Yeah, right.
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Wait, I’m doomed! Now they won’t even send out search parties! Grrrrrrr.
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Thank you.
Hey, wait . . . !
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“I guess it depends on WHERE . . . ”
Er, um, if the where is known, then I’m no longer missing, right?
Wrong again. The last known location is not automatically the place at which a person becomes missing nor is the place from which the person is believe to have disappeared.
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He was last seen leaving his home backing his car out of the driveway on his way to work, which is a 25-minute commute. He never arrived at work, no one has heard from him, and the towers that show pings for his cell phone indicate that his last known signal was in his own neighborhood two minutes after he left home. Once reported missing the next day, a search began on the third day. His car was found on the fourth day parked on the public street one block away from his work location, where he has an assigned parking space in the employee parking lot, that requires an access card to enter. The driver seat of his car was adjusted for a person of a different height than his height. There was no way to verify how long the car had been there, other than the engine was cold when it was found.
As such, his home is the last confirmed sighting, but there’s no information about what happened after that or even where it happened.
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Element 99 has faked his own death, changed his identity, and departed for parts unknown abroad to live out his life in comfort and luxury on a sunny beach somewhere.
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I beg to differ: you know you’ve wanted me for a long time now.
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“They wouldn't start even looking for suspects without proof positive that you'd actually been murdered . . . ”
Incorrect, Matey. Just because a person is missing does not automatically mean she or he has been murdered, such as cases of kidnapping, falling down a deep ravine and breaking both legs and unable to be seen or heard by anyone and unable to get out on one’s own, trapped in an elevator for an extended period of time and the emergency phone isn’t working, etc.
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