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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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Margaret E. Sherman
Sherman, date, approximate 1995; Sherman's vehicle; Kenny Slate, date, approximate 2007
Date Missing 08/02/1995
Missing From
Indianapolis, Indiana
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 08/11/1967 (55)
Age 27 years old
Height and Weight 5'7, 180 - 196 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) White four-door 1990 Chevrolet Lumina (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Sherman wears eyeglasses. Her ears are pierced. Her nickname is Peggy.
Details of Disappearance Sherman was last seen at her residence in the 4500 block of east Grace Street on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana on August 2, 1995. She left home to get her car repaired and has never been heard from again. Her parents reported her as a missing person when she did not show up for work at National City Bank.
Sherman's white four-door 1990 Chevrolet Lumina was discovered abandoned in Greenwood, Indiana several days after she was reported missing. A photo of the vehicle is posted with this summary. There was no sign of Sherman at the scene.
Her parents stated she kept $50,000 in cash in her freezer at the time of her disappearance. The money was missing when investigators searched the house. Inside Sherman's home was a mattress with some bloodstains and some sections cut out of it.
DNA tests proved the blood was Sherman's. Her blood was also found on all four walls of the room, on the ceiling, on a lamp and on the bedpost. She kept a disabled car covered and parked in her garage in August 1995. The car cover disappeared at the same time she did.
The last person known to have seen Sherman prior to her disappearance was her live-in boyfriend, Kenny Slate. A photograph of Slate is posted with this summary.
In 2007, Slate gave a media interview wherein he stated he believed Sherman had left of her own accord, possibly to go to Canada, when she went missing in 1995. He claimed she had mailed him a doll and some coins after her disappearance, but he did not produce the items for the reporter to see. Slate stated he had had a good relationship with Sherman and she loved him.
Authorities believe Sherman was most likely murdered. A grand jury investigated her disappearance, but no indictments were issued. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Indianapolis Police Department
317-327-6613
317-327-3811
Other
Indianapolis Police Department
WTHR 13
Indiana Missing Persons Bulletin
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
