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A Massachusetts woman who disappeared late last month was found Monday at a state park, where authorities said she had been trapped in a muddy area for at least three days. Emma Tetewsky, who was reported missing on June 26, was rescued from a swampy area inside Borderland State Park, Easton and Stoughton police said in a joint statement. Hikers inside the Easton park said they heard a woman screaming for help but were unable to reach her so they called 911 at about 6 p.m. Monday. Easton police officers who arrived on the scene heard Tetewsky’s desperate calls for...

A woman has been found after she went missing for five days in the Victorian, Australia bushland with nothing but “a couple of snacks” and her “common sense”. Lillian, 48, set off on what was meant to be a short day trip on Sunday, traveling through the dense bushland at Bright in Victoria’s High Country. Incredible footage has revealed the moment she was found by emergency services on Friday during a search of the hilly terrain, after her car was spotted at the end of a dirt road in the Mitta Mitta bushland. Lillian had been driving towards Dartmouth Dam...

A missing Texas woman was found alive last week in a Jeep that plunged into a lake and was almost entirely submerged, police said. The unidentified woman had been missing from Longview when she was found inside the black vehicle in Lake o’ the Pines on Friday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Pictures from the scene show the hood of the Jeep just barely visible above the water about 40 feet from the shore. The sheriff’s office’s statement said that a fisherman alerted authorities to the vehicle in the morning. Police arrived at the scene about 18 minutes later,...

Hollie Marie Clouse would now be 41 years old. The Florida infant was barely a year old in 1980 when her parents, newlyweds Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and Tina Gail Linn, uprooted their small family and headed to Houston for a job opportunity. A few months later, the couple’s families stopped hearing from them. They never saw them again. Now, with the help of genetic genealogists, authorities have identified a murdered couple found in a wooded area of Harris County the following January as Clouse and Linn. There remains one problem, however. “The closure of these cases has led to...

Trees and wildflowers blossom during all four seasons in Kunming, which is known as The City of Eternal Spring because of its year-round mild temperatures. However, it is also home to something much less natural: a laboratory where scientists have been creating monkey embryos with a mutated gene so that, when born, they will age unusually fast. Such experiments are done to study human diseases such as autism, cancer, Alzheimer's and muscular dystrophy.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman who was reported missing on March 3 was rescued from a storm drain Tuesday, authorities said. The unidentified woman, believed to be in her 40s, was found naked and trapped in a storm drain in Delray Beach. Someone passing by heard her cries for help and called 911, officials said. Firefighters responded and removed the storm grate, lowered down a ladder and lifted the woman to safety. “She was unable to stand up,” Delray Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Dani Moschella told WPLG. “She didn’t have any clothes on. She was very dirty....

Pvt. 1st Class Vanessa Guillen was last seen around 1 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of her Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters, 3rd Cavalry Regiment on Fort Hood. Her car keys, barracks room key, identification card and wallet were later found in the armory room where she was working earlier in the day, according to the Fort Hood Press Center release. Guillen was described as of Hispanic descent, 5 feet, 2 inches tall, 126 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black T-shirt

CENTRALIA, Wash. - Lewis County authorities are seeking the public's help in locating a 33-year-old Centralia woman who has disappeared under unusual circumstances and may be suffering from postpartum depression, according to her family.oher Elizabeth Pham, a mother of three, reportedly left her home on Saturday morning and was last seen later that day getting out of a taxi and then ordering a meal at a restaurant at Exit 59 off Interstate 5, about 20 miles south of Chehalis, said Chief Stacy Brown of the Lewis County Sheriff's Office. Pham was wearing only socks, purple pajama pants and a pink-and-red...

The body of an aspiring actress has been found in the water tank in the Mexico City apartment block where she lived, one year after she disappeared. Psychology graduate Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza, 27, vanished in February last year, and friends and family feared she had been kidnapped by human traffickers and sold as a sex slave. Ms Esparza's severely decayed body was discovered in the tank after residents in the building complained that the drinking water tasted funny.

Missing Woman Found Alive Authorities Make Announcement Wednesday Afternoon POSTED: 3:44 pm CDT July 25, 2007

Missing Person: Francine Tate (flyer and photo)

Authorities in Jefferson County announced Wednesday morning that a new task force comprised of 17 police officers is taking over the investigation of a missing pregnant woman last seen Sunday evening. Lt. Col. Steven Meinberg said the task force met for the first time at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The announcement was made at morning press conference that was supposed to be held at the main meeting room of the sheriff’s office. The briefing had to moved outdoors, because the task force has taken over the meeting room to accommodate officers assigned to the unit from five other Jefferson County police...

