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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
Kimberly Jane Britts
Britts, date, approximate 1985
Date Missing 04/06/1985
Missing From
Charlottesville, Virginia
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 21 years old
Height and Weight 5'6, 103 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A pullover shirt, blue jeans, a gold and diamond wedding ring set and a gold chain necklace. Carrying a burgundy Aigner purse with a handle and a zipper.
Associated Vehicle(s) Maroon and red Honda Civic hatchback with the Virginia license plate number FBY426 (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Britts has a surgical scar on her left breast near the nipple and a dime-sized circular scar in the middle of her forehead. Her maiden name is Gusler.
Details of Disappearance Britts was last seen in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 6, 1985. She had left her husband a month earlier and moved to a farm in Goochland County; the man who owned it was a friend of hers. On the day of her disappearance, the farm owner had gone to a business meeting, leaving Britts on the farm with a few farmhands, one of the farmhands' sisters, and his invalid father.
That morning, Britts told one of the farmhands she was leaving for a short time and would return. She never came back and has never been heard from again. A few days later, her maroon and red Honda Civic hatchback with the Virginia license plate number FBY426 was found abandoned at on Interstate 64 east, at the Route 616 exit ramp, in Albemarle County. There were red stains in the vehicle and Britts's purse was missing.
Both the farm owner and Britts's estranged husband had alibis for time she went missing and were ruled out as suspects in her . Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Virginia State Police
434-414-4450
Other
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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