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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 Katherine Miller
Miller, date, approximate 1979
Date Missing 06/20/1979
Missing From
Provo, Utah
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 07/21/1932 (90)
Age 46 years old
Height and Weight 5'6, 140 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Brown 1978 Honda Civic (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Gray hair, hazel eyes. Miller wears an upper dental bridge.
Details of Disappearance Miller was last seen in Provo, Utah on June 20, 1979. She had dinner with her daughter at Price's Ice Cream Shop that day.
Miller had just found out her ex-husband had died the previous year, and she was upset that no one had informed her earlier. She said she wanted to go visit his grave in the American Fork City Cemetery in American Fork, Utah. She has never been heard from again. She was reported missing on July 5.
Nearly three weeks after her disappearance, Miller's brown 1978 Honda Civic was found hidden near a sheep herder's camp on the back side of Mount Timpanogos, beyond the Timpooneke campground.
One of the sheep herders told his boss the car belonged to a woman who got it stuck on a rough, rocky road. He stated the woman had lent him the car and he planned to drive to a Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners area.
When investigators questioned this man years later, he told them the woman had been wearing a red robe when she walked away from the car. However, Miller's red robe was found in the vehicle's backseat. Her purse, keys and wallet were also inside the vehicle. The sheep herder is considered a person of interest in her . When he took a polygraph, the results were inconclusive.
Miller graduated from nursing school at Brigham Young University and worked as a registered nurse for twenty years. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance, which remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Provo Police Department
801-852-6210
Other
Utah Department of Public Safety
ABC 4
The Salt Lake Tribune
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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