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leads may go cold but for the families
whose loved ones are among the unsolved
cases in Michigan the heartbreak never
ends cases like four-year-old Juan Sims
who disappeared in a Livonia shopping
mall back in 1994 the missing skeleton
brothers their father is in prison but
where are Andrew Alexander and Tanner
and Danielle says lucky
Floyd Galloway is charged with her
murder but her body has never been found
detectives are still working to solve
these cases and successful
investigations are actually leading to
work on new cases a 14 year old
disappears the Year 1988 vena Emery left
with friends and never came back
fast-forward to 2015 Detective Sergeant
Sarah Krebs and the Michigan State
Police missing persons unit takes on the
case so that case came to us at one of
our missing persons events so benas
mother Karen came forward that her
daughter had been missing since 1988 and
she believed that she had reported it to
local law enforcement back then and when
we looked at the databases we had
absolutely no record Krebs discovered
that same year an unidentified girl had
died and was buried
detectives exhumed her body and did a
DNA test it matched it was absolutely
the most heartbreaking death
notification that I've ever been a part
of natalie was it's such a long time
after the fact but just the details that
this little girl had gone missing in the
same city that her body was found in and
that the cases were never connected was
truly heartbreaking to tell that mother
even though it's not the outcome
families hope for solving these cases
still gives them answers and seeing them
solved gives others the courage to come
forward it seems at anytime we profile a
long-term missing persons report and
especially if it was successful that we
solved it a lot of times we'll have
other family members come out and ask us
to do the same for their case now this
case is still unsolved while veena has
been identified it's unknown how she
died and there are many unsolved cases
like hers especially missing persons and
so that's why we are opening our local
for phone bank to find new clues
Sandra Raleigh is sandy by Sandra who's
answering the phones for us today well
Karen I want to go ahead and show you a
live look in fact these are members of
the Michigan State Police missing
persons unit they're all here they're
standing by they want to take your tips
on missing persons cases or even reports
of new cases the number is on your
screen and we want to go ahead and give
you that number again it's 3 1 3 2 9 8
WDIV and joining us now live is
Detective Sergeant Sarah Krebs she's
here with us and sooner talk to us a
little bit about this notion of for
families of missing loved ones what's
the most important thing that they can
do right now it's really important for
them to make sure that their case is
documented with law enforcement
especially if it's an older case there
have been a lot of cases that we have
found that have truly not been
documented through the years so they're
not in the right databases and we have
no way to solve those cases if we can't
find them and then with some of the
cases there's trouble finding the
original report again so it's that kind
of that glitch in the paperwork what
should people do about that right I mean
truly if you reported your loved one
missing back in the 70s their 80s even
into the 90s we may not have them in our
computerized databases today so it's
very important for you to call make sure
that we have the cases documented and if
not we can point you in the right
direction make sure we get that case
all right thank you so much Sara we
appreciate it and we want to go ahead
and give you that number one more time
three one three to nine eight WDIV these
volunteers are here and they will be
here taking calls until 6:30 Karen all
right we really appreciate it Thank You
Sandra and our coverage of unsolved
Michigan continues at 5:00 with a look
at the Oakland County child killer case
my detectives feel confident those
murders will be solved by the way this
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