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Eyewitness News got details Friday of a working theory held by investigators that little Caylee may have drowned in the family swimming pool. A source close to the investigation revealed only to Channel 9 a working theory of the crime involving Caylee drowning and what may have happened next. The source said some investigators believe a flurry of phone calls from Casey to her parents on June 16 could be an indication that whatever happened to Caylee happened that day. On that day, Casey and Caylee were last seen together by Caylee's grandfather George at the Anthony family home where...

After a weekend filled with talk, things have gone silent again in the case of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony, who has been missing since early June. Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, remains jailed. She's charged with child neglect and lying to authorities after her mother reported the toddler missing. Today, Casey's brother Lee literally ran from reporters after visiting Casey at the Orange County Jail. They wanted know know more about claims he made to the media over the weekend that his sister gave him the names of friends who know Caylee's alleged baby sitter, Zenaida Gonzalez. "Two particular people that introduced...

Similar human decomposition smells found in a yard and a car during a search for a missing Orlando girl indicate the source may have been moved, investigators said Wednesday. A search for Caylee Anthony, 2, continued Wednesday despite questions about whether the girl is still alive. Last week, cadaver dogs searched the Orange County back yard of Cindy and George Anthony for signs of their missing granddaughter, who was not reported missing for five weeks. During the search, cadaver dogs found the smell of human decomposition in the yard, Local 6 learned. The dogs also hit on the same smell...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A woman accused of not reporting her daughter missing for five weeks refused to answer a judge's question of where her daughter was in a bizarre missing person case that continues to frustrate investigators. Casey Anthony, 22, was taken into custody Wednesday after her daughter's grandparents called Orange County sheriff's deputies over concerns about the well-being of Caylee Marie Anthony, 2. Detectives said when they contacted Casey Anthony it was determined that she apparently never told anyone that Caylee has been missing for more than a month. Thursday, Judge John Jordan asked Anthony where her daughter...

UPDATE: Sheriff holds another press conference Thursday afternoon on missing person case By Todd G. HigdonDaily News Staff Writer In the sixth day of the search for missing Rowan Ford, 9 of Stella, Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland informed the media at 3 p.m., Thursday, that Ford has not been found. "We have covered a lot of ground, followed up a lot of leads," said Copeland. "From day one, we were in assistance with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Today, they offered assistance with another 25 personnel." That brings personnel to 75 outside agency agents and officers. Law enforcements personnel...

Copeland suspects foul play in child's disappearance By John Ford / Daily News Managing EditorPublished: Monday, November 5, 2007 4:34 PM CSTE-mail this story | Print this page Rowan Ford, 9, has been missing from her home in Stella since Friday evening. If you have any information about her, please call the Newton County Sheriff's Office at 451-8300 or 451-4242. COURTESY PHOTO Foul play is suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old Stella girl who has been missing from her home since late Friday night. Rowan Ford, 9, was reported missing at 6:50 p.m. Saturday by her mother and step-father...

CINCINNATI — Investigators recovered 18 bone fragments near an old chimney where investigators believe the body of a developmentally disabled 3-year-old foster child was burned, a county coroner said Thursday. The boy's foster parents, charged with killing him, pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder. The bone fragments were from a child 2 to 4 years old, said Dr. O'dell Owens, the Hamilton County coroner. Each was less than inch long and found in soil in rural Brown County, east of Cincinnati. "The DNA that is being processed came from a small piece of tissue that was found," Owens said. Authorities...

Salt Lake City police officers have found the body of missing 5-year-old Destiny Norton in the basement of a home in her neighborhood and have arrested the man living there, police Chief Chris Burbank announced. The body was found at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Burbank said The man being held for investigation of homicide was identified as Craig Roger Gregerson. Earlier Monday, police had issued a sketch of a man seen driving a black Dodge pickup with a girl who looked like 5-year-old Destiny Norton. Burbank told a news conference Monday night that the leads on Gregerson and on the man...

Behzad Mofrad stole the wrong name. Of all the identities he could have chosen to steal, he chose that of Kevin Andrew Collins, a child abducted from a San Francisco street corner 22 years ago today. The name meant nothing to Mofrad, who had no idea Collins' abduction drew national attention and the boy was among the first whose picture would appear on milk cartons across the country. "He really made a serious error in choosing this name," said Thomas Depenbrock, regional special agent in charge of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, which investigates passport fraud. Mofrad, a 40-year-old...

