CUE's Case File - Loretta Ann Logue (new)

Report taken at CUE : Baltimore Police Department SE District on 2/6/2007
Case Number - # 06-2K6922 Badge Number Officer 1705 (Jurado)
DOB - 7/16/1960
Age - 46
Height - 5'6
Weight - 110
Eyes - Brown
Hair - Brown (with a gray streak on the right side)
Disappearance Date - 11/6/2006
Loretta was last seen at her residence in Baltimore Maryland and spoke to her husband on the phone 20 minutes be she vanished. Nothing was amiss in the home and all of her belongings were left behind except for a set of house keys. Loretta is a recovering heroin addict and has been clean 14 months and on the methadone treatment program which had been successful. She calls her mother daily and loves her family; she has not been heard from or seen by anyone. Please post and forward. If you live in the area and can help contact CUE Center for Missing Persons, thank you.

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Laws for the Missing

Hello Everyone
This is an example of what you can do in your state for future missing person cases and have your loved one honored if you choose. Please support the effort as CUE Center is in North Carolina and contact your legislation for help. If you are interested and need help please let us know. Below you will find one of our cases making efforts to change things in their state. Thank you

Push is on to improve search for missing - Madison woman's case prompts action

By Lesley Stedman Weidenbener
The Courier-Journal



INDIANAPOLIS -- The cousin of a missing Madison woman is working with state lawmakers to establish new procedures for police to follow when adults are reported missing.

Bills introduced in the House and Senate also would require police to collect DNA evidence for people who are missing as well as from unidentified bodies and put them in the same national database so matches can be found more quickly.



"It's going to save time and save money if things are done right in the beginning," said Keri Dattilo, whose cousin Molly Dattilo of Madison disappeared more than two years ago.

Molly Dattilo was in Indianapolis attending summer classes when she vanished. She has not been located.

"This legislation helps law enforcement prioritize cases," Keri Dattilo said. "My family and I just don't want to have any other families go through the experience we went through. We want to see some changes."

Molly Dattilo's brother reported her missing two days after she disappeared. But although police took a report, her cousin said, they did not seem to consider the situation serious for several weeks.

According to the Dattilo family, Molly did not take her money, car or other belongings. Keri Dattilo said that kind of situation should prompt a more intense investigation.

Last month, Scott Robinett, the deputy chief of investigations for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, said the Dattilo investigation continues as a "missing persons case" but not necessarily a criminal one.

House Bill 1306 and Senate Bill 464 establish criteria for police to determine whether an adult is a "high risk missing person" and then sets out procedures for dealing with those cases.

It also requires police to provide family with contact information for missing-persons organizations and to collect DNA evidence for anyone missing more than 30 days.

The bills are based on model legislation prepared by the U.S. Justice Department and pushed by groups that serve as advocates for families of missing people.

The House bill, written by Rep. Dave Cheatham, D-North Vernon, is tentatively scheduled to be heard in the House Veterans Affairs and Public Safety Committee on Feb. 15. Dattilo plans to come to Indianapolis to testify.

The state police already have raised questions about implementing some of the procedures outlined in the bill and are working with Cheatham on amendments. He said those will be introduced at the February hearing.

"This is model legislation, so there are always going to be changes to make it work for a specific state," Cheatham said. "I think we can work it out."

The Senate bill, written by Sen. Connie Sipes, D-New Albany, has not been scheduled for a hearing.

Capt. Sherry Beck, the legislative liaison for the state police, said the department doesn't oppose the ideas in the bills. But they might go too far.

"The way the current bill is written, if a man with a green hat was standing on the corner and somebody noticed he was there a few days and then he's not, they could walk into the police department and say the man was missing and the police would have to do a report," Beck said. "He may not be missing, but we would have to assign resources to it."

Police often receive calls about people who haven't shown up for work and are feared missing or about people who are trying to escape an abusive spouse and don't want to be found. As written, bills don't account for those situations, Beck said.

"Currently what we do is ask enough specific questions and find out whether there is an issue," she said.

