Story: Cayce, South Carolina (Lexington County) Police Department Approximately 35 calls from the public with information were generated by the A Child Is Missing alert calls placed on June 27, 2009 on behalf of the Cayce, South Carolina Police Department to help find a missing two year old boy. The boy had last been seen wearing a Mickey and Minnie Mouse diaper near the intersection of Pine Street and Julius Felder Street in Cayce at approximately 4:00am. Ultimately the boy was located safely by Police as a direct result of the alert calls placed by A Child Is Missing.

Story: Colleton County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Office When a 76 year old man went missing in Colleton County, South Carolina, Colleton Sheriff’s Sergeant Murdaugh activated A Child Is Missing to augment the search his agency had undertaken. Four wheelers, a helicopter, and deputies on foot were all engaged in search for the man. After the A Child Is Missing alert calls were placed, approximately 15-20 calls from the public with information were received by the Sheriff’s Office. One call in particular pointed deputies in the direction of the man, “they didn’t pinpoint his location, but they put him on foot in the area and he was found by the helicopter at the edge of a field,” said Colleton Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Ted Stanfield. This began on June 21, 2009 at approximately 5:00pm when the man went missing from the 700 block of Wisteria Road in Green Pond, South Carolina and concluded in the wooded area in which the man was found at 12:00pm the next day.

Story: Meridian Township, (Ingham County) Michigan Police Department An autistic 13 year old girl left her home located on Oakpark Trail in Haslett, Michigan on Sunday, June 21, 2009. She had last been seen at 11:00pm and had left at some point during the night. Meridian Township Police began their search and, when residents awoke Monday morning, activated the A Child Is Missing Alert Program. An initial launch of alert calls did not produce sufficient results to locate the girl and Meridian Township Police Officer Mankowski called back and expanded the search through A Child Is Missing. This expansion resulted in additional calls with information from the public to Meridian Township Police—15 calls in total. According to Lieutenant Plaga, information from those calls enabled Meridian Township Police to locate the girl safe shortly after noon on June 22nd near the intersection of Haslett Road and Bois Isle Drive, approximately two miles from her home.

Story: Greenland, Arkansas (Washington County) Police Department A 71 year old woman went missing in Greenland, Arkansas and Police there utilized the Alert Program of A Child Is Missing to assist their search. The woman had last been seen at 2:00am on Thursday, June 18, 2009 and Greenland Police believed she was in need of medical attention. After more than 1,100 alert calls were placed to the area in question, Greenland Police “received several calls, one of which allowed us to sent a team to the area she was located in,” said Chief of Police Gary Ricker.

Story: Gallitzin Borough, Pennsylvania (Cambria County) Police Department “Awesome program,” said Gallitzin Borough, Pennsylvania Police Chief Gerald Hagan of the A Child Is Missing Alert Program. “A great tool for law enforcement in the recovery of missing kids,” he said. The Alert Program was responsible for assisting Gallitzin Police in their recovery of a missing 15 year old girl on June 15, 2009. She had last been seen near the 1000 block of Hemlock Street in Gallitzin and was located safe shortly after midnight by Police in the 6800 block of Admiral Peary Highway in Munster Township—some seven miles away.

Story: Randolph, Massachusetts (Norfolk County)Police Department When a 14 year old boy went missing from the Randolph, Massachusetts Police Department, Police there called A Child Is Missing to assist the search. The boy had last been seen at 5 Himoor Circle in Randolph on June 14, 2009 at approximately 2:00pm. Randolph Police received 10 calls with information from members of the public who had received an alert call from A Child Is Missing. One of those calls came from “one citizen [who] reported seeing [the] missing child,” said Randolph Police Lieutenant McNeil. Randolph Police eventually located the boy at 123 Reed Street in Randolph.