Lance Webb: Child missing from Missouri Found

UPDTE 3/9/14 - Sheriff Ron Long says both have being located in Galion, Ohio.   Wetherall is in custody and charged with felony child kidnapping. Bond was set at $250,000.

Previous story:  Lance Webb, 4, is missing from his Buckhorn home in Missouri.  Authorities believe that Lance may be with Christopher Wetherall, 30, an acquaintance of Lance's mom.

Wetherall was given a power of attorney to care for Lance but it was revoked on March 5 by the child's grandparents. 

It is believe that the mother is at Basic Combat Training.

The two may be traveling in a black and silver two-toned Dodge Ram 2500 Quad Cab with a gray camper shell. The truck has customized diamond steel bumpers with Colorado license plate 377CQ.

Wetherall is 5'98" tall, 200 pounds, with red hair and blue eyes.

Lance is 36 inches tall, 40 pounds with dark blond hair and hazel eyes with a scar on the right side of his mouth and two scars under his left eye and a cast on his left leg.

If you have any information please contact the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department at 573-774-6196.

Karla Villagra Garzon: Missing from New Jersey

Karla Villagra-Garzon, 33, from Elizabeth, N.J. has been missing since Feb. 24.  She was last leaving her home to go to the Walgreens on 600 Newark Avenue where she was picking up some medicine for her two-year-old child.

Surveillance video from the store does not show that she was ever there.  Her husband reported her missing the following morning.

Karla is 5 feet tall, 120 pounds, long black hair, brown eyes and she was wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans and black rain boots.

If you have any information, please call the Elizabeth Police Dept. at 908-558-2111.

Emanuel Menz: Autistic toddler taken during supervised visit

Emanuel Menz was last seen in the 3200 block of Ferdon Boulevard in Crestview, Fla. according to the alert from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Crestview police stated that Emanuel has autism and he was taken during a supervised visit from the Burger King on South Ferdon Blvd. He may be with Karl Menz or Virginia Lynch.

Karl Menz

Virginia Lynch

He was wearing a blue jacket, blue denim coveralls and a long sleeved shirt and may be in the company of Karl Menz, 50, a 6-foot-2 white male with brown hair and brown eyes and Virginia Lynch, 49, a 4-foot-11 Asian female with black hair and brown eyes.

They may be traveling in a 2009, beige Dodge Caravan, Florida tag number J47FXH.
The alert was issued about 3 p.m. Thursday.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of this child please contact the Crestview Police Department at (850) 682-2055 or call 911.

Randy Ward: Missing since 2011

Randy Ward, went missing from Eden Prairie, MN on June 21, 2011.  He was 58.  He was last seen on an Indian Motorcycle heading to Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Randy's sister is looking for him and provided this story:

"No word from him, no body, no clues have surfaced so far. No crimes or laws were broken so police in FL or MN  that were first involved most likely had no reason to pursue the disappearance any longer than the initial investigation.

 He rented a 24-foot Hurricane Sundeck boat from the Bahia Mar Resort & Yachting Center marina in Fort Lauderdale about 9 a.m. on Tuesday June , according to the Coast Guard.

About 10 p.m., a marina employee called authorities to say he was supposed to return by 7 p.m. but never showed up.

Several Coast Guard crews launched a search and found the rented boat floating about 7 miles off the coast of Lake Worth, Florida about 1 a.m., according to Fort Lauderdale Police.

The boat appeared to have some mechanical problems, and authorities said a rope was wrapped around the propeller. Randy was the kind of guy who would jump in the water to try to fix it. He had a very good knowledge of motor mechanics and could have possibly used this situation to stage a disappearance.

Randy is a good swimmer who could tread water for a long time and who owned several boats over the years, he also did some scuba diving when he was young.

A marina employee said Randy had rented a boat on Monday morning and returned safely that evening. He returned the next day & rented the boat again on June 28 & didn't return with it.

 A rental car he was using was found parked in the parking lot. He would be 61 at present. "


If you know of his whereabouts, please leave an tip here or call the police. 

Caitlyn Virts: Amber Alert in Maryland for missing child Found

UPDATE:  3/7/14 -Caitlyn has been found. 

They were located at a motel in Florence, S.C. Caitlyn appears to be unharmed, and her father is in police custody.

