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Todd Matthews

Todd Matthews

living in Livingston, TN
   
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TOTAL VIEWS: 36,655|PUBLISHED CONTENT: 117|FAVORITED BY: 9|CONTENT PRODUCER SINCE: 08/27/2006

www.TentGirl.com http://blogs.discovery.com/sleuth_truth/

Education/Experience: High School

Interests: Missing, Murdered & Unidentified Persons

Motto: "...there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." - - Mat

Affiliations: Project EDAN, Doe Network, Missing Pieces

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Missing woman 23-year-old and her car just vanished; her savings account left untouched
Guest: Donna Weaver - Wife of "Gary Weaver", Area Director for Doe Network and Private Investigator
Anyone who was alive in Harlan County in 1969 probably remembers the story of a young woman found stabbed to death on Pine Mountain.
Nearly 19 years later, John Doe identified as missing "Todd Martin Smith"
On April 1, 2008, cold case detectives James Scharf and David Heitzman along with the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office, had Jane Doe's remains exhumed from her unmarked grave at Cypress Lawn...
Our hearts and prayers go out to all families who are missing their loved ones. Prayers for justice, closure, equality and accountablility!
NOW THEREFORE, I Matt Blunt, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, do hereby proclaim June 17, 2008 as MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS AWARENESS DAY
NCIC Statistics are provided by the FBI-NCIC for media relations -- USA & Canada
I have been eyeing a combined National Missing and Unidentified Persons Day. And some dedicated people have made it happen already on the state level in Missouri.
Most went missing or died while going to or returning from a Grateful Dead concert or event.
Candace Clothier, a 16 year old girl from Philadelphia, PA, was found having been disposed of in almost the same manner as Tent Girl.
Is there a way to bypass privacy issues that prevent a missing persons report from being filed? Waived by the missing persons themselves...before they go missing?
Out of the 46 people who died in the bridge collapse - only 44 bodies were recovered. Two people are still missing.
The whole world is hinged on a twist of fate.
Missouri's governor just signed a proclamation making June 17 Missing and Unidentified Persons Awareness Day in the State of Missouri!
So many cases are NOT yet entered into the NCIC. If it were fully utilized to its potential can you imagine the results? Would it overwhelm the system?
Laura's brother, Anthony Ross Allen has been missing since 1978 -- vanished at the age of 16. Laura has done just about everything imaginable to find her brother.
Launched in July 2007, a national system/database for missing and unidentified persons has become a reality. It will eventually be comprised of two databases.
Cold case detectives have distributed a brand new deck of cards featuring unsolved homicides and missing person's cases to prisoners at the Snohomish County Jail.
I think the current crime drama's are great and wildly successful, but folks need to take them as what they are -- entertainment
There are 100,000 missing people and more than 7,000 unidentified bodies listed with the FBI-NCIC.
It seems the body of a young woman was found there on June 5, 1969. A man picking flowers found her nude body just off of a trail on Pine Mountain.
I feel this is the most accurate way to export data to the public and to law enforcement across the globe. At last we all have the opportunity to be on the "same page".
Kathryn Keats, lived in virtual hiding from a former live-in lover for fifteen years. This man, suffered with the insidious disease known as Schizophrenia. For years, he mentally, physically, ritual...
The first official database of missing and unidentified persons
She was traveling from the San Diego area to the Dallas, Texas area.
Tonight's episode is called Searching for Anna Christian Waters. Anna was only five years old when she vanished from her home in her California backyard.
In 1954, An unidentified female was found murdered in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. Her identity remains a mystery.
Tonight we have Glendene Grant, her daughter, Jessica Louise Foster, now 22 years old, went missing in Las Vegas in May 2005. Welcome Glendene."
police departments have to get a sketch or a facial reconstruction, and that was just never done to the fullest extent in this case until a couple weeks ago with the help of Project EDAN.
Brian Shaffer is a 27 year old medical student at Ohio State University (OSU). On the night of Friday, March 31st 2006; Brian went out with friends to have a few drinks
Thanksgiving, I host Thanksgiving in my home and we often have 40 or more people for Thanksgiving, and there's kind of like a big ole' elephant in the middle of the room that Angie's not here.
Not only the people and animals moved, the graves also had to be moved...or at least the attempt to move them. Many were moved to nearby St John's Cemetery, many of my relatives buried there, includi...
