12 Year Old Tristan Paul Green Missing Since 6/4/15 from Neptune Beach, FL (Update: Found Safe)

12 year old Tristan Paul Green has been missing since June 4, 2015 from Neptune Beach, Florida. The 6th grader was last seen at 4:15 p.m on Thursday at the Fletcher Middle School. The Duval County School Board Police Department, Jacksonville Beach Police Department, Neptune Beach Police Department, and Atlantic Beach Police Department are all assisting with the search. Tristan Paul Green was last seen wearing blue jean pants, black colored shirt with a Hurley logo with a soft cast on his left arm.

Missing: Tristan Paul Green

If any one has any information regarding Tristan Paul Green, please contact the Duval County School Board Police Department (904) 855-3319.  You can also provide an anonymous tip by contacting Crime Stoppers at (866) 845-TIPS.

UPDATE I: Missing Fletcher Middle School student found safe.

Missoula, MT Police, Issue Advisory for Missing 6 Year Old Callen Cassidy-Robinson & 1 Year Old Sula Cassidy-Robinson Last seen in Twin Falls, Idaho (Update: Children Found Safe in Utah)

Missoula, Montana Police have issued a MEPA, Missing/Endangered Person Advisory, for two missing children, 6 year old Callen Cassidy-Robinson and 1 year old Sula Cassidy-Robinson. The children are believed to be in danger and were taken by their non-custodial mother Heather Lynn Cassidy.  Investigators state that Callen Cassidy-Robinson and Sula Cassidy-Robinson were last seen in Twin Falls on May 3, 2015. They are believed to be traveling in a silver 2001 PT Cruiser with Montana plates BFC602.

MISSING: 6 Year Old Callen Cassidy-Robinson (left) & 1 Year Old Sula Cassidy-Robinson (right)

The MEPA poster can be seen HERE.

The Missoula Police Department requested the MEPA for Callen Cassidy-Robinson (6-year old boy) and Sula Cassidy-Robinson (1-year old girl).

The children are believed to be in danger and were taken by their non-custodial mother Heather Lynn Cassidy.

Cassidy is a white woman, 6′ tall, about 140 pounds, with red hair and hazel eyes.

They were last seen in Twin Falls, Idaho, on May 3, 2015 in a silver 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser with Montana license plate BFC602.

If you have information on their whereabouts, you’re asked to call the Missoula Police Department at 406-552-6300, or your local law-enforcement agency.

UPDATE I:  Missing Missoula children found safe in Utah.

The alert for two missing and endangered children out of Missoula has been canceled.

Authorities say Callen Cassidy Robinson, 6, and Sula Cassidy Robinson, 1, have been found in the Salt Lake City area and are doing fine.

The car involved in the incident was located in Twin Falls, Idaho on Friday morning.

The alert was issued Thursday evening by Missoula police. The children’s non-custodial mother – Heather Lynn Cassidy – is accused of taking the kids.

Officials have not said if the mother was located.

57 Year Old Linda McLaughlin Missing Since 6/1/15 in Sunset Hills, MO

57 year old Linda McLaughlin has been missing since Monday, June 1, 2015 in Sunset Hills, Missouri. McLaughlin was last seen Monday night at about 7 PM by friends. Linda McLaughlin lives in the 9100 block of Meadowglen Lane. Her friends reported her missing on Tuesday. Police suspect foul play. According to court documents, McLaughlin and her estranged husband are in the midst of divorce proceedings after 35 years of marriage and were due in Court for a settlement hearing on Thursday, June 4. McLaughlin filed for divorce in December.

Now, Sunset Hills Police have turned the case over to the St. Louis County Crimes Against Persons Unit. St. Louis County Police say this case is different from most missing person cases they handle because McLaughlin is described as a very reliable person. Friends and family tell police it is highly unusual for her not to be in contact with them.

Police say McLaughlin’s phone is off and her vehicle is missing. It is described as a brown 2008 Buick Enclave with Missouri license plates: KA9-L4R.

