Christina Calayca, Monday4 the Missing

Christina Calayca, Monday4 the Missing

Christina Calayca has one of the widest, happiest smiles I have ever seen along with a twinkle in her eye that makes her whole face sparkle with life.

Christina was not a rugged outdoors type person according to family members and it is a mystery to them that she would be jogging at the Rainbow Falls Provincial Park in Canada. She had told family members that she was planning a trip to Montreal for a Christian retreat over a long weekend, and they feel if she went camping it would be somewhere that there was a semblance of civilization and amenities, not in a primitive, rugged area. Apparently Christina and her friends decided to ditch the Montreal plans and headed for the area near Thunder Bay.

It is reported that she was going for a jog with a fire fighter friend, got tired and said she was turning back. She never made it back to the rugged campsite and what happened next continues to be a mystery. The park is so rugged that searchers who were covering the are were injured and a search dog also went missing. There are several drop offs in the hilly, rough terrain and the family was kept back from the search area because of the dangers.

After 17 days of massive searching they turned up no clues as to what happened to Christina. They continue to go up and down the many trails that she could have taken and the authorities do not suspect foul play from any of her friends she travelled there with. Black bear attack has been ruled out, also.

A year after she went missing on August 6, 2007, her mother has peace within feeling that Christina is in heaven. Her friends live with the regrets of leaving her to jog alone, but no one has forgotten her and that beautiful smile.

By all accounts she was a vibrant 20 year old and loved by many. She is missed by her close knit family and friends. Her family is trying to raise $100,000 to renew extensive searching for her.

"The peace that I have after that," Rutledge (Christina's mother)breathes. "I said truly she is in heaven. She is really taken care of by God."

http://www.findchristinacalayca.com/index.htm

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_25492.aspx

http://tbay.ok.bc.ca/stories.php?id=103856

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/04/15/calayca-missing.html



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Nakketa Smith

Del City, Oklahoma is the home of Tinker Air Force Base, just southeast of Oklahoma City. I remember watching the AWACS going in and out of the base when I lived there in the 80's. Del City was at opposite from my end of Oklahoma City which at the time was the second largest city in the country according to square mileage.

Nakketa Smith is the mother of 3 children and a foster child. That alone says to me that she knows motherly love,taking another's child and raising and loving it as your own shows that.

What happened in Del City on the night of September 13 that caused Nakketa to vanish? It is reported by authorities that there was a violent struggle in her home that night and signs that she was attacked. Where were her children when this attack on their mother was taking place?

Dontee Johnson, Nakketa's ex husband is noted as a person of interest in her disappearance. He is known to have stalked and threatened her life in the past and was detained when found driving her car with two of her children on board. He didn't go down easily and there was a scuffle where even a police officer was injured. He is actually in custody on other related charges of lewd acts with a child under 16.

Dontee Johnson is not looking too good in this. The pattern of domestic violence repeats itself again.

"She was afraid of him. She had a peace bond on him. He was threatening to kill her, her mother and the whole family," said Shirley Moore, Nakketa's aunt.


Nakketa's mother, Deborah King, pleads with locals to give up information she thinks they know. She feels there are people who know what happened to Nakketa that Friday night and is begging for them to come forward.

Texas Equusearch has come forward and sent teams to conduct thorough searches and are working with law enforcement agencies in the area to plot the likely places to search.

Nakketa's children are reported to be taking this extrememly hard, just as any child would who may have been witness to violence against a mother they love. Children are said to be resiliant in certain circumstances, but it has been my experience that no matter how long a mother is missing, that child can not move forward until she is located.

Another mother has vanished. Deborah King will not give up searching for her child until she is found. Nakketa's children deserve to know why their mother has vanished and be able to deal with what lays ahead for them.

When and who will break this pattern? When will children not have to suffer and fear the unknown?

When the cycle of domestic violence is finally broken.



UPDATE: NAKKETA SMITH HAS BEEN FOUND....

By Matt Dinger
Staff Writer
SPENCER - The body of a Del City woman missing since Sept. 13 was found about 10 p.m. Monday based on information provided by her ex-husband, the sheriff's office said
Missing Del City woman's body found...
The body of Nakketa Smith, 31, was found about 12 feet from the side of the road in the 4700 block of N Spencer Road in eastern Oklahoma County, said Sheriff John Whetsel, who was at the scene at about 11:30 p.m.

Del City Police Cpt. Jody Suit, who was also at the scene, said information gleaned from a conversation between ex-husband Dontee Johnson, 34, and a minister from Houston led law officers to the scene.

