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I get what you are saying, but I really think "credit" is the wrong approach. It has taken a village and it can happen again. People with cold MP cases in their lives can find a place, like this one, like FB, like reddit, like imugr, where they can get their story told and have a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people willing to help. And eventually it can lead to a resolution.
Once Jason is ruled in/out against GDD, the story becomes the family's to tell. That's when the loved ones get to decide what they want to know and what they want to share about all of it. And part of that decision making will be what they want to share with all of us. jmvho.
You know who deserves credit? Every person living or dead over the last 20 years who cared about this young man. Every time someone thought about him it was another step closer to giving him back his name. He was never alone. For two decades he had thousands of brothers and sisters guiding him on his journey home.
So many roads I tell you
New York to San Francisco
All I want is one
to take me home
From the high road to the low
So many roads I know
So many roads to ease my soul
Seems they have removed the FB post that started the credit-gate tangent.
I am also gobsmacked to read over there that there are over 1800 unidentified bodies in California alone - is this figure right??!
Hi, just wanted to say something about parents not reporting their adult children as missing...when I worked in health care many years I met so many people who hadn't seen one of their adult kids for many years, sometimes for decades, and they didn't think of them as missing. They would simply say something along the lines of "I have a son (or daughter) but I don't have any idea where they are, they took off long ago and I haven't heard from them for years".
They didn't think of them as missing, as they were young adults who'd voluntarily left home to wander or seek a new life, they hadn't disappeared under suspicious circumstances. They didn't think of them as endangered or dead, they seemed to take the view that their family member was alive but simply "out there somewhere", especiially if their adult child was known to enjoy a wandering type of life style in the past, for example, traveling to work at/ follow carnivals, or roaming the country with a biker gang, etc.
One personal experience--my brother was one of those who would simply take off sometimes, not contact any one for long periods, then suddenly turn up. When my dad called LE once to try and report him missing during a particularly long stretch without communication, they would hardly talk to my dad, much less take a report-- my dad was simply told, "he's an adult, he can be out of touch if he wants to, for as long as he wants". Their view seemed to be that an adult leaving voluntarily, no suspicious circumstances, wasn't really considered "missing", at least from an LE standpoint.
Seems they have removed the FB post that started the credit-gate tangent.
I am also gobsmacked to read over there that there are over 1800 unidentified bodies in California alone - is this figure right??!
47000, that is crazy!
Anyone know what the UK figure is?
... what I do think should be told is the "the how", not the "who"... I think it is important that this story gets heard because I think it was a new push, a new mindset, and that we can all learn to try a bigger set of tools in future endeavors.
Answering my own question! There are 540 unidentified listed on the UK Missing Persons website, elsewhere I read it's nearer 1000 as they don't include partial remains or babies on that site. Still way more than I had guessed.
http://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en/search
Good heavens! The police told me exactly that as to my daughter's circumstances! I cannot describe how upsetting it is when you know your child is in no way in control of her circumstances, her mind, and you have reason to believe she is very much at risk and have even presented your case as to why that is. There IS such a thing as a mother's instinct. To have your every protectivw impulse casually disregarded is more devastating than anyone who has not experienced it can possibly know. Now I am in tears. I am just so tired of all this. I get very angry when people assume that it is easy to go to the police and that they will automatically agree to take the report.
Wait, it's seriously only 1,000? No way. The UK has 64.1 million people; I thought the number would be closer to 3,000.
We are a pretty small island, plus we have a much lower murder rate than the US which must also help.
Good heavens! The police told me exactly that as to my daughter's circumstances! I cannot describe how upsetting it is when you know your child is in no way in control of her circumstances, her mind, and you have reason to believe she is very much at risk and have even presented your case as to why that is. There IS such a thing as a mother's instinct. To have your every protectivw impulse casually disregarded is more devastating than anyone who has not experienced it can possibly know. Now I am in tears. I am just so tired of all this. I get very angry when people assume that it is easy to go to the police and that they will automatically agree to take the report.