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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 19 2006, 10:05 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3049 Missing: Wallace Richards III by Rita Mandelenis Mar. 16 2006 Wallace Richards has been missing since November 10, 2005, but many do not have a face to go with that name. We all have pictures of Laci Peterson, Natalee Holloway, and many others etched in our minds, but not Wallace. The 23-year old is a black man. He has received little or no media coverage, making search efforts very difficult for his family and friends. On March 10, four months to the day Wallace was discovered missing, family and friends are still pushing and trying to revitalize the search. They are planning on at least a week long, massive flyer distribution. Supporters would like to see the flyers spread throughout the country and ultimately gain national media attention, but they are fighting an uphill battle. Wallace was last seen dropping off a friend at work in San Francisco and he never showed up when he was supposed to pick her up. The car was later found, undamage, in San Lorenzo at Embers Way and Hesperian Boulevard on November 15. His girlfriend Sabrina Ford said that the lack of media coverage has been very frustrating and upsetting. Things would be very different if, a. he were a woman, and b. he wasnt black, said Ford. The Oakland Tribune is the only main media outlet to cover the story consistently. Channel 2 has done okay, she said. But it has taken a very long time for other news channels to cover it; its been inconsistent. To date there was one article written in the San Francisco Chronicle, the place he was last seen, but this article When a Friend Goes Missing, upset many close to Wallace. That article was absolutely disgusting, said Ford. The irony was that the article was supposed to be about the lack of media coverage, but that was the first and last time something was published in the Chronicle. The article referenced a friend, Joshua Gray, who was quoted saying I think hes gone. This left some thinking, why write a pessimistic article? Was this supposed to help bring Little Wallace home? Ford, a San Francisco State journalism graduate, understands very well that the only way the media seems interested is if there is something new to report. Unfortunately, there have been no new leads. Catherine Crier Live on CourtTV was the only national television show to broadcast Wallaces disappearance back in December. In the beginning it was easy to get a lot of help, said Ford. Its been so long that its getting hard to keep the media interested and get the same amount of energy from the community. This national push is very important because if people can recognize his face, maybe there will be some new leads. Family and friends need help distributing flyers across the country, so please email findwallacenow@yahoo.com if you can help. The Berkeley Police Department is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his location. Contact the Berkeley Police at 510-981-5741 if you have any information. If you would like to make a donation go to any Wells Fargo Bank, account number 2883-20-2687. For more information go to www.wallacerichards.com. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 19 2006, 10:05 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/richards_wallace.html![]() > Oakland Tribune > Dec 6, 2005 > Coverage varies for the missing Two recent cases in East Bay Kristin Bender A well-respected and dedicated pediatrician vanishes without a trace on a dark and rainy Monday night. Nearly a month passes and her silver Honda is not found. Her cell phone and credit cards show no activity. Police say there are no signs of foul play in the case, but no one seems to remember seeing the petite 55-year-old doctor after dusk on Nov. 7. The case of Dr. Zehra Attari -- the hardworking Indian pediatrician dedicated to her mostly low-income and uninsured patients in Oakland -- has captured a lot of attention. Every major newspaper and TV station in the Bay Area has run and rerun the story. It's grabbing national headlines, too. CNN host and crime guru Nancy Grace is gearing up to do a show on the case. "America's Most Wanted" shot a segment on the missing doctor. The FBI and the U.S. Marshals office have been on the case. The family has hired a private investigator and a public relations firm to manage the press and to keep the missing doctor's story alive. The reward pot has grown to $20,000. The same week Attari vanished, a 23-year-old African-American man named Wallace Richards of Berkeley disappeared after dropping off a female friend at her job in San Francisco and taking the car for the day. Her car turned up a few days later, but he never did. But few have heard of Richards. Run his name through an Internet search engine and just a handful of hits pop up. This newspaper has covered the case and a few local TV stations ran short reports during the first week he was gone. But there has been little attention to the case in recent weeks. There is no reward money or Nancy Grace