TERRY BENJAMIN DURHAM

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Feb 14, 2005	Sex: Male
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 4	Height: 3’0″ (91 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 40 lbs (18 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

Missing Kids

BRIAN JAMES MCDOWELL
Companion
(Abductor)

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Dec 21, 1979	Sex: Male
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 29	Height: 5’9″ (175 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 180 lbs (82 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

ROBIN DENISE DURHAM
Companion
(Abductor)

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Mar 4, 1983	Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 26	Height: 5’7″ (170 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

ALYSSA TAYLOR DURHAM

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Sep 22, 2006	Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 2	Height: 2’6″ (76 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 30 lbs (14 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

Missing Kids

BRIAN JAMES MCDOWELL
Companion
(Abductor)

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Dec 21, 1979	Sex: Male
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 29	Height: 5’9″ (175 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 180 lbs (82 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

ROBIN DENISE DURHAM
Companion
(Abductor)

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Mar 4, 1983	Sex: Female
Missing Date: Jul 1, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 26	Height: 5’7″ (170 cm)
Missing City: ELIZABETH CITY	Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg)
Missing State : NC	Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Blue
Case Number: NCMC1129602
Circumstances: Terry and Alyssa were last seen on July 1, 2009. They may be in the company of their mother, Robin Durham, and Brian McDowell. A felony warrant is on file for Brian McDowell. They may travel to Missouri or Texas.

ETHAN GUTHRIE

Case Type: Family Abduction
DOB: Jun 15, 2004	Sex: Male
Missing Date: Date: Aug 17, 2009	Race: White
Age Now: 5	Height: 3’6″ (107 cm)
Missing City: MULBERRY	Weight: 45 lbs (20 kg)
Missing State : FL	Hair Color: Brown
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1129442
Circumstances: Ethan may be in the company of his mother.

Missing Kids

JORDAN E. LUCIANO

Case Type: Endangered Missing
DOB: Jan 16, 2005	Sex: Male
Missing Date: Date: Sep 5, 2009	Race: Hispanic
Age Now: 4	Height: 3’4″ (102 cm)
Missing City: LOWELL	Weight: 43 lbs (20 kg)
Missing State : MA	Hair Color: Black
Missing Country: United States	Eye Color: Brown
Case Number: NCMC1130572
Circumstances: Jordan was last seen at home on September 5, 2009. He was last seen wearing blue Spiderman pajamas. Jordan may be in need of medical attention.

Missing Kids

Success Story of a Missing Child

By AP
Sept. 5, 2009

ST. LOUIS —  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 boy was staying Saturday with one of his father’s relatives while state child-welfare workers investigated claims the father abused the child before his disappearance — allegations rejected by the dad, who’s thrilled the agonizing search has ended.

“Two years? You have no idea,” Mike Chekevdia, a 48-year-old former police officer who’s a lieutenant colonel in the Illinois National Guard, told The Associated Press by telephone Saturday from his house in Royalton, Ill., some three miles from the home where his son turned up. “I’ve lost sleep. I’ve lost weight. I’ve gained weight. I wouldn’t wish this on anybody.”

After hearing his son had been found, Chekevdia said, “you could have knocked me over with a feather.”

Chekevdia won temporary custody of his son shortly before the boy and his mother — Chekevdia’s former girlfriend — disappeared in November 2007. Chekevdia said he long suspected his son was being stowed by Dobbs, although there were no signs of the boy at her home when it was searched with her consent after his disappearance. Wilfong was charged the next month with abducting the child but couldn’t be found.

For much of the time since, Chekevdia said, the windows of Dobbs’ home were blocked off by drawn shades or other items, presumably to prevent anyone from peeking inside.

“I had a firm belief he was in there, and yesterday it was confirmed,” Chekevdia said.

Investigators, during a news conference Friday, did not detail what led sheriff’s deputies and federal marshals with a search warrant to Dobbs’ house Friday, when they found the boy and his mother in a hideaway roughly 5 feet by 12 feet and about the height of a washing machine.

“We let him out of the (patrol) car and he ran around like he’d never seen outdoors. It was actually very sad,” Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Stan Diggs said. “He was very happy to be outside. He said he never goes outside.”

