Police say Samantha Koenig, 18 year old from Anchorage, AK disappeared from her place of business around 8pm Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Samantha worked as a barista at a popular coffee shop at a busy intersection. Police say Samantha was on camera being forced to leave the coffee shop by a man dressed in all black, but are unsure if this was the same man Samantha had filed for a restraining order against earlier this year.
It is believed that the man was armed, and headed toward the Old Seward Highway. Samantha’s boyfriend, Dwayne, had planned on picking her up that night when she got off work at 8pm, but was held up by his own job, states her father. Along with Samantha missing, so was the money that had been in the cash drawers that evening.
Melanie Ornelas, Common Grounds barista, said that when she arrived in the morning, it was apparent that no one had cleaned, but it did not immediately raise any concerns. She noticed that Samantha’s things were still in her cubby in the back and she had left a note asking if she was scheduled to work that Saturday.
Background on Samantha Koenig
Determined to get a job, James Koenig Jr, Samanatha’s father, stated that he did not want her to work there in the first place. He wanted her to explore other options such as nursing or veterinary school, as they had previously talked about. Keonig also says that Samantha had filed for a restraining order against a man that she did not know for very long, but then was scared to show up to the court date for fear of he might do something. Samantha had only worked at the coffee shops for a few months before she went missing. Co-workers describe her personality as bubbly and energetic.
Rewards have been offered. Description of Samantha Koenig
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian
Complexion: Medium
Height: 5’4”
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
If you have any information please call the Anchorage Police Dept. at 907-786-8900.
Alexis Mills is a Volunteer for the MissingPersonsNetwork.org and a recent graduate of Purdue University
19 year old Miguel Scott went missing from Evergreen Park in Bremerton, WA at approximately 10pm on the night of October 27, 2011. Scott had allegedly been at the park with some friends, who report the last time they saw him was around 10pm that night.
Scott’s mother, Rosemarie Herrera, stated that Miguel had never run away before and she doesn’t think he would, as he had plans to finish school and enter into the Navy. Miguel’s mother also said she had heard rumors that Miguel might be in debt to some people, but that it was never proven.
Friends said when they last saw Miguel, he was in good spirits. Cell phone records indicate his last usage was at 6:56pm the night of October 27, and that he has not logged into Facebook as he would normally do daily.
Rewards have been offered.
Anyone with any information regarding Mr. Scott’s disappearance or if anyone sees him they are urged to contact the Bremerton Police Department at (360) 473-5220
Description of Miguel Scott
Gender: Male
Race: Asian
Age: 19
Physical: Jaw wired shut due to recent surgery, scar on left side of his chin
Alexis Mills is a Volunteer for the MissingPersonsNetwork.org and a recent graduate of Purdue University
A city ordinance means a grandmother has been ordered to stop posting fliers about her missing 17-year-old granddaughter. It’s been almost a year since 17-year-old Paige Johnson went missing and her family is not giving up hope that she will be found.
Paiger Johnson
Paige’s grandmother, Jenny Roderick, has posters all over her car and has been putting them all over Covington, including on utility poles. But after a complaint, the city took action and asked her to take them down.
Roderick says putting up the posters help her hold onto hope her granddaughter will be found. “We miss Paige something fierce. And we want her home, you know, even if it is the other way. We still want her home and this is what keeps me going.”
The Covington City Manager says regardless of what the posters say, they have to come down. They can be posted in store windows or bulletin boards only.
Chicago police this morning are hoping the public can help find a 15-year-old girl who went missing on St. Patrick’s Day on the Southwest Side.
Cynthia Sanchez, who has never previously been reported missing, was last seen leaving for school about 7:40 a.m. March 17 from 2724 W. 22nd Place, police said. She was en route to Curie Metro High School, 4959 S. Archer Ave., but never showed up.
She was last seen wearing a pink sweater and gray jogging pants. Police said she also frequents the area of the 2300 and 2400 blocks of South Washtenaw Avenue.
Anyone with additional information about Sanchez, including her whereabouts, should call the Harrison Area detectives’ special victims unit at 312-746-9259Source
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
