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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:17 PM Post #21 |
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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...wsdate=4/3/2006 Tearful tribute to loved ones who vanished Families share grief, offer support at annual Missing Persons Day By MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Monday, April 3, 2006 ALBANY-- June 27, 2000, dawned like any other day for John Bish. It was a Tuesday. And his 16-year-old daughter Molly was working as a lifeguard at a Warren, Mass., pond. But then the vibrant, blond dancer and soccer player vanished. And life as he knew it was gone. ``When I kissed Molly before leaving for work, I didn't know I was saying goodbye,'' Bish said Sunday, during a ceremony for missing people. Grieving friends and family members marked the absence of their loved ones with candles, roses and tears in a wrenching ceremony in the theater of the New York State Museum. John Bish and his wife, Magi, spoke Sunday during the fifth annual Missing Persons Day in Albany. The ceremony was organized by another set of grieving parents. Doug and Mary Lyall's daughter, Suzanne, disappeared eight years ago. She was last seen leaving a CDTA bus at Collins Circle on the University at Albany Uptown Campus. ``Losing a child is the most tragic event a family can endure,'' Bish said. ``Because they become your very breath of life.'' For his family, hope died three years after Molly disappeared, when her skeletal remains were found just a few miles from their Warren, Mass., home. ``Molly came home, bone by bone,'' Magi said. ``First a shin. Then her skull. And then her ribs. There were 26 bones in all.'' ``What mother holds her daughter's skull, because of a madman?'' Sunday's event was a byproduct of the Lyall's foundation, The Center for Hope, which began in the family room of their Saratoga County home and has now grown into office space in the Chocolate Factory in Ballston Spa. They offer support for others coping with devastating loss, while advocating for change, like the ``Assault and Abduction Free School Zone'' law pending in the state Assembly. Nearly 4,000 people are missing in New York state and more than 90,000 around the country. The couple is hoping to launch a National Missing Persons Day and a National Campus Security Act. All efforts have the same goal, Doug Lyall said: ``So others can understand the uniqueness of what is described as an ambiguous loss. ... When you are in the twilight zone between fate and possibility.'' Suzanne was a poet and philosopher, her mother said. And some of her thoughts were prophetic. ``Crisis acts as a catalyst for change,'' the young woman once wrote. ``And sometimes,'' her mother agreed, ``we get hurt, in order to grow.'' Sunday's event was emceed by Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, who worked closely with Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings and the Lyall family on the Missing Person Remembrance monument. Ground will be broken Thursday on Suzanne Lyall's birthday near the corner of South Swan Street and Madison Avenue. The 20-foot-tall stainless steel columns will stand on the highest elevation on museum grounds. An eternal flame will burn at the top while a granite base below will be etched with the words, ``May it light their way home.'' A number of state and law enforcement officials attended Sunday's event, including Albany County District Attorney David Soares and his Rensselaer County counterpart, Patricia DeAngelis. ``I really believe that God does not give us things we can't handle,'' said DeAngelis, who is an ardent victims' advocate. ``I can't tell you why this happened ... but I hope someday Suzanne can walk through the door and tell you.'' The Lyalls gave their foundation's annual Hope Award to Chauncey G. Parker, the state's director of criminal justice. ``Twelve years ago, we were one of the most dangerous states in America,'' Parker said. ``Now we are one of the safest, and the reason is because of people like you.'' One by one, in a room hushed by sobs, bereaved family members stood when called and placed a photo of their loved one on a memory board. Many wore T-shirts displaying the happy faces and contented smiles of the missing -- in happier times. There was Craig Frear, 17, who was about to become co-captain of the Scotia-Glenville High School soccer team when he vanished June 27, 2004. And Ivory Green, also 17, who disappeared from Utica March 13, 2004. Lorne Boulet Jr., 23, of Chichester, N.H., left for a walk on July 29, 2001, and never returned. During an invocation, Lyall's sister, Sandy, said survivors need to spend time with others who live every day with the unbearable pain and hope, devastating loneliness and shock of the unknown. ``Our guilt is what we did, and did not do, to protect our Molly,'' John Bish admitted. ``It moves like a shadow between us.'' All relatives of missing and murdered people are now different, he said: ``We can't change what happened, but we can prevent it if we all do something. Anything.'' Magi Bish believes there is light to be found, even when the dark paralysis of grief and loss rendered every waking minute a struggle. She loved cheering Molly on to score goals in soccer. And how beautiful her daughter looked -- and felt -- in her white prom dress. These days, she said, she imagines Molly dancing on a star when she gazes into the night sky. ``It's love that keeps you looking and believing for as long as you do,'' she said. ``We hold their memories like they are glass slippers. 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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:17 PM Post #22 |
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http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp...wsdate=4/7/2006 Hope for missing loved ones burns bright Parents of Suzanne Lyall, who vanished in 1998, help break ground for state monument By CAROL DeMARE, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Friday, April 7, 2006 ALBANY -- State officials broke ground Thursday for a monument to missing persons with an eternal flame showing the way home. But the day was bittersweet for Doug and Mary Lyall. Thursday marked the 28th birthday of their daughter, Suzanne Gloria Lyall, who disappeared eight years ago after getting off a bus at the University at Albany, where she was a 19-year-old sophomore. Twice, Mary Lyall choked up, tears welling in her eyes. Once, as she addressed more than 100 guests at the ceremony -- law enforcement, families of missing persons and officials who supported the monument -- and again in response to reporters' questions. "I'm just so overwhelmed," she said to the media after turning over the dirt. "I can't believe it's happening. It's been so long.' She then mentioned her daughter, Suzy. "I can't believe I'm here instead of home baking a cake." Thursday was Missing Persons Day, designated as such by Gov. George Pataki in 2001 in recognition of Suzy Lyall's birthday. On March 2, 1998, the computer science major from Ballston Spa is believed to have stepped off a CDTA bus at Collins Circle on the uptown campus at 9:45 p.m. after working at a computer store at Crossgates Mall. She has not been seen since. State Police, the lead agency on the case, have pursued thousands of leads. The monument, known as the New York State Missing Persons Remembrance, will be constructed at the southeast corner of Madison and Swan streets at the Empire State Plaza with a $250,000 grant commissioned by Pataki last year. A 20-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture will be mounted on a 10-square-foot gray granite base. The top of the sculpture will support the flame. Engraved on the base will be: "As A Symbol of Our Eternal Hope May this Flame Light Their Way Home." To reach the site, visitors will walk through a scattering of evergreens. The Lyalls' Center for Hope in Ballston Spa, dedicated to supporting those whose loved ones have disappeared, is a partner in the project and has raised $40,000 for it, Doug Lyall said. State Office of General Services Commissioner Daniel D. Hogan, whose office will oversee the construction, said the total project will come in at just under $250,000. What's left will pay for extra landscaping, he said. The work should be completed by September and will then be dedicated, he said. The site was the last available spot in a park of memorials adjacent to the State Museum and "appropriately on the top of the hill," Hogan said. In addition to the monument, touch-screen computers are being set up in state buildings that attract visitors, such as the museum and the Concourse, for accessing data about missing persons. Eventually, the Lyalls would like to see computers statewide in high-traffic areas, such as Thruway rest stops. Hogan commended the couple for their determination, and said, "The flame will literally and figuratively provide the guiding light home." Mary Lyall said the continuously burning flame would be the second of its type in the United States; the other is at the grave of President John F. Kennedy. Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue said the Lyalls turned their sadness and grief "into efforts to help other people." She gave staggering statistics compiled by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. In 2005, there were 21,222 children, under 18, reported missing and 6,564 adults. Donohue said most at the groundbreaking would never fully understand what people who lose loved ones endure, that all one can do is show empathy. She urged the Legislature to close criminal-friendly loopholes in state laws and praised the success of DNA in solving cases. She pushed for the passage of Suzanne's Law, which would "increase penalties for those who commit crimes on schools grounds." The bill got through the state Senate this week and is pending in the Assembly. "Children shouldn't have to watch their backs," Mary Lyall said. The law's official name is the Assault and Abduction Free School Act. Eight years ago, the Lyalls "faced what is every parents' nightmare," State Director of Criminal Justice Chauncey G. Parker said. "But rather than curse the darkness, they chose to light a candle." Mary Lyall likened missing people as slipping into the twilight zone, leaving those behind with "helplessness, frustration, anger and despair." "Twenty-eight years ago today, we were waiting for her birth," she said, fighting back tears. "I never could have imagined that today I would be here." Doug Lyall thanked those who helped make the Remembrance a reality. "It's a great day for anyone unlucky enough to become a missing person or have a loved one who becomes a missing person," he said. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:18 PM Post #23 |
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http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_n...asp?ArID=174810 Groundbreaking for Missing Persons Remembrance monument Updated: 4/6/2006 5:12 PM By: Steve Ference Lt. Governor Mary Donohue said, "In 2005, over 21,000 children, 6,500 adults were missing." State Criminal Justice Director Chauncey Parker said, "One missing person is one too many." Mary Lyall said, "You never think it can happen to you." State and local leaders joined Mary Lyall at the future site of the New York State Missing Persons Remembrance in Albany. The groundbreaking took place on Lyall's missing daughter's 28th birthday. Lyall said, "28 years ago I never envisioned that I would be here and not somewhere baking a cake for my daughter. So this is wonderful." Lyall's daughter Suzanne has been missing since 1998, last seen on the UAlbany campus. The Remembrance will be a place for thousands who are missing loved ones to reflect. "My hope is that this memorial is going to make people more aware, make people call and tell the police and the media where some of these missing people are," Lyall. The main feature at the Remembrance is an eternal flame -- one of only two like it in the country. The other one is at Arlington National Cemetery. Thousands of people are reported missing each year in New York, and with help from a state grant, one family that knows how painful it can be believes a Missing Persons Remembrance monument will bring hope to others. Parker said, "That will be a reminder to all family and friends of loved ones who have been missing and hopefully also light the way home." It's not just a Remembrance, but tools that Lyall hopes will make a difference -- like a kiosk with links to the Internet to help find missing persons. Lyall said, "I just feel like we're blessed. With this memorial and the computers set up in the Empire Plaza, we're going to have people returning. I just know it." The Lyalls are calling for tougher penalties for crimes committed on school grounds. Lyall said, "We want to have Suzanne's Law passed. We really do. It just passed the other day in the Senate." Lyall is also holding tight to hope that if it's not her daughter who comes home, perhaps her efforts will help make other families whole again. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:18 PM Post #24 |
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National Missing Children's Day Last Update: 5/25/2006 4:55:24 PM They may be missing, but they will never be forgotten. That's the message on this National Missing Children's Day. For Doug and Mary Lyall of Ballston Spa, everyday is Missing Children's Day. Because it's another chance they have to get the word out about their daughter, Suzanne...and to get closer to finding out what happened to her. Their daughter was 19-clearly not a child-when she mysteriously disappeared eight years ago from the U-Albany campus. But the Llyalls pushed to get a federal law passed-- so that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children would include those from 19 to 21. The Lyalls also created the center for hope to help other families cope with the disappearance of loved ones. They also worked tirelessly to raise money to construct a new memorial in downtown Albany dedicated to all those missing around the state. National Missing Children's day is extremely important--but investigators say we should be thinking about those who are missing more than just one day a year. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says one in six children featured online is found because someone recognized their picture and called police. http://www.missingkids.com/ http://www.fox23news.com/news/topstories/s...4A-53B4FD0CD561 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:18 PM Post #25 |
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http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5015134&nav=2aKD Group raises awareness about missing persons ALBANY, N.Y. A college sophomore who disappeared in 1998 will be one of the missing persons featured at an event at the state capital tomorrow. As part of a 16-state tour to raise awareness about people who are still missing, the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons and the Center for Hope are making a stop in Albany. The state Office of General Services is also backing the event. One of the individuals featured in during their Albany stop will be Suzanne Lyall, a sophomore at the University of Albany who was last seen exiting a bus on campus eight years ago. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:19 PM Post #26 |
