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The sad end has come in the case of missing Gabrielle Bechen. Gabrielle Bechen’s body was found late Saturday buried at a horse farm a short distance from her home. Both she and her ATV were partially buried.
Her body was found late Saturday buried at a horse farm a short distance from her home, state police said. The ATV she had been riding was also found partially buried at a large manure dump site about one mile from her body, police said.
“Once the quad was located, there were several cadaver dogs that were brought in and they searched other areas around the farm, which led us to the location where ultimately Gabby’s body was found,” Trooper Joseph Christy told reporters at a news conference.
Police have charged Jeffrey Robert Martin, a 48-year-old caretaker at the farm, with several counts. He is charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and four counts of tampering with physical evidence.
State police and FBI investigators questioned Martin for several hours while searchers intensified their efforts at the farm.
Christy said police assumed there had been prior contact between the suspect and Bechen because she had visited the farm several times in the past to see the horses.
Officials did not give details about the possible cause or circumstances of the girl’s death. An autopsy has been scheduled for Monday.
(NEPA News)
Missing Girl’s Body Found
Soon after, authorities took the farm’s caretaker, Jeffery Robert Martin, into custody.
Twelve hours later — at 4 a.m. Sunday — Martin led police to a shallow grave.
Police said the Martin admitted to killing Bechen and burying her on the farm.
Martin has been charged with several crimes, including homicide.
(WPXI)
June 18th, 2006 at 11:23pm
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Gabrielle Miranda Bechen has been missing since early Tuesday morning. She has not 
been seen since she took her all-terrain vehicle for a ride Tuesday on roads and trails near the Greene County home.
Bechen’s parents alerted police when she did not return by 2 p.m., prompting troopers and local firefighters to search through the night.
By Wednesday, search teams from West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the Washington, D.C., area had joined local authorities and volunteers in scouring a wooded area covering about three miles bordering West Virginia.
They searched on foot and riding ATVs, some using scent-tracking dogs, as a state police helicopter flew overhead. (FOX News)
Gabrielle Miranda Bechen description:
- 4-foot-9
- 77 pounds
- brown eyes brown hair with blonde highlights.
- She was riding a small black ATV with flame decals on its fenders.
FBI Now Involved In Case Of Missing Girl
Channel 11 has learned that the FBI is now involved in the case of missing Gabrielle Bechen. (WPXI)
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Authorities believe that one of three possibilities may have occurred. Police are not speculating as to one theory may be more probable than the others.
- She fell off her ATV and was injured
- She was abducted
- She ran away
Searchers scouring remote area for girl, 12
DUNKARD, Pa. — More than 100 people from five states continued last night to search a remote three-mile area of Greene County for a 12-
year-old girl who has been missing since Tuesday morning.
Teams planned to continue searching throughout the night, but Trooper Christy said that police were asking for volunteers to help with the search this morning. Anyone who wants to assist is asked to meet at 8 a.m. today in a parking lot just off Exit 7 of Interstate 79, where authorities will divide the volunteers into search teams. (Post Gazette)
Gabrielle recently completed sixth grade at Bobtown Elementary School
- 4 feet 9 inches tall
- weighs 77 pounds
- brown eyes and brown hair with blond highlights
- She has pierced earlobes, one ear with a second piercing in the cartilage.
- When she left home, she was wearing tan shorts, a dark shirt and a black helmet.
- She also was carrying a backpack.
- She was riding a SunL 90cc quad that is black with flame decals on the fenders.
Search goes on for missing Greene County girl
Police did not speculate on Bechen’s disappearance and would only say the case is under investigation.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had Bechen listed as “missing” Wednesday.
POSTER OF GABIELLE BECHEN
Anyone with information regarding Bechen’s whereabouts is asked to call state police at 724-627-6151.
(The Herald Standard)
June 15th, 2006 at 10:43pm
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Philip Merrill, 72, an experienced sailor and chairman of the board of Capital-Gazette
Communications Inc went missing Saturday after he sent out sailing alone his 41-foot sailboat. Two boaters found the sailboat adrift Saturday evening near Plum Point and no sign of Philip Merrill. Rescue crews using helicopters and boats searched 100 square miles of the Chesapeake Bay over the weekend and today.
