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| Snell, April Sept 3 1999; 23 YO Salibury MD | |
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| monkalup | Mar 15 2012, 09:27 PM Post #1 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/2012030...remain-unsolved After years, cases remain unsolved Mar. 4, 2012 | Written by Sharahn D. Boykin Staff Writer SALISBURY -- Jennifer Contreras knew something was wrong when she walked into her home after school and her mother wasn't there but her car was parked outside. She called her on the phone but her mother didn't answer. "When she wasn't there I felt like she wasn't coming back," Contreras said. Contreras' mother, Patricia Dudek, was last seen on Jan. 7, 2002, at about 7:30 a.m. inside her Salisbury home. A decade later, Dudek still has not been found. In 2010, 1,927,722 individuals were reported missing, according to the most recent Federal Bureau of Investigations statistics. More than 46,000 of the individuals reported missing that year were found. In Salisbury, 66 individuals were reported missing during an 11 month period in 2011 compared to 72 the previous year, according to Salisbury Police Department data. Missing persons cases similar to Dudek's, where the individual is not located, are rare, according to Lt. Rob Kemp, a spokesman for the Salisbury Police Department. "A lot are kids that have run away," he said. "They take off for a couple of days or a few hours because they don't want to be around conflict. In most of these cases they do turn back up." Dudek's case is still active. Each year around November, a police department employee calls Contreras, who is now a 25-year-old Hagerstown resident, to see if she has any new information. Dudek is one of two cold missing persons cases at the Salisbury Police Department. April Snell was reported missing by a family member on October 5, 1999. Snell, age 23 at the time, had been missing since Sept. 3.; however, family members waited more than a month hoping she would return home. It is not uncommon for family members to wait 24 hours or more before they report a relative missing, according to police sources. However, law enforcement officers suggest family members file a missing person report as soon as they suspect something is wrong. "Report it as soon as you can," Kemp said. "We need to know so we can put that into the system right away." Jeffrey Gunderson, 59, was reported missing June 2008 by his fianceé Lola Pusey, 64, who shared a home with him in Salisbury. Pusey said she returned home one day to find the back door open, but Gunderson wasn't home. She looked for him in the backyard, but he wasn't there. She went to call him on his cellphone, but noticed it was still on the charger beside his beloved beige recliner. Pusey, 64, doesn't believe Gunderson is still alive. "It's hard," Pusey said. "I can only take it one day at time. I can't believe that it will be four years and the case has not been resolved. It's hard to know he was a victim of foul play." Gunderson was declared dead in March 2010. When a missing person is legally declared dead, the missing person case remains open, according to Kemp. "If they're declared legally dead, it's still considered a homicide," he said. "The case remains open no matter what." While the search for Dudek continues, Contreras holds little hope that her mother is still alive. She doesn't believe her mother would leave for 10 years and not contact her or her siblings. "I really hope we find something," Contreras said. "I hope we find what happened to her and what caused it. And if somebody hurt my mom, they need to go to jail. They need to spend the rest of their lives in jail. If she's out there reading this, please come home. Me, my sister and my brother miss her and we love her so much." Anyone with information on the Dudek or Snell case is asked to contact the Salisbury Police Department at 410-548-3165. Anyone with information on the Gunderson case is asked to call the Wicomico Bureau of Investigation at 410 548-4898. |
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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 | Mar 15 2012, 09:27 PM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Clay Model Is Daughter, Woman Says Md. Resident's Child, 23, Missing Since Sept. 3 January 22, 2000|By REGINA LIGHTFOOT Daily Press SUFFOLK — The smile took her breath away. Martha Rayne of Salisbury, Md., said she's convinced that a clay reconstruction of a woman, whose body was found Nov. 1 in Suffolk, is the likeness of her daughter. April Lyne Snell, a 23- year-old mother of four, has been missing from her Maryland home since Sept. 3. Ads by Google * Charleston Coupons1 ridiculously huge coupon a day. Get 50-90% off Charleston's best! www.Groupon.com/Charleston * Best Web Hosting of 2012Fast & Reliable Web Hosting Service Free Domain & Setup, from $2.95/m ! iPage.com Rayne came to Suffolk last week to see the clay bust sculpted by a police artist. "I had to see it for myself," Rayne said Friday from Salisbury. She said a sister in Norfolk had seen the model in a newspaper two weeks ago and telephoned her. When Rayne first saw the bust, she said the similarity to her daughter was startling. "I told my husband, 'Those are April's teeth.' When she smiled, it looked like every tooth she had showed." Rayne said her daughter's gums started to recede during her pregnancies, causing gaps to form in her teeth. Since Snell's disappearance, Rayne has been desperately searching for her daughter, going out almost nightly to countless streets and neighborhoods in the Salisbury area. "I've gone into places I thought I'd never go," Rayne said. A friend of her daughter told her that Snell got into a white car Sept. 3 with someone she appeared to know. After that, the trail runs cold. The skeletal remains found by Suffolk police were at the end of Cemetery Street and were those of a black woman. On her left hand, the victim wore a gold Mickey Mouse ring, and she had a matching necklace. Three other rings that she wore were lying nearby in gravel. Police have categorized her death as undetermined and haven't released further details, pending the outcome of the investigation. Detective Sgt. Stephen Smith said April Snell fit the general description: a black woman, between 17 and 29, and between 4 feet 10 and 5 feet 4. Police found the remains Nov. 1, but the state medical examiner placed her time of death between January and November 1999. Police hope that dental records will ultimately solve the mystery, but April Snell's records go only to age 15, before her teeth started to gap. In the two weeks since unveiling the bust, police got 50 other leads and eliminated them. Smith said that if Rayne's lead didn't pan out, police might do a second reconstruction. If that doesn't work, he said, the department could take its search to a national audience through television shows like "America's Most Wanted." "It's a matter of swinging the bat, swinging the bat, swinging the bat until you can get it on the ball," Smith said. "We know it's one person at a time." Meanwhile, Rayne continues to care for her daughter's children - and to hope that her suspicions are wrong. Regina Lightfoot can be reached at 247-4627 or by e-mail at rlightfoot@dailypress.com http://articles.dailypress.com/2000-01-22/...n-disappearance |
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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 | Mar 15 2012, 09:30 PM Post #3 |
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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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