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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Gerald Eugene Rabourn
Rabourn, date, approximate 2010; Denise Michelle Goodwin
Date Missing 10/21/2010
Missing From
San Diego, California
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 03/20/1922 (100)
Age 88 years old
Height and Weight 5'9, 110 - 175 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, brown eyes. Rabourn is balding. He wears prescription eyeglasses.
Details of Disappearance Rabourn was last seen in San Diego, California sometime during mid-October 2010. All of his cellular phone use, financial activity and contact with his family stopped on October 21. He has never been heard from again. Eventually, out-of-state relatives reported him missing.
In August 2011, Denise Michelle Goodwin was charged with Rabourn's murder. A photo of Goodwin is posted with this summary. Rabourn had hired her to take care of his 91-year-old wife, who had end-stage lung cancer and was in hospice care at home. Rabourn's wife died in September 2010, and afterwards he entrusted Goodwin with all his financial affairs.
Authorities stated Goodwin began appropriating Rabourn's assets for her own personal use soon after she moved into his home; she stole almost $600,000 in total and forged documents to sell Rabourn's home and transfer the title of his car.
She also kept Rabourn's family members from contacting the police for months by providing various explanations for is absence and claiming she had been in contact with him. She even persuaded another woman to call Rabourn's daughter and claim she was Rabourn's new wife and they had gotten married in Las Vegas.
At her trial in the fall of 2014, Goodwin's attorney admitted she'd stolen money from Rabourn, but claimed she hadn't actually killed him.
In October, she was convicted of first-degree murder, caretaker theft from an elder adult, fraudulent appropriation by a trustee, grand theft of personal property, and forgery. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole; she could have faced the death penalty.
Foul play is suspected in Rabourn's due to the circumstances involved. His body has never been found.
Investigating Agency
San Diego Police Department
478-542-2000
Other
California Attorney General's Office
San Diego Police Department
The San Diego County News
The North County Times
NBC San Diego
News 10
U-T San Diego
Fox 5 San Diego
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
