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To all members..You're NOT reconised by our mother site Peace4Missing.ning.com if you don't go there and fill out your profile !! It is very important that you do so !! With Much Love...ALWAYS...john
I HAVE NEVER KNOWN ANYONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THIS. I HOPE I NEVER DO. IT HAS GOT BE TO DEVASTATING TO LIVE EVERY NOT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR LOVE ONE. AT L EAST IN DEATH YOU KNOW. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU ALL. MY GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU WITH MISSING FOLKS IN THEIR LIVES.
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ALL new members..please note...PLEASE go ot our main site..Peace4Missing.ning.com so you can fill in your page and be reconised I have been trying to find you to welcome you and you're not there !! Thank you ! With Much Love and BIG HUGS...ALWAYS...john
It's wonderfull to know that there is help and support out there and this cause is very important. God bless you all
Hello FB family here is some important information for families of missing children. God Bless!
“America’s Most Wanted” introduced a new segment in July called “MY Story”. For the first time ever, families of a missing adult or child can tell the vast “America’s Most Wanted” television and website audience about their missing loved one and their efforts to find them. Information and guidelines on how to submit a video is available on the “America’s Most Wanted’ website: www.amw.com/mystory.
I am here in support of my Step-Daughter who lost her mom 2 years ago to Domestic Violence. http://bringrachelhome.blogspot.com/2... Here is her story.
Peace4 the Missing and Angels For Stacy are partnering with Guardian Angels Community Service in Joliet, IL to sponsor a 5k walk to raise funds so they may continue offering their services to victims of domestic violence. We also want to bring awareness and focus back to missing mother, Stacy Peterson as well as all missing persons.
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My uncle disappeared on Sun Sept 14,2008. He lived in Cleveland Tn. We ABSOLUTELY KNOW THAT SOMEONE OUT THERE KNOWS SOMETHING. wE need this spread across facebook so we can get the word out. We need to bring those whose are guilty to justice...WILL you help? spread this around,,
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Lateesha Birthday Remembrance 23rd. May Teesha You may be out of sight, We may be worlds apart, But you're always in our thoughts, And forever in our hearts. Happy Birthday, my daughter we miss you so much XXX000XXX Today people lateesha would have been 29 years old its such a hard day...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JESSIE ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! Happy 25th Jessie Foster. I love you and miss you. I WANT YOU BACK. Love Mom. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Vanished boy, unanswered questions
By JANET MASLIN - New York Times News Service
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tool goes here ‘AFTER ETAN: THE MISSING CHILD CASE THAT HELD AMERICA CAPTIVE’ by Lisa R. Cohen; illustrated. 379 pages. Grand Central Publishing. $25.99.
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Thirty years ago this month Etan Patz, a 6 1/2-year-old New York City schoolboy, was given something he desperately wanted: permission to walk to the school bus stop all by himself. On the Friday of Memorial Day weekend he enjoyed that new freedom for the first and only time.
He never came home. He has since been declared legally dead. And the prime suspect in the case, Jose A. Ramos, a convicted child molester who has been long imprisoned on charges in another case but will be eligible for parole in a couple of years, once had the gall to post a Web page that offered insight into the missing boy’s fate.
“As to what actually happened to Etan Patz,” Ramos wrote — on a page that caught the enraged eye of Stan Patz, Etan’s father — “if any freedom-loving American wants the true story, I kindly ask that you send $2 to my snail-mail address.” But Stan Patz didn’t want to buy Etan’s story. He wanted and still wants Ramos to tell it under oath.
Lisa R. Cohen’s “After Etan” is a complex, many-tentacled account of just how tantalizingly close Ramos has come to incriminating himself in the Patz case and just how tirelessly he has tormented prosecutors, who have said they do not have enough evidence to charge him. In a book loaded with evidence of Ramos’ pedophilia, his attraction to Etan, knowledge of the Patz family and capacity to dispose of a child-size body, Cohen makes a persuasive case that Ramos was involved. But her emphasis is less on his actions than it is on the winding, obstacle-strewn path to justice. She tells a story that is stranger than crime fiction and messier, too.
Like the story of the Zodiac Killer in San Francisco, the Patz story has yielded strong circumstantial evidence over time. But before she can elaborate on this, Cohen must summarize the strange and punishing events that entrapped Etan’s parents and their two other children after their middle child disappeared. Cohen has their cooperation for her book. And the parents kept detailed records of the carnival atmosphere that suddenly surrounded them. “You are not going to believe me,” said a man who arrived at the Patzes’ loft in SoHo not long after Etan vanished, “but I have become your son and I have come home for dinner.”