The body was removed about 12:30 a.m. today after the medical examiner arrived. At 1 a.m., officers were at another location about a mile away searching for evidence including bedding materials.

Suit said a minister with the New Black Panther Party talked to Johnson, who is in jail on an unrelated charge but is considered a suspect. Suit said Johnson provided the minister with details that led them to the body. The family was notified before the search began, Suit said.

A mounted search team, Texas EqquSearch, and other volunteers had looked for Smith over the weekend and on Monday,searching in Del City and in creek beds around Lake Stanley Draper. Smith's mother, Deborah King of Oklahoma City, and other friends and family members had formed large search parties and combed wooded areas and vacant buildings looking for Smith, vowing not to give up until she was found.

Suit said the minister, whom he identified as Quanell X, has worked before with Texas EqquSearch and was there at their request.

Police had found evidence in Smith's home in Del City that she was violently attacked. Johnson became the focus of the investigation after he was found driving her car with two of her children, Suit said earlier. Johnson is in custody on complaints of lewd acts with a child younger than 16.

Carol Batten Dowless, Missing Mother Found

It breaks my heart to report that it is believed that Carol has been found. My sincere sympathies go out to her mother, Margaret, her father, Roger, and especially to the children she so dearly loved. I had the pleasure of meeting them at the CUE Center rally in Whiteville, NC just a few weeks ago, and they are real...real people who now need our support more than ever. May they find peace as they finally know where their daughter and mother will rest.





Remains found in Columbus County
Authorities suspect they are those of missing woman

By David Reynolds
Staff Writer

Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 9:07 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 11:45 p.m.

Columbus County sheriff’s deputies found remains this week, which they suspect are those of Carol Marie Batten Dowless, a 26-year-old mother of four who disappeared three years ago.
Columbus County sheriff’s deputies found remains this week, which they suspect are those of Carol Marie Batten Dowless, a 26-year-old mother of four who disappeared three years ago.
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* For nine women, more questions than answers

Authorities say an informant led them to a wooded area within a mile of Batten Dowless’ home in Columbus County.

The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation and Brunswick Search and Rescue assisted in an eight-hour search that ended with the discovery around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Capt. David Nobles of the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office.

Although police suspect they’ve discovered Batten Dowless’ remains, the bones will have to be tested to know for sure, Nobles said.

The break in the 3-year-old case comes just weeks after The CUE Center For Missing Persons put up a billboard in Whiteville asking for information on the disappearance.

“I know her family was hoping for a better outcome,” said CUE founder Monica Caison. “At least we have some answers now.”

The case

Batten Dowless disappeared Sept. 4, 2005, after she was last seen at her family’s home on Old Pine Log Road near Whiteville, according to the North American Missing Persons Network.

Her burgundy Mitsubishi Elantra was found parked nearby.

Batten Dowless’ father Sherland “Roger” Batten was driving a truck cross country and returned home to find his youngest daughter missing.

In a prior interview, Batten said he’d put up posters and offered a reward but heard little. Still, years after she disappeared, Batten held out hope his daughter was alive. He even kept her name on his bank account with the hope she would draw money from it some day.

The break

Caison, who searches for missing people and supports their families, said that when adults go missing, their cases don’t receive enough attention from police or the media.

But cases like that of Batten Dowless, a mother who disappeared, leaving children behind, should raise everyone’s suspicions, Caison said.

Earlier this month, the CUE Center unveiled a billboard on U.S. 701 in Whiteville, bearing Batten Dowless’ picture.

The plan was to provide a permanent reminder of the unsolved case and an alternative to repeatedly putting up posters only to have them torn down soon after, Caison said.

“We just knew that if we could get something up and it could be permanent, it would be a constant reminder and put pressure on whoever knew her or knew about her case,” Caison said. “It worked because it’s only been up two weeks.”

On Wednesday, Nobles, of the sheriff’s office, said the informant had seen publicity on Batten Dowless’ case that was posted by the CUE Center.

In addition to confirming the identification, Nobles said the medical examiner also will determine the cause of death.

Authorities still aren’t calling the disappearance a murder. “The investigation is still ongoing, and we’re still working,” Nobles said Wednesday. Deputies will “wait and see what the medical examiner can determine.”

From Cue Center On the Road Tour 2008

From Cue Center On the Road Tour 2008

Monday4 the Missing, Brenda Joan Allen Szabo

Brenda Joan Allen Szabo started having children at the age of 17. She left her first born, a 7 month old son, on the steps of a New York City Police station. Around the same time her then boyfriend died of a drug over dose and she left town when police tried to question her about it.

