Stories about missing people. Undeclared war: where people disappear and how to look for them
Igor Shvytkin talks about what to do if your relatives or friends are missing.
Missing… They say that there is a whole planet where they all continue to live. They are supposedly inaccessible, but still alive. An ambiguous legend, isn't it? Curiously, how many of us and how often thought about this problem? To be honest, I personally have not yet lost brother, - never. It seemed to me that this happens to people, well, at least disadvantaged, and therefore I have never written on this topic before. However, such a disaster came to my house so suddenly and idly that my family did not know what to do for several days. My brother just left home and didn't come back... He's been gone for five years now. But only now I understand that his search was initially carried out incorrectly. We wrote a statement to the police and sounded a real alarm only at the end of the second day after his disappearance. All this time we waited for a miracle and hoped for something. It was then that the precious "hot trail time" was, of course, irretrievably lost. According to experts, if we had contacted the police on time, then perhaps we would have been able to cling to at least something. But alas... By the way, I am convinced that in such a tragic case, many citizens, like my family, also not being informed about the right actions, will start searching on their own and too late. This could be a fatal mistake...
Non-combat losses
Just think about these figures: our country loses on average about a hundred thousand people missing every year! And this is on peaceful days! Our citizens are disappearing into towns and villages without a single shot being fired from any enemy armed to the teeth. Nowadays, to be on the list of missing persons, it is enough just to go to the grocery store and disappear in broad daylight. Today, the dry and lifeless phrase of the report in the search cases "and since then his whereabouts have not been established" burns the hearts of hundreds of thousands of relatives of the missing people. Over the past ten years for different reasons over eight million people were put on the wanted list. More than a million compatriots are still missing. Most often, residents of megacities disappear. Twenty percent of them are children and teenagers, thirty percent are women. But most often, of course, men disappear without a trace. At least four times more likely than the fairer sex.
For some reason, this problem is especially relevant for our country. People go missing all over the world, but there are no more missing people than we have anywhere else. Of course, in our days and in our country, old people who have lost their memory most often disappear. The mentally ill leave home. Some leave on purpose, having quarreled with their household members. There are many who, having got into an accident, lost their memory or lost their minds. However, in the vast majority of disappearances of citizens, these are hidden latent murders on one or another basis. Most often this occurs as a result of physical violence and sexual violence. This can also include drunken fights, housing affairs, big money or criminal showdowns.
Mikhail Vinogradov
In a word, most often stories with missing people have a criminal component. At risk are those who have quarreled with the law, and those who have broken down in life, abusing alcohol or drugs. However, according to representatives of law enforcement agencies, there are also quite curious cases.
It happens that we receive a statement about the disappearance of a person. We find him. However, it turns out that he hid from his relatives on purpose! He does not want to return home at all and lives somewhere for his own pleasure, not notifying his relatives or friends about his whereabouts. In this case, he writes us a statement in which he indicates where he is staying own will. And we have no right to report his whereabouts even to his relatives. While they do not find a place for themselves and are knocked down in search of him.
Ekaterina Gerasimenko
head of the ESD MU MVD "Odintsovskoye"
There are many rumors that allegedly children are stolen for the purpose of further sale for organs and so on. These are all myths. At least, such cases are unknown to me. Children most often disappear, simply lost in the forest. But their main enemy is water. There are many drowned children. And this is the fault above all of adults who do not instruct their children about the dangers that exist in the bosom of nature.
Grigory Sergeev
Chairman of the search and rescue team "Liza Alert"
It was in the forest that the body of the girl Liza Fomkina was found, whose name today is the public search and rescue team "Liza Alert" ("alert" in translation "anxiety"). In 2010, this girl and her aunt got lost in the forest. For five days, practically no one was looking for them. And only after the information about their disappearance, having leaked to the Internet, became public, hundreds of volunteers went in search of them. Liza and her relative were found, but it was too late. Since then, the detachment has already counted thousands of volunteers throughout the country. They are looking for people on their own and by their methods. It really works, because these caring guys are ready to respond to someone else's misfortune within 24 hours a day. They are ready to accept everything necessary measures to search, and absolutely free.
Looking for firefighters, looking for police...
According to many experts, the system of the state modern domestic investigation of the missing does not always work effectively due to its slowness, which, in turn, is explained by a lot of bureaucratic coordination.
Unfortunately, the police will sometimes take your application from you, but they will not take active steps, they will wait three days. Hope the person shows up. Well, unless, of course, there are no such dumb moments or circumstances indicating that the missing person could have been killed. Then, of course, the case is initiated and investigative measures are carried out. But I take a common vicious practice, so to speak. The man came, they told him: if he does not come by this time, we will put him on the wanted list. During this time, the person was taken away, buried two meters somewhere in the field.
