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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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Kimberlie Kay Kantonen
Kantonen, date, approximate 1989; Arnold Aggas
Date Missing 03/08/1989
Missing From
Hornbrook, California
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 01/15/1969 (53)
Age 20 years old
Height and Weight 5'5, 104 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue sweatsuit, a tan corduroy jacket, and white sneakers. Carrying a black purse
Medical Conditions Kantonen was four months pregnant at the time of her disappearance.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Kantonen wears eyeglasses and a lower dental retainer. Her nickname is Kim and some accounts spell her name "Kimberly."
Details of Disappearance Kantonen was last seen at Arnold Aggas Sr.'s residence in Hornbrook, California on March 8, 1989. She has never been heard from again.
She was dating Aggas's son at the time of her disappearance, and they lived together in a trailer on Aggas's property. Her boyfriend was involved with someone else, however, and had invited the other woman to share the trailer. Kantonen had to sleep on the couch and was very unhappy about it.
The last time she saw her mother, Kantonen said her boyfriend's father had a bad temper and had made unwanted sexual advances. After Aggas found out Kantonen was pregnant, he was reportedly angry and prevented her from seeking prenatal care. Her mother tried to convince her to move out, but Kantonen wanted to marry Aggas's son.
It was Aggas who reported Kantonen missing. He presented a four-page letter, which he said Kantonen had left by his son's bedside. The letter said Kantonen had met a truck driver and was moving to Washington State with him and would raise her baby on her own. Although the letter appeared to be in her daughter's handwriting, Kantonen's mother doesn't believe she would have moved to another state without telling her, or cut her baby's father out of its life.
Kantonen's mother thought foul play was involved in her daughter's disappearance and began circulating missing persons fliers for her and discussing her with law enforcement. She then began receiving anonymous calls telling her to stop talking to the police, or she would end up like Kantonen.
In June 2011, Aggas was arrested for sex crimes committed in 2007. When the authorities searched his residence, they found unspecified evidence that lead them to charge him with murdering Kantonen.
A photo of Aggas is posted with this summary. In April 2014, he pleaded no contest to two counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count for Kantonen and one for her unborn child, and one count of preventing a witness from testifying. He was sentenced to thirteen years in prison, but with credit for time served and work credits he gained in the prison system, he was able to shorten his sentence and was released in February 2019.
Foul play is suspected in Kantonen's due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department
530-841-2900
Other
California Attorney General's Office
The San Jose Mercury News
The Redding Record-Searchlight
The Siskiyou Daily News
The Mount Shasta News
KTVL 10
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
