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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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Pamela Gay Jones
Jones, date, approximate 1993; Age-progressions to an unknown age
Date Missing 11/03/1993
Missing From
Mesa, Arizona
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 09/02/1954 (68)
Age 39 years old
Height and Weight 5'2, 140 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black ski jacket, a blue shirt, black Levi's jeans, white leather shoes and a yellow gold wedding band.
Associated Vehicle(s) White Yugo (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Jones has a chipped right shinbone and she may have pockmarks from rock salt on her chest. She may wear eyeglasses. She may use the last names Gentry and/or Stafford.
Details of Disappearance Jones was last seen in Mesa, Arizona at 2:00 a.m. on November 3, 1993. She went to Tempe, Arizona to pick her husband up at work.
Her husband stated they got into an argument after her arrival and continued to argue as she drove their white Yugo. Eventually she got out of the car at Usery Pass and McKellips Road in Mesa and walked away into the desert. Her husband drove home alone.
Jones has never been heard from again. At the time of her disappearance, she was in college training to be a surgical technician, and she was only a month away from graduation.
Although it's possible she left voluntarily, investigators believe Jones probably met with foul play and her husband is the primary suspect in her disappearance. However, he was never charged in her and he died in 2012.
Investigating Agency
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
602-876-3868
Other
Arizona News
NamUs
NBC News
Facebook Page for Pamela Jones
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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