The Missing and Unidentified

[diamondgirl]

I just had a thought (it might seem silly, but what the heck?) My husband is studying different faiths, and I got to thinking. I wonder if any of the UID may be Amish. I was thinking mainly the young UIDs. Maybe they are in their Rumspringa or chose to leave. I looked into it, and I found a few sources that said 90% of teens chose to be baptized into the AMish. Would that make sense that 10% chose not to? These people would, with out a doubt, be harder to identify. I mean, I haven't seen or heard of about 95% of the missing people I've seen on here.... Witnesses may even state them as having an accent. Plus, they probably are pretty naive (generally speaking)... Just a thought.

 

[Richard]

...I wonder if any of the UID may be Amish. I was thinking mainly the young UIDs. Maybe they are in their Rumspringa or chose to leave. I looked into it, and I found a few sources that said 90% of teens chose to be baptized into the AMish. Would that make sense that 10% chose not to? These people would, with out a doubt, be harder to identify. ....

While it is certainly possible that some of the unidentified/unknown bodies could be Amish, I would think that it would be a very very small number.

There are people who are raised Amish, who decide for one reason or another to separate from the Amish community and faith. But it is more likely a case of them wanting to marry an outsider, or perhaps a desire to pursue a career not supported by the Amish, rather than a case of them turning to a life of drugs, crime, or becoming a teenage runaway - generally the more common elements in many of these cases.

In an Amish community, everyone knows everyone else, and if someone were to go missing, there would be inquiries. They also contact the police in their area for assistance and would report a missing person.