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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
Manuel Emilio Salado
Manuel, date, approximate 2007; Exondia Salado
Date Missing 10/08/2007
Missing From
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Black
Date of Birth 12/06/1973 (48)
Age 33 years old
Height and Weight 5'9 - 5'11, 175 - 190 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Manuel's nickname is Manny. He was born in the Dominican Republic.
Details of Disappearance Manuel was last seen in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on October 8, 2007. His wife, Exondia Jaye Salado, later said he came home from his Army Reserve basic training, left several days later and never returned. He was reported missing after he didn't show up for a weekend of military drills.
Manuel left his cellular phone, checkbook, credit cards, passport, military identification and driver's license behind at home. He also left behind his young daughter. Police found a box of bullets in his home, with six of them missing.
In December 2008, Exondia was arrested in Florida and charged with her husband's murder. Photographs of her are posted with this summary.
The day of his disappearance, Manuel had come to a friend, very frightened, and said he thought his wife was trying to kill him. He initially wanted to spend the night with his friend, but after speaking to Exondia on the phone he changed his mind and decided to come home.
When investigators looked at her computer, they discovered online searches for how to dismember a human body, recipes for human body consumption, how to build a barbecue pit and how a body decomposes. Exondia allegedly told two friends she shot Manuel to death, put his body inside a plastic box, kept it in the apartment for a week and then burned it on a grill in another home outside the city.
Her defense attorney argued that Manuel was still alive and had gone to the Dominican Republic, his birth country, to be with another woman, but Exondia was convicted of murder in April 2011. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Manuel's remains have never been found, but foul play is suspected in his due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Oklahoma City Police Department
405-297-1126
Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office
405-713-1631
Other
Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office
The Oklahoman
KOCO Oklahoma City
The Tulsa World
Unsolved in the News
NamUs
Oxygen
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