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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
Gary Alan Warner
Warner, date, approximate 2011
Date Missing 11/14/2011
Missing From
Mansfield, Ohio
Missing Classification Lost/Injured Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Age 56 years old
Height and Weight 5'6 - 5'8, 170 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and dark-colored sweatpants.
Medical Conditions Warner suffers from schizophrenia. He also has a history of addiction, but had been clean and sober for eight years by the time of his disappearance.
Associated Vehicle(s) A bicycle (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Warner has tattoos on both arms and a scar on his right hand. He wears eyeglasses.
Details of Disappearance Warner was last seen in Mansfield, Ohio on the evening of November 14, 2011. He was riding his bicycle in the rain behind the former Ohio Brass building when a police officer attempted to stop him; there had been several scrap metal thefts in the area.
Warner fled on his bicycle, then jumped off of it and began running away. In the dark and the downpour he apparently didn't see the drop-off into Touby Run, a nearby creek which was running higher and faster than usual due to recent rains. The officer heard Warner cry out as he fell into the creek, but never actually saw him in the water.
Police walked along the banks of Touby Run, but didn't see any sign of Warner. Weather conditions at the time were too bad for divers or a police helicopter to search. Warner can't swim and is presumed to have drowned in the creek, but his body has never been recovered.
Investigating Agency
Mansfield Police Department
419-755-9724
Other
Ohio Attorney General's Office
The Mansfield News-Journal
NamUs
The Mansfielders Perspective
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