The model legislation suggested by the Justice Department has been adopted in some form in Washington, Colorado and the District of Columbia, said Kelly Jolkowski, founder and president of Nebraska-based Project Jason, a group that helps families. But she expects all states will make some changes.

She's recruiting volunteers, including Keri Dattilo, to try to get the legislation passed across the country. Dattilo also is working to get the bill passed in California, where she lives.

Volunteers also are active in Oregon, Connecticut, Ohio, Tennessee, Florida and Missouri. Jolkowski said she doesn't have a volunteer working in Kentucky, although she said she's always looking for help.

"So many missing persons are lost in the system because the right steps aren't taken," Jolkowski said "These procedures will hopefully resolve cases quicker."

More than six years ago, Jolkowski's son Jason, then 19, disappeared from their home. He was last seen dragging trashcans up the driveway from the curb. He has not been found.

Jolkowski said a key of the proposed legislation is the DNA procedures, which would allow law enforcement with a missing person in one jurisdiction to link the case to an unidentified body in another place.

Currently, she said, many states allow unidentified bodies to be buried or cremated without ever obtaining DNA that could be used to identify them later. The bills would prevent unidentified bodies from being cremated.

"This is about connecting the dots," Jolkowski said. "There's an average of about 105,000 open missing-persons cases at any one time, and there's an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 unidentified remains. Who knows how many other bodies out there have been buried or cremated without identification, with families somewhere without knowledge of what happened."


Monica Caison
CUE Center for Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687 24 Hour Line
Email: cuecenter@aol.com
Website: http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/

A year without Teresa Butler RISCO, Mo.

That's a question the 400 residents of this rural New Madrid County town want answered. Fliers for the missing woman hang from the windows of the lone convenience store along Highway 62. Every Sunday, the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Risco says a prayer for her. Along with Butler's family, they pray for answers.

New Madrid County Sheriff Terry Stevens thinks she met with foul play. So does her husband, Dale Butler. Her parents, Don and Linda Buchanan, say they think Dale knows more about her disappearance than he's telling.

Dale Butler says he last told his wife "I love you" at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006, before leaving for his night shift at Maverick Tube in Blytheville, Ark. When he returned home at 9:30 the next morning, he found the couple's 5-year-old son Gavin huddled under a blanket on their bed and 3-year-old Garhett asleep on a love seat in the bedroom. His wife, 35 at the time, was nowhere to be found.

A year and a week later, no sign of Teresa Butler has been found.

"I know she's out there somewhere," Dale Butler said last week from the couple's home. "I know God is watching over her. I can guarantee that."

Teresa's parents live about a mile down the road from the Butlers' house on County Road 241. It's been a difficult year for the Buchanans.

"I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone," Linda Buchanan said.

About 4 p.m. the day before Teresa was reported missing, Linda Buchanan walked along the road, picking up aluminum cans. She says when she walked in front of her daughter's house, although she saw nothing unusual, she could sense something was wrong.

"I knew that something was going to happen that night, I just didn't know what. I felt a pull from that house, but I didn't go in there," she said. "I will go to my grave wondering what would have happened if I went in there that afternoon."

The disappearance has baffled the sheriff, who has been with the department for 23 years. "We're not much further along in the investigation than we were a year ago," Stevens said.

The sheriff's department, the Southeast Missouri Major Case Squad and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have interviewed dozens of people and investigated more than 100 leads. "We've come up with nothing," Stevens said.

As each day passes, the leads get fewer and fewer. The last credible lead the department received was at the end of December. Investigators searched an area in Tallapoosa, Mo., a small town about five miles south of Teresa Butler's home.

"There were rumors circulating that she was buried in the area, so we felt it was worth our time to check it out," Stevens said. "Either we would find her or dispel the rumor."

Investigators found nothing during the two-day search. Other rumors about what happened to Teresa continue to circulate through Risco. The Buchanans and their other four children have strong suspicions that her husband knows what happened to her.

"If I was sure Dale Butler had killed Teresa Butler, he wouldn't be here now," Don Buchanan said. "I assure you he knows what happened to her, though."

