Fort Carson Soldier's search for missing son ends in tragedy

Son of Fort Carson GI found dead after Washington mudslide
By The Gazette
POSTED: 04/03/2014

The name of the 13-year-old son of a Fort Carson soldier was added to the official list of those confirmed dead in the wake of the Washington mudslide that leveled the community of Oso and killed 30 people.

The boy, Jovan E. Mangual was visiting his mother in Arlington when the landslide hit March 22 and his father, Staff Sgt. Jose Mangual, set out from Colorado to Washington in search for the boy two days later.
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Fort Carson Soldier's Son Missing After Landslide

Fort Carson Soldier's Son Missing After Landslide

Fort Carson soldier looking for son missing in Wash. landslide
FOX 31 Denver
Thomas Hendrick
March 31, 2014

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Fort Carson soldier has traveled to Washington to help look for his 13-year-old son who went missing after a mudslide wiped out the town of Oso.

KRDO-TV reported Staff Sgt. Jose Mangual traveled to Washington last Monday to help look for his son Jovon Mangual.

Jovon lives with his mother in Washington.

“The feeling is nothing I can explain. I miss my son. I want my son and I will not stop until I find him,” Mangual said.

Managal said he plans to stay in Washington till he finds his son — no matter how long it takes.

“I haven’t had any luck. We’ve been searching for him. We haven’t been able to locate him,” the father said.
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Kentucky soldier's son found and back home

Soldier's missing son found safe
Jan 07, 2013
KTBC News
By Derrick Mitcham

The missing son of a Kentucky soldier was found safe early Monday morning. Noah Dinh was returned to his father, Jason Dinh, and stepmother, Haley Dinh.

Noah had been with his biological mother, Cendy Johnly, since December 23, 2012. Johnly was supposed to return the child to his Kentucky home on New Year's Day. Dinh and his wife had been trying unsuccessfully to establish contact with Johnly.

Johnly was arrested by the Travis County Sheriff's Office this morning, and is currently being held in the Travis County jail.
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Soldier's son taken
KTBC News
Posted: Jan 06, 2013

Kentucky soldier, Jason Dinh, is in Austin, hoping to see his six-year-old son once again.

"I want my son back."

He talked to FOX 7 because he wants Noah's biological mother to return the boy.

He says Noah is with Cendy Johnly in Austin.

She has had him since December 23rd and was supposed to return the boy on New Year's Day.

That didn't happen.

Dinh and his wife, Haley, say they have not been able to reach Cendy.

Now, the soldier, who did two tours of duty in Iraq, is dealing with a parent's worst nightmare.

"You just don't want to find them face down somewhere. That's my biggest fear."

"I just worry that he's scared and know what's going on and I don't want him to think this is his fault and that we don't want him. I just want him to come home."

The couple went to Kentucky authorities.
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Veteran finds calling in rescuing missing children

For the greater good: Veteran finds calling in rescuing missing children
By Kelley Chambers
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Desert Storm veteran Chuck Foreman's most pivotal rescue mission didn't take place in the wilderness of Iraq. It was for a friend whose 16-year-old daughter had run off with a 40-year-old man suspected of drugging her.

The police couldn't help because she had gone willingly, Foreman said.

With just his Harley and his iPhone, the Austin resident was able to help get the girl home safely. It was at that moment he began developing a commitment to finding more like her, vowing never to charge a dime for his services.

Photos courtesy of Chuck Foreman – With a background in electronic surveillance, U.S. Army veteran Chuck Foreman is using his combat experience to help recover missing children across the U.S.

Since that day, Foreman is credited for recovering more than 20 children.

"The more you get into this missing kid thing, the more it opens your eyes to it," Foreman said. "It's a very dangerous world for children."

Using his military know-how and a desire to continue protecting those he has served, Foreman formed the Center for Search and Investigations (CFSI) two years ago. Comprised strictly of volunteers, the organization assists in the search for missing children by building a network of "ready to ride" bikers across the nation. The organization also helps in the distribution and collection of information during the search for a missing child, and raises awareness of this growing epidemic.
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Kidnapped 4-Year-Old Found Safe in Missouri

UPDATE

Missouri Man Eyed in Abduction Case Dies
Updated: 10 minutes ago

Lauren Frayer
Contributor
(July 8) -- A Missouri sex offender who shot himself as police approached to question him about the kidnapping of 4-year-old Alisa Maier has died.

