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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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
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It wasn't until the 80s until they began regularly arresting/convicting people with no body found
Demovictory9
Nov 2019
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SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)1. Thirteen thousand people
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
(37,113 posts)2. It wasn't until the 80s until they began regularly arresting/convicting people with no body found
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