Date: Oct 15, 2009
Title: LBTH & NCMA announce the "Let's Bring Them Home" campaign for Missing Adults
In an effort to bring national media attention and funding to these cases, NCMA/LBTH have launched the "Let's Bring Them Home" campaign for the missing. This campaign calls for 1,000 participants to join this national effort to raise awareness and funding on behalf of missing adults.
Every participant will be included in local, state and national press releases and featured on the NCMA/LBTH websites: theyaremissed.org and lbth.org. In addition, participants will be included in the "Let's Bring Them Home" radio, television and print media campaign and be assigned an NCMA/LBTH advocate to assist in their efforts to raise awareness.
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Date: Aug 19, 2009
Title: National Missing Persons Organizations Merge
Let’s Bring Them Home (LBTH), a Bentonville, Arkansas non-profit offering safety education to children and families, as well as resources to families with missing loved ones, today announced a merger with the National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA), a nonprofit organization that acts as the national clearinghouse for missing adults, as well as provides services and coordination between various government agencies, law enforcement, media and most importantly, families of missing adults.
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Date: Oct 23, 2006
Title: NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING ADULTS TO CLOSE DOORS
October 23, 2006 – Federal budget cuts have severely depleted the resources to the National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA) and this agency is being forced to close the doors of their office in Phoenix, AZ and relocate if this nationally-respected agency is to remain open. The agency is pleading to Congressional Representatives, the public and the national business community to help with contributions, moving assistance, and new office space so NCMA can remain in operation!
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Date: Jun 22, 2006
Title: Missing Adults Map Launched by Ekamtech
Toronto, Canada, June 22, 2006 --(PR.COM)-- Ekamtech, a web services company, has launched Missing Adults Map (missingadultsmap.com), which uses Google's mapping technologies to improve the possibility of missing adults being found. The map data, provided by the Phoenix, Arizona-based National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA), is updated frequently. State maps show the missing adults from each state, and national maps of the US and Canada show all the recently missing adults from each country...
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Date: Jan 22, 2006
Title: Families want answers about men last seen with deputy...
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Date: Nov 21, 2005
Title: 6,644 are still missing after Katrina; toll may rise
The whereabouts of 6,644 people reported missing after Hurricane Katrina have not been determined, raising the prospect that the death toll could be higher than the 1,306 recorded so far in Louisiana and Mississippi, according to two groups working with the federal government to account for victims...
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Date: Sep 12, 2005
Title: ARIZONA AGENCY PROVIDES NATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR \"KATRINA\" MISSING ADULTS
The U.S Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, has requested the assistance of the Phoenix based National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA) to provide case management and support services to the families of missing adults impacted by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama...
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Date: Aug 05, 2005
Title: Not only Natalee is missing
As one of America's new breed of media critics, Philadelphia blogger Richard Blair watched for weeks as the media devoted intense coverage to the story of the May 30 disappearance of Natalee Holloway while on a high school graduation trip to Aruba...
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Date: Jul 14, 2005
Title: Groups spotlight others missing
When Kelly Jolkowski's 19-year-old son Jason disappeared in 2001, she and her husband "had no idea what to do."
"We basically sat there and waited for the phone to ring" as Omaha police began to investigate, Jolkowski says. "We didn't know there were other resources out there..."
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Date: May 12, 2005
Title: THE 4400 METER RUN/WALK
THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS ARE MISSING. YOU CAN HELP BRING THEM HOME.
Join USA Network, The National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA), and The Nation's Missing Children Organization (NMCO) for the first ever THE 4400 METER RUN/WALK Sunday June 5th, 2005
8:00 AM Runners, 8:15 AM Walkers
Exposition Park, Los Angeles.
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Date: Jan 27, 2005
Title: Perseus Partners with National Center for Missing Adults to Help Obtain Critical Information
Perseus Development Corporation, the global leader in web-based survey and Enterprise Feedback Management solutions, is pleased to partner with the National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA), in order to facilitate and strengthen the national organization’s information feedback process...
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Date: Jul 21, 2004
Title: Damsels in Distress
Whenever a missing person breaks into the news on a continuing basis, she will be an attractive white girl or young woman. Journalists are reluctant to talk about it, but there are some who do not shrink from calling it racism and sexism...