The man died Wednesday night at a hospital in St. Charles, Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Al Nothum told The Associated Press.
The Lincoln County sheriff's department earlier told AOL News it could not confirm the report.

Alisa's 6-year-old brother, Blake, was the only witness to her abduction. He told police a man driving a dark four-door sedan pulled up in front of their house Monday night and ordered her into the car. She was found a day later wandering around a car wash parking lot in a St. Louis suburb more than 80 miles from her home. Details were reported by several news agencies.
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Miracles can happen and it looks like one just did

Kidnapped 4-Year-Old Found Safe in Missouri

Lauren Frayer
Contributor

(July 7) -- A 4-year-old Missouri girl believed to have been kidnapped while playing with her older brother in their front yard has been found wandering around a strip mall parking lot more than 80 miles from her home, and a relative said this morning that she was unharmed.

Police say they got a call just before 10 p.m. Tuesday reporting a young child wandering around the parking lot of a closed car wash in Fenton, a suburb of St. Louis. They confirmed her identity as Alisa Maier and then took her to a hospital as a precaution, according to several St. Louis-area TV stations.

Her parents traveled to the hospital overnight for a happy reunion, NBC News reported.

"They were just so happy," Alisa's grandfather Roy Harrison told NBC's "Today" show this morning. "There was a lot of smiling."
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Nadia Bloom’s hero said God showed him the way

Nadia Bloom’s hero said God showed him the way
By Bianca Prieto, Orlando Sentinel

6:56 a.m. EDT, April 14, 2010
WINTER SPRINGS — James King says it was an act of God that led him to find Nadia Bloom in a thick swamp early Tuesday.

"God directed me to her," King said hours after finding the 11-year-girl alive.

A day earlier, the 44-year-old University of Central Florida alum was part of a volunteer search crew that had been unable to find Nadia.

But at first light Tuesday, King, a military contractor, entered the woods armed with two cell phones, his shoes taped to his feet and some food and water to give Nadia if she was found. He prayed, quoted Scripture and looked to God to direct him to Nadia.

Then he called her name repeatedly as he ambled through the woods.

"I knew the Lord wanted me to go back in as soon as it was daylight," King said. "I needed him to direct my path. I asked him, would he guide my path?"

The path led him to the middle of the swampy area between state roads 434 and 417 and the girl's gated subdivision, Barrington Estates.

"I said, 'Nadia!' and she answered, 'What?' " said King, recalling a moment about 8:30 a.m.

The missing 11-year-old was sitting calmly on top of a log. She didn't appear to be injured but was "polka-dotted" by bug bites, he said.

He scooped her up gingerly, praised God and then called 911 from the phone he knew was equipped with GPS.
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Missing Florida baby found alive under baby sitter's bed

Missing Florida baby found alive under bed
Melissa Nelson and Erin Gartner, Associated Press Writers

7:30 a.m. EST, November 5, 2009
CHIPLEY, Fla. - A baby missing for five days was found alive and well under her baby sitter's bed, and Florida authorities said Thursday they plan to charge the sitter, her husband and the child's mother.

Investigators found 7-month-old Shannon Dedrick in a box tucked under a bed surrounded by items intended to hide the child at Susan Elizabeth Baker's home near Chipley, a rural Panhandle town, Washington County Sheriff Bobby Haddock said in an interview early Thursday. The baby was placed in protective custody.

"Statistically speaking this should not have ever happened, that we found this child alive, especially after so many days. Time was against us," Haddock said.

Shannon was taken to a hospital but appeared healthy, Haddock said.
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Missing Florida girl's body found in Georgia landfill

Sheriff: Found body is missing Florida girl


Updated: 49 minutes ago
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler this morning said the body of Somer Renee Thompson is with the medical examiner who will determine the cause of her death.

ORANGE PARK - Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler this morning said the medical examiner's office in Savannah, Georgia will determine Somer Renee Thompson's cause of death later today.

Beseler said her partially covered body was found in a Georgia landfill near the Florida state line. Investigators followed garbage trucks leaving from the neighborhood where she had disappeared Monday, he said.

Her father, Sam Thompson, identified the body of his 7-year-old daughter by a circular birthmark on her shin, reports show.

