Still Missing: Pamela J. Butler (D.C.)
Romance is for younger folks, Thelma Butler said. Until she noticed a cluster of heart-shaped red balloons on sale at a grocery store one morning, it hadn’t occurred to her that Valentine’s Day was near. To an elderly widow living alone, the occasion meant little. Never again, though, will Feb. 14 be just another day on her calendar. She waited that Saturday in her small house in Southwest Washington. And she waited and waited. Her daughter Pam Butler, 47, had called two days earlier, saying that she and her boyfriend, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, wanted to treat her to a...
Read MoreStolen from his mother: Where is David Ezelle Blockett? (VA)
A Newport News family is still searching for answers. Over 30 years ago, David Ezelle Blockett was stolen from his mother by a woman who posed as a social worker. He was 15 days old when a woman stole him and never looked back. David’s hospital photo was the only one that his older brother Frederick had to hold on to for 30 years. “When you have your brother snatched from you, you gonna think about him,” says Frederick. The story of these separated siblings begins at a Newport News home on 13th street on December 11, 1980. Nineteen-year-old Vanessa, the boys’ mother, was inside the...
Read MoreLatasha Nevitt, mother of three, vanished without a trace (CHICAGO)
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A//blackandmissing.org/2011/10/latasha-nevitt-mother-of-three-vanished-without-a-trace-chicago/&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light It’s been two weeks since a 30-year-old South Side mother of three dropped out of sight. Latasha Nevitt was last seen walking to a convenience store five blocks from her home in the 1300 block of West 107th Street, CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports. On Oct. 10, the...
Read MoreMissing Mondays: 5 months pregnant Cheri Dawson is missing!
When Laci Peterson went missing, the world seemed to stop. The 7 and a half months missing pregnant woman became a household name everywhere, grabbing the hearts of Americans. “Who would take a pregnant woman!” was probably the thought that was on the minds of men and women alike. But despite the ongoing and national attention she received, her case was under fire when Latoyia Figueroa, another missing pregnant woman, went missing a few years later. The subject was “media bias in the reporting of missing women” and it was causing uproar across the nation. Figueroa, who was Hispanic...
Read MoreJahessye Shockley’s mother claims media attention is endangering family
A vigil was held Saturday evening for 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley who has been missing now for 11 days from her Glendale apartment. But moments prior to the vigil, Jahessye Shockley’s mother made some angry statements that seemed to contradict their prior attempts to get more media attention to the case. “You put all this negative media out there. I was trying to get away from my ex-husband. Now he knows exactly where to find me. I hope you’re happy,” Jerice Hunter lashed out as we attempted to ask her about her daughter. She would not clairfy or elaborate further...
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