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http://www.eisinc.com/release/storiesh/NYSOGS.630.html News from NYS Office of General Services For more information: Paula Monaco, 518-474-5987 or 518-858-2601; http://www.ogs.state.ny.us EVENT TO PROMOTE AWARENESS OF MISSING PERSONS Suzanne Lyall, Alfred Gooden and Sheryl Rucci to be Featured ALBANY, NY -- (06/09/2006; 1009)(EIS) -- On Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 2 p.m., the Center for Hope and the New York State Office of General Services (OGS) will host volunteers from the CUE (Community United Effort) Center for Missing Persons who are traveling throughout 16 states bringing awareness of missing persons. One of the missing persons featured on the Albany stop will be Suzanne Lyall, who has been missing since March 2, 1998. This is CUE's third annual "On the Road to Remember," tour and the group will visit planned rallies in various states to discuss missing persons with media outlets, families and law enforcement, in hopes of drawing attention to these cold cases once again. The event will take place at the construction site of the New York State Missing Persons Remembrance in Albany. WHAT: Event to promote awareness of missing persons WHEN: Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 2 p.m. WHERE: Empire State Plaza's Memorial Park in Albany adjacent to the New York State Museum. The Remembrance will stand on a small hill on the southeast corner of Madison and Swan Streets. CUE CENTER FOR MISSING PERSONS: The tour departed from Wilmington, NC on June 9, 2006. The group plans to travel at least 10 hours a day. The concept of the tour is to dust off cold cases and direct attention to the unsolved missing. This annual event provides the families support they need. The other 15 states that are part of the tour include, Washington, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Connecticut, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. For more information regarding CUE Center for Missing Persons please visit, www.ncmissingpersons.org. NEW YORK STATE MISSING PERSONS REMEMBRANCE: The New York State Missing Persons Remembrance will be dedicated to the men and women of New York State who have been reported and remain missing. The Remembrance will provide families and loved ones a place to reflect, remember and join with others in honoring missing persons in New York State. The Remembrance is being created in partnership with Mary and Doug Lyall and their non-profit organization, the Center for Hope. The Lyall's daughter, Suzanne, has been missing since March 2, 1998. In 2001, Governor Pataki designated April 6th, Suzanne's birthday, as Missing Persons Day in New York State. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:20 PM Post #27 |
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http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/your_n...asp?ArID=193857 Missing Persons Memorial Updated: 10/4/2006 9:27 AM By: Sumi Somaskanda A flame to guide the missing home. State officials joined families and friends in a dedication to all the state's missing persons and their loved ones. Congressman John Sweeney said, "We are here today to honor the men, women and children of New York who are still waiting for and hoping they'll come home safely." The monument to the missing stands in Empire State Plaza's Memorial Park. Mary and Doug Lyall helped the city dedicate the memorial. Their daughter, Suzanne went missing from University of Albany in 1998 when she was 19. The tragedy led the Lyalls to start the Center for Hope - helping families cope with the pain of losing a loved one. Families who have a missing loved one say they will never give up hope that person will come home safely. And to show the families their loved ones are not forgotten, a new memorial has been put up at the Empire State Plaza. "This remembrance gives us all the greatest gift of all, hope for tomorrow," Mary Lyall said. "Here in the circle of love, we reach out to those who cry and hurt and those who are searching for their lost loved ones." The ceremony also held special significance for state Senator Joe Bruno. His granddaughter, Rachel Bruno, went missing for a week in July. He said he relied on the support of the Lyalls and families of other missing persons. "For those of you out there who have had personal experiences with a loved one that is missing and just not knowing whether they're in harms way or safe because they want to be somewhere else, there's sleepless night. There's never a day when Suzanne is not in Mary and Doug's thoughts and prayers," Bruno said. State officials said they hope everyone who drives by the memorial is reminded of the thousands of men, women and children who remain missing across the state. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 30 2007, 07:21 PM Post #28 |
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http://www.northcountrygazette.org/article...eDedicated.html NYS Missing Persons Remembrance Dedicated ALBANY---The New York State Missing Persons Remembrance was official designated Tuesday in Albany, a site that carries a message of hope from all New Yorkers for the safe return of those who are missing. First Lady Libby Pataki attended the dedication ceremony at Empire State Plaza Memorial Park along with State and local officials, Doug and Mary Lyall, who founded the Center for Hope after their daughter Suzanne became missing, and families and friends of missing persons. The Remembrance, which features an eternal flame atop a stainless steel sculpture, will serve as gathering place and beacon symbolizing the hope that all men, women, and children who have been reported missing will return home safely. "In our hearts, we will always hold out hope for the safe return of those who are missing, and today, we open a special site that will symbolize our love and never-ending quest to bring them home," Governor George Pataki said. "This Remembrance will be a site for reflection and fond memories, as well as a place to renew our spirits and pray for those who are missing. Mrs. Pataki said, "This Remembrance, with its eternal flame, sends a message loud and clear that missing individuals will always be in our thoughts every single day of the year. We hope that missing persons will see this eternal light and it will be a beacon to guide them home." Mary and Doug Lyall said, "We are so excited, this is a dream come true. We are forever grateful to the Governor for his recognition of the importance of families affected by this tragedy to have a gathering place to share their grief and develop ongoing support systems with those who can understand their loss." "The first of its kind in the United States, the New York State Missing Persons Remembrance Site and its eternal flame will serve as a symbol of undying hope for families and friends of missing persons everywhere", Albany County Executive Mike Breslin said. "Though only the safe return of our missing loved ones can truly bring a sense of peace and closure, this impressive monument symbolizes our dedication to bringing those missing loved ones home as well as a reminder of the importance of our commitment to protect children and families." In 2005, Governor Pataki announced that the State would commit $250,000 for the creation of the New York State Missing Persons Remembrance at the Empire State Plaza. The Remembrance is located on a hill at the southeast corner of Madison and Swan streets, adjacent to the New York State Museum, and can be accessed by a curving concrete path through a scattering of mature evergreens. The Remembrance features a 10-foot square grey granite base, with a 20-foot stainless steel sculptural frame detailed with a machine-ground finish. Atop the frame, rests an eternal flame, meant to light the way home for missing persons. The polished face of the base has an engraved signature statement: "As A Symbol Of Our Eternal Hope May This Flame Light Their Way Home." The Remembrance was designed by William F. O'Connor, former Deputy Commissioner for Design and Construction at the New York State Office of General Services (OGS), and James Jamieson, OGS Capitol Architect. The Pike Company of Rochester built the Remembrance under State contract. The groundbreaking for the site was held on April 6. Back in 2001, Governor Pataki designated April 6 to be Missing Persons Day in New York - a date that is also the birthday of Suzanne Lyall, a student at the University of Albany who has been missing since March 2, 1998. Doug and Mary Lyall co-founded the Center for Hope to offer resources to educate, assist, and support families and friends to cope with the ambiguous disappearance of a loved one. For additional information on the center, visit their website at www.hope4themissing.org. 10-03-06 |
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| ELL | Mar 3 2008, 07:45 AM Post #29 |
