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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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Kimberly Ann Forbes
Forbes, date, approximate 2004; Forbes's car
Date Missing 10/30/2004
Missing From
Hood River, Oregon
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 10/19/1956 (65)
Age 48 years old
Height and Weight 5'8 - 5'9, 200 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description Diamond stud earrings.
Associated Vehicle(s) Burgundy 2000 Ford Explorer SUV with the Oregon license plates number XTB679 and a trailer hitch with the silhouette of a pig (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Graying brown hair, blue eyes. Forbes has pierced ears.
Details of Disappearance Forbes was last seen on October 30, 2004 at her residence in the vicinity of the 1600 block of Jeanette Road in Hood River, Oregon.
She told her teenage daughter she planned to breakfast the next morning, October 31, with a friend who lived three miles away on Wasco Street, then go shopping alone in Portland, Oregon afterwards for flannel sheets and other winter necessities. She never kept her appointment with her friend and has never been heard from again.
Forbes's burgundy 2000 Ford Explorer SUV with the Oregon license plates number XTB679 vanished with her. The vehicle has a trailer hitch with the silhouette of a pig on it.
On November 19, over two weeks after Forbes vanished, the SUV was found abandoned in the parking lot of Don Pedro's Mexican Food in the vicinity of the 18800 block of southeast Stark Street in Gresham, Oregon, fifty-fives miles from her home.
A photograph of the vehicle is posted with this summary. Investigators believe it was broken into after it was parked at the scene. Witnesses stated that it had been in the parking lot since at least November 5.
Fingerprints found inside the SUV were matched to a Gresham, Oregon man who was questioned by police. He was said to be cooperative with the investigation.
He admitted to breaking into Forbes's car while it was in the restaurant parking lot and stealing some items from it, but he denied having anything to do with her disappearance and said it appeared as if the vehicle had been broken into before he found it. The man agreed to take a polygraph in connection with Forbes's . Investigators do not believe he was involved in her disappearance.
Authorities searched Forbes's computer after her disappearance for clues. She has had many online relationships and had met at least one previous boyfriend online. Nothing of interest was found on her computer hard drive, however.
Forbes is described as a reliable, very punctual person who would be unlikely to leave without warning. She was employed as a teller at the Columbia River Bank in The Dalles, Oregon and was scheduled for work on November 1, but did not arrive.
Forbes was in good spirits at the time she was last seen. There has been no activity on her bank accounts or credit cards since she vanished, and her cellular phone has stayed turned off.
Forbes did not normally visit Portland alone; she preferred to take friends with her, but all of them were busy on the day she planned to go shopping. Her loved ones believe she met with foul play, possibly a carjacking. They stated that she would have defended herself if someone attacked her.
Police do not believe Forbes left of her own accord; they too suspect foul play in her disappearance. Her remains unsolved.
Some agencies give the date of Forbes's disappearance as October 31, 2004.
Investigating Agency
Hood River County Sheriff's Office
541-386-2711
Other
NamUs
The Register-Guard
Official Missing Person Site for Kimberly Forbes
KOIN News
Hood River News
The Dalles Chronicle
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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