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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
Jamel Montrice Williams
Jamel, date, approximate 1994; Age-progression to age 27 (date, approximate 2017)
Date Missing 05/25/1994
Missing From
Toledo, Ohio
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Biracial, Black, White
Date of Birth 08/03/1990 (32)
Age 3 years old
Height and Weight 3'0, 30 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue t-shirt, shorts and blue sneakers.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Biracial (African-American/Caucasian) male. Blond hair, blue eyes.
Details of Disappearance Jamel's mother, Kelly Williams, stated she last saw him on May 25, 1994 at approximately 11:00 a.m. He was on the rear steps of his mother's apartment at Weiler Homes, a housing project on the east side of Toledo, Ohio. When his mother returned five minutes later, he had disappeared. Jamel has not been heard from again.
Gary Thomas was Kelly's live-in boyfriend at the time of Jamel's disappearance and the couple later married. (They are now divorced.) The month after Jamel went missing, Thomas's cousin filed charges against him for domestic violence, aggravated menacing, criminal trespass and criminal damaging.
His cousin said Thomas became violent after she brought up Jamel's disappearance. Thomas denied knowing anything about the child's disappearance, and Kelly defended him and said he had always been good to the child.
Authorities stated Kelly and Thomas did not cooperate with them and in fact hindered the investigation into the child's disappearance. Kelly refused to provide a sample of her DNA for comparison to any unidentified remains. She said she and her boyfriend resented being treated as suspects in the .
Police could find no evidence that Jamel had ever even lived in the apartment he supposedly disappeared from. Kelly had moved in on April 15, more than a month before his disappearance, but no one else living in the building reported having ever seen him.
Jamel's disappearance remains unsolved. It's classified as a non-family abduction by some agencies.
Investigating Agency
Toledo Police Department
419-245-3129
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
America's Most Wanted
Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Akron Beacon Journal
The Toledo Blade
Jamel's cousin's Facebook page
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