A Silver Alert is a public notification system to broadcast information about missing persons – especially seniors with Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia or other mental disabilities – in order to aid in their return.

Silver Alerts use a wide array of media outlets — such as commercial radio stations, television stations, and cable TV — to broadcast information about missing persons. Silver Alerts also use variable-message signs on roadways to alert motorists to be on the lookout for missing seniors. In cases in which a missing person is believed to have gone missing on foot, Silver Alerts have used reverse 911 systems to notify nearby residents of the neighborhood surrounding the missing person’s last known location.

Activation criteria for Silver Alerts vary from state to state. Some states limit Silver Alerts to persons over the age of 65, who have been medically diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia or similar mental disability. Other states expand Silver Alert to include all adults with mental of developmental disabilities. In general, the decision to Issue a Silver Alert is made by the law enforcement agency investigating the report of a missing person. Public information in a Silver Alert usually consists of the name and description of the missing person and a description of the missing person’s vehicle and license plate number.

http://www.nationalsilveralert.com/

Missing From:Rochester,NY
Missing Since: 11/21/11
Classification: Missing Endangered
Age at Disappearance: 20
Date of Birth: 02/26/91
Black Male
Height: 6’3
Weight: 140
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Scars., Marks Tattoos: 3L’s Left hand,COE chest
Clothing: Black Leather coat over grey hoodie, Black and red Jordan sneakers.

Details of Disappearance:
Alonzo was last seen 0n 11/21/11. His family states that Alonzo  has been feeling depressed for several months before his disappearance.and that they had seen a change in his behavior.It was also noticed that Alonzo had been giving away his personal belongings just days before his disappearance.

At the time of his disappearance Alonzo lived with his parents at the 400 block of Arnett in Rochester. Alonzo’s mother states that she woke up at 5:20 AM to check on him in his bedroom and he was gone and then went to the  front door of the residence and it  was left unlocked. Alonzo has not been seen or heard from since. His case remains unsolved

Investigative Agency:
Rochester Police Dept ( New York)
(585) 428 6595

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tip line (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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When it comes to good, everyone wins. This is for the humble neighbor who inspires more neighbors to lend a hand, turning ordinary citizens into an extraordinary community of good.

How better to reward them, than to give away $120,000 in gas prizes. This is the 2012 Fueling Good Program, where 24 charities will win gas throughout the year. Will one of them be your favorite?

HELP CUE
SPREAD THE WORD

You can vote once a day, everyday until Feb 9th, 2012

Thank You for your support with HELPING IN THE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING

Missing From:New Haven, CT
Missing since:06/29/04
Classification:Endangered Missing
Age at  Disappearance: 42
Date of Birth: 05/24/62
White Female
Height: 5’2
Weight: 125 lbs
Hair:Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Scars,Marks Tattoos: Tattoo of a “rose” or “butterfly” on possible right shoulder, scar on leg, upper dentures.
Clothing: Possibly carrying a black pocket book.
Nickname:Evy

Circumstances of Disappearance:
After a court appearance, Evelyn was never seen again. Evelyn was last seen in the New Haven, CT area.

Investigative Agency:
New Haven Police Department
(203) 946-6304

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tip line (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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THEME 2012  ” In Support of the Journey “

Thursday, March 22, 2012

State Outreach Coordinators Meeting: Closed for directors 2:00 pm

Class Times: 6:00 pm

The Road to Becoming a Search and Rescue Technician

This class will be conducted throughout the conference and other than thursday evening will run with conference class schedules. If you take this class on “Thursday” you will be in this class only for proper certification. For details please call our center anytime.

Registration packets and check in: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm and  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Note: The back half of the ballroom will remain open all day and evening for any participants to set up items, informational handouts, missing person information or visuals, table display, banners, etc. When checking into the conference please request the person in charge for this area to help you in whatever you may need for a smooth process.

Date: March 22nd – 25th of 2012

Join us for our upcoming national conference for missing persons and all who work in the arena from advocating, volunteerism, investigation, search and rescue and identification process of those who are lost. This event is open to all who support the mission of finding a resolution for families who have suffered a missing loved one and been left a victim of crime.

Please share this information to anyone in this line of work and or a family of a missing person or homicide victim. To learn more about CUE Center for Missing Persons please visit us at our web site www.ncmissingpersons.org or email us cuecenter@aol.com

NOTICE: (This conference is a pre – registration conference, ONLY) please contact our center for details

Download and print registration form below

    
Submit Registration: Mailing Address (CUE) PO Box 12714 Wilmington, NC 28405
Ph: (910) 343-1131 or (910) 232-1687 Fax: (910) 399-6137
Location: Holiday Inn Hotel Conference Center 5032 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405 (910) 392-1101

Note: CUE will arrange the hotel accommodations  for conference  registered attendees.

