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An Amber Alert issued for Teketria Buggs, 12, Sunday and remained in effect in 
southeast Texas. She was last seen asleep on her couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night.
Teketria known by friends as Teeky Bugg, was last seen asleep on a couch at her home in the 9000 block of Johnson Road in Orchard late Friday night. She was reported missing at about 10 a.m. Saturday. None of her belongings, including a jacket, had been taken from the home.
On Monday night, Teketria’s mother told CNN’s Nancy Grace that she thinks someone Teketria trusted might have taken her.
Texas EquuSearch and the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Department widened their search Tuesday morning near Teketria’s rural home and asked for help from the Texas Department of Transportation.
“They are going to help us, being guides. They know the ditches, and the bridges and the culverts,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch also went on to describe the many search methods that they would have at their disposal to search for Teketria Buggs. 
Dive teams searched the Brazos river Tuesday afternoon. Miller said divers are searching several areas of the water where sonar equipment detected something. Miller said searchers would use remote control airplanes, high-vision scopes, 4-wheelers and Sonar to search more than 12 acres of heavily wooded land and the Brazos River near her home.
“I don’t see where there is to go. We understand she’s scared to death of the dog. She won’t even go to her aunt’s house, which is right next door, when it was dark. So for her to take off and go to some place on her own, I think that’s out of the question,” EquuSearch founder Tim Miller told KPRC Local 2.
Description: Teketria is a black female, about 4 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 95 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes, and light brown skin. She was last seen wearing a red and white long-sleeved pullover shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes.
Anyone with information should call the Fort Bend County Sheriff?s Office at (281) 341-4665 or Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at (281) 342-TIPS.
Fort Bend Herald: Search for missing girl expands
The search for 12-year-old Teketria Buggs, who disappeared in Orchard Saturday evening, continued Tuesday morning with additional personnel joining the search.
A prayer vigil for Buggs will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at of the Pilgrim Journey Baptist Church, 2022 Ransom Road in Richmond, where Buggs is a member. Deacon Robert Willis will conduct the service, which is open to the public.
Search for missing girl focused on Brazos River
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The search for a missing Fort Bend County girl moved to the water Tuesday as dive teams went in into the Brazos River.
Tuesday was an especially emotional day for the searchers and volunteers.
Although the town of Orchard has a population of only 400, they have big hearts. Letters from the girl’s schoolmates, thanking searchers for their efforts, inspired investigators and searchers.
Several veteran deputies wiped away tears as they read the letters posted on the board by volunteers.
Searchers continued to search on land and in the water.
Investigators said they didn’t have any new leads, but divers were concentrating on one area of the river. They said sonar had picked up some images Monday.
The river is about a mile from Buggs’ home, where she was last seen sleeping on her couch.
“It’s been successful in the past. We’ve done many, many dives where it ended up that it was an old barrel or something like that,” said Tim Miller of EquuSearch.
Volunteers came back again to continue the ground search on horseback and four-wheelers.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:58pm
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NANCY GRACE: 12-Year-Old Missing, Teketria Buggs
(Guests: LARONALD FOY, TERRIANN COLSON, FORT BEND SHERIFF`S DPT, TIM MILLER, TEXAS EQUUSEARCH, ROBI LUDWIG, PSYCHOTHERAPIST
December 5, 2005
Nancy Grace interview’s LARONALD FOY, the mom of the missing 12 year old, Teketria Buggs. In an emotional interview Teke’s mom pleas for th safe return of her daughter.
FOY: No, she`s in the 3rd grade because she missed too many days out of school last year. So she`s in the 3rd grade, but she`s a smart girl. Last year, she passed the highest in her school (INAUDIBLE) She`s really, really bright. She`s a really bright girl, really, really bright. And I just can`t see somebody coming in my grandmother`s home and taking her and her not trying to put up a fight or anything. She`s too bright. I just feel like if she had time to put on her shoes, whoever she left with, she trusted him. She knew (INAUDIBLE) her heart.
