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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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Amir D’Rod Jennings
Amir, date, approximate 2011; Zinah Jennings
Date Missing 11/22/2011
Missing From
Columbia, South Carolina
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Black
Date of Birth 06/28/2010 (12)
Age 1 year old
Height and Weight 2'2, 25 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black bomber jacket and black K-Swiss sneakers.
Associated Vehicle(s) Burgundy 2004 Dodge Neon (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. At the time of his disappearance, Amir had four to six teeth, with a gap between his upper front teeth. His nickname is Mir Mir.
Details of Disappearance Amir and his 22-year-old mother, Zinah Damaris Jennings, disappeared from Columbia, South Carolina on November 22, 2011. They reported missing by Zinah's mother, Jocelyn Jennings Nelson, in early December, after she found out Zinah was a suspect in a hit-and-run accident. Nelson had thought Amir and Zinah were in Atlanta, but when she asked about her grandson she only got vague answers.
Photographs of Zinah are posted with this summary. On December 24, she was located after she crashed her burgundy 2004 Dodge Neon at Millwood Avenue and Lady Street in Columbia, near her mother's home. Her son wasn't with her at the time.
When asked about Amir, Zinah at first claimed she didn't have any children, then admitted Amir was her son and said was staying with friends and relatives in various places, but refused to give any further information about him. On December 29, she was charged with child neglect because she wouldn't produce Amir or say where he was or what had happened to him.
Cadaver dogs indicated the scent of human remains inside Zinah's car's trunk and backseat, and authorities found a bloodstained baby blanket in the trunk; the blood was Amir's. A shovel and some of Amir's clothing were also inside the car.
Nelson stated Zinah had been a good student at Winthrop University, but after Amir's birth she struggled with depression and started acting erratically. She has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and prescribed antipsychotic medication. Amir's father had little contact with him, although he did see his son and Zinah over the Thanksgiving holidays in 2011. Besides his mother, Amir's father was the last person to have seen him.
On November 9, not long before Amir disappeared, Zinah was arrested for prostitution and marijuana possession in Atlanta. She had been staying there with her half-sister. Zinah frequently traveled between Columbia, Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina and had friends in all those places. She was pregnant at the time of her arrest and, in September 2012, during her trial for unlawful conduct towards a child, she gave birth to a daughter.
Prosecution witnesses testified that Zinah had physically abused Amir, didn't supervise him properly, and talked about possibly selling him or giving him away. She was convicted of unlawful conduct towards a child and sentenced to the maximum term of ten years in prison, but was released after only four years. Authorities have reached out to her multiple times since then, but she hasn't cooperated with them. They stated she didn't appear to be interested in locating her son.
Extensive searches have turned up no sign of Amir, and authorities believe he may be dead. His remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Columbia Police Department
803-252-2911
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Huffington Post
The State
WIS-TV 10
Facebook Page for Amir Jennings
CBS News
WACH Fox 57
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
