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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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Nan Cecile Dixon
Dixon, date, approximate 1978
Date Missing 09/21/1978
Missing From
Grass Valley, California
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 08/04/1905 (117)
Age 73 years old
Height and Weight 4'10 - 5'0, 110 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Yellow and green four-door 1976 Datsun B210 with the California license plate number 915RHV (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Graying red hair, brown eyes.
Details of Disappearance Dixon was last seen on September 21, 1978. She left her Grass Valley, California home to visit her family in Seven Troughs, Nevada, three hours away. Her brother, Harry Leighton, his wife Lulu Leighton, and their son Arthur "Butch" Leighton, lived there.
Dixon had invested $6,000 in the Leightons' gold mining operation in 1961 and wanted the money back; this was the purpose of her visit. She was driving a yellow and green four-door 1976 Datsun B210 with the California license plate number 915RHV.
She never arrived at her brother's and has never been heard from again. Months later, her husband got a credit card bill for $4.18 in gas purchased in Lovelock, Nevada, which is near Seven Troughs. This evidence prompted searches in the Lovelock area, but these efforts came up empty.
Nothing else came up in Dixon's until 1982, when coyote hunters found her car in a ravine below the main road of the Seven Troughs drop-off, 27 miles north of Lovelock. This area, which was on unused property of the Eagle-Picher Mining Company, had been covered in previous air and ground searches, and the car hadn't been seen there then.
Dixon's family stated it appeared as if someone had deliberately driven the car into the ravine; tire tracks were still visible. The Datsun's tires were badly scuffed, but still held air and were in reasonably good condition, and the gas tank was half-full.
Four empty cartons of cigarettes were inside the car as well. Dixon was a light smoker and her loved ones don't believe she would have smoked four cartons of cigarettes by herself, and they were not her preferred brand. Portions of black electrical tape were located; one piece had a hair and possible human tissue attached. There appeared to be bloodstains on the trunk mat and on a tire and a rim. An unsigned note was found indicating suicide. There was no indication of Dixon's whereabouts.
After Dixon's car was discovered, the police closed her as a suicide and sold her car at a sheriff's auction. All the evidence they'd collected has since been lost. Dixon's family never believed she took her own life, however; they think the note in her vehicle was planted by someone else. Her family spent over $40,000 on the search for her.
One theory is that her disappearance is connected to alleged air drops of il drugs in the Seven Troughs area; perhaps she witnessed one and was killed as a result.
Authorities reopened the investigation into Dixon's disappearance in 2007. Her remains unsolved.
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Nevada County Sheriff's Office
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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.
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