky sailing from Miami, when he went overboard about 60 miles north of Nassau, Bahamas. The Norwegian Sky departed Miami for a three day cruise and was traveling to its first port of call in Nassau when the incident occurred.
Several crews, from the Royal Bahamas Defense Force, the Royal Caribbean Monarch of the Seas cruise ship, Norwegian Pearl cruise ship and Disney cruise line small-boat crews, are assisting the Coast Guard with the search.
Norwegian Sky crew members contacted the Coast Guard for assistance from the Seventh Coast Guard District based out of Miami.
Thus far the same of the passenger is being withheld pending the notification of the nest of kin.
UPDATE I: Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing 39 Year Old Man
The Coast Guard says in a release that it suspended its search around 8 p.m. Saturday after searching 590 square miles.
April 18th, 2009 at 02:28pm
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A 16 year old Helena girl Deanna Niven was been missing since Sunday evening, April 12, 2009 in Alabaster, AL. Deanna Niven was last seen at the Alabaster Walmart where she left at approximately 6:30 pm. When DeAnna did not return home and her parents could not contact her, they began searching for their daughter. When they arrived at the Walmart her family discovered Deanna’s van with her cell phone inside.
Police are currently looking for a vehicle in connection with the disappearance of 
Deanna Niven. There is reason to believe Deanna could have left in an older model silver Dodge Caravan.
Through images captured on surveillance video it is believed that Deanna Niven possibly willingly entered a van of another individual in the parking lot. The man in the vehicle appeared to be a man in his 20’s.
It’s believed that other individual is a man in his 20′s. Surveillance video shows what is believed to be either a silver 1996 to 2000 Plymouth Voyager or a 1995 to 2008 Chrysler Town and Country or Dodge Caravan. There are still a lot of unanswered questions, but Lt. Anthony says police are focusing on just one right now, “what’s most important right now is we find her and make sure that she is safe.”
UPDATE I: Missing girl found; admits to running away
April 13th, 2009 at 10:53pm
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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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24 year old James Duncan III, a Howard University sophomore, from San Francisco has been missing since March 25, 2009. James Duncan III was last seen at approximately 8:30 pm at the Howard Plaza Towers in the 2200 block of Sherman Avenue NW in Washington, DC.. Duncan is considered on the “critical missing” list.
Description:
- Black male
- 5 feet 6 inches tall
- Weighing approximately 180 pounds
- Brown eyes
- Black hair
- Duncan’s car, a burgundy 1998 four-door Toyota Camry with California plates, was found Monday in the 2600 block of North Capitol Street NW.
If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of James Duncan III, please contact the Metropolitan Police Department at 202-727-9099 or the Howard University Police Department Investigator Robert Thompson at 202-806-1085.
Mother Pleads for Help in Finding Missing Howard Student
Duncan’s mother, though, is still clinging to the hope that he is OK.
“I love my child; my family love my child. We wanna make sure he’s OK,” Ellenberg said.
Duncan’s mother flew in from California and says she plans to stay in the area passing out flyers and talking with students on Howard University’s campus until she learns of her son’s whereabouts or finds out what happened to him.
While the pressure of college can prompt some students to drop out and leave school abruptly, for reasons they have not made public D.C. police do not believe that has happened here and consider Duncan’s situation critical.
UPDATE I: Howard University student James Duncan III had been found Safe
Howard University student James Duncan III had been found. According to a university press release, Duncan was located Tuesday unharmed in an undisclosed location.
Metropolitan police and the Howard University Police Department declined to comment, due to Duncan’s wish for privacy, but Duncan’s mother, Terry Ellenberg, did speak about how pleased she was after receiving word of her son’s whereabouts.
“I’m very happy right now,” Ellenburg said. “I haven’t seen him yet, but I’m about to go to see if I can find him where I was told he was seen.”
April 11th, 2009 at 11:53am
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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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13 year old Joseph “Joey” Patrick Kormanik is missing and has not been seen since about 2:30 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2009 from his home in the 7800 block of Curlew Court in Colorado Springs, CO. Joseph Patrick Kormanik is considered mentally handicapped as he has been diagnosed with fetal alcohol affect and emerging bi-polar disorder and can become very disoriented when he is off of his medication.
Joseph Patrick Kormanik Description:
- Kormanik is a black male
- 5 feet 7 inches tall
- 120 pounds
- black hair
- brown eyes
- last seen wearing a Broncos Santa hat, a gray and red ski jacket, a gray striped shirt, jeans, black snowshoes and carrying a black backpack.
