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
Da’Shawn Leon McCormick
Da'Shawn, date, approximate 2012; Age-progression to age 14 (date, approximate 2021)
Date Missing 07/04/2012
Missing From
Anchorage, Alaska
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Biracial, Black, White
Date of Birth 08/17/2007 (15)
Age 4 years old
Height and Weight 3'6, 45 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Biracial (African-American/Caucasian) male. Blond hair, brown eyes. Da'Shawn has a U-shaped scar in the center of his forehead and a burn scar on his left thigh.
Details of Disappearance Da'Shawn lived with his father, Floyd Leroy Lee Jr., in Anchorage, Alaska in 2013. On April 1 of that year, the police came to their home to arrest Lee on federal fraud charges. Da'Shawn wasn't with him and he has refused to reveal the child's whereabouts.
Lee was sentenced to prison for fraud, as was Da'Shawn's stepmother, Mary Elizabeth Transki. Both have since been released.Da'Shawn's mother, Jasmine McCormick, who lives in Alabama, now has full custody of him. She stated she left Lee in March 2012, taking her three other children but leaving Da'Shawn because Lee had full custody at the time.
Jasmine described Lee as abusive and said she left because she was in fear of her life. She last spoke to Da'Shawn in June 2012. Transki's mother said she last sawDa'Shawn on July 4, 2012. After that, whenever her grandchildren came to visit her, Da'Shawn wasn't among them.
After Da'Shawn's father and stepmother were arrested, a witness came forward and said Da'Shawn's stepmother had claimed she had killed the child and buried him on her property. When police asked Da'Shawn's stepmother about this, however, she said this never happened.
Da'Shawn may be in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough area. His mother hopes he was given to another family before Lee's arrest. The circumstances of his disappearance are unclear and his remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Anchorage Police Department
907-786-8500
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Missing Persons of America
The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
Websleuths
Facebook Page for Dashawn McCormick
Crimeblogger1983
Dearly
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
