PorchlightUSA for the Missing and Unidentified
PorchlightUSA for the Missing and Unidentified
PorchlightUSA is a website devoted to missing and unidentified persons in the United States. We will feature all unsolved missing and unidentified persons cases. Please take a look around and keep these faces in mind. Every pair of eyes searching is another beacon of hope for the lost. Thank you for shining your light.
In loving memory of Jean Marie Stewart
Please note: Due to a glitch at 1colony, over half of the pages on this website are no longer accessible for updating, additions or deletions. This has happened several times before but always was able to be corrected. This time apparently it cannot be. Therefore, please check by clicking on the photo if a case is still active. If the person has been located, it will say so on the thread title on the message board. Otherwise, the thread title will be the state in which a person disappeared or an unidentifed person was found. In the meantime, I am creating another website and this site will redirect to it when it is finished. I apologize but this is apparently not something 1colony is able to deal with.
Deanna Merryfield Case details
Deanna Michelle Merryfield went missing on July 21 1990 from Killeen Tx. She had attended Manor Middle School and was now a rising eighth grader heading for Fairway School. She and her Grandmother stayed up late, watching a movie on the night of July 21, 1990. When her grandmother went to awaken her the next morning at 11 AM, Deanna was gone. All her possessions remained at home. It was learned that during the night, sometime after watching the movie, Deanna showed up at her uncle's home at about 3:30 AM, July 22 1990, to visit her twin sister. Her twin said she "left with some boys" around 3:30 AM in a brown car.
Vital Statistics
Date of birth: Feb 2 1997
Height: 5 Ft 4 In
Weight: 115 lbs
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Scars: Deanna has a scar on her upper lip
Deanna has a large and extended family who still need answers. Her grandmother remains in the same home, with the same phone number. So please, please call home, Deanna! Your family needs you!
Deanna Merryfield Missing 13 YO July 21 1990 from Killeen TX
Date of Birth: Feb 2 1977
Date Missing: July 21, 1990
From City/State: Kileen TX
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 13
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 64 inches
Weight: 115 pounds
Hair Color: Blond
Eye Color: Blue
Circumstances of Disappearance: Deanna was last seen at approximately 3:30 AM in a brown car, leaving her uncle's home. She took nothing with her and has not been heard from again.
Please click on links at left to see other cases. Click on the Porchlight to see the International message board
Law Enforcement, families of missing persons and the missing themselves appeal to the public to watch, be curious and please. please do not be afraid to make a phone call. Recent events with the Missouri boys demonstrate how a vigilant neighbor or friend could have ended the boy's ordeal a great deal sooner. Please keep your eyes and ears open, but more importantly, keep your heart open and your instincts sharp.
The scope of the problem
The number of people, children and adults, who go missing each year is simply mind bloggling. The number of people left behind to wonder, worry and wait are even greater. The loss reverberates through every aspect of life. Every holiday or family occasion is also an occasion for a renewal of loss, a renewal of pain and uncertainty. Please help bring some of these lost souls home...
These are just some of the events that fill the days of a family with a missing loved one. The empty chair at the dining table, the birthday gifts that have never been given, the haunting feeling of a closet full of clothes never worn become daily wounds that can never heal.
What kind of answer can you give when asked how many children you have? Do you say I have three, but one is missing? Do people want to hear? Life gets divided between people you knew before the disappearance, and people you met after. Who to tell? And just how much to tell? When your husband or wife goes missing, are you still married? The questions and difficulties are endless, painful and all consuming.
And then you realize you are not alone. There are people who care, even if they don't even know your name. There are people who spend countless precious hours of their time trying to help complete strangers. That is when you know that although you may always live with the shadows and echos of your missing loved one, you are also strengthened by the kindness and caring of others. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