"There is a child killer on the loose and that's why we are going to catch this person," Beseler said during a televised news conference in Clay County this morning. "This is a heinous crime."


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Killings of children grow more horrific, DCF says

UPDATE FROM SENTINEL
Sheriff: Body ID'd as 7-year-old Somer Thompson
Updated: 2:21 p.m.
Body of north Florida girl who vanished on her walk home from school was found under trash in a Georgia landfill. Read more...


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Police think body is missing Florida girl's
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NEW: "There is a child killer on the loose," sheriff says

Girl's body found in landfill 55 miles north of town where she was last seen

Somer Thompson became separated from schoolmates on way home Monday

Georgia medical examiner to make official identification of body
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Missing Boy Hidden in Grandma's Wall

Missing Boy Hidden in Grandma's Wall
By JIM SUHR, AP
ST. LOUIS (Sept. 5) - A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.
Richard "Ricky" Chekevdia, who turns 7 on Sept. 14, was in good spirits and physically fit after being found Friday by investigators with a court order to search the two-story rural home in southern Illinois' Franklin County, about 120 miles southeast of St. Louis.
The boy's mother, 30-year-old Shannon Wilfong, is charged with felony child abduction. The grandmother, 51-year-old Diane Dobbs, is charged with aiding and abetting. Wilfong remained jailed Saturday on $42,500 bond in Benton, Ill., where Dobbs was being held on $1,000 bond. The women did not have attorneys listed Saturday in online court records.
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Girl missing 18 years walked into sheriff's office

Girl missing since 1991 found alive; two arrested
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NEW: Two arrested in case of girl missing for 18 years, police say

Jaycee Dugard in good health, California sheriff's office says

FBI earlier told family that woman identified herself as missing girl, stepfather says

Dugard disappeared in South Lake Tahoe, California, at age 11 in 1991

By Taylor Gandossy
CNN

(CNN) -- A girl abducted in 1991 as an 11-year-old has been found alive in California, the El Dorado County sheriff's office said Thursday.

Jaycee Dugard is in good health, the office said in a statement, but provided no details.

Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, confirmed that a man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the case, but could provide no other details.

Earlier Thursday, Carl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather, told CNN that an FBI agent had called his wife, Terry, on Wednesday afternoon to tell her that Dugard had been found.

The girl was last seen walking to her bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California, on June 10, 1991, according to the FBI.
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Lindsey Baum, missing child of National Guardsman covered by CBS

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Small town of McCleary not giving up on missing girl
By Keith Eldridge
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MCCLEARY, Wash. -- While the official search for Lindsey Baum has been scaled back, no one in this town is giving up on finding her. "We continue to get tips, we continually talk to the public," said McCleary Police Chief George Crumb. "I don't believe they've given up hope."At the town's annual Bear Festival over the weekend, volunteers were passing out flyers with photos of the missing girl, who missed her 11th birthday last week. "I know she's out there and I know she's alive," said Lindsey's mom, Melissa. "I just want her to know if she can hear me that I'm never going to stop looking for you. I'm going to look for you until I have you back. I swear I will never stop looking.

Girl Disappears, Dad to Deploy
July 13, 2009 5:55 AM

The search continues for an 11-year-old Wash. girl who disappeared. Julie Chen spoke with the parents of the missing girl, whose father will soon be deployed to Iraq.

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Lindsey Baum, missing child's father to deploy to Iraq

Lindsey Baum, missing child's father to deploy to Iraq

Dad Deploying To Iraq Pleads For Missing Daughter's Return
Posted: 3:06 pm PDT July 6, 2009
Updated: 6:48 pm PDT July 6, 2009

MCCLEARY, Wash. -- The father of a McCleary girl who has been missing for 10 days hopes to be reunited with his daughter on her 11th birthday or before he deploys to Iraq.

Lindsey Baum, 10, disappeared June 26 while walking home from a friend's house at about 9:15 p.m. and there has been no sign of her since.

Lindsey’s dad, Scott Baum, said in a press conference on Monday, “I would love nothing more that to see my daughter before I have to go.”

Scott Baum is with the Tennessee National Guard and is scheduled to deploy in the very near future.




Lindsey’s eleventh birthday is on Tuesday, July 7.
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Five-year-old girl disappears from bedroom

Five-year-old girl disappears from bedroom
Helen Eckinger Sentinel Staff Writer
1:40 PM EST, February 10, 2009

An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing Putnam County girl.

