When loved ones go missing, hope is the only thing you have

Very good story. I don't want to equate a dog with people however, the best dog I have ever had disappeared when I was younger living in the mountains. She had several puppies but went missing and we never found her again. I was half asleep but remembered hearing growling the night before. We looked and looked for her, she would never have left those puppies. Everytime you would see something in a field you would think it was her and go out there to find out. It was awful not knowing what happened to her. If I felt that way about a dog, I just cannot imagine the agony of not knowing when it is your loved one. Not knowing is just beyond agony.



The grief is as specific as the smell of clothes from the missing loved one, but it is not unique.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has 309 names in its missing-persons cold-case file, an average of almost five per county.

The FBI's National Crime Information Center database includes nearly 86,000 missing people.
Each year, an average of 4,400 unidentified human remains are found, and 1,000 of them will stay unidentified. Morgues are holding 40,000 sets of remains, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.


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