Authorities are searching for Caitlyn Virts, 11,  from Dundalk, Md. that is believed to have been taken by her father.  Caitlyn's mother was found dead in her home.

A call came in reporting a woman was having a cardiac arrest at a home in the 3100 block of Ardee Way . When a emergency team arrived they found the woman dead.  Authorities came to the home and could not locate Caitlyn. 

An Amber Alert has been issued for Caitlyn, who is believed to be with her father, 38-year-old Timothy Virts.

Police are concerned for her safety and want to locate her to make sure she is alright.  Caitlyn is  5 feet tall, weighing 80 pounds and may be wearing glasses.

Timothy Virts is described as white, 6 feet, 3 inches tall and weighing 280 pounds. Police say he may be driving a black Dodge Durango with Maryland plates 5AJ4458.

Anyone with information should call Baltimore County Police at 410-887-7320 or 911.

Venicia Ortiz: Teen missing from San Diego County

John Radabaugh: Missing from Ocklawaha

John Radabaugh, Jr. has been missing since Tuesday, March 4 from Ocklawaha.  He was last seen doing yard work at his home on 19455 S.E. 91st Pl.  John who has the mental capacity of a child went missing when his father went into the house for a few minutes.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office have searched the area and have not located John.


Radabaugh Jr. is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. He was last seen wearing pajama bottoms and a T-shirt.  Please call 911 if you see him.

Hayley Howard: Missing student from New Orleans Found

UPDATE 3/5/14 - Hayley’s car was found in the water near Irish Bayou and Interstate-10, reported the authorities said.  It was in an area where her cell phone pinged.  Hayley's body was found in the car.

NOPD Chief Ronal Serpas said the crash is being investigated as a fatal accident and they believe that Hayley went off the side of the road and ended up in the water.

Myra Lewis: Amber Alert for missing Mississippi toddler

UPDATE 3/5/14 - The Madison county Sheriff Dept and FBI are asking the public to call them for any information, no matter how small to help them to find Myra.

For clarification, they also said they did not classify her disappearance as a kidnapping or abduction, because they do not know if she was specifically taken from the house. 

Previous:  On Monday, an Amber Alert has been activated for a missing 2-year-old from Madison County.

Myra Lewis was last seen on Saturday at her house on Mount Pilgrim Road in Camden, Miss. Myra's mother told officials that she saw Myra with her sibling outside playing as she was heading out to go to the store around 10:30 a.m. She told them to go inside the house where their father was taking care of an infant. When she returned the other children were there but Myra was missing.

Police believe that the child may have wandered off, but as of early this morning they were treating the case as an abduction according to WLOX news.

"We've searched approximately four square miles around this residence and unfortunately have not been able to locate Myra," said Sheriff Randy Tucker of the Madison County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities are stating they did not receive a phone call that Myra was missing until 4:00 p.m.

Myra is 3 feet tall and 25 pounds. She was wearing khaki pants, a turquoise sweater with a black bear on the front and pink shoes with glitter.

If you have any information on her whereabouts, please call the Madison County Sheriff's Department at 601-859-2345.

Holly Bobo: Man arrested and search warrants executed and continuous updates on the case

Zachary Adams is a very happy man after his arrest.

Please note that this is a continuous story.  To read it in order start where it is highlighted Previous Story, then to Updates. Also, to read all of Holly Bobo's articles, please go to the search box above and type in her name.

UPDATE  3/5/14 -  Zachary Rye Adams, has been charged with the aggravated kidnapping and murder of Holly Bobo. A grand jury returned the indictment on Wednesday.  It is extremely rare for someone to be indicted for murder without a body.

Have the police found something and are waiting for DNA testing to be sure before they announce it or did Zach confess?  Something very convincing must have been found or said in order for him to have been charged with murder.

UPDATE:  3/4/14 -  NewsChannel 5 obtained documents that gives us more background on what happened leading up to Adams' arrest.

On Feb. 24, the Benton County Sheriff's pulled over a van.  Inside was Toni Craig and Christopher Bray.  NewsChannel 5 says that the van was owned by Amber Bray, the sister of Zachary's girlfriend.  Although not clear, somewhere along the line the sheriff search the van and found NOT drugs, but pearls they were later identified to belong to the Tennessee Shell Company, specifically Johnny Latendresse who died a few years ago.

