DELAWARE : A father and son are missing after their boat overturned off the Delaware Coast. David Whitehair Sr. who is 40 years old and David Whitehair Jr. who is 17 were supposed to go on a chartered fishing trip Friday however, the trip was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Mr. Whitehair decided to go anyway. If you spot Mr. Whitehair and his son, contact State Police Troop 3. They have not been heard from since Friday.
3 p.m. after they left Woodland Beach aboard their boat
DSP News Release: Saturday, April 24, 2010- Report of Overturned Vessel Results in Missing Persons Investigation
Location: Delaware Bay in the area of Port Mahon, Kent County, Delaware
Date of Occurrence: Saturday, April 24, 2010, reported at approximately 4:45 p.m.
Missing Persons:
David Whitehair, 40, of Felton, Delaware
David Whitehair, Jr., 17, of Felton, Delaware
Resume: In the mid afternoon hours of today’s date, a 16 – 18 foot vessel was spotted overturned in the Delaware Bay in the area of Port Mahon.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel, Little Creek Fire Company, the DSP Dive Team and DNREC Fish and Wildlife responded to the area. Upon locating the boat, they found it void of any occupants. A search and rescue operation ensued and no one was located. This operation has been shut down this evening and will resume during daylight hours tomorrow.
This investigation revealed the boat was recently purchased by David Whitehair of Felton. Allegedly, Mr. Whitehair and his 17-year-old son were supposed to go on a chartered fishing trip yesterday; however, the trip was cancelled due to poor weather conditions. Mr. Whitehair decided to go anyway on his own boat and he took his son. He was last seen yesterday at 5:00 p.m. This information was not learned until today when investigators went to his home looking for him.
At this point, the Delaware State Police is handling this as a missing persons investigation.
Should anyone spot Mr. Whitehair or his son, they are asked to contact DSP Troop 3 at 302-697-4455 or 911. Source
NEWARK — The year was 1978 and Newark was burning.
It was an urban, inner-city plague that year. From Oakland to East St. Louis to Boston to New York, the pervasive smell was of ash and scorched timber.
In Newark, the fires were extra body blows to a cash-strapped, jobless city still staggering from the riots a decade before.
“It was Newark’s long nadir, a decade when no one was sure the city was salvageable,” remembered Rutgers University professor Clement Price. “When I think of that time, I remember the sound of fire sirens.”
Five Newark teenage boys disappeared on a muggy August night in 1978, but it would take investigators nearly 32 years to connect them with a fire that took out three buildings on Camden Street that night.
Last week’s arrest of two men charged with taking the boys to an abandoned house, restraining them and leaving them to burn to death raised horrific images and a lot of questions. Perhaps the most compelling is: How could five people die in a fire and nobody notice?
There is no easy answer, but those who lived and worked in Newark back then say it was a tragic combination of circumstances that make sense only to those who lived through them.
Eleven years after the riots, Newark was a city in chaos. People and business were still fleeing, abandoned buildings dotted the landscape, and the crime and arson rates spiraled upward as the city was laying off hundreds of police and firefighters.
“You have to remember, this was before gangs and crack and guns trashed Newark,” said educator and activist Ras Baraka, 40, who grew up just a few blocks from where the teenagers went missing. “Crime was probably worse then, but we didn’t know it. If somebody disappeared, the first assumption was it was by choice.”
In fact, police would not even start a missing persons investigation until three days after the boys failed to come home for the first times in their lives, their parents said.
By that time, firefighters, who were in charge of arson investigations, had walked away from the gutted wreck at 256 Camden St., assuming it was empty.
Ever since the riots in 1967, people had left Newark in droves, leaving behind old, mostly wooden buildings that were not worth the taxes owed on them. Some were torched for insurance, but according to a report by Carl Stoffers, chief of the arson squad to city council in 1978, profit was only the fourth most common cause. Vandalism was a more likely reason, particularly for the 833 empty structures set on fire. Then there was garden-variety pyromania. But the top cause of arson, Stoffers said, was spite — or vengeance against someone who crossed the wrong person…Read full story
Two men charged in the 1978 disappearance of five teenagers in Newark, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to five counts of murder Wednesday morning as about 40 family members of the victims looked on. Tonight, in our crime and punishment report, we’ll look into the case.