“Surprisingly,” Diggs added, “Ricky is in very good spirits. For someone who’s been isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he’s a very social, very polite, very talkative little boy.”

Dobbs, the grandmother, told the Southern Illinoisan newspaper of Carbondale, Ill., last year that her daughter had been forced into hiding to keep the child from his father. Dobbs called the dispute a “nightmare for all of us” and insisted her daughter had difficulty getting authorities to help.

Chekevdia, eager to get his son back in school and to a dentist, said waiting for Ricky to resurface required patience.

“It’s hard to sit back and watch things happen when you’re used to making things happen,” he said. “But I just bided my time and let the system work.”

Source: Fox News

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Firefighter of the Week – Assistant Chief Donald J Burns

By Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
August 31, 2009

Donald James Burns

Farewell to ‘Exceptional’ Firefighter
Memorial honors assistant chief, a 39-year veteran

October 10, 2001

Fighting fires was not just a job to Assistant Chief Donald J. Burns but his passion, one that rubbed off on many of his colleagues within the New York Fire Department.

Burns, who remains missing since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, was memorialized during a Mass yesterday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where he was hailed as an “exceptional” leader within the department.

A 39-year veteran of the department, Burns, 61, rose from firefighter to citywide borough commander, a job that required him to be at all major incidents in the city during his 24- hour shifts.

During his career, Burns’ ability to learn from his mistakes and use them to improve firefighting skills was apparent to most of his colleagues, who respected him as a brilliant tactician and strategist.

“Anything you ever wanted to know about the Fire Department, he would have the answer,” said Deputy Asst. Chief Albert Turi after yesterday’s Mass. “If you could be half as good a chief as he was you’d still be a good chief.”

In talking about Burns at the service, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen used words like “hero” and “patriot” to describe Burns.

“His experience was unparalleled,” Von Essen said.

In front of the cathedral, a large American flag was hung from a fire truck over the heads of several hundred uniformed firefighters lined up along Fifth Avenue.

Burns’ family led the procession into and out of the cathedral, to the sound of solemn music played by the Fire Department’s bagpipe band.

Burns, who lived in Nissequogue, is survived by his wife, Betty, and three children, Laurie, 37, Michael, 35, and Patrick, 29.

He began his career in 1962 in Brooklyn and rose through the ranks in various positions until 1997, when he became a citywide tour commander.

“When you were with him, you feel there’s no fire you couldn’t conquer,” said 51st Battalion Chief Howard Carlson, based in Richmond Hill. “He was exceptional.” –Bryan Virasami (Newsday)

— Jay Dooling  12 Nov 2001

Source: Irish Tribute

Officer of the Week – Detective Claude D. Richards

Remember September 11, 2001
Angels Among Us
Detective Claude D. Richards
Shield 244
Bomb Squad
August 31, 2009

Editor’s Note: We at the Chronicle, will never forget those police officers, who have given their lives in 9/11. Each week we will honor one with their stories.

This week we feature:

Detective Claude D. Richards
Shield 244
Bomb Squad
(recovered)

If ever a man was to the bomb squad born, it was Detective Claude Richards of the New York Police Department. Fearless, meticulous and disciplined nearly to a fault, Detective Richards, 46, the bomb squad’s intelligence coordinator, spent his off-duty hours working, working out and planning his next workday. When he took some time off, it was to defuse land mines in Bosnia with a United Nations peacekeeping force.

All the way from boyhood, Dan, as Detective Richards was known, “always wanted to charge up to the front,” said his brother, Jim, “just to prove himself.” He was in the Rangers in the Army, and on the bomb squad his command presence allowed him to give orders to colleagues who far outranked him as he oversaw security logistics for events ranging from presidential visits to the United States Tennis Open.

Detective Richards, who lived in Chelsea, was a complicated man. True, he could yell at a co-worker who borrowed his stapler and put it back in the wrong place, but he also didn’t think twice before taking his shoes off on the street and giving them to a vagabond, Jim Richards said.

Detective Richards’s work ethic left him little time or space for relationships, his brother said, but added, “He was so devoted to his work I don’t think he had a problem with it.”

– The New York Times 12/15/2001

Source: NYP Angels

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