Reading through these threads on this site makes me realize how much all these stories bother me. All these people and children, no matter how long ago they were here-walked, breathed, ate and loved just like we all do now.
I do have some that stick with me on an emotional level more than others:
1.
Dean Marie Pyle Peters-14 years old, vanished from a school event on 02/05/1981. It just baffles me how she disappeared from a place we see as a safe zone for our kids. I have always felt in my heart that someone took her who was watching her or she was involved in a hit and run accident. I run her website
www.freewebs.com/find_dean_marie and I think of her everyday, hoping she will be found.
2. Jacob Wetterling-I think he was 11 years old, missing since October 1989, abducted at gun point when biking home with his friends. His case is local to me, and the strength and tenacity of his mother always keeps his case going.
3. Jodi Huisentruit-a news anchor abducted from her apartment on her way to work while unlocking her car. I have always thought some creep who watched her on the news became obsessed with her and took her.
4. Beverly Potts-10 years old, missing in the 1950's. It's assume she was abducted on her way home from the park. I still can't believe no one saw her get abducted. There was over 1500 people at the park that night. I am reading the book about her, and it is awfully good.
5. Mikelle Biggs-a girl missing from Arizona. Her and her sister thought they heard an ice cream truck, ran to see it. Her sister went to get her sweater, and when she came back, Mikelle was gone.
6. Michaela Garecht-Abducted when she tried to get her scooter back from an unknown man outside of the Rainbow store.
7. Amy Billig-17 years old, rumored to have been abducted by a motorcycle gang, but sometimes I wonder...
8.Rachel Mellon Skemp-Disappeared from her home when she stayed home sick. I am positive her stepfather did it, police have assumed that as well for years. It blows my mind that her case isn't solved yet-it should be!
9.Anna Waters-missing January 16, 1972 from Half Moon Bay at 6 years old. She went outside to play and hasnt been seen since. I wonder if she was kidnapped to be raised by someone else or to be in an illegal adoption. Beautiful child. A book about her just came out: Searching for Anna by Michaele Benedict.
10. Amy Sue Pagnac-Vanished at Holiday gas station when her father went inside to use the restroom. She was 13 years old on this August 1989 day.. There was a positive sighting of her in Minneapolis the next day. It's believed she was kidnapped.
I would love to see resolution in all these cases-it would make me one happy person. Of course, there are so many more that I think about.....majorie west, tara calico and the photos, the real indentity of sharon marshall, kellie marie brownlee, both the kimberly doss girls, stephanie crane, cherrie mahan......
