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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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Tracy Lynn Ramsey
Ramsey, date, approximate 1984; Gregory Breeden
Date Missing 10/30/1984
Missing From
Kansas City, Missouri
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 10/27/1964 (57)
Age 20 years old
Height and Weight 5'7, 120 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue and white striped knit shirt, an ankle-length brown leather coat, blue jeans, blue sneakers, a gold wedding band and another ring. Carrying a red cigarette .
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Ramsey may use her maiden name, Snow, and some agencies refer to her by that name. Her nickname is Big Red. Ramsey's hair was shoulder-length at the time of her disappearance. She had previously broken her left arm; the injury had healed by the time she disappeared but may show up in an X-ray. All of her teeth are missing.
Details of Disappearance Ramsey visited her parents' residence in the vicinity of Elmwood Avenue and the 4600 block of east 9th street in Kansas City, Missouri on October 30, 1984, three days after her twentieth birthday. She left to speak to a neighbor and never returned. A friend saw her walking down Independence avenue at 3:00 p.m. and gave her a ride to a grocery store four blocks from her home.
She may have been seen at 6:00 p.m. that day walking south on Van Brunt Boulevard from Independence Avenue, in the direction of her parents' home, but Ramsey never arrived there and the sighting has not been confirmed. She has never been heard from again.
At the time of her disappearance, she lived in the 100 block of north Wheeling Avenue, about a mile and a half from her parents' home. She had no car and would walk to visit her parents almost every day. She left behind a husband and two young sons and her family says it is uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning.
Ramsey was the one of a group of females between 13 and 31 from northeast Kansas City who either disappeared or were found murdered over a twelve-year period. Some, but not all, of them were known prostitutes. Their bodies were found dumped in local rivers, often mutilated. Most had been beaten to death. Ramsey and one other woman in the group, Tammie Wilkinson, remain missing.
In 1994, authorities publicly named Gregory W. Breeden as the primary suspect in seven of s. He had been a suspect since as early as 1982. Police searched his home and found women's clothing in various sizes, four teeth, nineteen knives and muddy underwear.
Breeden knew some of the victims and had dated one, and he reportedly knew things about some of the homicides that had not been publicly disclosed. He told police he had seen Ramsey in other areas of Kansas City after her disappearance, and that her body would never be found.
A photo of Breeden is posted with this summary. In 1996 he was charged with the murder of one of the women, but the was dismissed for lack of evidence after a key witness, a jailhouse informant, refused to testify. He did serve ten years in prison for writing bad checks, but was never convicted of any violent crimes, although violence was cited in one of his three divorces.
In 2014, Breeden was found dead of apparent natural causes in the Butler, Missouri hotel where he lived. It's not clear whether Wilkinson and Ramsey's disappearances are connected to him or to each other. The s remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Kansas City Police Department
816-234-5136
Other
Kansas City Police Department
The Doe Network
NamUs
The Kansas City Star
Fox 4
KMBC
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