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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
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Garnell Monroe Moore
Garnell, date, approximate 2002; Age-progression to age 23 (date, approximate 2018)
Date Missing 08/01/2002
Missing From
Baltimore, Maryland
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Black
Date of Birth 05/18/1995 (27)
Age 7 years old
Height and Weight 5'3, 120 pounds
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes.
Details of Disappearance Garnell was residing in Baltimore, Maryland with his paternal aunt, Belinda Cash, when he was last seen sometime during August 2002. One of his great-aunts, Trina Morton, who was nine months pregnant at the time, recalls seeing him playing outside Cash's home on Harlem Street.Morton was raising Garnell's half-sister and Garnell frequently visited them at their home. She made arrangements for Garnell to visit her the next weekend, but then she went into labor and could not see him.
About a week later, Morton asked Cash if she could reschedule Garnell's visit, but Cash told her it was an inconvenient time, as she was in the process of moving. Garnell has not been heard from since. The next time Morton called, the number was disconnected, and the address Cash was supposedly moving to turned out to be fictitious.
Garnell's parents never raised him; his mother is in prison and his father led a transient lifestyle. He spent his earliest years with his paternal relatives in the 3700 block of Harlem Avenue on the west side of Baltimore. Cash, who is childless, took Garnell into her home when he was six years old. It was an informal arrangement and she never had custody of him. He was never enrolled in any school and never came in contact with any social service agencies.
Garnell's father did occasionally visit him. He says he last saw his son at Easter, about a year after Morton last saw him, when he went to a family gathering in the 1000 block of Ellicott Drive, about a mile and a half northeast of Cash's previous address.
In 2005, Morton contacted one of Cash's relatives to ask about Garnell, and the relative told her they hadn't seen Garnell with Cash in years. That summer, Morton was eventually able to locate Cash at her home at a public housing development in the 4000 block of Frederick Road, and asked to see Garnell. Cash claimed he was away on a school field trip to Virginia, but school was not in session at the time and in any , Garnell was not an enrolled student.
Garnell was officially reported missing on July 1, 2005, but the police didn't actually begin investigating his until March 2006. When questioned, Cash told police she she fell on hard times and was unable to care for Garnell anymore, so she abandoned himon the steps of a social services building in the 500 block of north Hilton Street near Edmondson Avenue in West Baltimore.
When police spoke to employees at the social services office, no one had any idea who Garnell was and no one could recall seeing a boy sitting on the steps. They checked nearby residences and Garnell wasn't living in any of them.
When authorities interviewed Cash's neighbors on Old Frederick Road, where Cash had lived off and on for several years, the neighbors remembered Garnell and said Cash called him her son. They said, however, that they hadn't seen the child since 2001. Police searched her old residence on Harlem Street and found no evidence as to Garnell's whereabouts.
Cash voluntarily took a lie detector test and showed no signs of deception except on one question, which wouldn't have implicated her in a crime.She has no known history of child abuse or neglect, and no significant criminal record.
The circumstances surrounding Garnell's disappearance are extremely murky. Investigators do not necessarily believe he came to harm, and think someone may have taken him in and cared for him, but they are concerned for his safety and would like to verify his well-being.
Investigating Agency
Baltimore Police Department
443-984-7385
410-396-2284
Other
Baltimore Police Department
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The Baltimore Sun
The Vanishing of Garnell Moore | DARK MATTERS #41
Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
Missing Person Photos
