WA WA - Kelsey Emily Collins, 18, Everett, 9 May 2009

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Collins has been living with her mother in the 1200 block of 100th Street SW. She didn't take clothes or other items to suggest she'd be gone for a long time, Goetz said. Collins also didn't call her mom on Mother's Day and has had no contact with her family.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090521/NEWS01/705219906

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Kelsey started living a double life: She was a special-education student at Mariner High School in Everett, and she walked the streets as "Lady Dollars."

Within months, she was picked up by Portland police as she climbed out of a car in an area known for prostitution. She was tired, ready to talk, and told a detective that her new pimp, a 36-year-old man whom she had known for less than a week, had brought her to Portland.

At the detective's urging, Kelsey eventually told her story to a federal grand jury, but she vanished — without a trace — weeks after testifying.

Her family now can't stop wondering if there's a connection.

much more here

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013719994_missing20m.html

NamUs - https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/2768/0/

WSP - http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/docs/misadult/Collins_Kelsey.pdf

Charley Project - http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/collins_kelsey.html

Witness protection?

Princess of Oz said:

Witness protection?

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nvm - reading and article that states it was never offered.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013719994_missing20m.html

In her documentary, “Playground”, U.S. filmmaker Libby Spears offers a disturbing look inside one of the world’s most profitable, and most degrading industries – sex trafficking. After her initial research in Cambodia and the Philippines, Libby altered her primary country of focus once she learned one of the world’s biggest offenders of commercial sexual exploitation is the United States. An alarming number of American children – more than 300,000 – have been forced into the sex industry.
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Tune in on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, on FOX to watch the conclusion of Libby’s in-depth look at child prostitution in Portland, Ore., and see if you have a crucial tip to help find Kelsey Collins.

more here + video

http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=4043

Bumping for Kelsey. Missing 2 years today.

As she would later testify to a federal grand jury, a man 20 years older than her drove Kelsey 170 miles down Interstate 5 from Seattle to Portland's 82nd Ave.

There amidst the strip's seedy motels and lingerie stores where customers can buy backroom lap dances and more, the plan was simple: sell her to as many men as possible.

After that first night in January 2008 when she made about $1,000, all of which she later told investigators went to her pimp, Kelsey went right back to work as a prostitute.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/22/portland.sex.trafficking/index.html?hpt=us_c1

What a sad story - and probably much more common than we realize.

I don't think Kelsey will be going home.

:bump: Emily's mom is trying to re-invigorate her daughter's case, according to KXLY news (KXLY used the name "Emily".)

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today...on-hill-for-remains-of-missing-everett-woman/

November 18, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Posted by Jennifer Sullivan

Seattle police, 40 search and rescue volunteers from the King County Sheriff’s Office and cadaver dogs fanned out across a wooded section of Beacon Hill today to search for the remains of a young Everett woman missing since 2009.

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Bumping for Kelsey. 4 years today.

Been doing some research on Kelsey's case and apparently wasn't only just one man involved with trafficking her. His girlfriend and another man were also involved with trafficking Kelsey.

http://www.fbi.gov/portland/press-releases/2009/pd062509.htm

http://www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/news/when-trafficking-hits-home

Families of Washington&#8217;s missing children gather to raise awareness http://q13fox.com/2015/05/17/families-of-washingtons-missing-children-gather-to-raise-awareness/

I just wanted to share these possible matches to this case. Due to the issues involving human trafficking and moving of the victims, often out of state, I wanted to include these cases which have DNA or dental records in file. Also to bump the post.


https://identifyus.org/en/cases/13967
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/full_report/10773

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Collins has been living with her mother in the 1200 block of 100th Street SW. She didn't take clothes or other items to suggest she'd be gone for a long time, Goetz said. Collins also didn't call her mom on Mother's Day and has had no contact with her family.

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090521/NEWS01/705219906

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Kelsey started living a double life: She was a special-education student at Mariner High School in Everett, and she walked the streets as "Lady Dollars."

Within months, she was picked up by Portland police as she climbed out of a car in an area known for prostitution. She was tired, ready to talk, and told a detective that her new pimp, a 36-year-old man whom she had known for less than a week, had brought her to Portland.

At the detective's urging, Kelsey eventually told her story to a federal grand jury, but she vanished — without a trace — weeks after testifying.

