An AMBER ALERT has been issued for 12 year old Brooke Bennett from Braintree, VT. Brooke Bennett has been missing since 9 am Wednesday, June 25, 2008. An uncle dropped her at a Cumblerand Farms convenience store in nearby Randolph, VT. Brooke had told her parents that she was being picked up by a female friend and visiting a sick relative at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, NH. It is now believed by police that the story was a lie.
(Brooke Bennett)
Description
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Bennett is 4 feet, 11 inches tall
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weighs 98 pounds
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brown hair
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blue eyes
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she was last seen wearing a pink sweater, blue jeans and a pair of white sneakers with pink lettering.
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Her hair has purple streaks and both of her ears are pierced on the top and bottom.
Police fear that 12 year old Brooke Bennett may have been taken by someone that she met online through the social networking Web site MySpace
Surveillance footage from the Cumberland Farms store, which police have so far declined to release, showed the girl being dropped off. Instead of meeting the friend, she is seen walking away from the store, alone, toward the village of Randolph, police say.
She was not reported missing by family members until 9 p.m. Wednesday night.
Early Thursday, clothing similar to what the girl had been wearing was recovered in Brookfield, 10 miles north of Randolph.
The discovery triggered an intense ground search of the area by the state police search and rescue team and dogs from two different departments. “The items have been sent to the Vermont Forensic Laboratory for examination,” according to the release. 
Dive teams will search Sunset Lake today, a body of water near where the clothing was found, according to the State Police .
There are two MySpace account profiles. Talk about a contrast:
Missing Vermont girl linked to MySpace activity
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UPDATE I: Pictures from Surveillance video of store that Brooke was in with her uncle
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Authorities haven’t identified the person she was communicating with, but state police computer experts were analyzing the computer in a bid to learn more. They don’t know if it was a woman or a man.
The girl established her first MySpace account under her father’s supervision, but he later pulled the plug on it a couple of months ago after they learned about some of her activity on it, according to Bennett, 41, of Bethel, Vt.
“We told her when we set it up there that’s things you’re not gonna’ do,” he said. “We had a little respect problem after a month or so, so we shut it off. There was an issue, and we decided it was not appropriate for her to have it. We changed the password so she couldn’t use it,” he said.
She later set up an account from another computer, which Bennett said he didn’t know until a week ago. The girl lives with her mother in Braintree, not with Bennett.
UPDATE II: Brooke Bennett Missing Persons Press Conference VIDEO
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But after Brooke Bennett was dropped off at the store by her uncle and cousin, she never made it to the hospital, and hasn’t been seen since.
Surveillance video from that day shows Brooke walking away from the store by herself towards the town of Randolph. When a family member in Brookefield found items of her clothing near her uncle’s home — the house where she was supposed to spend the night — it prompted an intensive search by police dogs and helicopters.
The investigation led by Vermont State Police has uncovered that MySpace, a popular social networking site, may have had something to do with her disappearance. After analyzing her computer, authorities learned that Brooke had been in contact with someone on the site days before she went missing. Investigators have not yet released the identity of that person.
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Circumstances: Both photos shown are of Brooke. She was last seen on June 25, 2008 at a gas station in Randolph, Vermont. She may travel north to the Royalton, Vermont area or she may travel out of state. Brooke has a mole under her chin, a birthmark on her upper right arm, a scar on her calf, and her ears are double pierced. Her bottom teeth are discolored. When Brooke was last seen, she had purple highlights in her hair. She was last seen wearing a pink sweater, blue jeans, and white sneakers with pink lettering.
The logistics of where Brooke was last seen and where her clothes were found, the Floating bridge at Sunset Lake is actually about 7-8 miles away from the Cumberland Farms in Randolph where Brooke was last seen, so it’s doubtful she could have walked there.
UPDATE III: Witness Updates of disappearance of Brooke Bennett
According to reports, witnesses saw Brooke Bennett outside of a laundromat and Dunkin Donuts between the hours of 9:30 and 11:00 am in Randolph, VT. Police have also stated that some of her clothes were found lying beside Route 65 near the floating bridge. The clothes have been sent to the state forensic office.
Witnesses saw Brooke outside a laundromat and Dunkin Donuts in Randolph Wednesday morning between 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. She wasn’t seen again– but some of her clothes were found along route 65 in Brookfield.
Bennett was last seen on surveillance at Cumberland Farms. She enters the store with her uncle, he purchases coffee and some cigarettes, and they leave the store. Brooke walks left, her uncle goes right.
“We know she stayed in that area for a period of time… because we have witnesses that put her in that area,” says Vt. State Police Col. James Baker.
