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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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Everilda Duran Watson
Everilda, date, approximate 2006; John Watson
Date Missing 07/13/2006
Missing From
Las Vegas, Nevada
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Hispanic
Date of Birth 07/09/1956 (66)
Age 50 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 230 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Blue 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Black hair, brown eyes. Some accounts spell Everilda's middle name "Durran." Her nicknames are Eve and Evie. Her ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Everilda was last seen in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 13, 2006. Her husband, John Matthus Watson III, a retired high school mathematics teacher, stated he and his wife separated and she failed to meet him later as they had planned. He stated that she left of her own accord and moved to Central America, leaving behind a note and her wedding ring, credit cards and keys.
Everilda has relatives in Guatemala and was scheduled to visit them a few days after her disappearance, but she did not board her flight and investigators have found no evidence that she left the United States. Her son reported her missing on July 15.
Photographs of John are posted with this summary. He was arrested the day after her disappearance was reported because he was carrying false identification. John was later charged with Everilda's kidnapping, robbery and murder.
Investigators believe he lured her to Las Vegas by saying he wished to celebrate her recent birthday there, then murdered her at the Tuscany hotel and dismembered her corpse.
John checked into the hotel using an alias name and wearing a false mustache and a wig. He is known to have purchased an electric saw, bleach, antifreeze, odor-absorbent trash bags, incense and odor neutralizer on July 13.
Authorities think he shot his wife and dismembered her body with the saw, wrapped up her remains in the bags, and used the other items to clean up the hotel room.
Everilda's blood was found in John's blue 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee and in the carpet and shower area of the hotel room. John stated his wife had accidentally cut her finger inside his vehicle, but there was too much blood there to have come from a minor injury.
Everilda's remains are believed to have been dumped somewhere between between Las Vegas and southern California.
In an April 2008 media interview, John said he believed Everilda was dead, but that he did not harm her and does not know who did. He added that he was dying of cancer and did not care what happened to him.
John has a prior history of police involvement. In 1967 he was arrested after he confessed to raping and killing a hitchhiker, but he was released without charge after the police couldn't find her body. He was convicted of arson that same decade when he tried to burn down his own home in Texas. He served ten months in prison for the crime.
In the 1970s, he was arrested by the Secret Service after he allegedly threatened the life of then-President Richard Nixon, but he was never prosecuted in that .
John was convicted of Everilda's murder in June 2010. Authorities believe he had been planning her murder for about a month beforehand. Everilda was apparently planning to leave her husband and supposedly he killed her to avoid the financial consequences of divorce.
In letters he wrote in jail, John wrote that he had cooked and ate part of Everilda's body. After his conviction, he asked the jury for the death penalty. He converted to Islam while awaiting trial and stated his religious beliefs require the death sentence for murder. He was accordingly sentenced to death and is awaiting execution.
Everilda and John have three adult sons. At the time of her disappearance she was employed in a school cafeteria. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Ontario Police Department
909-395-2001
Other
California Attorney General's Office
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Daily Bulletin
KVBC-TV News
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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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