I showed all the signs that a troubled teenager would show, I ran away, I self mutilated, in fact I did everything I think that a troubled child does to call out for help.
Patricia Viola, 48, married mother of two Missing from Bogota Patricia was last seen at 11:35 a.m. on Feb. 13, 2001 by a school crossing guard. She volunteered at her son's school library...
Hurry up and wait world of series pitch and waiting for a green light
Justice For Billy Guest: Janice Smolinski Mother of missing William (Billy) Smolinski, Jr.
Kaitlyn Arquette, 18, was murdered in Albuquerque on July 16, 1989. Albuquerque police dubbed the shooting a "random drive-by" and refused to investigate any other possibility. The case has never bee...
In her quest to uncover explanations, Leslie researched library archives and interviewed credible witnesses, historians, renowned psychics, and parapsychologists.
How do you think this might be used in a situation? Might it help, hurt or be of no effect? Is this something you would want to keep on file with your living will or other legal documents?
Florida Family Pleads "Help Bring Jennifer Home"
I found out that there are a lot of people who deal with grief in their life and if I'm able to reach out to any of those people, you know,
Spottsville, Kentucky is where Newburgh Beach is located and that's where Heather went to lay in the sun on August 26th, 1995
We exist with a simple mission. We provide crucial resources, solutions, and assistance on behalf of the families of missing adults and children. We are advocates for the missing.
Darren Shell lives and works at his marina on Dale Hollow Lake. He has written several books. His stories and lectures about the lake and history have gained him the title of "Gravedigger". Most da...
It's going to take a good tip. It's going to be a lot of investigating once we get the good tip.
So many cases are NOT yet entered into the NCIC...if it were fully utilized to it's potential...imagine the results? Would it overwhlem the system? Would it make a difference? Would it spark improveme...
Record of Missing & Unidentified Persons
-Special Thanks to Jerri Denise Hickman with Jerri's Blog and ColdCases Group Member for her help in transcribing this episode!
Special Thanks to ColdCases member Lori Davis for her help in transcribing this episode!
Special Thanks to ColdCases member Lanetta Sprott for her help in transcribing this episode!
Today I got an e-mail from Jeannine Willie with Dept of Justice. PRESS RELEASE
Special Thanks to "Anon" with www.whokilledtheresa.blogspot.com for transcribing this episode!
The Unidentified are the very shadow of the Missing
Universal Symbol Of Missing & Unidentified Persons
Samples must be submitted through FBI field offices or resident agencies
Revised excerpts from article published in 2000
originally published in 2005 Does a family have a valid complaint when asking for a review of an autopsy? If Harlan is found guilty and loses his license, will his autopsies be automatically reviewe...
There are thousands more such Jane and John Doe cases, and a group of amateur sleuths who are trying to put them to rest.
Patty disappeared on Christmas Day, 1996
Documentary examining the growing use of the worldwide web by amateur detectives seeking to shed light on cases of murder and missing persons that the police have given up on.
Director/ Producer of Missing Pieces Speaks out. Stalking, whether it's done over a computer or done in person.... it can be devastating for any victim who endures it.
Grass root efforts express the desire for energy independence
February 1, 2002 Bo Upton and Ryan Shangraw were shot to death in Linclon County, Kentucky
There are more than 100,000 missing people in the United States alone and at least 6,000 unidentified bodies. With the authorities struggling to solve so many cases, thousands of volunteers are using ...
Please pass along this message to whomever might have a need for this information.
Garden of Hope and it works not only with missing people but missing and murdered people. We develop web sites for families who are unable to make a web site, and we do vigils and things like that. We...
His body found on April 1st, 1921 and buried on April 14tth, 1921
April Beth Pitzer was last seen in the vicinity of the 30000 block of Caspian Way in Newberry Springs, CA. She told her roommate that she was leaving on a bus to visit her mother in Arkansas, but neve...
ColdCases member - and advisor to many amateur sleuths - Sam Pokey Gipson.
NY Private Investigator Ingraham has spent the last 12 years working with the authorities and Sandra Sollie's family (pro-bono) to find answers to her mysterious disappearance.
Please pass along this message to whomever might have a need for this information. Specific state statistics are available upon request.
Interview with Jim Idema , a freelance writer in Grand Rapids, MI. Jim is the scriptwriter for the story of missing person Diana Harris.
"I'm still convinced," said Chief Fergoine, "that the extraordinary similarities in the two crimes link them some way."
During the daylight hours, I try to ponder the nagging depressions that haunt my soul.
