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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.
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Sandra June Horwath
Horwath, date, approximate 1973; Gary Taylor
Date Missing 10/01/1973
Missing From
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 33 years old
Height and Weight 5'6, 135 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A house dress or blue tank top and pullover shirt, a white blazer, blue stretch pants, and sandals with a beige strap and wooden soles. Carrying a purse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Horwath's nickname is Sandy. Her ears are pierced. At the time of her disappearance, her hair was below her shoulders.
Details of Disappearance Horwath was last seen in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 1, 1973. She put her three children to bed at 10:00 p.m. When the children woke up the next day between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m., Horwath was gone, and she did not show up for work at the University of Michigan hospital that day.
The flowerbeds outside the residence had been trampled. Horwath's vehicle and watch were left behind at home, but her purse was missing and has never been found.
Horwath was an acquaintance of Gary Addison Taylor. He had a history of violent attacks on women going back to his teenage years in the 1940s and 1950s, and had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years due to his behavior. A photo of Taylor is posted with this summary.
Around the same time Horwath disappeared, Taylor stopped going to to his outpatient appointments at Ypsilanti State Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry and left Michigan. He was apprehended in Texas in 1975 and confessed to the murders of four women in three different states: Michigan, Texas and Washington.
Taylor is currently serving a life sentence in Washington. Authorities investigated his possible involvement in Horwath's disappearance and other s, but were never able to conclusively link him to any other murders. It's not clear whether he is still a suspect in Horwath's disappearance, but authorities believe Horwath was taken against her will.
Investigating Agency
Ann Arbor Police Department
734-794-6920
Other
NamUs
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Murderpedia
The Lansince State Journal
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