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A “Missing Child Alert” has been issued by the Alabama Department of Public 
Safety for missing 17 year old Benjamin Stanford. Ben Stanford has been missing since November 5, 2007 when he was last seen on Monday in Anniston and his vehicle was later found in Villa Rica, GA. Stanford is a senior at the Donoho school in Anniston. Benjamin Stanford is the grandson of Alabama State Senator Jim Preuitt. Law enforcement in both Alabama and Georgia are looking for the missing teen.
Benjamin Stanford Description:
- weight 140 pounds
- brown hair
- green eyes
- He was last seen wearing a white ball cap, rust colored jeans and a long-sleeved fleece shirt that was dark gray and purple.
- Another report states that he was wearing rust colored Carhartt jeans, a long sleeve dark gray and purple shirt and a white Polo ball cap.
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ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Law enforcement in Alabama and Georgia are searching for the 17-year-old grandson of an Alabama state senator.
The Alabama Department of Public Safety issued a missing child alert Wednesday for Benjamin Stanford, who was last seen Monday morning in Anniston. His vehicle, a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee, was later found on Interstate 20 in Villa Rica, Ga., police said.
Stanford is a senior at Donoho School in Anniston and is the grandson of state Sen. Jim Preuitt, D-Talladega.
If anyone has any information regarding Ben Stanford’s disappearance, please call the Lincoln Police Department at 205-763-7777.
UPDATE I: Reward offered as 2-state search continues for missing Lincoln teen
ERA King Real Estate, where his mother, Lynne Stanford, works, has announced a $20,000 reward for valid information “leading to Ben’s safe return,” according to a mass e-mail that went out Thursday evening.
UPDATE II: Call for Volunteers in Search for Missing St. Senator’s Grandson, TES to help search for missing Ben Sanford
UPDATE III: Body Fitting Description Of Ben Stanford Found
Authorities have recovered a body fitting the description of the grandson of Senator Jim Preuitt.
The body was located about one mile away from his vehicle in the woods near Interstate 20 in Villa Rica, Ga.
Authorities are waiting on the Medical Examiner to release the identity of the body.
UPDATE IV: Body of Alabama senator’s grandson identified
The body of the teenage grandson of an Alabama state senator has been found about 1,000 feet from where his vehicle was located last week along Interstate 20, the senator said Tuesday.
State Sen. Jim Preuitt said Alabama state trooper officials have notified him that the body found Tuesday was that of his 17-year-old grandson, Benjamin Stanford.
“Bless his heart. He was the apple of my eye. He was just so lovable. We can’t believe it has happened,” Preuitt told The Associated Press.
UPDATE V: Report: Autopsy Rules Stanford Death Suicide
WSFA 12 News has learned through published reports that the Carroll County, Georgia coroner and Georgia Bureau of Investigation have concluded an autopsy of Benjamin Stanford’s remains.
The report indicates Stanford died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
For more updates and discussion regarding missing Ben Stanford, go to Scared Monkeys Missing Person forum.
November 9th, 2007 at 08:11am
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TES and the Family of Stacy Peterson needs your Help
Tim Miller and the volunteers of Texas EquuSearch have joined the search to help find missing Stacy Peterson. The family of Stacy Peterson contacted TES, the non-profit search organization, in an effort to help find their missing loved one. Stacy Ann Peterson has been missing since 10/28/07.
Speaking with Tim Miller this evening he asked that anyone in the Bolingbrook, IL come out and help search and also take part in helping out with the Command Center located at the Westbrook Christian Church in Bolingbrook.
The command center for the Texas EquuSearch team will be the Westbrook Christian Church at 1175 Lily Cache Lane in Bolingbrook. All search volunteers for tomorrow need to be there at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow
Stacy Peterson - search update 11/05/07
Cassandra Cales, Stacy’s sister, contacted EquuSearch and asked for the national organization’s help, said Cindy Wisdom, case manager for the not-for-profit group founded in 2000 to help authorities find missing people.
“We don’t enter a case unless family or law enforcement contacts us, and we don’t move forward with a case unless law enforcement agrees to work with us,” Wisdom said, adding the group has opened cases on more than 800 missing people and found 300—and the remains of 76 others. “The idea is to bring home missing persons, dead or alive.” (Chicago Tribune)
Texas search team to help in Peterson case
Meanwhile, representatives from The Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, an all-volunteer group with resources that include divers, helicopters, dog teams, horses and foot teams, were set to help in the search.
Family friend Bruce Zidarich said Peterson’s relatives had reached out to the group last week, and they had agreed to help.
