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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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Shane Anthony Walker
Shane, date, approximate 1989; Age-progression to age 28 (date, approximate 2015)
Date Missing 08/10/1989
Missing From
Manhattan, New York
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Male
Race
Black
Date of Birth 12/07/1987 (34)
Age 1 year old
Height and Weight 3'0, 23 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue and white shirt, light blue pants and white LA Gear sneakers.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Shane's hair was uncut, braided and pulled back into a ponytail at the time he disappeared. He has a small scar under his chin and a birthmark on the back of his shoulder.
Details of Disappearance Shane was last seen at the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers playground located at 113th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in the New York borough of Manhattan on August 10, 1989. He was accompanied by his mother, Rosa Glover. While she was sitting on a bench, a ten-year-old girl and her five-year-old brother asked for permission to play with Shane, saying they didn't mind that he was very young. She said they could play.
While Shane and the two children were playing on the slide, an African-American man approached Glover and began a conversation with her. He spoke about crime and mentioned kidnapping, saying "things happen to children," and pointed to scars on himself which he said were from fighting. Glover became distracted while speaking to the man, and when she turned back to look for Shane, he was gone and so were the children he had been playing with.
The two children re-entered the park through a hole in the fence a short time later. They told Shane's mother they'd left him in the park. Glover immediately took the children to the police station to report her son missing. The police questioned the children extensively, and also interviewed the man who spoke to Shane's mother. They couldn't find any evidence that the children, their parents, or the man who talked to Glover were involved in his .
They looked into the possibility that Shane was taken by a member of his own family, but concluded he had probably been abducted by a non-relative. He has never been heard from again. Police stated they were seeking an unidentified man for questioning; he is described as African-American, 19 to 24 years old, 5'8 tall, wearing a yellow shirt and acid-washed jeans.
Shane's shares striking similarities with the disappearance ofChristopher Dansby, who disappeared from the same area of the same playground in May 1989, three months before Shane did. Both boys were African-American toddlers and lived in the same apartment building. Both disappeared on the same day of the week (Thursday) at roughly the same time of day (Shane at 5:00 p.m. and Christopher at 7:00 p.m.)
In addition, just before his disappearance, Christopher was playing the same two children who were with Shane when he was last seen. Police still aren't sure whether the s are related, however.
Authorities investigated the possibility that the boys' s were connected to a black market baby-ring operation and that the infant Andre Bryant, who was abducted from Brooklyn in March 1989 was possibly another victim. All of the children are African-American.
Shane's parents both still live in the same neighborhood he disappeared from, and his mother hopes he is still alive and will return to her. His remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
New York Police Department
646-610-6914
New York Housing Police Department
212-410-8500
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education of America
New York City Police Department
America's Most Wanted
The New York Daily News
Newsday
CNN
ABC 7 NY
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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