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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.



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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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Milda Dahl McQuillan
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
McQuillan, date, approximate 1975
Date Missing 06/17/1975
Missing From
Ponsford, Minnesota
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 12/23/1903 (118)
Age 71 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 130 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue and white striped shirt, a blue jacket, blue slacks and a gold wedding ring with an oval setting and filigree around the stones.
Associated Vehicle(s) Pea-green two-door 1968 Dodge
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Light brown hair, blue eyes. McQuillan's nickname is Millie. She wears plastic-framed eyeglasses.
Details of Disappearance McQuillan was last seen driving her pea-green two-door 1968 Dodge south on East Bad Medicine Lake Road near Ponsford, Minnesota on June 17, 1975. She was on her way to visit a couple she knew.
Recent rain had made the unpaved roads muddy, and a few miles into the eighteen-mile trip, McQuillan's car stalled. A postal carrier she knew helped her get it started again. Later on in the trip, just a mile from her friends' home, she made a wrong turn and asked a truck driver for directions.
The truck driver was the last person known to have seen McQuillan. She never arrived at her friends' house and was never heard from again. Three days later her car was later found abandoned, stuck in the mud on an unused logging road approximately one hundred feet off east Bad Medicine Lake Road, 35 miles west of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. This was in a heavily wooded, swampy area across the street from her friends' cabin.
Searchers who looked through the area right after McQuillan's car was found located no sign of her. Three days later,52 members of the National Guard were deployed to search the same area and found her scarf and a belt hanging from bush in plain sight. Her daughter believes the items may have been planted after the location was originally searched.
According to her daughter, the couple McQuillan planned to visit that day never attempted to search for her. When a police officer interviewed the man three days after McQuillan was last seen, his clothes were wet. The officer asked him why and the man said he'd been walking on the road, but the officer thought the clothes were too wet for that, and that the man had probably been walking through tall grass in the woods.
McQuillan was the youngest of ten children, was close to her children and grandchildren, and enjoyed cooking and playing cards. Her daughter believes she may have been murdered. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Becker County Sheriff's Office
218-847-2661
Other
NamUs
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
The Morrison County Record

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.



Missing Person Photos

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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