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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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Cary Daniel Sayegh
Cary, date, approximate 1978; Age-progression to age 48 (date, approximate 2019)
Date Missing 10/25/1978
Missing From
Las Vegas, Nevada
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 11/12/1971 (50)
Age 6 years old
Height and Weight 4'2, 65 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description Brown pants, brown leather shoes, and a white t-shirt with "Las Vegas Quicksilvers" imprinted on the front.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Cary has a small scar on the right side of his forehead near his hairline. He was born with three extra toes on each foot and had them surgically removed at age three months, with resulting scarring. He had a gap between his upper front teeth at the time of his disappearance.
Details of Disappearance Cary was last seen in the playground area of the Albert Einstein Hebrew Day School in the 1600 block of east Oakley Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 25, 1978. His classmates told authorities that he entered an unidentified vehicle on the school's property during their lunchtime recess. He has never been heard from again.
Cary's parents, Sol and Marilyn Sayegh, received a ransom call from a male individual three hours after his son disappeared. The man demanded $500,000 for Cary's return, then claimed he would call again in two days with instructions as to how the ransom should be paid. The individual never contacted the family again.
Authorities quickly ruled out all of Cary's family members as suspects in his . They believed one of Cary's father's former employees was responsible for his son's disappearance and the ransom call.
Jerald Howard "Jerry" Burgess was eventually convicted of the sexual assault on a woman at the Albert Einstein Hebrew Day School. The attack had taken place the week before Cary vanished from the same locale. Several of Cary's classmates identified Burgess as the man driving the vehicle Cary entered the day of his disappearance. Burgess said he was there, but only to deliver a lunch to his girlfriend's son, who was a friend of Cary's.
Other witnesses identified Burgess's voice as that of the ransom caller. He told investigators the location of one of Cary's shoes off Mohave Road in Las Vegas, but claimed that the child's abductors gave him the information when he acted as a go-between with them and the Sayegh family. Burgess maintained his innocence in Cary's abduction.
In 1982, Burgess was charged with kidnapping Cary. He claimed that he believed Cary was alive and residing in Israel after his trial, but he failed to provide evidence to support his statement. A jury acquitted him of all charges, citing a lack of evidence implicating him.
Burgess was arrested in October 2000 after he sold an il weapon to an undercover agent. As a convicted felon, he is ly forbidden to possess any kind of firearm or ammunition. During the preceding 18-month investigation into his criminal activities, Burgess also allegedly offered to dispose of a body near the location of Cary's supposed grave.
Burgess claimed that he could weld the body into a steel drum, and reportedly said he had killed Cary and disposed of his remains in that way in 1978. He rented welding equipment several days before Cary disappeared. He has not faced additional charges in Cary's , but he was convicted of the firearms charges and sentenced to eleven years in prison. He was released in 2013 and lives in Las Vegas today.
Authorities said that they received a tip that Cary was living in Boston, Massachusetts in the 1990s. His was reopened in 1999.Investigators continue to believe that he was the victim of foul play and are still searching for his remains.
Burgess remains the prime suspect in Cary's disappearance. His abduction is unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
702-795-3111
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education of America
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
KLAS-TV
California Attorney General's Office
NamUs
News 3 Las Vegas
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