Alexander Gurov
Militia lieutenant general Alexander Ivanovich Gurov ate a dog in the course of the investigation. The honored detective of the country has his own opinion about after what time, in fact, the police proceed to the real active search. And the legends about patience for three days were not born from scratch. However, according to him, the search machine really starts to work and does a few days after receiving the application.
In fact, such a system search is being done more than ten days later. Why? Because three days later, a relative of the missing person came and provided some more documents ... Then the relevant papers are drawn up, which are signed by the boss. Then a decision is made to put the person on the wanted list. Then this documentation is sent to the field. Until they reach the place, until the boss signs, acquaints personnel. All this takes ten days, no less, and even more. During this time, the crows will already peck at the corpse, if it lies somewhere in the field ...
Alexander Gurov
militia lieutenant general, deputy State Duma. Doctor of Law, Professor
Here, the police have instructions from the Ministry of Justice, the prosecutor's office, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs itself: if a person with money is missing, if a child has disappeared, then you should immediately open a case under Article 105 - "Murder". But the case, as a rule, is opened on the basis of a search article. And this means that everything is limited only by the fact that the police put up ads that no one pays attention to. And the police themselves, having dozens of such announcements in their hands, will not even be able to remember anyone! It is very difficult to find a person in general. But if the people search system itself is also ineffective, then it is doubly difficult to search.
Mikhail Vinogradov
forensic psychiatrist, doctor of medical sciences, head of the Center for Legal and psychological help in extreme situations
Indeed, a very interesting and important detail. It is the criminal case on the fact of the disappearance of a person that is initiated by law enforcement agencies only if there is reason to believe that the missing person could become a victim of a crime. If the case is a search case, then, accordingly, the scope of efforts of the competent institutions and departments is different. Thousands of applicants receive refusals to initiate criminal proceedings on the fact of the disappearance of their relatives. Rejection notices are printed like newspapers in a printing house, in batches.
In addition, the so-called cane system in the police has not yet been canceled. The Visyaks are also people who have disappeared without a trace, the number of which seriously spoils the indicators. That is why the police officers on duty, even at the stage of accepting applications from citizens, sometimes try to catch the applicants on the word: “Isn’t he inclined ...”, “Wasn’t he noticed in vicious relationships?”, “Where exactly did the person disappear, that is in which area..."
I know of such a case. Two women came to the police. They say that the husbands went with large sum money to buy goods. Gone. The district police department does not accept the application: "I suppose your husbands went on a spree ?!" They turn to the prosecutor's office. They ask: “Where did they go from Moscow? To Orel? Let them open a case there, in Orel. Orel says: “Prove that they have reached us, let Moscow open a case. Well, if you remember the story on Zhdanovskaya, then there, in general, the corpse of a state security officer was thrown from the territorial boundaries of Moscow beyond the ring road, and because of the ring road, the regional police gentlemen threw him back. And so several times.
Mikhail Vinogradov
forensic psychiatrist, doctor of medical sciences, head of the Center for Legal and Psychological Assistance in Extreme Situations
Hearing stories like this make your hair stand on end. That is why our citizens have to rely solely on own forces and search methods they weren't taught in law school. Or even wander around fortune-tellers and fortune-tellers.
Business on the mountain, or psychics-fraudsters
While the police often shrug their shoulders, saying that the search did not bring results, people, of course, are looking for alternative methods of searching for their relatives. They very often need at least some report on someone's activities or on the progress of the search. The police never share the results of operational-search activities. And here the ubiquitous psychics appear with their services. Today, there are entire squads of so-called psychic searchers who allegedly specialize in searching for missing people. They promise to find a person or predict the outcome of the search for photographs, personal items or astrological charts. Naturally, they provide their "help" on a paid basis.
The initial appointment with such "search engines" costs from fifteen thousand rubles. However, relatives of the missing are lining up, just to get at least some information about the missing person. They seem to be lining up for hope. In fact, they simply buy a ticket for an expensive performance of self-deception, for a dance of swindlers with tambourines, who only profit from someone else's grief. None of the operas or public search engines told me a single story when psychics helped to find the trail of a missing person. Therefore, my advice is: do not waste precious time and crazy money on such scoundrels. They won't help.
Features of private investigation
While I was looking for my missing brother, I was able to find out that there is another attractive alternative to public search engines or the police. These are private detective or investigative agencies. The only thing I was warned about right away was that you need to come to these organizations with a long ruble. I managed to talk to a man who once stood at the origins of the Russian private investigation. He claims that the material side of the issue is indeed a good incentive for high-quality search work, but this is not the main thing. It is important that you get a real professional in their field.
