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2007

• Jean Marie Stewart

  Jean Marie Stewart disappeared from Miami Lakes, Florida on March 25, 1980. She was located deceased in Hialeah, Florida on April 20, 1981. Her remains were identified in December 2007.

• April Ann Repka

  April Ann Repka disappeared from Victoria, Texas on June 17, 1991. Her skeletal remains were located in Jim Wells County, TX in 2004. She was identified through DNA and dental records in December 2007.

• Vicky Fay Hamilton

  Vicky Fay Hamilton was last seen in Bathgate, Scotland on February 10, 1991.She was located deceased in November 2007. Her remains were found in the garden of a house in Margate, Kent.

• Dinah McNicol

  Dinah McNicol, 18, was last seen on August 4, 1991 between Brighton and Portsmouth, United Kingdom. She failed to return to her family home in Tillingham, Essex, after a trip to a music festival. Her remains were located in November 2007 at a property in Kent.

• Pierre-Michel Schaedler

  Pierre-Michel Schaedler was last seen in Bischeim, France on September 2, 1996. He was located deceased in October 2007. His car had apparently fallen into a small river and he was found still behind the steering wheel. He was found by a sonar boat.

• Nancy Lee Riggins

  Nancy Lee Riggins was last seen in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland on July 1, 1996. She was located deceased in October 2007. Paul Stephen Riggins told police that the body of his wife, Nancy Riggins, could be found in a wooded area in Hanover, Anne Arundel County. Police recovered the remains of her body in mid-October about a half-mile from the family's home.

• Graeme Charles Taylor

  Graeme Charles Taylor disappeared from New South Wales, Australia on April 10, 1992. He was located deceased in May 2002, but wasn't identified until September 2007.

• Alicia Wasilewski

  Alicia Wasilewski was last seen leaving the Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, New York on May 29, 1996. She was located deceased in September 2007, in Jefferson County, New York.

• Lillian Jean O'Dare

  Lillian Jean O'Dare was last seen in Vancouver, British Columbia on September 12, 1978. Skeletal remains found in the crawl space of a Vancouver house in April 1989 were identified in August 2007, using DNA testing, as belonging to Lillian Jean O'Dare.

• Paula Ann Stewart

  Paula Ann Stewart disappeared from Hobart, Indiana on June 28, 1980. She was located deceased in July 2007.

• Keri Bray

  Keri Bray was last seen March 2, 1986 in Orem, Utah. In 1986, Bray told employees at Lake Crest - a place for people with disabilities - that he wanted to go to Texas to become a cowboy. Bray was located in July 2007, when he crashed a tractor while working at a ranch. During the insurance-review process, an insurance-agency employee tried to learn more about Bray. A Google search on Bray's name brought up a link to his picture on the Doe Network. Bray had worked on this ranch for about 21 years.

• Elias Morales Leija

  Elias Morales Leija was last seen in Carrollton, Texas. Morales was 23 when he moved from Alvin to the Dallas area in 1994, and in December of that year, his family tried to contact him but couldn?t. They reported him missing to the Dallas Police Department. Morales had been hit by a train in the Fort Worth area on December 2, 1994. He was identified in July 2007. Identifying him was difficult because Morales had no identification on him at the time he was killed. Morales? remains had been cremated but a small sample of his DNA had been preserved. When the remains were analyzed and then cross-matched through the Texas Missing Persons DNA Database, maintained by the University of North Texas, they were able to find a match.

• Albert Nathaniel Larkins Jr.

  Albert Nathaniel Larkins Jr. was last seen on January 1, 1993 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was located deceased on July 14, 1993 in Nashville, and was identified in June 2007.

• Melodie Ann Rowe

  Melodie Ann Rowe was last seen in Syracuse, New York in August 1972. She was located deceased on the southern edge of the Onondaga Nation, NY in 1977. She was identified by DNA in May 2007.

