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10.03.05

Missing Monday

Inspired by the story of LaToyia Figueroa, bloggers Tazzy and Piggy, along with Pax Romano, created Missing Monday, an attempt to highlight local missing persons stories on the first Monday of every month.

Blogs are perfect vehicles for spreading the word on missing persons cases. All it takes for one of these cases to be solved is for the right pair of eyes to catch sight of a familiar face. And what are blogs good for, if not to do good?

If you blog, please consider joining us — it requires only one post, once a month. A list of resources may be found in the post and comments to my first Missing Monday contribution.

Samantha Gail Garcia, who went missing in July, is an endangered runaway from Allentown, Pennsylvania.

More information about her can be found on the website of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Anyone having information about her whereabouts should contact the Center at 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST).

09.05.05

Missing Monday

One of the small bits of good to come out of Latoyia Figueroa’s disappearance was that it engaged bloggers both here and abroad, and made many of us acutely aware that Latoyia was only one of many missing persons whose stories needed to be publicized.

Philly blogger Pax Romano, along with British bloggers Taz and Piggy, came up with the idea to have bloggers set aside one post on the first Monday of every month in order to publicize a missing persons case in their area. It’s called Missing Monday. Other Philly bloggers participating in Missing Monday can be found here.

Blogs are perfect vehicles for spreading the word on missing persons cases. All it takes for one of these cases to be solved is for the right pair of eyes to catch sight of a familiar face.

If you blog, please consider joining us.

I’d like to focus on two cases today. The first is a Pennsylvania case:

Alfred Yersevich

DOB: Jan 30, 1990
Missing: May 2, 2005
Height: 5′9″ (175 cm)
Eyes: Brown
Race: White/Hisp
Age Now: 15
Sex: Male
Weight: 130 lbs (59 kg)
Hair: Brown
Missing From:
ALLENTOWN
PA
United States

Alfred was last seen on May 2, 2005. He may be traveling with a male companion and an adult female companion. They may still be in the local area, or they may have traveled to Reading, Pennsylvania. They may be traveling in a white Honda Civic with Florida license plates X66JVU. Alfred may use the alias first names Christian or Cris, or the alias last name Campos.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Allentown Police Department (Pennsylvania) 1-610-437-7753

The second case involves children who were separated from their caretakers in the New Orleans airport after Hurricane Katrina:

Lyndell and Demarco Robinson

Lyndell:

DOB: Sep 3, 1993
Found: Sep 4, 2005
Age Now: 12
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: Unknown
Weight: 43 kg (95 lbs)
Found:
NEW ORLEANS
LA
United States

Demarco:

DOB:
Found: Sep 4, 2005
Age Now: 4
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Height: 91 cm (3′0″)
Weight: 27 kg (60 lbs)
Found:
NEW ORLEANS
LA
United States

These are pictures of children who became separated from their caretakers by Hurricane Katrina. They were picked up from the New Orleans airport on September 4, 2005. They were in the company of their cousin, Johnny Robinson, who is also featured on www.missingkids.com. Lyndell has scars on both his knees.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) or contact NCMEC Cold Case Review Unit at 1-877-446-2632, ext. 6235 or 6295
Louisiana Missing Childrens Clearinghouse - 1-225-342-8631

I found all of these cases on the website of The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which has a page devoted to connecting children missing after Hurricane Katrina.

More Katrina-related missing persons links (via Disenchanted Forest):

Again, if you blog, take a good look at those faces, and please consider joining Missing Monday.

One post on one day a month. Surely, that’s not too much to ask.



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