In general, a lot depends on specific people, on those who conduct the search. And it does not matter whether it is a representative of the internal affairs bodies or a private detective - it does not matter. It all depends on the person and their attitude towards their work. Here, for example, you are lucky enough to get to a good surgeon - he will cure you, you will get to a bad one - he will stab you. Another thing is that if applicants or victims go to the internal affairs bodies, a kind of gray, impersonal mass, then in our case, these are always clients. Feel the difference? Hence, our attitude towards them is completely different. A man comes to a detective agency. He pays money. He wants to get quality work for his money. And in any case, we inform the client about all the work done in writing. He sees what work has been done and where his money has gone...
You tell me: “Why look?
Those who were killed here have long disappeared,
Gone are those that might have been waiting for them,
And all of them have long been forgotten ... "
From the song of the searchers
Almost every family in our country has relatives who went missing during the Great Patriotic War. Some scattered information is stored in the family, someone has preserved photographs. But when you see the name native person in the report of the Memorial base, for example, for some reason you more clearly imagine a train under fire, trenches ... And it seems that if you learn at least something else, your soldier will not be so lonely in his unknown grave. And you hope that the soldiers who did not return will not be left without prayers.
About where and how to look for information about the burial place of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Belov, candidate historical sciences, Director of the Research Center for Regional History of the Volgograd state academy Postgraduate Education, Vice President of the International charitable foundation « Battle of Stalingrad».
STEP 1. GETTING STARTED
Most fast way find your relative who died in the Great Patriotic War - this is a generalized data bank "Memorial", the base of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO):
For this:
1. We go to the website of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which hosts the most complete electronic database in our country of those killed in the Second World War: www.obd-memorial.ru
2. Fill in the columns "Surname", "Name", "Patronymic", "Year of birth" of your deceased relative:
3. Ideally, we get the result of several lines with more or less complete information and continue to study the materials in the direction of concretization exact location burial.
4. In the surname or name, or in the patronymic, we change the letters, selecting them in such a way as if they were written by an illiterate person or the original document is poorly readable and there are alternative reading options. And perhaps you will stumble upon additional documents from the archive database.
At this stage of the search, the last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, preferably the title, is enough to start. If he is Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, then, of course, it will be more difficult. It is necessary to show perseverance to make sure that this is exactly the person who is needed, details will be needed - the full name of the wife, mother, the name of the village, city from which he was called, place of birth (in accordance with the administrative-territorial division of the USSR in prewar years- approx. ed.).
Worth paying Special attention to the fourth point. There are indeed silly spelling errors in the database. My great-grandfather's name was Andrei Kirillovich. I wrote "Kirillovich" as normal person with two l, and then I thought that not everyone knows how Kirillovich is spelled ...
Kirillovich scored with one "l" and immediately found a burial place. Also Filippovich - maybe Felippovich, and with one "p", and so on. It is also better to try to change the letters in both the surname and the first name in case they were written by an illiterate person or the original document is poorly readable. Such moments must be taken into account.
Ideally, the result of your search should be a document on the place of burial of a relative and information in which military unit(army, division or regiment) he fought.
If there is no information, one can hope that the search teams that are looking for and burying the remains of soldiers will find something. If the search engines managed to find someone, they turn to the military registration and enlistment office, looking for relatives themselves.
But you can continue to search on your own. In this case, it is necessary to collect the maximum possible amount of information in order to start qualitatively. new stage search.
What can help us in this?
STEP 2. COLLECTING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Have the letters survived?
The most important thing in letters is the number of the field postal station (FPS) on the stamp of the envelope. It can be used to set the number of a division, regiment, etc.
A powerful resource: a lot of documents on military topics, memoirs, collections. If the division number, the battle area is known, then at least in in general terms find description.
Database "Feat of the People"
TsAMO project.
This is a database where there is information about warriors, awarded with medals. The database is not yet complete, not all documents have been scanned yet.
This resource has several databases on hospitals. Dial the hospital number, press Enter and see which division he served.
And there are many other reference books on the types of troops, epaulettes, weapons.
But the most valuable thing on the Soldat.ru forum is http://soldat.ru/forum/
If you register on it, then you can get advice from completely unfamiliar historians, specialists, anyone who is fond of searching, employees of military registration and enlistment offices.
To register at the top of this site (see the picture above in the lower right corner), you need to click the "Registration" button. Next, you need to fill out the registration form.
Then create a topic (it’s better to name it briefly, for example, “No. __-thaya rifle division. I am looking for a relative. After that, your request can be read by everyone who visits this site. Do not doubt! There will be enough such unfamiliar and caring people. Everyone will help you with the information they have. Some will answer, advise, consult, others will recommend sites, scan the documents you need, excerpts from books, etc.
Other resources
There are many more resources that publish interviews of veterans, biographies. But it should be borne in mind that these sources, as a rule, are of no historical value either for the researcher or for someone who wants to use this material in a search.
