MP of the week: Hang Lee

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This week’s featured missing person is Hang Lee, a 17-year-old girl who was last seen in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 12, 1993. She’s Hmong, and can speak the Hmong language as well as English. She’s 5’0 and 90 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, and her bangs were dyed red at the time of her disappearance. She was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, a black t-shirt with “Skid Row” on the back, black jeans or slacks, and jewelry including two silver bracelets.

For some reason, Hang’s NCMEC poster uses a poor quality version of the above photo of her.

Foul play is suspected in Hang’s disappearance; on the day she went missing, she went for a job interview with a man who has been convicted of multiple rapes, and he lured one of his rape victims with a job interview.

If still alive, Hang would be a middle-aged woman of 50 today.

MP of the week: Rolando Salas Jusino

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This week’s featured missing person is Rolando Salas Jusino, who was four and a half years old when he disappeared playing in a park in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico on July 7, 1999. He has black hair and brown eyes, and his nickname is Rolandito. Many accounts call him “Rolandito Salas”.

The case was pretty famous throughout Latin America when it happened. If still alive, Rolandito would be 31 years old today.

Sorry I’ve not been blogging lately

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I didn’t post blog entries about the last two missing persons of the week though I did change them on the website. I’m sorry about that. I will try to do better.

I was running old names through Newspapers.com and found an article that talks about Mercedes Lodge, probably the same one who disappeared from Castro Valley, California on December 14, 1974. Because Hayward is mentioned in her casefile; she went to meetings there. Anyway, in July 1961, long before Mercedes went missing, this happened in Hayward:

That must have been quite an experience, helping a teenage bride deliver a baby. That baby would have been 13 years old when Mercedes disappeared.

MP of the week: Morterrius Settles

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This week’s featured missing person is Morterrius Dantonio Settles, a 27-year-old man who was last seen in Memphis, Tennessee on August 11, 2010. He’s black, 6’3 and 190 pounds, with braided black hair, brown eyes, and a slight mustache and goatee. He has tattoos on his neck and both arms.

Settles was picked up from his and his girlfriend’s home by a man who was called “Bookie”. Bookie was armed and seemed angry. Settles disappeared while his girlfriend was giving birth to his third daughter.

If still alive, he’d be about 43 today, but I doubt he’s still alive.

We’re on the road to Wisconsin

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So tomorrow is the annual missing persons awareness event in Wisconsin and my husband and I are on the way there. He is driving. We borrowed our roommate’s car since it’s in far better shape than our own. We don’t want a repeat of last year when we broke down on the way there. I couldn’t find anyone to take care of Patrick so our roommate is staying home, otherwise he’d have gone with us.

I always really enjoy these events; it’s a good opportunity to meet families of the missing and other people with an interest in missing persons, and to find out what is being done.

For awhile I wasn’t sure I would be able to go this year as in March my driver’s license got suspended because my insurance company didn’t send the BMV a certain piece of paper. It was not my fault at all. Compounding the problem I was repeatedly asked for the WRONG paper. But the issue got fixed and my license was reinstated.

Wanted to refer y’all to an interesting missing persons story

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I discovered this article about a missing person: A Virginia Man Went Missing. Did He Suffer From “AI Psychosis”? (The answer to that question being “probably yes.”) Jon Ganz is still missing and I added him to the Charley Project today.

I have never used an AI chatbot and have a distrust of AI in general. I wish tech companies would not try to force AI technology on people and would give us the option to turn it off, for example on Google searches where the “AI summary of results” is at the top of every search and is often incorrect. The story I linked to is an example of how AI can go terribly wrong, particularly in individuals who are already susceptible to mental instability. Ganz had managed to put his life back together, against the odds, after spending decades in prison. Then it all fell apart pretty quickly and I think it probably would not have happened if he hadn’t started talking to the chatbot.

It sounds like Ganz probably died on the night he went missing. Because of the flooding in the area, it’s entirely possible his body was moved a long distance, and/or buried in sediment, and might not be found for a long time, if ever. I feel sorry for his wife.

MP of the week: David Kempker

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This week’s featured missing person is David Christopher Kempker, a 27-year-old man who was last seen in Sacramento County, California on March 11, 2018. He’s 6’0 and 160 pounds and white, with brown hair, brown eyes, acne scars and many tattoos.

Kempker’s friend said they were on a fishing trip and got separated. Kempker’s family, however, doubts this, as he didn’t have a fishing license or even own a fishing pole. Three days after his disappearance, his truck was found abandoned. Outside it were his hat and vest.

If still alive, Kempker would be 35 today.

13-year-old girl missing since 1994 found alive

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Christina Marie Plante, who disappeared from Star Valley, Arizona on May 16, 1994 at the age of 13, has been found alive. They won’t provide any more details as to where she is now or what she’s been up to in the last 32 years, out of consideration for her privacy, but she’s breathing apparently.

It bothers me that I had never heard of this girl’s disappearance, when it’s kind of my job to have heard of everyone’s disappearance. Why was she not on the NCMEC? Why was she not on NamUs? I don’t understand why some police departments have cold case missing persons that they never bother to add to major online databases, when the internet has helped find so many missing persons.

I’m glad she’s alive. Hopefully she will reunite with her searching family.

MP of the week: Fallon Granger

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This week’s featured missing person is Fallon Chanel Granger, who was last seen in Inglewood, California on January 25, 2024. She was 33 at the time and is black, with brown eyes. Her hair was dyed blonde at the time of her disappearance. She is 5’4 and 130 pounds.

There isn’t a whole lot of info on her disappearance, but she’s considered to be at risk. If still alive, Fallon Granger would be 35 today.

Updates to resume today

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Yeah I was off for longer than I thought I would be. But the exterminator came yesterday and de-bedbugged the house. He will come twice more over the next month, to finish off any survivors.

When I came home yesterday afternoon after leaving him to his work, the house looked like burglars had come through and ransacked it: furniture tipped over, bed taken apart, dresser drawers open etc. We’ve started to put the house back together and get our clothes out of the bags and put them back in the drawers.

I have a lot of work to catch up on and I am very stiff and sore now, because we had to move a bunch of stuff from the house outside to make room for the exterminator, and now we’re having to move it back in. The whole thing has been a massive pain the neck. But it’s entirely worth it if it gets rid of those nasty creatures. As a general rule I love all animals, and prefer to escort flies, spiders etc. outside rather than squishing them, but I will squish a bedbug with vengeance.

Our pets were extremely alarmed by all the unusual activity going on. In the morning before the exterminator came, we temporarily misplaced one of the cats and were worried she’d gotten outside. Nope, she was just hiding cause she didn’t know what was going on and was scared. Yesterday as we were putting furniture and things back and place, the dog stood there whining as if he was heartbroken or something.

Anyway there will be updates today. I’ve already written four. Once I write five, it’ll show up on the updates page. I plan to do twenty. That’s usually my daily maximum, in able to avoid throwing my back out from spending too much time at the computer.

I love all of you and hope you have a good day.