17 Year Old Rachel Pires Missing Since 5/7/15 in Stilwell, KS

17 year old Rachel Pires has been missing since Thursday, May 7, 2015 in Stilwell, Kansas. Rachel was last seen on May 7th when she left her home and has not been seen from since. According to reports, she is without her medication that she takes daily. The police are asking for the public’s help in locating Rachel Pires.

Missing – Rachel Pires

She’s 5’5? and weighs approximately 120 pounds. The sheriff’s office says the medication she needs is taken on a daily basis and she doesn’t have it with her. It’s currently unknown what she was wearing when she left home.

UPDATE I: Deputies seek help locating missing Stilwell teen – Rachel Pires left home Thursday for Lenexa hotel.

Police said she took her cat and went to a Lenexa hotel. Rachel’s mother told KMBC 9 News that her daughter sent a text on Friday to say she was OK, but she hasn’t heard from her since then.

If you have seen her or know where she is, call the Johnson County sheriff’s office at (913) 826-1161.

Sisters, 15 Year Old Ky-Lea Fortner & 13 Year Old Shaeleen Fortner Missing Since 4/27/15 in Binghamton, NY

Two sisters, 15 year old Ky-Lea Fortner and 13 year old Shaeleen Fortner have been missing since April 27, 2015 in Binghamton, New York.  According the New York State police, both of the girls live with their foster family in the Town of Binghamton where they were last seen at their Susquehanna Valley school waiting to get on the school bus at the end of the school day.

Ky-Lea Fortner (left) – Shaeleen Fortner (rt)

According state police, both of the girls live with their foster family in the Town of Binghamton.

They were last seen at their Susquehanna Valley school waiting to get on the school bus at the end of the day, according to troopers.

Ky-Lea Fortner, 15, is described as a white female who is about 5’6” tall and thin build. She has medium-red hair, blue eyes and a lip piercing. Ky-Lea was last seen wearing a white shirt, army pants and grey boots, state police said.

Shaeleen Fortner, 13, is described as a white female who is about 5’2” tall with a thin build. She has short dark brown hair and brown eyes. State police said Shaeleen was last seen wearing a black tank top, black leggings and Converse sneakers.

If anyone has any information regarding the two missing teens, please call the New York State Police at (607) 775-1241.

23 Year Old Penn State Student Jon Steindorf Missing Since 5/8/15 in State College, PA (Update: Lied to Parents about Graduation & Attending Classes)(Update: Found Safe)

23 year old Penn State student Jon Steindorf has been missing since Friday, May 8, 2015 in State College, Pennsylvania. According to reports, the PSU student vanished just before his graduation. Stendort was last seen by his roommate at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. Steindorf was reported missing when he did not meet his family to go to his Penn State graduation Friday at around 4 p.m. at his Pugh Street apartment. He did not return any of his family’s phone calls or messages.

Missing – Jon Steindorf

Steindorf was reported missing when he did not meet his family to go to his Penn State graduation Friday at around 4 p.m.

Police describe Steindorf as a 23-year-old white male, 5’10” tall, 170 lbs with  brown hair and blue eyes. He may have his black Specialized bicycle with him and a red backpack.

He left his apartment on Pugh Street without any form of identification, credit/debit cards, keys, phone, and potentially money, according to a social media post circulating among Steindorf’s family and friends.

UPDATE I: Police search for missing Penn State student.

“The police have gone through his apartment, talked to his roommate and took his phone for forensic analysis,” the woman said. “We’ve been in contact with all his friends, everybody they know, and really are just at a loss as to his whereabouts.”

A friend told the publication she’s checking his usual haunts. She hasn’t found him.

Joanne Steindorf said her son always let friends and family know his whereabouts.

UPDATE II:  Parents thought missing man was graduating from Penn State.

It would appear that this kid was not being honest about graduating from college or even attending classes. I am not sure how long this missing student thought he could continue this charade; however, it is nothing to do anything extreme over. Is it an embarrassment, yes. But your parents just want you back safe and sound.

The parents of a missing 23-year-old State High graduate thought they’d be attending his graduation from Penn State this weekend.

As it turned out, Jon Steindorf had not enrolled last fall and had mysteriously vanished on Friday.

Steindorf was reported missing by his family Friday evening, a few hours after they went to his Pugh Street apartment at 4 p.m. to pick him up for Penn State commencement exercises.

His father, Paul Steindorf, said Sunday that he learned his son was not set to graduate this weekend, although Jon Steindorf told his parents that he wrapped up studies in the fall semester and delayed graduation until this spring.

“We thought he’d graduate, and that was our understanding that he completed fall classes and he delayed graduation until now, but the most recent information we received was he was not on the list to graduate,” Paul Steindorf said. “Apparently he wasn’t enrolled this fall.”