Merrill, 72, had taken his 41-foot sailboat, the “Merrilly,” out alone Saturday. He typically followed an 18-mile round trip without wearing a lifejacket, Chaney said.
Two boaters found the sailboat adrift Saturday evening near Plum Point, about 25 miles south of Annapolis and 40 miles south of his home in Arnold, and called police, officials said.
Rescue crews believe Merrill likely fell overboard since his wallet was on board and there was no damage to the boat, officials said. The wind was gusting up to 25 mph on Saturday, creating conditions that could be difficult for a single sailor alone, Chaney said. (FOX News)
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Crews Resume Search for Annapolis Publisher Small Boats, Helicopters, and C-130 Aircraft Search Area
Rescuers have resumed their Chesapeake Bay search for Philip Merrill, the firebrand newspaper publisher and diplomat whose 41-foot sailboat was found drifting alone Saturday in strong winds.
Rescue crews from the Coast Guard and the Maryland Natural Resources Police have been using small boats, helicopters and a C-130 aircraft to search an area roughly 25 miles by 8 eight miles, said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr.Adam Mach.
A pair of passing jet skiers spotted Merrill’s unmanned boat, Merrilly, about 20 miles south of Annapolis on Saturday evening. The search was halted at midnight Sunday, then resumed this morning at 5:30 a.m. (Washington Post)
June 12th, 2006 at 11:25am
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Twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Berry is still missing and was last seen by his 
roommates at their apartment May 31st. Jonathan Berry’s father is in a predicament as the authorities have called off the search.
The father of a BYU student who’s been missing for a week says he’s in a “muddle,” and has no idea where to turn now that authorities have called off the search. (KSL5-TV)
The Provo Police Department’s missing persons unit is now in charge.
Canyon search off for hiker
Authorities found a bike belonging to the lost Brigham Young University student Thursday above the Provo Temple at the base of Rock Canyon. Authorities suspended their search over the weekend because the number of weekend hikers in the canyon made it difficult for tracking dogs to pick up Berry’s scent.
David and Michelle Berry headed to Provo upon hearing their son was missing. The couple returned to their Grand Junction home Monday after authorities called off the search for Berry and turned over the case to the Provo Police Department’s missing persons unit. Their four other children joined them. “We have no idea what happened,” David Berry said.
The family is in a quandary as to what to do next.
David Berry said he appreciates the efforts of authorities and search and rescue teams to track down his son and find clues about the missing man’s whereabouts, however fruitless.
“He’s not in that canyon,” he said. “We are totally at a dead end.”
He’s not sure where the search will go from here.
“We have no ideas,” David Berry said. “I’m in a muddle right now.”
But he’s sure of his son.
“If you had a kid you were proud of, he’s been one of them,” he said. (GJ Sentinel)
BYU student still missing
After nearly five days, the search for BYU student Jonathan Berry, from Grand Junction, Colo., was officially closed Monday (June 5, 2006), said captain Rick Healey of the Provo Police Department.
The case has been turned over to a missing person’s detective within the Provo Police Department, Healey said.
The decision to conclude official search efforts, which were focused on the Rock Canyon area, was reached after members of official search and rescue teams found nothing after combing the area with four-wheelers, cadaver dogs and a helicopter.
(BYU News Net)
June 8th, 2006 at 08:24pm
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Jonathan Berry was last seen Wednesday when he did not return from a hiking outing.
Berry is a student at Brigham Young University and is from Grand Junction.
Authorities say the search was suspended over the weekend because of the number of weekend hikers in Rock Canyon. They say the tracking dogs were having a difficult time picking up Berry’s scent.
Police believe Berry was going hiking in Rock Canyon. Officers found his bike above Provo Temple on Thursday – but found no trace of him.
(KUTV)
Authorities had hoped to use dogs over the weekend; however, there were too many 
hikers on the trails for the dogs to successfully pick up a scent. The search was suspended over the week, but resumed.
Officials think he was going hiking, but they have not found any signs of him on any trails.
Authorities say evidence, including a journal, shows Berry left for Rock Canyon sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. June 1. Later in the day officials found his bike in Provo.
(KUSA-TV)
June 6th, 2006 at 11:39am
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8 year old Evan Thompson has been missing since Saturday morning in the Pikes 
Peak, CO area. His family had been camping, Evan suffers from attention deficit disorder. Searchers continued to search the heavily wooded area for the missing boy.