Police found several pieces of Brooke’s clothing lying beside Route 65 near the floating bridge Thursday. That prompted a search Friday of Sunset Lake– but that search turned up no new clues.
UPDATE IV: In Wake of Brooke Bennett Disappearance, Local experts warn of Internet dangers
As police work to piece together the online correspondence that prompted Brooke Bennett of Braintree to arrange a meeting with an apparent stranger, experts are warning parents to keep tabs on their kids’ Internet use.
Gary Kessler, who teaches digital forensics at Champlain College, said a very low-tech approach can help prevent problems.
“You show an interest in kids’ lives, and you communicate those interests,” he told The Burlington Free Press. “It comes down to what kind of relationship you have with your kids.”
UPDATE V: Fliers posted for Brooke Bennett in VT (Video)
UPDATE VI: Search for missing 12-year-old girl widens
The search for a missing 12-year-old girl broadened Friday as the FBI joined in and police investigators turned to officials at MySpace.com, the online social networking site through which she had been communicating with an unknown person prior to her disappearance.
Experts in missing children say the Internet can be a dangerous place.
“The reality is that the internet is the predator’s new playground. They don’t have to lurk in bushes anymore, they can lurk in cyberspace,” said Marc Klaas, founder of the Klaaskids Foundation, of Sausalito, Calif.
“It provides them with a much greater degree of anonymity. It enables them to create any kind of a fantasy or fake life they want so they can use their well-honed manipulative skills to get close to the particularly vulnerable,” said Klaas, whose 12-year-old daughter, Polly Klaas was abducted from a slumber party in 1993 and later found slain.
UPDATE VII: Michael Jacques, Uncle of Missing Brooke Bennett Arrested for Sexually Assaulting a Minor
June 27th, 2008 at 08:50pm
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A typhoon in the Philippines has capsized a ferry where 700 people are missing and feared dead. To date, 28 survivors have been rescued; however, hundreds are still missing. The Princess of the Stars ferry left Manila on Friday en route to Cebu when contact was lost.
820 missing as ferry capsizes in typhoon
- Ferry leaves Manila on Friday
- 626 passengers and 121 crew on board
- Engines failed Saturday afternoon
- Radio contact lost soon afterwards
- Rescuers reach ship on Sunday afternoon
The ferry was en route to Cebu from Manila when it capsized on Saturday
Coast guard chief Vice Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo said 28 survivors of the ferry disaster had been found. Manila’s DZBB radio said the survivors, including four crewmen and three women, drifted at sea for more than 24 hours wearing their life jackets, reaching Mulanay township in eastern Quezon province late Sunday.
Coast guard frogmen who managed to get to the stricken ship got no response when they rapped on the hull with metal instruments, then had to give up late Sunday due to the strong waves. The ship carried more than 740 passengers and crew.
Update I: 800 missing as typhoon Philippines ferry … 32 survivors recovered.
The recovery brought to 32 the number of survivors recovered from the sinking of the Princess of the Stars Saturday off the coast of Sibuyan Island in the central Philippines.
On Sunday, four survivors were found in San Fernando town on Sibuyuan island.
The 24,000-tonne ferry sank after running aground due to huge waves and strong winds spawned by Typhoon Fengshen, which left at least 152 people dead.
Scores drowned and missing as typhoon lashes Philippines
UPDATE II: Divers retrieve bodies from Philippine ferry
While the divers have only found bodies so far, officials were not willing to give up hope of finding more survivors among the more than 800 people missing since the seven-story ferry listed and went down in a half-hour or less Saturday.
“There is a slim chance that we can still find survivors” insided the ferry, coast guard Lt. Cmdr Rogelio Villanueva said. “As the days pass, indeed the chance is getting slimmer.”
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:06pm
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15 year old Amanda Goans of Knoxville, TN has been missing since June 17, 2008. Amanda is about 5’5 with straight blond hair and wire rimmed glasses. Her family believes she is in either Knox or Anderson County
Amanda Goans, 15 was last seen June 17th, 2008 when she left a runaway shelter in Knoxville .
Family members have asked for help in locating a missing Knox County teenager.
Amanda Goans, 15 of Knoxville hasn’t been seen since June 17th.
According to her father, she disappeared with another girl from a runaway shelter on Fifth Avenue on Tuesday. They were last seen that day in an ally on Magnolia Avenue.
June 22nd, 2008 at 09:44pm
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7-year-old Randy Sylvester Jr. and his 3-year-old sister, Denim Sylvester had been missing since Fathers Day, June 15, 2008. Several searches had been conducted including help from the volunteer searchers of Texas EquuSearch.