knocking. Why do some people get more public exposure than most other missing persons? Why do the media keep covering some cases while not giving others any public exposure? A person's place in the community, their families' aggressiveness and resources, timing and even race all play a part, criminal justice experts and missing persons advocates say. "If people don't have contacts, or the wherewithal to know who to call, connections or a family friend who is an attorney, they won't have the same advantages as someone else who does," said Polly Franks, a board member with the National Coalition of Victims in Action in Richmond, Va. "The Adam Walsh case in the early'80s made it because John Walsh (now host of "America's Most Wanted") knew how to make noise and was not intimidated by the police and the press. He was savvy, he was educated, he was an American citizen." That's why some missing people -- Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway, to name a few -- become household names, while others never make the evening news. According to the FBI National Crime Information Center, there are nearly 48,000 active missing adult cases in the nation. More than 30,000 of those people have been missing one year or more, according to data from July 2004. Locally, the number of "missing people" often includes Alzheimer's disease patients who walk away from facilities, elderly people who get lost or disoriented, or people who are on a weekend tryst and don't want to be found by a partner or spouse. Between the first part of 2004 and late last month, Oakland police investigated 984 missing person cases. During that same time period, police investigated 2,159 juvenile runaway cases. Investigators say the average time a juvenile is missing is about three days, while some missing adult cases have been on the books for decades. There are plenty of bogus cases that hurt the legitimate ones. Experts say that because of people like Jennifer Wilbanks, the so- called "Runaway Bride," police and the press can be wary of covering every seemingly missing person. Then there are the cases of the people who -- for one reason or another -- don't want to be found. "There is no law against someone checking out of their life and not coming home," said Kim Petersen, executive director of the Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation. "An adult can take off and take care of themselves so there isn't that sense of urgency." The family of Wallace Richards, or "Little Wallace" as he is called, say he would never leave without telling someone. He kept in daily contact with girlfriend Sabrina Ford, a 23-year-old recent journalism graduate from San Francisco State, and lived with his mother and family, who run Richards Family Day Care in Berkeley. He also owned a home in American Canyon near Vallejo with a buddy. "Wallace would never leave voluntarily," said Ford of Hayward. Sister Shaniece Richards-Hughes, 26, of San Leandro, said her younger brother is extremely close to her 2-year-old son, James. "He's a very proud uncle," she said. "We need a second home just to fit all of the gifts that he gives to him." Richards is a 2000 graduate of Berkeley High School who was set to re-enroll in January at San Francisco State to become a television cameraman. His family said he does not use drugs and rarely drinks alcohol. Police records show he was arrested once in 2001 for grand theft, which is mother said resulted when he unknowingly bought a stolen motorcycle on the Internet. The case was never prosecuted. His relatives say he has never left overnight without alerting someone. "He's never done anything like this," his sister said. Still, Ford and the Richards' family have had little luck getting news stories out about Richards' disappearance. "It's extremely frustrating," said Ford. "We were talking about the doctor and the amount of coverage she's been getting. We were praying for that family when all this happened to us." Ford said she wishes the Richards' case was getting the same attention as the Attari story. "Every time you turn on the local news, it's on there. Our situation is just as bad. It's been just as heartbreaking as theirs. But the media and people in general are not responding in the same way," she said. In bringing attention to his case, some victims rights advocates say Richards has three strikes against him -- he's young, he's male and he's black. "There are a million and one reasons why this young man could have gone missing, but I'm afraid that often the police think because a person is a black male, he's probably dealing drugs or he can take care of himself. But that's putting people in categories and (that can be problematic)," said Franks. Richards went missing sometime before noon Nov. 10. He had dropped off a female friend off for a shift at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in San Francisco and set out to have the oil changed on her gold Mercedes Benz C240. The friend, a 20-year-old woman from Pinole whom Richards had dated casually, waited for him at the Kearney Street nightclub at 7:30 p.m. as they had agreed on but