Haleigh Cummings, 5, was last seen at 10 p.m. Monday in the bedroom of the Satsuma home where she lives with her father, Ronald Cummings and his girlfriend, Misty Croslin.

Ronald Cummings was working Monday night, and Croslin woke up and realized Haleigh was missing just before he returned home at about 3:30 a.m. this morning, according to Lt. Johnny Greenwood of the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. Croslin alerted authorities while Ronald Cumming searched for his daughter, Greenwood said.

Haleigh's mother was in Georgia, where she lives, when Haleigh went missing, Greenwood said.
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Missing Flordia Baby turns out to be hoax

The people of Florida, along with most of the nation, just went thru 6 months of heart tugging, heart breaking news of Caylee Anthony, then comes this story. This woman lied about a missing baby to her boyfriend. Supposedly her boyfriend was about to meet his son for the first time. There was a picture on the Internet the woman used to pretend it was her son. Instead of being honest, she lied about the baby she didn't have, then turned around lying even more that he had been abducted. Story ends there? Hardly. It wasn't bad enough she lied to this poor man causing him to think he had a son and then making him think his son had just been kidnapped but then she lied to the police. Think about all the law enforcement officers trying to find this non-existent baby after what they went through with Caylee Anthony. Did she ever think of them?

Dec 25, 2008 5:50 pm US/Eastern

Police: Missing Florida Boy May Be In Mass. Car
MIAMI (WBZ) ―

The search for a missing toddler in Florida has ties to Massachusetts.

6-month-old Riley Buchness was last seen by his parents December 23 in Miami.

Police did not offer details of his disappearance, other than he was with a woman by the name of "Camille."

Riley, who is white and about a foot tall was last seen wearing a white onesie with blue jeans.

His hair is in a mohawk style, he has one tooth, and a fake tattoo of an anchor on his left arm.

He's believed to be with a 20-to-30 year old woman named "Camille." Her last name is not known. She speaks with a heavy French accent. She is white, 5-feet-5 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, with very long brown hair, brown eyes, and a gap between her teeth.

Police say Riley and Camille are possibly traveling in a red Acura, possibly with a Massachusetts license plate.

Investigators are asking anyone who sees the child or the car to contact their local police department immediately.

Police: Missing Baby Story Was A Hoax

MIAMI (WBZ) ―

Megan McCormick, in police custody, has been charged with filing a false police report for lying about the disappearance of her baby
CBS


The search in Florida for a missing toddler with ties to Massachusetts has been called off - because it was a hoax.

Miami police had been looking for help in their search for 6-month-old Riley Buchness, who was last seen by his mother December 23 in Miami.

HOW IT STARTED

Police had very few details of the boy's disappearance when they first asked for the public's help Thursday.

However, they did release a photo of him, saying he was with a woman by the name of "Camille."

"Camille" was allegedly the boy's nanny and she was possibly traveling in a red Acura, possibly with a Massachusetts license plate.

The mother and father are said to be from Massachusetts.

NO NANNY AND NO BABY

It turns out there is no Camille and there is no Riley.

Miami police said Friday that the whole story was fabricated by the woman who claimed to be the missing child's mother.

That woman, Megan McCormick, has now been charged with filing a false police report. click link for more of this

Big announcement expected in Caylee Anthony case

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Big announcement expected in Caylee case
Results of DNA testing on remains found last week, a half mile from the home of missing toddler Caylee Anthony's grandparents, are expected at a news conference under way this hour. Caylee was 2 when she was last seen in June. Her mother, Casey Anthony, faces charges including first-degree murder in the child's disappearance. full story

Remains of child found tentatively "matched Caylee"

Lawyers: Remains tentatively ID'd as Caylee
Remains found near the home of missing toddler Caylee Anthony's grandparents have been tentatively identified as belonging to the 3-year-old, attorneys told a Florida judge today. An attorney for the girl's mother, Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her, told the judge the defense was told that measurements and hair color of the remains matched Caylee, "and that they (authorities) were proceeding as if this were little Caylee Anthony." developing story

Bones found may be remains of Caylee Anthony, missing Florida 2 year old

Dec 11, 2008 15:18 -0500

Remains found may be Caylee Anthony
Updated: 37 minutes ago
The EquuSearch leader also said sheriff's office investigator thinks the remains belong to missing toddler Caylee Marie Anthony.
Onlookers at discovery scene endure rain, wait for closure
Dec 11, 2008 15:39 -0500
Todd Black, the spokesman for Casey Anthony's defense attorney, said the utility worker picked up the bag and a skull rolled out of it. Residents said duct tape was found around the skull, but those reports have not been confirmed by law-enforcement official.

