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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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Morten Kurt Aigeltinger
Aigeltinger, date, approximate 2015
Date Missing 09/08/2015
Missing From
Manassas Park, Virginia
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Age 56 years old
Height and Weight 5'8, 155 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Green 2012 Ford F-150 pickup truck with the West Virginia license plate number 5XE590 (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, brown/hazel eyes. Aigeltinger was born in Norway. His nickname is Mort.
Details of Disappearance The last confirmed sighting of Aigeltinger was at a Sheetz gas station in Manassas Park, Virginia at 7:05 p.m. on September 8, 2015. He was driving a green 2012 Ford F-150 pickup truck with the West Virginia license plate number 5XE590.
A professional photographer, Aigeltinger was supposed to arrive at Osbourn High School in Prince William County, Virginia at 1:00 p.m. the next day for a photo shoot. He never arrived there and has never been heard from again, and since the sighting at the gas station his credit and debit cards have not been used.
On the evening of September 14, his truck was found undamaged and abandoned on John Risser Road, about a mile from his twenty-acre property in the 1100 block of Cattail Run Road in Charlestown, West Virginia. There was no sign of him at the scene. His wallet and cellular phone are the only belongings known to have gone missing with him.
Aigeltinger lived with Gale Livingstone, and her mother. Livingstone was his sometime girlfriend and he worked for her part time at the organic farm she ran on their property. It was she who reported him missing, and she and her mother told police that he'd left home at 6:00 a.m. on September 9 to go to the photo shoot in Prince William County.
However, authorities found his camera bag, packed with thousands of dollars' worth of equipment, in a barn on his property, and he would have taken that if he was going to a photo shoot. One of his friends stated he never let anyone else touch his cameras and would never have left them behind. It's also unclear why Aigeltinger would have left for the photo shoot so early in the morning when it was only 55 miles away and he wasn't due there until 1:00 p.m.
Prior to his disappearance, Aigeltinger had told Livingstone that her mother had to leave their shared home. He had also discovered Livingstone had taken out credit cards under his name and run up thousands of dollars on them, and he was considering pressing charges against her. It's unclear whether this is related to his disappearance. She maintains her innocence in her , and has since moved to Maryland.
Aigeltinger got a degree in philosophy from the University of Oslo is his native Norway, and his only blood relative, a sister, still lives in Norway. He had been living in the U.S. since the 1980s, studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, and had a ten-year work visa. He made his living shooting portraits and video, and some of his pictures had been published in national newspapers and magazines.
His remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
Investigating Agency
Jefferson County Sheriffs Department
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Other
NamUs
The AWARE Foundation
The Spirit of Jefferson
Morten Aigeltinger's Facebook Page
Local DVM
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 Photos
