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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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Jamie Ellen Pankey
Pankey, date, approximate 1996
Date Missing 10/01/1996
Missing From
Kansas City, Missouri
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 06/16/1956 (66)
Age 40 years old
Height and Weight 5'7, 110 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description Jeans and a light-colored shirt.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Pankey may go by her middle name, Ellen, or use the last names Chapman and/or Sample. She wears a full set of dentures and has a scar on her neck.
Details of Disappearance On October 1, 1996, Pankey contacted the Kansas City Police Department to report that she had been robbed in the 600 block of east 6th Street. Officers came to the scene and a suspect was identified by Pankey and arrested. This is the last documented contact with her; she has never been heard from again.
Pankey has a history of going for long periods without contacting her family. As a result, they did not report her disappearance until January 28, 1998, over a year later. Her disappearance is believed to be related to the disappearances and murders of several other local women who were involved in prostitution and drugs.
The other missing women include Connie Williams and Cheresa Lordi; both of them disappeared from Kansas City, Williams in 1996 and Lordi in 1997, and neither were ever found. Several other women were murdered and their bodies dumped in the Missouri River; their s are believed to be connected to Lordi, Williams and Pankey's. Foul play is suspected in all the s, which remain unsolved.
Some agencies give the date of Pankey's disappearance as July 30, 1996.
Investigating Agency
Kansas City Police Department
816-234-5136
816-234-5000
Other
Kansas City Police Department
NamUs
CrimeNews 2000
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
