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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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Jennifer Lynn Fay
Jennifer, date, approximate 1989; Age-progression to age 46 (date, approximate 2008); Kevin Maler, date, approximate 2022
Date Missing 11/14/1989
Missing From
Brockton, Massachusetts
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 12/25/1972 (49)
Age 16 years old
Height and Weight 5'4, 90 - 100 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A purple blouse, a black silk jacket with an Iron Maiden patch, dungarees and white sneakers.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Jennifer has a scar above her left eyebrow. Her teeth are crowded in the front of her mouth. Her nickname is Jen.
Details of Disappearance Jennifer was supposed to be babysitting her siblings in their Brockton, Massachusetts home on November 14, 1989, but decided to go out with friends. Between 9:30 and 9:45 p.m., she returned to her home to get a sweater and asked her cousin to mind the children while she went to a party on Emerson Avenue.
Her cousin came over at 10:00 p.m., and Jennifer then left her residence. She was in good spirits at the time. She never returned.
Jennifer initially went to a female friend's house near her own home, but her friend was not at home and the girl's mother refused to let her inside. The mother says Jennifer smelled of liquor and appeared to be slightly drunk. She left the residence accompanied by a 22-year-old man, Mark Wombolt.
They went to a local convenience store at the end of Jennifer's street, less than a minute's walk from her house. Wombolt said Jennifer went inside the store, but he didn't feel well and went home while she was inside. He also said he'd seen her talking to two men in a truck and she may have gotten inside the truck with thw men.
That was the last time anyone ever saw or heard from her. She was reported missing the next morning when she had not returned home from the party.
Authorities originally thought Jennifer had run away from home. She had run away before, but had never been gone very long and had always stayed in touch with her parents. She is described as a very social person who was reportedly happy with her life in 1989. Some of her friends were apparently involved with drugs and possibly other il activities, and many were not cooperative with police during the initial investigation.
Investigators now believe Jennifer was abducted shortly after her disappearance, probably by someone she knew and trusted. In 2003, there was a tip that Jennifer was murdered and her body placed in the cab of a truck and dumped in a pond just outside of Brockton, minutes from her home. Authorities searched the pond but found no evidence.
One suspect in Jennifer's disappearance is Kevin Wayne Maler. He was 22 years old in 1989 and a friend of Wombolt, the last person known to have seen Jennifer. He has an extensive criminal record and a history of violence towards women and girls. After her disappearance, he allegedly bragged to people about having buried her body.
In September 2022, Maler was charged with kidnapping and murder in the 2019 death of Kevin Kyle Craig in South Carolina. At the time he was charged, he was already in prison serving a five-year sentence for a drug offense. A photo of Maler is posted with this summary.
Craig's death was initially considered accidental. Investigators believe Maler confined him in his own trailer and killed him by injecting him with an unknown substance, possibly insulin, and that the motive was to cover up his and Craig's involvement in the 2019 disappearance of Pamela "Faith" Roach, who was last seen in Walhalla, South Carolina in February 2019.
No one has been charged in connection with Roach's disappearance or Jennifer's, butfoul play is suspected in both s.
Investigating Agency
Brockton Police Department
508-941-0200
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The Boston Globe
The Enterprise
Fox News
Child Quest International
The Patriot Ledger
Where is Jennifer Fay?
The Boston Channel
The Boston Herald
Unsolved in the News
NamUs
Boston 25 News
WYFF 4
The Podcast
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