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Missing Person's Facts

Writer's picture: Rafael PerezRafael Perez

In the United States, more than 600,000 people go missing annually.


99% of reported missing persons are quickly located.


Children under the age of 18 account for 30,400 (32%) of the national record and 93,718 and 39,114 (42%) recorded were children under 21 years of age. Minors are located through law enforcements systems like AMBER alerts (America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response), others return on their own volition, and in some cases are located as deceased.


According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUS) database, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, each year, approximately 4,400 unidentified bodies are discovered and only 0.7333% of people who are missing and who's bodies are found are unable to be identified. That leaves 1% of reported missing people cases remaining unresolved.


Our sister Milagros’ unresolved kidnapping case 47 years ago, falls in the latter category.


The process for many families with access to the unidentified bodies NamUS database is not a simple one. In most cases, NamUS is able to verify DNA matches. However, in order for families to access the full services of the federally funded agency, a police record number of a missing person case must be provided by a law enforcement agency. In Milagros' case, police records have been lost and re-reporting the case has been denied, thus denying her family access to information that may bring closure to the expensive search of a missing loved one.

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