Australian
Missing Persons Register
Welcome to Australian Missing Persons Register.
My website has been up and running for
three years now and I have been overwhelmed with the positive response I have
had from the families and friends of the Missing and also Police and media
agencies. My aim is to provide information about missing persons from every
State and Territory in Australia, no matter how long they have been missing,
and the ultimate aim of course is to find these people and bring peace to, and
possibly reunite the families. I provide emotional support and practical help
wherever possible to the friends and families of the Missing. There is absolutely NO charge or fee to anyone for publication of missing
persons details or messages. The work I have done is entirely voluntary. I
receive no funding from anyone for this work.
I list all missing persons, from decades ago to people
reported missing today.
To contact me - austmissingpersons@supernerd.com.au
Nicole@australianmissingpersonsregister.com
Phone - 0438
900 861
*I will answer EVERY e mail that is sent to me but note
if you have a Hotmail or Yahoo account then your system may put my reply into
your spam or trash folder if it doesn't recognise my e mail address so please
check. Please forgive any delay in reply but I do this work on my own and am
usually pretty swamped with new cases and other mail, and my own life. I WILL
get back to you though. No one is ignored.
This
week's featured cold cases:
(TBA)
NEW - Nicole's
Blog
*New section
- Homicide
(under construction)
*NEW - Alphabetical
list of all missing persons (a work in progress!)
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Police renew appeal to identify skeletal remains
2008-04-02
Detectives from Grafton are renewing their appeal for information to identify
skeletal remains located in the Iluka Beach Reserve in Iluka, northern NSW in
2003.
About 10.30am on Sunday 24 August 2003, Landcare workers inside the Iluka Rainforest
Nature Reserve located the skeletal remains and contacted police.
At the time the scene was secured and extensively examined by forensic officers
and Detectives from Coffs Clarence Local Area Command.
Detective Senior Constable Grahame Burke said forensic testing since this time
has determined the remains to be that of a male.
"The remains are believed to be those of a male aged somewhere between 18
and 50-years old,"
he said.
At the time he was located the deceased was wearing a pair of Levis brand
stonewash denim jeans (size 35), a pair of Quiksilver brand blue shorts, and an
'Ecko Unlimited' brand shirt.
NOTE -
The remains were found in 2003 but could have been there for at least 12
months prior to that. Are you missing a young man from approx. 2002 onwards? Do
these clothes look familiar? He might have come from any state, not just NSW.
He wore size 35/89cm jeans and I believe was wearing the shorts under
the jeans - does that ring a bell? Plus an Ecko Unlimited shirt that was not
authentic - did it come from a market?
This
is the design that would have been printed on the front of the t shirt, only in
white or silver?
"We are releasing images of the clothing items* in the hope friends or
family may recognise them and contact police, Detective Burke said
"All local inquiries and those involving the Missing Person Unit to date,
have been exhausted and we hope this appeal will lead to new information and
possibly provide closure for the family and friends of a missing person,"
Detective Burke
said.
Anyone with information that might assist investigating officers is urged to
contact Coffs / Clarence Local Area Command on (02) 66420222 or Crime Stoppers
on 1800 333 000.
New clues to
help ID mystery skeleton
April
03, 2008 - The Daily Examiner
POLICE
have not given up on their search to identify the bones of a mystery man found
in Iluka five years ago. Detectives from Grafton have renewed their appeal for information
by releasing photos of the clothing found on the body.
"All local
inquiries and those involving the Missing Person Unit to date, have been
exhausted and we hope this appeal will lead to new information and possibly
provide closure for the family and friends of a missing person," Detective
Senior Constable Grahame Burke said. When the body was found the man was
wearing a pair of Levis stonewash denim jeans (size 35), blue Quiksilver
shorts, and an 'Ecko Unlimited' brand shirt.
"It's a pretty identifiable
shirt so I'm hoping it might jog a person's memory," Detective Burke said.
Police do not suspect
the mystery man was from this area, so they have released the photos nationally
in the hope that friends or relatives of a missing person may recognise the
clothing.
"There are one or
two internet sites dedicated to missing persons and I'm hoping they will also
publish the photos," he said.
The bones were
discovered by Landcare workers inside the Iluka Rainforest Nature Reserve in August,
2003. Detective Burke said since then the bones had been sent to the United
States where forensic testing determined the remains to be that of a male aged
somewhere between 18 and 50 years. DNA samples have also been taken.
Detective Burke said if
a family member of the missing man does identify the clothing they can use the
DNA sample to confirm a match.
"We've got to use
every means at our disposal to give closure to a family out there who is
missing a loved one," he said.
Anyone with information
that might assist investigating officers should contact Coffs/Clarence Local
Area Command on 6642 0222 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Malcolm John NADEN
- Wanted for MURDER.
Malcolm has been on the run for two and a half years and is currently number
one on the NSW Police Missing Persons List. Click his name for my comprehensive
history into the manhunt for Malcolm.
Malcolm, it's been too long, you know you can't run forever. Nan will be
looking down on you from heaven with tears in her eyes. She loved you so much,
you know that. What do you think this is doing to Pop? He's already very sick,
and he worries every day about you.