“Missing” - many received notices with such a phrase during the war years. There were millions of them, and the fate of these defenders of the Motherland for a long time remained unknown. In most cases, it remains unknown even today, but there is still some progress in clarifying the circumstances of the disappearance of the soldiers. Several factors contribute to this. First, there are new technological possibilities for search automation necessary documents. Secondly, useful and the right job conducting search parties. Thirdly, the archives of the Ministry of Defense have become more accessible. But even today, in the overwhelming majority of cases, ordinary citizens do not know where to look for the missing in the Second World War. This article may help someone find out the fate of loved ones.
Search difficulties
In addition to factors contributing to success, there are those that make it difficult to search for missing people in the Second World War. Too much time has passed, and there is less and less material evidence of events. There are also no more people who can confirm this or that fact. In addition, the disappearance was considered during and after the war as a suspicious fact. It was believed that a soldier or officer could be captured, which in those years was considered almost a betrayal. A soldier of the Red Army could go over to the side of the enemy, and this happened, unfortunately, quite often. The fates of the traitors are mostly known. Collaborators caught and identified were tried and either executed or given long sentences. Others have taken refuge in distant lands. Those of them who have survived to this day usually do not want to be found.
Where to look for POWs missing in WWII
The fate of many Soviet prisoners of war after the war developed in different ways. Some were spared by the Stalinist punitive machine, and they safely returned home, although for the rest of their lives they did not feel like full-fledged veterans and themselves felt some guilt before the “normal” participants in the hostilities. Others were destined for a long road through places of detention, camps and prisons, where they ended up most often on unsubstantiated charges. A certain number of soldiers released from captivity ended up in the American, French or British zones of occupation. These, as a rule, were issued by the allies. Soviet troops but there were exceptions. For the most part, our soldiers wanted to go home to their families, but rare realists understood what awaited them and asked for asylum. Not all of them were traitors - many simply did not want to cut wood on Far North or dig channels. In some cases, they are on their own, contacting relatives and even writing off foreign inheritances to them. However, in this case, the search for the missing in the Second World War of 1941-1945 can be difficult, especially if such a former prisoner changed his last name and does not want to remember his homeland. Well, people are different, as are their fates, and it is hard to condemn those who ate bitter bread in a foreign land.
Documentary trail
However, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the situation was much simpler and more tragic. AT initial period During the war, soldiers simply perished in unknown cauldrons, sometimes along with their commanders, and there was no one to report on irretrievable losses. Sometimes there were no bodies left, or it was impossible to identify the remains. It would seem, where to look for the missing in the Second World War with such confusion?
But there always remains one thread, pulling which, you can somehow unravel the history of the person of interest. The fact is that any person, and especially a military man, leaves behind a “paper” trail. His whole life is accompanied by a documentary turnover: clothing and food certificates are issued for a soldier or officer, he is included in the medical record. Here is the answer to the question of where to look for the missing. The Second World War ended long ago, and the documents are stored. Where? In the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, in Podolsk.
Central Archive of the Moscow Region
The application process itself is simple and free of charge. For the search for those missing in the Second World War of 1941-1945, the archive of the Ministry of Defense does not require money, and the costs of sending the answer are covered. In order to make a request, you need to collect as much personal information as possible about who is to be found. The more it is, the easier it will be for the Central Asian workers to decide where to look for the missing in the Great Patriotic War, in which storage and on which shelf the treasured document can lie.
First of all, you need a surname, name and patronymic, place and date of birth, information about where you were called from, where you were sent and when. If any documentary evidence, notices or even personal letters have been preserved, then if possible they should be attached (copies). Information about government awards, promotions, injuries and any other related to service in the Armed Forces of the USSR will also not be superfluous. If it is known in which the missing person served, the military unit number and rank, then this should also be reported. In general, everything that is possible, but only reliable. It remains to state all this on paper, send it by letter to the address of the Archive and wait for a response. It won't be soon, but definitely. Mandatory and responsible people work in the CA MO.
Foreign archives
In the Second World War of 1941-1945, with a negative answer from Podolsk, one should continue abroad. Wherever the roads of hard times did not bring Soviet soldiers languishing in captivity. Their traces are found in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Austria, Holland, Norway and, of course, Germany. The Germans kept the documentation meticulously, each prisoner got a card with a photograph and personal data, and if the documents were not damaged during the hostilities or bombings, there would be an answer. The information concerns not only prisoners of war, but also those who were involved in forced labor. The search for the missing in the Second World War sometimes allows you to find out about the heroic behavior of a relative in a concentration camp, and if not, then at least his fate will be clarified.