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Suzanne Lyall still missing after ten years GLENVILLE - One of the Capital Region's well known missing person cases is once again getting attention. It's been exactly a decade since Suzanne Lyall disappeared from the campus of U-Albany. Jessica Layton spoke with Doug and Mary Lyall Sunday and reports, the couple continues to hope that someone will come forward with information that can help crack the case. “Here we are ten years later, I would give anything to have her walk in the door right now, I would give anything,” said Mary Lyall. It's believed on March 2nd, 1998, U-Albany student Suzanne Lyall got off a bus and vanished. That was the last time anyone saw the Computer Science Major. Her parents, Doug and Mary Lyall don't call this an anniversary. “When you say anniversary I think of celebration, and this is not a good day for me,” said Mary. On this day, Lyall pins her daughter's picture close to her heart. “My birthday was yesterday which is the last time I spoke with her ten years ago,” Mary explained. “I don't understand it and really not sure how we survived ten years,” said Doug Lyall. Today the Ballston Spa couple spoke at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Glenville, where members sang songs of hope. They spread the word about their Center for Hope. It's the non profit organization the Lyall’s started eight years ago for families of missing people. It's helped channel grief into something good, like the New York State Missing Person's Remembrance near the Empire State Plaza. The Lyall’s come to the memorial every chance they get and they'll be here again on April 6th, Suzanne's 30th birthday. The Center for Hope and the monument keep the Lyall’s clinging to hope. “We have hope up until the day police call us and say they found remains, always going to be hopeful she comes back,” said Mary. The Lyall's and police plead if you know anything, call. Your small bit of information may be the missing piece to the puzzle they so desperately need. http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S365306.shtml?cat=300 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Apr 7 2008, 08:18 AM Post #30 |
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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story...2008&TextPage=2 Grief and hope for the vanished Family, friends and law enforcement gather for state's annual Missing Persons Day By CAROL DeMARE, Staff writer Click byline for more stories by writer. First published: Monday, April 7, 2008 ALBANY -- Gwen Hobbs sat Sunday with a box of Kleenex on her lap in an auditorium at the State Museum, pulling a tissue out every so often to dab her eyes. She was thinking about her sister. Hobbs was among more than 200 people, including police investigators, who turned out for the seventh annual New York state Missing Persons Day. For grieving families and friends, as well as the cops who keep the case files of those who have vanished within arm's reach, every day is missing persons day. Sponsored by the Center for Hope in Ballston Spa -- the nonprofit enterprise started by Doug and Mary Lyall after their daughter Suzanne went missing more than 10 years ago from the University at Albany -- the day is a time for people with missing or abducted loved ones to come together. In 2001, then-Gov. George Pataki declared April 6 as state Missing Persons Day in recognition of Suzy Lyall's birthday. This year, it was more heartbreaking than usual for the Lyalls on the day their daughter would have turned 30. "On April 6, 1978, our family anxiously awaited the birth of our daughter," Mary Lyall told the gathering. She broke down in recalling Suzy arrived at 4:33 p.m. Now, "we are awaiting her return," the mother said. She spoke of the "unimaginable pain ... the feeling of hopelessness. You become frozen in time." Suzy Lyall, then a 19-year-old sophomore and computer science major, vanished on March 2, 1998, after stepping off a CDTA bus at Collins Circle on the Washington Avenue campus at 9:45 p.m., after returning from work at a Crossgates Mall computer store. In her invocation, the Lyalls' 38-year-old daughter Sandy, of East Longmeadow, Mass., said the day should serve as the means where "healing begins and hope illuminates our path." Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, the master of ceremonies, mentioned the "quiet desperation I know many of you are living with right now." Hobbs could relate to that. The 53-year-old Schenectady resident said her sister, Connie Marie Hobbs, 42, of Beacon, Dutchess County, disappeared in April 2005. Last year, the remains of her sister's jaw and teeth were found. "We do not have all of her remains," said Hobbs, who has given authorities her DNA. But most upsetting was what Hobbs said she learned on Sunday from a friend. Her sister had been a witness in a drug trial three weeks before she went missing. The defendant in the case was acquitted. Police never told her about that, Hobbs said. "I did not have an inkling." It's an angle she wants police to pursue. The gathering at the museum's Cultural Education Center remembered Audrey May Herron, the Catskill nurse; Latham college student Joshua Szostak; 12-year-old Jaliek Rainwalker of Greenwich; Craig Frear of Scotia; Frank Connell of Rensselaer, and dozens more, young and old, recent disappearances and some from years ago. In a touching moment, their faces were projected on a large screen. More than 3,500 people are listed as officially missing statewide, and more than 1,400 of them are over 18, Doug Lyall said. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand worked with the Lyalls on legislation for a national day to remember missing Americans. The bill passed the House of Representatives and Senate, but President Bush declined to sign it, she said. She's hoping for better luck with a new president. She also called for a national mandate that campus security and state and local law enforcement coordinate efforts in investigating felonies or missing students. T-shirts bearing photos of those missing were hung on the stage below about 35 framed photos of missing people. Visitors came from more than a dozen states and Canada. Brittny Kissinger sang "Whispers," written by her brother, Zachary Kissinger, for his childhood friend, Suzanne Lyall, which brought tears to eyes of the Lyalls and the crowd. Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings said DNA testing is critical in such cases and called the Lyalls "two of the people I most admire." The Lyalls have had Cold Case Playing Cards printed, a deck of 52, each with a photo and information of a missing person. This year's HOPE Recognition Award went to the New York state Sheriffs' Association. Accepting was Warren County Sheriff Bud York, who was a State Police investigator in the major crimes unit in Loudonville and worked on the Suzy Lyall case. "It's amazing how strongly these folks have held up," York said of the Lyalls. George Adams of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at the University of North Texas was keynote speaker. He stressed the importance of family providing DNA samples. NAMUS, which falls under the National Institute of Justice, has 614 cases of missing or unidentified dead people. The day ended at the New York state Missing Persons Remembrance, a 20-foot-tall sculpture at Madison and Swan streets, where the group placed candles. Carol DeMare can be reached at 454-5431 or by e-mail at cdemare@timesunion.com. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Aug 25 2008, 04:32 PM Post #31 |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-0...isonCards_N.htm Prison playing cards created to bring closure to forgotten cases SYRACUSE, N.Y. — In the 10 years since Suzanne Lyall disappeared from an upstate New York college campus, her parents have clung to fading hope while trying to rally others who have lost loved ones, even after police have admitted the cases have long since gone cold. Doug Lyall's latest attempt to learn his daughter's fate and help others locate long missing people and unravel unsolved murders lies in a deck of cards — customized poker cards that are being distributed to inmates in county jails throughout New York. Each of the 52 cards feature a different case and come with a photo and a short narrative. "The idea is that if you want to find out about a crime, ask a criminal," said Doug Lyall, a Ballston Spa man who started the Center for HOPE after his 19-year-old daughter disappeared from the University of Albany campus in 1998. "Inmates like to talk," Lyall said in a telephone interview. "They have different motivations ... They are in a unique position to know, hear and see things that may not reach the eyes and ears of law enforcement." "When