However, the Buchanans still speak to their son-in-law and baby-sit the couple's children, Gavin and Garhett.

Dale Butler is aware that his in-laws think he knows what happened to Teresa and is aware of the rumors about the case. Dale and two other people were given polygraph tests and passed them.

"Some of the rumors are disappointing," he said. "I love Teresa. She's a good person and the best person I've ever met. We've been together for nine years, and I love that woman."

Dale Butler said he doesn't know what happened to his wife that January night. But like others in Risco, he's thought about what may have occurred.

"I think someone was stealing something from the house that night, and they did something to Teresa," he said.

After he returned home from work the morning Teresa was reported missing, a PlayStation 2, several games, a digital camera and a stereo from the couple's Jeep were gone, he said.

A therapist who interviewed the children reported that they were sleeping when Teresa must have left the house.

Lewis Scott, pastor of First Baptist Church of Risco, has known the Butler family for several years. The couple and their sons are members of the church.

"Things like this aren't supposed to happen here," Scott said. "Maybe in a big city you forget about things like this after a while, but here in Risco we don't ever forget."

Scott, who has lived in Risco most of his life, has heard the rumors about the case but dismisses most of them, including the one about Dale Butler's involvement with his wife's disappearance.

"There's no doubt in my mind. He had nothing to do with it," Scott said. "A man who has tears in his eyes a year later every time he talks about his wife couldn't have done anything to her."

Stevens, the sheriff, can't say for certain whether Teresa Butler was abducted or if she left of her own free will. But he has an intuition.

"I feel like she was abducted. It has been over a year, and there's no trace, sign or any evidence that she walked off on her own," Stevens said. "It's hard for me to believe, as a parent and husband, that this lady threw up her hands and said 'I'm leaving' without telling anyone."

In either case, reports of missing adults can be difficult to investigate, area sheriff's departments say.

"An adult can walk off anytime he or she wants," said Leo McElrath, chief deputy sheriff in Bollinger County. "As an adult, you have the right to not come home. It may be out of character, but you haven't done anything wrong."

Lt. David James of the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department said the department receives a few reports of missing adults during a year, but most leave on their own and turn up several days later.

"Sometimes the missing person cases turn out to be foul play, but then you've got the cases like the runaway bride," James said, referring to the 2005 case where a Georgia woman disappeared to avoid her wedding.

The Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department only has one unsolved case of a missing adult. Linda Crites of Jackson was reported missing in 1983. "After 23 years, we believe she was a victim of foul play," James said.

Stevens can't prove it yet, but he believes Teresa Butler was a victim of foul play, too.

"Someone knows what happened to her," Stevens said. "We just have to find that person."

Anyone with information about Teresa Butler's disappearance is asked to call Stevens at (573) 748-2516.

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335-6611, extension 246


Monica Caison
CUE Center for Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687 24 Hour Line
Email: cuecenter@aol.com
Website: http://www.ncmissingpersons.org/

