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
Tonia Renee Stiles
Stiles, date, approximate 2010; Scott Cassidy
Date Missing 11/18/2010
Missing From
Grass Lake, Michigan
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Age 34 years old
Height and Weight 5'4 - 5'8, 130 - 150 pounds
Medical Conditions Stiles had an alcohol problem in the past, but she was sober at the time of her disappearance and had been for years.
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Blonde hair, brown eyes. Stiles has an inch-long scar on her leg, a birthmark on her upper lip and a tribal art tattoo covering her entire back. Her ears are pierced. She may go by the name Renee Whitehill.
Details of Disappearance Stiles was last seen at her home on Orban Road in Grass Lake, Michigan on November 18, 2010. She lived with her boyfriend, Scott Steven Cassidy, and a male roommate at the time. The roommate stated he fell asleep on the couch and when he woke up about an hour later, Stiles wasn't there. She has never been heard from again. She left all of her belongings behind.
A photo of Cassidy is posted with this summary. He and Stiles had lived together for about a year and a half before she went missing, and he operated a tree service off of his property.
On November 24, six days after Stiles's disappearance, Cassidy was charged with auto theft. He allegedly stole a van from the Comtronics security company in Jackson, Michigan. He was on probation at the time for drug- and weapons-related offenses, and he also had a 1997 conviction for home invasion.
On December 3, he hanged himself in jail. It's unclear whether his suicide is related to Stiles's disappearance. He was one of the last people known to have seen her and the police interviewed him about her disappearance and had planned to question him further. He was never named as a suspect in her .
Stiles was in foster care as a child and was adopted at the age of nine. She has two children by prior relationships; she and her husband had divorced in 2009. She was unemployed and didn't have a cellular phone or a car at the time of her disappearance. She and Cassidy were having financial problems and they apparently argued on the night she went missing.
Although Stiles had been dissatisfied with her life and had talked about leaving, her loved ones don't believe she would have abandoned her children. They think, and the police agree, that she probably met with foul play. Her remains unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Michigan State Police
Jackson Post
517-780-4580
Other
NamUs
The Detroit Free Press
The Jackson Citizen Patriot
WILX 10
The Quincy Herald-Whig
Michigan Does
Facebook Page for Tonia Stiles
Fox 47 Lansing & Jackson
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