Want to become a sponsor?

Download and print forms above and mail them with with your check  payable to:
CUE Center For Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC
28405

Meet The 2012 Sponsors…more to come!

Training Sessions, Certificate Classes

Training: The Road to Becoming a Search and Rescue Technician

Patricia Totillo is a founding member of K-9 Search and Rescue of Orange City, FL. She has been involved in search and rescue for ten years. She has certified canines thru NAPWDA, NASAR, NSDA, NNDDA and L.E.T.S. She is a lead evaluator for NASAR and NSDA and has instructed at numerous seminars across the country.

The class is designed to provide knowledge concerning the general responsibilities, skills, abilities, and the equipment needed by persons who would be participating in a search or rescue mission. It provides a common starting point in training for the new person to search and rescue.

Focus will be on providing the necessary knowledge to pass the NASAR (National Association Search And Rescue) SARTECH III written exam. Persons who are interested in becoming involved with search and rescue operations.

Emergency response personnel who belong to organizations who provide resources and assistance during search and rescue missions.

Managers of emergency response organizations who want to understand the state-of-the-art skills and knowledge needed by the SAR workers.

Experienced SAR people who want to refresh their knowledge base.

This is the first step on your road to becoming a fully operational SARTECH II. Additional information will be provided to people who want to continue on this journey.

Training: Death Declaration & Power of Attorney and Missing Persons

Jenna Butler, her practice experience encompasses various areas of civil litigation in both the federal and state courts and before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. She advises clients and litigates cases involving all forms of commercial disputes, including contract breaches, trusts and estates litigation, insurance litigation, and securities litigation. Ms. Butler’s practice also involves representing and advising community associations, including litigating civil disputes on behalf of community associations and their members. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Butler practiced in Atlanta, Georgia, and from 1995 to 1996 served as law clerk to the Honorable Malcolm J. Howard, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Training: Document the Abuse

Susan Murphy-Milano is often praised as one of the most dynamic and engaging speakers of our day in the intimate partner violence prevention field.

As an expert in the area of intimate partner violence and the prevention of homicide, Susan has created specific tools and procedures which the abused need to safely leave a violent relationship.

Susan witnessed her father, a decorated Chicago Violent crimes Detective, brutally and violently attack her mother repeatedly. The words “if you leave I will kill you,” turned into reality the night Susan walked into her childhood home and found her mother murdered and her father in the next room dead from a self-inflicted gun-shot wound to the head. Susan vowed then, and has, since the murder-suicide of her parents, carved out a road making changes in the way the world looks at violence in and outside the home.

Susan uses humor, passion, and all her years of experience to motivate her audience to become more effective first responders, advocates and professionals in their work to stop family violence.

Susan’s quest for justice was instrumental in the passage of the Illinois Stalking Law and the Lauternberg Act. She has been prominently featured in newspapers, magazines, radio and television including: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Radio, ABC’S 20/20, Justice Files, E-True Hollywood, CNN, Sunday Today Show Profile, Women’s Day, Family Circle, US News and World Report to name only a few.

See more: http://imaginepublicity.com/clients/susan-murphy-milano/

Training: Sonar 2012, Improvements and Usage Deliveries

Chuck Elgin, Chief of North Carolina Underwater Response Team since 1991, NC Community College Instructor, Operations Chief in the county Emergency Management Operations Center, and am often called upon to utilize sonar in searches for missing people, mapping and bottom bathymetries thru out the South-East.

Speakers and Presentation

TOPIC: Gangs, Forgotten Youth and the Missing

Michelle Guarino earned a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a Masters of Social Work from New York University. Michelle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked with gang affiliated / at-risk youth since 1996.

She worked as the Youth Intervention Counselor for the New Hanover County / Wilmington City Gang Task Force; a first of its kind position employing a civilian within a law enforcement entity to intervene with gangs, gang members and families. Michelle has received Gang Counseling Techniques training from the National Gang Crime Research, as well as, Primary Gang Specialist Certification.

