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| 1980 Ginevicz, Megan 04/30/1980; St. Ignatius, Lake County, Montana | |
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| Dawn | Jul 8 2006, 10:55 PM Post #1 |
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![]() ![]() Left: Ginevicz in 1980; Right: Age-progressed to age 27 Megan Ginevicz Missing since April 30, 1980 from St. Ignatius, Lake County, Montana. Classification: Non Family Abduction Date Of Birth: January 12, 1978 Age at Time of Disappearance: 2 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 2'1; 25 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; blue eyes. Ginevicz was last seen playing in an unfenced yard in a remote, wooded area of St. Igantius, Montana on April 30, 1980. Investigators If you have any information concerning Ginevicz's whereabouts, please contact: Lake County Sheriff's Office Missing Persons Unit 406-883-7301 All information may be submitted on an anonymous basis. NCIC Number: M-424955873 Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Photos courtesy of http://www.forthelost.org |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 9 2012, 01:28 PM Post #2 |
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http://www.kaj18.com/news/st-ignatius-girl...till-a-mystery/ ST. IGNATIUS - On a cold spring day some 30 years ago, a little girl vanished while playing in the front yard of her home in St. Ignatius. The two-year-old was there one second, gone the next. "Those who have small children on the road here are very aware that this little girl disappeared, and never was found. Nothing about it was ever found," resident Gate Boot said. Megan vanished in 1980 and her picture, which still is on the missing children's websites, shows what she might look like today. Old newspaper clippings describe the desperate search in the timbered foothills of the Mission Mountains. Boot worked for the local Lake County Leader back then. "This encompassed all the news. Everything that was going on was for this search for the little girl," she recalled. Her name is Megan Ginevicz. She and her mom and brother just moved to the Mission Valley, in a house up Cold Creek, and what happened next, became a cold case. "My son came up the stairs and said Megan's crying," Megan's mom, Dona Smith recalled. Smith was 24 back then. She was sweeping the kitchen floor just after lunch while her children played right outside, clearly visible through a big picture window. She was sweeping, one eye on the broom, the other on the kids. She looked away for no more than 30 seconds. And that was all it took. "I had just seen her...just before, just that last little bit. She was outside in front of the windows, and then she was gone," Smith recalled. Search and rescue teams got to the home around six o'clock, but were fighting fading daylight, and then it started to rain and then it started to snow. "The creek went from being a narrow stream to being a raging river, down through that area," Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin explained. He believes Megan probably fell in the creek and was swept downstream. Some locals believe that an animal quietly took her. "Mountain lions are very stealthy. I've seen them take down dogs and deer, you don't know they are there," CSKT Fish and Game's Pablo Espinoza said. "I remember standing arm to arm with people in a big giant line and walking through the woods, checking everything," he recalled. Espinoza remembers the frustration of the search, hundreds of people looking for days, looking everywhere and finding nothing. There was no clothing, no blood. no tracks, not even a barrette. Yonkin told us he understands why Megan's mom believes her daughter was kidnapped. "There's no sock, no shoe, how could there not be some trace, why didn't the dogs get it? The cat won't eat her clothing?," he asked. Her disappearance is classified as a :non family member abduction," and Smith says her daughter might not know she's missing. Just this fall, a woman from Las Vegas, submitted a DNA sample to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, thinking she might be Megan. But, it was another dead-end in a case that's still alive. "We have not closed the book on this case, until we know what happened to Megan, this case will remain open," Yonkin concluded. Smith says it's still a painful chapter in her life, and she encourages anyone who cannot find their birth parents to register their DNA with the Centers for Missing and Exploited Children. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 9 2012, 01:29 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US NonFamily Abduction MEGAN GINEVICZ DOB: Jan 12, 1978 Missing: Apr 30, 1980 Age Now: 32 Sex: Female Race: White Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Height: 2'1" (64 cm) Weight: 25 lbs (11 kg) Missing From: SAINT IGNATIUS MT United States Age Progressed Megan's photo is shown age-progressed to 32 years. She was last seen playing in an unfenced yard which was located in a remote, wooded area. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lake County Sheriff's Office (Montana) 1-406-883-7301 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 9 2012, 01:30 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 9 2012, 01:32 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.kaj18.com/news/renewed-interest...ing-child-case/ enewed interest in decades old St. Ignatius missing child case Posted: Nov 8, 2012 1:45 PM by Jill Valley - MTN News ST. IGNATIUS - A little girl vanished from her front yard in Saint Ignatius on a late spring day 32 years ago and even after hundreds of people searched for days, they found no trace of 2-year-old Megan Ginevicz. She may have drowned, she might have been killed by a bear or a mountain lion, but that's not what her mother thinks. "That was just too quick. It was too quick to have happened, with her just wandering off. She wasn't the kind of child who ever wandered off. She was just gone. That's why...I actually think that somebody took her," Megan's mom Dona Smith said. The case might be old, but it might not be as cold as you think. Jill Valley went On Special Assignment to take a closer look at the case. She'll have the story during Thursday's 10:00 News on Montana's News Station. |
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