It's time to end this. It's time to go back and turn yourself in and
tell someone what happened to Lateesha. It might not have been your fault.
There are people who can help you, but you need to go back and tell the truth.
We need to hear your side of the story. You know their voices in your head
won't stop until you go back and tell the truth. Tell us where Lateesha is.
Make Pop proud of you again, stop his suffering.
Are you missing? Have you found yourself on these
pages?
If you're missing, then you're missed.
Think about that for a moment. If someone has reported you missing then
you are loved and missed by someone, and that someone really needs to know
whether you are alive or dead. You don't have to go home, but you can at least
tell someone you are okay. You can go to or call any police station and report
simply that you are alive and well, or if you don't want to contact the police
you can talk to me - Nicole - 0438 900 861 or e
mail - nicole@australianmissingpersonsregister.com
or
austmissingpersons@supernerd.com.au
All the links you need are on these pages.
The police
definition for a missing person is “anyone whose whereabouts is unknown and
there are fears for the safety and welfare of that person”.
35,000 people
are reported missing in Australia each year – one every 15 minutes.
99.5 per cent
of people are located – 85 per cent within a week of being reported missing.
At present,
there are 1,600 long-term missing persons i.e. persons who have been missing
for more than one year.
Approximately
one-third of people go missing more than once.
Approximately
two-thirds of missing persons are under the age of 18 (i.e. 20,000).
The three at
risk groups of going missing are: people suffering from a mental illness;
youth; and the aged.
People go
missing for a variety of reasons – both voluntarily or involuntarily.
You do not
have to wait 24 hours before reporting someone as missing.
Going missing
is not a crime.
Australia has no national Police database for Missing Persons. This
means if someone goes missing in one state but travels over the border into
another state it can be very difficult to track and locate them. The aim of
this website is to gather as many missing persons files as I can and present
them in order to spread information throughout the country.
Tasmania and Victoria don't have Police Missing Persons websites
at all. I hope to fill a need with this site and get information out there to
help find these people. Police in every state of Australia do an outstanding
job but they are often lacking in resources and personnel - as the public
we need to help them wherever we can.
Locating a missing person, whether alive or deceased, is extremely
important to that person's friends and family. I welcome submissons from
families of the missing, I will include your story no matter how long they have
been missing. If your loved one went missing of their own accord it's quite
possible they will do an internet search on their own name, to see who might be
looking for them. If that happens, they
WILL find themselves on this website. For this
reason, I also encourage families to send a personal message to that loved one
via this website. It just might bring them home.
My
pledge to you, the families and friends of the missing, is that your loved one
will never be forgotten. I'll never stop looking for them.
PATRONS
I am honoured to have Esther McKay as one of the
Patrons of the Australian Missing Persons Register. You can read more about Esther
by clicking on her name.
Disclaimer -
This
is a solo and volunteer-maintained website. It is not affiliated with
any law enforcement agency or private investigators.
I DO NOT INVESTIGATE ANY MISSING PERSONS CASES MYSELF!
I only include missing persons cases that have been
reported to the Police officially. My information comes from official Police
Media Releases and official Missing Persons and Police websites and media
reposrts.
If you have information about the whereabouts of
any of the persons featured on my site please call one of the official phone
numbers listed on every page. In some cases, the number of the originating
police station where the report was lodged will be listed and they may be
contacted. I understand that contacting a police department may be
overwhelming and frightening for a missing person, so I can be contacted on the
above e mail address if you wish to use me as an intermediary between you and
the Police or Missing Persons departments HOWEVER I have an obligation to pass
along that information to the agencies that you are alive and well.
I will NEVER publish anything that compromises an
ongoing police investigation. If requested by a police department not to
publish certain information, I will always abide by that. My aim with this site
is not entertainment, it is location of the missing. If you are a law
enforcement official and you see something on the website that you feel may
compromise an investigation then please contact me immediately and I will
remove it.
All photos and information contained in the
missing persons' casefiles are the property of the original information
sources. No copyright infringement is intended. I try to give credit to every
news source where I have obtained information wherever possible and if I have
not I sincerely apologise and hope the authors will understand that the sole
aim of using the info is to help find missing persons. Most of the information
contained is from official Police Media Releases.
With relation to the above, if a media release has
been issued regarding a missing person, and the issuing police department fails
to issue an updated release regarding the location of the person, I cannot be
held responsible for the missing persons details being on the website after
they have been located. It is my priority to remove located missing persons as
soon as possible after I am informed they have been located. I made a request
to every State Police department in Australia for them to let me know when a
missing person has been located, and whilst some departments were very helpful
and willing to help me in this way, (thank you very much to Western Australia,
Northern Territory & South Australia Police!) which in turn helps them, I
was disappointed that the other States did not even answer my query. NSW Police
Missing Persons Unit has been extremely helpful and positive and all credit
must go to them for the excellent job they do and their willingness to work
with me. Thank you.
To contact AMPR - nicole@australianmissingpersonsregister.com or austmissingpersons@supernerd.com.au
or 0438 900 861
Why do I do this? Because the missing
can't speak for themselves.
THANK YOU to www.crowsnestshire.com
for donating the webspace to host this website - I am deeply
grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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