However, today there is sad news to report out of Pasadena, TX. Police have found the charred remains of Randy and Denim Sylvester. Their remains were found packed in a wooden chest and a suit case and left in a wooded area about 5 miles from their Pasadena, TX home. Randy Sylvester Sr. had led police to the area on Friday night. Sylvester Sr. had been a suspect in his children’s disappearance from the outset.
Pasadena police Capt. A.H. Corbett told reporters Saturday that the children’s father, Randy Sylvester Sr., led searchers to the remains shortly before midnight Friday after a week of misleading statements of where the children were located. Sylvester is still jailed on an assault charge in an alleged attack on the children’s mother, Jerilynn St. Cyr, on Monday night.
Father Leads Police to Burnt Bodies of 2 Missing Kids
Tim Miller, Director of Equisearch a search and recovery team that helped find the bodies of 7-year-old Randy Sylvester, Jr. and 3-year-old Denim.
The bodies of the two missing Pasadena children have been found
June 21st, 2008 at 12:58pm
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Matthew Wilson, a 20 year old computer science major at Rice University has 
been missing since December 15, 2007. Wilson’s vehicle, a silver 2004 four-door Dodge Neon with Oklahoma license plate 863 MCZ, has been found abandoned in Berkely, CA.
HOUSTON — The car that belongs to missing Rice University student Matthew Wilson has been found in Berkeley, Calif.
Wilson’s silver 2004 four-door Dodge Neon with Oklahoma license plate 863 MCZ was towed as an abandoned vehicle from a residential street in West Berkeley June 10.
Berkeley police informed the Rice University Police Department there were no obvious signs of foul play inside the car, and they have issued a description and photos of Wilson with a request for the community’s help in searching for the missing 20-year-old from Haworth, Okla. Rice police notified Wilson’s family of the news.
”The discovery of Matthew’s car is an important piece of evidence,” said Rice Police Chief Bill Taylor. “We will cooperate fully with the Berkeley Police Department investigation, and we’re all hopeful that Matthew will be found alive and well.”,
Missing Rice student’s car found in California
“My understanding is that (Berkeley police) have done a thorough search of the car and feel comfortable that there was no indication of foul play,” said Rice University Police Chief Bill Taylor.
He added that Berkeley police indicated the car had been abandoned for some time.
Wilson’s mother, Cathy Wilson, said she has no idea why her son, who was last seen in Houston on Dec. 14, would be in Berkeley or whether he knew anyone there.
Though she is glad the car was found, she said, the discovery did not offer her full relief.
“I’m just pondering what else could have happened,” she said.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:09pm
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28 year old Angela Leavitt and a 16 year old boy have been missing since June 3, 2008. … A complaint has been issued against the 28 year old Leavitt that she was believed to be involved in a sexual relationship with the 16 year old boy. The two are believed to be on the run together. The 16 year old boy disappeared from his home the same date as Leavitt disappeared from the area. Also, both Leavitt and the juvenile both quit their jobs on the same date, June 3, 2008.
Angela Leavitt
The text messages were sexual in nature, revealing that Leavitt wanted to have a child with the 16 year old boy. Investigators were able to determine that Leavitt had engaged in sexual activity with the 16-year-old boy on three separate occasions.
One of the encounters occurred at Leavitt’s Milton home after Leavitt picked up the boy and drove him to her house. Based on the information that was obtained during interviews with Leavitt and the boy, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Leavitt.
Police: Florida Woman Disappears With Kids, 16-Year-Old Lover
Police said an arrest warrant was issued after they interviewed the two but found they were missing when they went to serve the warrant at Angela Leavitt’s house, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.
Greg Leavitt said they probably are in a gray 2005 Dodge Durango.
Wife left town with kids, lover, 16, investigators say; Husband pleads for children’s return, asks for public’s help
Investigators allege the pair has had sex at least three times, that Angela textmessaged the boy about having a baby together and that their relationship may have been sexual for months.
Lawmen were about to arrest Leavitt when they discovered she had fled her home. She knew an arrest warrant was issued, according to the Sheriff ‘s Office.
The boy hasn’t been named. He isn’t considered a kidnapping victim, said Sheriff ‘s Sgt. Scott Haines.
Authorities have not issued an Amber alert for him or the Leavitt children.
They said the 16-year-old’s parents have been very cooperative in the investigation.
