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Investigators have discovered new evidence near the area where they found Julie Michelle Bullard’s driver’s license last week.
Investigators searching the area where Julie Michelle Bullard’s driver’s license was found last week have turned up further evidence that likely meant Bullard or her abductor – at some point – was near that location.
When sheriff’s deputies and search teams from Cumberland and Lee counties searched an area Sunday off Bogie Island Road in southern Cumberland County, they discovered the wallet and driver’s license of another woman who was in the mobile home where Bullard was taken from at gunpoint on Jan. 2. Authorities also found two of Bullard’s paycheck stubs, a pair of women’s socks, a ski mask and a handbag.Monday, deputies found a membership card for a gym in Sanford with Bullard’s name on it, as well as a shirt.
The initial story of the forced entry robbery and abduction is as follows:
Bullard, 23, was reportedly abducted just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 2. She was at the Bradley Road home in Broadway of her boyfriend, Will Stence, when a masked gunman burst through the door and tied up the four people inside before taking them into separate rooms and robbing them. When the other three victims freed themselves, they found Bullard was gone, witnesses told deputies.
Last Friday, a motorist found what appeared to be the driver’s license of Michelle Bullard.
Friday, a motorist in Cumberland County reported finding Bullard’s driver’s license in a ditch along Bogie Island Road, which is south of Fayetteville.
Bryant also said the clothing items found were to be analyzed by forensic experts with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.
“They’re going to try to get DNA samples from the shirt and the socks. Whether they’ll be successful, I don’t know,” he said.
The area where Bullard’s identification was found is roughly 60 miles from the mobile home she was taken from.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Tip Line at 718-4577. Callers can remain anonymous. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office can be contacted at (910) 323-1500, and the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office can be reached at (910) 893-9111.
(The Sanford Herald)
January 25th, 2006 at 12:55am
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The search for missing Michelle Bullard.
Cumberland County deputies wrapped up their search for a missing woman on Tuesday. Authorities say someone kidnapped Michelle Bullard from a Lee County home a few weeks ago.
Searchers found some of her belongings in Cumberland County last weekend.
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Tanna continued, “If we leave here with no more answers than we came with, we’re pretty much back at square one. We’ve got some things that belonged to a person who was abducted from a home in Lee County and we have her personal belongings in Cumberland County and still no answers.”
(News 14 Carolina)
January 25th, 2006 at 12:44am
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The search for the two West Virginia Missing Miners came to a sad conclusion today. Rescuers today found the bodies of two coal miners who disappeared after a conveyor belt caught fire deep inside the West Virginia Aracoma coal mine.
We have found the two miners we were looking for,” said Doug Conaway, director of the state Office of Miners’ Health Training and Safety. “Unfortunately we don’t have a positive outcome.”
The miners became separated Thursday evening as their 12-member crew tried to escape a conveyor belt fire at Aracoma Coal’s Alma No. 1 mine in Melville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston. The rest of the crew and nine other miners working in a different section of the mine escaped unharmed.
The victims were identified as Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Hatfield, 47. Both were fathers with more than a decade of mining experience and had worked in the Alma mine for five years.
(AP via Yahoo)
Rescue Team Searches for Two W.Va. Miners
MELVILLE, W.Va. – Five rescue teams were deep inside a coal mine Friday searching for two miners who never made it out after a conveyor belt caught fire. Nineteen others had reached the surface safely and waited with relatives of the missing in a scene all to familiar to West Virginia.
The fire started Thursday evening inside the Alma No. 1 Mine operated by Massey Energy subsidiary Aracoma Coal, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston, officials said.
(AP via Yahoo)
January 21st, 2006 at 05:59pm
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That is correct, FBI agents not only working along side and advising local police from Trinidad, but also helping in the search and actually finding the missing body of Balram Maharaj. FBI agents coming to the aid at the request and physically searching in an island in the Caribbean to help find a missing person. The FBI accomplished their goal and provided closure to a missing persons case on a Caribbean island. Seems the FBI is allowed to search and provide more than just advice and observe in missing person cases; they did in Trinidad and it paid dividends.
Balram Maharaj has been missing since April 6, 2005 when he was snatched from the Samaan Tree Bar in Aranguez. 
