missing persons

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A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast

10:16am September 24, 2024

Luis Armando Albino was lured away from a California park at the age of 6. He reunited with his biological family this summer after his niece found him through DNA testing and newspaper clippings.

FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people

5:02am August 15, 2024

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

An article clipping from New York Daily News from Nov. 21, 1995.

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He disappeared in 1995. His mother's search led to a mass grave and changed laws

5:00am November 22, 2023

by Alissa Escarce

LaMont Dottin was a sophomore at Queens College when he vanished one day in 1995. His mother became a "one-woman search party" whose journey would lead her to a mass grave.

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Shy'Kemmia Pate was just 8 years old when she was last seen at her residence in Unadilla, Ga., on Sept. 4, 1998. Twenty-five years later, her family is still hopeful for her safe return as they continue the search efforts for her.

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25 years later, a Georgia mother isn't giving up on finding her missing daughter

1:47pm November 16, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Shy'Kemmia Pate was just 8 years old when she vanished from her family's porch in Unadilla, Ga., on Sept. 4, 1998. She has not been heard from or seen ever since.

Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders members Suzette Shaw, left, holding photos of 10 victims, and Margaret Prescod, at podium, join relatives of victims speaking after the sentencing for Lonnie Franklin Jr., a convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper," in Los Angeles Superior Court in August 2016.

California creates nation's first 'Ebony Alert' to find missing Black children

7:01pm October 11, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

The alert system will use electronic highway signs and encourage the use of TV, radio, social media and other platforms to spread information about the missing person.

A woman holds a sign for Felipe Santos during a remembrance ceremony for missing persons at Cambier Park in Naples on Oct. 25, 2017.

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Two missing men, one deputy, zero charged. Join us on a pursuit for answers

7:00am May 21, 2023

by Janine Zeitlin

The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.

A missing persons flyer, bearing the name of Annie Le, shown here in New Haven, Conn., in September 2009. This year, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) launched a new tool that allows users to openly share their "press value" with the world if they were to go missing.

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Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

4:37pm December 12, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The database tool estimates that younger, white women will get increasingly more news coverage than other racial groups — such as Black, Latino and Indigenous people.

JaShyah Moore, 14, of East Orange, N.J., was last seen on Oct. 14 at Poppies Deli. Authorities announced Thursday that she was found safe in New York City.

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A missing N.J. teen is safely located in New York City after almost a month

4:04pm November 12, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Essex County, N.J., officials said that 14-year-old JaShyah Moore was spotted in Harlem and that it "appears she was a runaway."

Judy Chartier holds a photograph of her missing daughter, also named Judith "Judy" Chartier, in May 1990. The car belonging to Judith and her remains were discovered nearly 40 years later.

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Items belonging to a teen who vanished in 1982 were found in a Massachusetts river

7:48pm November 05, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

The car and a work ID belonging to Judy Chartier, 17, were found in the Concord River, officials say. The teen previously went missing after attending a party in June 1982.

JaShyah Moore, 14, of East Orange, N.J., was last seen on Oct. 14 at Poppies Deli. Authorities from various law enforcement agencies in New Jersey are working together to try to find her.

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A New Jersey teen vanishes after a trip to a local deli. She's been missing 3 weeks

6:35pm November 04, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

JaShyah Moore, 14, was last seen in East Orange, N.J., on Oct. 14. Authorities from various law enforcement agencies in New Jersey are working together to try to find her.