Michelle has trained agencies such as ROCIC Gang Conference, NC Governor’s Crime Commission, National Gang Crime Research Center Gang Conference, Project Safe Neighborhoods, NC Parks and Recreation, NC Association of Substance Abuse Counselors, Camp Eckerd, The North Carolina University system, Department of Juvenile Justice and various law enforcement agencies.

Michelle has also worked as an outpatient therapist specializing in children and youth with a focus on adjudicated youth and gang affiliated youth. Michelle is co-author of Best Practices Manual: The Wilmington Youth Violence Intervention Program, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Lower Cape Fear Gang Task Force Assessment and “A Second’s Chance”- Gang Violence Task Force Prevention Program published in the American Surgeon journal. Michelle serves as the Director of Program Development for The North Carolina Gang Investigators Association and has assisted the association in implementing Gang Free NC.

Michelle currently serves on the Governor’s Gang Task Force as the Chair for the Intervention sub-committee. Past recognitions include; New Hanover County Human Relations Woman of the Year 2000, for program development and services provided to at-risk and gang affiliated youth. Recipient of the Walter Lawson NOBLE award and The Governors Crime Commission “Excellence in Juvenile Crime Prevention” award, as well as, recipient of the “Cape Fear Peace Prize” for contributions made to at-risk and gang affiliated youth.

Michelle is currently employed as the Gang Counselor/ Program Director for the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office Gang Task Force. Michelle is also a part time instructor for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington School of Social Work.

TOPIC: Through the Window; The view from a “Crime Writer”

Diane Fanning is one of America’s premier Crime novelists and True Crime authors. At the top of a genre that often gets a rap in the literary world, Fanning brings esteem, doing due diligence when presenting a criminal case in book format.

At a young age, Diane had a brush with danger, coming close to being abducted, she became attuned to crime and wondered just what makes a criminal tick. What kind of questions could be answered for a child about the psychology of the criminal mind? The story of Krystal Surles and her part in ending the 20 year killing spree of serial killer, Tommy Lynn Sells, inspired Diane to write her first true crime book, “Through the Window,” an accounting of the courage and bravery of a 10 year old, not so much unlike herself.

Before writing her first true crime book, Fanning wrote for magazines,television, radio and ad agencies in Virginia, earning many awards, before she moved to Texas where her career in true crime blossomed, along with her work with several non profit organizations. She has served on the executive committees of the Writers’ League of Texas and the Heart of Texas chapter of Sisters in Crime and is also a member of Mystery Writers of America.

See more: http://imaginepublicity.com/clients/diane-fanning/

TOPIC: Bringing Jon Home; A father’s journey of loss and discovery

David Francis is president of the Jon Francis Foundation (JFF), a non-profit organization with the mission to provide support and empowerment to the families of people missing in the wilderness. The Foundation was created as a tribute to David’s 24-year-old son, Jon, who went missing in July 2006 while climbing the Grand Mogul in the Sawtooth Mountains of Central Idaho.

Authorities had abandoned their search for the young man after just two days, but David and his family refused to give up. They mobilized hundreds of volunteers who spent more than a year searching the wilderness.

David Francis is a retired Minnesota businessman, former nuclear submarine officer and retired U.S. Navy Captain with 30 years of naval service. His business experience includes several years with 3M and IBM and sales, marketing and management at five high technology startup companies in Minnesota.

David and his wife, Linda, live in Stillwater, Minnesota. They have been married for more than 40 years and have one son, Jon; three daughters, Robin, Jocelyn and Melissa; and six grandchildren, Taylor, Katie, Stephen, Audrey, Charlie and Camille.

David is the author of Bringing Jon Home – the Wilderness Search for Jon Francis. Bringing Jon Home is a national award winning inspirational memoir that tells the story of Jon’s remarkable life, sudden loss, and inspiring legacy and describes, in compelling detail, the long and relentless wilderness search for his son.

In 2010 The Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote, “David Francis has emerged as a leading advocate for missing adults.” Patty Wetterling, in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, commended his efforts by saying, “Francis’ work is invaluable. It’s not just his persistence; it’s his reasonableness… He’s solid…”

JFF received the 2011 Outstanding Support Award from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

TOPIC: Exploring Human Identification

Midori Albert is a professor and forensic anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), where she joined the faculty in 1995. She received her doctorate degree in anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder, 1995);her master’s degree in anthropology and bachelor’s degree in psychology are from the University of Florida (UF, 1993 and 1990).

Dr. Albert’s educational background involves human skeletal identification methods and techniques as well as an understanding and exploration of normal human skeletal variability. These specializations led her to link with colleagues in computer science, statistics, and mathematics, where her primary research focus since 2003 has been on adult age-related craniofacial morphological changes and their effects on computer automated face recognition technologies.

