Locating and Recovering Missing Children
Several CSPRA members have partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help locate missing and abducted children. Locating a missing child within the first 48 hours is critical; after that time, the chance of recovering the child drops dramatically.
In the summer of 2002, police in South Carolina were attempting to find information about Richard Evonitz, a man who had recently kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl. They contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. After searching a large public records computer database, the Center found a connection between the disappearance and deaths of three girls in Spotsylvania County, Virginia to the abduction of the girl in South Carolina. Using the information collected from the public records database that highlighted similarities between the two cases and attackers, the police were able to make their biggest break in the Spotsylvania case in years.