• Krystle Jacobs

  Krystle Jacobs was abducted by her non-custodial father on May 7, 1994 from Anaheim, California. She was located safe in May 2007.

• Homer Ervin Burk

  Homer Ervin Burk was last seen on December 16, 1992 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He was located safe in April 2007.

• Billy Ray Weems

  Billy Ray Weems was last seen on July 20, 1985 in Houston, Texas. His skeletal remains were located in Corpus Christi on June 15, 1999, but not identified until April 2007. A DNA sample from Weems' sister matched that from the remains stored in a database.

• Danielle Ranee Hutton

  Danielle Ranee Hutton was last seen on June 22, 1998 in Newhall, California. Her skeletal remains were found on May 21, 1999 in Los Angeles County, California. A member of the Doe Network assisted in the identification, which was made in April 2007.

• Gladys Nell Rhodes

  Gladys Nell Rhodes was last seen in Boaz, Marshall County, Alabama on August 12, 1979. She was located safe in April 2007.

• Terry Dewayne Allums

  Terry Dewayne Allums was found deceased in April 2007. His skeletal remains were located in Coffee County. He was identified in October 2007. He had been missing since July 25, 1998 from Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama.

• Erik David Kohler

  Erik David Kohler disappeared from Port Charlotte, Florida in October 1995. One of eight skeletons found in Fort Myers on March 23, 2007, have been identified through a DNA match as the remains of Erik Kohler.

• Melissa Ann Schmidt

  Melissa Ann Schmidt was last seen in Lincoln, Nebraska on September 5, 1995. She had gone to the Nebraska State Fair that day, then rode her bike home. She made it home, locked up her bike and dropped her bag, shoes and a book that she had been reading inside the door. She was never seen alive again. Melissa's remains were located near Denton, Nebraska on January 26, 2007 after a tip to authorities. DNA confirmed her identification in March 2007.

• Melodie Armaza

  Melodie Armaza disappeared October 21, 1996 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when she was 3 years old. She was located safe in March 2007.

• Ada Elena Torres Smith

  Ada Elena Torres Smith was last seen June 1, 1996 in Santee, South Carolina. Her remains were located off Interstate 75 in Campbell County, Tennessee in 1997. She was identified in March 2007. The work of the members of the Doe Network contributed to her identification.

• Jimmy L. Allison

  Jimmy L. Allison was found deceased in August 2006. His skeletal remains were located at the Fayette County home of his wife, and was identified in January 2007. He had been missing since July 19, 1989 from Somerville, Tennessee.

• Paula Ann Randall

  Paula Ann Randall had been missing since August 1, 1981 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her family was notified in January 2007 that her body had been located and had been positively identified through fingerprint identification.

• Christina Lynn O'Riley

  Christina Lynn O'Riley disappeared about January 7, 1993 from Orange County, California. She was located safe in February 2007.

• Eli E. Vanderpool

  Eli E. Vanderpool was last seen leaving a party at a friend's home on November 26, 1985 in Smithboro, Tioga County, New York. On May 29, 2005, canoeists on a river island near Towanda, Pennsylvania found leg bones and pulled them from the river. DNA tests confirmed the identity of the remains on February 16, 2007.

• David John Kennedy

  David John Kennedy disappeared from Victoria, Australia on October 15, 1995. His body was discovered in January 2007, after a drought dropped water levels almost 50 cm. in the Loddon River. Police dragged the river and found the submerged car with his body inside.

• Danna Lori Dever

  Danna Lori Dever was last seen on June 14, 1996 in Fairfield, California.Her remains were located on July 8, 1996, in Solano County, California. Fairfield detectives re-examined the case in May 2007. A thumbprint taken from the body matched Dever's thumbprint on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

• Paul Aryan Wayne Jebelli

  Paul Aryan Wayne Jebelli went missing November 1, 1994 from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He was located safe in February 2007.

• Carl Porter

  Carl Porter, missing since 1992 from South Carolina, was located safe in 2007.