The answer is usually short. The archives report locality, in the area of \u200b\u200bwhich he took his last Stand soldier of the Red Soviet army. Information about the place of pre-war residence, the date from which the fighter was removed from all types of allowance, and the place of his burial are confirmed. This is due to the fact that the search for those missing in the Great Patriotic War by last name, and even by name and patronymic, can lead to ambiguous results. Additional confirmation may be the data of relatives to whom the notification should have been sent. If the burial place is indicated as unknown, then usually it is a mass grave located near the indicated settlement. It is important to remember that casualty reports were often compiled on the battlefield, and they were written in a not very legible handwriting. The search for missing persons in the Second World War of 1941-1945 can be difficult due to the fact that the letter "a" resembles "o", or something like that.
search engines
In recent decades, the search movement has become widespread. Enthusiasts who want to clarify the fate of millions of soldiers who laid down their lives for the Motherland are doing a noble deed - they find the remains of fallen soldiers, determine by many signs their belonging to one or another part, and do everything to find out their names. No one knows better than these people where to look for the missing in the Second World War. In the forests near Yelnya, in the swamps Leningrad region, near Rzhev, where there were fierce battles, they are carefully excavating, passing native land its defenders with military honors. Search teams send information to government officials and the military, who update their databases.
Electronic means
Today, everyone who wants to find out the fate of their glorious ancestors has the opportunity to look into the commander's reports from the battlefields. And you can do it without leaving your home. On the website of the archives of the Moscow Region, you can find unique documents and ensure that the information provided is correct. From these pages breathes a living history, they seem to create a bridge between eras. Searching for those missing in the Great Patriotic War by last name is simple, the interface is convenient and accessible to everyone, including the elderly. In any case, you need to start with the lists of the dead. After all, the "funeral" could simply not reach, and for many decades the soldier was considered missing.
Fri, 26/09/2014 - 12:51
Stories about mysterious disappearances always excite the blood, because no one still knows what happened to the missing people, where they are now and whether they are alive at all. Going to work, a person usually expects that after the work shift he will return home safely, but history knows several chilling cases when people mysteriously disappeared from their workplace and after that no one ever saw them again.
Deborah Poe
A salesperson in a convenience store is a job fraught with potential dangers. But 26-year-old Deborah Poe needed money, so she took a job as a night clerk at a convenience store in Orlando.
On February 4, 1990, Poe had a regular night shift at the store, and last time she was seen at about 3:00. An hour later, the customer found the store empty and contacted the police.
Po's car was still in the parking lot, her wallet was inside, and there was no sign of a robbery or struggle. Bloodhound took Po's trail behind the store, but it ended quickly, indicating that she had left on another vehicle.
The case took a bizarre turn when another customer claimed to have entered the Store between 3:00 and 4:00, but Po was not there. Behind the counter was a young man in a Megadeth T-shirt. The guy sold her cigarettes even though everything seemed unfamiliar to him. This mysterious person never found, and the police are not sure if he is connected to Poe's disappearance.
To this day, Deborah Poe is considered missing. And she's not the only young woman who has disappeared working alone in a convenience store...
Lynn Burdick
In 1982, 18-year-old Lynn Burdick took a job as a shop assistant in a small Florida mountain town. She worked alone on the evening of 17 April. At 8:30 p.m., there was half an hour left before the store closed, and Burdick's parents called to see if they needed to take her home. But no one picked up the phone.
Brother Burdick went to the store to check on her. There was no sign of Lynn anywhere, and the cash register was missing $187. No leads were found during the search operation, but police speculated that Burdick's disappearance was related to an incident that had taken place earlier that evening.
In less than an hour, an unidentified man attempted to kidnap a young woman from the nearby campus of Williams College. The student ran away from him, and the criminal disappeared. Later, a dark sedan matching the description of the suspect's car was seen heading towards the ill-fated store. Since it was located only 15 kilometers from the college, it is possible that this same person also kidnapped Burdick.
One potential suspect was a man named Leonard Paradiso. Paradiso was convicted of killing a young woman in 1984 and is believed to have been responsible for a large number of other unsolved murders. He may have been in the area at the time of Burdick's disappearance, but died in prison of cancer in 2008 before he could be linked to other crimes.
Curtis Pichon
For 10 years, Curtis Pichon worked as a police officer in Concord, New Hampshire, but his tenure as a police officer ended when he contracted multiple sclerosis. By the age of 40, Pichon was forced to take a job as a security guard at the Venture Corporation plant in Seabrook.
July 5, 2000 he went to the night shift. At 1:42 a.m., he called the fire department after his car inexplicably caught fire. No one ever found out the cause of the fire, but firefighters noticed that Pichon seemed unusually calm considering what happened to his car. After the fire was extinguished, he continued to work, but at about 3:45 a colleague noticed his absence. Pishon mysteriously disappeared, and no trace of him was found during the search.
Pichon also suffered from depression due to a battle with multiple sclerosis, so it was assumed that he was suicidal and went mentally deranged when his car caught fire. However, due to his illness, Pishon could not travel far to commit suicide, so his body had to be found near his place of work. The door and two vending machines at the factory were damaged, so it was possible that Pichon had run into a criminal.
