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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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Lori Ann Murchison-Dunbar
Murchison-Dunbar, date, approximate 1995
Date Missing 09/02/1995
Missing From
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 12/06/1970 (51)
Age 24 years old
Height and Weight 5'2 - 5'5, 100 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A white sleeveless cotton shirt, cut-off blue denim shorts, white socks, black sandals, a gold oval-shaped knuckle ring on her left index finger, and a necklace with a cross pendant on a black ribbon.
Medical Conditions Murchison-Dunbar has attempted suicide in the past. She may have an alcohol dependency.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Murchison-Dunbar's hair was bleached blonde at the time of her 1995 disappearance. She has a tattoo of a unicorn on her left shoulder, a tattoo of a heart with an arrow piercing it on her left breast, and a rose tattoo on her left ankle. Her ears are pierced and she has moles on her chin. She has scars on her left ankle and left leg and a Cesarean section scar on her abdomen. Murchison-Dunbar wears upper dentures and only has about five teeth in her lower jaw. She has a dimple in her cheek that appears when she smiles. Some agencies refer to her as Lori Murchison.
Details of Disappearance Murchison-Dunbar was last seen at approximately 5:40 a.m. in Fort Smith, Arkansas on September 2, 1995.
She was on the corner of Parker Street and south 6th Street near the Continental Motel at the time of her disappearance. She and her boyfriend had been arrested after they got into a car accident while intoxicated, and she disappeared the day she was released from the Sebastian County Jail.
Murchison-Dunbar has never been heard from again. She never picked up her last paycheck from her place of employment, Oaks Lodge Nursing Home, and never contacted her baby daughter, who is being raised by her mother. Her boyfriend had given her $50 to bail him out of jail; she may have had the money with her when she vanished.
In 1995, the FBI accused a former Sebastian County prosecutor, Ron Fields, of dealing drugs and of ordering a Fort Smith police officer to kill Murchison-Dunbar. The was brought before a grand jury, but no indictments were issued due to a lack of evidence, and it is unclear whether Fields was really involved in her disappearance.
Police also received information from five different sources that Murchison-Dunbar died of an accidental drug overdose and a man who was with her disposed of her body. Authorities attempted to prosecute this man for abuse of a corpse, but the statute of limitations had expired and the individual has never faced charges in Murchison-Dunbar's disappearance.
Murchison-Dunbar was traveling back and forth between Fort Smith and Wilburton, Oklahoma for some time prior to her disappearance. She was involved with drugs in 1995. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Fort Smith Police Department
501-709-5100
Other
NamUs
Arkansas Crime Information Center
The Doe Network
Fort Smith Police Department
KFSM 5 News
Never Forgotten: Arkansas Takes Action
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
