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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Neil Alan Eddleman
Neil Alan, date, approximate 2003; Age-progression to age 29 (date, approximate 2019); Gary Lisk; Boat similar to Lisk's; Boat wreckage
Date Missing 10/17/2003
Missing From
Naples, Florida
Missing Classification Lost/Injured Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 04/14/1990 (32)
Age 13 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'6, 120 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A t-shirt and blue denim shorts.
Associated Vehicle(s) White 24-foot Hydra-Sports 1997 model voat with a white hard top and a single 200HP Evinrude outboard engine, called What's Left
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Neil Alan's ears are pierced. He has a scar on the right side of his abdomen.
Details of Disappearance Neil Alan went on an ocean fishing trip with his father,Neil Wayne Eddleman, and Neil Wayne's friend Gary Lisk, 61, on October 17, 2003 in Naples, Florida. Photographs of Lisk and of a boat similar to the one they had are posted with this summary. The boat, which belonged to Lisk and was named What's Left, was a white 24-foot Hydra-Sports vessel with a white hard top and a single 200HP Evinrude outboard engine; it was made in 1997.
Lisk and the Eddlemans were reportedly bound for the California, a shipwreck sixty miles southwest of Marco Island which is a popular spot for diving and catching grouper fish. They took all reasonable safety precautions when they left, such as bringing along safety equipment. Weather conditions in the area were calm.
At 7:00 p.m., two hours after the boat left shore, Neil Alan attempted to call his girlfriend on his cellular phone from a point seventeen miles outside Gordon Pass. This is the last contact ever made with any of them.
The three boaters were supposed to return at 6:00 p.m. on October 18, but did not. Neil Wayne's wife called police when they had not returned by 11:00 p.m., and the United States Coast Guard then launched a search for them.
There was a report that they landed in Cuba and were taken prisoner by the Cubans, but this turned out to be false. On October 24, having looked over 129,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico with no result, the Coast Guard suspended the search for them.
On November 3, wreckage of the boat was found upside-down on the shore of Cape Canaveral, Florida, near a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launch pad, on military land. This spot is 527 miles from the last contact and on the Atlantic side of Florida.
Photographs of the wrecked boat are posted with this summary. Sea life evidence on the boat indicated that it had capsized and floated upside-down for at least two weeks, possibly in the Gulf Stream, before coming ashore.
Lisk's body was found in the wreckage and identified on November 6. While an autopsy could not determine the exact cause of his death due to decomposition, police say there was no evidence of foul play. He was a diabetic and had only two days' worth of insulin on him when he left Naples.
Lisk's family members, however, are suspicious of his death and the Eddlemans' disappearances. Before departing for his fishing trip, Lisk left a note on his home's door saying he would be gone for a few days; his family says this is uncharacteristic of him, as the note would invite burglars. His daughter said the note did not appear to be in Lisk's handwriting.
Someone changed the locks on Lisk's home in his absence. He was a drug counselor and psychotherapist and police say his patients changed the locks to keep their confidentiality secure, but Lisk's family disputes this.
Neil Alan and Neil Wayne's remains were not found with Lisk's or anywhere else; there was no indication whatsoever of their whereabouts. They have never been heard from again.
The two of them were declared ly dead in July 2005; Neil Alan's mother sought for a "presumptive death certificate" for her son so she could file lawsuits against Neil Wayne and Lisk's estates. She alleges that the men were negligent when driving the boat and that this resulted in her son's wrongful death.
Neil Alan was an eighth-grader at Golden Gate Middle School at the time of his disappearance. He and his father were both members of the Naples Seventh Day Adventist Church. He is a good swimmer. Neil Alan and his father remain missing and their s are unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Naples Police Department
239-213-4844
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Naples Daily News
Missing -- Neil Eddleman
The Golden Gate Gazette
Rescue Three
The St. Petersburg Times
The Lincoln Courier
NBC2 Online
Finding Neil Alan
The News-Press
NamUs
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