And all I`m asking is, if you have her, please bring her back to me! I can`t make it without her! Please bring her back to me, please!
The rest of the interview:
But first, tonight, please help us. We are searching for a 12-year- old missing Texas girl. She disappeared from her own home, Orchard, Texas, Friday, last seen sleeping on her own sofa.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LARONALD FOY, MISSING GIRL`S MOTHER: She (INAUDIBLE) to go to her aunt`s house right here without her sisters and her brothers. So for her just to get up and put on her shoes, that`s impossible for me to believe. God himself would have to come and tell me that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Very quickly, I want to go straight out to the news director with KFNC, Laurie Kendrick. Laurie, bring us up to date.
LAURIE KENDRICK, KFNC NEWS DIRECTOR: Hi, Nancy. How`re you doing? Well, the Amber Alert has been issued for Teketria Buggs. She`s age 12, as you mentioned, last sleeping on the couch in her living room in the small rural community of Orchard in Fort Bend County, maybe about 30 miles southwest, due southwest of Houston proper. Her family issued — or reported her missing around 10:00 AM Saturday morning.
And what has authorities so baffled, Nancy, is what they`re not seeing. They found no signs of struggle, no signs of foul play. And what`s more disconcerting is they have absolutely no indication that a crime occurred, and they can`t find this 12-year-old child to save their lives, despite the fact we have quite a few experienced searchers checking about a 12-mile area not far from the community of Orchard. The land was adjacent to the Brazos River. It`s a very woody are. But so far, absolutely nothing, and that is perhaps the most disconcerting sign about this entire event.
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December 6th, 2005 at 09:03pm
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An Amber Alert has been issued for Teketria Buggs. She was last seen on Saturday sleeping on a couch inside her home.
Authorities say they’ve found no signs of struggle, no signs of foul play and no indication that a crime occurred. But maybe the most disturbing thing is that they’ve found no sign of this missing girl.
Search crews lowered an infrared underwater camera into the Brazos River in the hope of finding anything that might lead to Teketria.
“For her just to get up and put on her shoes, that’s impossible for me to believe,” said Laronald Foy, Teketria’s mother. “God himself would have to come and tell me that.”
Authorities are searching the 12 acres surrounding the home, as are volunteers from Equusearch. Director Tim Miller is not optimistic about finding the 12-year-old alive.
“There are a lot of things we don’t like about this one,” Miller admitted. “It just doesn’t feel good.”
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Teketria Buggs, please call Fort Bend County Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:15pm
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Texas Equusearch and Tim Miller are going to Ocilla, GA to help aid in the search for the missing school teacher, Tara Grinstead. So far all search efforts have failed to produce Tara. According to sources Tim Miller landed in Georgia this morning and will be meeting with the LE.
Texas Equusearch (TES) in this search will be utilizing some high tech equipment that will include remote control airplanes equipped with night vision and a GPS tracking device.
TES will also be utilizing GPS devices recently donated by Academy Sports and Outdoors.
Tim Miller stated thats he is very optimistic and is very familiar with the type of terrain they’ll be searching in GA. Tim Miller said, “the LE is very dedicated in resolving the case as quickly as possible and have not let up in their diligent search efforts … we’re (TES) are simply another tool for the LE to use”.
For more updates go to FindTara.com
UPDATE: We have NOT stopped searching! Volunteers are needed this weekend 8am – 8pm Sat. & Sun. Please come!
TEXAS EQUUSEARCH RETURNING TO ARUBA
Also, Tim Miller and TES will be returning to Aruba to continue the search for Natalee Holloway in the next couple of weeks. Although initial reports state that the equipment is not coming from the FBI; however, TES was able to secure a boat, equipment and divers that can go 12,000 feet below. Thus the 1000 foot depth that was previously needed will be attainable.
