1993 South St. Paul Murder Unsolved

Left: Todd Hanson and Chad Birkeland

My Fox Twincities - MN, USA

1993 South St. Paul Murder Unsolved

Published : Monday, 17 Aug 2009, 9:06 AM CDT

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. - On May 2nd, 1993 Todd Hanson and his friend Chad Birkeland disappeared from South St. Paul. Police are still looking for clues into what happened.

On May 13th of 1993 25-year-old Birkeland's body was recovered from the Mississippi River near Hastings. 22-year-old Hanson has never been located. Both men are featured on one of the cold case playing cards released by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

If you have any information about what happened to Todd Hanson or Chad Birkeland call the BCA tipline at 1-877-996-6222.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/metro/Cold_Case_Chad_Birkeland_Todd_Hanson

Family struggles to cope with father's cold-case disappearance

Left: Waldir Pedersoli

Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA

Family struggles to cope with father's cold-case disappearance

Police have no leads after man with Alzheimer's vanished in 2007
by Liz Skalski Staff Writer

In August 2007, John Pedersoli was in the middle of coaching a soccer practice when his wife came to tell him his father, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, had disappeared.

Pedersoli wasn't alarmed. He assumed he would find his father walking around his Lanham neighborhood, just like the previous times his father had gone missing.

Now it has been nearly two years since Waldir Pedersoli, who was 75 and had trouble walking and seeing at the time of his disappearance, vanished on Aug. 24, 2007. Investigators say they have no new information, and family members are losing hope that he will be found alive. (more...)

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY REMEMBERED

SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA

FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY REMEMBERED

By MELISSA M. SCALLAN

GULFPORT — Gayle Goodwin was a teenager in Alabama when Hurricane Camille hit in 1969, but for the past few years, she has attended the memorial service for Faith, Hope and Charity, the three storm victims who were never identified.

Goodwin said after Hurricane Katrina, she realized how important it is to remember everyone in the community.

“These are somebody’s daughters, aunts, nieces,” Goodwin said. “They are part of our society and they just disappeared.”


Goodwin was one of a small group who attended Monday morning’s service at Evergreen Cemetery in Gulfport honoring the three unidentified women who were killed 40 years ago during Camille.

The service has been held since the mid-1970s.

“It is very humbling to stand before you 40 years after Hurricane Camille,” said Rupert Lacy, director of the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency. (more...)

Missing Crimora Mom Now Gone A Full Year

Left: Margaret Gail Stamper-White

Harrisonburg Daily News Record - VA, USA

Cold Case Posted 2009-08-18

Missing Crimora Mom Now Gone A Full Year

By Pete DeLea

CRIMORA - For the past year, Brittany White has thought about her mom constantly.

The 17-year-old White has been busy making phone calls and talking to anyone who might know where her mother is.

Margaret Gail Stamper-White was reported missing about a year ago from her Crimora home, where she lived with a man who was named a suspect in his wife's murder roughly six years ago.

"We just want to have her back, and if we can't, we want to know what happened," said White, of Anawalt, W.Va. "It's been a year ... we need some closure to the case."

Fearing The Worst

On July 29, the White family contacted the Augusta County Sheriff's Office to report the 35-year-old woman missing. The family said she hadn't been seen since mid-May, adding that she would disappear for short periods of time but would always resurface.

Deputies say Stamper-White, who is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds, was living with Charles Melvin Spencer on Spencer Lane.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed woman had no driver's license, no vehicle, no bank account or credit card, and she left her cell phone behind, deputies say. (more...)

Jax woman's disappearance remains a mystery

Jacksonville Journal-Courier - FL, USA

Jax woman's disappearance remains a mystery

5 years later, trail is cold in search for Rosa Butler

August 18, 2009 12:08 AM
BY MARIA NAGLE
Jacksonville Journal-Courier

Five years after her sudden disappearance, relatives of Rosa L. Butler believe she’s alive, but still do not know where she’s gone or why she left.

Her mother, Connie Butler of Jacksonville, spent Friday doing odds and ends around the house to take her mind off the day’s significance.

“I just can’t understand it really,” she said. “I can’t understand why she has not contacted us. I was thinking she might call.”

Between 6:30 and 7 a.m. Aug. 14, 2004, Rosa Butler’s youngest child and her companion of more than 22 years, Carl Bryant, realized she was missing from their Jacksonville residence.

The day before, Rosa Butler, 40, had a yard sale and told her mother to make sure she came back to help with the second day.

Connie Butler arrived to find nothing outside. (more...)

'Every missing person is somebody's child

Left: Jimmy Charles Scott

Kilgore News Herald - TX, USA

'Every missing person is somebody's child

By BRENDA BROWN knhedit@kilgorenewsherald.com

Marie Martin of Henderson knows her brother was no angel — he had issues with drugs and alcohol and the law over in Cherokee County knew his name long before he disappeared.

But after 50-year-old Jimmy Charles Scott vanished on Nov. 3, 2001, Martin says law enforcement wrote off his case almost immediately and that has never really changed.

Still, his big sister mourns his loss and looks for news of Scott even today, hoping without hope and knowing that he was likely murdered by someone he probably knew.

Because Martin knows the pain of losing a loved one and never really knowing what happened, she says she is sympathetic to others in the same predicament and wants everyone to know about the 6th annual "On the Road to Remember" Nationwide Tour for Missing Persons, which will make a stop Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Henderson Plaza Shopping Center parking lot (in front of Tractor Supply), 2309 US Hwy. 79 South.

Cal Riley and 94 West Band will perform and Martin encourages people to bring their lawn chairs to hear the music and sit a spell in between looking at the photos of missing people from Texas and across the nation. (more...)

Skeletal remains ID'ed

Left: Ashley Oliver

MyFoxOrlando.com - FL, USA

Skeletal remains ID'ed

Published : Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009, 8:18 PM EDT

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Skeletal remains found in Orange County have been identified as those belonging to a woman who was reported missing four years ago.

The bones were recovered and sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigation's laboratory for forensic examination and identification.

The FBI, through the use of DNA, identified the remains as Ashley Oliver, 21, a young woman reported missing from her residence at 600 S. County Road 13 by a family member on June 16, 2005.

Investigators have declined to release exactly where the body was located, the date she was found, who discovered her, or how long they believe she was at the location where her remains were found. The case has been turned over to homicide for further investigation. (more...)