TX TX - Pablo Flores, 13, Eagle Pass, 16 Aug 1977

[Jake479]

234DMTX - Pablo Flores
Pablo Flores
For the Lost Blog » Pablo Flores missing forty-two years

 

[glamourkitty1922]

He was so young. The police closed the case without locating him. I wonder if that is routine when a missing person reaches 18? Doesn't seem to be a good idea to me.

 

[Jake479]

He was so young. The police closed the case without locating him. I wonder if that is routine when a missing person reaches 18? Doesn't seem to be a good idea to me.

There's almost nothing on this case online. He's not even in Charley Project. I'm trying to see if I can get him into NamUs.

 

[glamourkitty1922]

There's almost nothing on this case online. He's not even in Charley Project. I'm trying to see if I can get him into NamUs.

I hope you can because it's not right for him to be totally forgotten like that.

 

[HannahHistory]

I hope you can because it's not right for him to be totally forgotten like that.

I found this article and it MIGHT explain why some cases get closed without being solved. Its so sad and not fair to the victims. I hope the NamUs profile gets opened up for him because there are a couple unidentified profiles that might fit.

"Boulahanis researched Chicago’s murder clearance data from the 1980s and 1990s and found that “exceptional clearances” accounted for as much as 20 percent of the cleared caseload in any given year. What stood out to him was that the majority of these cases were labeled “barred to prosecution,” meaning that police had identified their suspect, but prosecutors declined to authorize an arrest. Examining the individual cases revealed that cleared murders were disproportionately more likely to be barred to prosecution if they involved African-American victims or occurred in police districts on the crime-plagued South Side of the city. Closing cases this way not only boosts an agency’s clearance rate, but also means that prosecutors don’t handle as many of the tougher cases that can take a toll on their conviction rates."

Source:
Case Closed? How 'Solved' Murder Stats Are Misleading
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/15669/details?nav

 

[glamourkitty1922]

I found this article and it MIGHT explain why some cases get closed without being solved. Its so sad and not fair to the victims. I hope the NamUs profile gets opened up for him because there are a couple unidentified profiles that might fit.

"Boulahanis researched Chicago’s murder clearance data from the 1980s and 1990s and found that “exceptional clearances” accounted for as much as 20 percent of the cleared caseload in any given year. What stood out to him was that the majority of these cases were labeled “barred to prosecution,” meaning that police had identified their suspect, but prosecutors declined to authorize an arrest. Examining the individual cases revealed that cleared murders were disproportionately more likely to be barred to prosecution if they involved African-American victims or occurred in police districts on the crime-plagued South Side of the city. Closing cases this way not only boosts an agency’s clearance rate, but also means that prosecutors don’t handle as many of the tougher cases that can take a toll on their conviction rates."

Source:
Case Closed? How 'Solved' Murder Stats Are Misleading
https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/15669/details?nav

But that is horrible! How can a city get away with that? That isn't equal justice by any means.

 

[Jake479]

I hope you can because it's not right for him to be totally forgotten like that.

It looks like the NamUs page I made for him has been removed. Very sad. Unless, he's already been found, I don't see why they would delete it.

 

[salamanderqueeftp]

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