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Date: Feb 10, 2004
Title: Husband of missing Bagota woman asks for help
In the nearly three years since Jim Viola's wife vanished, the Bogota father of two has created a Web site dedicated to finding her . . .
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Date: Feb 04, 2004
Title: Parents See Unlocked Doors as Gateway to Danger
Ask parents of people with mental disabilities what they think . . .
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Date: Jan 21, 2004
Title: Lawmaker Wants Stricter Rules on Missing Persons Reports
WA-Spurred by a newspaper investigation, a former police officer turned state lawmaker plans to introduce legislation . . .
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Date: Jan 08, 2004
Title: The Mystery of Professional Disappearances
On an ordinary working day last year, Dr Richard Stevens walked out of his office and vanished, without a word to his family. Six months later his body was found. Why do people vanish like this?
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Date: Dec 17, 2003
Title: Many More Marylanders Missing Than Media Notice
Valerie Littleton was last seen having dinner alone at Denny's before she simple vanished . . .
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Date: Dec 06, 2003
Title: Why Dru Story Captures Nation
Looks, geography, circumstance explain some of the reasons, national media say . . .
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Date: Dec 05, 2003
Title: Agaonized Parents Become Activists
WASHINGTON - Audrey Nerenberg told her mother on July 15, 1977, that she would be right back . . .
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Date: Nov 26, 2003
Title: Grand Forks Hearld: Outpouring makes real difference
For the family and friends of a missing person, all can seem to be darkness, especially in the early days when police may have few leads. But here's at least one ray of light:
Quick and sustained community involvement offers the best chance of bringing about a loved one's return, law enforcement officials say...
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Date: Nov 02, 2003
Title: Star Telegram: Family hopes photos help find woman
Alexis Raulston doesn't remember much about her mother. When she tries really hard, the 7-year-old said she can "sort of" remember being with her mother, Kelli Ann Cox, at the State Fair of Texas. But most of what she knows comes from photographs and stories from her grandparents. She prays for her every night...
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Date: Oct 01, 2003
Title: More Details in Bones Search
MARLBOROUGH -- A second set of bones found on the grounds of a boys' boarding school were identified yesterday as those of a woman, as investigators released more details of clothing and jewelry found with another set of female remains discovered on the campus last week . . .
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Date: Sep 21, 2003
Title: Disappearances Frustrate Police
A million times a year in this country, someone is gone without a trace, often leaving behind suffering children, spouses or parents uncertain of their fate.
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Date: Sep 10, 2003
Title: Mother Hopeful about Daughter
Ten years after her daughter's disappearance, pain and hope can still be heard in the voice of Debra Stewart . . .
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Date: Aug 12, 2003
Title: Search for Woman Expands
Heather Marie Carpenter was last seen wearing blue Capri pants and a pink top. She has blond hair and brown eyes, is 5-foot-4 and weighs 125 pounds . . .
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Date: Jul 10, 2003
Title: A Mother\'s Quest leads to Missing Daughter
When her 18-year-old daughter left home in February, Gwyn Robson of Adelphi began an earnest search to find her . . .
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Date: Apr 24, 2003
Title: Valley\'s Missing People Files
A child wanders off - a grandmother never makes it home. There are thousands of unsolved missing person cases in Arizona - but none of them get the same attention as a Laci Peterson or Elizabeth Smart . . .
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Date: Apr 17, 2003
Title: Idenifying Bodies from Bay could take up to Two Weeks
Hairs from Laci Peterson's brush, parents' cheek swabs will be used . . .
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Date: Feb 28, 2003
Title: Letter to the Editor - Missing Adult Cases Rife with Complexities
Those of us working in the advocacy field of missing persons know all too well the tears and heartaches endured by families searching for their missing loved ones . . .
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Date: Feb 17, 2003
Title: People Go Missing, Killer Go Free
Quincy Wildlife area, Grant County - This is where Michelle Vick became a Jane Doe . . .
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Date: Jan 17, 2003
Title: Racing Against the Clock
Without fresh leads, Modesto case risks fading from public spotlight
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Date: Jan 01, 2003
Title: Profits of Misfortune
It's a pitch that's tough for a business owner to refuse. Help find Arizona's missing children and get some advertising at the same time. Some of those businesses called our 5-i team to investigate, though. They say they've been mis-led . . .
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