they play cards, they will be looking at pictures of missing people, victims of homicides, and unidentified deceased. We hope to spark a memory or spark some conscience," said Lyall, whose daughter's case is included in the deck. Rewards of up to $1,000 will be offered for tips that help resolve cold cases. The state Division of Criminal Justice Services is letting the program use its toll-free hot line for inmates who want to provide tips anonymously. The approach has seen success in a handful of other states where it has been used. In Florida, where the cards were first introduced in Polk County in 2005, authorities have already solved two cold homicide cases and arrested six fugitives as the result of tips from inmates who used the cards. Florida followed up by distributing 100,000 decks of cards in its state prisons, describing a total of 104 cold cases. Florida authorities were inspired by the cards created in 2003 by the Pentagon featuring wanted members of Saddam Hussein's inner circle. According to its website, Effective Playing Cards has produced more than 30 decks of its customized cards for law enforcement officials in Florida and Texas. Similar programs are underway in Indiana and San Diego and are being considered in Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, Washington and South Carolina. "It's new to us but agencies are always looking for different ways to solves crimes and this sounds like a great idea," said Wendy Balazik, a spokeswoman for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which has more than 20,000 members in 89 countries. In New York, the New York State Sheriff's Association is helping distribute more than 7,200 decks of the customized cards to inmates at 57 county jails, said Tom Mitchell, the association's legal counsel. The cards were paid for in part through a $10,000 state grant. "This may seem whimsical and insignificant," said Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh, whose office has cracked a number of cold cases, including a 22-year-old murder his investigators pieced together in 2005 with the help of DNA evidence. "But one little card, one little piece of information, could help solve any of these cases." Lyall said it was a difficult process to narrow down the cases to include in the deck. Information came from law enforcement officials around the state, as well as from the network of victims' families the Lyalls have put together over the past decade. One major criteria, Lyall said, was that the case had gone cold and there had been little or no new recent information in the case. The Lyalls sought and received permission from the families of the victims to use their pictures and stories on the cards. "We had a few people who said no, that they didn't want to do it," Lyall said. Among the oldest cases included in the deck are those of Mary Anne Wesolowski, a 13-year-old Glens Falls girl who disappeared in 1971; the 1977 disappearance of Audrey Neuremberg, who disappeared in Brooklyn when she was 18, and Agnes Shoe, a 37-year-old nun from Scotia who vanished in 1980; and Albert Somma, a 39-year-old Long Island man who was found shot to death in a Northway median in Lake George in 1982. The freshest case is the April 2007 disappearance of 47-year-old Frank Connell of Rensselaer. According to the National Crime Information Center, there are 3,600 open missing person cases in New York. New York authorities could not put a number on the total number of unsolved murders but say there are approximately 9,000 cold-case murders in New York City alone since 1985. Each year in the United States, there are roughly 20,000 unsolved murders, missing persons cases or unidentified bodies found, according to FBI statistics. After Suzanne's disappearance, Doug and Mary Lyall began helping other families searching for missing loved ones and getting laws passed to better deal with missing-persons cases. It was through the Lyalls' efforts that Congress added a little-noticed provision in the nationwide "Amber Alert" anti-kidnapping law in 2003. The provision requires local authorities to notify the National Crime Information Center immediately if someone between the ages of 18 and 21 goes missing. In the Lyalls' case, police did not begin investigating their daughter's disappearance until nearly two days after Suzanne disappeared. Police are investigating the case as a homicide. Lyall said he hopes to expand the program by producing more cards, issuing cards to inmates at state prisons and developing a television show that would highlight a different missing person each week. If successful, eventually Lyall would like to make the cards available to the general public. "How can we not do this given that it's been a proven success in other areas, and at such a minimal cost. If we solve only one case, it will be well worth the effort," Lyall said. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Aug 25 2008, 04:32 PM Post #32 |
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http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?ne...=7021&rfi=6 Lyall's parents applaud Campus Safety Act By: Paul Post, Special to The Record 08/16/2008 BALLSTON SPA - The parents of long-missing Suzanne Lyall on Friday praised President Bush's signing of a bill named after their daughter that mandates prompter response to college campus crimes. The Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act mandates colleges and law enforcement agencies develop procedures for investigating violent crimes on campuses. Suzanne, the daughter of Douglas and Mary Lyall, was a sophomore at the state University at Albany when she went missing on March 2, 1998. She hasn't been heard from since. "It means that families won't have to go through what we went through," Mary Lyall said of the bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Hudson. "We waited for three days before the campus did anything about her disappearance. It requires campus police to have some kind of plan in place to find missing people and to help victims of violent crime." The legislation is patterned after a 1999 state Campus Safety Bill. "Kirsten Gillibrand was the driving force behind it," Lyall said. "We discussed it with her office about a year ago, and she's been working on it ever since. She really took the ball and ran with it." Gillibrand said the bill is intended to minimize confusion and delays during the initial investigation of a violent felony. Skidmore College safety official Larry Britt said the school already has missing person protocols and procedures in place and that city police are notified within two hours if a subject isn't located. Last April, the Lyalls were disappointed by President Bush's refusal to sign legislation to make April 6, Suzanne's birthday, a national Missing Persons Day, which has already been established in New York. The measure passed the House and Senate, but the president said the date conflicted with another crime victims' observance. On Tuesday, the Lyalls will be featured on a CNN newscast about their missing persons playing card program. The segment is tentatively scheduled to appear between 7 and 8 .m. Playing cards depicting missing persons and violent crime victims have been distributed to county jails throughout New York, where they're given to inmates with hopes that they might identify someone. It's one of many projects the Lyalls are involved with in their ongoing plight to learn about their daughter's disappearance and help families in similar situations. "Every time we do something her name gets back out in the news," Lyall said. "That's important because people have a tendency to forget and get on with their lives." At the state level, the couple has been trying to get legislation passed that would create assault and abduction-free school zones. The intent, from grade schools to colleges, would be to impose tougher penalties for crimes committed in school settings. The bill has passed the state Senate, but not the Assembly. A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, could not immediately be reached for comment. For information on missing persons programs see the Web site: www.hope4missing.org. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Aug 25 2008, 04:33 PM Post #33 |
