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27 year old Nicole Vanzant has been missing since Monday, January 19, 2009 from 
Menifee County, KY. Nicole Vanzant was last seen at the Dollar General Story in Frenchburg, KY. She supposedly was in a car with a friend and got into an argument and apparently got out of the vehicle. Nicole Vanzant was last seen wearing a white sweater, blue jeans, a leather jacket, pearl earrings and cowboy boots.
Police have questioned an ex-boyfriend who was the last person to see Nicole Vanzant. Vanzant has a four year old son and is considered responsible. Family says that she would have called if she went anywhere. Some one has an argument with another in a car, gets out of the vehicle and is never seen again? That in itself sound a bit of a reach.
Vanzant’s family say she has a four-year-old son, is very responsible and has never left without calling first. They say she was not carrying a cell phone or any cash when she disappeared.
Police say they have questioned the last person to see Vanzant, an ex-boyfriend, but have not yet developed any solid leads into her whereabouts. They say they have declared her a missing person.
To discuss the case more, get updates and provide your own opinions, go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Nicole Vanzandt.
January 25th, 2009 at 09:57pm
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An elderly couple has gone missing aboard the Carnival Paradise that set sail from Long Beach, CA. A 90 year old man and his 79 year old wife were last seen Tuesday, January 13, 2009 aboard the Carnival Paradise. They are presumed to have gone overboard. The couple’s names and hometowns have not been released. Their cabin door was double locked from the inside with a “do not disturb” sign hanging on the door handle. It is also being reported that the door to the balcony from their room was unlocked.
A statement released overnight by Carnival says the 90-year-old man and his 79-year-old wife were aboard the Carnival Paradise when it set sail from Long Beach, Calif., on Monday but could not be found when the ship returned Friday.
“Their cabin door was double locked from the inside with a do not disturb sign on the handle and the door leading from the cabin to the balcony was unlocked,” the statement says. “The couple’s personal belongings remained inside the cabin.”
Carnival says all proper authorities have been notified, including the U.S. Coast Guard and FBI, and the cruise line is providing full assistance.
The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the elderly couple who are believed to have fallen overboard.
The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday for an elderly couple believed to have fallen off a cruise ship between Long Beach and northern Mexico.
The aerial search for the 90-year-old man and his 79-year-old wife was halted after officials determined that their chances of surviving in the water were slim, said Chief Warrant Officer Scott Epperson.
“Factoring in their age and weights, their survivability in 59 degrees water was about 4 to 6 hours,” he said. “The last time they were seen was 84 hours ago.”
January 17th, 2009 at 05:04pm
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16 year old Courtney E. Varin has been missing since January 13, 2009 according to Essex, VT police. She has not been see since Tuesday afternoon.
Courtney E. Varin Description:
- 16 year old ,white female
- about 5-feet-1-inch tall
- weighs about 165 pounds
- short, very dark brown hair
- brown eyes
- last seen wearing a black coat with a fake fur hood. On the front of the jacket, written in gold lettering, are the words “South Pole.
- also reportedly wearing dark blue jeans, a light gray hoodie and high-top, multip-colored sneakers
If anyone has any information regarding Courtney E. Varin, please contact the Essex Police Department at 878-8331.
January 16th, 2009 at 08:54pm
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Authorities are searching in Morris County, NJ for missing 38 year old Patricia Schafer and her children, 3 year old Jessica and 13 year old John. The three were last seen leaving their East Hanover, NJ home at 7:30 am Thursday morning, January 8, 2009 by husband and dad, Douglas Schafer. Patricia Schafer is believed to be driving a silver 2003 Saturn Wagon, with New Jersey license plates PFZ-77A
38 year old Patricia Schafer
Patricia Schafer, 38, and her children, Jessica, 3, and John, 13, were last seen at the family’s home Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. by her husband, Douglas Schafer, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Jessica, 3, and John, 13, Schafer
A search is under way by authorities in several locations throughout the state.
The 5-foot-tall mother is thin, weighing about 85 pounds, investigators in the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office said.
She is believed to be driving a silver 2003 Saturn Wagon, with New Jersey license plates PFZ-77A.
If anyone has any information regarding the whereabouts of the missing mom and children, please call East Hanover police at (973) 887-0432 or the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office at (973) 285-6200.
To further discuss the case and provide your opinins, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons forum.
UPDATE I: Husband Passes Lie Detector Test, Pleads For Their Return
An hour later, Douglas Schafer, 42, left with a police escort without talking to reporters, a far cry from Friday morning, when he was telling CBS 2 HD about the wife he confronted moments before she disappeared.