Together with her colleagues, Dr. Albert collaborates on research within the university’s newly established Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Identity Sciences (I2SIS). Students often actively engage in research learning opportunities with Dr. Albert as interests in human biometrics and identity recognition continue to evolve.

Victims Hours Presentations

“MISSING” Dori Meyers – Donajean Kapp

“MISSING” Alonzo Williams – Family Member

National Candle Light Service – Honorees

March 24, 2012 @ Riverfront Park, Downtown Wilmington Waterfront – 7:30 pm, the public is welcome
Mistress of Ceremony – TBA
Guest Speaker – David Francis  ”Living After Death”
Reading of the Poem Dedication - Sheree Justus
Vocal Tribute – TBA
National Prayer – Pastor Angie Davis
Unveiling of the Wall – Honoree Families
Service Dedication ~ In Loving Memory of TBA

Kirshonda Townsend – Mineral Wells, Texas

Michelle Haggadone – Leland, North Carolina

Missing From: BeechIsland, SC
Missing Since:09/04/03
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age at Disappearance:34
Date Of Birth: 06/25/69
White Female
Height: 5’3
Weight:102
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Clothing: T-shirt, gray sweatpants no shoes. T-shirt may have been pink ( Light in color)
Scars, Marks, Tattoos: small scar at naval

Details Of Disappearance:
Shuttleworth’s teenage daughter was spending the night at a friend’s home on September 3, 2003. She called her mother at her Aiken, South Carolina home and they spoke at 7:00 a.m. on September 4. About an hour later, an acquaintance saw Shuttleworth in her blue/green 1994 Ponitiac Grand Am at the Pit Stop convenience store on Pine Log Road in Aiken. She appeared to be reading as she sat in her idling car, which she had borrowed from a friend.

Shuttleworth called her friend at 10:00 a.m. and told him she was expecting a guest. She was supposed to pick up her son from a bus stop that afternoon, but did not. She has never been heard from again, and all phone calls after 10:00 a.m. went unanswered.

Shuttleworth was divorced in 2003 and has two children. She is a graduate of Midland Valley High School and had work experience in bookkeeping and secretarial duties. She was unemployed at the time of her disappearance; her last job was managing Jerico’s, a private club on Belvedere-Clearwater Road.

She took nothing with her but her purse when she disappeared, leaving her car behind and her home on Miller Street locked with tea on the stove.

Shuttleworth’s parents believe she was abducted from outside her home, and police suspect foul play was involved in her disappearance. It is uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning or to abandon her children, who are now in the care of their maternal grandparents. Shuttleworth’s case remains unsolved.

Investigative Agency:
Aiken County Sheriff
803-642-1785

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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Missing From: Graham,Texas
Missing Since:12/11/11
Classification: Missing
Age at Disappearance:21
Date of Birth: 09/19/91
White Female
Height: 5’3
Weight:130
Hair:Brown
Eyes:Green
Clothing:Black Hoodie sweatshirt – Pajama pants (May have an X-Box 360 logo on them)

Details of Disappearance:
Disappeared from the home of her grandparents  in the 1300 block of Pearl Street, in Graham ,Texas, (90 miles northwest of Fort Worth.TX)  on the evening of Dec. 10.

Shields left all of her belongings, including her cell phone, clothing and money behind.

Reported to be three months pregnant. at the time of her disappearance

Investigative Agency
Graham City Police Department (Texas)
(940) 549-6441

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tip line (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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Our goal is to have the families register on this  site and share the name of their loved one as well as their family name and perhaps the story of their loved one who is missing. Our youth will be paired up with one family and every day throughout January they will offer the missing loved one and their family up in prayer.

Prayer is powerful and when we gather together in prayer miracles DO happen! The youth in or group are committed to making a difference in our world today and they know that prayer goes a long way in accomplishing this.

ARK stands for Acts of Random Kindness; that is how our youth feel the world will be changed, One Act of Random Kindness at a time! It is our hope as well that the youth participating will have a greater understanding of what is truly an epidemic in our country; missing persons.

Quarters For CUE

In addition to our prayer project, throughout the month of January 2012 those in our Youth Ministry Program ARK (grades 6-12) will be in attendance at all our Masses with jars collecting Money for CUE Center for Missing Persons. The jars will have the faces of those missing loved ones we are praying for on them in hopes of not just raising money, but awareness.