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http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/aug/19/0819_lyalls/ Local couple’s advocacy is rewarded New law aimed at response to missing college students Tuesday, August 19, 2008 By Lee Coleman (Contact) Gazette Reporter SARATOGA COUNTY — A new federal law providing faster and better coordinated police response when a college-aged student is reported missing carries the name of a young Saratoga County woman who went missing 10 years ago. President George W. Bush signed the Higher Education Opportunity Act late last week. The law includes the “Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act.” “I’m so gratified and so pleased,” said U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Greenport, of the legislation she introduced and successfully moved through Congress. “It’s been 10 years since her disappearance,” Gillibrand noted. Suzanne Lyall, then 19, was a student at the University at Albany on March 2, 1998. She was last seen at the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland where she worked. Douglas and Mary Lyall of Milton, Suzanne’s parents, said campus police were first to respond to the missing person case, then the Guilderland Police Department became involved and later Albany city police and the Albany County Sheriff’s Department. The state police finally took over the case. The investigation was confusing and time consuming, the Lyalls have said, as they encouraged state and federal lawmakers to pass legislation to provide faster and better coordinated police response to abductions and missing persons cases. “We can never, with 100 percent surety, guarantee the safety of every student on every campus,” the Lyalls said in a joint statement. “But we can guarantee to do everything in our power to have laws and procedures in place to protect our students as much as possible,” the Lyalls said. “Congresswoman Gillibrand’s amendment will help protect more students on college campuses,” the Lyalls said. Gillibrand said Monday, “This is something the Lyalls had a passion about.” She said Suzanne’s parents took a tragedy, and through their long and effective advocacy for better response to such crimes, have turned the tragedy into something positive. “This is something that will really make a difference,” Gillibrand said in a telephone interview. “The first 24 to 48 hours are the most important hours in solving abduction cases before the victim is killed,” Gillibrand said. The Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act requires all colleges and universities to have a clear policy outlining the role and responsibilities for campus, local and state police if a violent crime, such as an abduction, occurs on campus. The Lyall amendment is intended to minimize confusion and delays during the initial investigation of a violent felony, according to Gillibrand. Then-Gov. George Pataki signed a similar state campus safety act into law in 1999. Gillibrand said it is “quite special” to have a person’s name attached to a piece of federal legislation, such as the Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act. She said she has seen only a handful of such personalized bills adopted during her tenure in Washington representing the 20th Congressional District. “It is unusual,” she said. “These provisions will protect more college students from serious danger, which is perhaps the best way that we can honor Suzanne’s life,” Gillibrand said. Gillibrand, who is serving her first term in Congress, said she was also pleased that this was the first bill she has sponsored that has been signed into law in its entirety. “It’s all due to the Lyalls’ advocacy,” she said. The amendment was to the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, legislation that reauthorizes the Higher Education Opportunity Act, which outlines the federal government’s funding commitment for postsecondary institutions. Gillbrand said that children are protected by the federal Amber Alert legislation in cases of abduction. With the Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act, college-aged students will have a similar protection in cases of abduction, she said. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Aug 29 2008, 03:07 PM Post #34 |
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http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_...-could-hel.html August 27, 2008 Cards could help uncover cold case clues TROY, New York (CNN) -- While inmates in jails across New York pass the time by playing card games -- poker, gin rummy and solitaire -- they may also be helping crack cold cases. The idea is simple: Each of the 52 playing cards contains information about a murder, a missing person or another unsolved crime. Inmates know information law enforcement agents don't, and as corrections officers can attest, inmates love to talk as long as it's not about their own crimes. The program was started by Doug and Mary Lyall, whose daughter Suzanne went missing 10 years ago after she got off a bus at the State University of New York-Albany. The Lyalls heard about a similar initiative in Florida where the cards, sent to state prisons and some county jails, resulted in eight arrests and one conviction. Florida officials say they are close to releasing a third edition deck of cards. Using money donated to their foundation, the Center for Hope, the Lyalls sent 7,200 decks of cards to New York's local jails. "It just started to snowball, and we got momentum, and it took a lot of hard work, lot of phone calls, lot of foot work, but it's been worth it so far because we got it off the ground," Doug Lyall recalled. [Mark Godsey] The Lyalls know that the work, at times painful, is important. They are convinced that some of the cases will be solved. "The strength I find is the fact this is a missing part of my life, and I need to find my daughter, and this is our job now. If you have no other job for the rest of your life your job is to find that child that is missing," Mary Lyall said. Most of the cases featured on the New York cards deal with missing persons, but some show unsolved murders, some dating to the 1980s. Inmates can provide information by calling a hot line. They're not required to provide their names. Cindy Bloch, case manager at New York's Criminal Justice Services, said she's encouraged by the response. "Prior to the playing card program being implemented, we had virtually no calls coming from correctional facilities," she said. "We now have 40 or 50 calls per month coming in." Sheriff Jack Mahar, who runs the county jail in Rensselaer County, New York, said he replaced all the playing cards in the jail with the cold case cards. "The people that are here live out on the streets, they grew up out on the streets, they know what's going on," Mahar said. "Sooner or later, someone will hear, someone talks; it always happens whether it's two days from now or five years from now." Even inmates think the cards are a good idea. Watch how inmates have reacted to the cards » "Murder's a big issue and kidnapping, you know, even though we're on this side of the fence, most of us don't like those things," said Patrick Devival, a prisoner in the Rensselaer County Jail. Several inmates said the cards were disturbing to look at, especially when they were just trying to pass the time playing a game. But those CNN spoke to in the county jail all said they looked at them closely. The Lyalls hope to get the cards in every state correctional facility as well as distribute a second deck with different cases. Right now, though, the county jails are a good start. "We have a very high turnover, which is very good cause we keep on getting different people in here all the time, that would give some fresh ideas, fresh information," Mahar explained. "We haven't had anything to date, but we have our fingers crossed every day." |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 22 2009, 09:38 AM Post #35 |