Tim Miller, the founder and director of EquuSearch, said the remains "appear to be Caylee, but with any case, we have to wait until a positive ID is made."

"It looks like finally it's over with," Miller said.

Orange County deputies said a meter reader found the remains of a young child this morning in the area of S. Chickasaw Trail and Suburban Drive -- less than 1/4 mile from the Anthonys' home on Hopespring Drive. Spokesman Jim Solomons of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said the remains were found in a bag.

Updated: 16 minutes ago
Sheriff's Office responds to skeletal remains found Video


MAP: Deputies find remains of small child

Casey Anthony trial postponed until March
An Orange County judge granted a continuance this morning in the Casey Anthony case.
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The Caylee Anthony case: From the beginning

Caylee Anthony searchers find toys and bones in river

Another Update at 5:53
This story gets stranger and stranger

Caylee Anthony search yields no bones, unrelated items
Nov 13, 2008 16:52 -0500
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Updated: 58 minutes ago
Divers searching the river at Jay Blanchard Park today found plastic material holding some type of children's toys and what appear to be small bones.
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Update seen on News 13, police are not happy about this. They want Leonard Padilla to take a polygraph. He contacted the media instead of law enforcement and they are not sure what to think. Caylee's grandparents were interviewed by News 13 and they do not believe what was reported is Caylee's remains.

Divers Find Plastic Bag With Bones, Toys
Divers said they have found a plastic bag filled with toys and bones that appeared to be weighted down with bricks, in a body of water near Blanchard Park. Bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said that, in his gut, he feels it is Caylee. However, OSCO says there is nothing credible or significant. OCSO also wants Padilla to take a polygraph.
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Caylee searchers find toys and bones in river
Sarah Lundy and Walter Pacheco Sentinel Staff Writer
2:10 PM CST, November 13, 2008
FBI agents are at Blanchard Park in east Orange County now looking at a bag of toys and bones that divers discovered in the Little Econlockhatchee River.

Four divers are back in the dark waters, continuing their search for more clues that could lead to finding Caylee Marie, who has been missing since June.

Rob Dick, who is coordinating the search along with bounty hunter Leonard Padilla, said it's unclear if the bones come from an animal or human. The bones were found in the same location where dozens gathered Monday for a prayer vigil for Caylee Marie.
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I've been tracking this story on my other blog. Good Lord I really hope the pain of the family and the community ends soon. Not knowing must be horrible.

Search suspended for children washed away in car

Search for car swept away with two boys inside in Green River will not resume today
AUBURN — Police believe they have found a car in the Green River that was swept away with two children inside this morning, but the search was suspended because of the strong current.

By Nancy Bartley and Sonia Krishnan

Seattle Times staff reporters


AUBURN — Police believe they have found a car in the Green River that was swept away with two children inside this morning, but the search has been suspended for the day because of the strong current.

After evaluating the water conditions, the King County Sheriff's Office's dive team decided a short time ago that the search will not resume today. It wasn't immediately known when divers would be able to go back into the water.

Authorities had said earlier the current is so swift that it pulled a regulator out of a rescue diver's mouth.
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Search on for car swept down Green River with kids inside

Search on for car swept down Green River with kids inside
By KOMO Staff AUBURN, Wash. -- Police and firefighters are searching the Green River for a vehicle that may have been swept away with a teenager and 2-year-old child inside.

Auburn police Sgt. Scott Near said a woman called 911 just before 9 a.m. and said she lost control and ended up in the river in the 29800 block of Green River road.

The woman told police that as water began to fill the car, she got out to call for help and the vehicle was swept away with a 14 year old and 2-year-old child still inside.

She tried to get the kids out of the car but was unable to do so, Near said. "She's pretty distraught and shaken up."

Near said rescuers are looking for the silver Volkswagen Bug, but so far they have not found the car.
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