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The parents of 5-year-old Leanna Warner say they are keeping their hopes up as the search for their missing daughter enters its 10th day. ......

Amber Alert Issued Wednesday June 11 Christian Ferguson9 yrs., 4', 75 lbs, black male with light complexion with a short afro hairstyle. Christian is severely mentally challenged and may be dressed only in a diaper and wrapped in a multicolored blanket. He is on a special diet and requires medication twice a day or he may slip into a coma. He was in his parents car in St. Louis MO US at about 6:30 AM on Wed. June 11 when it was stolen. The vehicle has been recovered but Christian is still missing. Anyone with information is asked to call...

<p>Modesto police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding a 13-year-old girl who may have been abducted from her aunt's house.</p> <p>Maria Rodriguez disappeared between midnight and 4 a.m. Tuesday -- also missing was her aunt's friend, Regino Bautista, a man in his 40s who was staying at the house while his car was being repaired, according to Modesto Sgt. Chris Fuzie.</p>

KING: All right, let's talk about the Elizabeth Smart case, which the media has kind of left now. What is your best read on that tragedy in Utah? WALSH: I spent yesterday by coincidence with Ed and Lois Smart. I had them on "The John Walsh Show" to kind of give an update to the case. You know, Ricci, the guy that was the main suspect, died in prison of an aneurysm. He's the guy that was the handyman at the house that put 1,000 miles on his pickup truck during the two days that she was missing. He was...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Los Angeles police late Monday re-issued an "Amber Alert" in the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from a city park about 24 hours earlier.</p> <p>Police issued the first "Amber Alert" for Jessica Cortez when they suspected she had been abducted from Echo Park on Sunday. Then officers reclassified the disappearance as a missing child case, believing that she had drowned in the park's lake.</p>

FORT STOCKTON, Texas (AP) — The body of a 4-year-old boy who was reported missing was found Friday on his family's property near Fort Stockton. Pecos County Sheriff Cliff Harris said the body of Schyler Fain was discovered in the trunk of a car at the residence. Investigators are trying to determine whether foul play was involved in the death. The shoeless boy disappeared Monday morning from outside his grandparents' home. That led to a search by dozens of volunteers on foot and horseback, with help from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter.

Young Chinese Girl Missing After Landing at SFO Source: kcbs Publication date: 2002-08-02 (KCBS) - A countywide search is underway for a missing 12-year-old Chinese girl, who was last seen at San Francisco International Airport Thursday afternoon. KCBS reporter Bob Melrose said 12-year old Yukun Jia of Beijing has not been seen since 2pm Thursday, when she and the group she was with cleared customs at San Francisco International Airport. The tour group did not report her missing until sometime after 5pm, when they realized she was not with them during a tour of Stanford University. Police say that...

FORT STOCKTON — Holly Johnson tries to hold back tears as she describes her 4-year-old grandson as “ornery, mischievous” and just your “typical little boy.” While Johnson waited with the rest of the family, Schyler Lee Fain’s mother, Julie Fain, spent Wednesday putting fliers on cars throughout town. The fliers had a picture of her brown-haired, brown-eyed son holding his football. The word “MISSING” was printed in red across the top. For two and a half days, the family, along with volunteers and several law enforcement agencies, searched for Schyler throughout the hot and rugged West Texas terrain. On Wednesday,...

About 150 searchers fought stormy weather to look for a 4-year-old Pecos boy Monday evening after he was reported missing. Schyler Lee Fain was last seen a little before 11 a.m., Department of Public Safety officials said. He was in the care of his grandmother. Fort Stockton police, Pecos County Sheriff’s deputies, DPS troopers, a DPS seargent and a DPS helicopter all helped in the search for the missing boy. Fain was last known to be wearing a Navy blue Nike T-shirt with white letters and a red Nike Swoosh and underwear. The boy was believed to be barefooted. Officials...