Brenda continued to have three more children by different fathers who also died tragic deaths including heroin overdose, suicide and a car accident. Brenda used a number of aliases as she crisscrossed the country and had several run ins with the law along the way. In the 70's Brenda landed in jail for her part in an armed robbery, and left her last daughter, Elizabeth Jeanette, in foster care until she got out.

In a letter to her social worker, Brenda confided doubts in her ability to be a mother and stated in that letter "I never looked at life or being a mother realistically....I have to do something for myself before I can do anything for Lisa [Elizabeth] ..I do love her."

The 80's came and Brenda made an attempt to pull her life together, get clean from drugs, and enrolled in a community college while working as a dog grooomer. A prior violation of her probation landed her back in prison at Frontera State Prison..


When she was released, she told relatives that she was heading to Dallas and would call in two weeks. She was last seen in San Diego, CA, and has never been heard from since March 1, 1983. She would now be 59 years old and a grandmother.

Her daughter, Elizabeth Alldridge, has been on a quest to find her mother since she was 18, and her search has led her to find all of her siblings, but not Brenda Szabo, their mother. She combed adoption records and pulled together some of the pieces of a family that was disbanded before it had a chance. Elizabeth feels that when Brenda was released from Frontera she embarked on a new life and has not looked back, that she is out there somewhere.

In an interview with Todd Matthews, Elizabeth tells a lot about her quest, her found siblings, and her feelings about the possiblity that Brenda Szabo has found a new life and may not want to be found.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/487577/elizabeth_bruce_in_1983_brenda_never.html?page=10&cat=49

There is always the void, there is always the wondering, the looking back. Like so many other daughters of missing mothers, Elizabeth has pressed onward, has worked very hard to get what little information she has on her mother, but in the process has been happily reunited with her siblings

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1729dfca.html
>http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmaprofile_all.php?A200502922S

http://www.crimeandjustice.us/forums/lofiversion/index.php?f38.html

http://www.amfor.net/FeaturedSearch/

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Aretha Maria Fernandez

Union, SC made headlines years ago as the site of the Susan Smith tragedy. Union is in the news again as one of their citizens has gone missing, a beautiful 31 year old mother, Aretha Maria Fernandez was last seen after clocking out from her job at Ellen Sagar Nursing Home around 2:30 on September 3, 2008. It is assumed her boyfriend picked her up as he usually did, but has not been verified.

When investigators tried to talk to Maria's boyfriend, whose name has not been released, he and his family had already hired attorneys and will not answer questions without them. This is their right under the law, but it's also something that has raised a few eyebrows. According to a statement by Sheriff Howard Wells, “The most valuable person who could give us information in this case is the boyfriend and his family".

With so many unanswered questions there is not much for investigators to go on. One person, a friend of the couple, has been arrested for giving false information to them. What do these people have to hide? and why are they not fully cooperating to help find Maria?

According to her co-workers and family, Maria was a responsible, reliable person with a wonderful, sunny personality. Her mother, Susie Fernandez, reports that Maria and her unnamed boyfriend had been having some problems and Maria and her son were staying at her mother's home. Her boyfriend picked up Maria and her son that Wednesday morning and was to pick them up after work.

Maria was an attentive mother, by all accounts, and worked weekends so she could be present to put her son on the school bus each morning and be home for him after school. Family members also say she would NEVER leave her son behind, and fear that foul play is suspected.

A little 5 year old boy is wondering what has happened to the person who is his world.

Investigators are running against time with little cooperation from those who would know, all the while Maria's son is without a mother.

Once again, a relationship on the rocks, a mother who is somewhere with no car, no cell phone, no money, no personal belongings.

And a child left wondering with no answers..........


http://lostfacesofthemissing.blogspot.com/2008/09/aretha-maria-fernandez-missing-south.html

http://blackandmissing.blogspot.com/2008/09/missing-aretha-maria- http://www.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/man_accused_of_giving_false_information_in_missing_woman_case/8372/


http://www.missingabducted.com/2008/09/aretha-maria-fe.html

http://peace4missing.ning.com/group/adultsthataremissing/forum/topic/show?id=2153128%3ATopic%3A9301



UPDATE

UNION, S.C. -- Investigators conducted a search Thursday at the home of a Union County woman who has been missing since early this month.