A few years later, one of former colleagues Pichon, Robert April, was arrested for a completely different crime. April was said to have claimed that he had killed Pishon. However, the charges against April were dropped, tk. no evidence linking him to mysterious disappearance Pishon was never found.
Susie Lamplugh
One of the strangest disappearances in London history is the disappearance of 25-year-old real estate agent Susie Lamplugh. She was last seen at the Sturgis Estate Agents office on 28 July 1986 but mysteriously disappeared while on her way to show a house to a potential client in Fulham. According to Lamplew's records, the client's name was "Mr. Kipper" and their meeting was scheduled for 12:45.
Lamplug never returned from this meeting, and her car was found about 2.5 kilometers from her home in Fulham. Witnesses saw her arguing with an unidentified person on the street that day before getting into another car. An investigation found no trace of Lamplugh, and she was pronounced dead in 1994.
Authorities thought Mr. Kipper was a serial rapist named John Cannan, who was released from prison three days before Lamplugh disappeared. He was nicknamed Kipper and looked like the unknown person Lamplugh was arguing with. In 1989, Cannan was convicted of murdering another woman and received three life sentences. One of ex girlfriends Kannana told police that he had spoken about the rape and murder of Lampew, and he was questioned about his involvement in her disappearance.
Even though the police had a strong case against Cannan, there was not enough evidence to convict him of Lamplugh's murder. Nevertheless, they publicly announced that Kannan, in their opinion, was the very criminal. Cannan remains in prison and denies that he killed Lamplug.
Lisa Geis
On the morning of February 27, 1989, employees of a company in Georgia came to their workplaces and found that the building was flooded. As it turns out, the flood was caused by a fire suppression system that went off at a workplace owned by 26-year-old programmer Lisa Geiss, who had been working the night before and could not be found anywhere. The fire and flood became a minor issue when a pool of blood was found at Geis' workplace.
Geis's car and wallet were found in a nearby woods, and police feared the worst when they found a bloody brick nearby. Due to flooding in the building and heavy rain outside, all evidence of the bloody scene was severely damaged.
The prime suspect was a recently fired employee. This employee may have broken into the building to make a mess and unexpectedly stumbled upon Geis. At the time, the suspect lived on a large property of his own with large quantity wells, and a few years later ex-wife claimed that he once called them " good place even though the police searched many of these wells, they found no trace of Geis, and there is still no evidence linking the suspect to her alleged killer.
Brian Carrick
On the evening of December 20, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick went to work as a stockman at a food market in Johnsburg, Illinois. The next day, Carrick's parents panicked because he never returned home and declared him missing. The police did not find a single witness in the market who could confirm that Carrick left work.
On the morning after Carrick's disappearance, one of the employees found a pool of blood in the food refrigerator. The manager, thinking that the blood had dripped from raw meat, ordered to wash the stain. However, drops of blood were found throughout the store, and DNA testing confirmed that it belonged to Carrick.
A few years later, a version appeared that Carrick's manager, Mario Cassiaro, was responsible for his disappearance. After their colleague Shane Lamb was arrested on a drug case, he turned in both Cassiaro and Carrick. According to Lamb, Carrick was procuring marijuana for Cassiaro and owed him money. When Cassiaro asked for Lamb's help to get the debt out of Carrick, things got out of hand. They accidentally killed him in a cold store and then disposed of the body.
In 2010, Cassiaro was charged with first-degree murder after Lamb agreed to testify against him in exchange for a reduced sentence. During the first meeting, the jury could not reach a unanimous conclusion, but in 2013 Cassiaro was found guilty and received 26 years in prison. He continues to maintain his innocence, and Brian Carrick's body has never been found.
Kim Leggett
Kim Leggett, 21-year-old girl who worked as a secretary in Mercedes, Texas. On October 9, 1984 at 4:30 pm, a client saw Leggett talking to two unidentified men in a car park. About 15 minutes later, Leggett's stepfather received an anonymous phone call informing him that Leggett had been kidnapped for ransom.
At first he assumed the call was a prank, but soon learned that his stepdaughter was out of the office. Even though her car was parked, her belongings and wallet were inside, Kim Leggett disappeared without a trace. The Leggett family received a $250,000 ransom demand. The letter was written in her handwriting.
Leggett's stepfather was a pilot, and she was rumored to have been kidnapped because he refused to smuggle into Mexico. Leggett is survived by her husband and one year old son, and some suspicions also arose about the spouse - he allegedly mentioned the disappearance of his wife in a conversation with friends, when no one knew about it yet.
However, the two men who spoke to Leggett were never found. After the first ransom demand, no one contacted her family again.
Trevaline Evans
In 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans was the owner of an antique shop in the small town of Llangollen in North Wales. On the afternoon of June 16, Evans mysteriously disappeared from the store. Her car was still parked nearby, and a sign on the front door said she would be back in two minutes.