Sierra Turner-James, who turns 3 next month, was taken early Sunday by Michael James, police said. The 2-foot-5, 60-pound Sierra was last seen on Dorado Drive in Kissimmee and is believed to be in danger, authorities said. She was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt and a pink skirt. Michael James, whose relationship to the child wasn't immediately announced, is 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds. From the Kissimmee Police Dept. News Release: ….The suspect, identified as 28 year old Michael Ruben James, allegedly broke into the apartment through a kitchen window. The noise of the breaking glass alerted an adult male...

Amber Alert Issued for 8 Year old Nevada Girl Posted: Saturday July 23, 2005 10:06 AM CT The Lion county Sheriff's office and the state of Nevada issued the Amber Alert after the child was abducted Friday. Lydia Bethany-Rose Rupp 8 year old female. She's 4 feet 9 inches tall, 85 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. The suspect is Aguerro, Fernando P. (AKA Gonzales, Fernando) who is a Hispanic male approximately 48 years of age. He is 6 foot 1 inch tall and 175 pounds. He has black and gray hair and brown eyes. He's slim build with...

Amber Alert Issued for 6 Year Old Tennessee Boy Posted: Sunday July 17 6:41 PM CT The Carter County Sheriff's Office and the state of Tennessee issued the Amber Alert on Sunday afternoon after the child was last seen in the intersection of Oliver Hollow And Highway 321 on Saturday afternoon about 5 PM. Charles Dillon Johnson, 6 years old. He was last seen wearing an orange Tennessee Vols, orange sweatpants and no shoes. He has silver caps on his front teeth. He is 4 feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He...

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FLOYD, IA — A massive search resumed on Saturday for 5-year-old Evelyn Miller. Ten investigators from the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation were interviewing anyone connected with the small child, including those living in her apartment building, said Sheriff Rick Lynch. "We need to rule everyone out," he said at noon Saturday. "Right now, we have no clue what happened to her." More than 100 volunteers from all over northeast and north central Iowa searched the corn and soybean fields surrounding the apartment building, located two miles south of Floyd. Search planes and even horses from Osage were being utilized....

PARK CITY, Utah — Search and rescue crews are looking for an 11-year-old boy who hasn't been seen since last night at a Summit County (search) scout camp. Few details are available. The Summit County Sheriff's office says the search is still going on this morning. The boy was last seen yesterday at the camp near the east fork of the Bear Lake River (search). The sprawling, eastern Utah county includes the rugged Uinta Mountains, where 12-year-old Boy Scout Garrett Bardsley (search) was lost last summer.

Kidnapped girl and suspected abductor found in Arkansas Dan Viens Web Producer Created: 6/10/2005 8:36 AM MDT - Updated: 6/10/2005 11:10 AM MDT CLARK COUNTY, Ark. - A girl kidnapped in Michigan and her suspected abductor were found in Clark County Arkansas Friday. Authorities believed they may have been heading to Colorado. Fourteen-year-old Nicole Poddig is now with authorities in Arkansas. Her suspected abductor, 28-year-old Jamie Channer, has been taken into custody. Law enforcement officials say Poddig was taken at gunpoint from Michigan by Channer. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation put out an alert Friday that they may be headed...

Story just breaking: Amber Alert is for: Margarita Lopez, 12 yrs. old. Suspect is an acquaintance of the guardian of the girl. Family are not US citizens and are from Mexico. Florida police have a description of the car. Suspect is a man named "Perez" who might be trying to return to Mexico, also not a US citizen. Feeling is that she might be in danger; authorities do not believe the child left willingly as she did not know the suspect.

Missing person ping.MISSINGSARAH MICHELLE LUNDE    Missing from her home Sunday.  She is 13 yrs. old. 5' 2''.  Brown hair. Hazel eyes. 170 lbs. Sarah has a green half cast on her left hand/forearm. If you have any information on where Sarah is, please call the Hillsborough Co. Sheriff @ 813-247-8200 or call 911! To volunteer in her search, please call 813-247-0455. Come home soon, Sarah, you are missed! Florida FReepers please be especially alert. Blessings,trussell  If you want on/off my missing person ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

CRYSTAL RIVER - Too weary to walk, the father and grandparents of a missing 9-year-old girl drove the 50 yards from their home to a bank of microphones and TV cameras. "I really ... I really need as much help as I can right now," Mark Lunsford said between sobs. "I need my daughter home." Jessica Marie Lunsford was reported missing Thursday morning. She was still missing when Lunsford, 41, and his parents addressed the media for the first time at 9 a.m. Friday. And she was still missing long after darkness fell and well-wishers held candles and prayed. For...

