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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
Kelly Eileen Morrissey
Kelly, date, approximate 1984; Age-progression to age 49 (date, approximate 2017); Theresa Fusco; Jacqueline Martarella; John Kogut in 1984
Date Missing 06/12/1984
Missing From
Lynbrook, New York
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 08/22/1968 (54)
Age 15 years old
Height and Weight 5'4, 130 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A pink sleeveless sweatshirt, jeans, white sneakers and a gold chain necklace with a charm.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Dark blonde hair, blue eyes. Kelly has a scar on her forehead. Her ears are pierced. Some agencies give her eye color as brown.
Details of Disappearance Kelly left a female friend's residence at approximately 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. on June 12, 1984 in her hometown of Lynbrook, New York. She was last seen walking west on Earl Avenue and Merrick Road shortly thereafter. She is believed to have been destined for Captain Video, a now-defunct video parlor half a mile west of Merrick Road, but she never arrived there.
Kelly has never been heard from again. She had a part-time job at a shade and venetian blinds packaging factory at the time she disappeared. She lived with her mother, stepfather, siblings and stepsiblings, and rarely saw her biological father.
Authorities do not believe Kelly left of her own accord. She had laid out the clothes she was planning to wear for the next day, she never picked up her last paycheck and she left all of her money and personal belongings behind. She disappeared the day before she was supposed to take an important final exam in her summer school social studies class.
Kelly had been experimenting with alcohol prior to her disappearance, was associating with older men, and sometimes broke her curfew, but her loved ones say she was no more rebellious than most teenagers.
One of Kelly's friends, Theresa Fusco, disappeared on November 10, 1984, almost five months after Kelly. Her body was found three weeks later, on December 5, about five blocks from her home.
On March 26, 1985, several months after Fusco was found, another area teenager, Jacqueline Martarella, 19, disappeared after she left a friend's Oceanside home to go to her workplace at Burger King. Martarella's body was found on April 22 on a golf course. Police are looking into the possibility that Martarella's, Fusco's, and Kelly's s are all related.
All three women were Caucasian teenagers who were last seen walking alone in the evening hours. Both Martarella and Fusco were sexually assaulted and strangled and both were found naked, their bodies dumped in open fields. Their clothing was never found.
Dennis Halstead, John Restivo and John Kogut were convicted of murdering Fusco and served seventeen years in prison for the crime before they were released and their convictions vacated after DNA testing cast doubt on their guilt. The DNA found on Fusco's body didn't match any of them.
Kogut, who had confessed to the murder, was the only one of the suspects to be tried again after the conviction was overturned. He was acquitted by a judge. Kelly had dated Kogut at one time, and she also knew Halstead and would occasionally visit his apartment with her friends.
Fusco's and Martarella's murders are unsolved. Photographs of Kogut and the two murdered teens are posted below this summary.
Foul play is suspected in Kelly's ; she is presumed dead by both law enforcement and her family. Her mother now lives in Vermont. Kelly's remains unsolved. Authorities are not sure if it has anything to do with the two murders.
Investigating Agency
Nassau County Police Department
516-573-5336
Other
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
NamUs
New York State Missing and Exploited Children Clearinghouse
Newsday
Operation Lookout
The Doe Network
The New York Daily News
Facebook Page for Kelly Morrissey
The Innocence Project
NBC New York
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