If anyone has any information as to where Leavitt is located is asked to contact the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office at 983-1242, or Crime Stoppers at 437-STOP. Anyone providing information to Crime Stoppers that results in an arrest is eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
UPDATE I: 16 year old missing boy is located
The 16 year old boy that was being sought in connection with the disappearance of Angela Leavitt was located this morning in Pensacola.
According to Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Scott Haines the missing juvenile was located after he contacted investigators by phone.
The boys was in good condition and is currently being interviewed by deputies to determine if he can provide any useful information that will help locate Leavitt or her two children.
UPDATE II: Angela Leavitt arrested at airport
It was only a matter of time before Angela Leavitt was apprehended. Angela Leavitt is now in police custody and about to regret for the rest of her life her lack of judgment.
PENSACOLA – Police arrested Angela Leavitt on Tuesday at an airport baggage claim – where she said she was about to surrender, anyway.
The 28-year-old Milton woman, accused of leaving town to continue a sexual affair with a 16-year-old boy, is being held at the Santa Rosa County Jail without bond.
She is charged with unlawful sexual activity with a minor, a second-degree felony.
Angela Leavitt , Milton Mother On The Run Is Now Behind Bars
Angela Leavitt stepped off her plane at the Pensacola Regional Airport as airport police waited for her. She was taken into custody while she and her children waited for their luggage.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office says someone called in a tip about Leavitt’s flight. She has been taken to the county jail. Her children will be given back to their father, Greg Leavitt.
June 8th, 2008 at 09:36am
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An AMBER ALERT was issued Sunday for 14 month old Chelsea E. Netemyer. She was reportedly abducted by her father, 22 year old James Netemyer Jr.
The Vigo County Sheriff’s Department said the child, Chelsea E. Netemyer, was abducted from a home in Vigo, about 12 miles south of Terre Haute, before 9 a.m. Sunday.
Police said they think James Netemyer Jr., 22, abducted the girl and that they believe he is armed with a .22 caliber pistol
Description of Chelsea E. Netemyer:
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14 month old white female
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32 inches tall
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weighs about 22 pounds
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blonde hair
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blue eyes
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She was wearing a purple Blues Clues nightgown
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James Netemyer was driving a 2001 gold Chevrolet Silverado, with Indiana license plate 691801. The front of the truck has a plate that reads Premier Auto. The truck also has a back window sticker that says “In Memory of Leonard Farr.”
If you have any information regarding Chelsea E. Netemyer, please contact the Vigo County Sheriff’s Department at 1-888-58AMBER.
UPDATE I: Missing Amber Alert child found
June 1st, 2008 at 09:32pm
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17 year old Jessica Renee Obriant has been missing since Friday, May 30, 2008 in Durham, NC. Jessica Renee Obriant is considered to be endangered due to medical reasons.
Description:
- 17 year old white female
- 5 foot 5 inches high
- 289 pounds
- with reddish blond hair
- Obriant was last seen wearing a yellow shirt with white stripes, blue jeans with brown pockets and brown tennis shoes.
If anyone has any information regarding Jessica Obriant please call 911 or Investigator Tadeus Ochman at 919-560-4440, ext. 289.
June 1st, 2008 at 08:56pm
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14 year old Saddie “Elaine” Julian is considered an endangered teen in Boise, ID.
Police in Boise, ID are asking the publics help for missing 14 year old Saddie “Elaine” Julian, who is believed to be an endangered runaway. It is believed that the 14 year old ran off with 27 year old Morgan Douglass Jones of Birmingham, AL. The two are believed to have met on-line on the internet. Investigators believe their last known location was Eastern Washington.
Saddie is described as 5-feet tall, 90 pounds, light/pale skin, long red hair, and a thin build.
Jones is described a 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, shoulder length red hair, with light/pale skin. He was last seen clean shaven
Boise Police believe that Saddie Julian, 14, left town with Morgan Jones, 27, on May 28th. A felony kidnapping warrant has been issued for Jones’ arrest.
Julian went missing after meeting a 27 year old Alabama man while playing a game on the internet.
Police believe Morgan Jones, developed an on-line relationship with the girl and then drove from his home in Birmingham to Idaho to meet her.
It appears he picked Julian up Wednesday morning and may have left the state with her.
Investigators believe their last known location was Eastern Washington.
Jones is now wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant.
Jones was last seen driving a bright yellow, 2008 Chevy Aveo, with Alabama license plate OMGROFL.
Police Ask for Help Finding 14-Year Old Missing Girl
UPDATE I: A teenager missing since last Wednesday has been found unharmed at a remote campground in Franklin County, Washington.
Morgan Jones is currently only charged with kidnapping, awaiting further investigation.
June 1st, 2008 at 03:16pm
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