Homosassa Florida USA Team Amber Alert--A missing child alert has just been issued regarding a missing child in Homosassa FL. the citrus county sheriff's office and the florida department of law enforcement are looking for jessica lunsford who was last seen wearing a pink nightgown and white shorts. the child was last seen in the area of south sonata drive and is believed to be in danger.A missing child alert has been issued for 9 year old Jesssica Lunsford she is a white female height 4'11 weight 70 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. If you have any information...

Amber Alert Issued for 6 Year Old California Girl Posted: Monday January 31 2:28 AM CT The Rialto Police Department and the California Highway Patrol issued the Amber Alert after the child was abducted during a car jacking on Sunday night. Akira Hernandez , 6 yrs., Hispanic female, 3', 45 lbs. with black hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink hat, black/white scarf, multi colored striped sweater and blue jeans. There is no suspect information at this time. The vehicle is a white 99 ford escort station wagon with California tag 4 NCT 041. Anyone with...

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Crothersville Indiana are searching for a missing 10 year-old girl who is believed to have been Abducted some time late Tuesday. Police are asking for the public help in locating a missing 10 year-old Katie Collman. She is a white female who stands 4feet 6inches tall, weighing 100 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Amber Alert Issued for Two North Carolina ChildrenPosted: Saturday January 15 1:28 PM CT The Watauga County Sheriff's office and the North Carolina Department of Crime Control issued the Amber Alert after the children were abducted at gunpoint on Saturday afternoon. Paul Canter, 2 yrs., white male, 2'7", 28 lbs with blond hair and blue eyes. Paul was wearing blue overalls and a long sleeve shirt. Brianna Canter, 11 mos., 2'3", 18 lbs and is wearing a flowered long sleeve shirt. Police say their father James Canter and their mother abducted them at gunpoint. The suspects are considered armed...

Amber Alert Issued for 2 Year Old California BoyPosted: Friday January 7 7:44 PM CT The LAPD and the California Highway Patrol issued the Amber Alert after the boy was abducted by force in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon. Jason Murdock-Steel, 2 yrs., white male, 3'1", 28 lbs with blond hair and blue eyes. Police are looking for three suspects. A white female, 30 to 35 years old, 5'7", 130 lbs. wearing a long blue coat. Also, a white male, 200 lbs, 30 to 35 years and heavy set. Also an oriental male, 6'2", 30 to 35 years, large...

The search for 9-year-old Logan Mitcheltree continued Sunday in South Williams, but as of 11:30 p.m. officials had found no signs of the boy, despite hundreds of volunteers having combed every inch of the borough since he went missing Saturday. Logan, of 1195 Main St., was last seen running east at Market Street and Southern Avenue at around 5 p.m. Saturday, borough Police Chief Rexford Lowmiller said. He was wearing a long-sleeved gray shirt, blue jeans and brown slippers. He is 4 feet tall, weighs 55 pounds, has short, reddish-blond hair and dark brown eyes. The youth is autistic and...

FRIENDS, I NEED YOUR HELP! Our close acquaintances, which we have known for many years and were of great help to us when we moved back to California recently, are the Grandparents of little Jonathan who is the victim of a Family Abduction, by the mother. All the pertinent information is on the National Center for Missing and Expolited Children site, and his name is JONATHAN RICHARD ELLIS. If you could take a few minutes to read it, and possibly print it out and distribute it to merchants or bulletin boards in stores that you frequent, it would be greatly...

<p>PHILADELPHIA — Luz Cuevas took one look at the dimpled, dark-haired little girl at a birthday party and instantly knew two things: She was watching her own daughter — declared dead in a 1997 fire — and she needed a way to prove it.</p>

(Lexington S.C.) Feb. 6, 2004 - The Lexington County Sheriff's Department is asking the public for help in locating an 11-year-old boy, who was last seen about 3:30pm Friday when he got off a school bus at a St. Andrews apartment complex where he lives. Sheriff James Metts said detectives are concerned for the safety of Anthony Blake Walker because of his age and the fact that it is out of character for him not to go straight home after getting off the school bus. He says it's also is out of character for Walker not to contact his mother....

With all the coverage about the missing ND student Dru Sjodin, I am reminded of a little girl that has been missing since June 14th 2003, also from Minnesota...... I have copied the information off the website (www.findbeaner.org): It reads: Leanna 'Beaner' Warner was last seen Saturday, June 14th around 5:00 pm in Chisholm, MN and was wearing a dark blue sleeveless denim dress and was barefoot. She is 3 feet tall and has brown eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. She left her home, 19 S.W. Second St. in Chisholm, about 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Anyone who may have seen Leanna...

