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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
Loida Gabon Wideman
Loida, date, approximate 2012; Lonnell Wideman
Date Missing 05/13/2012
Missing From
Honolulu, Hawaii
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Asian
Age 39 years old
Height and Weight 5'2, 135 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Gold 2003 Saturn Ion with the Hawaii license plate number NBN186 (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Asian female. Black hair, brown eyes. Loida is of Filipino descent. Her ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Loida was last seen leaving her residence at 9:30 p.m. in Waipahu in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 13, 2012, driving her gold 2003 Saturn Ion with the Hawaii license plate number NBN186. She was en route to her job as a nurse's aide at a care home, but never arrived and has never been heard from again.
Loida is described as a responsible individual and a reliable worker who wouldn't have left without warning. She left behind three sons and disappeared on Mother's Day.
Four days after her disappearance, her car was found abandoned on Lehua Avenue, near First Street, in Pearl City, Hawaii, several miles from her home. A bloodhound traced Loida's scent from the car down a well-traveled bike path to some dumpsters, which the authorities searched, but they found nothing of interest.
Loida's ex-husband, Lonnell Reginald Wideman, has a criminal past; he was convicted of multiple offenses in the 1980s. In 1988, he was convicted of an attempted murder charge stemming from a 1985 incident where he broke into a woman's apartment and injured her with a knife.
He got a prison sentence and was paroled in 1997, but in 2007 he was sent back to prison for violating the conditions of the release: he had visited the Philippines without permission from his parole officer. Loida filed for divorce in 2008; she got custody of their children, and lived with them and her mother. In 2010, Lonnell was paroled again.
A photo of Lonnell is posted with this summary. He was questioned about his ex-wife's disappearance and was supposed to inform his parole officer of this. His failure to do so constituted a parole violation, his second since being released in 2010: in 2011, a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her, and although she didn't press charges, she did get a temporary restraining order against him and he didn't tell his parole officer about it.
He was arrested five days after Loida's disappearance and sent to prison for the parole violations, but authorities stated Lonnell wasn't a suspect in her in spite of his violent past. Their children are being cared for by relatives.
Loida's disappearance is considered suspicious. She hasn't used her credit cards since her disappearance and there's no evidence she left the state of Hawaii. She was born in the Philippines. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Honolulu Crime Stoppers
808-955-8300
Other
Honolulu Crime Stoppers
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Hawaii News Now
KHON 2
KITV 4
Loida Wideman's Facebook Page
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