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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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William Martin Vosseler
William date, approximate 1986; Age-progression to age 37 (date, approximate 2021); Charles Martin Vosseler; Age-progression of Charles Martin to age 78 (date, approximate 2020)
Date Missing 10/09/1986
Missing From
Rochester, New Hampshire
Missing Classification Family Abduction
Sex Male
Race
White
Date of Birth 04/21/1984 (38)
Age 2 years old
Height and Weight 3'0, 36 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) 1979 GMC Jimmy truck with the Nebraska license plate number 2R6093 or the Virginia license plate number IBV565
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. William may use the last names Amidon, Foster and/or Wilson. His nickname is Billy.
Details of Disappearance William and his brother Charles disappeared from Rochester, New Hampshire on October 9, 1986. They were abducted by their non-custodial father, Charles Martin Vosseler Jr. A federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued for him on April 3, 1987. The state of New Hampshire issued warrants for him earlier, on February 5, 1987, for interference of custody. A photograph and an age-progressed image of Charles Martin are posted with this summary. His date of birth is March 6, 1942, making him 44 years old at the time of the children's abductions. He's described as Caucasian, 6'1 and 220 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Charles Martin's nickname is Charlie. He may use the middle names Malcom and/or Martin, or the last names Amidon, Foster and/or Wilson. He may use the alias dates of birth March 6, 1943 and/or February 6, 1944. Charles Martin may wear eyeglasses or contact lenses. His right eye twitches when he is stressed. He was born and raised in Connecticut, and graduated from Coe College in Iowa with a bachelor's degree in economics. Charles Martin told the boys' mother, Ruth Parker, that he was taking the children out of state for the weekend to visit relatives. After they didn't return, she went to the real estate office where Charles Martin worked and discovered he'd shut down the office and let all his employees go. He'd taken all of Charles and William's photographs as well as address books and credit cards and many of Parker's belongings, emptied the family bank accounts and auctioned off a lot of things the family had in storage. Parker later determined that Charles Martin had been planning the abduction for a long time. He had removed her name from their joint checking accounts and stopped the automatic payments to her car, so that by the time of the abduction she was months behind in payments and her car was about to be repossessed and she didn't know about it. Charles Martin had been married twice before and, when he divorced his first wife, told her she was lucky they had no children because he would have taken them away from her. A private investigator who has worked on the believes Charles Martin deliberately selected Parker to bear his children because of her good background and high intelligence, but he planned to keep the children for himself. The Vosselers may be traveling in a 1979 GMC Jimmy truck with the Nebraska license plate number 2R6093 or the Virginia license plate number IBV565. Charles Martin has ties to Connecticut, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Florida. In Stillwell, Oklahoma in 1987, a woman he was seeing recognized the boys' photos on a missing child poster and called a hotline about it. Charles Martin was using the name Dr. Charles Wilson. By the time authorities arrived to arrest him nine days later, he had burned his house, his car and some other possessions and fled. He was known to have been in Oklahoma in December 2006, but there has been no indication of his, Charles or William's whereabouts since then. Parker now lives in North Carolina and still hopes to hear from her children someday and verify their well-being. Charles Martin is considered armed and dangerous, and caution is advised when approaching him or either of the boys. The children's s remain unsolved.
Investigating Agency
Rochester Police Department
603-335-7529
Other
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Federal Bureau of Investigation
For the Lost
NamUs
Never Stop Looking
The Bangor Daily News
Facebook Page for Charles and William Vosseler
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