The Donora Boro Police Department, Washington County, Pennsylvania, has reported an Amber Child Abduction Alert. The Donora Boro Police Department are searching for Devin Megela, a white male child, seven months of age wearing blue pajamas and a blue jacket with red hood. At approximately 8:45 this evening the child was in a blue Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck with PA reg. YMM1195 when the vehicle was stolen from a Unimart convenience store located along PA route 837 in Donora Borough, Washington County. The blue Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was last seen traveling south on PA route 837 in Donora Borough....

Amber Alert Issued for 15 Year Old California Girl The Los Angeles County Sheriff's department issued the Amber Alert after the girl was taken from her mothers car at gunpoint in Gardena on Saturday October 4. Ashley Landry She is a Black female, 15 yrs., 5'6", 135 lbs. Last seen wearing green shirt green pants. Ashley was in her mother's vehicle when the suspect's vehicle pulled along side. The passenger got out of the suspect's vehicle, pointed a gun at the mother and ordered the victim out of her mother's car. Police are looking for a Black male, 18 yrs,,...

Amber Alert Issued for 14 Month Old Colorado Boy The Lafayette, Colorado police issued the Amber Alert after the boy's father beat his custodial mother and threatened the child on Saturday morning the 27th. Jayton Dentler Abducted in Lafayette Colorado on Saturday morning Sept. 27 at 9:30 a.m. He is a 14 month old male and was dressed in a red and white striped shirt and a diaper. Police are looking for Jacob Dentler, 23 yrs., white with brown hair and hazel eyes, 6' 6", 250 pounds. Last seen wearing jeans and no shirt and driving a green Ford F-250...

Fellow Freepers, A good friend has an associate whose son recently disappeared in the St. Louis area. Could be anywhere in the country now. Don't have many facts. You can see one of the flyers Here. It is an Adobe PDF file. Thanks!!

NORTHPORT | Family, friends and police came and went Wednesday, but no one brought the news Beth Lowery was waiting to hear. Lowery sat in the parking lot of her mobile home in Willowbrook Trailer Park for hours, hoping that the youngest of her three children would return. Last seen by family members at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Heaven LaShae Ross, 11, disappeared somewhere between her home and a bus stop about 50 yards away on Hunter Creek Road. “It’s like a black hole opened up and swallowed her," said family friend Debbie Rogers. Lowery said her daughter was abducted and...

AMBER Alert Miramar, FL Lorena Montano is three year old white female with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes. She weighs approximately 30 to 35 lbs and was last seen wearing sleepwear. She was taken by her mother from 177 AVE in Miramar, FL. Nora Montano, the mother, is a Hispanic female 32 years of age with brown eyes and hair. She is believed to be driving a blue Infiniti with a partial tag number J30 or tag number of DI386K and possibly in the company of her ex husband Jose Montano. If you have any information please contact the...

The parents of 5-year-old Leanna Warner say they are keeping their hopes up as the search for their missing daughter enters its 10th day. ......

Amber Alert Issued Wednesday June 11 Christian Ferguson9 yrs., 4', 75 lbs, black male with light complexion with a short afro hairstyle. Christian is severely mentally challenged and may be dressed only in a diaper and wrapped in a multicolored blanket. He is on a special diet and requires medication twice a day or he may slip into a coma. He was in his parents car in St. Louis MO US at about 6:30 AM on Wed. June 11 when it was stolen. The vehicle has been recovered but Christian is still missing. Anyone with information is asked to call...

<p>Modesto police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding a 13-year-old girl who may have been abducted from her aunt's house.</p> <p>Maria Rodriguez disappeared between midnight and 4 a.m. Tuesday -- also missing was her aunt's friend, Regino Bautista, a man in his 40s who was staying at the house while his car was being repaired, according to Modesto Sgt. Chris Fuzie.</p>

KING: All right, let's talk about the Elizabeth Smart case, which the media has kind of left now. What is your best read on that tragedy in Utah? WALSH: I spent yesterday by coincidence with Ed and Lois Smart. I had them on "The John Walsh Show" to kind of give an update to the case. You know, Ricci, the guy that was the main suspect, died in prison of an aneurysm. He's the guy that was the handyman at the house that put 1,000 miles on his pickup truck during the two days that she was missing. He was...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles police late Monday re-issued an "Amber Alert" in the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from a city park about 24 hours earlier.</p> <p>Police issued the first "Amber Alert" for Jessica Cortez when they suspected she had been abducted from Echo Park on Sunday. Then officers reclassified the disappearance as a missing child case, believing that she had drowned in the park's lake.</p>

FORT STOCKTON, Texas (AP) — The body of a 4-year-old boy who was reported missing was found Friday on his family's property near Fort Stockton. Pecos County Sheriff Cliff Harris said the body of Schyler Fain was discovered in the trunk of a car at the residence. Investigators are trying to determine whether foul play was involved in the death. The shoeless boy disappeared Monday morning from outside his grandparents' home. That led to a search by dozens of volunteers on foot and horseback, with help from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter.

