No one knows who I am. Do you?
James Jamie Doe - Frank Bender Bust
I am about 10 to 11 years old, or that’s how old I was when they found me in the brush. I guess I was there near the edge of that wooded area for a couple months before someone found me.
On September 25, 1998, some guy cutting the bushes around a billboard found my skeleton. It was near Interstate 85 in Hillsborough, Mebane, North Carolina.
The cops that investigated my death said I was just dumped there. The bad people who dumped me didn’t even cover me up or anything. I’m only 10 but I think that SUCKS. What did I ever do? Could I have been that bad that you would kill me and leave me on the side of the road like unwanted trash? I was just a kid!
Important Stuff To Know About Me:
I’m a male, white (maybe Hispanic or mix), 4′11, weighed 50 lbs, brown hair, with unknown eye color, about 10 to 11 years old.
They found a pair of Fox Polo Club brand khaki shorts, underwear and white tube socks still inside a pair of black, size three athletic shoes. There was no mention of a shirt.
Additional Facts To Know:
The Newsobserver reported that this case was to be featured on America’s Most Wanted, but the 911 happened. This blogger couldn’t find a record on AMW.com that shows this case was or wasn’t featured. Chances are it wasn’t.
The Doe Network reported that I “had sealants on the surfaces of the following teeth: 3, 4, 13, 14, 19, 29, 30; no cavities; teeth 4, 13, 20 decidious.” Also that I had $50 in my pockets, specifically “2 $20s, 1 $10.”
Many theories have been bounced around about me. They say that maybe I was the child of migrant workers, possibly illegals. Something bad happened my parents got scared and had to leave me. I don’t believe that happened to me. It doesn’t make sense. If my parents left me there, why didn’t they bury me? On those old movies I used to watch when you bury someone you love you leave a stone, I think they call it a marker. Why didn’t my parents do that for me?
Maybe my parents don’t know I’m dead at all. Maybe I was stolen. Maybe I made a mistake and ran away. If I did, I didn’t mean to.
I think I was scared and sad. You know right before it happened, right before I died.
I want my parents to know about me. I want to know my name.
Will you help me find my name? Will you help me rest in peace? Please tell as many people as you know to view my picture and see if they know me. If they have any information call the police. PLEASE!
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If you know anything about this child please contact the authorities.
You may remain anonymous when submitting information.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office
Tim Horne
919-644-3050
NCMEC #: NCMU400069
NCIC Number: U-174662253
Please take the time to look at other cases of Unidentified Persons at Can You Identify Me?
Today, January 14, 2010 is Billy Smolinski’s birthday, the missing person for which this bill is named.
There is a Judiciary Committee Hearing scheduled for January 21 and his mother, Janice, will be speaking before the committee. She will be speaking as not only a mother with a missing child, but as a representative of all of the family members of a missing person, she is our voice. She has worked 3 years for this day, for the opportunity to finally get this bill before the Representatives in Congress. It’s very clear to all of us who want passage of this bill that it is a “one shot deal.” If it fails to make it, there will NOT be another chance to make it happen. The importance of this can not be emphasized enough.
If you have a missing loved one, or are someone who cares about the missing, please help us in this effort. Contact your district’s US Representative NOW and ask them to support and sign on as a Co-Sponsor.
There are links following that will take you to a very detailed report on the bill, and a letter you can use to fax. Time is of the essence.
REPORT BY CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
The most updated list of Co-Sponsors is : Walt Minnick, Ed Whitfield, Carol Shea-Porter, Bart Gordon, Carolyn Maloney, Thaddeus McCotter, Maurice Hinchey, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marcia Fudge, Gerry Connolly, Mike McIntyre, Ben Chandler, Rosa DeLauro, Sam Farr, Alcee Hastings
Recent News Stories Highlight the Need to Pass
H.R. 3695, the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy’s Law)
H.R. 3695 is Endorsed By: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Fraternal Order of Police, National Association of Police Organizations, Connecticut Department of Public Safety, National Forensic Science Technology Center, National Center for Forensic Science, Doe Missing Persons Network, Center for Hope, Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, Inc., LostNMissing Inc., Project EDAN, CUE Center for the Missing Persons, Surviving Parents Coalition, National Association of Medical Examiners
01/13/10
Dear Colleague:
The issue of missing children and adults has been in the national headlines in recent months. First in August there was the safe return home of Jaycee Dugard 18 years after she was abducted near her South Lake Tahoe, California home. Then there was the heart-wrenching story of 20 year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington who went missing on October 17th from a Metallica concert in Charlottesville, VA. Sadly, November marked the tragic discovery of 11 sets of missing human remains in Cleveland Ohio, as well as those of 12 year-old Jahmeshia Conner of Englewood, Illinois two weeks after she was reported missing. Finally, last month Susan Powell of West Valley City, Utah went missing and her whereabouts are still unknown.
