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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
Bret R. Snow
Snow, date, approximate 2015; Colby Vodder; Alvaro Guajardo; Cheryl Sutton
Date Missing 12/02/2015
Missing From
Spokane County, Washington
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 01/05/1983 (39)
Age 32 years old
Height and Weight 5'7 - 5'9, 155 - 170 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Snow was unshaven at the time of his disappearance.
Details of Disappearance Snow was last seen on December 2, 2015, when a friend gave him and his dog a ride to a home in the 7800 block of north Starr Road in the Newman Lake area. His friend expected to hear back from him, but he never called her, and she tried several times to call him but wasn't able to reach him.
His cellular phone was last active at the north Starr Road address in the early morning hours of December 3; it stopped pinging at the local phone towers at 5:30 a.m. Two residents of the home said he left with some other people, leaving the dog behind; a family member later picked it up. Snow has never been heard from again. His loved ones reported him missing on December 15.
Snow used drugs at the time of his disappearance and frequently associated with other drug users and drug dealers. After his disappearance, his family got tips that he was killed in a drug deal gone bad. In June 2016, investigators searched the residence where he was last seen and found human hair and blood in a workshop there. DNA confirmed the blood was Snow's.
In December 2016, Colby D. Vodder was charged with second-degree murder in Snow's disappearance. He has a criminal history dating back to his mid-teens for burglary, theft, and weapons- and drug-related offenses. In May 2017, Alvaro Guajardo was charged with first-degree murder in the .
In November 2017, a third suspect was Cheryl L. Sutton was charged with first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and leading organized crime in Snow's . She was already in jail on a federal drug conviction at the time.Photos of Sutton, Guajardo and Vodder are posted with this summary.
Until late 2015, Sutton and another man, Kenneth L. Stone, rented a building where they lived and sold methamphetamines and heroin. Snow, according to prosecutors, delivered drugs for Sutton and Vodder, and they reportedly became angry with him when he accepted a trade, instead of cash, during a delivery.
Investigators stated Sutton and Stone had the SIM card for Snow's phone, and that Sutton also kept Snow's dog for a time after his presumed death. In August 2018, Stone was also charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping in Snow's .
Investigators believe he was beaten to death with a metal implement, perhaps a shovel, and dismembered. Witnesses told police his body was initially buried behind a barn in Greenacres, Washington before being dug up and moved, possibly more than once. One witness stated it had been dumped in a lake.
Vodder was the first of the suspects to be tried, in October 2018. After two days of deliberation, the jury acquitted him of kidnapping, but they were unable to reach a verdict on the charge of murder. He will have to be tried a second time on the murder charge.
Foul play is suspected in Snow's due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Spokane County Sheriff's Office
509-477-3191
Other
NamUs
The Idaho Spokesman-Review
The Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press
KXLY
KHQ Q6
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