“I said I knew you were taking money from me. I walked up in the bedroom and I came back down and within five, 10 minutes she was gone,” Douglas Schafer said. “With the children.”
“I called some family members and they said they hadn’t spoken to her in months because she had stolen some checks from them,” Schafer said.
Those who live nearby were stunned, while some were skeptical.
“I can’t see why she’d run away,” neighbor Tom Cavezza said, adding he didn’t really think it was possible that she ran away. “No, ah, it’s possible. I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Schafer said his wife left her cell phone here at the home, and took money before she left.
UPDATE II: Missing N.J. mother, 2 children found in Towson, MD
A New Jersey mother and her children were found unharmed in Maryland just days after they disappeared from home.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said Patricia Schafer, her 13-year-old son and three-year-old daughter were leaving Towson Town Center yesterday when Baltimore County police stopped them.
Schafer will be charged with interfering with the custody of the children and will remain jailed in Maryland pending an extradition hearing. It was not immediately clear if she had retained an attorney.
UPDATE III: East Hanover mother who disappeared with kids facing theft charge; Psychiatric evaluation required; $250K bail to be reviewed today
An East Hanover mother who whisked her two children off to Maryland without telling her husband is facing charges of stealing from a relative and may have falsely claimed to be receiving chemotherapy for esophageal cancer, according to court records released Thursday.
Goldblatt Terrace resident Patricia Schafer, 37, is charged with interfering with custody by allegedly depriving her husband Douglas Schafer, who is the father of their children, of parenting time with their 3-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son, and of keeping secret the whereabouts of their children.
The charge applies even to married couples such as the Schafers if one parent deliberately keeps the children from the other for a prolonged period of time.
January 10th, 2009 at 02:05pm
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A 7 year old foster child, Eduardo Rivera, was kidnapped from his school bus stop in Riverside, CA on Friday January 9, 2009 by two Hispanic men. The two Hispanic men snatched Eduardo Rivera, put him into a car waiting nearby and drove off.
Eduardo Rivera description:
- a foster child whose mother is in jail
- 3’6″ tall
- 65 pounds
- brown eyes and hair.
Officers later located the abandoned vehicle after witnesses to the kidnapping called in a description.
“Police … learned that the victim and suspects transferred to a second vehicle … identified as a newer Cadillac Escalade with possible out-of- state plates,” Baitx told the station.
A third man was at the wheel of the getaway car. No description was released of any of the three suspects.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Riverside police at (951) 353-7137.
UPDATE I: 7-Year-Old Kidnapped Boy Found Safe In Vegas
Las Vegas police followed a pair of suspected kidnappers on a 100-mile drive through the Nevada desert, and then safely recovered a 7-year-old boy who was snatched off the streets of Riverside, they said Saturday.
Eduardo Rivera was not in the stopped van, but the men inside it gave police the address of a home in east Las Vegas police raided at 5 a.m. and found the boy asleep. Several other children and a woman were also found there, and the woman is being questioned about Rivera’s presence there, police said.
January 10th, 2009 at 01:35pm
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued for two children, 10 year old Haley Heatwole and Hayes Heatwole is a 6-year, after a triple homicide in Buncombe County, NC. The homicide happened at a home on Old Highway 19-23. The two children are believe to be with 45 year old Richard Doughlas Heatwole. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Hayes Heatwole (left) & Haley Heatwole (right)
Deputies said they arrived to the home after someone called 911. They found the bodies of two people inside the home. While investigating the case, deputies said they found a third person’s body inside an adjacent residence.
Deputies said neither the names of the victims nor how they were killed will be released until their families are notified.
Investigators believe the two children were taken following the homicides. The descriptions of the missing children and the suspect as as follows:
Hayes Heatwole is a 6-year-old White male, approximately 3 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 45 pounds. He has blond, long, shaggy hair, and blue eyes.
Haley Heatwole is a 10-year-old White female, approximately 4 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 62 pounds. She has brown-shoulder length hair, and hazel eyes. Scar on her forehead that extends to the bridge of her nose.
Suspect 45 year old Richard Doughlas Heatwole
Allegedly, there is 1 abductor: Richard Doughlas Heatwole. Richard Doughlas Heatwole is described as 45 years old, white, male, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 165 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. Officials say Richard Heawole is armed and dangerous.
Authorities believe the suspect and children are traveling to St. Petersburg, Fl. The vehicle is a White 1986 Toyota Truck Extended Cab with NC license tag number YNS-8257.
If any one has any information regarding this abduction, call the Buncombe County Sheriff`s Office immediately at (828) 250-6670, NA or call 911 or *HP.
To discuss the case and provide your opinion, go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons Forum.
