Missing Winston-Salem Man (Dedrick Smith) On Billboard
Long after stories of the missing stop making headlines, the families are left to search and try to maintain hope. A renewed search for a Winston-Salem man, Dedrick Smith, who disappeared in 2006, is giving his family a fresh outlook – that perhaps he may be found. Dedrick was 6’1″ and 178 pounds when he was reported missing. His mom, Debra Smith, says Dedrick called her at 2 a.m. on October 2nd, 2006 and explained he wouldn’t be home that night. He was with his girlfriend, according to his mother. Since that night,...
read moreMissing for 11 months: Dwight Stallings (CA)
Deputies are searching for a baby that has reportedly been missing for the past 11 months. The Sacramento Sheriff’s Departments said 22-month-Old Dwight Stallings was last seen by family members sometime in April 2011. Investigators said the child was born in May 2010. Deputies said they just recently learned of the case and are aggressively trying to learn the whereabouts of the child. Detectives are working with the Elk Grove Police Department, as well as Child Protective Services. Both agencies said they have had contact with the...
read moreBianca Jones’ father charged with murder in disappearance of toddler (MI)
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced murder charges for D’Andre Louis Lane, the father of missing 2-year-old Bianca Jones, Wednesday in the Detroit toddler’s disappearance case. Worthy announced her decision to charge Lane Wednesday with first-degree felony murder and first-degree child abuse several months after Bianca was last seen in December even though her body was never recovered. “The human body is sometimes the best piece of evidence we have,” said Worthy, who noted even though investigators...
read more8 year old boy who disappeared in Texas in 2004 found safe! (Miguel Morin)
An 8-year-old boy who disappeared in Texas in 2004 has been found after police arrested his former babysitter on charges of kidnapping him. Miguel Morin will be reunited with his mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, possibly later this week, pending a DNA test, a Houston television station reported on Wednesday. Champion-Morin, of Houston, says she never gave up hope that she would find her child. “I prayed every night that he was safe, loved and he would come home one day,” Champion-Morin told the Texas station. The sitter,...
read moreMedical examiner seeks public’s help on IDs (VA)
Do you know these men? All three were found dead in Richmond under suspicious circumstances over a period of years and have never been identified. They are among 220 sets of remains that Virginia’s chief medical examiner hopes to put names to in an initiative seeking the public’s help. “We have skeletal remains that go back to 1960s still archived in our offices, waiting for somebody to come forward and to be able to identify these folks and return them to their loved ones,” said Dr. Leah Bush, the chief medical...
read moreStill Missing: Antonio Yarnell Taylor (TN)
It was a Monday morning, and Antonio Taylor, 21, had a job interview just after lunchtime. He ironed his shirt and laid his clothes on the bed. His mother, Rochelle Adams, was going to pick him up later and take him to the appointment. He had big plans, and today was the first step in making it all happen. He was going to get his GED, go back to school and train to be a professional barber. What was most important to him were his boys. They needed him, and he wanted them to be proud of him someday. He got a phone call from his friend Barry...
read moreMissing Mother of Five: April Michelle Pickens (NC)
UPDATE #2: A local family and police are asking for help in locating a woman who’s been missing since December. April Pickens, 29, was last seen Dec. 26 near her home at Pisgah View Apartments. The woman, described by family members as outgoing and humorous, has five children between 1 and 10 years old. “She’s never done this before,” said her sister, Kimya Pickens. “Her children are here, and her family is here. It’s just shocking to us.” Family members are distributing fliers with information about April...
read moreThe Brown Family Mystery (FL)
Carolyn Brown was married to James Michael Brown in 1985. They had three children together: Sheketah, Barry and Brandon. Carolyn and James had been married for ten years and were employed as teachers. The family resided in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The entire family disappeared on July 16, 1985. Carolyn’s mother called police in August, worried because she had not heard from her daughter or her daughter’s husband or children since July 4. Investigators did go to the Brown home but were initially unconcerned, as there were no obvious...
read moreMissing: The Thompson Family (Chicago, IL)
The Thompson family was last seen in Chicago, Illinois on July 5, 1996. Everett Thompson owner of Eat and Company, a Park Manor neighborhood business, was last seen on July 5, 1996 by one of his employees. On that July afternoon in 1996 Thompson’s father phoned his son, Everett, at the Chicago restaurant the younger man owned. The elder Thompson recalled that he also broached the topic of his son’s quarrelsome brother-in-law, an ex-convict, and a freeloading house guest of Everett and his wife, Lydia Thompson. Everett interrupted...
read moreExtensive search unsuccessful for Ashani Creighton (FL)
The body of a girl who disappeared in 1997 and who authorities had said might be buried beneath a Tulsa strip mall was not found Monday despite an extensive search. Orange County, Fla., deputies, Tulsa police officers and scientists began looking on Sunday for signs of Ashani Karin Creighton’s body beneath a parking lot and the building that houses Kang’s Institute of TaeKwon-Do, a bakery outlet store, and other businesses just north of 61st Street and Mingo Road. Authorities believe that Ashani was buried sometime in 1999 on land...
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