Nearly 100 rescuers and three aircraft scoured remote and rugged terrain southwest of Pikes Peak Tuesday for an 8-year-old boy with attention deficit disorder who disappeared four days earlier.
“We have not given up hope. We continue to treat this as a live search and rescue effort,” said Zack Slutzky of Western State Mountain Rescue in Gunnison, a spokesman for the operation.
Evan Thompson was last seen Saturday morning while camping with his family about 35 miles from Pikes Peak and 90 miles south of Denver. The area is dotted with pinon pine and juniper trees and creased by steep cliffs and narrow ravines. (CBS4 Denver)
Search continues for missing 8 year old boy
The search is focused along the Teller and Fremont county lines, just north of Canon City. The child disappeared in an area known as “Cactus Cliff”, a place lined with steep limestone cliffs. The steep cliffs are of the biggest concerns for rescuers. They’re worried he may have slipped and fallen hundreds of feet, but they also say they hold out hope that he may be safely tucked away in a cave.
Emergency crews from all over Southern Colorado, including the military and the Civil Air Patrol, have been helping in the search. Rescuers are working nearly around the clock, and have even brought in crews from as far away as Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico who flew up in a helicopter with infrared capabilities. (KOAA-TV)
SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING 8-YEAR OLD
Search and rescue teams from five counties, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Larimer and Teller Counties, continue to search for a missing 8-year old boy.
He’s been gone since 9:30 Saturday morning, after wandering from his family’s camp sight, near Red Canyon Park, North of Canon City, which is near Red Canyon Road and Shelf Road near the Fremont/Teller County border.
Eight year old Evan Thompson is four-foot-four, and 70 pounds, with blonde hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a grey sweat suit with a red stripe and white tennis shoes.
(KRDO News)
If you have any info, please call the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office at 276-5555 or the Teller County Sheriff’s Office at 687-9652.
(UPDATE): Evan Thompson who vanished in Colo. found alive
A great outcome in the case of missing Evan Thompson. The 8 year old boy was found alive and safe in a remote canyon.
CANON CITY, Colo. – An 8-year-old boy missing since Saturday was found alive Tuesday after searchers investigated a report of sounds of a crying child in a remote canyon about 35 miles southwest of Pikes Peak.
“He’s alive and well,” said Zack Slutsky of Western State Mountain Rescue in Gunnison and a spokesman for the operation.
A special congratulations goes to the many volunteers and searchers who took part in the search for the missing boy. A job well done.
About 90 ground searchers, dogs, an airplane from the Civil Air Patrol and two National Guard helicopters helped a 15-square-mile area, retracing earlier searchers as well as expanding he zone were combing an area dotted with pinon pine and juniper trees and creased by steep cliffs and narrow ravines.
“He couldn’t have gotten lost in rougher country,” said Ronnie Stewart of Canon City, who volunteered to join the search but was turned down.
(Yahoo News)
May 30th, 2006 at 06:00pm
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Five of six missing boaters aboard the overturned catamaran, Super Suds II, were rescued off the South Carolina coast. The coast guard is still searching for the last missing boater.
The group had been on a charted fishing expedition Wednesday when the 26-foot catamaran capsized about 15 miles off Murrells Inlet, authorities said.
Five survivors were spotted with the overturned boat about 11:30 a.m. Thursday and pulled to safety by a Coast Guard helicopter, said Capt. John Cameron, commander of Coast Guard Sector Charleston. A volunteer boater assisting with the search found another person from the boat clinging to a life jacket and hauled him aboard.
He said the survivors said the vessel capsized and everyone went into the water. They all stayed with the vessel for a time, but then two of the people got separated, Cameron said. The boaters identities were not released.
(Yahoo News)
May 18th, 2006 at 04:13pm
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Scott Crossfield flying a single-engine plane went missing when it left Alabama for Virginia on Wednesday morning.
The missing plane left Prattville, Ala., around 9 a.m. Wednesday en route to Manassas, Va. Search crews from the Civil Air Patrol were conducting an air and ground search along the flight path, focusing on a hilly, forested region of north-central Georgia.
Search teams combed the forests of northern Georgia looking for the plane registered to Crossfield. Scott Crossfield was the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound. The wreckage of the plane was later found Thursday with a body inside.
