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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
Jonathan Aaron Hawkins
Hawkins, date, approximate 2007
Date Missing 09/25/2007
Missing From
Riverview, Florida
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 09/22/1978 (44)
Age 29 years old
Height and Weight 5'9 - 5'11, 130 - 160 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Orange 2002 Chevrolet Camaro (accounted for); 1987 Nissan 300ZX (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Hawkins has a tattoo of an ax on his left shoulder, a burn scar on that shoulder and a vertical scar on his left leg. His ears are pierced and his tongue has two piercings. He goes by his middle name, Aaron, which some agencies spell "Arron."
Details of Disappearance Hawkins was last seen in Riverview, Florida on September 25, 2007. That day his work van broke down and, at 7:39 p.m., his mother picked him and a friend, Jason Smith, up from a parking lot near State Road 60 and Interstate 75. Hawkins took three bags, containing work equipment and clothes, out of his van and put them in his mother's car.
Once she took him to her home, he asked to borrow his grandmother's orange 2002 Chevrolet Camaro. He said he would buy some parts and make repairs to his van, then return her car the next day. Hawkins's family never saw him again.
According to Smith, Hawkins went to meet a "preppy guy" in Town 'N Country, Florida to buy cocaine for resale, and Smith never saw him after that. When Hawkins's family heard the story, they contacted police. They were unable to report Hawkins missing for two more days, however.
In mid-2008, the was removed from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office missing persons database and this fact wasn't discovered for two months. The sheriff's office said it had been a mistake and re-listed Hawkins as an endangered missing person.
Hawkins's grandmother's Camaro was found abandoned in the parking lot of a Lowe's store on Gibsonton Drive on October 31, over a month after he disappeared. The police returned it to his family. He left behind his own 1987 Nissan 300ZX, which he cherished. Authorities searched his home at the RV park, but they didn't find anything of interest.
A neighbor reported seeing Smith removing items from Hawkins's RV and into a truck a few weeks after Hawkins disappeared. Smith was later imprisoned on drug charges.
Hawkins has been in trouble with the law before; as a teenager, he was convicted of grand theft auto after he stole a BMW from someone he knew, drove it to another state and crashed it. He served time in prison and went through a period of probation.
He cleaned up his life after the conviction, started a carpet-installing business, and moved into Rice Creek RV Resort, where he was seen as a good and quiet neighbor. His remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
800-873-8477
Other
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Florida Department of Corrections
The St. Petersburg Times
North American Missing Persons Network
NamUs
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
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