The Union County Sheriff's Office said that deputies, State Law Enforcement Division agents, a crime-scene unit, and the state Department of Natural Resources executed a search warrant at the home of Artetha Maria Fernandez on Blue Ridge Road.

Fernandez lived at the home with her boyfriend and the home is owned by the boyfriend's father.

The sheriff's office said that investigators were there at the home for more than six hours and found some "items of interest" to the case.

Those items were taken by SLED for further examination, investigators said.

Earlier reports from investigators indicated that Fernandez was last seen at her job at the Ellen Sagar Nursing Home.

But investigators said Friday that after constructing a timeline based on information from friends. co-workers and others, they now believe Fernandez was seen at the home on Sept. 3.

Investigators said that there have been no calls on Fernandez's cell phone nor any activity on her financial accounts since then.

Union County investigators said they believe it will be next week before they get any information from SLED about the items taken from the home.

Kelly Currin Morris

As if scripted from a handbook, another mother vanishes in North Carolina and her husband is declared by law enforcment a "person of interest." Following in the same pattern as those before, Scott Morris has not participated in searches for his wife, has not given a straight story, and according to local gossip has threatened Kelly Currin Morris in the past.

Kelly Currin Morris has been missing since September 3 from her home in Stem, NC, a small, rural town near the Raleigh/Durham area. Authorities may not have known she was missing, but on the morning of September 4 the home she shared with her husband, Scott, and two young daughters was on fire. It has been stated that it was the result of arson.

Kelly's mother, Wanda Hollis, holds on to hope for her daughter as she participates in searches. She stated in an interview with MSNBC those words we have heard over and over:

"Kelly would not leave her girls; she would not leave her girls," Hollis said. Morris has two daughters who are staying with family as authorities are searching for their mother.

Kelly is described by local friends as being an "awsome" mother who was dedicated to her daughters. She participated in all of their activities, and was an all around great mom to her girls, one from a previous relationship.

Just like the others, Kelly's car was found nearby, she has no purse, money, keys or cell phone in her posession, they were all left behind. Scott Morris told authorities that she went to look for her dog, and never returned, an unlikely story.


Borrowing a phrase from another blogger, Kelly Morris's vanishing is another chapter written in the "Handbook of Spousal Murder". I hope this isn't the case, just as in all the other cases, but the script is sounding so very familiar.

Take a look at other North Carolina cases where mothers have vanished, like Nancy Cooper and Janet Arbaroa. The signs and evidence are there, there have been no arrests, the husbands have carried on with life, and these women are still missing. There are too many children out there that have to deal with this heartbreak

How can we write a chapter for them, if we can't bring their mothers home?



http://peace4missing.ning.com/group/adultsthataremissing/forum/topic/show?id=2153128%3ATopic%3A9301&page=1&commentId=2153128%3AComment%3A930

http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7546

http://www.truecrimereport.com/2008/09/looking_for_the_dog_the_disapp.php

http://butnerblogspot.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/kelly-morris-disappearance-remains-a-mystery/

Benjamin Kyle, Monday4 the Missing

The Benjamin Kyle story is a different twist on missing persons cases. You see, we know where he is, but, it isn't really him. If that sounds odd to you, please let it be known that missing persons cases are never cut and dried or even as similar as we think.

Benjamin Kyle is the name a man, believed to be in his mid 50's, has taken for himself for the last 4 years. This man was found naked and beaten, most likely left for dead, beside a dumpster in Richmond Hill, Georgia, just south of Savannah. When he was found, he had no identification and no memory of who he is and where he came from.

He started using the name "Benjamin Kyle" but was listed as a living "John Doe" and has been listed with The Doe Network so that workers there can help him figure out who he is, or who he was.

Through the tireless efforts of Todd Matthews, Project EDAN was able to do age "regressed" pictures so that someone might recognize him from his former life. Todd is leading the development of NamUs, an organization to identify the many "Does", and will include living "Does" into that system.

In the meantime, Benjamin Kyle is said to be a well spoken, above average intelligence man who carries himself with a professional demeanor.

Maybe someone will recognize him today and help him find himself.

If you have any information about this case please contact:
FBI - Savannah, GA
Bill Kirkconnell
912-232-3716
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.


http://blogs.discovery.com/sleuth_truth/2008/08/to-be-or-not-to.html

http://savannahnow.com/node/364434

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7218919

http://www.drphil.com/plugger/respond/?plugID=12477

Lilly Aramburo, Someone Finally Takes Notice

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-09-11/news/missing-person-lilly-aramburo/






The above link will take you to an article written in a local Miami paper called Miami New Times. Columnist Fransico Alvarado has finally taken the bait handed to almost every columnist in Miami for the last year. Someone has finally taken an interest in reporting about missing mother Lilly Aramburo.

