Some of the many missing people

I take it that everybody, or most of us, have had the experience of losing a friend or a relative over time. Unfortunately, people get ill, die, move on or simply fall out with relatives or friends, etc., etc., which means that they disappear from somebody's everyday circles. One may miss them, but if one knows what happened to them, it's different from losing them without any traces. To mourn the death of someone, and to visit a grave site may be heart-rending, but in my opinion it must be much worse living with the suspicion that a loved one is truly lost and only will be found when one starts looking for him/her on the pages of The Doe Network which features such cases. Here one may find photos or descriptions of people who went missing as well as of nameless, anonymous dead people who were found somewhere, but who have not been identified. Actually, there are surprisingly many such cases, but some lost people are being found again, hale and hearty, but severely abused, like for instance, in the case of Joseph Fritzl who abducted, raped and kept his daughter Elizabeth hidden for 24 years, fathering several children with her. That case seems so very special, but it's not the only one of its kind.

Joseph And Elizabeth Fritzl

Most of the cases being featured on The Doe Network may go far back, and they don't seem to have been many chances of being solved: Someone lost someone, and the lost one shall never find those who are looking for him or her. That goes for several children who went missing. The parents may hope that they were kidnapped to be adopted by the kidnapper, but if the kid turns up, it will often be as an unidentified corpse somewhere.

I admit that a child this cute might have a chance of being abducted for adoption, but sadly enough it may be more likely, that the kidnapper is - or work for - a pedophile. As far as I can see, he has not been found yet, neither dead nor alive, and he is only one of several lost children.

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Some cases go far back, and I think it would take a miracle both to find them and to solve the mystery of their disappearance. For instance, that goes for this case:

543DFFL - Carmen Marie Hallock

Name: Carmen Marie Hallock
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: December 18, 1969
Location Last Seen: Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida

Date of Birth: February 9, 1947
Age: 22 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 120 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing: Possibly a black cocktail dress and black patent leather pumps.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

She told a relative that she had an appointment with an unidentified teacher which might lead to a job opportunity for her. The clothes she was to wear at this meeting were a pair of black patent leather pumps and a black cocktail dress. However, that talk with her relative was the last anybody saw of her for four years, until some of her belongings were found in the possession of a certified creep: The cop who became a serial rapist and killer, Gerard John Schaefer.

Something like that may have happened to many of those missing people who are being sought in vain: A creep targets them for sexual abuse and/or murder. Was that what happened to this lovely child who was three years old when he disappeared, and who by now would be in his early fifties?

Jonathan Edward Hagans

His case was reopened by law enforcement in 2020. That means that investigators are reviewing his case file and the theories around his disappearance. His photo has been updated, and he may look like this now:

The family of Jonathan believes he was abducted, which may be the case, although the police think that he may have died in an accident at the beach. No matter what, he has been gone for more than 50 years.

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4369DFTX - Sonja Kay Redbird

Sonja, who is an American Indian of the Kiowa Tribe, went missing in Dallas, Texas in 1975. At that time, she was 19 years old, and nobody seems to have any idea of where she might be. Her case was updated 07/18/2022, but it doesn't strike me as one of those rare ones that may be solved. That means that she most likely is a true "Jane Doe" who will not be found alive except for a miracle.

To see all these cases of people looking for someone, or someone dead being nameless for many years, is something most of us will be able to relate to. Some of these cases really are extremely touching - or downright scary, as this "game" of lost/found may happen to all of us.

https://www.wdio.com/tag/missing-person/

https://www.doenetwork.org/monthlycases.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doe_Network

https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/top-10-missing-people-who-were-eventually-found