UPDATE I: Three killed, two children missing
A Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman says deputies went to a home looking for the children’s mother, Angela Heatwole, after a family member reported her missing around 3 a.m. Thursday morning. Police found Angela and another person dead inside a Candler home after they spotted her car parked outside.
UPDATE II: Kidnapped Kids, Triple Murder Suspect May Be Traveling Through Georgia
UPDATE III: Amber Alert canceled for kids of suspected killer
Authorities have canceled the Amber Alert for Haley Heatwole and Hayes Heatwole as they no longer believe that the two children are with 45 year old Richard Doughlas Heatwole. However, Richard Doughlas Heatwoleremains on the run.
UPDATE III: Suspect in North Carolina Killings Shoots Self During Standoff
A police standoff with a man suspected of killing three people and kidnapping two of his children in western North Carolina ended Friday when the man turned a gun on himself, authorities said.
The two children were safe in police custody, Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Ross Dillingham said.
UPDATE IV: 2 abducted kids safe, father reported dead
Two children of a slain North Carolina woman were found safe Friday after being abducted by their father, who reportedly killed himself, police said.
Haley and Hayes Heatwole, 10 and 6, respectively, were found in a house in Taylorsville, N.C., with their father, a suspect in a triple homicide that included his ex-wife, who was the children’s mother, 60 miles away in Asheville, N.C., CNN said. The bodies were found on New Year’s Day.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:16pm
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When sex offenders go missing … it can only mean more crimes in the future as sex predators fall below the radar of authorities.
England, Wales and Scotland has a serious missing persons case on their hands. The problem and the severity is that it is not one missing person, but hundreds. The BBC is reporting that 317 sex offenders were reported as missing or unaccounted for. Since it is common for sex offenders to re-offend, one might think this to be a major issue as to the lack of tracking of sexual predators.
The figures, for three-quarters of the police forces in England, Wales and Scotland, were disclosed to the BBC after a Freedom of Information request.
Data supplied by 38 police forces showed 317 sex offenders were reported as missing or unaccounted for.
In January 2007, a significantly higher number of forces - 49 – reported that 322 sex offenders were missing.
December 25th, 2008 at 05:48pm
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A Florida Endangered Missing Child Alert has been issued by authorities for missing 6 month old Riley Buchness from Miami. Riley Buchness was last seen on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 where he disappeared from the 5000 block of Northwest 7th Street in Miami, FL. The FDLE believes that Riley Buchness may be with a 20 to 30 year old woman named “Camille.”
Riley Buchness description:
- 6 months old
- wearing a white onesie with blue jeans
- brown hair – hair is in a mohawk style
- green eyes
- has one tooth, and a fake tattoo of an anchor on his left arm
Suspect description:
- The FDLE believes Riley may be with a 20 to 30-year-old woman named “Camille.” Camille
- described as a white woman, about 5’5, weighing 130 pounds with long brown hair and a gap in her teeth.
- They may be traveling in a red Acura, possibly with a Massachusetts tag
They may be traveling in a red Acura, possibly with a Massachusetts tag.
If anyone has any information or has seen Riley Buchness, or know where he is, please call the Miami Police Department at 305-579-3449
UPDATE I: Police Search For Missing Miami Baby
UPDATE II: Mother Arrested After Allegedly Reporting Missing Baby Hoax
As it turns out not only was 6 month old Riley Burchness never missing, he never existed. McCormic was arrested Friday morning on charges of giving false information to police officers.
A woman named Megan McCormic told police that a baby sitter never returned her 6-month-old on Dec. 23 from his home at the 5000 block of Northwest 7th Street in Miami.
Police canceled the search for the baby, whom the mother said was named Riley Buchness.
“Every question was just another lie covering up another lie until she just couldn’t hold it anymore,” Detective Freddy Ponze of the Miami Police Department said.
Police said on Friday that McCormic was lying and used the fake existence of the baby, with photographs she took from the Internet, to lure a former boyfriend, John Buchness, from Boston, who had traveled to Miami to meet his supposed son. McCormic fooled her former boyfriend into thinking she gave birth to his son, police said.
Report: Miami woman made up story about baby son disappearing
December 25th, 2008 at 05:29pm
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An AMBER ALERT has been issued for 15 year old Erika Camacho in Selma, TX. Erika Camacho was abducted by her boyfriend Ricardo Mora on 12/24/08, Christmas Eve, at approximately 7:30 pm.
Official Amber Alert
Erika Camacho description:
- 5’3” tall
- weighs around 100 pounds
- brown hair
- brown eyes
- last seen wearing a white t-shirt and denim Capri pants and flip-flop sandals
- She has a slender build and a light complexion
Ricardo Mora suspect description:
- 18 years old
- 5’4” tall
- black hair
- brown eyes
- weighs approximately 140 pounds.
