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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
Shannon Elaine Riley Arif
Arif, date, approximate 1998
Date Missing 03/17/1998
Missing From
Clarksville, Tennessee
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 04/04/1977 (45)
Age 20 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'6, 90 - 100 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A red and blue Tommy Hilfiger shirt, jogging pants and Nike sneakers.
Medical Conditions Arif may have been in the early stages of pregnancy at the time of her disappearance.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Arif has a mole on her neck and a mole on the left side of her upper lip. She wears contact lenses and her ears are pierced.
Details of Disappearance Arif was last seen in Clarksville, Tennessee on March 17, 1998. Her husband, a soldier stationed at nearby Fort Campbell, saw her before he left for work at 9:40 a.m.
She was scheduled to work at Walmart from 4:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. that day, but she never showed up. After she didn't return home from work that evening, her husband went to Walmart and found her car in the parking lot, locked, with her purse still inside. He reported her missing
Arif has never been heard from again, and since she was last seen her bank account hasn't been touched. According to one coworker, she was having marital problems, and authorities looked into the possibility that she had simply left on her own, but they became suspicious after an extended time period passed with no indication of her whereabouts.
A search of the two-and-a-half mile radius around the Walmart turned up no indication of her whereabouts. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Clarksville Police Department
931-648-0656
Other
Texas Department of Public Safety
NamUs
Middle Tennessee Mysteries
WKRN
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