I read in this morning’s Post Register that today is Missing Persons Day. I can only imagine how difficult these cases are for the families involved, not having closure. The rest of us are left with creepy feelings and speculating what might have happened.
There is actually a way you can help solve missing persons cases!
I first read about the Doe Network a couple years ago in Wired Magazine. It’s a group of ordinary people working ordinary jobs unrelated to law enforcement. They use their computers and online connections to investigate missing persons cases. I do not pretend to know all the details, but the group has been responsible for solving numerous missing persons cases, whether in the end finding the person alive or dead.
If you wonder if you have the right stuff to work on these cases, consider one lady who worked days at Home Depot and nights solving these cases. One case she solved earned her a $150,000 reward.
The state missing persons page is better located at http://isp.state.id.us/identification/missing/index.html
Information on the Doe Network and how you can get started on this solution is located at http://www.doenetwork.us/
If you need get involved in solving local cases and need help or want to share to motivate others to help out, you can comment in response to this or send us an email for a future article.
Good luck and here’s to hoping for closure on these mysteries.
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It is great stuff like this that I come here for. I would never have even known it was missing person’s day, let alone anything topical about it. I have a friend who’s mother is one of those cases and have seen first hand how hard it is for someone in that situation. Great article, Joe Vandal.
The case that bugs me the most, because I actually know the girl and graduated with her is Amber Hoopes. Just a couple of weeks before she came up missing a group of us went to dinner together. It blew me away when I heard about it. It would be nice to finally get some closure. I can only say the nicest things about her, she truely was a good person, it is still very sad to think about even today.
Yeah, Amber Hoopes is a case that continues to haunt Idaho Falls.
I read the parents believe her body was buried in the Heise area.
Is there any way to find out what areas were searched before? I would like to post that here, then anyone who wants to can go searching out in other areas for her. It would be nice to get closure.