LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A loved one gone, missing for years, sometimes decades. Their families were left with nothing but questions.
Las Vegas Metro Police is pushing for answers in a new way, launching a database featuring the faces and stories of those who have disappeared in Las Vegas. FOX5 went to Metro Headquarters to learn more about it from the Special Victims Section.
The new webpage shares the circumstances of more than 100 people who have gone missing.
“When she went missing, her door was left open and her purse was found in a dumpster,” shared Lt. Monique Bulmer with LVMPD’s Special Victims Section about Opal Parsons, 81. Parsons was last seen at her east Las Vegas home in 2007.
Sherise Lachelle Magee, 1, was taken from her home on Doolittle Street in 1975.
Karla Rodriguez, 7, disappeared in 1999 while walking to school.
In 2000, truck driver Trevor Angell stopped in Primm and was never seen again, his truck and wallet left behind.
Some left for work and never came home. Some went hiking and never returned. Each unique story featured on the website does have one thing in common: someone coming forward and asking Metro for help finding them.
“I remember speaking to one mother… she is wondering where her son is and, almost surprisingly, she would almost rather know even if he has passed away than not know because I am going to forever wonder,” Lt. Bulmer said.
Metro says any piece of information, no matter how small, could be a big break.
“People don’t typically just vanish off the face of the earth. There’s somebody who knows something about it, and so we just encourage as many people as possible to look at our website, to repost it on their social media, just to get the awareness out there. Because the more people we have looking, the more likely we are to find these individuals,” Lt. Bulmer said.
The Special Victims Section has also created a new position, a full-time investigator dedicated solely to missing person cold cases.
Metro says last year, they had around 7,300 missing persons reports come in, and the vast majority were quickly solved. Many people come into town for vacation and just don’t report home for a few days.
For endangered missing people like seniors who trigger a Silver Alert or missing children with an Amber Alert, using today’s technology like cell phone pinging and surveillance cameras, Metro says their solve rate is 100 percent.
If you have information regarding any LVMPD Missing Persons Cold Cases, email [email protected] or call 702-828-2907. Tips on the whereabouts of missing persons can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers.
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