According to court documents, McLaughlin and her husband are in the midst of divorce proceedings. They are due in court for a settlement hearing Thursday morning.

UPDATE I: Family pleads for information on missing Sunset Hills woman.

St. Louis County Police are searching for a missing Sunset Hills woman and her family is pleading for help. Police were contacted about 57-year-old Linda McLaughlin Tuesday morning. She wasn’t home when she was supposed to take care of her grandchildren.  Police said family members told them this was totally out of character for the woman.  Her oldest son John McLaughlin said, “We’re just asking anybody if they have information about my mom and come out and provide any information you may have.”

The couple has a business in Fenton; it’s a hoist and crane company.  A web site indicates that Linda McLaughlin is the owner of the company and her husband john is general manager.

If anyone has any information about McLaughlin’s whereabouts, please call the St. Louis County Police Department at (314) 889-2341.

36 Year Old Davina Marie Rasa Missing Since 5/24/15 in Hopatcong, NJ (Update: Parents Say Their Daughter Found Safe)

36 year old Davina Marie Rasa has been missing since May 24, 2015 in Hopatcong, New Jersey.  According to Wayne Police Capt. Laurence Martin, Davina Marie Rasa was last seen by her roommate in Hopatcong on May 24 and has been reported missing by her parents. Her credit cards were last used in Lima, Ohio and at a Quality Inn Suites in Columbus, Ohio on May 25.

Missing: Davina Marie Rasa -pic via Wayne Police Department

Rasa, who is 5’7 and weighs 275 pounds, has red/auburn hair and a 2-inch scar on her throat from surgery, Martin said.

Authorities said she drives a silver 2011 Nissan Juke with the license plate L60DCC and her last known credit card activity occurred on May 25 in Lima, Ohio and at a Quality Inn Suites in Columbus, Ohio.

If anyone has any information or can help authorities locate Rasa is asked to contact Wayne Police Detective Dennis Ferray at 973-633-3535 or the Hopatcong Police Department at 973-398-3535

UPDATE I: On Facebook, Parents Say their Daughter has Been Found.

Good News!!!!

It is important that we let everyone know that we have located our daughter Davina tonight. She is safe! Our family Thanks You for all of the help and prayers in finding her …. Especially Jim Wood,Vinnie Keogh,Wayne PD:Detectives Ferray, Clark, Malenich, Lt.Daly,Lake Hopatcong Detectives,Woodland Park Chief Gallietti, Paterson police Jerry Speziale and the D’Arco family. As well as all of Davina’s friends and family who made phone calls sent messages and helped get the word out. In this day and age it is important to acknowledge the effort that was put in on my families behalf. We sincerely thank you from the bottom of our hearts, from our family to yours. David & Diane Rasa

10 Years Later: Searching in Aruba for Natalee Holloway … The Search of the Aruba Landfill in 2005 for Missing Natalee Holloway (PICS)

THE LANDFILL SEARCH FOR NATALEE HOLLOWAY … PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST AND WORST THINGS I HAVE EVER DONE …

On July 23, 2005 Scared Monkeys conducted an interactive, town hall style  on-line interview with Tim Miller of Texas Equusearch, the non-profit search team that had been searching for Natalee Holloway in Aruba since she had gone missing on May 30, 2005.  Texas Equusearch had been flooded with emails of encouragement and tips from the many followers and readers at Scared Monkeys that Tim granted the interview. Interactive web interviews are commonplace today, needless to say they were not in 2005 and the logistics to make it happen was nothing short of a miracle. Following the interview as I thanked Tim Miller on the phone and for TES’s great work in their search for Natalee Holloway, Mr. Miller did an amazing thing … he asked if I wanted to go to Aruba and help search for Natalee. Once we cleared up some logistics and made sure that we could pay for the ticket to Aruba ourselves so not to impose on TES or have them divert any funds from the search on our account, we let it be known that Red was going to Aruba to search with Texas Equusearch.

