Website lists Iowa missing persons
"OTTUMWA — Nearly 400 missing Iowans have not been found, and that number remains steady as old cases are closed and new cases are filed, according to Medina Rahmanovic, manager of the Missing Person Information Clearinghouse.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety, which maintains the Clearinghouse, listed 204 missing males and 192 missing females — 248 of them under the age of 18 — on its website Thursday morning.
Some of the cases are old and well-known. Jodi Huisentruit, an anchor with KIMT television in Mason City, disappeared June 27, 1995. She was 27 at the time. Huisentruit is believed to have been abducted in the parking lot of her apartment complex as she was leaving for work around 4 a.m.
Johnny Gosch was 12 years old in September 1982 when he disappeared while delivering newspapers in West Des Moines. As dictated by law at the time, police waited 72 hours before declaring Gosch missing. In 1984, Iowa passed the Johnny Gosch Bill requiring police to investigate missing child cases immediately....
“It’s an educational tool so the public is aware who’s missing in the state of Iowa,” Rahmanovic said. “We are one of the few states in the U.S. that … shares that information.”
The database allows the public to assist law enforcement in finding missing people. “You may see somebody, and you may know somebody who is on our website, and you can call in to the local law enforcement agency,” Rahmanovic said....
To find a list of missing persons in Iowa, visit
Missing Persons. The website updates every four hours."
Website lists Iowa missing persons
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