Help Find Military Veteran Harlem John Doe (warning)
Posted on 11/12/2016 by Harlem World Magazine http://harlemworldmag.com/help-find-military-veteran-harlem-john-doe-warning/
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Woman Works To Identify Marine Who Died In Harlem Nearly 20 Years Ago November 11, 2016 7:18 PM Filed Under: Magdalena Doris, U.S. Marine Corps, Veterans Day http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/11/unidentified-marine/ Funding for cold cases, missing persons getting cut
POSTED 12:35 PM, NOVEMBER 3, 2016, BY SARAH STEWART, UPDATED AT 07:44PM, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 OKLAHOMA - Anthropologists in our state said it will be a blow to solving cold cases in our state. They’ve just learned a federal grant that funds DNA testing for missing persons will no longer be funded. The grant is through the National Institute of Justice and is called Using DNA Technology To Identify the Missing. It provides $4.7 million for the entire country and has been in existence since 2004. Read more on KFOR.com's website
The case of John Doe No. 155 gathered dust on the shelves of the Long Beach Police Department, hidden among the dozens of unsolved mysteries. His death was ruled undetermined.
Last year, Long Beach cold-case detectives scoured the files for cases to reopen and stumbled upon the mystery man dumped at the Lakes apartment complex. They knew he had tattoos but had little else to go on. Anthony Urena’s mom seeks change in how NYPD handles missing persons
By Sheila Anne Feeney sheila.feeney@amny.com January 28, 2016 Judith Lopez, 46, believes the NYPD’s initial refusal to acknowledge her son as a missing person after he disappeared last year is a civil rights issue: Why shouldn’t cops take the disappearance of a healthy adult, without cognitive or physical problems, as seriously as they might a missing child or elderly person? Police, she complained, “repeatedly told me he was a healthy 23-year-old who didn’t want to come home,” rebuffing her first attempts to lodge a missing person’s report when her son, Anthony Urena, inexplicably vanished. Read more here: http://www.amny.com/news/anthony-urena-s-mom-seeks-change-in-how-nypd-handles-missing-persons-1.11405671
She wrote countless letters, pestered senators and congressmen, traveled from her New Hampshire home to Philadelphia to search news archives, scoured faces in crowds, battled with military and state officials for records, and enlisted police and private detectives.
Every roadblock she hit, she said, only strengthened her resolve and pushed her forward. Finally, on May 31, Pennsylvania State Police were able to identify the remains of Corriveau, found stabbed to death in Chester County, and they are now seeking the public's assistance in solving the cold case. |
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