A few days later authorities went to Court Street to talk to Bray and Craig about the stolen pearls.  Zach opened the door and gave them more pearls and told them they were stolen.  Craig and Bray were found in the house trying to flush the pearls down the toilet.

So, Zach allegedly threatens to kill Bray on Feb . 6, she reports him and then on Feb. 24 she is stopped driving her sister's van with stolen property and then on the Feb. 26, she is found in Zach's home flushing pearls down the toilet. 

UPDATE:  3/3/14 - Zachary Adams was in court Monday morning for an arraignment hearing on the assault charges and was heard telling a photographer to not take his picture because he was "not the one."  I find that a curious statement.  Most people say, I didn't do it.  My first thought was may he was not THE one, but maybe he was one of several people that had something to do with Holly's disappearance.

Also, according to a court affidavit, the assault charges were the result of Zach allegedly using a gun and holding it to a woman's head on Feb. 6 at his home and threatening to kill her.  He also threatened to "gut" her with a knife.   

Although we do not know who this woman is, it could be the same one that he has listed as "in a relationship" with on his Facebook page, a day after the reported assault. 

Not sure if this Amber is the same Amber
if so, she is currently in jail.

Just found out that the woman's was Amber Bray and not the woman that Zach said he was in a relationship with, NewsChannel 5 reported that Amber Bray was the sister of Zach's girlfriend.

Surprisingly, Judge Rick Woods set bail at $1 million. 

Previous story:  Hope arises that information leading to the finding of Holly Bobo will be found after the police began searching the home of a man that Holly Bobo knew. 

Search warrants have been executed at a house that is located about 15 miles from where the young Tennessee nursing student went missing in 2011.

Holly Bobo

Holly Bobo, then 20, was last seen near her car on Swan Johnson Road being escorted into the woods by an unknown person wearing camouflage clothing, as described by Holly's brother.

Her disappearance reached the national level and the media all but camped out in her small town in Decatur County for several weeks as they waited for updates from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.

Evidence was found the following weeks after she went missing.  Some proved to be not connected to the case at all.  In one instant the evidence turned out to not be blood but bird poop, but other evidence turned out to be vital.  One such item, was a white lunch box that was found about eight miles from her home in a creek.

Holly's home

Early on in the investigation the police also were able to track Holly's phone through her cell phone records, because it had not been turned off.  The path went through Decatur and Henderson counties.  The trace shows the phone stopping for about 15 minutes at a remote cemetery.   The cell phone was eventually located along a highway north of Parsons, 8 miles from her home, and the SIM card was found a mile from there.

Map showing where items were found belonging
to Holly and where the cell phone was tracked

Because the route was winding but deliberate, "you would have to know the area to get through the woods," said former LAPD Detective Lou Leiker told WRCB news.
Why a search warrant is now being served at a home on Adams Lane in Decatur County that is owned by Zach Adams, 29, has not been answered by authorities.

This depicts the route from Holly's home
to Zachary Adams' home

The FBI and TBI have worked in tangent going through the house and the grounds and even bringing in a cadaver dog.  Four vehicles have been towed away from the home, report The Tennessean.

The police won't say why the arrest of Zachary Adams on drug charges earlier in the week in Benton County and an arrest for aggravated assault on Friday led them to search his home in connection with the disappearance of Holly, but I do know that you have to have a strong case in order to even get a search warrant in the first case. If it possible that police were able to get his DNA when they arrested him in Benton County and with that they were able to get a search warrant?  Is it possible he assaulted a police officer when they showed up with their search warrant?

We do know that the TBI has talked to Adams before.  According to Danielle Darnell, Holly's friend, the TBI had been on his property and they were aware that Adams, along with two of his friends were following Holly around during a "coon hunt dinner," a week before she went missing.  Has the TBI been waiting patiently for Adams to slip up so they could act on their suspicions? 

Danielle Darnell told the Jackson Sun that she had talked with the TBI about Zachary, who she had known all of her life.  It is pretty safe to guess that Holly probably knew him also.

