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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Have You Seen Me? Oregon's Missing: Recent and Cold Cases, Divided by Region and then Divided by County:

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 Bringing awareness to the magnitude of the number of Oregon's missing, and the highlighting of individual cases is something that I am interested in helping with.  

 At any given time, there are around 1,000 missing people in Oregon.  That number included recent cases and cold cases both.  Several months ago, there were 160 unidentified people in the OSP morgue.  Earlier this month, they were down to 122, and the progress in bringing closure to the families is very important.

 I have been tracking Oregon's missing people since March 2017. Approximately every couple of months, I print out the Oregon State Police's missing list, divide it up by counties and then share some of that info in various places. This is intended to be a resource for law enforcement, investigators, researchers and families. 

There are many quality "missing" websites and FB pages out there, and I share their info on my newspage and blog, "In the News for La Pine and Surrounding Communities"

I have created six new FB pages where I have divided things up into certain geographical areas.  I divided up the map of Oregon state into the following six areas, and then divided those areas up by counties.  I am posting the missing from each county, updating the OSP data every other month.  Info from NameUs, the John Doe Network and other sources are included in the comment section under each county.

 Here are links to the Facebook Pages:



I also plan on eventually writing short articles, sharing links, posting flyers and stories about the people who have disappeared. It is so very hard for their families who don't know where their loved ones are. I hope that they realize that others haven't forgotten about them either.  

Here is a link about the point-in-time number of missing in Oregon (516) over just the past year or so, taken on May 5, 2018: 
* https://www.facebook.com/LaPineCommunityNews/posts/2047842302143503


Please share your stories and contribute to these pages. If you are sharing about a new missing loved one, please provide a photo, description, contact information, which police department that you are working with, etc.  

This is a huge undertaking, and I have other obligations as well, but I will be working on getting these pages functional and completed as quickly as possible.

Thank you for stopping by, and I hope this helps somebody out. 

Kathy Matthews
"In the News" News for La Pine and Surrounding Communities
https://www.facebook.com/LaPineCommunityNews/


Link -  Willamette Valley



Link -  Central Oregon



 Link:  Southern Oregon



Link  Greater Portland Area



Link:  Oregon Coast



Link:  Eastern Oregon Counties





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  1. Oregon Gifts of Comfort and JoyJune 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM

    June 10, 2018 -

    Hi, I finally finished entering all the names of the point-in-time missing people count in Oregon that I began on May 5, 2018, all 516 of them. Others have gone missing since then.

    Here are the names of the people missing over the past year, divided up by county. (There are another 500 or so who have been missing longer than a year, but that is for a future post). In addition, at last count that I heard, there are around 120 people unidentified people in Oregon State's morgue.

    Some of the missing in this post have been located, and are already no longer on Oregon State Police's list. Some have been taken by a parent. Some ran away, or as adults began a new life or are mentally ill homeless people. Some have been coerced into sex trafficking and the others we just don't know what could have happened to them. Many have met foul play.

    Who are all of these people? Why don't they have pictures next to their names? If their families are not proactive in the search for them, going on social media, contacting the news, putting up flyers, etc. after a couple of weeks the people just slip into the long-term missing category.

    I have recently began a project called "Have You Seen Me? Oregon's Missing: Recent and Cold Cases, Divided by Region and then Divided by County"

    I divided up the state into these categories, The Willamette Valley, Central Oregon, The Greater Portland Area, Eastern Oregon, The Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon. Each category has it's own page. Each category is divided by county.

    Here is the link to find the pages easily:
    https://inthenewslapineoregon.blogspot.com/…/have-you-seen-…

    I just wanted to help raise awareness by showing you how big this issue is in Oregon, especially along the I-5 corridor. If your name is on this list, please contact the Oregon State Police to let them know that you are okay and ask them to remove it.

    There are a lot of other good groups out there doing their best to help reunite the missing with their families. This is just the way that I am trying to help.

    Kathy Matthews
    "In the News" for La Pine and Surround Communities

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  2. Oregon Gifts of Comfort and JoyJune 11, 2018 at 11:15 AM

    This link contains the list of names by county:
    https://www.facebook.com/LaPineCommunityNews/posts/2047842302143503

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