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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
Sat Nov 9, 2019, 11:05 PM Nov 2019

The Charley Project - profiles of over 13,000 "cold case" missing people.

The Charley Project profiles over 13,000 “cold case” missing people mainly from the United States. It does not actively investigate cases; it is merely a publicity vehicle for missing people who are often neglected by the press and forgotten all too soon. A person must have been missing for at least one year to be listed; see the FAQ for additional information on the site, its goals, and its founder/administrator.


http://charleyproject.org/

This is very interesting: an amazing catalogue of human tragedies, implied or explicit.

The only case I'm personally familiar with is in there: a young woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago from my workplace. She was declared legally dead 7 years later and her husband was arrested for her murder 3 years after that, despite her body never having been found. He's currently doing essentially life. I don't know what evidence convicted him 10 years after her disappearance without a body, but there seems little doubt that he's guilty.

I remember we formed search parties to look for her car and we did find it, but no trace of the woman herself.

I hadn't thought about that case in a really long time.
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The Charley Project - profiles of over 13,000 "cold case" missing people. (Original Post) Ron Obvious Nov 2019 OP
Thirteen thousand people SonofDonald Nov 2019 #1
It wasn't until the 80s until they began regularly arresting/convicting people with no body found Demovictory9 Nov 2019 #2

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
1. Thirteen thousand people
Sun Nov 10, 2019, 12:04 AM
Nov 2019

Who's loved ones will maybe never know what happened to them

That's twenty six thousand Mothers and Fathers

I don't have the words, I just don't

Demovictory9

(32,423 posts)
2. It wasn't until the 80s until they began regularly arresting/convicting people with no body found
Sun Nov 10, 2019, 12:10 AM
Nov 2019

the "billionaire boys" case in LA was one of the first.

NO body, but the "boys" had a murder type list... "buy duct tape, etc"" type list.

I'm glad your coworker got justice

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