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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.
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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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Faye Eva Whatley
Faye, date, approximate 1976
Date Missing 01/27/1976
Missing From
Bastrop, Texas
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 68 years old
Height and Weight Unknown
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female.
Details of Disappearance Faye and her husband, John, disappeared together. After they didn't show up for their granddaughter's wedding rehearsal in Houston, Texas on January 30, 1976, and then missed the actual wedding the next day, their family asked the police to do a wellness check. At 10:30 p.m. on January 31, a sheriff's deputy went to their house at Hill's Prairie, six miles south of Bastrop, Texas, and found it deserted.
One theory is that the door was used as a stretcher to convey John and Faye, or their bodies, out of the house. There were scratch marks on the front door of the residence, which could have been made as the bedroom door passed through.
Although the last confirmed sighting of John and Faye happened on January 26, authorities believe the couple disappeared either late on January 27 or early January 28. They base this on the fact that there was a January 27 issue of the newspaper open inside the house, but the January 28 issue was still in the couple's mailbox.
A blue or green van or pickup truck had been seen by hunters at about 9:45 p.m. on January 27, speeding down the road to the Whatley residence. The vehicle came back in the opposite direction about an hour later. It has not been identified.
An extensive search of the local area turned up no sign of the Whatleys. The missing bedroom door was found about a year after the couple disappeared, in the loft of a barn that had been previously searched multiple times.
John was a self-made millionaire who had operated a small dairy in what is now Austin, Texas starting in the 1920s. He later sold the dairy and invested in some land which he resold for $500,000 cash. His assets at the time of his disappearance totaled somewhere between $2 and $7 million, and he and his wife both owned Mercedes-Benz cars, but they were not conspicuously wealthy and kept to themselves. John had moved to the Bastrop area about twenty years prior to his disappearance and he and Faye married in 1972. They had few close friends and no known enemies.
The serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to John and Faye's murders in 1984. A photo of Lucas is posted with this summary. He was convicted of the 1979 murder of a woman in Texas and sentenced to death. The state's former governor, George W. Bush, commuted his sentence to life imprisonment prior to Lucas's scheduled 1999 execution. He later died in prison. Lucas claimed to have killed approximately 600 people.
Lucas said he and an accomplice had stabbed the Whatleys to death, took their bodies to Nevada and dumped them in the desert. The police at the time stated they found his confession in the Whatley to be credible and that they were considering filing murder charges against him, but charges were never filed.
Lucas confessed to many crimes he did not commit and the exact number of his victims is unknown. It's unclear whether he is still a suspect in the Whatleys' s. He is also considered a possible suspect in the disappearances of Eva DeBruhl, Elizabeth "Terri" Bishop, Janet Callies and Cheryl Scherer.
No ransom demand was made in the Whatleys' disappearances, but investigators do believe they may have been kidnapped and killed. The motive for their possible abductions has never been established, however. Foul play is suspected in their s, which remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Bastrop County Sheriff's Office
512-549-5100
Other
NamUs
The Austin American-Statesman
The Lincoln Journal Star
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