The description of the person that took Holly was said to have been a white male between 5'10" tall and 6 foot and weighing between 180 to 200 pounds.  There are many people that fit that description, including Zachary Adams.

Zachary Adams on Facebook

As of Saturday, authorities have not named anyone a suspect and were quoted to have said it was premature to say there are any suspects at this point.

"This is a very important time in this investigation. We're not going to say or do anything at the point to interfere with this investigation," said TBI Director Mark Gwyn Friday afternoon. "Hopefully we'll be able to return Holly home safely to her parents. That's our goal."

Zachary Adam's not so happy in
this booking picture

With Gwyn's carefully worded statement you can't help but wonder if they know more than what they are saying and are making sure they are handling the case strictly by the letter of the law in case it ends up in an arrest.

On February 12, Zachary posts that someone broke into his home.  Is it possible it was someone looking for evidence?  Did they find something and turn it into the police, resulting in this current search?

Was Amber Bray allegedly assaulted by Zach because he thought she was responsible
for breaking into his home? 

Carline Brumaire Jean: Missing from Florida Found

UPDATE 3/3/14 - A body is believed to belong to Carline has been found in her car in a pond behind the hotel where she worked. 

A hotel security employee noticed a break in some bushes in a rear parking lot and a Toyota hubcap floating in the retention pond. An Orange County sheriff's dive team entered the pond and found the car, which had a body inside. A medical examiner will confirm the identity of the person.

Previous story:  Carline Brumaire Jean, 39 is missing from Pine Hills, Fla. She was last seen Feb. 9 when she left work at Loews Royal Pacific Resort near Universal Orlando in a red Toyota Camry with plates 158PYF and she has not been heard from since. 

Noemi Gonzalez: Missing from Miami

 Noemi Gonzalez has been missing since Feb. 12, 2014.  She was last seen at the 400 block of NE 136th Street, N. Miami, Fl. 

NM Police report# 2014-5215
Detective G. Frederick 305-891-0294

"Noemi's son, Pedrito, discovered she was missing when he woke on Wednesday, 2/12 to find that she was not in their home.  She went to sleep at 10pm the evening before.  Upon awakening at 8am that morning, Pedrito found that her bed was unmade (which is unusual for her), pocketbook, cell phone and medications still in the house and the front door of the home was unlocked.  She suffers from epileptic seizures and cardiogenic syndrome and requires daily medications.  She never leaves the home without informing her sister or a family member of her whereabouts.

Naturally, our family is devastated at just the thought that something terrible has happened to her.  We are offering a $5,000 reward for any information that will help us to locate her.  Family members are distribute flyers and looking for Noemi every day.  She is the youngest of twelve children in a very close knit family whose strong values and religious beliefs were instilled by their wonderful mother. Noemi has a lot of her traits and is a fighter. I am confident that she will find her way back to us."

Here are some links on stories from local Miami news networks:
 
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http://www.wsvn.com/story/24744348/family-of-missing-epileptic-woman-offer-5k-reward <http://www.wsvn.com/story/24744348/family-of-missing-epileptic-woman-offer-5k-reward>

Angie Pipkin and more missing from Horry County South Carolina

UPDATE:  3/7/14 -  Randy Gale Robinson was taken into custody and charged with murder in connection with the disappearance of Angie.

According to the arrest warrant, it's believed Robinson killed her and disposed of her dismembered body at 34 Landing in Darlington County.
Robinson, of Murrells Inlet, was previously arrested and charged with obstruction of justice last week and stands accused of giving "misleading information" in Pipkin's case.

PRevious story:  Angie Pipkin was dropped off at at 707 Gun Shop in Myrtle Beach around 9:30 p.m. and was last seen by a surveillance camera at Wilco Food Mart at 6222 Highway 707 in Myrtle Beach, S.C.  on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014.

There are several people missing from Horry County.  Horry County is in the Pee Dee region with almost 270,000.  It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Little Pee Dee River and Drowning Creek (Lumber River) on the west and North Carolina on the North.  The cities and towns are Myrtle Beach, Conway, Briarcliffe Acres, Atlantic Beach, Surfside Beach, Loris and Aynor are in Horry County but have their own Police Departments.  There are 38 unincorporated cities in Horry County. 