he never showed up. On Nov. 15, police activated the LoJack tracking device on the Mercedes and Alameda County Sheriff's deputies tracked the car to Hesperian Boulevard at Embers Way in San Lorenzo. The car was not damaged. There was no sign of a struggle or foul play. No blood. No weapons. Nothing for police to investigate except a soda can and a generic valet parking receipt, which could not be traced. Family members say Richards doesn't know anyone in the immediate area. They also doubt he wanted to steal the car -- he owns a red 2001 Trans-Am that his girlfriend says gets a bath more often than some people. "I don't think I've ever seen it dirty -- inside or out," Ford said. His love of the car has been part of a bigger admiration for motorcycles, cars, boats and jet skis, she said. Richard's credit and bank cards have not been used, said Berkeley police spokesman Joe Skies. Police have a warrant for his cell phone records and are working with the company, Metro PCS, to examine them, Okies said. Okies said police "have not had any new information in the case itself," but continue to work it diligently. "We treat every missing persons case as a potential criminal investigation because we don't have all the facts. We don't always know what has happened to this person.," Okies said. "Fortunately, (in many missing person cases), the person turns out to be OK." Attari's family are hoping that she will turn up safe. San Jose Police Detective Steve Brownlee was the first to handle her missing persons case because it was filed in that city. He said he felt almost immediately the case was legitimate because he said everyone he talked to agreed it was out of character for her to be missing. "She was solid," Brownlee said. Nearly a month into the search, her family now fears Attari was abducted. "My feeling is that somebody with lots of resources, maybe instruments, tools, manpower ... is holding her," her husband, Tasadduq Attari, 60, said this week. They had been married nearly 30 years and have two daughters, Rubi Ali, a 27-year-old medical resident in Sacramento, and Huma, 20, a student at UC Berkeley. Tasadduq Attari believes an accident now seems unlikely because after searches by police, the woman's family and friends and volunteers, there is no evidence of skid marks, broken guard rails or other signs of a crash along the 5-mile route between her office in Oakland and Alameda, where she was expected at a meeting. The chance that Attari was a victim of a carjacking, purse snatching or some other random crime also seems unlikely, her husband said. He believes some trace of her would have surfaced by now if that were the case. Police have searched the Oakland estuary by sonar and helicopter. One things remains clear -- Attari wasn't comfortable driving alone, particularly on unfamiliar roads. The day she vanished, she called her husband to ask if he could accompany her to the meeting. He was sick at home and couldn't make it, he said. That was one of their last conversations. Attari set out on her own, leaving the Fruitvale district medical office just after 5 p.m. with rain pelting the darkening streets. A woman inside a neighboring nursing school saw her open the passenger side door of her parked car, put something inside, then walk around the rear of the car to the driver's seat. A few minutes later, the woman reported hearing a honk or beep. She looked outside and saw from her second-story window another car approaching Attari's Honda in the small lot in the rear of the medical building. The cars maneuvered around each other and Attari drove off. No one has seen Attari since. Anyone with information about the Attari case is asked to call the Zehra Attari hot line at (877) 428-8274. Information about the Richard's case should go to the Berkeley Police Department at 981- 5900. c2005 ANG Newspapers. Cannot be used or repurposed without prior written permission. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 19 2006, 10:06 AM Post #3 |
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> Oakland Tribune > Mar 10, 2006 > Family renews effort to find missing man , BERKELEY -- To mark four months since the disappearance of a 23- year-old Berkeley man, his family and friends are launching a nationwide flier distribution effort today. Wallace Richards has not been seen since Nov. 10, when he dropped off a friend at her job at a San Francisco nightclub. He was driving her car, which was discovered by police in San Lorenzo four days later. Richards is from Berkeley and graduated from Berkeley High School. He was supposed to enroll in a San Francisco State University television camera course earlier this year. Friends and relatives will be handing out bundles of fliers today from noon to 2 p.m. and again from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Phillips Temple social hall, 3334 Adeline St., Berkeley. Richards' girlfriend, Sabrina Ford, said participants hope local residents will pass the fliers on to people in other states. Anyone with a suggestion of an out-of-state community organization or a person living in another state willing to post a flier can send an e-mail to findwallacenow@ya-hoo.com. Richards is African American with a medium-brown complexion. He is 6 feet 3 inches tall and 235 pounds. The Berkeley City Council is offering a $5,000 reward for information on his whereabouts, and anyone with information is asked to call Berkeley police at 981-5900. For more information about the case, go to http:// www.wallacerichards.com. Donations to help with the search may be sent to any Wells Fargo Bank branch. The account number is 2883-20-2687. c2006 ANG Newspapers. Cannot be used or repurposed without prior written permission. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved. |