Evans bought an apple and a banana from a nearby store at approximately 12:40 pm and was seen returning to the store. The banana peel in the wastebasket indicated that she had returned to her workplace but what happened next remains a mystery.
During the day, Evans was seen in various places throughout the city, including in the vicinity of her home. But if Evans returned to the store after a two-minute absence and then left again, why was the sign still on the door? In addition, both of her handbags and a jacket were left in the store, along with other things that she planned to take home that day.
Over the years, Evans has allegedly been seen in London, France, and Australia, but none of these reports have been documented. In parallel, on the day of the disappearance, an unknown man was seen in the store, but he was never identified. After 25 years, the disappearance of Trevaline Evans remains one of the most confusing cases in the history of the United Kingdom.
Kelly Wilson
In 1992, 17-year-old Kelly Wilson took a job at Northeast Texas Video in the small town of Gilmer. On the evening of January 5, she was working at a video store and went out to withdraw money from a bank around the corner. Nobody has seen her since. Wilson's car was later found in the video store's parking lot with a punctured tire, the girl's wallet still inside.
No new information about the disappearance emerged for two years until some rather horrifying conclusions were drawn. The city began to believe that Wilson was kidnapped by a satanic cult, raped, killed and ritually dismembered.
In January 1994, eight suspects were charged with murder. Seven of the people were from the local Kerr family, and the eighth suspect was Police Sergeant James Brown, who was investigating Wilson's disappearance. The suspects were also accused of sexually abusing their own children, some of whom told Child Protective Services that they witnessed Wilson's murder.
However, it soon became apparent that the children had fabricated their testimony, and there was no evidence to support the abuse or murder. Charges against Sergeant Brown and the Kerr family were dropped and the satanic cult rumors were dismissed. All suspects claimed no involvement in the disappearance of Kelly Wilson, which remains unsolved to this day.
Paul Armstrong and Stephen Lombard
In 1993, a California towing company came under the spotlight when two unrelated employees disappeared without a trace. Tow truck driver Stephen Lombard and bulldozer driver Paul Armstrong had no obvious connection to each other, but somehow, on the same day, they disappeared at the same time.
That morning, Armstrong was last seen at his home by a girlfriend and reported missing when he failed to meet her for lunch. Lombard was seen after lunch, when he went into the office for a salary. He was never seen again after that, and his pickup truck was soon found abandoned in a K-Mart parking lot with the keys inside.
The strangest thing about this story was that the owner of the company, Randal Wright, was in the midst of strange events. In 2009, Wright's wife, who lived apart from him, mysteriously disappeared from a country house in Mexico. She was never found, and Wright did not even bother to inform the Mexican authorities of her disappearance.
At the beginning of 2017, about 2.5 thousand people were reported missing in Belarus, among them more than 500 statements about the disappearance of minors. Most of the statements are written about the disappearance of children over 12 years old, and usually the whereabouts of teenagers or adults can be established within up to ten days. But not always.
We very often mistakenly think that it is necessary to contact the police only three days after the disappearance of a person. In fact, there are no deadlines for filing an application - the police are obliged to accept it immediately. The Investigative Committee opens a criminal case on the fact of the unknown disappearance of a person in ten days. And, as practice shows, not from the first day the police have been searching for the missing person. This is usually explained by the fact that in 80% of the missing person "drank or went on a spree." Then the relatives of those missing in the search can only count on the help of friends and the strength of volunteers. The search and rescue teams "Angel", "Simuran" (Gomel), "TsentrSpas" (Grodno), and "Angel North-West" deal with cases when it is necessary to involve in the search as possible more people. They are especially needed in cases where a person's life is at stake. Needless to say, these people do not take money for their work.
The result directly depends on the submission of the application. The more information about a person is indicated, the more likely it is to find him as quickly as possible. The most important thing is to start searching in time. And, although it is difficult, you will have to put aside the panic and start taking reasonable measures that will help you quickly find the missing person and help him, writes kyky.org.
Why can a person disappear
Missing people can be divided into several categories. The first is those who are alive and well, but “decided to start new life". This category includes people who have decided to disappear due to financial troubles, debts and problems with the law. It also happens that a person wants to escape from family and relatives. These people are rarely found because they don't want to be found. The story of the disappearance of such people usually has a similar scenario: “There was a man, he had a wife and a child. There is a car, there is an apartment, he earns decently - everything seems to be fine with a person. But one morning I got into my car and drove to work. Didn't come to work. His car was found halfway to work a few days later. Parked at the curb. There are no signs of a struggle in the car, no signs of violence, robbery. The car is correct. All the bushes, garages, basements in the area were searched with dogs. Nothing. The man had no financial problems.”