Brittanee Drexel was one of the first missing cases I heard about in South Carolina. 
Brittanee Drexel has been featured on numerous Discovery Channel shows.  She was last seen on April 25, 2009 after leaving the Blue Water Inn to return to her hotel; she has not been seen since.

Brittanee Drexel

Brandon Graves, 26, went missing on Jan. 30, 2010.  He was at the Morris College homecoming festivities and was last seen at the Sabastian's Nightclub on Broad street.  He was taken out by bouncers when he had too much to drink and left a message on a friend's phone around 3 a.m.  He has not been seen since. 

Brandon Graves

Zack Malinowski, 19, went missing from Aynor on August 25, 2013.  He was playing basketball with two of his friends and then dropped off one of his friends on Murray Johnson Rd in Conway.  Zachary and the other friend with to a home on 7th Avenue in Aynor.  Zachary left in his 199 ark purple/burgundy Chewvy Beretta around 11:30 p.m. to get something to eat, but never returned.  His burned car was found in the woods near Valley Forge Road near Aynor. 

Zack Malinowski

Kareem Ward, 22, was last seen in Aynor on June 16, 2007.  His car was pulled from a boat landing on the Pee Dee River.  He has not been seen since.

Heather Elvis, 20, from Myrtle Beach, S.C. has been missing since Dec. 17.  On February 24, 2014, Horry County Police chief Saundra Rhodes announced Sidney and Tammy Moorer are now charged with the murder of Heather Elvis. The bond hearing on the murder charges will be the week of March 17.




In December 2013, the Horry County Coroner stated that bones found off Tidewater Drive near Waccamaw Blvd. belonged to a male in their 20s.  There has been no name attached to those remains at this time.

If you have any information on any of these cases, please call the Horry County Sheriff's Dept. at 848-915-5450 or leave an anonymous tip here.

Warren Roscoe: Missing from San Diego County

Darlene LeVasseur Melendez: Missing from Glendale Found

UPDATE 2/24/14 - Darlene was released from the hospital and her family and friends do not know where she is.  She is missing again.

Darlene has been found safe.

A close friend of Darlene's has asked the public to keep an eye out for her because she is missing.

Darlene LeVasseur Melendez, 56, is missing from Glendale, since she left her home around the week of Valentine's Day.

Darlene is 5'5" 175lbs, blonde with green eyes, with fair complexion. She always has long painted nails, and was last seen wearing a dress and coat wandering around the streets of Oakland, Ca. 

According to Darlene's friend, "Her husband filed a missing persons report after learning her whereabouts yesterday with the Glendale Police Department around 10:30am. She is not of her right mind which is why this is urgent. She has no more money, nothing but the clothes on her back and not answering her cell which is probably dead. She believes angels are talking to her, telling her what to do. Her every move is dictated this way. She is searching for Robert Plant, from Led Zepplin as the "angels" told her he is her soul mate.

As of February 20, she wrote to her friend that she had a late date with Robert Plant (in her mind) and he didn't show up so she started walking around Oakland late at night.  She said a cop stopped to ask what she was doing and then took her in his car to try to find the motel she was staying at, which she couldn't.  He then dropped her off at a hospital and left her in the lobby.  I know this is not the practice of the police department, which questions what of this really did occur, in her mind.  She left the hospital and hasn't been heard from since as far as I know.  If she is telling the truth, all of the belongings she took with her would be in this motel or her car which she says is lost.  She said she has no money and had tried to sleep in a laundry mat but was kicked out.

 She left her husband of 30 years and two daughters. She is not taking drugs. She is the sweetest woman and gentlest too that you would ever meet. She is considered a "healer" and hypnotherapist. Her website is called Sol Center. Please help us find this lovely woman. Contact the Oakland PD or Glendale PD as they will then contact her husband. Her brother Rod, who lives in Montery will then pick her up if she is still in the Bay Area."

Please note to all websleuths, she has been communicating with her friends through Facebook as of yesterday, BUT, no one is sure where she is and since she is acting out of character for herself, she does not seem to be of sound mind at this time.  

Derick Higgins: Missing from Illinois since 2013

Derick Higgins, 21, from Fulton County, Illinois has been missing since March 2013. 