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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressReleas...009+PRN20090922 74 Families of Missing Children Team Together to Provide Help and Comfort to Other... Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:01am EDT Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page[-] Text [+] Featured Broker sponsored link 74 Families of Missing Children Team Together to Provide Help and Comfort to Other Families with Missing Children Families from 64 Cities and 30 States Attend Team HOPE Training at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children The discovery of Jaycee Dugard has given renewed hope to many families of missing children throughout the nation. Seventy-four family members who have personally experienced the pain of a missing child have registered to attend training as a Team HOPE volunteer for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The training will take place on September 25, 2009 at the organization's headquarters in Alexandria, VA. Team HOPE, which stands for Help Offering Parents Empowerment, is a unique program that NCMEC makes available to families of missing or sexually exploited children. Team HOPE volunteers are family members of missing children or sexually exploited children. Volunteers are trained and after assisting other families for a year are invited for retraining. The September program is a retraining program for Team HOPE volunteers. Attendees will travel from 64 cities and 30 states, and 2 Canadian provinces. Seventy-four of those attending the training are family members of missing children. Included in the seventy-four are family members of 15 children who are currently missing (a list of those cases is attached). Also participating in the training is Doris Ownby, mother of recovered missing child Ben Ownby who was 13 when he went missing from Beaufort, Missouri in 2007. Ben was recovered after an intensive investigation which also located missing child Shawn Hornbeck who disappeared in 2002. "Parents of missing and exploited children have suffered a great loss, perhaps the greatest their family will ever endure. They are members of a club that no one wants to belong to. Many of these families have spent decades looking for their children never giving up hope." Said Ernie Allen, President & CEO of NCMEC. "They are the only ones who can truly understand the pain other families of missing and exploited children are going through. Despite their own pain and suffering they want to help other families. This is a very unique program. It an example of extraordinary kindness, the strength of the human spirit and the power of hope." Team HOPE is comprised of mothers, fathers, siblings and extended family members of missing or exploited children who volunteer their time and are trained to help other victim families. Volunteers are matched with families who have had similar experiences. Because of their personal experience Team HOPE volunteers are uniquely qualified to offer emotional support, compassion, guidance, empowerment and assistance in ways traditional community service agencies can not provide. Since its creation more than 10 years ago, Team HOPE has trained more than 235 volunteers and helped more than 40,000 families. Candidates to become a Team HOPE volunteer are nominated from a variety of sources including: other active Team HOPE volunteers; law enforcement; state missing children clearinghouses; nonprofit organizations dealing with missing children issues; and some families contact NCMEC directly. This year the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children observes its 25th anniversary. NCMEC has played a role in the recovery of more than 138,500 children. Today more children come home safely than ever before. In 2008, NCMEC helped recover more children than any other year in the organization's 25-year history raising the recovery rate from 62% in 1990 to 97% today. And more of those who prey on children are being identified and prosecuted. Yet too many children are still missing and too many children are still the victims of sexual exploitation. There is much more that needs to be done. About the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization. Since it was established by Congress in 1984, the organization has operated the toll-free 24-hour national missing children's hotline which has handled more than 2,400,000 calls. It has assisted law enforcement in the recovery of more than 142,000 children. The organization's CyberTipline has handled more than 733,690 reports of child sexual exploitation and its Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than 27,030,500 child pornography images and videos. The organization works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice's office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. To learn more about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site at www.missingkids.com. MEDIA NOTE: Many of the family members participating in the training will be available to be interviewed during the lunch break. Any media interested in covering the Team HOPE training program or interviewing family members need to contact the Public Relations Department at (703) 837-6111 or at media@ncmec.org. Participants in the training include family members of sixteen children who are currently missing. Information about these sixteen cases is attached. They include Non-family Abduction (NFA); Lost Injured and Missing (LIM); International Family Abduction (IFA) and 5779 (A missing child between the age of 18 and 21). LIST OF FAMILIES OF MISSING CHILDREN WHO ARE PARTICIPATING TEAM HOPE TRAINING ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 STATE VOLUNTEER NAME CHILD/ CASE CITY MISSING CHILDREN'S TYPE DATE NAMES AL Stringfellow, Betty Sherry Lynn NFA New Brockton 6/6/1984 Marler AR Nick, Colleen Morgan NFA Alma 6/9/1995 (Team Coordinator) FL Leonard, Marilyn Clifton LIM Lakeland 8/22/1983 IL Teague, Kathy Vinyette NFA Chicago 6/25/1983 KS Clasen, Dee April Wiss LIM Wichita 1/11/2000 KY Cotton, Wanda Randy Sellers NFA Burlington 8/16/1980 NY Lyall, Doug and Mary Suzanne 5779 Ballston 3/2/1998 OH Culberson, Debbie Clarissa NFA Blanchester 8/28/1996 OH Schmidt, Pam Erica Baker NFA Kettering 2/7/1999 PA Murray, Lisa Jeffrey Lynn NFA Harrisburg 12/4/1985 (sibling) Quebec Temperton, Melanie NFA Montreal 9/21/1988 Gwen Vatcher TN Green, Donna Raymond NFA McLemoresville 11/6/1978 TX Saileanu, Tammy Isabella IFA Cedar Park 10/18/2001 Saileanu WA Pichler, Kathy Joseph 5779 Bremerton 1/5/2005 WA Woody, Shawna Joseph NFA Tacoma 1/5/2005 Pichler (sibling) NFA - Non Family Abduction - A child who is missing under circumstances indicating that the disappearance is not voluntary and who has been abducted by a non-family member. LIM - Lost Injured and Missing - When a child's whereabouts are unknown to the child's caretaker and the child is presumed to be lost or injured. IFA - International Family Abduction - when a child is concealed or transported out of the country by a family member with the intent to prevent contact or deprive the other parent of custodial rights. 5779 - a missing child between the age of 18 and 21 CASE SUMMARY FOR SIXTEEN MISSING CHILDREN WHO HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS PARTICIPATING IN TEAM HOPE TRAINING ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 -- Sherry Lynn Marler hasn't been seen since she was 12 years old in 1984. She went into the downtown area of New Brockton, AL with her step-father. He went to the bank and Sherry went to the store. Sherry never returned to the truck where she was scheduled to meet her step-father. (Sherry's mother, Betty Stringfellow, will participate in the training). -- Morgan Nick was abducted from a little league ball game by an unidentified man on June 9, 1995, in Alma, AR. Morgan still missing, turned 20 on September 19th, 2009 (Morgan's mother, Colleen Nick, supervises a team of volunteers and will participate in the training). -- Clifton Patrick Leonard went missing from Lakeland, FL when he was 16 years in 1967. Clifton had been diagnosed with teenage schizophrenia before his disappearance. He disappeared after leaving a friends home and may have met with foul play. (Clifton's mother, Marilyn Leonard, will participate in the training). -- Vinyette Teague was just two and a half years old when she went missing from Chicago, IL on June 25, 1983. She was last seen in the hallway outside her apartment. Vinyette turned 26 this past June. (Vinyette's mother Kathy Teague will participate in the training). -- April Wiss was 16 years old when she