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
Gloria Yerkovich, a mother of a missing child.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
1984
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
Ed Parze and other family of Stephanie Nicole Parze who was missing for 87 days and later found that she had been murdered in an act of domestic violence.
Website:
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2020
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
Charles & Judy Cox, whose daughter Susan disappeared in 2009, and whose grandchildren were brutally mudered in 2012 by their father, the husband of missing Susan, in a murder-suicide.
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Support, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2010
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
Nichole Schmidt, James Schmidt, Joseph Petito and Tara Peitio parents/step-parents of Gabby Petito who went missing and was soon discovered to have been murdered by her boyfriend.
Service goals:
Awareness, Advocacy, Prevention
Active?
YES
Year_Founded
2021