If anyone with information regarding Camacho or Mora please call Selma, Texas, police at 210-653-0033 or e-mail kosborn@ci.selma.tx.us
UPDATE I: Change in description of suspect Ricardo Mora and additions info
It was initially reported that the suspect in the abduction of Erika Camacho was 18. It is now being reported that he is 23. Police have also provided the follwoing further descriptions that ID Mora.
- He has a mole above his left eyebrow
- Mora was last seen driving a blue, 2000 Chevy Silverado extended cab pickup with Texas license plate 891 PF4
UPDATE II: Blue 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 now in police custody
UPDATE III: Missing Selma girl returns home safe
Erika returned home Friday, and police now say they are looking for the boyfriend, who could face a felony kidnapping charge.
December 25th, 2008 at 04:15pm
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25 year old Laura Garza has been missing since Wednesday 
morning, December 3, 2008. Laura Garza from Bay Ridge was last seen leaving a Manhattan nightclub, The Marquee, at 4 am with two men. Police fear that she may have been harmed by a convicted sex offender. Police described Garza as 5-feet-2 and 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
“We suspect foul play and are concerned for her safety,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said yesterday.
Police last night were questioning one of the two men, a 25-year-old once convicted of a sex crime, after going to his home in Wallkill, in upstate Orange County.
Investigators did not find Garza at the house, but they found a piece of carpet mysteriously cut out from its place on the floor, a police source said. Blood stains were also found in the house.
Laura Garza was captured on club video tape reported leaving the night club with two men willingly. However, did Laura Garza know who or what she was leaving the club with?
At some point, Garza split up from her friend and was captured on video leaving the location with her dancing partner and another man.
She appeared to have left with them willingly, and didn’t look intoxicated, police sources said.
Sources said the men drove with her upstate. At some point, one got out and went home.
Witnesses at the club told cops that the men with whom Garza was spotted leaving were “regulars,” and were able to identify them. This led cops to the upstate home of the sex offender, sources said.
Investigators believe that whatever happened to Garza occurred upstate, and the New York State Police are now leading the investigation.
Two Men questioned in the case of missing Laura Garza
On Friday night, the police were questioning two people they suspected were involved in Ms. Garza’s disappearance, said Paul J. Browne, the chief police spokesman.
“We suspect foul play and are concerned for her safety,” he said. “Detectives identified two men who were seen leaving the club with her and determined that both of them reside outside the city in upstate New York.”
To further discuss the case, get updates and provide your own opinions, go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Laura Garza.
UPDATE I: ‘BLOODY SUV’ IN CLUB-GAL HUNT PERV’S CALL TO PAL EYED IN LAURA GARZA ‘MURDER’
Cops hunting a woman who disappeared from a Manhattan nightclub towed a bloodstained SUV from their prime suspect’s upstate family home today – hours after the sexual deviant called a pal begging him not to speak to police, sources said.
Investigators searched lakes and a wooded area near Michael Mele’s family’s Middletown house for Laura Garza, 25, whose case is being treated as a homicide.
Another police source said bloodstains were found in the SUV.
Cops also said they found a piece of carpet mysteriously cut out in an apartment Mele maintains near the family home. More blood was allegedly found in the house.
Neighbors said landscapers working on the property discovered a knife, which they turned over to police.
UPDATE II: Man seen with missing NYC woman jailed in Rockland
The Rockland County Sheriff’s Department says 23-year-old Michael Mele, a registered sex offender, is being held on $50,000 bail.
Detective Lt. William Barbera says Mele violated the terms of his probation by consuming alcohol and by failing to report to his probation officer. Mele’s attorney did not return a message seeking comment.
Mele and another man were seen leaving a Manhattan nightclub early Wednesday with 25-year-old Laura Garza.
UPDATE III: Police divers now searching east side of Echo Lake for Garza
State police divers are now searching the east side of Echo Lake in their continued search for clues about the disappearance of Brooklynite Laura Garza.
Seven divers have been at the lake since this morning, working in bitterly-cold water and under the 5-inch-thick ice.
They’s been working by feel in the water that’s obscured by mud and silt. The lake is split by Echo Lake Road in the Town of Wawayanda. Having finished a search of the west side of the lake, divers turned their attention Thursday afternoon to the east side.
Police divers were last at Echo Lake on Dec. 23, 2008.
UPDATE IV: Laura Garza’s family puts missing-person poster on front door of Michael Mele’s parents’ house
December 7th, 2008 at 03:30pm
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