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It’s about putting the pieces together…sooner than later…

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Kudos to Los Angeles’s cold case unit and Detective Mitzi Roberts and forensic artist Marilyn Droz for trying to help a family find this missing loved one.
But what took so long? This young woman’s body was found in 1994!
40,000 unidentified bodies in the U.S. and 105,000 missing persons cases. A whole lot of potential matches [...]

It’s about some of the oddest knowledge gaps…

Monday, February 1st, 2010

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=11909770

State Authorities Work to Get Wider Missing-Child Alerts
Posted: Jan 31, 2010 4:36 PM CST Updated: Feb 01, 2010 9:26 AM CST

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An Amber Alert for Aja said she was believed to be in the company of her stepfather, Lester Hobbs.

Associated Press
GERONIMO, OK — The lack of any sighting in Oklahoma of a missing [...]

It’s about the stuff I didn’t know…

Friday, January 29th, 2010

So, a few years ago, I had this idea for The Garden for the Missing in Second Life.  I envisioned a lot of posters of missing people, and hoped that I could do my small part to possibly help locate some of them.
It wasn’t until I met people who are searching for their loved ones, [...]