Missing adults and Children

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missing Children

William ( Billy ) Smolinski, Jr

02/06/2007
Missing adults: a difference in attitude
By: Amanda Falcone , Staff
William and Janice Smolinski of Cheshire hold a photograph of their son, William Jr., who has been missing since August of 2004.
CHESHIRE - Using a paper map, they began searching for their son more than two years ago. Today, they are still looking for William P. Smolinski Jr., but with the help of the FBI.William Smolinski Jr. has been missing since Aug. 24, 2004. He was 31 at the time. Several photos of him are plastered on posters that offer a $15,000 reward for his return or the recovery of his body. His parents buy the posters in bulk, but say they often get torn down.
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Police were not aware of resources such as the FBI's Combined DNA Index System, an exchange of electronic DNA samples that can be accessed by federal, state and local crime labs, she said."I'm not picking on the Waterbury Police Department," Janice Smolinski said. "I think it's a national problem."Sgt. Christopher Corbett, a Waterbury police spokesman, said it would be inappropriate to comment on the investigation Monday. The FBI also declined to comment. Police do not receive enough training about missing persons, and there is also not enough communication between the police and a state medical examiner, Janice Smolinski said, adding that she hopes that will change in Connecticut this year. In Connecticut, all state police officers receive four hours of training on how to handle missing person investigations, but there is no requirement for local police departments to follow state policy, and there is also no uniform policy that local police must follow. State law does not address missing adults.Legislation proposed by state Reps. Vickie O. Nardello, D-Prospect, and Stephen D. Dargan, D-West Haven, would establish protocol involving missing persons for state and local police, require police to receive more training on how to handle missing persons and demand more contact between the state medical examiner and police departments.The bill, which is being considered by the General Assembly's Public Safety and Security Committee, would also make the removal or defacing of wanted or missing person posters a misdemeanor. "The statutes are lacking in this area," Nardello said. Dargan, co-chairman of the Public Safety and Security Committee, could not be reached for comment Monday, but several members of the state committee said they were supportive of such a bill last week "This is a deeply troubling issue," said Rep. Steven T. Mikutel, D-Griswold. Nardello was prompted to submit a proposal on missing persons because of a meeting with Janice Smolinski, she said. She received a phone call and agreed to meet at the Smolinskis' home for tea, she said. "It started out as a conversation between a legislator and a constituent, but it quickly became a conversation mother to mother," Nardello said. And Nardello is not the only legislator Janice Smolinski has addressed. She testified at a Public Safety and Security Committee hearing last week."Police are quick to respond to the report of a missing child, but there are hundreds of cases of missing adults that are not handled with proper seriousness," she said. "When it comes to a missing adult, it just seems like it's treated differently."Janice Smolinski said she knows there is a difference just by hearing people's comments. '"He's an adult,'" she said people told her. '"He'll be back.'"Age should not matter, Nardello said. "The fact is that they are missing," she said. Jessica Norton, a victim advocate for Survivors of Homicide, also said missing children are often handled differently by the media. When children are missing, she said they often receive attention because they have been murdered or kidnapped. While her nonprofit organization helps people cope with the murder of a loved one, it also reaches out to those who have missing family members. William and Janice Smolinski belong to the group, which meets monthly in Southington. Being a part of Survivors of Homicide is one of several ways the Smolinski family is dealing with their frustrations, anger and grief. William and Janice Smolinski also attend the Community United Effort Center for Missing Persons' national conferences and correspond regularly with people throughout the country who have missing children or adults."We like to be with the people who are dealing with the same thing," William Smolinski said."We are trying to deal with everything in a positive way," Janice Smolinski added. "If you didn't, you'd probably go into a deep depression." Janice Smolinski said she spends hours on the computer researching the latest investigative techniques, and she is working with people across the country to advocate for more federal funding for the FBI's DNA database and for the National Center for Missing Adults."She's really done her homework," William Smolinski said. "She surprises me."Backlog for data to be entered into the FBI's DNA database is not due to insufficient funding, FBI Special Agent Ann Todd said. Any backlog is due to the number of cases submitted and the laboratory processing the samples, she said. Advocacy has helped keep William and Janice Smolinski's minds busy. They are trying to make sure that other parents do not have the same experiences that they have had, they said."Each step is a step forward," Janice Smolinski said.William Smolinski Jr.'s birthday was last month, but his parents could not celebrate with him. Instead, they hung up more signs, which they said were torn down. They have decorated bulletin boards, combed the Naugatuck River Valley and have learned quickly about state laws and forensics.But there is still no trace of William Smolinski Jr. "The FBI has Billy's case now, and I have to leave it to them," Janice Smolinski said.

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Tina and Bethany Sinclair

"Tina and Bethany Sinclair vanished without a trace on this date (Feb. 4, 2001). They have not been seen nor heard from since. At the time of their disappearance, they were living with a registered sex offender and an individual who had a past history of abuse towards women. To date, he has been uncooperative with police. Please take a look at their website and pass this along to your friends and acquaintances. Let's not forget Tina and Bethany. They still need to be found."


http://missingtinaandbeth.org/

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