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Natalee Holloway's Mom Starts Missing-Persons Resource Center

Beth Holloway has created the Natalee Holloway Resource Center, named for her daughter who went missing during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, according to this Associated Press article. The center will be based at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in downtown Washington. The nonprofit…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 28, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Help Find Tristan Ananda Perry, Apparently Abducted in Thailand

A Facebook group has been created to raise awareness of the case of Tristan Ananda Perry, the son of a British man and a Thai woman who allegedly has been abducted by his mother's family. The Missing Americans Project does not have many resources in Asia, but we hope our growing network will help the Perry's find someone who is willing and able to help them.

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 22, 2010 at 2:34pm — No Comments

From Interpol: Children Missing From Honduras

I don't know how I managed not to stumble upon this page earlier. It's a page (actually, 11 pages) on the…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 17, 2010 at 2:27pm — No Comments

What the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica Has to Say About Safety There

A-freakin'-mazing! This is the U.S. Embassy's page about safety in Costa Rica. Not a mention of the disappearances and murders over the past year. Here's the kind of thing the Embassy warns about:

A tire of a rental car went flat, and people who stopped to "help change the tire" stole U.S. passports, bags, cash, and camera.
A hotel room was broken into during the day, and items the tourist had hidden were…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on May 12, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Massachusetts Man Murdered in Costa Rica

John Joseph Scibeck died while staying at a little villa in Playa Potrero, not far from Tamarindo, where Michael Dixon, Craig Snell, and Brendan Dobbins disappeared. He was found face up on the side of a desolate road, less than a mile from the beaches of Playa Potrero and had been asphyxiated. Costa Rica police say they are investigating the death as a homicide.…

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Added by Jeff Dunsavage on January 15, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Search Ends for Leo Finley, Missing From Roatan, Honduras

A search for Leo Finley, missing at sea near Roatan, Honduras, has been called off, according to this article in the Columbia Daily Tribune. The article said the search involved three U.S. Blackhawk helicopters and Honduran naval vessels. “The local Honduran authorities are still keeping an eye out for anything they might find, but… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on January 8, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

Leo Finley, 28, Missing on Roatan Since Christmas Morning

This is all I have so far: Leo, from Columbia, Mo., was working at the Royal Playa (owned by close family friends). He apparently took their boat out in the early hours of Christmas morning and was not seen again. His parents are on Roatan now and I will be sharing resources with them and information with the Project as I learn more.

Please keep Leo and his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers.

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on December 30, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Job 1: Don't Get Lost in the First Place

There is a tendency in cases of missing adults (other than Alzheimer's patients) to blame the victim, especially if they disappear in an exotic region. The two most common presumptions are that they either engineered their own disappearance and are now sipping an umbrella drink on a beach somewhere or that they were somehow involved in something they ought not to have been and it backfired. This is a convenient narrative that lets its purveyors off the hook of their humanity: "Yeah, I feel bad… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 14, 2009 at 10:30am — 8 Comments

Why Just Americans? Why Just Those Lost in Foreign Countries?

I struggle with these questions in defining the scope of the project. The one thing I've learned in the search for Joe and for answers about Joe's disappearance is that people disappear everywhere and the resources and attention applied to finding them are woefully limited. I remember talking to a lady who runs a water taxi service in Belize (one of the hundreds of calls I made into the region just to get a sense as to whether people were aware of and alert to Joe's situation). The woman… Continue

Added by Jeff Dunsavage on October 12, 2009 at 9:18am — No Comments