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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
Janet Callies
Callies, date, approximate 1978
Date Missing 11/15/1978
Missing From
Grand Island, Nebraska
Missing Classification Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 40 years old
Height and Weight 5'1 - 5'3, 115 - 130 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Red and beige or red and white four-door 1975 Dodge Dart with the Nebraska license plate number 8C4696
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Callies may use the last name Jones.
Details of Disappearance Callies was last seen in at the Sandbar, a bar near Interstate 80 in Grand Island, Nebraska, on November 15, 1978. At 7:30 p.m., she called her oldest daughter from the Sandbar and they made plans to have dinner together. At 8:30, Callies left the bar to pick up her daughter at her apartment and go to dinner.
Callies never arrived at the apartment and has never been heard from again. She was reported missing by her ex-husband on November 21. Her car, a red and beige or red and white four-door 1975 Dodge Dart with the Nebraska license plate number 8C4696, has never been located.
In 1984, the serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to Callies's murder. He stated he and his partner-in-crime, Ottis Toole, had strangled Callies and buried her body "somewhere between the north edge of Grand Island and the South Dakota border." He said he couldn't remember much about what they did with her car but thought they might have driven it to Canada and sold it to a junk dealer. He remembered personal details about Callies, such at the fact that she had three children.
A photo of Lucas is posted with this summary. He is also considered a possible suspect in the disappearances of Eva DeBruhl and Elizabeth "Terri" Bishop, and he confessed to involvement in the unsolved disappearances of Cheryl Scherer and a married couple, John and Faye Whatley.
There was never enough evidence to charge Lucas and Toole in connection with Callies's and both men have since died in prison. Lucasclaimed to have killed approximately 600 people, but he confessed to many crimes he did not commit and the exact number of his victims is unknown.
Investigating Agency
Grand Island Police Department
308-385-5400
Other
NamUs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Lincoln Journal Star
The Fremont Tribune
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