GALVESTON - A Houston-area woman reported missing from a Carnival cruise ship was not the victim of foul play or an accidental fall, Houston FBI agents determined Sunday after interviewing her husband and other passengers. "We had agents on the ship and concluded there was no foul play involved," said Agent Luz Garcia, a spokeswoman for the FBI. "I can't really go into detail out of respect for the family, but our feeling is that it was not an accident." Family members last saw Vonnie Ales, 40, of Simonton, about 6:45 a.m. Friday when she left their cabin, after the...

Press Conference just concluded: According to the Duluth Police Chief, Jennifer purchased bus ticket for Austin TX a week before to take her on the 26th to Austin, TX. She rode the bus and then changed the bus to Dallas TX, then onto Las Vegas for a few days. Then she took another bus to New Mexico. Then contacted her fiancee, collect. When the Duluth GA Chief of Police spoke with her on the phone she did say she had been kidnapped (and gave details). Up to that point the sheriff said she had not broken any laws. Giving a...

(Brownsville, IN)--A gruesome discovery near Brownsville in Union County...The body of a missing woman was found late Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area off of Brownsville Road about a mile north of State Route 44. The body has already been identified as that of 20-year-old Julie Homick of Middleburg Heights, Ohio. Middleburg Heights is a suburb of Cleveland. A passer-by noticed the body lying not far from the East Fork of the Whitewater River. She was reported missing from the Cleveland area on February 2nd. Her abandoned car was found in Fayette County one day later. The Fayette County Sheriff's...

Body of Janice Brady found Family grieve after eight months of searching By Juliette Rule rep9@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Eight months after Janice Brady was reported missing, her car and body have been found in Weld County, Colo., just 12 miles from her front door. The Cheyenne woman was reported missing May 17 when she didn't return home after visiting her husband, Terrance, in Greeley, Colo. She was being treated for a heart condition, and feeling ill, decided to head home. It was thought that she took county roads to make her way back, presumably to...

Peterson: 'It's Been Incredibly Brutal' Missing Woman's Husband Speaks With Local Reporters POSTED: 5:28 p.m. PST January 29, 2003 UPDATED: 6:28 p.m. PST January 29, 2003 MODESTO, Calif. -- Under suspicion by the public and under scrutiny by the police, Scott Peterson spoke out again Wednesday about his missing pregnant wife, Laci, and again said he had nothing to do with her disappearance on Christmas Eve. It was in a national interview Tuesday with ABC's Dianne Sawyer that Peterson first spoke at length about the case and his affair with a Fresno woman, On Wednesday he spoke again, this time...

Man linked to missing woman, girl kills self 01/11/2003 By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News Authorities are unraveling the links among a suicide in a Grand Prairie motel this week, two missing people and a bloody trailer found in Central Texas. The man who committed suicide, James D. Clinton, was wanted for questioning in the disappearances of his wife and her daughter. Gay W. Clinton, 43, and her daughter, Samantha R. Clinton, 14, were reported missing Dec. 21 after relatives couldn't reach them. At 8:40 a.m. Thursday, Mr. Clinton, 50, of Centerville in Leon County, called 911...

FBI compiles 'victimology' of missing wife 01/02/2003 Associated Press PORT ALLEN, La. - An FBI agent working with the West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's office spent eight hours Tuesday putting together a "victimology" on the missing wife of former Louisiana Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler. A victimology is a profile detailing all the likes and habits of a victim, said West Baton Rouge Parish Chief Deputy Mike Cazes. It is designed to help investigators figure out why anyone would want to target Mari Ann Fowler, 65, who was overpowered and abducted from a strip mall parking lot Christmas Eve. Deputy...

<p>By Associated Press, 12/29/2002 04:04 MODESTO, Calif. (AP) The reward for a missing pregnant woman ballooned to $500,000 after a donation from a family friend who asked to remain anonymous.</p> <p>The man wrote a check for $375,000, quadrupling the reward for information leading to the safe return of Laci Rocha Peterson, according to a foundation coordinating the volunteer effort to find the missing woman.</p>