Amber Alert issued for missing 2-year-old in Kansas City A 2-year-old girl was reported missing about 4:30 p.m. today, and Kansas City police have issued an Amber Alert, seeking information on her whereabouts. Police said the girl, Jenna Morrin, had been playing with an older sibling in an apartment in the 4100 block of Oak Street, while their mother was cleaning a carpet in another room. When the woman checked on the children, the older one told her that the girl was gone. The apartment is a few blocks west of Gillham Park in midtown Kansas City. Jenna is white,...

Hundreds attend girl's funeral People came from as far away as Beaumont to attend Dannariah Finley's funeral and help her family say goodbye to her. "My heart would just burst if I went in there," said Christian Ash of Beaumont, who stood across the street from Mount Zion Baptist Church when the services were going on. Dannariah was discovered missing from her home July 4 by her mother Jamie Arnold around 10 a.m. and reported missing to police after a three-hour search of relatives turned up nothing. Her disappearance sparked massive searches by hundreds of volunteers the following Saturday and...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - A Brazilian man living in Greenwich gave police information leading to the body of a 13-year-old Danbury girl missing since Friday afternoon, police said Monday. Authorities said the two had apparently met over the Internet. The man, identified by the Danbury mayor's office as Saul Dos Reis, 25, was taken into custody by the FBI Sunday morning. The body of Christina Long was discovered in Greenwich early Monday using information provided by Dos Reis, officials said. She was last seen Friday at the Danbury Fair Mall. After a search of the mall and the surrounding area,...

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The search for a 2-year-old San Diego boy, reported missing from a playground a week ago, turned sinister Thursday with reports of glaring inconsistencies in his stepfather's version of events. Police declined comment on local media reports that fingerprint tests had failed to find any evidence of the child having played at the site recently, or that his stepfather had taken a lie detector test and "failed miserably". "We have not commented on details of the investigation in the past and we're not going to start today," police spokesman Dave Cohen said. The search for...

San Diego police have concluded that 2-year-old Jahi Turner and his stepfather did not visit a Balboa Park playground the day the stepfather reported the child missing. Police have discounted the story of the stepfather, Tieray Jones, because of inconsistencies in his account of what happened and because results of a lie-detector test indicated deception by Jones, said county law enforcement sources familiar with the case. Jones, 23, told police he left Jahi in the play area at 28th and Cedar streets last Thursday while he walked to a soda machine 100 yards away, then returned 15 minutes later to...

Finding no sign that little Jahi Turner disappeared on his own, despite two days of intense searching, San Diego police last night formally classified the case an abduction and steered the investigation to its top detectives. The announcement came as investigators began scaling back the hunt that at its busiest involved more than 100 police and Sheriff's Department volunteers. "We don't know who took him; we don't know why he was taken; we don't know where he is now," San Diego police spokesman David Cohen said. "We simply can no longer conclude that this 2-year-old boy walked away by himself."...

New look at missing child 03/19/2002 From Staff Reports NCMEC Age-enhanced photo of Opal Jennings. Opal Jennings has been missing for nearly three years. Now, a new age-enhanced picture shows what she might look like today. Opal was last seen March 26, 1999, playing in her grandparents' front yard in Saginaw. The blue-eyed, brown-haired girl was six years old. Ricky Lee Franks was convicted in her abduction in Sept. 2000. Mr. Franks, a convicted child molester, told police he picked up Opal in his car but released her unharmed. He was sentenced to life in prison. The child has...

Body of Andre Bosse found in Lapeer County A young girl's body found in a rural area near Lapeer was identified Sunday as that of Andre Bosse, a Muskegon County girl who was kidnapped and murdered in 1997, state police said. The 11-year-old's body, covered by debris, was discovered Saturday by a man walking through a field in Metamora Township, about 10 miles south of Lapeer, said Detective Lt. Curt Schram of the Michigan State Police's Sixth District Headquarters in Grand Rapids. Authorities used dental records to identify the remains as Bosse's. "It was not an obvious find," Schram said....