Maharaj, 62, a Trinidadian now resident in the US and a US war veteran, was snatched from the Samaan Tree Bar in Aranguez on April 6.
According to police reports, Maharaj, who was here on a two-week vacation, was approached by an armed man who bundled him into a waiting car.
A $3-million ransom demand was subsequently made for his safe release.
(The Trinidad Guardian)
The United States government also provided a reward for information and the safe return for Balram Maharaj.
The United States Government is now offering a US$10,000 reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the safe release of kidnap victim Balram “Balo” Maharaj, and the arrest and conviction of his abductors.
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January 12th, 2006 at 10:23pm
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Albert Zverev, 30, was reported missing by his brother. He was last seen near the fast-moving Clackamas River in the Mount Hood National Forest. Search teams have failed to locate the missing Albert Zverev.
Search and rescue crews were to resume looking Monday for an Oregon City man who was last seen near the fast-moving Clackamas River in the Mount Hood National Forest.
Albert Zverev, 30, was reported missing by his brother early Sunday, and Clackamas County search and rescue teams, aided by an Oregon Air National Guard helicopter crew, spent much of the day checking a 3-to-5 mile stretch of the river, said Detective Jim Strovink, a county sheriff’s spokesman.
(OregonLive)
January 9th, 2006 at 01:58am
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The body of Brittany Stotko was found in Pine Creek approximately one half mile from the vehicle that she and her mother were stranded in. Its appears that Brittany apparently succumbed to hypothermia and exposure.
Search efforts were concluded on Friday, Jan. 6 at 9:55 a.m. when the body of 19-year-old Brittany Stotko was located in Pine Creek. Brittany and her mother, Stacy Stotko has been stranded in Pine Creek during a snowstorm on Jan. 1 when their vehicle became stuck. Brittany hiked away from the vehicle around 8 a.m. on Jan. 3 intending to go for help.
Brittany was located approximately one half mile from the vehicle and apparently succumbed to hypothermia and exposure. She had left the vehicle wearing inadequate clothing and had waded through 2-3 feet of fresh snow the entire way.
God rest her soul. Our prayers go out to Brittany Stotko’s family.
(Mammoth Times)
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Search continues for 19-year-old missing person Brittany Stotko
January 7th, 2006 at 08:08pm
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The search continues for 19-year-old missing person Brittany Stotko who has been missing since the morning of January 4. They searched the area of Pine Creek Canyon where the vehicle that Brittany and her mother Stacy were driving was found.
According to Sergeant Randy Nixon, Inyo County Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue (SAR) Coordinator, the mission included 55 searchers on the ground, CHP helicopters in the sky, and snowmobiles that criss-crossed the terrain with a watchful eye for anything that might lead to her location. The search encompassed the entire length of the Pine Creek Canyon where the vehicle her and her mother Stacy had driven was found on the morning of Jan. 4 with Stacy in it.
Searching resumed Friday, Jan. 6, after an early morning rendezvous with fresh search and rescue teams including new additions of the China Lake SAR, San Bernardino SAR, and Ventura County SAR teams. Search efforts also include teams from Mono County SAR, the Department of Forestry, the U.S. Forest Service, Inyo County Road Maintenance, the California Highway Patrol, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
(Mammoth Times)
January 7th, 2006 at 12:29am
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED BY TEXAS EQUUSEARCH TO HELP SEARCH FOR KENNY EBARB 
Texas Equusearch Search Director Joe Huston is requesting the help of volunteers to assist in the search for Kenny Ebarb, on Saturday, January 7, 2006, beginning at 8:30am in Humble, TX.
Dress appropriately for a search in wooded area. The command center will be located at the end of Country Side Lane, in Humble, TX. Take Rayford Road north off of 1960, take a right at the first stop sign, left at the second stop sign, and right at the third. (Rayford Road is north of 1960 between Cypresswood Rd and Aldine Westfield). Click here to see map.
Kenny Ebarb has been missing since July 17, 2005 in the vicinity of the 21000 block of Countryside Rd. near FM 1960 East. Kenny’s vehicle was located the following day abandoned and burned on Huffman Rd. in Huffman, TX.
