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In reply to the discussion: (1) How Unsolved Missing Person Cases Are Solved (Pt. 1) [View all]AmyStrange
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Local woman preserves memory of missing loved ones
by Gerry Tritz | Dec. 28 2020 @ 12:05am
Missouri Missing, a nonprofit charitable organization, has helped and comforted thousands of Missouri families searching for their missing loved ones since it started in 2007.
Marianne Asher Chapman poses in front of Missouri Missing's Christmas Trees of Hope containing cookie ornaments with the names of missing and recovered individuals. Chapman, who lives in Holts Summit, co-founded Missouri Missing after her daughter, Angie Yarnell, went missing, and she now advocates on behalf of the missing and their family and provides resources to aid in the search for them.
Its board of directors has undergone many iterations over the years, but through it all, Marianne Asher-Chapman has been the stabilizing force that has kept it going.
Asher-Chapman's daughter, Angie Yarnell, disappeared in 2003. Asher-Chapman made flyers, rented billboards and did everything she could to spread the word about the case. That persuaded her and another woman to start the missing persons advocacy group in 2007 to help families in their searches and to memorialize those who were never able to return to loved ones.
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https://www.newstribune.com/news/local/story/2020/dec/28/local-woman-preserves-memory-of-missing-loved-ones/854187/
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