South Florida Families Connect With Law Enforcement For Missing Persons Support, What Is New?
Miami, Florida – The entire month of May is devoted to honoring those who have been reported missing but never located.
On Saturday, families in South Florida who experienced the agony got the opportunity to meet with law enforcement organizations that want to help them find closure and reconcile with their loved ones who have passed away, like David Gonzalez, whose sister vanished ten years ago.
Liz Gonzalez, who attended the ceremony with her husband David, stated, “My husband’s younger sister Noemi Gonzalez has been missing since February 12, 2014.”
Numerous local law enforcement agencies that are involved in solving these cases organized the event at Florida International University. A huge billboard that recounted the experiences of those who went missing, some of whom hadn’t been seen in decades, was among the old photos, sketches, and fliers they had.
Detective Carl Geaont of Miami-Dade Police said, “We are committed to that goal—that we reunite families.”
Unfortunately, the volume of outstanding cases is so great that these agencies are increasingly eager to hear from loved ones.
“We’re still trying to maintain our efforts of identifying loved ones,” stated Ernest Louis, an employee of Miami-Dade County’s Investigation Bureau Medical Examiner Department, “We have cases going back to the ’50s and cases in the ’70s that could be unidentified at the moment.”
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Employees such as Geaont and Louis were keen to hear each other out, exchange ideas, and learn from one another’s methods.
“The heartache of not knowing where your loved one is, after all this time, and not knowing what has happened to her is terrible, obviously,” Liz remarked.
When David and his sister Noemi last spoke in 2014, she was residing in North Miami Beach, while the Gonzalezes were in New Jersey.
Liz stated, “We miss her every day.” “She was such part of our family.”
“[Noemi] always wants to do things for her brothers and sisters,” David added. “We always wanted to spend time together.”
Finally relocating to South Florida, the Gonzalezes are currently involved with Miami-Dade’s Missing and Unidentified Unit. These hurts keep coming even though this serves as a reminder of a decade of them.
“Trying to get closure and trying to find answers as to where my sister might have been,” David said.
“The message for people who have missing loved ones would be ‘don’t give up,'” Liz added. “Even though they aren’t present, they still need to hear you. You must advocate on their behalf.
Give (305) 715-3300 to the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad at (305) 715-3300 if you have any information about a missing person or if you need to get in touch with them.