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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Randi Layton Evers
Randi, date, approximate 1992; Age-progression to age 32 (date, approximate 2020); Mike Evers, date, approximate 1992; Tina Evers, date, approximate 1992
Date Missing 02/15/1992
Missing From
Las Vegas, Nevada
Missing Classification Non-Family Abduction
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 12/03/1988 (33)
Age 3 years old
Height and Weight 2'11 - 3'0, 50 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A black shirt, black pants with a blue diamond design on the knees, and no shoes.
Medical Conditions Randi has a history of severe inner ear infections, which cause loss of equilibrium. He had tubes surgically inserted in his ears to alleviate the condition.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Blond hair, blue eyes. Randi has a scar near his left eye. At the time of his disappearance, his hair had a two- to six-inch tail in the back.
Details of Disappearance Randi was last seen between 11:30 p.m. on February 15 and 12:30 a.m. on February 16, 1992. He was wrapped in a blanket and asleep on the living room floor of his family's residence at in the 300 block of east Rochelle Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Randi's family held a birthday party for his father, Mike Evers, during the evening at the home. They hosted approximately 15 guests. Randi apparently disappeared during the party and has never been seen again. It was deemed unlikely that he wandered outside on his own, as it was cold that night and Randi was afraid of the dark.
Randi's family speculates that he was kidnapped, but authorities initially suspected some of Randi's family members of being involved in his .
Randi's father and his stepmother, Tina Evers, did not participate in the search for him. Mike had to be literally dragged out of bed when police told him Randi was missing. Neither Mike nor Tina showed very much interest in the . Photos of them as they appeared around the time of Randi's disappearance are posted with this summary.
Tina's alibi of her whereabouts at the time her stepson disappeared reportedly showed numerous small inconsistencies. She claimed she and several of their friends left the party at 11:30 p.m. to go to the Gold Coast, a local casino. They left Randi alone in the company of an adult guest at the party who had passed out on the living room couch.
Mike may have been with Tina and the rest of the group, or he may have been asleep in the back bedroom during this time period. When the group returned at approximately 3:30 a.m., Randi was missing. An extensive search of the surrounding area failed to turn up any clues to his whereabouts.
Mike and Tina had a son and then left the area for southern California four years after Randi was last seen. They divorced sometime after that. There have been no reported problems with their daughter, born prior to Randi's disappearance, or their son, born after. Police say Mike and Tina were not very cooperative in the investigation into their child's disappearance but they did not try to avoid authorities.
There has been much speculation about what caused Randi to disappear, including theories that he was sold; killed accidentally or intentionally by his father and/or stepmother after Mike's birthday party broke up; or was abducted by a stranger, a family friend, or his biological mother. None of these theories have been substantiated, however.
Nearly everyone involved in his , except the investigators, has left the Las Vegas area in the years following his disappearance. Randi's biological mother, who lived in southern California at the time of his disappearance and had custody of Randi, is still alive. Mike died in 2014. In 2022, when a journalist with the Las Vegas Review Journal contacted Tina to talk to her about the , she refused to comment except to say, "You guys have ruined my family. The police have ruined my family." She stated she wanted to be left alone.
A Nevada grand jury was given evidence by investigators some time after Randi disappeared, but indictments were not handed down. Randi's remains open and unsolved.
In a media interview in the spring of 2015, a detective investigating the said he had gotten a hit on Randi's DNA in a database and he believes Randi is alive and living in the western United States. Due to the confusion as to what happened to him, Randi's disappearance is being investigated as a non-family abduction.
Investigating Agency
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
702-229-3561
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Operation Lookout
The Longmont Daily Times-Call
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Las Vegas Sun
Child CyberSearch
KVBC News
Las Vegas 8
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
