Tag: MISSINGPERSONS

In October 1995, Faustino Utrera disappeared with his two children, who were just toddlers at the time. A few days after the kids vanished, Utrera called their mother, Prince Segala, to tell her that they were in Mexico and that she would never see her son and daughter again. The mother promptly went to the police in San Bernadino County, CA, but to no avail, and it wasn't until she consulted ...

Share Andy Spiers-Corbett may have spent the rest of his life never knowing his father Graham was no more than half an hour away, if it wasn't for Facebook. Andy's parents split when he was just two years old. Graham maintained partial custody and visited his son, but he felt the stress of being passed back and forth between parents was too much for the young child and made what he described as ...

When a person goes missing, closure is one comfort that families seek. Unfortunately, it's not easy to solve a missing person case, but a new online database could change the process. According to an Associated Press report, a government site called NamUs (Name Us) could help identify the 40,000 sets of unidentified remains in the U.S. -- if only law-enforcement agencies will get on board. ...

Evan Ratliff knows how to pull a good disappearing act. For the August issue of Wired Magazine, Ratliff outlined the best way to literally disappear, citing the case of Matthew Alan Sheppard, a health and safety manager who faked his own death for insurance money, as a way to highlight the impossible possibilities of trading in an old identity. The digital age, with Google and social networking, ...