Not always do the officials over the cases have the time to sit and talk with a family and explain the details of the situation in terms that they understand, they might even seem "cold" in the eyes o...
I don't know if we will ever be able to prove they (ghosts) exist, but I don't think we'll be able to prove they don't exist either. - Patty Starr www.GhostHunter.com
The Green River Killer case in Seattle will pale in comparison...once the facts come out in this case. -Wayne Leng www.MissingPeople.net
We Love You - Missing Persons
Remember Me - Missing persons
When The Victim Becomes Attached
"...there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." - Matthew 10:26
"One Woman's Life on the Streets."
Statistics are based on the cases submitted to FBI-NCIC. Not all Missing & Unidentified cases are listed with NCIC.
Missing Pieces is a program designed to raise public awareness
"...there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known." - Matthew 10:26 -
Statistics are based on the cases submitted to FBI-NCIC. Not all Missing & Unidentified cases are listed with NCIC.
Crime on the rise with little fall...
The International Homicide Investigators Association estimates there are more than 40,000 unidentified dead nationally. (USA)
Body In Grave Is Not That Of Patterson - The body thought to be Leoma Patterson were found in Campbell County in 1979 were quickly related to the missing Anderson County woman. Leoma was reported miss...
Wayne, had a friend to disappear back in 1998,Vancouver, British Columbia, a very close friend. He got involved in trying to find out what had happened to her. Only to find out she was one of many vi...
CLEWS is a weblog devoted to the discovery and dissemination of the fascinating stories to be found where murder, history, and journalism overlap.
28 years ago this month that Laura's brother, Tony Allen, nevercalled or came home again, he was 16 years old (in 1978). Now (today) there over 100,000 missing persons
(NOMIS) is an United States Department of Justice (DOJ) funded secure web-enabled computer system designed for the collection and sharing of: death investigation information
Deputy Ryan Allred and I were able to exhume the body of his sister for a second autopsy. Though her death remains a mystery, we did answer some questions the family had about how she died.
There's at least seven people that have been missing either on their way to, from or during a Grateful Dead concert.
A documentary currently in-production, directed by filmmaker John Olivio, and expected to conclude filming in late 2006.
Todd Matthews is working to drum up support for a memorial to Tent Girl by having the stretch of road where her body was found, U.S. 25 near Sadieville, renamed in her honor.
Upton, 18, and Shangraw, 20, were killed Feb. 1, 2002, in Shangraw's home in the Hubble community of Lincoln County, and their murderers have not yet been identified.
Amazingly detailed descriptions...as seen through the caring eyes of a lady with a passion for the cause.
Libba was tested by the "fire" ....singed but not consumed, she is one of the people out there you trust when she says. "I understand."
For Jade, the Doe Network has "been a refuge. A place where I have been able to feel grounded and have a purpose to fulfill." She proudly admits that she has found "a place that reminds me everyday th...
The following was received from an investigator in Tennessee who is interested in identifying the unknown girl who danced herself to death at Graham Springs more than a century and a half ago.
A spike/ drop in numbers does not necessarily mean an increase in missing and unidentified, it can means that more cases are being entered/ removed into the system.
After years of wondering, a family's suspicions have been confirmed. The body in Leoma Patterson's grave is not that of their mother.
The above article is a fiction that I hope to see become a truth. A much nicer sounding story than the reality that is unveiled in - An Inconvenient Truth : The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming a...
Though she herself does not to have a missing loved one, she became horrified by the number of missing persons after surfing the site. She was also shocked by the does that filled the indexes. "I abso...
As we travel through the world trying to resolve the unresolved, seems to me we have our own issues. I have often pondered if the people who do this type of work are to remain under the eternal "Amate...
Killer Nashville 2006 was a two-day premiere event with a series of assorted author book signings, panel discussions .
The lost And the Found Global Resource Center
Missing Pieces is a program designed to encourage communications and information between people who can help locate or identify individuals who's cases has been classified as unsolved.
Please visit the site at FourTheKids.org for more information about what you can do to help families with missing children.
June has worn many hats at Doe Network and continues to be active. Her other intertests include writing. She has the idea of a series of books with a new perspective.
All family members of the missing should consider submitting DNA samples to the National DNA database