NICKNAME: Tony

SEX: Male

RACE: White

HEIGHT: 70"

WEIGHT: 185 lbs

Brown hair, brown eyes, very muscular with 2 inch scar on the back of his neck. Anthony was last seen at his residence on the 8700 Block of West Bryn Mawr Avenue in Chicago Illinois, wearing his 3/4 length black pea coat.

Contact Chicago Police Department Detective Mario Gonzales (312) 745 - 6065

Case #: HR254515

NamUs MP #: 11837

If someone is missing while traveling, is there a suggested way to indicate their home location and missing location? I'm trying to look into a case of a woman who grew up in Austria, lived in France as an adult, and died in Arizona. I would definitely put where her body was discovered, but she could have been murdered several hours away, and I want the case to get in front of people from France as well.

I started the Missing Map five years ago, and I am proud of how it has grown. But you've probably noticed that I have not been active here in quite a while. There is a reason for that.

While changes in my professional life have certainly limited my involvement, the main reason is that I have developed a difficulty immersing myself in tragedy due to my family's own.

In 2019, I lost my only brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew to gun violence. It happened in my parents' front yard right in front of them. It's now just the three of us, and my parents are obviously greatly traumatized. Two weeks later, my wife was a crime victim. Two and a half months after that, my mother-in-law took her life. My father-in-law found her, thought he couldn't live without her, and drove to their childhood home to take his own life. When my mother-in-law was discovered, my father-in-law was still missing and we had to wonder if we'd suffered another murder-suicide. He was found later that day and air lifted to a hospital, where he was in ICU for a week. It was brutal, but he survived.

Shortly after that, the pandemic hit, and our mental health further deteriorated. I still have Google Alerts for the identification of John and Jane Does, but I can no longer actively immerse myself in sadness and tragedy when it's all I can do to cope with my own.

I hope you understand. Please keep it going. /u/Unoiseau has suggested a Discord for moderators to facilitate communication and cooperation. I think that's a great idea, but I can't bring myself to participate for the foreseeable future.

Is there a way this map can include data points like race and age? If that is not a option at this point I would like to edit the map to include those data points. Let me know if that is possible. Thank You!

The sub has gotten quiet, and we think we may need new moderators who can be proactive about encouraging participation. Thank you.

Hey, all! Sorry I've been silent, I also locked myself out of my account lol.

I didn't see a best editing practices for the map, so I made a rough draft for one to keep us on the same page. Feedback is more than welcome!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16CBhYT85vks9A-xHrykcR166-ScqjyIqQCqHouFWatY/edit?usp=sharing

Dear MissingMappers,

I decided that for February, I want to review all states, so I thought maybe you'd like to join in. We are all updating all the time, but I'd like to make it a concerted effort.

Alabama

• Namus MP's (by adorable_elephant) - done (29.01.2020)

• Namus UID's (by adorable_elephant) - ongoing

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

I'd basically suggest that we do it by source, and tick them off one by one. Basically, one person does all MPs/Does from namus, one does all from Charley's Project, one does all from doenetwork and so on...

This way we can be sure that nothing is forgotten and we get the map up to date.

If you want to join in, let me know in the comments and I'll update the list :)

Honestly, I have no clue what I am doing but I created a discord server, in case anyone else is spending the day, updating the map.

https://discord.gg/YTt6WYXUJt

If there are any objections, I apologize, please just delete the thread then.

A ton of the work I did yesterday in Detroit and removing solved cases was undone today. I was wondering if the map was rolled back to fix something.

So guys, I've decided to start updating Florida now as far as I get. Anyone else up for updating and chatting while doing so?

I read about the idea of starting a discord, any news on that?

Are there any areas that need more attention than others? I'd like to be able to focus on those areas or cases that are underrepresented on the map, such as women of color.

With over 10k John Does in NamUs in the US alone, it was bound to happen eventually. Google Maps only allows for 10k points on each layer.

Because Google Maps annoyingly doesn't allow reordering of layers, the new John Does layer is at the bottom of the key. It will have the same uniform symbology as the original layer. Please add all new John Does there, unless space is made from deleted points (resolved cases) from the original layer.

(On the plus side, since each layer in the map is saved individually, adding John Doe points should be MUCH faster for us mapmakers!)

P.S. I've also done my monthly backup of the point data in case the map breaks.

I know there is interactive map made for ALL missing persons and unidentified persons in the US.

BUT I think we should make a second one just showing missing hikers or unidentified persons found in the wilderness or national parks or forests.

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Anyone want to help out with this?

Hey all! I was wondering if we could possibly get a Trello started for organizing coverage of certain map regions, as well as updating map info (particularly outdated findthemissing/identifyme US cases, as well as resolved ones). If you're unfamiliar with Trello, you can check it out here: https://trello.com/

I actually have a private one I use, divided into lists divided into Does and missing people; cards with US states and other regions; and finally on each card, a checklist with county names. As I make my way through the US in NamUs, I check off each county and leave a comment with the date I finished digitizing those cases, so I know to look out for any cases added or modified after that date if I come back to it. Having something like this could help us volunteers coordinate and find spots that need attention, databases/sources to comb through, etc.

