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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A body found slumped over machinery in a dormitory's high-voltage utility room was identified Tuesday as a 19-year-old Purdue University student who vanished in January, school officials said. A maintenance worker investigating a "pinging" sound on Monday discovered the body of Wade Steffey, a freshman who was last seen in the area Jan. 13 after he left a fraternity party. The Tippecanoe County coroner identified the body Tuesday. It appeared he tripped and fell onto a power transformer, Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said. "He is believed to have died instantly," she said. The maintenance worker had...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The parents of a missing Purdue University student on Friday (Jan. 19) announced a reward is being offered for information leading to his whereabouts. Wade S. Steffey, 19, a freshman from Bloomington, Ind., has been missing for nearly a week. Steffey, a National Merit Scholar majoring in aviation technology, was last seen early Saturday (Jan. 13). "More than 350 volunteers helped explore a large area of campus during an organized search on Thursday," said Purdue spokesperson Jeanne Norberg. "We hope this reward will generate additional interest and encourage someone to come forward with information that helps...

SAN FRANCISCO -- From the moment the girl's body was found stuffed in a duffel bag nearly four years ago, her image haunted detective Scott Dudek - her feminine pajama pants, the single ankle sock decorated with snowflakes, the butterfly clip in her hair. Yet so much was missing - she had no identification, and no one had filed a missing person report. "We had this beautiful child, and no one was coming forth to claim her," Dudek said. "But you knew instantaneously this was someone's little girl." The FBI's crime database lists about 6,000 unidentified victims nationally. Some of...

HAVE YOU SEEN AARON CHARLES DERBYSHIRE? Kelowna: RCMP seek public's assistance in locating missing 22 year old man. Aaron Derbyshire was last seen on Saturday, September 30th, 2006 at approximately 01:40 am at Level Night Club (formally known as Splashes Night Club) located on Leon Avenue in Kelowna. Aaron Derbyshire was at the club with a group of friends who last saw him went they left him inside the club to go investigate an apparent altercation outside the club. He has not been seen since. The missing man's family say that this is out of character for their son to...

http://www.nbc30.com/news/6155121/detail.html All day I considered losing my anonymity to post this, but it's too important to let it go. I have seen that Freepers are an extremely supportive bunch, so I knew this was a good idea. My brother has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and it is has been in the single digits/teens in CT since yesterday. My brother left home without his wallet, carrying just a backpack. He said he was going for a walk and never returned. My family and I are worried SICK. We need all the prayer we can get. Pray that my younger brother...

The lawyer for one of the men last seen with a Connecticut newlywed before he vanished on a Mediterranean cruise last summer said federal agents had pressured his client for information about the man's disappearance and threatened to charge him with the rape of a female passenger if he declined to cooperate. In his first extensive comments on the case, the lawyer, Albert Y. Dayan, said that his client, Rustislav Kofman, denied any role in the disappearance of the Connecticut man, George Allen Smith IV, last July 5 on a Royal Caribbean cruise or in any rape. [snip] Mr. Dayan...

Bin Laden has not been heard of since a December 27, 2004 audiotape in which he anointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq’s most wanted man, as Al Qaeda’s leader in the war-torn country HE has not issued any public statement all year. Speculation has grown over his influence, health and even possible death. Where is the Western world’s most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden? The Al Qaeda leader’s period of silence is the longest since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, offering no clues to the whereabouts or fate of a man who this year appears to have...

Has anyone heard anything at all about what may have happened to evacuees from the Fairmont Hotel on Elk Place in New Orleans? My husband and I went out to eat for our 25th anniversary tonite,here on Tyler Tx. We met and visited with a very sweet couple from Jefferson Parrish,..New Orleans.They evacuated Sunday a.m. and wound up in a hotel here...after several days of not being able to locate family members,etc. (which they have since found), they have talked to thier dad who stayed behind.His home as well as where their's is in a dry section of town. Their...

Please use this forum to post information about people missing in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Or use the search box at the top of the forum to search by name. Make sure to provide the following information: Missing Person's First Name and Last Name Neighborhood of Residence Street Address, City, State ZIP (if known) Missing Person's home phone number Missing Person's cell phone number Years at this residence Date of birth Missing Person's Physical Description Health condition Employer name and address Employer contact information When/Where last contacted How to contact person who is looking.

Missing Person Search The above line contains thousands of posts from people looking for friends and loved ones. I hope this helps. God Bless the people of New Orleans

Hello all in the Gulf coast area, Our prayers go to you all. We all know what your going through as all 7 families here in Florida went through Betsy and the 3 hurricanes last year here...God Bless you... I represent the 7 families here looking for our beloved Arieux family that resided at 153 Carr Dr in Slidell, We understand that nothing is left there, but we have not heard a word from George and Jean Arieux....Our searches on the internet and calls to the Red Cross get us nowhere right now.. We just want them to know they...

