Black and Missing but Not Forgotten

Mar 26

queernonymoose:

samatethecookie:

rollinwithmykitties:

Please help my best friend’s friend.
Spread the word please. 
Even if not from Chicago reblog, it may catch some attention.

Please reblog if you don’t mind! My little sister posted this for her friend. This girl’s been missing for a week so far.

Have friends/followers in the Chicago area. Keep a look out folks.

queernonymoose:

samatethecookie:

rollinwithmykitties:

Please help my best friend’s friend.

Spread the word please. 

Even if not from Chicago reblog, it may catch some attention.

Please reblog if you don’t mind! My little sister posted this for her friend. This girl’s been missing for a week so far.

Have friends/followers in the Chicago area. Keep a look out folks.

(via anjhuzen)

Feb 11

Still Missing: 6 month old Ke’mello Warfield (MI) http://bit.ly/Ai9hXE

Still Missing: 6 month old Ke’mello Warfield (MI) http://bit.ly/Ai9hXE

Jan 27

Endangered missing since Nov 29th: 5 month old Ke’Mello Warfield (MI) http://bit.ly/yyQsix The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children classified a 5-month-old Saginaw baby as endangered and missing.  The baby, Ke’Mello Warfield, has been missing since Nov. 29, according to the group’s website.  Authorities say Ke’Mello may be in the company of his mother and may have travelled to Flint or out of the state. The baby is described as a black male, about 2’ tall and weighing 15 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information on Ke’Mello’s whereabouts is asked to contact the national hotline at 1-800-843-5678.

Endangered missing since Nov 29th: 5 month old Ke’Mello Warfield (MI) http://bit.ly/yyQsix

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children classified a 5-month-old Saginaw baby as endangered and missing.

The baby, Ke’Mello Warfield, has been missing since Nov. 29, according to the group’s website.

Authorities say Ke’Mello may be in the company of his mother and may have travelled to Flint or out of the state.

The baby is described as a black male, about 2’ tall and weighing 15 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on Ke’Mello’s whereabouts is asked to contact the national hotline at 1-800-843-5678.

Jan 05

Cadaver dogs looking for a South Carolina boy searched his mother’s car  and home as she sat in jail on charges of lying to police about what she  did with her son, though authorities were not saying whether they found  any evidence the toddler was dead. Despite the grim search,  authorities tried to stay optimistic about finding Amir Jennings alive,  but the case was getting harder to solve as time goes by. Amir’s  grandmother said she hasn’t seen him since Thanksgiving. The  boy’s mother has told police conflicting stories about her son, saying  he was with friends and family in the Carolinas and also Georgia,  authorities said. “I’m really just focused on making sure that  Amir is OK, or has some harm come to him?” Columbia Police Chief Randy  Scott said. “That’s what we don’t know. That’s what we cannot find out.” Amir’s grandmother contacted police in early December, saying she was  worried about the boy and her daughter, a former Winthrop University  student who struggled with depression and had begun acting erratically  since her son’s birth. Police say they began looking for Zinah  Jennings, 22, but also considered that relatives said she had repeatedly  left town for days at a time, taking her son to visit friends in  neighboring states. “The grandmother told me specifically that,  when she was in school, she was a very good person, a very good  student,” said Scott, adding that relatives had filed several previous  missing persons reports on the mother. “But once the baby was born, the  conduct kind of changed.” Several weeks later, on Christmas  Eve, police investigating a one-car wreck just blocks from Jennings’  home were surprised to find the driver was the young mother they’d been  looking for. Interviewed at a hospital, police say Jennings immediately  began giving conflicting statements about where the boy was. “First it’s, ‘He’s with my sister in Atlanta. Oh no, I’m sorry, he’s  with my friend in Charlotte,’” he said. “It’s all over the place. …  Everything she’s telling us is just lies.” Police spoke with  Amir’s father, who told them he had seen the boy during Thanksgiving but  generally has had little contact with him. The father was not  identified by police. After several dead ends, the mother was  arrested Dec. 29 and charged with lying to police about her son’s  whereabouts. Authorities say they have stepped up their efforts to find  the boy and are hoping a tip line will yield some information. “I’m trying to stay optimistic about this,” Scott said. “But short of being optimistic, this case bothers me.” Police did not know if Jennings had an attorney. On Thursday, the  woman’s mother said the family was planning to speak out and would issue  a statement, although nothing was received by late afternoon. Scott said he’s struggling to remain optimistic that Amir will be found  unharmed. He would not discuss any evidence police have collected from  the mother’s home or car. “It’s the way this whole case is  playing out,” Scott said. “It’s more than just that the child is  missing. The mother is lying about the whereabouts of the child.” There was no answer Wednesday at the blue, two-story home where police  say Jennings, her mother and son live, its door and front porch still  festooned with Christmas decorations. The house, just a few blocks from  one of Columbia’s busiest thoroughfares, is on a quiet, tree-lined  street of other one- and two-story homes, some with fenced- in yards and  porches. “We see each other and speak and say hello,” said  Selwyn Young, who lives across the street from the Jennings family and  said he recalled seeing Jennings pushing the baby around the  neighborhood and walking the family’s dog. “Hopefully they find him.  Hopefully they get it right.”