Derick left his home in a tan 1998 Buick LeSabre with license plate L987041 that has a cracked windshield and front bumper damage.  He left behind his phone, video games and clothes. 

If you have any information please call the Fulton county Sheriff's Office at 309-547-2277.

Michael Krueger: Missing from Missouri Found

UPDATE:  2/22/14 - According to the Facebook page he has been located and is home with family.  

Previous story:  Michael Krueger, 22, from Kansas City, Missouri went missing on Feb. 15, 2014.  He was last seen in the area of 18th and McGee and where he practices with his band.

Michael drives a white Honda CRW with Missouri License plate number DD(U9N.  It has stickers on the rear window that said "Solus" and "Support Local Music". 

Michael is 5'9" tall and 160 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.

If you know his whereabouts, please call the Lees Summit Missouri Police Dept. at 816-969-7390.

Henry Camarena: Missing from San Diego

Henry Camarena, 38, is missing from San Diego, Calif.  He has not been seen since Feb. 16. 

Camarena is described as a Hispanic male, 180 pounds, five feet, seven inches tall with brown hair and brown eyes.

He is believed to be driving a white Nissan Versa. He has medical issues which require daily medications.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department at (858) 565-5200 or leave an anonymous tip here.

Lauren Pena: Woman missing from San Diego; car found in Bakersfield

Lauren Pena from San Diego, has been missing since Feb. 11.  She was reported missing by her stepmother after Lauren packed up her tent and belongings and left.  On Thursday, the Tulare County Sheriff's Department found Lauren's car in the McNally's Fairview Lodge parking lot which is north of Bakersfield. 

Lauren was last seen wearing light purple-colored clothing and a small backpack. 

If you have any information about her whereabouts, please call the Sheriff's office at 559-733-6218.

Antonio Saldivar: Teen missing after car found totalled Found

UPDATE 2/27/14 - A male body found trapped between two barges in the ship channel was found to be Antonio's. Authorities got a call from someone who had seen the body wash ashore near scrap metal plant Texas Port Recycling. EquuSearch told Eyewitness News that the family members have been informed the body was Antonio's.

Previous story:  A teen went missing on Valentine's Day on his way to his girlfriends house.

Antonio Saldivar, 17, left his home in the southeast Bellfort area of Texas around 6 p.m. to go to her house, driving his mother's car.  His mom, Connie Netro, called and sent him text messages when he didn't return home.  He answered her 10 p.m. text message but did not answer the one she sent an hour later.  Finally he answered again at 4 a.m.

Connie told Eyewitness News that she told Antonio he was in trouble and asked where  he was.  He responded he knew he would be grounded and he was leaving now and was heading home.  Antonio never made it.

It was later found that Antonio never made it to his girlfriend's house. 

Then Antonio's car, a green Hyundai Sonata was found early that morning.  It had been totaled after hitting a pillar on Harrisburg.  Antonio's shoes were found inside the car.

A witness said they saw a dark SUV run Antonio off the road which caused him to drive head on into a pillar.  You can't help but speculate if this is what is happening to a lot of missing people in the Houston area.  But, if so, who is doing it and why?


Is this the case of a teen worried about totaling his mother's car and worried to come home, or is the case of a teen who was run off the road on his way home and then abducted?

Antonio was seen wearing a purple leopard-print hood with a black muscle shirt underneath, khaki shorts and brown deck shoes.  He has a tattoo on his left  of a clown-faced girl removing her shirt and a tattoo outline of Texas with Houston in the middle.  Antonio is 5'7" tall, 145 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion.

If you have any information about his whereabouts, please call the Houston police at 713-222-3131. 

Brian Butler missing from San Mateo

Brian Butler, 36, was reported missing Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014 after his friends found his car abandoned off Highway 1 just south of the Tom Lantos Tunnels, said Rebecca Rosenblatt, spokeswoman for the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office.

Brian is 5-feet-8 inches tall and weighing about 155 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes, and was wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt at the time of his disappearance.

Anyone with information about Butler's whereabouts is asked to contact San Mateo County Detective Lisandro Lopez at 650-363-4055, or the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office Anonymous Tip Line at 1-800-547-2700.

Do you know this homeless woman?

