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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
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Amanda Kathleen Custer
Custer, date, approximate 2019; Robert Camou
Date Missing 07/29/2019
Missing From
Monrovia, California
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 04/28/1988 (34)
Age 31 years old
Height and Weight 5'8, 140 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Gray 2017 Toyota Prius with the California license plate number 8AOR167
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Black hair, green eyes.
Details of Disappearance Custer was last seen at a residence the 600 block of Vaquero Road in Monrovia, California at 8:15 a.m. on July 29, 2019.
She was taken against her will by her boyfriend, Robert Anthony Camou; a neighbor saw him dragging her possibly unconscious body into the trunk of his gray 2017 Toyota Prius with the California license plate number 8AOR167. The neighbor called the police to report a possibly domestic violence incident, and when authorities arrived they found blood and other evidence that an assault had occurred.
Shortly after the kidnapping, Camou's car was seen traveling north on Padua Road in Claremont, California, towards Mount Baldy. That evening, Camou went without Custer to an open-mic event at a bar in downtown Los Angeles, California, sung a rap about killing a woman, and claimed he was wanted by the police.
On the morning of July 30, after a standoff lasting nearly five hours, he was arrested and charged with burglary. Custer wasn't with him and there was no indication of her whereabouts. He was subsequently charged with capital murder in her .
The couple, who lived down the street from one another, had been seeing each other for two years and their relationship had had many incidents of domestic violence. Police found blood inside the residence where Custer was abducted, and drops of blood in trunk of Camou's car, along with a digging tool. He was charged with her murder in September of that year.
At the time of Custer's abduction, Camou was free on bail awaiting trial for one felony count each of first-degree burglary with a person present, injuring a girlfriend, and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and one misdemeanor count of battery.
He had allegedly attacked Custer on April 22, tried to strangle her, threatened her with a Taser, chased her into a nearby house where she asked for help, and assaulted an elderly man who tried to assist her. Because of the pending against him for assaulting Custer, when Camou was charged with her murder the charge included the special circumstances allegation of killing a witness.
Camou is awaiting trial in the murder . Custer's body has never been found, but foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Monrovia Police Department
626-256-8000
Other
California Attorney General's Office
Monrovia Patch
Missing Persons s Network
Amanda Custer's Facebook Page
Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
Missing Person Photos
