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IRS Withholds Critical Data in Missing Children Cases

Colin McNally ages an image of a girl taken by a relative at 4. She would now be 17. Credit: Daniel Rosenbaum, The New York Times / Redux Imagine the horror of having your child abducted by your spouse in the midst of a ...The Internal Revenue Service has data that could help custodial parents locate their missing children, yet the agency refuses to release that information due to severely restrictive taxpayer privacy laws, The New York Times reports.

Boy misses bus, claims he was kidnapped

One summer when my brother Steve was about 12 years old, he began sneaking out his bedroom window at night to hang out with his buddies on the street corner. I don't know what they did out there, but whatever it was made risking the wrath of my ...

Wal-mart wants your baby

Some days it seems Wal-mart doesn't even try to look good. The Consumerist is reporting on the case of Stacy Arrington. It seems that she was shopping at a Wal-mart in White Marsh, Maryland when someone reported that their baby went missing. When she ...

Madeleine McCann's mother to be named a suspect

Last night, as my husband and I watched the news, I saw the tail end of a report concerning Madeleine McCann's parents. Madeleine is the little girl who disappeared in Portugal last May after being left alone with her siblings in a holiday apartment ...

Screensaver to help find missing kids

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children knows that the more people who see pictures of missing children, the more likely they are to be found. To that end, they have put missing children's faces on everything from milk cartons to ...

Needlessly scaring young children

Madeleine McCann's family is still looking for their little girl and are running advertisements in movie theaters to raise awareness of their plight. One clip that was shown to a UK audience of children waiting to see Shrek the Third has some ...

Amber Alert kit

No parent wants to think that their child might get lost or abducted. Luckily, the likelihood of that happening is miniscule. Still, it can be good to be prepared. I have taken literally thousands of photos of Jared and Sara, purely for fun -- my ...

Breaking news: Kidnapped boys found!

Five days ago, William Ownby disappeared from his school bus stop. A friend said he saw a white pickup truck with a camper shell speeding away from where Ownby had last been seen. A search was mounted but to no avail. The break came when police in a ...

Photos of missing boy, 24 years later

In what can only be described as bizarre and utterly cruel, Noreen Gosch found two photos of her son Johnny, bound and gagged, delivered to her front door. Johnny Gosch went missing almost exactly twenty-four years ago while out delivering newspapers ...

Zachary Miller and Jordan Bruyere, missing Canadian boys, recovered

Zachary Miller and Jordan Bruyere have been recovered from known sex offender Peter Whitmore. TThanks Spring for the news about Zachary, and thanks Brenda for the update about Jordan-- she heard the news in Canada. The boys have been recovered ...

Elizabeth Smart tells off Nancy Grace

Remember Elizabeth Smart? Four years ago when she was 14-years-old, she was abducted from her own bedroom and kidnapped by a man and a woman, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was returned to her family unharmed nearly a year later, when everyone had ...

Kidnapper apprehended in Lubbock

The woman who kidnapped a newborn infant from a Lubbock, Texas home on Sunday has been caught. Stephanie Lynn Anderson Jones, 33, who became the nation-wide focus of an Amber Alert was arrested yesterday afternoon in her apartment. The five-day-old ...

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