Her family now can't stop wondering if there's a connection.

much more here

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013719994_missing20m.html

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Updated Charley Project link - Kelsey Emily Collins – The Charley Project

"I think people probably don't realize the daily effort we put in, trying to identify these children, trying to find them," says Special Agent Ian Burns.

The unit works all kinds of missing children cases, many involving exploited children lured into dangerous situations they can't begin to comprehend.

"Seattle does have an extremely severe human trafficking problem," says Agent Burns.

The squad is heavily invested in the case of missing 18-year-old Kelsey Collins. Family told Q13 News that the Everett teen vanished in 2009, two weeks after testifying before a grand jury about child sex trafficking.
FBI working to crack some of Washington’s most haunting missing children cases


Name: Kelsey Collins

Born: 4-30-91

Date Missing: 5-9-09

Missing From: Seattle, WA
Missing Children Posters

The Vanished Podcast just dropped episode 1 on her.

Name: Kelsey Emily Collins
Nickname/Alias: Emily
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: May 09, 2009
Location Last Seen: Everett, Snohomish County, Washington

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: April 30, 1991
Age: 18 years old
Race: Black/White/American Indian
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5" - 5'6"
Weight: 139 - 170 lbs
Hair Color: Light brown, naturally curly, but normally worn straightened; chin length
Eye Color: Green
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Pierced nose, right side; pierced ears; surgical scar, about 2-3" with keloid formation on her lower right rib cage; surgical scar across lower abdominal area; 2" scar on top of left hand and index finger

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: White, black and red Echo-Red Athletic jacket; blue jeans; pink t-shirt; black Jordan sneakers
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Small black purse; cell phone

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Kelsey Collins left her home at around 5:30 p.m. to ride the bus from Everett to downtown Seattle to meet a new boyfriend. She left all her clothing and personal items at homes, bringing only a brush, I.D., and her cell phone. The cell phone went dead or was turned off at around 8 p.m. that evening. Kelsey never arrived. She hasn't contacted anyone since that night.

Kelsey disappeared after testifying before a federal grand jury in Portland about prostitution and human trafficking.


June 18, 2021

<<Kelsey was 18 years old when she disappeared from Everett, Washington on May 9th, 2009. She was last seen alive leaving her home on 100th Steet in Everett, headed to visit a friend in Seattle. Her plan was to travel by light rail to Seattle on either Sound Transit #510 or Metro #101/358. Her cellphone lost power at 8:00 pm that night. She never arrived at her destination and was not heard from again.

Kelsey spent much of her early life in the hospital due to intestinal issues. When Kelsey was three years old, her parents divorced. Her mother then re-married to another man a year later who turned out to be physically abusive. After three years, Kelsey's mother took her and her siblings and left the state, changing all of their names in order to stay safe. When Kelsey was 12 years old, she began to engage in a lot of risky behavior including selling and using drugs, sexual activity, being truant from school, and even totaled her mother's car. Her mother, Sarah Collins, said the juvenile system then intervened but did not help Kelsey's situation. Kelsey was sex-trafficked under the name "Lady Dollars" by an older man that manipulated her by pretending to be her boyfriend. She was trafficked in Seattle and Portland, Oregon under several different pimps. Kelsey's mother believes the pimps were physically abusive towards her as she reportedly saw bruises on Kelsey, but Kelsey denied this. Kelsey was arrested for prostitution at the age of 16.

One of Kelsey's pimps was charged with interstate sex trafficking of a minor in 2008 and Kelsey agreed to testify against him. Kelsey disappeared weeks after giving her testimony at his grand jury hearing. She was still actively prostituting at the time and had been arrested in 2009. Because Kelsey did not appear in court for his trial, the charges against the pimp were dropped due to lack of evidence. The pimp ended up pleading guilty to another child trafficking case involving a 14-year-old girl and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. >>

<<DOB: 04/30/1991
Description: Kelsey has light brown hair and green eyes. Her hair is naturally curly but she usually straightens it with a hot iron. She is known to dye her hair different colors. She has a two-to-three inch surgical scar on her lower ribcage, across her lower abdomen, and a two-inch scar across her left hand and index finger. Her ears are pierced as well as her left nostril. She may go by her middle name, Emily, as this was her legal first name before her mother changed it out of necessity.

Tribal information: Kelsey is described as "Multi-racial" being African American, Caucasian, and American Indian. No specific tribal information has been provided.>>