Georgia Army National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Mike Perry

This story comes to us from Mike Perry who is in the National Guard:

February 13

 
"While I was escorting a AP photographer to a crash scene in North Georgia I came across a young lady named Charlene Stewart she said she was 27 has a one year-old child that lives in Florida with her mother and is from Florida. 

She did name the city but all I could understand from her was it started with Port. We took her to a National Guard Warming center and I had our Chaplain speak to her and see what resources we could use to possibly get her home.

I added these photos in hopes someone would recognize her."

If anyone does please contact me via Facebook. (Click on link above to contact Mike).

Charlene lives in a tent near Interstate 75

THANKS, Mike for the photos and info. Readers if you recognize this woman or think you know who she is, please send your tips to Mike, or leave an anonymous tip here.

(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Hailey Owens: 10-year-old girl abducted by man in tan truck Found

Update 2/19/14 - Tuesday night authorities arrested a Missouri man they believe was involved with the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl. Later that night the police believe they have found the body of the missing girl.


The man, who was identified as Craig Michael Wood was tracked down to his home by his license plate number on the truck that the witnesses saw during the event. Wood was sitting in his car and he was arrested and charged with Hailey's disappearance, reports KY3 News.

Shockingly, Wood was a substitute teacher at Pleasant View Middle School, then became a teacher's aide and a football coach. According to Springfield School District Superintendent Norm Ridder, Wood was hired in 1998.

After Wood was arrested the police obtained a search warrant and went to Wood's home to search. Wednesday morning, the Springfield Police Department told media that they found the crime scene at a laundromat called the Dutch Maid Laundry on National Avenue. FBI agents were seen looking inside washers and dryers. Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams told the media during a press conference they had found a body that was likely Hailey's. It is not clear at this writing where Hailey's body was eventually found.

Social media is posting their disbelief and criticism that it took authorities three hours to post an Amber Alert for Hailey.

"My mind reels heavily trying to understand WHY it took THREE HOURS for authorities to post the AMBER ALERT....why ?....it should have gone out with in minutes of the initial 911 call....not 3 hours later while officers investigate weather the call was accurate or not....an alert can ALWAYS be canceled if found inaccurate....but to delay 3 hours is unforgivable in my heart...those 1st few hours are the CRUCIAL hours that citizens could have been looking out for the truck....I am disappointed deeply with this current method of use of the AMBER ALERT system," posted Kat Von Tanner.

Williams responded to these criticism by stating that it took time to gather all the information and prepare the Amber Alert, but another post brings up a very valid point.

"If the police had the suspects name, address from the license plate, why weren't they at this man's home immediately," posted Wz Rubicon.

Hopefully, the Police Chief will answer that question and let the public know.

UPDATE:  2/18/14 -  The Springfield Police have found the truck with a man inside at a south Springfield house.  He was arrested and booked on kidnapping charges.  Hailey Owens is still missing.

Previous story:  An Amber Alert has been released for a missing 10-year-old from Missouri on Wednesday evening.

Hailey Owens from Springfield was last seen at 3247 West Lombard Street on Tuesday afternoon as she was heading home from her friends house a couple of blocks away from where she lives on W. Page St. Neighbors witnessed the event of Hailey's abduction as they sat in their garage. They told KY3 News that a man that was seen driving up and down the street several times, pulled up to Hailey in his truck and asked her where Springfield St. was. As she got close to the truck he reached out and grabbed her and pulled her through the driver's side open door. That vehicle, a tan 2008 Ford Ranger with Missouri plates 1YF454 or 1YS454 was last seen on Scenic from Grand in Springfield.

Truck similar to the truck the man was driving

One neighbor ran after the truck while the wife wrote down the license plate number and called 911, reports the News-Leader.

Although the abduction was witnessed and reported immediately it took over two hours for an Amber Alert to be released.

Hailey has long brown hair and brown eyes and pierced ears. She was wearing blue jean shorts and purple sandals. According to Esther Dunlap, a relative of Hailey's, the man is described as white about 6'1" tall with gray hair and wearing a ball cap.
Hailey could be in any of the neighboring states, so please keep your eye out for the truck. If you spot the vehicle please contact the Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810. Also, if you see someone who you think is Hailey, please take a cell phone photo and call the police. Let's do all we can to help get this little girl home.