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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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Jeffrey Lee Quick
Quick, date, approximate 1998
Date Missing 05/23/1998
Missing From
Tyro, Virginia
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Age 31 years old
Height and Weight 6'2, 165 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Blond hair, blue eyes. Quick has a scar on his forehead. He has the following tattoos: a gargoyle on his back, a scorpion on his left leg, a skull on his left shoulder and a claw holding an eight-ball on his left forearm.
Details of Disappearance Quick was last seen in Tyro, Virginia on May 23, 1998. He was in the front yard of his residence on Campbell Mountain Road near State Route 56. His wife was leaving home to go grocery shopping when she passed a black car turning into her home.
Quick was outside, and a visiting friend was in the house; they were going to play a game of horseshoes. The friend went outside at one point to get something out of his car and didn't see anyone. He heard gunshots, but didn't think anything of it because people in the neighborhood fired guns regularly. About fifteen minutes later, the friend saw the black car pull away. Quick has never been heard from again.
Authorities searched Philpott Lake for Quick's body in 2001. At depths of 50 to 60 feet, divers found a body stuffed in a 55-gallon steel drum, but it wasn't Quick's; the body was of Ether Adean Smith, a 38-year-old woman who disappeared from Martinsville, Virginia in 1989. She had been shot twice in the head. No one has been charged in her murder.
In January 2003, a grand jury investigating Quick's disappearance concluded one of his acquaintances, Frank Farinacci, had murdered him at his home and then removed the body. Frank had been a suspect in Quick's disappearance since shortly after he vanished.
In February 2002, eleven months before the jury's investigation concluded, Frank's wife, Elizabeth Farinacci, had shot and killed him in their home. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to 53 years in prison. The motive was to keep him from implicating her in Quick's death. Elizabeth came up for parole in 2015, but was denied.
Authorities have never found Quick's body.
Investigating Agency
Nelson County Sheriff's Office
434-263-7050
Other
Virginia State Police
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
The Winston-Salem Journal
The Greensboro News & Record
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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