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.
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Brandy Lynn Myers
Brandy, date, approximate 1992; Age-progression to age 31 (date, approximate 2010); Bryan Miller in 2015
Date Missing 05/26/1992
Missing From
Phoenix, Arizona
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 03/13/1979 (43)
Age 13 years old
Height and Weight 4'9 - 4'10, 75 - 85 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A green t-shirt, a denim skirt, white socks and size 6 pink and white high-top Pro King sneakers.
Medical Conditions Brandy has been diagnosed with brain damage.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Brandy has scars on her upper left knee and on her cheek, and pierced ears. She has an oval-shaped strawberry birthmark. She wears pink and yellow eyeglasses.
Details of Disappearance Brandy was last seen at approximately 8:00 p.m. on May 26, 1992 in the Sunnyslope area of Phoenix, Arizona. She was on the corner of 10th Street and Hatcher Street at the time with a friend. They were selling items door-to-door for a school Read-a-Thon fundraiser for Sunnyslope Elementary School, where Brandy was in the sixth grade. She has never been heard from again.
The day after Brandy disappeared, authorities who were searching for her found another teenage girl's body in the Central Arizona Project Canal. It wasn't identified until 2011, nearly twenty years later; she was sixteen-year-old Shannon Aumock, who had been missing for eight weeks.
Shannon physically resembled Brandy and they were in roughly the same age group, and Shannon was killed only a few miles from Brandy's neighborhood.
The last time Brandy was seen, she was two doors down from Bryan Patrick Miller's residence, and walking in that direction. A photo of Miller is posted with this summary. In January 2015, he was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and attempted sexual assault in the deaths of 17-year-old Melanie Bernas and 22-year-old Angela Brasso. They disappeared ten months apart in 1992 and 1993 while riding their bikes near the Arizona Canal in Phoenix, and their bodies were found in the canal.
DNA links Miller to the crime, and he's considered a suspect in Shannon Aumock's murder as well. Police asked the prosecution to charge Miller with Brandy's murder, but prosecutors declined, citing insufficient evidence. Miller has a record of violent offenses dating back to 1989, when he stabbed a woman and was charged as a juvenile with attempted murder. If convicted of the two murders he's been charged with, he could be sentenced to death.
Brandy's mother describes her as a very trusting, naive teenager; she believes her daughter may have been attacked by someone she knew. Brandy's mother has moved away from Arizona but continues to hope for resolution in her daughter's . It remains unsolved and foul play is suspected due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Phoenix Police Department
602-261-8042
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The Arizona Republic
Child Search Ministries
The Beaumont Enterprise
KTVK
NamUs
ABC 15
Facebook Page for Brandy Myers
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
