UPDATE on the AMBER ALERT (CA, OR, WA, TX, Mexico, Canada)

[AmyStrange]

63. I can feel the shift to the back burner coming soon...

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unless there's some breaking news, I can feel this story being put on the back burner soon.

Although I have not physically assisted in actual searches for missing people. I have worked with many people who have, and in conjunction with my serial murder research for my website, I know way more than I wish I did know about missing person cases, and one of the saddest moments is when the missing person case gets put on the back burner. That's because, unless a miracle happens, they will never be found alive.

Some people believe that at least 1,000,000 people go missing (some are not even reported) every year. More than 80% of that number either return, or are found within 30 days. That leaves us roughly 100,000 people a year who go missing for more than 30 days. More than 80% are considered runaways or are a direct result of custodial disputes, but that still leaves about 10,000 people that are never found and most of those are under the age of 18:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children:
http://www.missingkids.com/home

Missing person cases are one of the biggest problems that almost no one knows about. It is very rare when a missing person case becomes this newsworthy. That is just so sad in so many ways,

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Please keep Anderson family in your thoughts, please

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ETC/ A (Edited to change/ add): "they" to the last sentence of the first paragraph
-AND ALSO to add some statistics and a link-

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ETC (Edited To Change): the paragraph (before the link's) layout structure

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ha, I forgot to do what i said I was going to in the last edit