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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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Diana Lynn Harris
Harris, date, approximate 1981
Date Missing 07/15/1981
Missing From
Big Pine Key, Florida
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 10/06/1953 (69)
Age 27 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'8, 120 - 135 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red/blonde hair, blue eyes. Harris wore eyeglasses and dentures at the time of her disappearance. She is fair-skinned and, at the time she vanished, was known to occasionally wear wigs. Some agencies give her name as "Diane."
Details of Disappearance Harris was last seen at Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida in the summer of 1981. She has never been heard from again. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance.
On June 7, 1981, her children flew to Michigan to spend the summer with their father. Harris kept in regular touch with her loved ones by telephone. The last time her daughter spoke to her on the phone was on July 15. Harris was supposed to go to Michigan and pick up the children on August 15 so they could attend her sister's wedding in Illinois, but she never arrived. Her mother reported her missing after she missed the wedding. All of her belongings, including family photographs, were left behind.
Harris is originally from Owosso, Michigan, and moved to Florida in 1980 after she lost her job in Michigan. At the time of her disappearance, she worked two jobs, one at the No Name Pub and one at the Sugarloaf Lounge, and lived with Gary Vincent Argenzio in a house on Tortuga Lane on Big Pine Key. The house had a reputation as a "party house" and Harris had told a friend she feared there was going to be a drug bust there.
Argenzio was considered a suspect in Harris's . Approximately one week after she went missing, he disappeared as well, stealing a fishing boat and sailing to Mexico. Argenzio was arrested in Mexico in 1982, extradited to Florida, convicted of theft and sentenced to prison. He died in 1992. He was never charged in Harris's disappearance.
An informant told police they believed Argenzio had murdered Harris and dumped her body in the ocean. This informant owned the house where they lived in 1981. The witness said he and a friend had gone to the residence and saw a hole in the wall there, with blood around it, and Argenzio stated he had driven Harris's head through the wall during an argument. The friend corroborated the informant's story.
Harris's family and the family of Thomas Stump, who disappeared from Florida in 1995, believe their disappearances may be connected; police have interviewed several of the same people with regards to both. Authorities have not conclusively established a link between the two s, however. Both remain unsolved.
Some agencies give the date of Harris's disappearance as August 1981.
Investigating Agency
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
305-296-2424
Other
The Doe Network
Real Crimes
Outpost for Hope
Porchlight International for the Missing and Unidentified
NBC News
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
