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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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Kristie Annette Moon
Moon, date, approximate 1999
Date Missing 10/27/1999
Missing From
Parsons, Tennessee
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 10/06/1973 (49)
Age 26 years old
Height and Weight 5'4, 115 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A brown button-down shirt, tan pants, a brown belt, and brown boots.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Moon has freckles. Some agencies refer to her by her maiden name, Kristie Baugus.
Details of Disappearance Moon was last seen by her boyfriend, Michael Pearcy, on October 27, 1999. He claimed he dropped her off at her mother's home in Parsons, Tennessee, but her mother said she never arrived. She left all her belongings behind, including her purse, clothes and driver's license, and has never been heard from again.
Shortly before her disappearance, Moon had moved with her two children out of Pearcy's Decaturville, Tennessee home and back in with her mother. She had no car and was unemployed; her sole source of income was weekly child support checks, and the last one issued in October was never cashed. It wasn't uncharacteristic of her to drop out of sight for a few days, but she never stayed gone for very long and was never out of touch with family members.
Pearcy was killed on November 26, less than a month after Moon's disappearance; he opened fire on a Parsons police officer during a routine traffic stop and was shot to death by the officer's partner. At the time of his death, he was wanted for questioning in the death of a Decaturville man, and he is also the main suspect in Moon's disappearance.
Moon was involved with drugs in 1999; her daughter describes her as a good person who got mixed up with the wrong people. In spite of the problems in her life, she was a loving parent to her two children. Because of her substance use, her children, who were aged eight and one at the time of her disappearance, were often in the care of relatives. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Decatur County Sheriff's Department
731-852-3703
Other
Child Protection Education of America
WSMV-TV
The Tennessean
WBBJ 7
The Jackson Sun
Facebook Page for Kristie Moon
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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