The story got us thinking about cold cases and missing persons cases around the country. Check out the National Missing Persons Database. It allows you to search nationwide for missing persons using a variety of search features. Anyone may search the database, but by registering in the system both law enforcement professionals and the general public will also be able to:
Dallas police have stepped up the search for a 16-year-old Molina High School girl who disappeared two months ago after texting her mother saying she was spending the night with a friend.
Missing persons detectives have exhausted all leads in the search for Angela Jaramillo, who did not have a history of running away before she was last heard from in late January, police said Thursday.
“We believe there might be more to this,” said Sgt. Eugene Reyes, who supervises the department’s Special Investigations Unit, which handles missing persons cases generally when foul play is suspected. “It’s out of character for her to be gone.”
On Saturday, Jan. 23, the girl told her mother that she was going to a party at a boy’s house. “She left about 11:30 p.m.,” said her mother, Stephanie Reyes, who is no relation to the police sergeant. “I was babysitting that night, and when she walked out the door, I didn’t see who she left with.”Later, Angela texted and asked if she could spend the night with a friend. Her mother gave her permission.
The next day, her mother tried Angela’s cell but got no answer. “I automatically dialed that friend who she was supposed to be spending the night with. They said she never showed up. I called the police immediately.”
She said the boy who hosted the party told her that Angela had come by, watched some movies and left about 2 a.m. It’s unclear who gave her a ride, her mother said. “I am taking it minute by minute,” she said. “It kills me. I can’t think. I’m putting all my hope on her coming back.”
She said Angela has two brothers, ages 3 and 4, and a 10-year-old sister. Angela enjoys school, especially soccer and volleyball, her mother said.
“She was a little kid who liked to make crafts,” she said. “She started coming out of her shell in high school, but she’s never run away or did anything like this before.”
Angela, who also goes by Angie, is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 190 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Her ears and tongue are pierced.
Schepps Dairy is offering a reward of $5,000 for information leading to the safe return of Angela. If it is determined that Angela is the victim of foul play, that same $5,000 will be available as a reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment of a suspect in the case.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 877-373-8477, or Detective E.A. Ibarra at 214-671-3646.
Mar 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In an epic cleaning fail, not to mention a major investigation fail, the body of Sony Millbrook, who has been missing from a Memphis hotel room since January, was found yesterday, March 17-almost 2 months later, stuffed under the bed in her hotel room 222 of the Budget Inn Motel.
The room had been rented out approximately five times in the the month and a half that the body was hidden beneath the bed, which has a metal frame bottom that sits on the floor. The mattress, box springs, and her body apparently were all fitted inside the metal box-frame. Millbrook was found yesterday when the smell finally drew attention…and detectives to the room. She is said to be the victim of a homicide.
Sony Millbrook had been reported missing to the Memphis Police Department on January 27 when she did not pick her kids up from school. Family members then told the police that she had been staying at the Budget Inn. The room had been locked that day for lack of payment, but her belongings had been taken out, the room has been “cleaned” and rented out many more times since then.
Millbrook’s sister, Linda James told reporters that she had begged the motel staff to let her check the room or to do it themselves, and they refused. “I begged. I didn’t raise my voice. But I begged,” James told the Fox news crew. “I begged that front desk staff to please go check the room and they refused.” She said if they had just checked the room, or the investigators had even done so, her sister would have been found long before now. “As far as I know, my sister could’ve been living and just suffered,” she said, adding, “If the housekeeper was in there cleaning the rooms, why didn’t they check underneath the beds?”
During the investigation of the missing woman which apparently never included a room search, Millbrook’s boyfriend, LaKeith Moody was interrogated, and later arrested on a gun violation charge. Moody, who is the father of Millbrook’s four kids, is still being held.
Memphis police’s deputy chief of investigative services,Joseph Scott, said to FoxNews.com that they’ve “never heard of anything like this…It’s stranger than fiction.” Reportedly, a homicide investigator had simply spoken with two clerks and a security guard, found out that the room had been locked for lack of payment and her belongings removed, and told that the family had picked up the items from hotel staff and took them home. Why did no one search this room?!