More to follow …
November 18th, 2005 at 06:07pm
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The remains of the missing Texas woman Sheril Susan Moore were identified and confirmed. She was found about 1/2 mile away from her vehicle in a field in Oklahoma. She was on her way to Colorado to visit with her son as she was in the process of evacuating from Hurricane Rita.
The cause of death is unknown at the time and investigators are considering it to be a homicide even though her husbands seems to think it was an accident caused by fatigue.
“We are continuing to investigate this as a homicide until we get evidence that shows us otherwise,” said Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske.
Remains discovered in a rural area near Amber have been identified as that of a missing Hurricane Rita evacuee from Houston, who was headed to her son’s Colorado home, Grady County officials said Thursday.
Search crews discovered the remains of Sheril Susan Moore, 59, on Tuesday in a pasture less than one mile from where the woman’s sport-utility vehicle was found last week, Grady County Undersheriff Irene Perske said. She had been missing for a month.
On Friday, authorities resumed their search for the woman after a farmer found her car abandoned in a pasture near Amber. The 2001 Ford Explorer was about 300 yards from the road sitting along a creek bed.
The Equusearch team was the first to find the remains, McMullen said.
Grady County Sheriff’s deputies and Equusearch, a search and rescue team out of Houston, Texas, began searching the farmland Tuesday morning following fruitless searches both Thursday night and Friday to find a woman missing from Texas.
Sheriff Kieran McMullen said the Equus team was in the southwest corner and Layton had a group in the southeast corner when the two groups decided to start toward each other.
The Equusearch team was the first to find the remains, McMullen said.
By noon, volunteers from across the county had assembled to aid in the search for remains. McMullen said besides Equusearch and the deputies, volunteers from the Grady County Volunteer Fire Departments, Rush Springs Fire Department, Oklahoma State Troopers, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Amber Police and Grady County reserves deputies showed up to assist in the search.
Moore’s husband, Barry Moore of Houston, said he believes his wife was suffering from fatigue and stress from being on the road for about 48 hours and that she became lost and disoriented.
November 4th, 2005 at 08:19pm
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JESSE WAYNE STEEL, Jr had been missing since 10/26/05 in Texas. He is a 15 year old special needs teen who was last seen at home. Enter Texas Equusearch and the many inspired volunteers to help in the search for Jesse Wayne Steel, Jr.
The great news is that Scared Monkeys received an email from Joe Huston notifying us that Jessee was found safe and sound Saturday. We also received more information from one of the volunteers who took time out of her life to help find Jesse. If you ever want to know what one can do to help the many families in need who are missing their loved ones? Volunteer to help. No words can describe the thanks that families have and the rewarding feeling it provides to all when one sacrifices for people that have never met. The following is a story from one of out Scared Monkey members describing her first search ever. Congratulations Sunny in TX, we are all proud of your sacrifice to help others. Hear her story in her own words.
I sent in my volunteer membership application to TES a couple months ago. On Friday I was called to assist in a search for a missing 15 year old boy. He had been missing since just after school on Wednesday. He is 15 and has some learning disabilities. I had no idea what to expect so ….. I dressed in jeans, sneakers, a tee shirt and a long sleeve jeans shirt ….. took my water bottles and headed out at 7:30 Saturday morning.
I arrived and much to my surprise Joe Huston was the person in charge of this search/rescue operation…..a man we all know and have great respect for. And my respect has risen even higher after having worked with him. He is a kind, sincere, friendly, warm and a very focused and dedicated man.
All the TES people … (all volunteers) are fantastic. You immediately feel you are part of a very loving family. Each of them were warm, friendly caring and FOCUSED people.
After filling out my paper work .. ( this is done with each search you assist in) and meeting the other volunteers… we wait for instructions. Joe and others were looking at aerial maps, consulting with family members and plotting the search.
