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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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Evon Young
Young, date, approximate 2013; Ron Allen; Billy Griffin; Ashanti McAlister; Devin Seaberry; Victor Stewart
Date Missing 01/01/2013
Missing From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Black
Age 22 years old
Height and Weight 5'0, 160 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black Perkins work shirt, black pants and possibly a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Associated Vehicle(s) Chevrolet Impala
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Young is trangender; he lives as a male, but he's biologically female. His stage name is Yung LT. His birth name was Ebony and some accounts refer to him by that name. Young has tattoos of the phrase "Lord's Advocate" on both arms.
Details of Disappearance Young was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 1, 2013. His roommate, Billy Griffin, stated a Chevrolet Impala pulled up outside at 10:45 a.m. and Young left their home near north 52nd Street and west Custer Avenue, got in the vehicle and rode away. He has never been heard from again. He was reported missing the next day, after he missed work as well as a scheduled meeting with his mother.
Later in January 2013, Griffin and four men were charged with first-degree intentional homicide in Young's ; authorities believe he was the victim of a gang-related homicide. Photographs of the defendants are posted with this summary: besides Griffin they are Victor Stewart, Ashanti McAlister, Ron Joseph Allen and Devin Lattrez Seaberry. Griffin and Stewart are cousins.
Investigators don't believe Young's transgender status has anything to do with the attack, as apparently none of the accused were aware of it.
Young's mother found a cellular phone, later traced to McAlister, outside Young's home. Stewart's wife stated he had taken her car out without her permission on January 1 and kept it until 6:00 a.m. on January 2, and when he returned it the car smelled strongly of bleach and there was a bleach bottle inside it.
Griffin admitted he'd lied about Young leaving in a vehicle with someone else and stated Seaberry, Allen, Stewart and McAlister came to him and said Young had helped facilitate the burglary of Griffin's home the previous year. They offered to re-admit him into their gang, the Chicago-based Black P. Stones Gang, if he killed Young.
Griffin stated the other four men took Young to the basement, taped a plastic bag over his head, choked him with a chain until he lost consciousness, and beat him with tools. Griffin said he went upstairs at this point, but later heard three gunshots. The suspects reportedly cleaned the basement with bleach, rolled Young's body up in a sheet, placed it in Stewart's car and drove it to a trash bin in the 8100 block of north 84th Street, where they dumped it and set it on fire.
Investigators found a piece of duct tape with Stewart's fingerprints on it in the basement, as well as eight blood spatters on the basement wall and floor and on a bucket; the blood turned out to be Young's. DNA from the defendants was not found in the basement. In the trash bin Griffin indicated, they found a chain, burned clothing and evidence that someone had set a fire there.
Authorities believe Young was shot with a .22 caliber semiautomatic silver handgun owned by Bruce Christopher; the gun has been been located. Christopher denies any knowledge of the Black P. Stones Gang, besides knowing Stewart is a member, and any participation in the homicide. He was not charged in connection with Young's death but did face charges for il possession of a firearm.
Subsequently, Stewart and Seaberry pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide and were the star witnesses against Griffin and McAlister at their trials. Christopher also testified. McAlister was convicted in June 2013; he was sentenced to life in prison and won't be eligible for parole until 2066.
Griffin's trial ended in a hung jury that same month; in February 2014, he pleaded guilty to reduced charges of hiding a corpse, harboring or aiding a felony by falsifying information, and solicitation of substantial battery. He faces up to eight years in prison at sentencing.
Also in February 2014, Allen was found guilty of murder and faces life in prison at sentencing.
Authorities believe Young's body was taken to a landfill in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; they looked for it until mid-February 2013, but found nothing and eventually called off the search effort. Foul play is suspected in his due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Milwaukee Police Department
414-933-4444
Other
Wisconsin Clearinghouse Missing & Exploited Children & Adults
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Fox 6 Now
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
