Organizations founded by Violent Crime Survivors
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Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Jannel Rap, sister of singer Gina Boss who disappeared in 2001 after a performance, and whose case is still unsolved.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2003
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Eleven family members of unsolved murders, including Lieurance & Shirley Sullivan, Tony & Grace Winbert, Don, Jerri & Mark Reichert, and Howard & Virginia Morton.
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2001
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Coleen Nick whose daughter Morgan nick was abducted when she was 6 years old from a ball field and remains missing.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
1995
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Marc Klaas, Erin Runnion, Mary Kozakiewicz, Ed Smart, Mark Lunsford, among other parents who lost children to abduction, rape, and murder.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
NO
Year_Founded
Early 2000"s
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Angela Rose who was abducted and raped at the age of 17.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2001
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Mary and Doug Lyall whose daughter Suzanne vanished in 1998 after exiting a bus at Collins Circle, at the State University of NY - Albany (Uptown Campus). As of this date, she is still a missing person.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support
Active?
NO
Year_Founded
2001
Crime Type(s):
Founded by
Lola Linstad and Linda Barker in 1975 after the abduction and subsequent murder of Lola?s 19-year old daughter, Vonnie Stuth
Website:
Service goals:
Advocacy, Support
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
1975