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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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Teresa Gail Cupps
Cupps, date, approximate 1977; Age-progression to an unknown age
Date Missing 01/01/1977
Missing From
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 04/08/1957 (65)
Age 19 - 20 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 120 pounds
Medical Conditions Cupps has a history of drug abuse.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Cupps has a tattoo on her right ankle and may have an additional tattoo on her lower right leg. She has track marks on her arms from heroin use. Cupps may have a scar on her abdominal area. She may use the aliases Kimbi R. Boyd, Virginia Collins, Kimvi Boyd, and/or Kimbi Cupps, and the alias date of birth April 8, 1956.
Details of Disappearance During the mid-1970s, Cupps lived in Girlstown, a juvenile shelter in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. She was convicted of grand larceny in 1975 under the name Kimbi Boyd and given to the custody of the Department of Corrections. She was reportedly using heroin and working as a prostitute at the time
She stopped reporting to her parole officer in 1977 and a warrant was issued for her arrest. Thirteen years later, after no sign of Cupps, the state dropped the charges against her.
After Cupps's mother's death in 2004, her younger sister filed a missing persons report. Investigators are trying to find Cupps, but all public record for her ends in 1977. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Tecumseh Police Department
405-598-3755
Other
The Doe Network
The Child Seek Network
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.
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