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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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Connie Renee Williams
Williams, date, approximate 1996
Date Missing 11/03/1996
Missing From
Kansas City, Missouri
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 06/15/1964 (58)
Age 32 years old
Height and Weight 5'7, 175 pounds
Medical Conditions Williams has a history of drug abuse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Williams has a Cesarean section scar and possibly a hysterectomy scar on her abdomen. She has a steel rod implanted in her lower left leg and wore a leg brace at the time of her 1996 disappearance. She has a scar on her her lower left leg, a dot tattoo on her left wrist, and a yellow and green rose tattoo on her right wrist.
Details of Disappearance Williams was released from the city jail in Kansas City, Missouri at 2:13 a.m. on November 3, 1996. She was last seen in the vicinity of the 1100 block of Locust. She disappeared afterwards and has never been heard from again.
Williams frequented the Independence Avenue area of northeast Kansas City and the Kansas City, Kansas area at the time of her disappearance. She have remained in the Kansas City area after she went missing.
Williams kept in regular touch with her mother, who was caring for her children. The last time she saw her mother was on October 10, shortly after she was released from jail. She spent several days resting at her mother's home.
Williams told her mother there was a contract out for her life and she would probably be killed. After her disappearance, her family got anonymous telephone calls from people claiming she had been murdered. The stories were never verified.
Williams's disappearance is believed to be related to the disappearances and murders of several other local women who are believed to be the victims of a serial killer. The other missing women include Jamie Pankey and Cheresa Lordi; both of them disappeared from Kansas City, Pankey in 1996 and Lordi in 1997, and neither were ever found.
Several other women were murdered and their bodies dumped in the Missouri River; their s are believed to be connected to Lordi, Williams and Pankey's. All of the victims were connected to drugs and prostitution and frequented Independence Avenue.
Foul play is suspected in all the s, which remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Kansas City Police Department
816-234-5136
Other
Kansas City Police Department
NamUs
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes
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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