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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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Mary Elizabeth Loper
Mary, date, approximate 2002
Date Missing 05/29/2002
Missing From
Lucedale, Mississippi
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 12/02/1974 (47)
Age 27 years old
Height and Weight 5'6, 150 - 200 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A light yellow t-shirt, cutoff blue jeans, white sneakers and a wedding band with a diamond.
Medical Conditions Mary has a history of methamphetamine abuse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue/green eyes. Mary has a scar on her abdomen, a strawberry birthmark between her right knee and ankle, and a tattoo on her ribcage. She had a two-inch cut above her right eye at the time of her May 2002 disappearance; it had been stitched shut with twelve stitches. She wears oval-shaped wire-framed eyeglasses, and her ears are double-pierced. Her nickname is MeMe or Me Me.
Details of Disappearance Mary was last seen in the 200 block of Clarence Bonnett Road in Lucedale, Mississippi at approximately 10:00 p.m. on May 29, 2002. Her husband, Jonathan Carl Loper, who goes by his middle name, said his six-year-old son woke him up at 4:00 a.m. the next day. The couple's four-month-old baby was crying and Mary was gone. She has never been heard from again.
Mary and Carl married in 1992. According to her family, the couple had a very happy relationship until the late nineties, when Mary began using methamphetamines to lose weight.
On May 29, the day of Mary's disappearance, Mary called her mother from the hospital emergency room, where she'd gone to get stitches. She told her mother that Carl had injured her during an argument, then dropped her off at the hospital and left, and she needed a ride home. Mary also called her sister and said she was afraid Carl would hurt her, but she was going to go home to get the children. Her sister, her mother and a minister she knew all offered to accompany her, but she refused their help. She was last seen after her mother dropped her off at home.
Carl didn't report his wife missing; Mary's mother and sister did on May 30 after they called the house to check on her and were told she had disappeared. When police went to the home to investigate, they found some blood, but it may have been from the cut Mary had had sutured the night before she vanished.
They also found marijuana plants and arrested Carl for drug possession. He was already out on bond for another drug charge and an assault charge from 2001, stemming from an incident where he allegedly shot another man in the face. Carl was incarcerated for a time after Mary's disappearance, but he has since been released. Investigators stated he had not been cooperative with the investigation into his wife's disappearance.
A search of the area failed to produce any evidence as to Mary's whereabouts. She is the mother of three sons, who are now in the custody of their grandparents. Mary's remains unsolved. Authorities stated there was no evidence of foul play, but they are uncertain as to what happened to her.
Investigating Agency
George County Sheriff's Office
601-947-4811
Other
NamUs
America's Most Wanted
The Sun Herald
Gulf Live
The Hattiesburg American
George County Sheriff's Office
Halos Investigations
WMC 5
WLOX
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
