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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
Lisa Marie Shuttleworth
Shuttleworth, date, approximate 2003
Date Missing 09/04/2003
Missing From
Aiken, South Carolina
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 06/25/1969 (53)
Age 34 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 102 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description Possibly a white t-shirt with writing on the front and pink or gray sweatpants. Possibly carrying a pager.
Associated Vehicle(s) Borrowed blue/green 1994 Pontiac Grand Am
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Shuttleworth may use the last name Maybrey. Her right foot is slightly smaller than her left foot, and her right big toe is much smaller than her left one. Her ears are pierced and she has a small scar below her navel and a slight overbite.
Details of Disappearance Shuttleworth's teenage daughter was spending the night at a friend's home on September 3, 2003. She called her mother at her Aiken, South Carolina home and they spoke at 7:00 a.m. on September 4; Shuttleworth's daughter told her mother she would be getting a ride after school with friends.
About an hour later, an acquaintance saw Shuttleworth in a blue/green 1994 Pontiac Grand Am at the Pit Stop convenience store on Pine Log Road in Aiken. She appeared to be reading as she sat in her idling car, which she had borrowed from a friend.
Shuttleworth called her friend at 10:00 a.m. and told him she was expecting a guest. She was supposed to pick up her son from a bus stop that afternoon, but did not. She has never been heard from again, and all phone calls after 10:00 a.m. went unanswered.
Shuttleworth's daughter became concerned that evening when she was unable to contact her mother. She went to her mother's Miller Street home at 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. The house was locked and Shuttleworth's car was still parked there.
There was tea on the stove, but it had been moved off the burner and had a napkin on the teapot handle. Shuttleworth's purse was missing, but her driver's license and Social Security card were there.
Shuttleworth was divorced in 2003 and was a single parent to her two children. She is a graduate of Midland Valley High School and has work experience in bookkeeping and secretarial duties. She was unemployed at the time of her disappearance; her last job was managing Jerico's, a private club on Belvedere-Clearwater Road owned by a relative.
Shuttleworth's parents believe she was abducted from outside her home, and police suspect foul play was involved in her disappearance. It is uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning or to abandon her children, who are now in the care of their maternal grandparents. Shuttleworth's remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
800-922-9709
Other
Aiken County Sheriff's Office
The Augusta Chronicle
News on Beech Island, South Carolina
Porchlight International for the Missing and Unidentified
NBC Augusta
The Aiken Standard
Facebook Page for Lisa Shuttleworth
NamUs
Unsolved in the News
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