For more updates and information go to MissingExploited.com.
To discuss the case and for updated go to Scared Monkey Forum: Stacy Ann Peterson 23, Bolingbrook IL - Missing 10/28/07
November 6th, 2007 at 12:34am
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Tim Miller and volunteers from Texas EquuSearch meet with law enforcement in Ohio to help in the search for missing Tony Luzio. Tony Luzio has been missing since July 4, 2005.
Tim Miller prepared to map out potential search areas from the air with Tony Luzio Sr. in an effort to determine possible search areas.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:37pm
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Tim Miller and volunteers from Texas EquuSearch have been working diligently in efforts to try and fins missing Tony Luzio Jr. in Ohio this week end. TES has met with law enforcement, members of Crime Stoppers and the family in order to put together a plan of action to search for Tony Luzio. Tony Luzio has been missing since July 4, 2005.
Tim Miller meets with local law enforcement
(Tim Miller meets with Central Ohio Crime Stoppers, Kevin Miles)
August 27th, 2007 at 11:36pm
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As reported earlier, Tim Miller and volunteers from Texas EquuSearch are off to Ohio to help search for missing Tony Luzio Jr and Ohio State student Brian Shaffer. The two boys from Ohio went missing in rather close proximity to each other; however, there is no connection considered in their two cases.
(Tim Miller and TES Volunteer John White prepare to head to Ohio)
Brian Shaffer missing since April 2, 2006
Tony Luzio Jr. missing since July 5, 2005.
For more details and updates to the cases of missing Tony Luzio and Brian Shaffer and in the search efforts of Texas Equusearch, go to MissingExploited.com.
UPDATE I: Exclusive, Divers called in by TES to search for missing Tony Luzio
Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch will be bringing in divers tomorrow morning to search the Alum River in Delaware County, OH. Today TES picked up an image on their side scanner sonar that appears to be a vehicle while searching the Alum River in Ohio for missing Tony Luzio. According to Tim Miller, divers will be in the water at 8am tomorrow. This area had previously been cleared; however, TES has found an image with the sonar that could be Tony Luzio’s vehicle. Updates to follow.
August 27th, 2007 at 11:35pm
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Tony Luzio has been missing since July 4, 2005. Texas EquuSearch is making plans to go 
to Ohio to help search for Tony Luzio.
Description:
- Sex Male
- Race White
- Age at Disappearance 25
- Age Now 27
- Height 6′3”
- Weight 200 lbs.
- Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair) Brown
- Eyes (Color and Correction) Brown
MySpace account for Tony Luzio
Tony Luzio, age 25, was last seen at a friends home near Rutherford Rd off Sawmill Parkway in Delaware County in Columbus, Ohio, on July 4, 2005 around 4:00 a.m. and has not been seen or heard from since. Tony was driving a silver 4 dr 2004 Honda Civic, license plate DCA 5615. (TES)
As per a recent conversation with Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch, Tim and case manager Cindy Wisdom are currently in Columbus, OH making plans to search for Tony Luzio.
What happened to Tony Luzio? Tony Luzio Jr vanishes after attending a party.
On the evening of July 3rd Tony had gone to a friend’s house to play some cards. Afterward Tony stopped at a local hangout to meet up with some more friends. At approximately 2:30 a.m. the group went to a party less than one mile from Tony’s parents.
Witnesses say they saw Tony leaving the party at around 4 a.m. They assumed he was heading to his apartment though he had given the key to one of his friends. That was the last time that anyone saw Tony.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:03pm
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Kenny Ebarb has been missing since July 17, 2005 in the vicinity of the 21000 block of Countryside Rd. near FM 1960 East. The next day, July 16, 2005, Ebarb’s truck was found, abandoned and burned, about 23 miles away, in Huffman, TX. For two years, Ebarb’s family has dealt with Kenny’s disappearance with a range of emotions from hope to despair, frustration to anger, grief to loneliness not knowing what happened or having recovered his body. The case was deemed a homicide without a body.
More than 400 people including the Ebarb family and Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch attended The 21st annual meeting of Parents of Murdered Children. So many times we forget about the pain and anguish that family members go through after their loved one’s body is found. It can be even worse psychologically for those left behind when a body is never found. They are just left to wonder and anguish over what happened. Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch said during the conference:
The couple were joined in the hotel lobby by Tim Miller, founder of Texas Equusearch. Miller said cases of missing young men are “often overlooked or ignored” by the media, which “tends to focus on cases of missing women, or children.”
Miller was the luncheon speaker at the convention. Still, he took time to sit with the Ebarbs, gently advising them to attend one of the many workshops held for parents, relatives and siblings of murder victims.
