Relatives of missing adults want laws to make police look for their loved ones

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | March 28, 2007 | Associated Press

[Elsie]

This seems to be an updated model...

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[metesky]

I have (had) a cousin who disappeared thirty years ago. We couldn't get the authorities to care then either. His children are now adults with no idea of who their father was or what happened to him.

[Elsie]

(The THINGS one finds on the 'net!)

[ASOC]

Sort of

These are the tines that fry mens souls? OR hot dogs anyway.....(sorry, old shaggy dog story)

Last year we did have an adult 'go missing' cops did zip till his truck turned up o the outside of town all burned out. Even then they treated it as a 'wanted to be lost' situation. His parents and friends persisted, pushed, called the papers and the troopers finally opened a case.



It took over a year for the case to be solved.






Seems his drug dealer buddies killed him and buried him someplace they won't talk about.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

In Indianapolis, family members say it took six weeks for a formal police investigation into the disappearance of Molly Dattilo, who disappeared in 2004. "They could have tracked down more people in the very beginning with a fresh memory," says Dattilo's cousin, Keri Dattilo. "I think they need to start taking these cases seriously in the beginning. They need to listen to the families." Dattilo has not been found.

Molly Datillo is from our little town down here in S. Indiana, but she went missing back in Indianapolis, where I believe she was visiting her brother at the time. Her family are members of our Catholic parish and own a produce business here. They are extremely respected and well-known in these parts. I have only lived here a year, but from the people I have talked to, Molly was very responsible and IIRC, getting ready to start her sophomore year in college. It is unlikely that she just took off (and I believe there has been evidence that she was abducted). Her family has gone to great expense and energy to keep the search for her alive. Just because a person is an adult doesn't mean they go missing willingly (although there are plenty of cases where they do).

[Xenalyte]

So many adults leave and don't want to be found.

This story made me wonder of the total of missing adults, how many are as you describe. Half, perhaps?

[AlexW]

Msg "Quix". He will tell you that they were all abducted by space aliens.
I am pretty much lost myself, but only my bankers and creditors have no idea how to find me :)

[mucrospirifer]

LOL, I didn't think of that!

My mother loves all those shows that dramatize real-life crimes. It was a mild annoyance to me to watch a fictionalized re-enactment of a real-life crime that in the real world involved non-white criminals, but in the TV version, had the criminals changed to white people.

I figured it was a PC thing to sanitize life as it actually is.

I was rather surprised to find out that the reason they did this was because the viewership for these shows increases when the race of the criminals in these shows is white, even tho in the real world the actual crimes were committed by non-whites.

It turns out that TV viewers "identify" more with the characters when they are of the same race as themselves, and, as the TV audience is largely white, these shows will gain higher ratings when more white criminals are shown.

[mucrospirifer]

I had one of those too, when I was a kid in the 70s.

The hot dogs never seemed to taste as good as when they were boiled the old-fashioned way. It was like I was eating mutant hot dogs, unnaturally cooked by electrocution.

I tried it a few times, then the contraption went into storage, and disappeared eventually.

[Elsie]

These are the tines that fry mens souls?

Groan!

[Elsie]

Yup

[ASOC]

LOL

I just could *not* help myself.......

[Elsie]

Then use a GRAPHIC to illustrate your point!