UPDATE III: Missing Penn State student lied to parents about graduation.

Jon Steindorf’s parents thought they were coming to State College to pick up their son after this weekend’s graduation from Penn State University. But as graduation approached, they learned that not only wasn’t their son graduating; he hasn’t been enrolled in Penn State since the fall.

And now, Jon Steindorf, 23, is missing.

WTAJ reports that State College Police are now looking for a missing Penn State student. His parents last spoke with Jon Steindorf Thursday.

Anyone with more information is asked to contact State College police at 814-234-7150.

UPDATE IV: Missing Penn State student found Safe.

A Penn State student reported missing by his parents last week has been found, and is safe and unharmed, State College police said Monday afternoon.

State College Police Department Media Release: The missing person has been located, is safe and unharmed.

17 Year Old Elizabeth Nicole Purvis Missing Since 5/5/15 in Ashland, VA

17 year old Elizabeth Nicole Purvis has been missing since Tuesday, May 5, 2015 in Ashland, Virginia. She was last seen around 10 p.m. Tuesday when she left her house. Ashland Police believe Purvis left home voluntarily, but police are concerned for her well-being.

Missing: Elizabeth Nicole Purvis

Elizabeth Nicole Purvis was last seen around 10 p.m. Tuesday when she left her house. She has spoken with law enforcement by phone since then, but police are still worried about her safety.

The Ashland Police Department is asking for the community’s helping finding her, even though they don’t suspect foul play.

Elizabeth is 5’11”, 200 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes. She has multiple facial piercings and gauged ears. She is also known to wear wigs.

Anyone with information regarding Elizabeth’s location should call (804) 730-6140 or (804) 798-1227.

Judge Maxwell Wiley Declared a Mistrial in the Etan Patz Missing Child/Murder Case … Single Holdout Said He Could Not Vote to Convict Pedro Hernandez

JUDGE DECLARES MISTRIAL EVEN THOUGH SUSPECT HAD CONFESSED TO THE CRIME …

On Friday, the Judge Maxwell Wiley declared a mistrial in the Etan Patz missing child/murder trial as the jury after deliberating for three weeks could not reach a unanimous verdict. In the end, a lobe juror was the hold out as the jury was deadlocked, 11-1. The lone holdout juror, Adam C. Sirois, said to reporters following the trial, “Ultimately I couldn’t find enough evidence that was not circumstantial to convict.  I couldn’t get there.” The lone juror, Juror #11, could not find it in himself to convict the kidnapping and murder suspect, Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to the murder? Etan Patz was the 6 year old boy who vanished while walking to a school bus stop in SoHo, NYC in 1979. His body has never been found.

A judge declared a mistrial in the Etan Patz case on Friday after jurors said for a third time that they could not reach a verdict despite three weeks of deliberation, leaving unresolved a missing-child case that vexed New York City for decades and led to a sea change in the way Americans view the security of their children.

After a four-month trial and 18 days of deliberation, the jury of seven men and five women said they were firmly deadlocked, 11 to 1, with a single holdout saying that he could not vote to convict Pedro Hernandez, 54, a disabled factory worker from New Jersey, of murder and kidnapping.

“Ultimately I couldn’t find enough evidence that was not circumstantial to convict,” the juror, Adam C. Sirois, told reporters during a news conference. “I couldn’t get there.”

Making it some what troubling for this mistrial and the decision by one lone juror not to convict Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to the murder. So what happens next? The mistrial leaves District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. with a difficult decision, to  either pursue another costly trial with the same evidence that failed to convince the first jury or allow a man who confessed to murdering a child to go free.

51 year old Pedro Hernandez has confessed to the murder of then 6 year old Etan Patz.  Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, NJ, has been arrested in the 1979 death and disappearance of Etan Patz. According to accounts, Hernandez admitted to luring the Etan into the store with candy, strangling him, and placing the body in a box. Hernandez stated that he put the box out with the trash and when he came back later, the box was gone.

A man has been arrested in the 1979 disappearance of a 6-year-old New York City boy. It’s the first arrest ever made in a case that helped give rise to the nation’s missing-children movement.

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, N.J., has been arrested in the killing of Etan Patz (AY’-tahn payts). It’s not immediately clear whether Hernandez has a lawyer.

Kelly says Hernandez confessed to the crime. Hernandez worked at a convenience store near Etan’s Manhattan home. A law enforcement official says Hernandez told investigators this week he suffocated the boy and left his body in a box in an alley

Post Mistrial News Conference

Stanley Patz, the father of Etan, said following the judge declared a mistrial in the trial of his son’s murder, “We have come to the conclusion that Pedro Hernandez is guilty to crimes of which he has confessed beyond any reasonable doubt.” Mr. Patz stated following the mistrial that the family was very disappointed and frustrated that the jury was unable to come to a decision, “our long ordeal is not over”.