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| 100PercentFound | Sep 27 2006, 02:00 AM Post #4 |
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http://www.wallacerichards.com/ WALLACE RICHARDS RACE FOR THE MISSING Wallace will be one of several missing people acknowledged during a May 13 NASCAR race in Anderson, California. Wallacefs picture will on one of the cars. Please join his family at this race where we hope to call more attention to Wallace and his case. If you would like to arrange to carpool to Anderson (about 3 hours away) please email findwallacenow@yahoo.com and we will try to arrange a ride for you. DETAILS: NASCAR SOUTHWEST AUTOZONE ELITE DIVISION SERIES The Race is scheduled for Sat. May 13th at Shasta Raceway Park in Anderson, CA Raceway Phone: 530-378-6789 (FOR DIRECTIONS) Gates open at 4:30 Racing begins at 6:30 Price of tickets: Adults $25 Seniors and children 13-18 $18 Children 6-12 $10 Pit Pass and ticket $35 per person The pit pass allows you to go down into the track area and meet the driver Wallacefs picture and name will be on Darrell Lamourefs car. His car # is 94 *** REWARD*** The City of Berkeley has announced a $5000 REWARD for information leading to Wallacefs whereabouts. Anyone with information is urged to call the Berkeley Police Department at 510.981.5741 IMMEDIATELY. ***CAN YOU HELP?*** We are trying to organize another mass distribution of flyers. If you are able to help pass out and post flyers in your neighborhood please send an email to findwallacenow@yahoo.com. Please include in your message the area(s) where you are able to distribute flyers. You can download a copy of the flyer from this site and make copies however, if you are unable to do so please also include in your email how many flyers you need and we will make sure to get them to you. Thank you for your support. Last name :Richards First name : Wallace Age: 23 Gender : Male Height :63 Weight :235 Eyes: Brown Hair :Black Complextion:Medium Race: African-American Date of last contact : November 10th, 2005 Wallace was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and a light-weight hunter green and grey Northface jacket. Wallace was driving a golden 2002 Mercedez Benz C240. On Thursday November 10th, Wallace met friends in Pinole, dropped them off in San Francisco around 11:00am. Wallace made his way back to the east bay and was supposed to return to San Francisco at 7:30pm. He never made it back. The car Wallace was last seen in was recovered in San Lorenzo at Embers Way and Hesperian Blvd on Tuesday, November 15th. It was believed to be parked there for at least 2 days. If anyone has any information concerning his wherabouts or any information that may lead to us finding him, please contact the Berkeley Police Department, Missing Persons/Detective Division at 510-981-5741. If you would prefer not to contact police directly, you may email us at rosepaule@bigfoot.com |
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| 100PercentFound | Nov 9 2006, 10:08 PM Post #5 |
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Endangered Missing Adult If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact: Berkeley Police Department at (510) 981-5900 Name: Wallace A. M. Richards Classification: Endangered Missing Adult Alias / Nickname: Little Wallace, Walle Date of Birth: 1982-06-29 Date Missing: 2005-11-10 From City/State: San Francisco, CA Missing From (Country): USA Age at Time of Disappearance: 23 Gender: Male Race: Black Height: 75 inches Weight: 235 pounds Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown Complexion: Medium Identifying Characteristics: Large dark scar on top of wrist, large scars on both knees, scars on back and left side of body, acne on cheeks, previously fractured arm. Clothing: White T-shirt, blue jeans, hunter green and dark gray "North Face" light weight jacket. Jewelry: Figaro link gold chain necklace with bracelet connected to make it longer. Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Wallace was last seen at approximately 12:00pm dropping off friends at their place of employment in the vicinity of the 1300 block of Kearney in San Francisco, CA. He was supposed to return to pick them up at 7:30pm but never arrived. The vehicle he was driving, described as a gold, four door, 2003 Mercedes-Benz C240, was later located abandoned in the vicinity of Embers Way and Hesperian Blvd. in San Lorenzo, CA. Investigative Agency: Berkeley Police Department Phone: (510) 981-5900 Investigative Case #: 61994 NCIC #: M-925329483 http://theyaremissed.org/ |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Dec 7 2006, 03:08 PM Post #6 |
