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
Melisa Maureen Sloan
Melisa, date, approximate 1994
Date Missing 05/01/1994
Missing From
Orlando, Florida
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 07/04/1970 (52)
Age 23 years old
Height and Weight 5'4, 130 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description Possibly her white nurse's uniform and a watch.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue or brown eyes. Melisa may spell her first name "Melissa" and may use the last name Brady or Brady-Sloan. Her ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Melisa was last seen in Orlando, Florida on May 1, 1994. She was supposed to drive to Houston, Texas, and had rented a car at Orlando National Airport. She has never been heard from again. Her rental car was found abandoned, stripped and burned in Pensacola, Florida after her disappearance.
Melisa and her husband, John Sloan, had moved to Florida from Kentucky about a year before her disappearance. They lived in the 1900 block of south Kirkman Road in Orlando. They had moved so John could attend school and train to become a motorcycle mechanic.
Their marriage was troubled, and police went to their residence in response to domestic violence issues twice in the nine months before Melisa vanished. The second time, John was arrested and charged with assaulting Melisa; that was still pending by the time Melisa went missing and she was due to testify against him the following week.
She left him and went back to Kentucky after the second domestic violence incident, but later reconciled with him and returned to Florida. Shortly before her disappearance, she told a co-worker she was planning to leave her husband.
John said Melisa had packed her things and left him for another man whom he did not know, but her family does not believe this story. Almost all of Melisa's belongings disappeared with her, but she left behind her bathrobe and her pet cat.
John divorced Melisa months after her disappearance and remarried, but his second wife died of a drug/alcohol overdose. He now lives in Washington state with his third wife and children. He has refused to cooperate with the investigation into Melisa's disappearance.
Melisa was employed as a licensed practical nurse at the time of her disappearance; she enjoyed her job. She graduated from Bardstown High School and Spencerian College. She was close to her family and they do not believe she would have left without telling anyone.
Her credit cards, driver's license, Social Security number and nursing license haven't been used since her disappearance. Foul play is suspected in her , which remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Orlando Police Department
407-246-2909
Other
Orlando Police Department
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
NamUs
United Press International
WESH 2
The Doe Network
Missing Person: Melisa Maureen (Brady) Sloan
The Louisville Courier-Journal
Project Jason
The Orlando Sentinel
WKRG Local 8
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