Poster: Kenny Dwayne Ebarb
National Center for Missing Adults
Description:
- Name: Kenny Dwayne Ebarb
- Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
- Date of Birth: 1977-07-17
- Date Missing: 2005-07-15
- From City/State: Humble, TX
- Missing From (Country): USA
- Age at Time of Disappearance: 27
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
- Height: 69 inches
- Weight: 140 pounds
- Hair Color: Blonde
- Eye Color: Hazel
- Complexion: Medium
He was wearing T-shirt, jean shorts with pockets, brown leather sandals.
Identifying Characteristics: Tattoos: “Betty Boop” on left upper arm, “cross” on outer left forearm near elbow, name “Kathryn” on middle of back written in Old English, name “Heather” on right leg on side of calf, name “Brooke” on right leg on side of calf, “sun” on right side of chest, “cross” on left leg above knee, name “Ebarb” on back of neck, initials “K.E.” on left fingers, burn scar on right cheek, two piercings in left ear, one piercing in right ear, missing tooth #19 (lower back tooth), previously fractured wrist, scar on top of head near scalp.
Please call Texas EquuSearch at 281-309-9500 or Toll-free (877) 270-9500. Fax: 281-534-6719
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Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713) 967-5810 Case # 05718F144 TES Case # 05505
January 6th, 2006 at 05:56pm
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Tara Grinstead has been missing since October 22, 2005. During this time 
investigators and searchers have scoured the Georgia countryside looking for the missing school teacher. The searches had concentrated on wooded areas of Ocilla and Irwin County.
Now it appears that the search is going to move to Ben Hill County. The search will begin at 8 AM Saturday, January 7 and will continue on Sunday, January 8. It will be lead by Robert Hardiman, Director of Trackers Global.
Robert Hardiman, Director of Trackers Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recovery of missing, abducted and runaway persons, contacted Court TV’s Crime Library about a major search effort being mounted in Ben Hill County, GA. The search will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 7 and will continue on Sunday, Jan. 8. Volunteers are asked to assemble at the Ben Hill County Senior Citizens Center at 253 Appomattox Road in Fitzgerald. The Senior Citizens Center is located just behind the Ben Hill County Sheriff’s Department.
Also go to Findtara.com
(Full story from Crime Library)
January 5th, 2006 at 07:44pm
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UPDATE: A terrible update to report on the fate of the 12 trapped miner. Initial reports were inaccurate. From grief to hope back to grief. A miscommunication and people’s want and need for good news regarding the 12 trapped miners made a terrible story even worse. As CNN reports, Grief, anger as all but one miner found dead.
TALLMANSVILLE, West Virginia (CNN) — Rescuers found the sole survivor of an explosion that trapped 13 miners in a West Virginia coal mine “by the sounds of moans,” mining officials said Thursday, about 12 hours after family members learned the initial report that their loved ones were alive was erroneous.
Without giving a reason for the miscommunication — and without assigning blame — mining executive Ben Hatfield said he deeply regrets “allowing the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.”
Original story … unfortunately proved to be premature:
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With the news that was coming out today, no one could have seen or expected this. 12 Miners found alive after 41 hours underground following the blast can only be described as a miracle. 
Twelve miners caught in an explosion in a coal mine were found alive Tuesday night, more than 41 hours after the blast, family members said.
Bells at a church where relatives had been gathering rang out as family members ran out screaming in jubilation.
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CNN: BREAKING NEWS Family members say 12 men have been found alive in a West Virginia mine, nearly 40 hours after they were trapped. One man died.
Family members say 12 miners found alive (CNN)
Friends and family members erupted in cheers and the town’s church bells began ringing as the report became known
“Believe in miracles,” said West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who has expressed optimism throughout the ordeal.
Fox News: All Twelve West Virginia Coal Miners Found Alive
A West Virginia Miracle (Fox) 
Helen Winans, whose son Marshall Winans, is one of those trapped said she believes there was divine intervention.
“The Lord takes care of them,” she said. Breanna Williams, whose sisters’ father Jesse Jones is among the trapped, said she heard the miners had been found from other families who ran from the church proclaiming, “Praise the Lord, they are alive.”
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January 4th, 2006 at 12:15am
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