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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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Elizabeth A. Eisel
Eisel, date, approximate 1985
Date Missing 09/01/1985
Missing From
Bellevue, Washington
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 01/10/1962 (60)
Age 23 years old
Height and Weight 5'3 - 5'4, 115 - 125 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Eisel may use the alias Danielle DeLoge. Her sight is severely impaired and she wears contact lenses and eyeglasses.
Details of Disappearance Eisel was placed for adoption at birth. Her adoptive mother and brother were killed in a car accident in 1981 and Eisel began to show interest in locating her birth mother afterwards. She moved to California in the early 1980s to live with a relative.
Eisel located her half-brother, Steven "Troy" DeLoge (alias Sheldon Wright VanHoute), who is her birth mother's son. Steven had a criminal record by the 1980s and was wanted on arson charges at the time he met Eisel. He and Eisel passed themselves off as a married couple and she changed her name to Danielle DeLoge in 1982. She gave birth to Steven's son in 1983. The three of them moved into an apartment complex near Main Street and northeast 108th Avenue in Bellevue, Washington in early 1985.
Eisel and Steven's relationship deteriorated shortly after their relocation. She began dating another man and Steven became interested in another woman who resided in their complex. Authorities said that the woman refused to date Steven until he ended his relationship with Eisel.
Eisel's boyfriend told investigators that she and Steven had a violent argument in August 1985. The boyfriend said that she and her son moved into his residence shortly afterwards. Eisel's boyfriend told authorities that she intended to end her relationship with Steven after the Labor Day holiday.
Eisel was last seen in the Bellevue area sometime during early September 1985. Steven claimed that Eisel left the vicinity and abandoned their child. She left all of her personal belongings behind and has never been heard from again.
Steven began dating the woman from their complex shortly after Eisel disappeared. They married and relocated to northern Idaho by December 1985. Eisel and Steven's son was left behind in Bellevue and eventually placed in Washington State Child Protective Services' custody.
Steven and his wife divorced in the midwest sometime during the 1990s. She is reportedly afraid to speak about her time with Steven for fear of repercussions.
Because she was estranged from the rest of her family, Eisel wasn't reported missing until 1988. Steven relocated to DeSoto County, Mississippi in the mid-1990s and rented a farmhouse near the Olive Branch area. He became romantically involved with Katherine Lowery.
Lowery and her two children moved into Steven's residence shortly afterwards. Lowery disappeared from the area on February 1, 1999 and has never been heard from again. Steven moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming with her children around the same time. In 2000, he was convicted of sexually abusing Lowery's daughter and sentenced to six life in prison.
Steven remains the prime suspect in both Eisel and Lowery's s, although he has never been charged in connection with either disappearance. Foul play is suspected in the women's s, which remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Bellevue Police Department
425-452-6917
Other
Bellevue Police Department
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Sun Herald
Washington State Missing Persons Information
The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
The Eastside Journal
NamUs
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