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The early years drew forth crank callers, psychics, at least one extortionist, terrible questions (“Are you the real father?” Stan Patz was asked) and a medium whose visions led to no evidence that could be used in court. The Patzes hardened sufficiently to be able to answer when strangers asked them how many children they had. (Stan Patz’s version: “Two, I guess.” His wife’s: “We’ve got two at home.”) And if there was anything worse than the invasion of their home by the news media and the police, it was the abandonment that came later. Cohen’s book is about the few dogged individuals who refused to let the Patz story go.
Cohen has been one of them in her capacity as a television producer for ABC and CBS News. She isn’t a seasoned or tight writer, and her book can bog down in human-interest details and hyped-up drama. (She produced the television segment on which Stan Patz finally broke down and cried about his lost son.) But she has done a solid job of tracking the wayward details of the investigation and tying them together. Cohen writes with the great benefit of hindsight that makes, for instance, the strange Bronx derelict nicknamed “drainpipe man,” who attracted attention in March 1982 for trying to lure a couple of boys into his makeshift home near some Conrail tracks, more than just another oddball. His name, he told police, was Joe Antonio Ramos. This was investigators’ first glimpse of Ramos, who was soon released. Over the next few years he had an uncanny knack for hiding in plain sight.
By far the strangest part of this story involves Ramos’ dealings with the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a Woodstock-era hippie group that holds annual gatherings. When Ramos showed up at the 1986 event in a converted school bus offering tarot card readings, he might have blended easily into the crowd. But the Rainbows, as Cohen calls them, found two boys on Ramos’ bus, one old enough to be an adolescent Etan and the other a future witness who would describe Ramos’ sexual predation. Without knowing exactly what happened to Etan Patz, Cohen gives a chilling sense of the possibilities by replaying this boy’s graphic deposition.
Sentenced to prison as a result of this incident, Ramos became the prime target for Stuart GraBois, the former federal prosecutor whose actions are at the heart of the book, and whose dedication to the Patz case was boundless. This is the part of the story newly revealed by “After Etan”: how Ramos and GraBois became virtual characters on a chessboard, each making moves to outsmart the other in a difficult, protracted, suspenseful game.
The book’s range extends from the jurisdictional issues raised by the case (GraBois, as a federal official, might have had to abandon his investigation if Ramos turned out never to have taken Etan Patz out of New York) to personal animus and the tough cat-and-mouse maneuvers used to ensnare this suspect.
Two informers were planted in succession in Ramos’ cell, and each told investigators that he had boasted about his exploits with young boys. One said that Ramos, after recounting details of his abuse to Etan, said, “That’s what separates the men from the boys.” In a nerve-racking moment Ramos was wily enough to inspect the typewriter ribbon used by his cellmate, reading notations about himself and realizing he was being spied on, Cohen says.
By far the single spookiest image in this overblown yet transfixing account is that of Ramos, before he was incarcerated, sitting on a New York fire escape dangling toys on strings to attract the attention of children in the apartment below him. The children in this anecdote had the good fortune to look away. Etan Patz wasn’t as lucky.
I always read here (Sara and D are my heros)! I was so dumb to think that people could not vanish off the face of the earth. They can...
So what can be done?
We have all the technology....GPS is the new thing.
Why can they not put some sort of chip into an infant at birth? And as far as "privacy goes......A parent can be given a pin number (just like what we use everyday for our ATM cards). So when someone goes missing.....they can be tracked with GPS. I know this may sound dumb or not logical......but if you really think about it......if it meant that your own child could be found....if they were missing......wouldnt you do it? I WOULD.
I was reading in my local paper yesterday....about Etan Patz. Etan went missing in New York..... May 25th......1979. He was 6 1/2. Jose A. Ramos....a convicted child molester.....has implicated himself....but not to the point of being indicted. This S.O.B. will be up for parole in a couple of years....stemming from another child molestation case.....had the gall to set up a web page that offered insight to Etan's disappearance. telling ppl to send him $2 for the story of what happenned to Etan.
This scum has tortured Etan's family for over 30 yrs.
So why not put a chip into Felonns? They get probation......why not a chip? a molester cannot be rehabilitated. A sex offender cannot either.
Now a days....the criminal has more rights than their victims. WHY? We who obey the law.....Have to pay for these pigs to have air condition.......3 meals.....tv.....computer access. WHY? Why does it cost more to put them to death than house them? It does not make any sense.
