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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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Lilly Lopez
Lopez, date, approximate 2009
Date Missing 04/15/2009
Missing From
Polvadera, New Mexico
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Hispanic
Date of Birth 07/23/1975 (47)
Age 33 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'5, 145 - 155 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A gray jacket, a red or pink shirt, blue jeans and gray hiking shoes.
Medical Conditions Lopez is intellectually disabled and incapable of surviving on her own. She has a history of substance abuse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Brown hair, brown eyes.
Details of Disappearance Lopez was last seen in Polvadera, New Mexico on April 15, 2009. She had been drinking with her boyfriend and one of his friends at her home on Valley Loop Road; she and her boyfriend shared the home with their young daughter. An argument occurred, and Lopez left the residence.
The two men went out to buy more beer, and her boyfriend saw Lopez walking on the bank of a nearby water-filled ditch, talking on her cellular phone. When they returned, she was gone. She has never been heard from again.
Her boyfriend initially believed she'd gone to Albuquerque, New Mexico to visit her daughter, but several days later her daughter called and he realized she wasn't with her. The boyfriend became worried and searched the area, and he found one of Lopez's shoes on the edge of the ditch where she was last seen. He called the police to report her disappearance.
An extensive search covering several miles of the ditch turned up no sign of Lopez or her body, and no indications that she had fallen in. However, police did locate Lopez's other shoe, and they stated the investigation had turned in another direction. Authorities are treating Lopez's disappearance as a missing person rather than an accident or a crime.
Although Lopez had relinquished her parental rights to four of her five children and they were adopted and raised by others, she cared about them and kept in regular contact with them by phone before her disappearance. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Socorro County Sheriff's Department
575-835-0941
Other
New Mexico Missing Person Web Page
KRQE New Mexico
The Mountain Mail
The El Defensor Chieftain
NamUs
The Santa Fe New Mexican
KRQE 13
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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