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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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Katherine Marie Lowery
Lowery, date, approximate 1999
Date Missing 02/02/1999
Missing From
Olive Branch, Mississippi
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 26 years old
Height and Weight 5'2, 120 - 130 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Lowery's nickname is Kathy. She may use the name Connie Harper. She wears upper and lower dentures.
Details of Disappearance Lowery was last seen in Olive Branch, Mississippi on February 2, 1999. She lived on a 25-acre property in the 8900 block of Center Hill Road with her eight-year-old daughter, her nine-year-old son and her boyfriend, Sheldon Wright VanHoute. He is not the father of either of the children.
Lowery disappeared on her daughter's birthday. A short time later, VanHoute moved with her children to a hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He didn't enroll the children in school and ordered them not to leave the hotel during the day while he was at work.
Lowery's daughter escaped from VanHoute in October 1999. She told authorities that he had been sexually abusing her for months. He was convicted of sexual assault against the girl in 2000 and sentenced to six life in prison.
Investigators learned VanHoute's real name was Steven "Troy" DeLoge. He is a suspect in the disappearance of his half-sister, Elizabeth Eisel. Their mother placed Eisel for adoption when she was born and Eisel found DeLoge after she grew up and began looking for her birth relatives.
They became romantically involved and passed themselves off as a married couple, and Eisel changed her name to Danielle DeLoge. She gave birth to Steven's son in 1983, but their relationship had deteriorated by the time she disappeared from Bellevue, Washington in September 1985.
Authorities didn't begin investigating Lowery's disappearance until Steven was arrested for sexually abusing her daughter. He had cleaned their Mississippi home before he left, but when police searched it they found traces of blood on the floors and walls. They could find no indication of Lowery's whereabouts.
Steven remains the prime suspect in both Eisel and Lowery's s, although he has never been charged in connection with either disappearance. Foul play is suspected in the women's s, which remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Desoto County Sheriff's Department
662-429-1470
Other
NamUs
The Commercial Appeal
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Sun Herald
The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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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