As another idea, maybe we could start a small Discord server for organizing-- and also for hanging out? A Discord server is much more instantaneous communication than Reddit.

So I requested access to the missing persons map today, mostly out of curiousity, thinking perhaps I might help add some cases at some point. I looked around the near my location and home town, then went over to Hammersmith where my fiancee grew up. We clicked on one on Brook Green and my fiancee says "I think that's my grandad". Now my fiancee didn't know him, but had one photo from a website listing him as missing after leaving a hospital against advice with a head injury about a month before the body was found. The photos are almost identical, except that his head appears to be shaved in the latest photo. We just put in a tip but if anyones interested here's the photo of him alive and below the link to the page with post death photos.

https://www.diomedia.com/stock-photo-old-bailey-pic-shows-robert-steph-image17371894.html?fbclid=IwAR0iJf7gLXdH9xVcVoS4l_e7GOvzk8e8bkxFIi_1JQqgrnnMYhjN6E1n9iQ

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https://missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/case/06-025861

Thank you to everyone who has worked on this.

Why are none of the missing persons around these surrounding areas not posted. There is so many dirt back roads and chemical plants that its almost easy for someone to go missing for just a (disappearance) I think their is something more to the story and its being hidden.

There is a Highway that supposedly leads you to Cheyne. or the Other city down I-80, It gets so dark you think you see a exit or entrance to the interstate. which gives the mind confusion. I feel so devastated that these people went through what they went through and I might have been a casualty as well.

Please look back into the south west missing cases and not just the county jurisdiction enforcement. Something is not right here.

Thank you, everyone!

hi im new here but i would love to help i noticed that there are few czechia cases and im from czechia and i could add more

I will get to them, but not today. I lost several members of my family to violence October 5, and I'm still working on funerals, etc.

Thank you to everyone who has worked on this. When I started this project, my wife was in poor health, and I was away from work. Since then, my wife has fortunately fully recovered, but my free time has waned. Thank you for taking the torch and running with it.

Hey all, I've noticed the last few days when uploading images, they don't seem to upload correctly and remain a black window. I've found two other people reporting this problem so it seems to be a server issue- just thought I'd make a post here in case anyone else encounters/has encountered it and was worried the map was broken. Hopefully they fix it soon.

I've been working on plotting male missing persons, and I've come across this case, of a male to female (MTF) transgender person who went missing out of British Columbia, Canada in 1997.

Should missing trans people be plotted under their biological sex or their preferred gender? I ask this because sometimes databases have transgender people listed by their biological sex and others by their preferred gender. There are even a few that I've come across that are listed as "other" rather than male or female. However, I'm not sure about adding another layer/section to the map because there are so few trans missing people.

This has been brought up before but after someone is found/identified, when should we delete that point? US LE doesn't always update NamUs once a case has been solved, so sometimes old cases sit in the database, so people unfamiliar with the case might incorrectly assume the case is still open.

Should we delete points once the NamUs/official gov't agency reference has been updated (i.e. case has been deleted from there or otherwise marked as solved)? Alternately, if a case doesn't have one of those references (only has a community reference like Doe Network/Charley Project/Websleuths/etc. as a reference), we could wait until those organizations have marked the case as solved. In the meantime we can use the FOUND/IDENTIFIED markers on points that will be deleted once those references have been updated.

I have a suggestion. So if you right-click the three dots next to each layer and select Open Data Table, you can add columns (which will show up as rows on each case) for different things like name, age, weight, clothing, etc. Maybe we could add them for the major attributes in NamUs, to keep things consistent and organized? This may make it a lot easier to find specific into about each case fast without having to do to the links. (We could also have a details field for the actual case write-ups and a sources field for URLs).

doeswithoutdna.home.blog/list-of-does/

How can we identify someone if we don't have access to the only thing that can tell us who they are?

I was comparing profiles a few weeks ago and something hit me. Why do so many of them say "Not available" or "Unknown" in the DNA section? And I realized its because many of them passed away in a time where DNA was not even on LE's radar. In the 70s through the 90s, DNA technology was expensive, and most only thought to use it for identifying perpetrators rather than victims So what did they do? They buried them.

Not knowing that a DNA sample could one day give them their name back, they did the only thing that they knew to do: Bury them, through no fault of their own. They didn't know what technology could do one day, no one did. But now, we see what genetic testing can do, and without a sample, a family will remain out there not knowing where their loved one is.

We need to encourage law enforcement, medical examiners, and public officials to pursue securing samples for future testing, as eventually the information may be lost due to age.

I'm not quite certain where to go from here. I have heavily considered turning this into a non-profit advocacy group which will lobby to generate support for this cause, but who knows how far that will go with my limited resources. In the end though, I hope that you all find good usage out of this list. I poured several days of time into going over hundreds of profiles to find them. I wish you all the best.