Our youth will speak at all the Masses in the beginning of January to let our parishioners know about our prayer project as well as our Quarters for CUE program in hopes of all joining with us in prayer as well as donating to our cause so that Cue Center can continue to do what they do so well, help those families with a missing loved one through advocacy, search and rescue, awareness campaigns, education and so much more!

The youth in ARK have been inspired by the stories of many families of the missing, their loved ones and all those like CUE and their founder Monica Caison and awesome volunteers who give of themselves freely to help others. They make a difference daily in our world and make it a better place to live in. They are the grace disguised on our journey and give us hope!

Visit Project Prayer For The Missing- Quarters for CUE,, HERE

DONATE TO QUARTERS FOR CUE

Missing From:Wells Nevada
Missing Since:04/13/11
Classification: Missing Endangered
White Male
Age at disappearance:86
Height:6’0
Weight:180
Hair:Gray or Partially Gray, Partially Bald
Facial Hair-2 day beard growth when he left Toledo
Eyes: Blue
Special Identifiers: Wears glasses
Clothing:Tan or beige pants. Blue plaid shirt. Tan jacket.  Toledo Mud Hens baseball Cap. Tan canvas shoes.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Patrick Carnes (86 years old) who was last seen alive in the area of Wells, Nevada on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. He was traveling to Reno, Nevada from Toledo, Ohio. His car was later located abandoned off of I-80 between Golconda and Battle Mountain, in Humboldt County. Carnes was traveling with his canine companion Lucky. Lucky is a large 80-100 pound brown mixed breed male dog.

Patrick and his dog, Lucky, were heading home to Reno when they both mysteriously vanished on April 13, 2011.

In early April 2011, Patrick Carnes traveled from his home in Reno, Nev., to visit family in Ohio. There, he looked at retirement homes where he could spend his golden years.

Patrick, a World War II vet who served in the Solomon Islands, was a proud, active man, with no signs of slowing down.

On April 12, he packed up his dark green Subaru wagon and drove back to Reno with his best friend, a slightly overweight, 100-pound Akita/mixed-breed dog named “Lucky.”

The following night, just after Patrick and Lucky entered the state of Nevada, a trooper pulled Patrick over for not changing lanes appropriately near the town of Wells. After speaking briefly with the officer, Patrick got off with a warning and continued his late-night trek across the state via westbound I-80.

Though they were only about a six hour drive from Reno, Patrick and Lucky never made it there.

The next morning, Patrick’s car was found abandoned in sage brush, a good distance from the highway in rural Winnemucca.

When investigators came upon Patrick’s vehicle, they found no signs of foul play. The car was a good distance from the road, and its front end was facing the interstate. There was no evidence leading investigators to believe Patrick and Lucky were abducted, but they can’t rule anything out.

After doing extensive air and ground searches of the vast, wide open, Nevada desert, police in Humboldt County have come up completely empty-handed. There hasn’t been a single sighting of the missing duo.

When Patrick was pulled over in Wells, he told the trooper he was going to get a room in nearby Elko that night, but there’s no record of him ever doing so.

What happened overnight remains a mystery to investigators, and they need your help to piece the clues together.

In the middle of the night, every night, I-80 is dominated by big rigs. Detectives believe a trucker might have seen what happened to Patrick and Lucky, but no one has come forward as of yet.

“Some trucker saw an old man with a dog,” Humboldt County Undersheriff Curtiss Kull said.

Consequently, investigators would like to make a plea to anyone — specifically long-haul truck drivers — who may have driven on I-80 between Wells and Winnemucca, and saw Patrick and Lucky between the late evening hours of April 13 through the early morning hours of April 14.

Investigative Agency
Humboldt County Sheriff
775-623-6419

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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Missing Since:05/21/11
Missing From: Jacksonville,Florida
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age at Disappearance:28
Date of Birth:10/06/83
Asian American Female
Height: 5’4
Weight: 150 lbs
Hair:Brown
Eyes:Brown
Scars, Marks, Tattoos: small scars on both arms

Police announced on 08/07/11 a car belonging  to  Rosemary Rivas Day was found in the 900 block of Liberty Street, a block north of State Street near downtown.

Investigative Agency
Jacksonville Sheriff Office
904-630-2791

If you have any information on this case please contact CUE Center For Missing Persons using the contact form below or contact Cue Center at (910) 343-1131 24 hour tipline (910) 232-1687.

All information submitted to CUE Center For Missing Persons is confidential.

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