Young Chinese Girl Missing After Landing at SFO Source: kcbs Publication date: 2002-08-02 (KCBS) - A countywide search is underway for a missing 12-year-old Chinese girl, who was last seen at San Francisco International Airport Thursday afternoon. KCBS reporter Bob Melrose said 12-year old Yukun Jia of Beijing has not been seen since 2pm Thursday, when she and the group she was with cleared customs at San Francisco International Airport. The tour group did not report her missing until sometime after 5pm, when they realized she was not with them during a tour of Stanford University. Police say that...

FORT STOCKTON — Holly Johnson tries to hold back tears as she describes her 4-year-old grandson as “ornery, mischievous” and just your “typical little boy.” While Johnson waited with the rest of the family, Schyler Lee Fain’s mother, Julie Fain, spent Wednesday putting fliers on cars throughout town. The fliers had a picture of her brown-haired, brown-eyed son holding his football. The word “MISSING” was printed in red across the top. For two and a half days, the family, along with volunteers and several law enforcement agencies, searched for Schyler throughout the hot and rugged West Texas terrain. On Wednesday,...

About 150 searchers fought stormy weather to look for a 4-year-old Pecos boy Monday evening after he was reported missing. Schyler Lee Fain was last seen a little before 11 a.m., Department of Public Safety officials said. He was in the care of his grandmother. Fort Stockton police, Pecos County Sheriff’s deputies, DPS troopers, a DPS seargent and a DPS helicopter all helped in the search for the missing boy. Fain was last known to be wearing a Navy blue Nike T-shirt with white letters and a red Nike Swoosh and underwear. The boy was believed to be barefooted. Officials...

Amber Alert issued for missing 2-year-old in Kansas City A 2-year-old girl was reported missing about 4:30 p.m. today, and Kansas City police have issued an Amber Alert, seeking information on her whereabouts. Police said the girl, Jenna Morrin, had been playing with an older sibling in an apartment in the 4100 block of Oak Street, while their mother was cleaning a carpet in another room. When the woman checked on the children, the older one told her that the girl was gone. The apartment is a few blocks west of Gillham Park in midtown Kansas City. Jenna is white,...

Hundreds attend girl's funeral People came from as far away as Beaumont to attend Dannariah Finley's funeral and help her family say goodbye to her. "My heart would just burst if I went in there," said Christian Ash of Beaumont, who stood across the street from Mount Zion Baptist Church when the services were going on. Dannariah was discovered missing from her home July 4 by her mother Jamie Arnold around 10 a.m. and reported missing to police after a three-hour search of relatives turned up nothing. Her disappearance sparked massive searches by hundreds of volunteers the following Saturday and...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A Brazilian man living in Greenwich gave police information leading to the body of a 13-year-old Danbury girl missing since Friday afternoon, police said Monday. Authorities said the two had apparently met over the Internet. The man, identified by the Danbury mayor's office as Saul Dos Reis, 25, was taken into custody by the FBI Sunday morning. The body of Christina Long was discovered in Greenwich early Monday using information provided by Dos Reis, officials said. She was last seen Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall. After a search of the mall and the surrounding area,...

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The search for a 2-year-old San Diego boy, reported missing from a playground a week ago, turned sinister Thursday with reports of glaring inconsistencies in his stepfather's version of events. Police declined comment on local media reports that fingerprint tests had failed to find any evidence of the child having played at the site recently, or that his stepfather had taken a lie detector test and "failed miserably". "We have not commented on details of the investigation in the past and we're not going to start today," police spokesman Dave Cohen said. The search for...

San Diego police have concluded that 2-year-old Jahi Turner and his stepfather did not visit a Balboa Park playground the day the stepfather reported the child missing. Police have discounted the story of the stepfather, Tieray Jones, because of inconsistencies in his account of what happened and because results of a lie-detector test indicated deception by Jones, said county law enforcement sources familiar with the case. Jones, 23, told police he left Jahi in the play area at 28th and Cedar streets last Thursday while he walked to a soda machine 100 yards away, then returned 15 minutes later to...