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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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Max Lilburn Stone
Stone, date, approximate 1976
Date Missing 12/30/1976
Missing From
Lubbock, Texas
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Age 42 years old
Height and Weight Unknown
Medical Conditions Stone was in poor health at the time of his disappearance, and took medication which he doesn't have with him.
Associated Vehicle(s) Yellow 1973 Pontiac (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male.
Details of Disappearance Stone was last seen at a bar on Brownfield Highway in Lubbock, Texas on December 30, 1976. He has never been heard from again and there is no evidence he ever returned to his apartment in the southwest part of town. All his belongings were left behind, including his last paycheck and his medication.
His yellow 1973 Pontiac was impounded at 4:00 a.m. on December 31, after it was found parked in a lane of traffic in the 300 block of east 34th Street. The driver, Victor Briones, was drunk and he was arrested and booked into the Lubbock City Jail. That same day at 2:00 p.m., Stone's wallet and identification were found near Tahoka Highway and turned in to the police.
Stone's parents were notified about the wallet being found on January 5. Two days later, his parents reported him missing, but the investigating officer did not realize Stone's wallet had been located. He did, however, check local impound lots for Stone's vehicle and found out that it had been impounded on December 31.
On January 14, a felony theft warrant was issued for Briones in connection with Stone's car. He was arrested in Quanah, a town near the Texas/Oklahoma border. Briones stated he and a friend, Felix Ybarra Jr., had had last seen Stone walking down a deserted road in Lubbock County.
The Lubbock Police Department began searching outlying parts of the city for Stone, then turned the over to the sheriff's office when it became evident that the incident had happened outside the city limits.
Ybarra had traveled back to his home in Nebraska after Stone's disappearance, and he was arrested there and charged with felony theft. The charges for both men were upgraded to aggravated robbery in April 1977.
Authorities believe the two suspects killed Stone in order to steal his vehicle. One of the men said the other had stabbed Stone and held his head in the water. When investigators asked the second man about this, he denied it and said the first man had stabbed Stone twice in the left side of his ribcage.
The suspects also apparently stole Stone's watch; one of them subsequently gave it to his father-in-law as a gift, and the police took it into evidence when they learned of this.
Although investigators hoped to file murder charges against Ybarra and Briones, Stone's body was never found. The outcome of the robbery is unknown, and it's unclear whether the suspects were ever charged with murder.
Stone was in regular touch with his parents at the time of his disappearance. He worked as a medical technologist at University Hospital, but planned to quit his job and move back to Dallas, Texas, where his parents lived, because he hoped the warmer climate of Dallas might improve his health.
Foul play is suspected in his due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Lubbock Police Department
806-775-2816
Lubbock County Sheriff's Office
806-775-1400
Other
NamUs
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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
