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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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Paula G. Godfrey
Godfrey, date, approximate 1984; John Robinson, date, approximate 2000
Date Missing 09/01/1984
Missing From
Overland Park, Kansas
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 06/19/1965 (57)
Age 19 years old
Height and Weight 5'8, 115 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes.
Details of Disappearance Godfrey was reportedly hired by John Edward Robinson Sr. in 1984 in Overland Park, Kansas. A photo of Robinson is posted with this summary. Godfrey was interested in pursuing a business career and told her family that Robinson had arranged for her and a group of women to fly to San Antonio, Texas to enroll in a clerical skills course.
Godfrey believed she was hired to work as a sales representative for his Kansas-based management consulting firm, Equi II. Her family members told authorities that Robinson picked her up at their residence in Overland Park on September 1, 1984 and said he would drive her to the airport for her flight. She has never been heard from again.
Godfrey's father traveled to San Antonio to search for her after she failed to contact anyone several days afterwards. He learned that she never checked into her motel on September 1. Her father returned to Overland Park and located Robinson at the Equi II offices. He demanded that Robinson tell Godfrey to contact her parents within three days.
Godfrey's family members received a note postmarked from Kansas City, Kansas several days afterwards that was supposedly written their daughter. They immediately forwarded it to the police department. The letter was typed and contained numerous grammatical and typewritten errors, which Godfrey's loved ones maintained were uncharacteristic of her skills.
The letter stated that Godfrey planned to "start over" and leave the Overland Park area, but didn't know where she would eventually settle down. She also thanked Robinson in the letter and told her family she was fine. Her family and authorities believe that the note was a forgery intended to dissuade investigators from pursuing Godfrey's missing person's .
Lisa Stasi vanished from Overland Park in 1985 with her infant daughter Tiffany after associating with Robinson. Lisa has never been located, but authorities learned that Tiffany was il ly adopted by Robinson's brother and sister-in-law in 1985.
Investigators determined that Equi II was used as a front for a black market baby-brokering operation by Robinson. Authorities believe he murdered Lisa in order to secure Tiffany's placement. Robinson's il activities continued into the 1990s, when he was released from his most recent prison sentence and began assaulting women he met online.
Authorities reopened their investigation into Godfrey's disappearance when Robinson's name was linked to a Kansas storage facility that contained barrels holding the remains of five women. Robinson is also suspected in the 1987 disappearance of Catherine Clampitt, another of his former employees.
One of Robinson's former associates told authorities in 2000 that Robinson paid him $50,000 during the mid-1980s to recruit women for an escort service in Kansas.
The associate claimed that he was a friend of Godfrey's and convinced her to contact Robinson, though she most likely did not know his true motives at the time. The associate said that he blamed himself for Godfrey's disappearance.
Robinson was convicted of Lisa's murder and the murders of two additional women in Kansas in late October 2002.A jury recommended that he receive the death penalty for the other women's homicides and life in prison for Lisa's murder.
Godfrey was an accomplished amateur figure skater before her 1984 disappearance. She is a 1983 graduate of Olathe North High School. She has never been located.
Investigating Agency
Overland Park Police Department
913-344-8764
Other
The Kansas City Star
Lenexa Police Department
Mayhem.Net
Cable News Network
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
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
