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| Guthrie, Julie & Timothy 2/6/77; Katonah, NY Endangered Missing | |
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| mimi | May 28 2010, 04:41 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US Endangered Missing JULIE GUTHRIE DOB: Jan 6, 1971 Missing: Feb 6, 1977 Age Now: 39 Sex: Female Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 4'0" (122 cm) Weight: 55 lbs (25 kg) Missing From: KATONAH NY United States TIMOTHY GUTHRIE DOB: Dec 24, 1973 Missing: Feb 6, 1977 Age Now: 36 Sex: Male Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 3'3" (99 cm) Weight: 30 lbs (14 kg) Missing From: KATONAH NY United States LESLIE GUTHRIE Companion DOB: Aug 25, 1947 Sex: Female Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Height: 5'4" (163 cm) Weight: 120 lbs (54 kg) Julie's photo is shown age-progressed to 38 years and Timothy's photo is shown aged to 35 years. They were last seen on February 6, 1977, with their mother, Leslie Guthrie, they have not been seen or heard from since. Julie has a strawberry birthmark on her chin and on her back. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bedford Town Police Department (New York) 1-914-241-3111 |
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| mimi | May 28 2010, 04:41 PM Post #2 |
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| mimi | May 28 2010, 04:42 PM Post #3 |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:05 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Martin Crumblish Jr. vanished in Dobbs Ferry more than 30 years ago. Written by Lee Higgins Three local teenage girls reported missing believed to be runaways Etan Patz. Elizabeth Smart. Lauren Spierer. Their disappearances prompted national media frenzies. Patz was 6 when he vanished while walking to a bus stop in lower Manhattan in 1979. Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002, reunited with her family nine months later. And Lauren Spierer, the Indiana University junior from Greenburgh, was 20 when she disappeared in June 2011 in Bloomington, Ind., after a night of partying. All have been the subjects of countless news stories. But for other missing young people, including some in the Lower Hudson Valley, the spotlight has faded. In Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, there are 12 people who went missing under the age of 21, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Some parents have endured decades without answers, eager to learn whether their loved ones are alive or dead. Others cling to hope because only months have passed. Regardless, optimism ebbs by the day. Karen Kelly, 71, of Lake Placid has waited more than 30 years for news about her son, Martin Crumblish Jr., who vanished in Dobbs Ferry. She moved from the village in 1992 because she was unable to bear the constant reminders of his disappearance. “Every time I’d see a mound of dirt, I’d wonder whether he was under it,” Kelly recently told The Journal News. “If he was killed, was it fast? Did he suffer? So many things with a missing child. Wherever your mind can go, it goes.” Crumblish is one of 121 children reported as missing in New York state and more than 2,500 in the country. To solve many of the cases, police need a witness to come forward, a parent to surrender or a match in a DNA database. Media bias, some experts suggest, accounts for why some missing children’s cases draw more attention than others. Seong-Jae Min, an assistant professor of communication studies at Pace University, told The Journal News that his research demonstrates that media outlets cover missing-persons cases with a tacit awareness of bias. (Page 2 of 2) Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said. “There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.” The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white. A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said. “It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white. “While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said. “This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.” Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing. Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April. “I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said. “It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.” Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back. “It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.” Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said. “There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.” The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white. A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said. “It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white. “While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said. “This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.” Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing. Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April. “I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said. “It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.” Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back. “It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.” http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS...?nclick_check=1 |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:11 PM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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THE GUTHRIES: Man keeps hope, 35 years later 12:04 AM, Aug 19, 2012 | Comments Bedford police have been baffled by the disappearance of a young mother and her two children for more than three decades, but hope two toothbrushes could ultimately provide some answers. On Feb. 6, 1977, 36-year-old Leslie Guthrie picked up her 6-year-old daughter, Julie, and 3-year-old son, Timothy, from their father’s home in Katonah for what was supposed to be one day. They haven’t been seen since. Neither has the green 1974 Ford Maverick that Leslie Guthrie was driving. At the time, Leslie was living separately from her husband, Tim Guthrie Sr., but they appeared to be on good terms, Bedford police Detective Matt DiBiase said. “Part of the problem is it’s just a wide open case,” said DiBiase. “There’s no avenue to go down. There’s no strong lead to follow.” Tim Guthrie Sr., who is still alive, exhausted his retirement money searching for his family and paying a private investigator to work the case. Retired Bedford police Lt. Ted Wyskida, who was originally assigned to the case, said it received significant media attention in New York City and Guthrie Sr. once paid for investigators to travel as far away as Wyoming to pursue a lead. It’s possible the family began a new life elsewhere, he said. “Unless you show me three dead bodies in a car, I have to believe they’re alive,” he said. If the children are living, he said he would be surprised they wouldn’t research their past. “You would think the kids at some point would want to know about their father.” In 2006, a relative of Leslie Guthrie’s turned a suitcase over to police that belonged to her. It had never been unpacked after a trip she took shortly before she disappeared. Inside, police found two toothbrushes with three people’s DNA, DiBiase said. “We’re pretty confident that is their DNA in the system,” he said. DiBiase wants to give Tim Guthrie Sr. closure. “I can’t imagine the torture he’s gone through for the past 35 years.” http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS02/308190058 |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:11 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:12 PM Post #7 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/case_report_html/10149 |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:14 PM Post #8 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Feb 17 2012 Thirty-five years later, missing family case still a mystery By JOHN ROCHE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BEDFORD POLICE An age-enhanced image of how Timothy Guthrie Jr. and his sister Julie Guthrie might look today. He was 3 years old and she was 6 years old when they disappeared from Katonah 35 years ago with their mother, Leslie Guthrie, pictured here in a photo from the late 1960s. On Feb. 5, 1977, Leslie Guthrie got into a car with her young son and daughter and drove off from the family’s Katonah home, never to be seen again. Now, 35 years later, the search for the mother and her two children continues, although their disappearance remains as much a mystery as it did the day they were last seen. “A case likes this never ends unless it’s solved, because the case never ends for the family,” Detective Matt DiBiase of the Bedford Police Department said this week, just days after the anniversary of the disappearance. “It remains an active investigation.” Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the Bedford Police Department at 241-3111. There have been few leads in the three and a half decades since the trio went missing, and none that ever went anywhere, according to the Bedford police. But Chief William Hayes and Detective DiBiase are hoping that age-enhanced photos of Julie, who was 6 when she disappeared, and her brother Timothy Jr., who was 3, might lead to information that could crack the cold case. “The age-enhanced photos that were created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are intended to depict what Julie and Timothy Guthrie Jr. might look like today,” Detective DiBiase said. “Because they were so young when they went missing, they may or may not have any idea of what the circumstances were in 1977. Perhaps these photos might lead to someone recognizing them, or even Julie and Timothy recognizing themselves.” PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BEDFORD POLICE A Guthrie family photo of Julie, 6, and Timothy Jr., 3, taken before both children and their mother went missing in February 1977. Leslie Guthrie was 29 when she picked her kids up about 1 p.m. on Feb. 5. She and her husband, Timothy Guthrie Sr., were separated, but by all accounts, there were no apparent signs she was planning to take off for good. When she drove away from the family’s home at 7 Grandview Avenue in a 1974 Ford Maverick, it was the last time anyone ever reported seeing the young mother, her two kids or the white car with the green top. “There was never even a trace of them after that,” Detective DiBiase said last week. Mr. Guthrie didn’t become concerned when the kids didn’t come home that night, because it wasn’t unheard of for them to spend the night with their mother in White Plains, where his estranged wife was living with her mother. When he called the Bedford police to report them missing about 7 p.m. on Feb. 6, about 30 hours after he watched them drive off for an afternoon together, an investigation was launched that still remains active to this day. “Timothy Guthrie Sr. was cleared back then, and is not considered a suspect or a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife and children,” Detective DiBiase said. “He was thoroughly investigated back then, as any spouse would be in a case like this, but he was fully cleared.” In fact, Mr. Guthrie not only fully cooperated with the police investigation into his family’s disappearance but also hired a private investigator and spent significant time and money trying to locate them on his own, according to Detective DiBiase. “He basically spent his life savings trying to find them, even so far as flying two detectives from our department across the country with him to pursue a lead,” the detective explained. “Nothing ever came from that, nor from any