Cadaver dogs looking for a South Carolina boy searched his mother’s car and home as she sat in jail on charges of lying to police about what she did with her son, though authorities were not saying whether they found any evidence the toddler was dead.

Despite the grim search, authorities tried to stay optimistic about finding Amir Jennings alive, but the case was getting harder to solve as time goes by. Amir’s grandmother said she hasn’t seen him since Thanksgiving.

The boy’s mother has told police conflicting stories about her son, saying he was with friends and family in the Carolinas and also Georgia, authorities said.

“I’m really just focused on making sure that Amir is OK, or has some harm come to him?” Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott said. “That’s what we don’t know. That’s what we cannot find out.”

Amir’s grandmother contacted police in early December, saying she was worried about the boy and her daughter, a former Winthrop University student who struggled with depression and had begun acting erratically since her son’s birth.

Police say they began looking for Zinah Jennings, 22, but also considered that relatives said she had repeatedly left town for days at a time, taking her son to visit friends in neighboring states.

“The grandmother told me specifically that, when she was in school, she was a very good person, a very good student,” said Scott, adding that relatives had filed several previous missing persons reports on the mother. “But once the baby was born, the conduct kind of changed.”

Several weeks later, on Christmas Eve, police investigating a one-car wreck just blocks from Jennings’ home were surprised to find the driver was the young mother they’d been looking for. Interviewed at a hospital, police say Jennings immediately began giving conflicting statements about where the boy was.

“First it’s, ‘He’s with my sister in Atlanta. Oh no, I’m sorry, he’s with my friend in Charlotte,’” he said. “It’s all over the place. … Everything she’s telling us is just lies.”

Police spoke with Amir’s father, who told them he had seen the boy during Thanksgiving but generally has had little contact with him. The father was not identified by police.

After several dead ends, the mother was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with lying to police about her son’s whereabouts. Authorities say they have stepped up their efforts to find the boy and are hoping a tip line will yield some information.

“I’m trying to stay optimistic about this,” Scott said. “But short of being optimistic, this case bothers me.”

Police did not know if Jennings had an attorney. On Thursday, the woman’s mother said the family was planning to speak out and would issue a statement, although nothing was received by late afternoon.

Scott said he’s struggling to remain optimistic that Amir will be found unharmed. He would not discuss any evidence police have collected from the mother’s home or car.

“It’s the way this whole case is playing out,” Scott said. “It’s more than just that the child is missing. The mother is lying about the whereabouts of the child.”

There was no answer Wednesday at the blue, two-story home where police say Jennings, her mother and son live, its door and front porch still festooned with Christmas decorations. The house, just a few blocks from one of Columbia’s busiest thoroughfares, is on a quiet, tree-lined street of other one- and two-story homes, some with fenced- in yards and porches.

“We see each other and speak and say hello,” said Selwyn Young, who lives across the street from the Jennings family and said he recalled seeing Jennings pushing the baby around the neighborhood and walking the family’s dog. “Hopefully they find him. Hopefully they get it right.”

Nov 29

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Nov 16

If Jhessye can see this, she would want you to keep sharing her picture. She is STILL missing!

If Jhessye can see this, she would want you to keep sharing her picture. She is STILL missing!

Nov 08

Stolen from his mother: Where is David Ezelle Blockett? (VA) -

A Newport News family is still searching for answers. Over 30 years ago, David Ezelle Blockett was stolen from his mother by a woman who posed as a social worker.

He was 15 days old when a woman stole him and never looked back.

David’s hospital photo was the only one that his older brother Frederick had to hold on to for 30 years.

“When you have your brother snatched from you, you gonna think about him,” says Frederick.