- Police say he suffers from medical conditions and may appear disoriented.
If anyone has any information, please call police at 444-7000.
Police looking for missing 13-year-old
“We have checked everywhere in the local area, restaurants and grocery stores and everywhere we think he might have been,” Joey’s mother Sara Kormanik said.
Kormanik is worried sick about her son Joseph. She said she has not seen him since he left Saturday afternoon and did not return home
Kormanik said it is scary to think he could have possibly been out in the weather all night.
“I know he was dressed warmly but I hope he would have sought shelter somewhere, but we just do not know, and it was so cold and windy and snowy and we are just very very worried,” Kormanik said.
April 5th, 2009 at 08:05pm
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18 year old University of St Thomas Freshman, Dan Zamlen, has been missing since
3:00 am on April 5, 2009. He was last heard from at 3am while talking to a friend on his cell phone when the line suddenly went dead. According to reports, it is believed Zamlen was near the Mississippi River near St. Clair Avenue in St. Paul at the time and had been drinking alcohol.
According to family members, Zamlen was on a phone call with a friend, and the last word heard were, “Oh my god, oh my god, I’m slipping.” At that point, the phone cut out and the friend called police.
Dan Zamlen Description:
- 6-foot tall
- weighing 175 pounds
- He was last seen wearing a blue jacket and jeans.
- Zamlen may be in need of medical attention as a Type 1 diabetic
Family and friend search for missing Dan Zamlen near area where he was last reported to be.
On Sunday afternoon, his parents, Dale and Sally Zamlen, and several friends from Eveleth and St. Thomas gathered near the spot where he was last heard from, a trail next to a grassy area next to a sharp, wooded slope.
Family and friends had combed the area with no results, and a Minnesota State Patrol made passes over the area. Just before 5 p.m., St. Paul Fire Department vehicles arrived at the scene, apparently to extend the search.
UPDATE I: Police search near Mississippi for missing St. Thomas student
UPDATE II: Search Continues for Missing Dan Zamlen
We all need to say a prayer that Dan Zamlen, his family and friends.
The search continues today for a University of St. Thomas freshman who has been missing since early Sunday, April 5.
More than 100 St. Thomas students, along with friends and members of Zamlen’s family, walked through the neighborhood yesterday afternoon and evening searching for him. Another large group of students, using flashlights, searched the St. Thomas campus Sunday night. Another thorough search of the campus is being conducted today.
St. Paul Police emphasized that students should not search the steep banks and bluffs along the river. The bluffs are especially slippery at this time of the year and the river is swollen because of spring runoff.
UPDATE III: Search for Missing Dan Zamlen Suspended by Police
After 3 days of searching for missing Dan Zamlen, police have suspended the day to day searches. However, friends of 19-year old Dan Zamlen aren’t giving up and have formed their own search teams.
After a three-day search turned up nothing, police said Tuesday they will suspend the active search for missing University of St. Thomas Dan Zamlen.
Police will continue to investigate Zamlen’s disappearance, but their day-to-day search won’t continue unless they get specific information about his possible whereabouts.
UPDATE IV: Search for missing St. Thomas student Dan Zamlen expands
Volunteers have knocked on more than 7,000 doors in the search for missing St. Paul college student Dan Zamlen, and as his disappearance nears the two-week mark, searchers plan to hit 3,000 more, a search organizer said Friday.
Chris Ismil, director of Iron Range Youth in Action, said the door-knocking effort would expand the search area to about a 3-mile radius from where Zamlen was last believed to have been.
UPDATE V: Body pulled from the Mississippi River as that of missing University of St. Thomas student Dan Zamlen
The case of missing Dan Zamlen has come to a sad conclusion. A body pulled from the Mississippi River has been identified as that of missing Dan Zamlen on April 5, 2009. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
To discuss the case, provide your opinions and get updates go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Dan Zamlen.
April 5th, 2009 at 06:46pm
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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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16 year old Allison McFarland has been missing since Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Allison McFarland was last seen at approximately 1:00 pm leaving Bennett High School. She was reported as wearing her school uniform, but may have had other clothes with her.
Allison McFarland Description:
- height – five feet, two inches tall
- weighs 120 pounds
- She often wears her hair in a ponytail.
- She may have been spotted this week after leaving Bennett – Wednesday morning on the West Side and Thursday morning on East Utica.
If you have any information or have seen Allison McFarland or know of her whereabouts, please call (716) 400-8669 or Buffalo Police, B District at 851-4403.
March 21st, 2009 at 06:45pm
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