About 9AM we were gathered together and explained the initial search would begin in the WOODS! Oh my!! I had been looking at the woods thinking I am sure not gonna be going in there! All the sudden …. this voice screamed in my soul …. OH YES YOU ARE! I thought I had been possessed by a demon!! Let me briefly explain…I am deathly afraid of snakes…even the rubber kind……terrified…can’t even look at the on the TV…. It is explained we will be walking a grid type pattern, each searcher about 10 feet apart from the person on the right and left of you..once we reach our destination ( a creek) we would pivot around the point person on the far left of us and then walk back to the road. We would continue to do this until this area was cleared unless we found ‘something’. I am thinking no way can I walk into those woods…just no way…why would I even want to walk in these woods?? Suddenly one of the volunteer’s says, “well at least we shouldn’t have to worry TOO MUCH about SNAKES as it was a very cool morning and they SHOULD not be out.” I was praying, Oh I hope to God the snakes know that bit of information!!! At that point I didn’t think I could go on. I was going to have to tell them I couldn’t do it …. suddenly it became very clear…. there was a lost child……perhaps hurt, in those woods…..no food, water or warm clothing…..that demon was changed into an angel with that thought… something inside me clicked and I knew I WAS going to walk into those woods!!
We took our places and began walking….keeping our lines as straight as possible…right into the woods…..within 10 feet it was so dense it was nearly impossible to see the person on your right or left…..one of the instructions we were given was to make sure you could see or at the very least hear them at all times….the safety of the searchers are paramont…..the spiny, thorny vines were tearing into our faces, tearing into our arms and right through our jeans..sticking in our hair and heads……but we kept on going….deeper and deeper….one of the experienced TES volunteers brought a machete and she walked ahead of us trying to cut a path….finally we reach the creek…..a head check is done there and several times throughout the search and we begin the pivot turn.
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October 31st, 2005 at 12:57am
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Americas Most Wanted sent film crews to Tuolumne County to film segments on the search for a Nevada woman, Nita Mayo, who has been missing for more than two months. The producers focused their story of Tim Miller and Texas Equusearch but featured the story about the missing Mayo and the search for her and other type of work Miller does.
Crews from the TV show “America’s Most Wanted” were in Tuolumne County over the weekend, filming a segment on the search for a Nevada woman, now missing for more than two months.
Producers say the show on the search for Nita Mayo will run in late November or early December.
Last weekend’s search was organized by Tim Miller, a Texas man who founded a horse-mounted search-and-rescue group, EquuSearch, in 2000 in memory of his daughter Laura who was abducted and murdered in 1984.
“America’s Most Wanted” producers focused their story on Miller and EquuSearch, but featured the story about the search for Mayo as the type of work Miller does.
Nita Mayo’s children flew out to California for the large scale search in hopes of finding clues to their mother’s whereabouts and at the very least gaining national exposure to the case.
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October 21st, 2005 at 05:39pm
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A major search is being organized by the family of missing the missing Nevada woman, Nita Mayo on October 15th and 16, 2005. Along with the family will be Tim Miller from Texas EquuSearch, Shawn Rocha, and Carole Sund Carrington Foundation organizing this search.
OCTOBER 5, 2005: A major search is being organized for missing Hawthorne, Nevada woman, Nita Mayo on Saturday and Sunday, October 15th and 16th. I, Tracy Mayo, along with my Family, as well as Tim Miller from Texas EquuSearch, Shawn Rocha, and Carole Sund Carrington Foundation will be organizing this search.
Nita Mayo has been missing since August 8, 2005 when she had breakfast with a friend that morning before she left for Sonora Pass.
Missing Since: August 8, 2005 
Age: 64
Missing From: Sonora Pass (Hwy 108)
Sex: Female Height: 5 ft. Weight: 140 lbs.
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Dark Brown w/ ends frosted Race: Caucasian Complexion: Fair Birth Date: February 9, 1941 Those that are organizing the search are calling on volunteers for the search and recovery effort.
