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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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Bobby Joe Horn
Horn, date, approximate 1977
Date Missing 08/31/1977
Missing From
Washington D.C., Washington D.C.
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Black
Age 43 years old
Height and Weight Unknown height, 230 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Horn's radio name is Bob "Nighthawk" Terry.
Details of Disappearance Horn was last seen in Washington, D.C. He was missed after he failed to pick up his son at National Airport on August 31, 1977. He has never been heard from again. His dark blue 1976 Oldsmobile Toronado was found abandoned and burned in North Carolina months after his disappearance.
Horn was well-known in the D.C. area as a radio personality on the WHUR channel. He disappeared shortly after he quit the radio to form his own production company.
In 1978, Horn was indicted for failure to file income taxes during the years 1971 to 1974. Investigators suspect foul play was involved in his , however. There were rumors that he was murdered, his body dismembered and the parts scattered in North Carolina. These stories have never been confirmed.
In 1979, Linwood Gray, Horn's former business partner, was tried on drug and tax evasion charges. Prosecutors alleged Gray and several co-defendants ran a multimillion-dollar heroin-smuggling ring.
Gray, a former mental patient with a long criminal record and a history of violent behavior, testified that he had never been involved with drugs and his money actually came from a series of bank robberies. During his trial, Gray testified that Horn was a drug dealer who was involved with organized crime figures in New York.
Gray said he had heard a contract hit had been taken out on Horn's life, but he believed Horn had traveled to the Netherlands, grown a beard and was running a business there. Gray was acquitted of the drug charges, but convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 20 months in prison. It's unknown whether he was involved in Horn's .
Horn's disappearance remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Metropolitan Police Department
202-727-9099
Other
The Washington Examiner
The Washington Post
The Doe Network
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