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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.
Missing Person Case Updates with Photos
Bambi Luann Brantley
Brantley, date, approximate 1986
Date Missing 10/22/1986
Missing From
Leesville, Louisiana
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 11/05/1960 (61)
Age 25 years old
Height and Weight 5'7, 110 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A light brown jacket, blue jeans and ankle boots. Carrying a navy blue wallet and purse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red hair, green eyes. Brantley's ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Brantley was last seen in Leesville, Louisiana on October 22, 1986. She walked to Leebo's, a nearby convenience store, where she purchased a drink and used the pay phone to call her brother at the Pit Grill and ask him if he could come home and bring her the car so she could go out with her boyfriend. Brantley and her brother lived together at Tower Trailer Park.
Her brother did come home within half an hour, and Brantley wasn't there, but the drink container from Leebo's was sitting on the floor of the trailer. He left the car and keys for her and got a ride back to the Pit Grill with a friend. When he arrived home in the early morning hours, Brantley was gone and the drink was still in the same spot on the floor. She has never been heard from again.
Two other women close to Brantley's age, who physically resembled her, disappeared from the same area and under similar circumstances: Karen Eads Hill in 1988 and Pamela Miller in 1989.
Hill was found raped, shot to death and tied to a tree ten miles away. A man pleaded guilty to manslaughter in her , was sentenced to 71 years in prison, and was paroled in 2017 after serving twenty years. Miller's skeletal remains were found at Fort Polk in December 1989; her murder has never been solved. It's unclear whether these s are related to Brantley's.
At the time of her disappearance, Brantley worked as a car salesperson at Pynes Auto Dealership. She had recently moved to the area from Bartlett, Tennessee. She had no history of drug use or of leaving without warning, and she enjoyed spending time in various local clubs and had many friends and acquaintances in the area.
Brantley's remains unsolved. Her older brother has died but the rest of her family is still searching for answers. Some agencies give the date of her disappearance as December 22, 1986.
Investigating Agency
Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office
337-238-0331
Other
Louisiana Repository for Unidentified & Missing People
The Dallas Morning News
The Baton Rouge Advocate
KPLC TV
KALB
The Plaquemine Post South
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 Case Updates with Photos