Returning to Aruba, a place where my family had vacationed since the 1970′s, long before the many high-rise hotels and wining vacations there on game shows. Aruba, a place where I got to know so many families, who treated us as one of their own and a place where I had even dated an Aruban girl, who’s family was pretty well connected. Talk about your long distance relationship, before the days of social media and Facetime or Skype. A place where I hung out with more locals than tourists. Aruba, a place where I lived and worked as well. Now I was going back to help find Natalee Holloway.

I have to admit i was not sure what I was getting into and was not sure which searches I would be doing, land, water, both? I had told Tim that I was going to be a member of the search team first and reporting on the story second. Little did I realize than just a couple days before going to Aruba that that I would be helping search in the Aruba landfill as The witness claimed he saw the men dumping the body on the afternoon of June 1. The following article discusses the landfill search on such a generic and antiseptic way. Let me just say it was far from that and maybe one of the most rewarding and disgusting thing I have ever done in my life.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

A volunteer group searching for Natalee Holloway dug through a landfill for a third day Sunday but found no clues, while the missing teen’s mother left Aruba for the first time since her daughter disappeared two months ago.

Crews equipped with trained dogs, a bulldozer and a tractor hoe dug 15 holes in a landfill where a witness claims he saw men dump and cover a female body two days after Holloway disappeared, said Robert Cook, spokesman for the volunteer Texas EquuSearch, which is coordinating the landfill effort.

Searches at the landfill Friday and Saturday also produced no sign of Holloway.

THE LANDFILL SEARCH FOR NAYALEE HOLLOWAY.

From July 30, 2005 … Red searched the landfill from 10 AM till 3 PM. He said it was one of the foulest and god awful smelling places he has ever been in. For three days we searched the landfill and for every hole that was dug to a certain level, some one then had to get into it to do a more fine search with rakes and shovels. The picture below taken by a digital camera, although it looks grainy. That would be because of the constant Aruba trade wind blowing all the sand and crap in the dump around.

During the landfill search, I not only searched for Natalee Holloway with the members of Texas Equusearch, I also was digging next to her dad, Dave Holloway. I thought to myself as we were digging in the worst filth and the most disgusting stench that I had ever experienced in my life, I so wanted to help this man and find his daughter. Then I thought to myself in the next second, it might not be the best thing to happen when he was present. It was one thing to take part in this search, another thing to find human remains in a landfill, but quite a different thing to have to see a grown man break down in uncontrollable tears and emotions if we actually found her. This was the roller-coaster of thoughts and emotions that took place ever day as we searched for Natalee Holloway.

This search will forever be seared in my mind, body and soul … as previously stated, one of the best and worst things I have ever done in my life.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

Unlike most landfills in America where those in charge can locate and track what was dumped where and when, Aruba had no such tracking system. Imagine that. Instead, we had to go by the witness as to what area of the landfill he thought he saw the vehicle and where the dump site was. All the while the witness covered his face for fear of being recognized and to prevent the foulness from getting into his nose and mouth. So how did we know how far down to dig or where to dig holes? At a certain point we got in the holes and looked that the daily news papers that were thrown away to see what date they were to find the date just before May 30, 2005. That was the methodology.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

And for every hole that was dug like the one above, when we got to what we thought was close enough to the correct proximity of time, some one had to get into the hole and comb throw it to see if we made needed to dig deeper or had to use a rake, shovel and your hands to search. That would be yours truly in the blue shirt in the hole.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

And all the while Red and the members of Texas Equusearch were in the landfill in some of the most foul and hideous conditions trying to help Beth and Dave find their daughter on a witness tip we were following up on, the media was kicking their feet up from a distance trying to get a picture with their telephoto lenses.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

Or better yet, a close up of the media getting a sun tan while we are in the landfill busting our butts to get some closure for the Holloway/Twitty/Reynold’s family.

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005

Picture via Scared Monkeys – 2005