The second category is those who are alive, but for some reason have lost their memory and do not know who they are. For example, a person got into an accident or something happened that caused amnesia. Such a person may be in a hospital or have already started life from scratch somewhere else. In this situation, one can only add that they did not find a person, because they searched badly. But such cases are rare.
The third category is those who fell victim to criminals. And this happened by a banal accident: a person could be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Either hear or see what he "shouldn't have." Therefore, they decided to remove it. What is interesting here is that, in principle, nothing connected the killer and the victim. And the place where the body or remains were thrown (in the worst case scenario) may be several thousand kilometers from the place where the person was last seen alive.
The fourth case is those who became victims of crimes, but the perpetrator was well acquainted with the victim. In such cases, the person is dead. But with a proper investigation, the criminal can be caught, respectively, and the body will be found.
The fifth option is those who have become victims of "death of a non-criminal nature." These include lost mushroom pickers, hunters, fishermen, travelers, extreme athletes and suicides.
A special category, which is also among the missing, is people who did not appear and did not get in touch after armed conflicts, emergencies and natural disasters. They obviously did not disappear of their own free will, did not lose their memory and did not become a victim of a criminal. There is another factor here - an external influence that is not directed at a specific person. The most likely scenario in such cases is death. However, the lack of specific data is not a reason to record a person as dead, which is why the concept of “missing” is used. At the same time, one must understand that a person can also be in captivity, and in hostages, and in slavery.
Why do children go missing
“It is impossible to unequivocally answer the question why children disappear. Some children, left without parental supervision, go for a walk in the forest or in the field. Boys and girls under the age of 12 are most often lost. And teenagers leave home already purposefully, or they stay with their friends, and they forget to warn their parents. Most of the requests come to us during the holidays and on weekends, when children and parents go to rest outside the city, ”says Yulia Kovgan, administrator for working with the media of the Angel squad.
Children from orphanages rarely run away - more often children from dysfunctional families or orphans disappear. As practice shows, children have great confidence in the female voice, so volunteers often ask girls to help. There are many cases when teenagers from dysfunctional families leave home. Schools and social services report missing, and children are put on the wanted list. At the same time, the missing teenagers simply leave for another city, quietly earn extra money there, live, even maintain social media accounts and continue to be listed as missing. Such a scenario is possible because relatives often, in fact, do not care. But such cases are less common here than in Russia.
In any case, it is necessary to proceed from the circumstances of the disappearance of the child. If the child disappeared in conditions of non-obviousness, then after an hour the countdown begins. All services are looking for a child, usually one to two weeks. If a child is lost in the forest, the probability of finding him is higher. The child must be explained that if he is lost in the forest, he must sit still and wait for help to come. If in an unfamiliar place or settlement, you also need to sit still or call the police. About 90 percent of missing children are due to the illegal actions of other persons. Most often - with sexual overtones.
The secret doesn't always come out
Here are the main assumptions that are most often confirmed during the search for people:
Murders (corpse buried, burned, drowned, dismembered);
- kidnapping into slavery;
- theft of organs;
- retention or forcible removal for prostitution;
- hit by a car, loss of consciousness and similar cases.
Deliberately missing do not use public intercity and international transport. In this case, a passport is needed not only to certify your trip to the carrier's staff, but also to track the movement of citizens law enforcement. Only a car acts as a transport - and not your own, but as a passenger on a hitchhiking trip, for example. Again, due to the fact that state license plates can be traced. Many manage to find a guide in the border area and cross the border. Again, difficulties are sure to arise abroad, because you cannot arrange a new life without legal documents. Upon receipt of a visa, they will track it. If a lost person is identified as an illegal immigrant, they will check the documents and identify a discrepancy. At best, they will be deported back.
When criminal deaths it often happens that a person dies in a drunken quarrel, the killer hides the body in his own yard or somewhere nearby, and they search for a person for months, he is listed as missing. Everyone knows the creepy joke about corpses that show up in the spring. Alas, it is. Many killers do not particularly bother, and if the body has already begun to decompose, then it is extremely difficult to identify a person.
What to do if your loved one is missing. Step-by-step instruction
The search and rescue squad "Angel" says that if a person is missing, the first thing to do is call the Accident Registry Bureau (ARNS). All information flows there every day from the duty departments of the internal affairs department, sobering-up stations, hospitals and morgues - and is entered into a common database. There is information about people detained by internal affairs bodies, those who were taken to medical institutions, as well as information about unidentified corpses. You must tell the operator in detail about what happened. There you will be given information about all accidents and accidents over the past day. Do not forget to check - perhaps the missing person was simply hospitalized by the ambulance service.
If these actions did not bring results, you should contact the police department at the place of residence as soon as possible. You can also report a missing person by phone. There is an opinion that it is necessary to contact the police only three days after the disappearance. But the police are obliged to accept the application immediately, there are no deadlines for submitting it. If they do not want to accept the application, you can safely contact the prosecutor's office.