went missing from Wichita, KS. April's roommate woke the morning of January 11th( )2000 to find April missing. Her purse and belongings were in the apartment, but April had disappeared. (April's mother, Dorothy Clasen, will participate in the training). -- Randy Lee Sellers disappeared from Burlington, KY on August 16th, 1980 when he was 17 years old. Randy went to the Kenton County Fair with his friends that evening, and has not been seen since that night. (Randy's mother, Wanda Cotton, will participate in the training). -- Suzanne Lyall was a 19 year old college student and working part time at the local mall when she went missing in 1998 from Albany, NY. Suzanne has not been seen since 3/2/1998 when she left work and went to the bus stop to return to her dormitory. (Suzanne's parents, Doug and Mary Lyall, will participate in the training). -- Clarissa Ann Culberson on August 28, 1996, at the age of 22 Clarissa disappeared from her home. It is alleged that Clarissa met with foul play. Her boyfriend was found guilty of her murder, but Clarissa's body has not been found. (Clarissa's mother, Debbie Culberson, will participate in the training). -- Erica Baker was almost ten when she went missing from Kettering, Ohio on February 7, 1999. She was last seen between 3:00 and 3:30 p.m. when she left the house to walk her dog. The dog was later found, but Erica has not been seen since. Erica turned 20 this past June. (Erica's grandmother Pam Schmidt will participate in this training). -- Lynn Smith went missing from Hot Springs, AR in 1985 when she was 16 years old. She was last seen walking home from school. (Lynn's sister, Lisa Murray, will participate in the training). -- Melanie Lynn Temperton was last seen on September 21, 1988 in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada when she was 20 years old. She phoned her mother to say she was staying at a friend's house the night. It is suspected that Melanie met with foul play. (Melanie's mother, Gwen Vatcher Temperton, will participate in the training). -- Raymond Green was abducted by an unknown woman on November 6, 1978 from Atlanta, Ga when he was 6 days old. The day Raymond went missing this unknown woman came to the home, when there other people going in and out. She took Raymond, walked out of the home and disappeared. (Raymond's mother, Donna Green, will participate in the training). -- Isabella Saileanu was abducted by her father in Rumania at the age of 2 on September 18, 2001. Isabella was living with her mother in Santa Clara, CA prior to the abduction. (Isabella's mother, Tammy Saileanu, will participate in the training). -- Joseph Pichler a childhood actor went missing at the age of 18 on January 5, 2006 from Bremerton, WA. His car was subsequently found with his cell phone and identification. Joseph remains missing. (Joseph's mother, Kathy Pichler, and sister, Shawna Woody, will participate in the training). Contact: Public Relations Department (703) 837-6111 media@ncmec.org /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Sept. 22/ SOURCE National Center for Missing & Exploited Children |
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« Reply #73 on: July 24, 2010, 09:52:56 AM » Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.saratogian.com/articles/2010/07...84060702516.txt Parents of missing Saratoga County woman Suzanne Lyall to seek answers among Rush fans tonight at SPAC Published: Friday, July 23, 2010 SARATOGA SPRINGS — Doug and Mary Lyall, whose daughter Suzanne disappeared from the University at Albany campus in 1998, will be at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center tonight during the Rush concert to hand out posters, talk with fans and search for possible answers to the disappearance. On March 8, 1998, Suzanne Lyall went missing during her sophomore year at the university. The case remains unsolved. Suzanne was a big fan of Rush, and Doug and Mary Lyall hope that someone within the fan community will have information. In August 2008, The Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. It mandates colleges and law enforcement agencies develop procedures for investigating violent crimes on campuses |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 20 2011, 12:32 AM Post #37 |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20115581-504083.html October 5, 2011 9:41 AM Text Missing New York State Teen: Suzy Lyall, 19, disappeared in 1998 By Barry Leibowitz (CBS) Suzy Lyall of Milton, N.Y. was 19 when she disappeared on March 2, 1998, apparently after getting off a bus on her college campus, the University at Albany in New York. Pictures: Suzanne Lyall Missing Her mother, Mary Lyall, recently told Crimesider, "We do not know what happened to her. It's like a needle in a haystack. She just vanished." Crimesider previously reported in May 2010 that on the day she was last seen, Suzy Lyall spent the early evening working at Babbages, a computer software company in the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, NY. Around 9:30 p.m., she boarded a city bus to return to her dorm. At the Collins Circle stop on campus, Suzy got off the bus. A classmate who'd been waiting there said that there was no question in her mind that she saw Suzanne Lyall get off the bus. From there, the walk to her dorm was three to five minutes. Suzy never got there. According to her father, Doug Lyall, "There was an old employee I.D. badge found two months later off the visitors parking lot (at Collins Circle) in kind of a...grassy area, that had been out there for quite a period of time." Mary Lyall recently told Crimesider that "When the dorm was looked at later it looked as if she was coming back. Her hair dryer was on the bed, all her personal items were still there...she had money on top of her desk, change." The morning after Suzy vanished, her boyfriend, Richard Condon, got in touch with her parents to say he couldn't reach Suzy. "Her boyfriend...told us that she was missing. I believe he said that 'Suzanne didn't come home last night' or something to that effect," Doug Lyall said. Suzy's parents contacted campus police to report Suzy missing and called their daughter's credit card company. The company informed the parents that at approximately 4pm the next day, Suzy's debit card had been used at a nearby ATM. "Her ATM card was used the day following her disappearance...at a convenience store that was one that she wouldn't have gone to on her own," her father told Crimesider. The store was about two miles from campus. Police couldn't tell who withdrew the money, a $20 bill, but the correct personal identification number (PIN) had been entered at the ATM. Richard Condon later told police that he and Suzy were the only people who knew that number. Senior Investigator John Camp of the New York State Police said in 2010 that there was one other person who used the ATM at around the same time who was eventually located. After questioning this 'person of interest,' Camp said "the indication is that he was not involved," although he was not completely ruled out. Police have not named any suspects, but another person they have not been able to rule out is Suzy's boyfriend, Richard Condon. Condon and his family stopped cooperating with authorities shortly after Suzy went missing; he refused to take a polygraph and would not speak to police without his lawyer present. Doug Lyall says, "It's disturbing to us that the family and Suzy's boyfriend Rich choose not to answer questions at this point to maybe illuminate or to revisit some of the unanswered questions." Her mother told Crimesider the relationship between Suzy and Richard was not always a healthy one. "There were numerous times that Suzy tried to break up with him and he would get emotional and so she would stay," Mary Lyall said. After Suzy's disappearance, Condon told police that he and Suzy were engaged, which, according to Suzy's mother, no one else knew. Mary Lyall told Crimesider: "I want her back. I don't care how I get her back but I want her back." Born April 6, 1978, Suzy Lyall had light brown hair and blue eyes, and when she disappeared she was 5'3" and 175 lbs. If you have information about her whereabouts, contact 1-800-920-4150 or www.hope4themissing.org |
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