Anyone wishing to join in on this search is asked to meet at the Strawberry Inn in Strawberry, CA (Hwy 108) at 9am the 15th and/or 16th. We are especially requesting people with Horses, ATVs, dog teams, and Jeeps to help us in our search for our Mom, Nita Mayo.
We feel it is absolutely imperative that we get as many people as possible to help us as we are fully aware that Winter is coming to the Sierra Mountains and we need to find her and bring her home. Please help us in our continued search for our Mother….your support is greatly appreciated.
Please call the Tuolumne County Sheriff Department at 209-533-5815. Please call Texas EquuSearch at 281-309-9500 or Toll-free (877) 270-9500. Fax: 281-534-6719 Case # C05-2406 TES Case # 05-465
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Authorities seeking woman in connection with Nita Mayo disappearance
October 11th, 2005 at 05:18pm
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Amos Harmon has been missing since the night of September 22, when he disappeared while evacuating with his daughter, Brenda Veltz. Harmon’s silver 2005 Chevrolet pickup was found off County Road 1270. He has a history of medical conditions
Angelina County Sheriff’s officials continued the search Friday for a Port Arthur man whose truck was found abandoned near Zavalla, according to a department investigator.
Amos Harmon, 73, has been missing since the night of Sept. 22, when he disappeared while evacuating with his daughter, Brenda Veltz. Driving different vehicles, the two were separated around 3 a.m. on state Highway 69 near Zavalla.
Harmon’s silver 2005 Chevrolet pickup was found off County Road 1270, Sgt. Dawn Stripling said Friday. No evidence of foul play was discovered at the scene.
Harmon has a history of mini strokes and suffers from emphysema and high blood pressure. He was last seen wearing an Atlanta Braves ball cap, green plaid shirt, jeans and black shoes. He wears silver-framed glasses and dentures.
Anyone with information on Amos Harmon is asked to call the Angelina County Sheriff’s Office at (936) 634-3331 for Capt. James Galloway or Monica Hill. The number for Texas EquuSearch, which is coordinating information on Harmon, is (281) 309-9500 or toll-free (877) 270-9500. Flyers are available online at www.texasequusearch.org.
October 10th, 2005 at 10:25pm
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New York State police divers located two of three victims and the wreckage of a missing Piper aircraft that crashed into Lake Erie near Dunkirk, NY in late August. The plane was located in about 80 feet of water.
After nearly six weeks of searching the lake bottom, police, U.S. Coast Guard officials and a Texas-based nonprofit search organization pinpointed the site where the plane came to rest. The divers found the wreckage at about 1 p.m., police said.
“We found a significant portion of the fuselage. It had the tail number on it,” said Sgt. Alvaro Garcia, a State Police diver from Albany. “We came across a victim on the first dive, and we knew what we had.”
The Texas-based nonprofit search organization was Texas Equusearch who had volunteered and deployed to Dunkirk, NY to help locate the missing plane and recover the three young adults after previous searchers had come up empty.
Texas Equusearch has deployed to Dunkirk, NY, to assist the New York State Police and Niagara Regional Police Department in the search and recovery of 3 young adults, victims of a tragic August 26th plane crash in Lake Erie.
The victims are three Pennsylvanians, 22-year-old pilot James Regal; Regal’s best friend, 24-year-old Kevin Jesteadt; and Jesteadt’s girlfriend, 23-year-old Lindsay Myers. The three were returning from a sight seeing trip over Niagara Falls where
The search has been primarily conducted by New York state police, who have contributed a dive team and a vessel equipped equipped with side-scanning sonar; although several other entities were involved, including a Texas-based non-profit group that assists in finding missing persons both on land and water.
Texas Equusearch of Dickinson, Texas, supplied a dive team and people with technical expertise in the interpretation of side-scan sonar and analyzing the flight radar data supplied by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Related stories:
Wreckage, body found in missing plane case
Missing plane found in lake off Dunkirk
October 6th, 2005 at 08:23pm
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