The story of these separated siblings begins at a Newport News home on 13th street on December 11, 1980.

Nineteen-year-old Vanessa, the boys’ mother, was inside the home with her babies.

A middle aged black woman knocked at the door and said that she was a social worker.

She told Vanessa that her name was Marie Kelly and that she was there to take baby David to a Riverside Hospital Christmas party.

Vanessa said that she has a 2-year-old-son as well.

The woman agreed to take them both.

“I remember being in the car. I remember my brother sitting beside me. I remember playing with a cassette tape, and I was just pulling the ribbon and taking the cassette tape,” recalled Frederick.

He stated that he also remembered a man driving the car, not the woman who took him and his baby brother.

The couple put Frederick out of the car in Hampton. 

“And where they dropped me off, I remember a whole lot of while silos, like farm. I think it was more farm land back then,” says Frederick.

She put a note in Frederick’s pocket with his address on it before driving off.

A woman found Frederick and police brought him back home.

Baby David and “Marie Kelley” haven’t been seen since.

The family has been asking why this woman would have targeted this house specifically.

The answer may have been in the local paper.

Three days before David’s abduction, there was a listing of local births in the Daily Press and David’s listing was among them.

Newport News police would soon learn that there was no social worker named Marie Kelley.

There was no Christmas party either.

The last trace of her or David was found on the Yorktown Colonial Parkway.

Ten days after the abduction, authorities found a diaper bag filled David’s clothes. Chilling new details about this evidence discovered just last week.

NewsChannel 3 firsts came across David’s case on a missing children’s blog site and started digging.

David’s mother, Vanessa, died of an aneurism in 1997 at the age of 35.

We were able to find David’s older brother, Frederick who is now an elder in Selma, NC.

Newport News police have now reopened the case.

Newport News detective Amber Rogers is now assigned to David’s abduction case. She dug up the original case file.

The information points to two theories behind the abduction.

Marie Kelly either wanted to sell baby David for money or raise him as her own child.

“This has so many clues and evidence before us,” says Rogers.

The answer may be in the clothes David was wearing the day he was abducted.

It was inside the diaper bag that the abductor left on that parkway in Yorktown.

Just last week, detectives found them tucked away in their evidence warehouse including David’s booties, blanket, sweater and jeans.

On top of that was a comb and hair samples preserved for 30 years.

DNA testing didn’t exist back in the 80′s.

The testing of it today could lead to finding David, the abductor or both.

“I think this evidence will give us a huge boost in locating David and reuniting him with his brother,” says Rogers.

If David is alive and out there somewhere, how would even his family know him? 

All they had was a baby picture.

So we contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about David’s case and they showed us a graphic of what David may look like today.

Joe Mullins is a graphic artist for the center and he compiled pictures of David’s family and created a real life version of what he may look like today.

“Maybe David himself could see that and say hey, that kind of looks like me, which would be the ideal situation,” says Mullins.

This is something that Frederick dreamed about for decades.

What a reunion that would be.

David also had some very distinguishing birth marks on his back and rear end.

He also had a mole on his right ear.

If you have any information about what happened to David take action and call Newport News police at 757-928-4200 or the Center for Missing and Exploited Children 1-800-843-5678.

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Nov 05

Jhessye is STILL missing. And she still do not have around the clock coverage. It’s up to us to keep the word going. Share this picture with others, it only take one click!

Jhessye is STILL missing. And she still do not have around the clock coverage. It’s up to us to keep the word going. Share this picture with others, it only take one click!

Nov 04

Who is this young man? He was found October 21, 1998 in New Orleans, LA. He is a black male between the age of 22-28  years old.  He is 5’4-5’7 feet tall and dental and DNA records are  available. If you have any information concerning this case please  contact the FACES Lab. Case #98-32
 Helen Bouzon, Research Associate, LSU - (225) 578-4761 Nicole Harris, Research Associate, LSU - (225) 578-3750
Someone knows this young man. Pass the word along, his family is looking for him.

Who is this young man? He was found October 21, 1998 in New Orleans, LA. He is a black male between the age of 22-28 years old. He is 5’4-5’7 feet tall and dental and DNA records are available. If you have any information concerning this case please contact the FACES Lab. Case #98-32


Helen Bouzon, Research Associate, LSU - (225) 578-4761
Nicole Harris, Research Associate, LSU - (225) 578-3750

Someone knows this young man. Pass the word along, his family is looking for him.