“Everybody in this room thinks they’ve gone through the worst possible thing - losing a child,” Miller said. “I can tell them they have not. The worst possible thing is what you two are going through - not knowing. Not having that closure that allows you to fully grieve.” (Houston Chronicle)
The families of murdered and missing loved ones are a breed apart and have special issues and problems that none of us could even begin to relate to. Please remember that even after their family members are found. That although their missing loved one has been returned home, their grieving process goes on for years.
August 5th, 2007 at 12:54pm
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5 year old Alondra Diaz-Garcia has been missing since June 1, 2007 when she was reportedly kidnapped by her non-custodial father, Reynaldo Diaz. She has not been seen since.
- Alondra weighs about 38 pounds
- brown eyes
- brown hair
- nearly 4-feet tall
- was last wearing denim pants and a orange and yellow shirt
Texas EquuSearch volunteers are searching for the girl near Kendleton.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a warrant was issued for Diaz, 38, on July 2.
Mother frantic to find missing daughter last seen with her father
The girl’s mother says she and Diaz were divorced and he was scheduled to visit the girl June 1. The mother dropped her off with her father at a McDonald’s on Gessner and Bissonnet and hasn’t been seen since.
“I believe he is in Kendleton. He has a ranch there with his brothers and I am certain he has taken my daughter there,” said the girl’s mother Dorotea Garcia. (ABC 13)
UPDATE I: Local search for girl called off
A search for a missing Houston girl has been called off in an area in Kendleton and searchers will start looking elsewhere, an official with Texas EquuSearch said this morning.
No trace of Diaz-Garcia has been found, said Frank Black, search coordinator for Texas EquuSearch. He said searchers did not want to say exactly where they would look next as they did not want to potentially tip their hand to Diaz.
UPDATE II: Mother belived that ex-husband Reynaldo Diaz kidnapped Alondra Diaz-Garcia
She believes her ex-husband may have taken the girl to California or Mexico.
“He is a hot-tempered man. His reactions are very strong. He just did this probably on revenge,” Doroeta Garcia said.
She said he may have quit his job and taken $30,000 out of the bank before disappearing.
“Sometimes it’s a very dangerous situation, and sometimes it’s a situation where the parent may not be abiding by orders and hiding the child, and maybe not being physically harmed but some sort of emotional harm,” Harris Co. Assistant D.A. Jane Waters said.
In the case of Diaz-Garcia, a custody agreement had been in place since the divorce in 2005.
July 31st, 2007 at 06:58am
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According to Texas EquuSearch, they are planing to go to California this Wednesday, August 1, 2007 to help search for the missing 19 year old Donna Jou. Donna has not been heard from since June 23, 2007 when she attended a party. The family of Donna Jou contacted TES in hopes that they may be able to help find Donna Jou.
Texas EquuSearch stated that they look forward working with law enforcement to help aide in the process of bringing the missing Donna Jou home to her family. Its Texas EquuSearch’s motto, “You are not Alone,” and TES hopes that between the family, law enforcement and themselves, they can bring a resolution to this missing persons case and Donna Jou home to her family.
Recently 35-year-old John Burgess was arrested in Florida on separate charges; however, he remains a prime suspect in Donna Jou’s disappearance.
Sex offender arrested in coed’s disappearance
A registered sex offender sought in connection with the disappearance of 19-year-old Donna Jou of Rancho Santa Margarita was in custody in Florida today, but her whereabouts remain unknown.
John Burgess, 35, who calls himself SinJin Stevens and has his mother and other relatives in Florida, was arrested Tuesday in Jacksonville after he was seen on a bicycle near a motel dropping a clear plastic bag that officials said contained rock cocaine.
Missing teen’s father, Reza Jou, begs for help
Anguishing about his daughter’s disappearance more than a month ago, Reza Jou asked Monday for the governors of California and Florida to expedite the extradition of a convicted sex offender who could know the teen’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, Burgess isn’t cooperating with Orange County investigators from California who interviewed him in Florida about Jou’s disappearance.
Jou’s father wants Burgess taken to Los Angeles for questioning. Reza Jou asked attorneys general, governors and Burgess’ mother to intervene.
“He is in jail in Jacksonville, Fla., using his constitutional right not to speak about my daughter’s whereabouts,” Jou said. “This is a very urgent matter. My child’s life is in danger.”
Jou said he’d received no response to his urgent plea, but The Daily News contacted California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office for comment.
Read more at the Scared Monkeys Forum: Donna Jou
July 30th, 2007 at 04:36pm
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