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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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Jeff Harmon
Harmon, date, approximate 1985; James Mills
Date Missing 06/29/1985
Missing From
Aberdeen, Mississippi
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
White
Age 23 years old
Height and Weight 5'11, unknown weight
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Blond hair.
Details of Disappearance Harmon was last seen in Monroe County, Mississippi on June 29, 1985. He lived with his mother on Thayer Avenue.
The day before his disappearance, he told his father he was thinking of buying a used car. When he disappeared the next day, his mother was in the hospital; she wasn't released for several more days. Harmon left his paycheck behind at home and has never been heard from again.
Prior to his disappearance, Harmon had been awarded a settlement from a lawsuit, and he'd been threatened as a result.
James "Rodney" Mills confessed disposing of Harmon's body in 2009, although he said someone else had killed him. A photo of Mills is posted with this summary.
He is presently incarcerated in Tennessee; in 2001, he pleaded guilty to the 1994 murder of his cousin's husband. Mills stated his cousin, Brenda Holliman, had offered to pay him and an accomplice, Kermit Keith Faglier, $25,000 each to shoot her husband.
Mills was sentenced to life in prison. Faglier and Holliman were also sentenced to life after being convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
In 2009, Mills recanted his statements implicating Holliman. He said she never hired him to kill her husband and he only implicated her so he would not get a death sentence. Holliman remains in prison, however, and her appeals have all been denied.
Mills stated he buried Harmon's body in someone else's freshly dug grave at Willis Cemetery, just 300 yards from Mills's home. Police sent him photos of the cemetery, and he pointed out the spot where he said Harmon's body was buried. When the grave was opened up, however, it contained just one body.
Mills has never been charged in Harmon's disappearance, but he maintains his story is true.
Harmon's remains unsolved. His mother is now deceased, but his father is still alive and hopes for resolution in his .
Investigating Agency
Monroe County Sheriff's Office
662-369-2468
Other
The Doe Network
WMC-TV
The Commercial Appeal
Tennessee Department of Correction
The Monroe Journal
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.
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