Over 200 people missing in Wisconsin, remembered at Annual Missing Persons Awareness Event today

BELLEVUE, Wis. (WBAY) – April is Lacking Individuals Consciousness Month. To point out assist and share sources, the Annual Lacking Individuals Consciousness Occasion made its in-person return after two years because of COVID on the Brown County Sheriff’s Division.

“We had hoped that we’d have some type of decision, have the ability to lay her to relaxation, and we will’t transfer ahead with that as a result of she’s nonetheless lacking,” founder and president of Wisconsin Lacking Individuals Advocacy, Inc. Marsha Loritz shared.

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Loritz based the non-profit in 2017 after her mother, Victoria Prokopovitz, went lacking in 2013. Fellow board member Jackie Kort additionally misplaced her mom. She was solely four-years-old when her mother was reported lacking in 1979 in Muskego, WI.

“You see exhibits on T.V. of lacking individuals and, I do notice that it’s leisure for some individuals however these are actual households which can be lacking their family members and are hurting,” Kort mentioned as she began to get choked up.

The Wall of The Lacking at Brown County Sheriff’s Division for the occasion had over 200 people who find themselves presently thought of lacking in Wisconsin. Seeing their faces and studying details about them is only one method Saturday’s occasion hoped to lift consciousness and convey closure to households who want it.

“By no means hand over,” Loritz emphasised. “There may be all the time hope and it might take some time however we should always by no means hand over.”

One household was not in attendance as deliberate on Saturday as a result of they discovered their beloved one this week. Brown County Sheriff’s Division recommends calling 911 as early as attainable if somebody could also be lacking to allow them to flood the world rapidly to try to discover them.

“We do reply to lacking individuals calls on a reasonably common foundation,” Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain mentioned. “Because the climate adjustments, we are going to reply to lacking kids.”

Whereas Loritz mentioned the variety of individuals reportedly lacking has elevated through the years, encouraging messages like “Have Religion” and “Keep Robust” had been written on yellow ribbons caught to The Wall of The Lacking. Nonetheless holding these lacking peoples’ reminiscences alive, even after so a few years.

To get in contact with Wisconsin Lacking Individuals Advocacy, Inc. click on right here.

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