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| ELL | Dec 11 2006, 12:47 PM Post #7 |
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Leads stall on missing man Despite $5,000 reward, Berkeley police say 'case has gone cold' By Kristin Bender, STAFF WRITER Article Last Updated:12/11/2006 06:42:56 AM PST Wallace Richards disappeared more than a year ago. BERKELEY Some weeks are more difficult than others for Belinda Richards, whose adult son Wallace Richards disappeared more than a year ago. The winter holidays, her son's June birthday, the anniversary of the day he vanished are tough for the Berkeley day care provider and her husband, also named Wallace Richards. Seeing the struggles of families of other missing people last week it was the family of missing San Francisco father James Kim also takes a toll on Belinda Richards. "For me, there is absolutely no closure," said Richards, whose son last was seen Nov. 10, 2005, after dropping off a friend at a San Francisco nightclub where she worked. For Sabrina Ford, WallaceRichards' girlfriend at the time of his disappearance, the ordeal continues. "I think that the worst thing about this last year is there are so many unanswered questions," Ford said. Ford, now 24, has moved to New York to pursue an advanced journalism degree but has not changed her cell phone number just in case her former boyfriend tries to call. She has had to make some tough decisions about whom to talk to about the case and when it's OK to date other people. Even though she has started a new life, she is still haunted by his disappearance. "It's still very difficult," she said in a phone interview Thursday. In addition, friends and family of the missing Berkeley man also have had to struggle to keep the low-profile missing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- persons case in the public eye. "My son's anniversary (Nov. 10) came up, and there was nothing in the news," Belinda Richards said. "He doesn't own a business, he's not any famous person, but he is my son." According to the most recent data available from the National Crime Information Center, roughly 110,000 missing person cases are active in the United States. More than half of the missing are 18 years old or younger. The center's missing person file was established in 1975, and last year 834,536 cases were logged. During the same period, 844,838 cases were removed because the person returned home or was found alive or dead. Because of the overwhelming number of cases nationwide, no one doubts that law enforcement agencies and others have to make tough choices about how to use resources. When Wallace Richards disappeared, Belinda Richards and her husband battled with their son's mobile phone company to gain access to a log of the last calls he made. It took weeks to get the records. In the case of Kim, two cell phone engineers donated their services and dug through computer records of cell phone traffic, finding that two of the Kims' cell phones had received text messages the day after they were reported missing and eventually finding the cell tower from which the messages were relayed. "(When Wallace went missing) they could have checked to see what tower his last cell phone call went through," Richards said. "I never got that kind of cooperation from anybody. It made me realize that it costs money to do things, and agencies decide whether or not you are worth spending the money on." Although the city of Berkeley still offers a $5,000 reward for information leading to Wallace Richards' return, no new tips have come in recent months, Berkeley police spokesman Ed Galvan said. "The case has gone cold," Galvan added. "It's a suspended case until we get some kind of information. That information could come from a snitch on the street or a good, credible phone call, but there hasn't been any." There have been a few leads. Belinda Richards said she received information that her son had been seen in front of a Telegraph Avenue bus stop and again at a Shattuck Avenue stereo store. But when checked, nothing came of the leads, said private investigator Tessie McKinney, who has vowed to keep working the case. "I will not rest until this case is solved because I just feel like somebody knows something," she said. Wallace Richards was last seen Nov. 10, 2005, after dropping off a friend at her job as an exotic dancer at a San Francisco nightclub. Richards had agreed to take the woman's car, a gold Mercedes-Benz C240, to a shop for an oil change and return to the club to pick her up at 7:30 p.m. He never returned. The car was found in San Lorenzo five days later and returned to its owner. Richards is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 235 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and a green-and-gray lightweight jacket. More information about the case is available on the Web at http://www.wallacerichards.com. Anyone with information about the