These three cases are just a small sample of the thousands of Americans who go missing every year, often never to be seen by their loved ones again. At the same time, there are also an estimated 40,000 sets of unidentified human remains that are being held or disposed of across the country. Sadly, because of gaps in the nation’s missing persons systems, missing persons and unidentified remains are rarely matched. We introduced H.R. 3695, the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy’s Law) in an effort to fix these problems and bring closure to the loved ones of the missing.
Two major issues have particularly stood in the way of solving missing persons cases. First, many local law enforcement agencies and medical examiners/coroners don’t have the resources or access to information they need in order to most effectively respond to and report missing persons and unidentified human remains cases. Second, there is no one central reporting database to help match the missing with unidentified bodies. Instead, there are a wide-range of unconnected federal, state, local, and non-profit databases, making finding a match an often insurmountable challenge.
H.R. 3695 builds upon recent efforts to address these issues by:
· Authorizing, and therefore helping to ensure funding for, the National Missing Persons and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), which was created in July 2007 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide a federal missing persons/unidentified database that the public could access and contribute to;
· Connecting NamUs with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) in order to create more comprehensive missing persons and unidentified remains databases and streamlining the reporting process for local law enforcement;
· Expanding current law by requiring missing children be reported to NamUs (they already must be reported to NCIC);
· Creating an incentive grants program to help states, local law enforcement and medical examiners/coroners report missing persons and unidentified remains to NCIC, NamUs, and the National DNA Index System (NDIS); and
· Calling on the DOJ to issue guidelines and best practices on handling missing persons and unidentified remains cases in order to empower law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners to help find the missing.
If you have any questions or would like be an original cosponsor of Billy’s Law, please contact Linda Forman in Congressman Murphy’s office at x5-4476 or Tim Tarpley in Congressman Poe’s office at x5-6565.
Sincerely,
/Christopher S. Murphy /Ted Poe
Member of Congress Member of Congress
Linda Forman
Legislative Assistant
Office of Congressman Chris Murphy (CT-05)
412 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
202.225.4476 (p)
202.225.5933 (f)
How do you write about a man who has been missing from his family for 5 years on January 13?
How can one possibly convey the feelings and emotions that one family has endured as they continue an endless search for answers? How can this family fill the gap that was left that day when Skip Zelaya vanished? Love and memories keep them going and they will always be wondering until the day he is found.
The picture of his smiling face at the airport saying goodbye to daughters who just spent their “sister’s week” with him is the last time they saw him in person. Telephone calls and letters of love were sent to him and then he was gone without an explanation. There are many suspicious circumstances surrounding Skip’s disappearance and investigators felt at the time that evidence supported the fact that he may have left on his own accord and the the search efforts were scaled back.
Nothing has surfaced in 5 years and some family members believe that he did not leave willingly.
Like other families with missing loved ones, this family lives in a state of confusion, seeking answers, wanting nothing more than to bring him home.
DOB: May 22, 1943
Missing: January 13, 2005
Age Now: 61
Sex: Male
Race: White
Hair: Brown with gray at temples
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5′9″
Weight: 130 lbs
Missing From: Homosassa, FL
George was last seen at approximately 6:00pm at his residence in the vicinity of the 5700 block of S. Sea Otter Path in Homosassa, FL. His white, four door, 1988 Lincoln sedan was located the following day at a shopping center off of Hwy 19 in Homosassa, FL. He has a growth on his left pinky finger, and minor scars on hands and arms.
Do You Know Me?
I belong to a little girl who now is all grown up
I have held her tears
for many many years
You see one day she was taken from her family so dear
And made to live with someone who anyone would fear
When she first was kidnapped I helped her fall asleep
But it was so hard every night to listen to her weep
She is all grown up now
But her Christmas wish remains
For one more chance to be held close
By those who loved her so
Maybe they are searching for her too
She has such beautiful eyes of blue
She has a happy spirit that has never left her heart
She believes she got this from her family who taught her how to love
She is so determined
To find her way back home
And have a chance to say
She always held them in her heart
And wished they were never ripped apart
Known Details:
Kidnapped in the early to mid 1960s
Blue eyes
Brown Hair
Used to dream all the time of a brown house
Flag staff walk way
Swing set in the back yard
The stuffed Kitten above may have been from before I was kidnapped
Had glow in the dark eyes
Had a bell in his tail
My mom used to sing to me
One song that I remember is
Down in the Valley: Link to this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GucC_Zbyw1o&feature=related
DNA is in
CODIS
All she wants is to be reunited with her family for Christmas, it’s been a long, long time.
Do You Recognize Her?
Graduation
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