As I have written in previous entries, this case speaks to my heart and I feel I have gotten to know Lilly through contact with her friend, Janet Forte. Several of us online have worked diligently over the last 6 months trying to help Janet get attention for Lilly and her case, trying to get someone, anyone to speak to the public in Miami about it. Finally, it has happened.

Although I knew the extent of Lilly's drug use, I think it was given a little too much ink in this article. It doesn't matter what the character of a missing mother might be, the fact remains that she is still missing and there is a child left behind who loves her and deserves answers.

It is also telling that this reporter had no problem getting interviews with the major players in this drama. Christen Pacheco and Kelly Starling seemed to be willing to talk. I don't feel that what they had to say to Mr. Alvarez was the complete truth, but it does show us that MDPD has not followed up with these two, they have yet to be brought in to answer the hard questions of what happened that fateful night a year ago in June.

Anytime you can get publicity of a missing person into the hands of the public is good, no matter how it is written, the news is finally out there, her picture is finally in print, and that is good news for all of us who have an interest in seeing justice for Lilly Aramburo.

I hope the next article we see will shed even further light on the facts of the case. I hope that it will be more informative about what really happened and not a trip down memory lane with Christen and Kelly talking about the "good old days" of doing drugs, sleeping in punk houses, and roaming the streets of Miami. I hope that the next article written will show MDPD doing their job, asking the hard questions, and getting the whole truth to the citizens of Miami.

You never know when it could be your loved one missing next. Wouldn't you like to know that they are treated equally under the law?

Monday4 the Missing, Bruce Falconer Missing since 1981

Bruce Falconer was a Marine from the time he was 16 years old, joining with his mother's approval. In 1981 he had just been promoted to sergeant and was home on leave in Bismark, South Dakota before leaving for Yuma, Arizona, catching up with old friends, including Tim Jewell.


The two of them went out the night of February 20, and hit a few bars, later going to a spot along the Missouri River known as the "Desert" in Bruce's Blazer. The evening did not turn out as Bruce and Tim had planned. What happened still remains a mystery which investigators have worked on for a long 27 years.

Bruce's mother, Dorothy, has said that after a long time with no results of searches, she made up her mind to not become a bitter, grieving woman for the sake of her remaining family. The Marines had Bruce declared dead five years after his disappearance.

In December, 1992 a hunter found skeletal remains in the "Desert" and investigators felt sure they were either Bruce Falconer or Tim Jewell. After dental records were checked it was determined that they were, in fact, the remains of Tim Jewell, and medical examiners determined that Tim had died of exposure.

Although much time had passed, Dorothy sobbed at Tim Jewell's funeral, still not able to rest in her own heart knowing that her son, Bruce, has still not been found. Investigators state that all possibilities are still being checked to this day, it is still an open investigation, and that they will not give up.

This must give Dorothy at least a small bit of comfort to know that there are those who will not forget her son, Bruce Falconer.



http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/f/falconer_bruce.html

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/02/21/news/update/doc47be0189012ad845326056.txt

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/02/23/news/topnews/149492.txt

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3699dmnd.html

http://mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com

http://peace4missing.ning.com

Carol Dowless, a Daughter's Plea

I had the pleasure of attending the last rally stop on the CUE Center "On The Road To Remember Tour" in Whiteville, NC sponsored by the family of Carol Batten Dowless. http://mothersarevanishing.blogspot.com/2008/08/carol-batten-dowless.html

There were several speakers, including the founder of CUE Center, Monica Caison, and we were led in prayer by a humble servant of God.

When the scheduled speakers ended, a young girl stepped up to the podium and held the microphone in her shaking hand. The oldest daughter of Carol Dowless spoke tearfully about her missing mother and how much she missed having her in her daily life.

Once again, the words most spoken in these cases were said...."My Mother would NEVER leave me!" This young girl told us that even in the past when her mother would leave the home, the first thing she ALWAYS did was gather up the children.

So many daughters, and sons, remember the harsh words spoken in the past and wish more than anything that they would have a second chance to take them all back and let their mothers know how much they really love them. They would be willing to live up to every bargain they made with God just to have that second chance.

As the yellow "smiley face" balloons were released to the sky, there was an air of hope reverberating through the crowd. Hope that Carol Dowless will be brought home to her family.

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=8940775&nav=menu157_2

http://www.whiteville.com/