other information we received over the years.” If someone went missing today, doing so without a trace — voluntarily or otherwise — would be more difficult, according to police, because of how anyone can be tracked by computer usage, cellphone signals, credit cards, ATM withdrawals, even video cameras on roadways and elsewhere in the region. Driver’s licenses and other identification were simply paper documents in 1977, Detective DiBiase said, “so it was a lot easier to assume a different identity than it would be now.” There were no fingerprints on record for her or the children. Mrs. Guthrie did not withdraw a large amount of money before or after picking up her kids, not did she take any of her personal belongings or clothes, according to police. “She didn’t do anything or say anything that would lead anyone around her, family or friends, to think she might be leaving for good with her kids,” Detective DiBiase said. “And nothing ever turned up that would indicate any sort of foul play or accident. There was just nothing at all.” Mr. Guthrie eventually moved from Katonah, and lives out of state. Leslie Guthrie’s mother died apparently without ever knowing what happened to her daughter or grandchildren. Still, the Bedford police press on with their investigation, said Detective DiBiase, who took on the cold case in 2004. Two cardboard file boxes containing all the paperwork and other items related to the Guthrie case sit atop a shelf across from Detective DiBiase’s desk. Occasionally, he’ll pull the boxes down and go over the contents, hoping something will jump out at him. “It comes and goes in terms of the attention on the case, but it never goes away,” he said. “It’s always there.” From time to time, the investigation seems to pick up steam, only to lead to more dead ends. In 1993, other detectives chased down a possible development when Leslie Guthrie’s mother started receiving odd calls from someone who knew basic information about the case. It turned out to be a relative with emotional problems who could not have been involved in the 1977 disappearance. In 2006, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children opened a file on the Guthrie children, but dropped it soon after. Because the children weren’t the subject of a custody fight and there were no allegations of mistreatment, the center, known as NCMEC, determined the case didn’t fit the necessary criteria. But in 2009, NCMEC reopened the case, and created age-enhanced photos of Julie and Timothy Jr., and also distributed fliers about the case nationally and online. “In the year or two after that, we got maybe two dozen leads from all over the country because of NCMEC’s involvement in the case, but nothing ended up being of substance or value,” the detective said. “We haven’t gotten any calls about it since late 2010.” Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the Bedford Police Department at 241-3111. Detective DiBiase said that although DNA evidence and tracking was not in place in the 1970s, DNA believed to be that of Mrs. Guthrie and possibly one or both of the children was recorded in the fall of 2006. “We got some DNA off two toothbrushes that she and the kids might have used that we had from the original investigation,” he said. “There was DNA from three people on two toothbrushes, and that was sent to the University of North Texas, which is the central location for DNA testing. So far, there have been no hits from that, but now it’s in the national database.” Although Detective DiBiase said he’s hopeful that the age-enhanced photos or the attention from NCMEC around the 35th anniversary of the disappearance might result in some leads, he stops short of expressing optimism that the case will ever be solved. “I just don’t know,” he said. “It’s been so many years. One of the things about this case has always been that we have nothing to go on. Nothing. That’s unusual. So the same questions remain today, 35 years after, as they did right when it happened. Did she just take off with the kids? Did she intend to just spend the day with her kids and something happened to them? It’s just so wide open.” The Guthrie case is one of two open missing persons investigations in the Bedford Police Department, both assigned to Detective DiBiase. The other involves the disappearance of a Bedford Hills business owner, George Primavera, who went missing from a parking lot on Adams Street on March 17, 1988. He said he’d like to solve that case, too, but most of all, he’d like to be able to call Mr. Guthrie and tell him what really happened to his wife, daughter and son. “It bothers me, and I guess it always will, unless it gets solved,” Detective DiBiase said. “This case originally belonged to another detective, Ted Wyskida, who is retired now, and it still bothers him. In fact, he and I talked on the phone last week on the anniversary. There are just some cases that stay with you.” http://www.record-review.com/record-review...ing_family.html |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Aug 19 2012, 09:15 PM Post #9 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Leslie Anne Locke Guthrie Missing since February 6, 1977 from Katonah, Westchester County, New York Classification: Endangered Missing Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: August 25, 1947 Age at Time of Disappearance: 29 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'4" (163 cm); 120 lbs (54 kg) Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes. Circumstances of Disappearance Leslie was last seen on on February 6, 1977 with her children, Timothy and Julie. They have not been seen or heard from since. Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Bedford Town Police Department 914-241-3111 |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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