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Oh :Cuyahoga county has 160 missing persons
Topic Started: May 22 2014, 07:22 AM (84 Views)
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CLEVELAND - Cuyahoga County will take time out of this Memorial Day weekend to focus on the missing.

With at least 140 missing persons in Cuyahoga County, the sheriff's department will hold its first Missing Persons Day. The goal is to raise awareness about missing persons and to find them.

"It's a difficult goal, because unfortunately, statistics tell us that after about one year most missing person cases go cold case," said Tanisha Knighton, Missing Persons Liaison for the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department.

Of the 140 missing persons that the county knows about, 65 percent are children, many who have run away or have been put out of their homes.

Knighton said the Sunday event will offer families the opportunity to submit DNA and dental records in an effort to find their missing loved ones.

"In Cuyahoga County we currently have 18 unidentified remains," she said. "There are families out there who may not even realize their family members are missing because that person had a transient life style."

The county's Missing Persons Day runs from noon until 4 p.m. Sunday at Peace Officers Memorial Park, West 3rd Street and Lakeside Avenue. A memorial service is planned from 1 to 2 p.m. There is free parking at Huntington Garage.

Meanwhile, The FBI will have a command post at West 110th Street and Lorain Aveune Sunday in observance of National Missing Children's Day. Parents can get child identification kits to help improve the chances children will be found if they go missing.

Special Agent Vicki Anderson said the first few hours that a child is missing is critical.

"There's this myth out there that the FBI can only be involved after a child's been missing for 24 hours or a child has to be taken across state lines," she said. "That's not true."

Anderson said if a child is missing, all the FBI needs is a phone call.

The FBI event runs from 1 to 5 p.m.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/oh...ing-this-sunday
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