case should call the Berkeley Police Department at 981-5741. http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/ci_4818284 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 21 2006, 02:33 PM Post #8 |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...L&feed=rss.news DESPERATE SEARCH IN OREGON LEFT BEHIND: Families of missing rely on hope to endure ordeals John Koopman, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Printable Version Email This Article When someone you love has disappeared, you live on hope. Hope sustains you, say people who are living that nightmare. You live with hope in your soul. You eat it, drink it and hold onto it like a teddy bear on a cold night. Because once you lose hope, they say, there is nothing left but a long spiral of despair and depression. "You cope with your faith, with your family and friends," said Belinda Richards, whose son Wallace disappeared a year ago in November. "But the best coping mechanism is hope. "Hope is hope." That fact was driven home this week with the disappearance of the Kim family of San Francisco. The Kims -- James and Kati, and their daughters Penelope and Sabine -- disappeared in Oregon on Nov. 25 while returning by car from a Thanksgiving trip to Seattle. Kati Kim and the children were found Monday in the Coast Range by a helicopter crew. The family had become stranded in the snow after driving off the road. Mother and daughters were hospitalized in good condition. But James Kim remains missing. He left the car Saturday -- after seven days of waiting -- to seek help. Kati and the girls are alive and well, but when news broke concerning the disappearance of the entire family, the situation reminded people like Richards of their own. "I don't know if the stories were always out there, but now I'm acutely aware" every time someone goes missing, she said. "You read every story carefully to see what happened and why," she said. "You're looking for clues or ideas of things you can do to help out in your own situation." When a loved one disappears, you can feel all alone in the world. Jannel Rap's sister, a singer-songwriter named Gina Bos, disappeared six years ago after performing at a pub in Nebraska. Rap, who lives in Yorba Linda (Orange County), discovered that there was very little support for families if their loved one didn't fit a certain demographic that attracts the media to their stories. If the person who disappeared isn't a little girl or isn't part of a scandalous story, or the case doesn't involve a suspect, most media outlets, she said, are not interested in covering the disappearance. Rap started an organization aimed at bringing missing people cases to the public eye. It's called Gina for Missing Persons in honor of her sister, and has a Web site, www.411gina.org . "I knew how it felt, and I didn't want anyone else to have to feel that way for as long as my family has felt that way," she said. Most people, she said, have no idea of the emotions and difficulties loved ones go through when someone is missing. "It is pretty unimaginable," Rap said. "I can't actually believe that's my life. Even today, six years later. I know it is my life, but there's a part of me that still rejects it." "I think that we're made in such a way that we go into shock right away in order to deal with the enormity of it. For me, personally, I had an adrenaline rush that lasted for a very long time. It's still there and it still kicks in." Richards' son Wallace disappeared Nov. 10, 2005, after he dropped off a friend at her job at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club on Kearny Street around 11 a.m. He was taking the young woman's Mercedes-Benz to get the oil changed and was supposed to pick her up at 7:30 p.m. He never showed. The car was found five days later in San Lorenzo. It was not damaged and, police say, showed no obvious signs of foul play. His cell phone records show that his last call went to his friend Joshua Gray at 10:44 on the morning he disappeared. Gray didn't have his phone on. Belinda Richards said people have reported seeing her son around the UC Berkeley campus. One woman said she chatted with a young man at a bus stop and then went to the Alameda College campus, where she saw a missing person poster for Wallace -- whom she reported was the man she had talked to, Belinda Richards said. She and her family and friends blanketed the area and put up flyers everywhere, but Wallace was not to be found. "When you're the parent or family of a missing person, your time is not your own because when anything pops up, you drop what you're doing and you go and do whatever you have to do to try to find that person," she said. Richards said she believes her son is still alive, even though she has absolutely no idea where he is. "I believe, in my heart of hearts, if something was wrong with him, I'd have some feeling of doom or dread," she said. "I don't have that feeling. My feeling is more one of frustration. Frustration over not being able to locate him and not understanding what the situation is." |
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