I have a friend who works with a Texas state agency that deals with missing people. To say they are frustrated by the amount of coverage Natalee Holloway, the runaway fiancee, Laci Peterson, etc., generate, while the families they work with are ignored by the MSM, would be an understatement. To quote her (she does read and post on FR, however she has deliberately refrained from participating in these missing persons discussions since it's close to her job): I can survey 20 people on the street, about a missing teen from Alabama, and many will immediately name Natalee Holloway. If...

White, Pretty, Rich: Media Biased On Missing Persons By MICHELLE BEARDEN mbearden@tampatrib.com Published: Jun 18, 2005 Bonnie Lee Dages and her 4- month-old son, Jeremy, never made national news. Their disappearance on April 28, 1993, barely made local news. The 18-year-old single mother and her son are just two more sad statistics, but not for their still-grieving family and friends. ``It's as if nobody cares. Not just about my daughter but other daughters out there who are gone,'' says Larry Dages, the Lithia father who can never forget. ``Maybe people just get tired of hearing about it.'' Yet, other missing...

A DeKalb County grand jury indicted Colvin "Butch" Hinton III on a charge of murdering Emory University student Shannon Melendi, 11Alive News first reported Monday. The indictment, announced at an afternoon news conference in which the victim's father Luis attended, came down more than 10 years after the disappearance of Shannon Melendi. Her body has never been found. Hinton is in the custody of DeKalb County authorities. Melendi was 19 at the time she vanished from a convenience store next to a DeKalb County softball field, where she worked part time and where Hinton coached a church women's softball team....

Marines, sailors help unearth evidence of Saddam's crimesSubmitted by: 1st Force Service Support GroupStory Identification #: 20048132579Story by Lance Cpl. Samuel Bard Valliere AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq (Aug. 13, 2004) -- Marines in Iraq assisted the Kuwaiti government uncover several mass graves during July to locate the bodies of 87 people missing since the Gulf War. The digs were supported by Task Force Justice, a I Marine Expeditionary Force team that helps gather evidence of war crimes committed by Saddam Hussein by unearthing remains of those killed during his regime. For one of the recoveries July 15-19, the Justice...

Please help locate my uncle. He was last seen in Joplin, MO, on April 23rd. His car was found locked and stuck up to its frame in mud off a country road south of North Platte, Nebraska. There are no clues as to his whereabouts (see article at link) If any of you live in the Western Nebraska area, I'd appreciate any information you might have.

Body thought to be that of missing woman She and her husband were last seen Feb. 12 at their capital homeKCRA photoBody thought to be that of missing woman She and her husband were last seen Feb. 12 at their capital home. By Chris Bowman -- Bee Staff Writer Published 2:15 a.m. PST Saturday, February 22, 2003 Authorities searching the Sacramento River on Friday recovered the body of a local woman believed to be that of a battered wife who vanished with her husband nine days ago. Geeta Gautam, 40, and her husband, Kishore Prasad Gautam, 42, were last seen...

Missing Girls: FBI Refuses Comment On Concrete Pad Mike Donahue, KOIN 6 News OREGON CITY, Ore. -- Oregon's FBI director won't confirm nor deny published reports that he's about to dig up the concrete pad behind Ward Weaver's home. Weaver claims that he is the FBI's top suspect in the missing Oregon City girls' case. The Portland Tribune quotes Special Agent Charles Mathews (pictured, below) as saying, "listen for the jackhammers." On Tuesday, Mathews said that the FBI has identified persons and places of interest, places that are connected to those people that will be checked out. But he refused...

Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin Missing Person Details Date Picture Updated: 4/25/2002 Name: Sabrina Fair Allen AKA: Sabrina Fair Llorens Allen Case Number: A0204004 Case Type: Involuntary - Family Abduction Last Seen in: Austin (Travis County) Last Seen on: 4/21/2002 Height: 3' 6" Weight: 35 lbs. Age Missing: 4 Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Blonde Date of Birth: 5/30/1997 Race: White Sex: Female State Missing From: Texas Country Missing From: USA Circumstances: Sabrina was last seen wearing a knee length dark blue dress. She was also wearing earrings and a small silver cross necklace. Sabrina has a mole on...

Please keep adding Elizabeth Smart updates to this thread... Remember to keep checking back to this thread today for today's developing news on the Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping. Elizabeth was taken from her home at about 1:30am on the morning of June 5th, 2002.Links Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping - Daily News & Case Discussion Threads on FreeRepublic   Day 38 Day 31 Day 23   Day 37 Day 30 Day 22   Day 36 Day 29 Day 21   Day 35 Day 28 Day 20   Day 34 Day 26/27 Day 19 Day 40 Day 33 Day 25 Day 18 Day 39...