Searchers found the wreckage shortly after 1 p.m. in the mountains near Ranger, Ga., about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta, a Civil Air Patrol spokeswoman said.
Search teams had combed the forests of northern Georgia looking for the plane registered to Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound.
Officials did not immediately know who was flying the single-engine plane or whether Crossfield was aboard when it left Alabama for Virginia on Wednesday morning.
The plane was last spotted on radar later that day over Georgia, north of Atlanta, the Civil Air Patrol’s Georgia Wing said. The Civil Air Patrol scheduled an afternoon news conference Thursday in the northern Georgia town of Ranger to discuss the search.
(Yahoo News)
Test pilot Crossfield, first to break Mach 2, dies in plane crash
Scott Crossfield, the hotshot test pilot and aircraft designer who in 1953 became the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound, was killed in the crash of his small plane, authorities said Thursday. He was 84.
Crossfield’s body was found in the wreckage Thursday in the mountains about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta, a day after the single-engine plane he was piloting dropped off radar screens on a flight from Alabama to Virginia. There were thunderstorms in the area at the time.
The cause of the crash was under investigation. Crossfield was believed to be the only person aboard.
(USA Today)
April 20th, 2006 at 11:03pm
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Wade Lurk had been missing for a little over a week. Monday, the search for Wade
Lurk came to a tragic end when his car and body were pulled out of Goose Creek Lake. It is believed that Wade Lurk accidentally drove off the rode and into the lake and drown following leaving a party.
The car was 75 feet from the edge of a boat ramp. It was by chance three fisherman in two boats spotted the car. Fisherman Randy Houchin said, “I was on the back of the boat and I looked down and I could see the big square top of the car.” Fisherman Robert Witcher said, “I knew it was the car because they had been looking for this little white car. I’ve seen it on gas stations and everywhere.”
The car was facing the shore but investigators found evidence Wade 
accidentally drove the car down the ramp. Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Al Nothum said, “When the vehicle came down the ramp, there’s a wall and deck to the right side. The vehicle sideswiped that. We have evidence on the wall and on the car and not only that it knocked off the side mirror.”
(KSDK)
Body believed to be that of missing teen
The car was pulled from Goose Creek Lake near Ste. Genevieve. It is the same model and color as Wade Lurk’s white 1990 Nissan Stanza, said Cpl. Al Nothum of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The license plate numbers also matched. Stolzer confirmed that the body was found inside the car.
(Kansas City Star)
April 17th, 2006 at 11:04pm
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The search continues for John Fiocco, a 19-year-old college freshman who went missing on Saturday. John Fiocco attended an off-campus party with friends on Friday night where they had all been drinking.
Mr. Fiocco, of Mantua Township, attended an off-campus party with friends on Friday night where they had all been drinking, the police said. At about 3 a.m., several of them went to a friend’s room on the fourth floor of Wolfe Hall, a freshman dormitory.
When the others awoke later in the morning, Mr. Fiocco was gone, they told police. The next afternoon, one of his friends called campus police to report him missing.
Police also found traces of blood from in and around a dumpster outside a freshman dormitory at the College of New Jersey.
After finding traces of blood in and near the garbage dumpster outside the dorm, they also sent investigators to the landfills in Pennsylvania, because that is where trash from the college is taken after it is compacted in nearby Trenton.
(NY Times)
Investigators are now searching two landfills in Bucks County, PA for the missing John Fiocco.
New Jersey state police say the search of two Bucks County landfills is expected to resume later Monday for the missing College of New Jersey student, John Fiocco.
(KYW News Radio 1060)
Landfills searched for Fiocco
Police started searching two Pennsylvania landfills on Saturday for signs of a missing college freshman from Mantua.
John Fiocco Jr. was last seen in a Wolfe Hall dormitory room at the College of New Jersey at 3 a.m. March 25. He was reported missing roughly 36 hours later.
DNA tests confirmed that blood found in and around a large trash bin outside his dorm at the college belonged to the missing 19-year-old art major.
(Courier Post)
UPDATE (April 4, 2006): Fiocco search frustration
EWING — As investigators sifted through piles of trash yesterday at a Pennsylvania landfill for a sign of John Fiocco Jr., students at his college searched for answers surrounding his mysterious disappearance 10 days ago.
(The Trentonian)
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:27am
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