Amber Alert

A Unique Approach in the Search for Missing Children

Rolv E. Heggenhougen | Posted 05.24.2012

Rolv E. Heggenhougen

WRAPmail is for-profit, but if we also can do something good, why not? My thinking was pretty simple: Featuring more missing children in emails should increase the number that are found.

When Amber Isn't Enough: Enlisting Truckers to Help Find Missing Kids

Diane Russell | Posted 04.27.2012

Diane Russell

"Trucker TV" could reach thousands of long-haul truck drivers, the very folks who travel the same roads and stop at the same rest areas where missing and exploited children often happen to be.

A Boy Named Dirty: A Kidnap Survivor Speaks Out

George Molho | Posted 05.21.2012

George Molho

What has changed in the 34 years since I was kidnapped in 1978, and held for a year? What has changed are the numbers. Approximately 800,000 children go missing or are kidnapped each in the United States.

Body Of N.M. Boy Likely Found In Neighbor's Backyard

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

CARLSBAD, N.M. — Crews pulled the body of a 4-year-old boy from a narrow, 30-foot-deep hole in Carlsbad early Monday, nearly two days after he d...

Pursuing Justice for Children and the Poor Now

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.02.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

I believe this is an Amber Alert time for millions of our nation's poor children and that everyone needs to be on the lookout for the children, to ensure the children's health, safety and education, and to see that justice is done.

Missing Ohio Mom Found Shot To Death Alongside Baby

AP | Posted 02.20.2012

CLEVELAND -- A wanted man kidnapped his estranged girlfriend at gunpoint along with her 1-year-old she was pushing in a stroller, Cleveland police sai...

Baby Lisa's Mom Says Missing Girl Is 'Coming Home'

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.06.2012

The parents of the Kansas City baby missing since October said last week that they believe the little girl is still alive. Deborah Bradly and Jerem...

UPDATE: Kidnapping Suspect In Custody

Posted 01.20.2012

An Amber Alert for a missing 9-year-old girl was lifted this afternoon after she was able to escape her kidnapper in Colorado Springs. Witnesses s...

Calif. Teen Missing, Possibly Abducted And Held Against Her Will: Police

Suison City Patch | Posted 02.08.2012

An Amber Alert has been issued for Christina Almanza, a 17-year-old Suison City, Calif. girl who is missing and possibly being detained against her wi...

Bianca Jones' Dad Pleads For Her Return

AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 02.05.2012

DETROIT — The father of a 2-year-old Detroit girl believes police are looking at him as "suspect number one" in her disappearance. D'Andre Lane...

Police Hunt For 2-year-old Girl

AP | Posted 12.02.2011

DETROIT -- Detroit police are searching for a 2-year-old girl who has been missing since her father was carjacked and the thief drove away with her st...

A Year Later, Michigan Town Mourns 3 Missing Boys

AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 11.24.2011

DETROIT -- Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks recently served as a guest spelling-test presenter for a fifth-grade class, and afterward invited the stud...

Lawyer: Stolen Cell Phone Proves Baby Lisa's Parents Are Innocent

Posted 11.14.2011

A lawyer representing the parents of missing Missouri baby Lisa Irwin says that a call made on a cell phone stolen the night the child vanished proves...

Our Dangerous Childhood

Patricia Aranka Smith | Posted 01.09.2012

Patricia Aranka Smith

Childhood in my day was brutal, I tell ya. From the beginning, we were abused with cloth diapers. Not one of us sprouted water or blood from being accidentally poked by safety pins.

Baby Lisa Timeline: New Details About The Hours Before Infant's Disappearance

Posted 01.03.2012

New details about the hours before Lisa Irwin's disappearance have painted a clearer picture of the missing Missouri infant's final night in her Kansa...

Amber Alert: Mother Found Dead In Md., 11-Year-Old Boy Missing

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 12.13.2011

ROCKVILLE, Md. — The husband of a slain woman was arrested in North Carolina on Thursday and charged with first-degree murder, but police said t...

John Rudolf

Frantic Search for Kansas City Infant Abducted from Crib

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.04.2011

A frantic search is underway for an infant reportedly abducted from her crib in a Kansas City, Mo., home late Monday night. Ten-month-old Lisa Irwi...

UPDATE: Aurora Teen That Faked Her Own Kidnapping FOUND On Colfax

Posted 10.19.2011

Aurora Police believe that 15-year-old Jasmine Fike, an Aurora girl who was thought to have been kidnapped Wednesday, staged a struggle as well as a p...

Searching For Missing New Hampshire Girl

AP | By JOHN CURRAN | Posted 09.27.2011

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) -- Shy and sweet, with a gap-toothed smile and a reputation as reliable, 11-year-old Celina Cass is the last person anyone in ...

David Lohr

Woman Wanted In Husband’s Slaying, Daughter’s Kidnapping, Captured

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 06.28.2011

Crystal Seigler Clark, the West Virginia woman suspected in the fatal shooting of her husband and the abduction of their young child, has been capture...

David Lohr

West Virginia Woman Accused Of Slaying Husband, Abducting Child

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 06.28.2011

Authorities in southern West Virginia are searching for a woman who is suspected in the fatal shooting of her husband and the abduction of their young...

Facebook Launches 'Amber Alerts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Amber Alerts, which have helped find 525 missing children since their start in 1996, are coming to Facebook. Facebook users in the 5...

Good Samaritan Rescues Kidnapped Girl

Posted 05.25.2011

An out of work carpenter is being hailed as a hero Tuesday after rescuing an 8-year-old girl who had been kidnapped the day before. Victor Perez re...

Terrorism and the Internet: Candy Crowley's Interview With White House Advisor John Brennan

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Kraus

Candy Crowley in her interview this morning with White House advisor, John Brennan opened new and vital dialogue on terrorism and the Internet. She hit a home run in my world.

Paul Smith & Alisa Meier Kidnapping: Sex Offender Shot Himself When Police Tried To Question Him

Huffington Post/AP | By JIM SALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Police say the man who shot himself as officers approached him about the disappearance of 4-year-old Alisa Meier was almost certainl...