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2-12-2012 7 Year Old Girl Fights Off Attacker

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Scent identification through US Mail and land delivery
International K9 Search and Rescue Services has been identifying suspects for criminal and civil cases through scent evidence found at crime scenes for the last 26 years.

Example: A police officer finds a suspect vehicle believed to have been used in the kidnapping and transporting of a missing adult or child.

The police officer while wearing rubber first aid gloves, rubs a sterile 4x4 gauze pad over the suspected contact area, (trunk of car). He / she, then places the item in a clean paper envelope. Then he/she places that paper sack or envelope inside a clean plastic bag and seals it up. He/she then places that sealed plastic bag inside another plastic bag seals that up. He / she initials the bag and places the date and time the items were sealed up inside. He/she then mails the item(s) to our office.

Next he/she collects an uncontaminated scent article belonging to the missing person(s). Again the same procedure is used.

He/she collects the item such as a used pillowcase or tennis shoe not washed, and places it inside a paper bag and seals it shut. Then places that item inside two clean plastic bags and mails that item separately.

Remember when you go to the victim(s) residence and collect the scent item make sure YOU Collect the item yourself. Do NOT ask the family to hand you the item. No one is to touch it. It’s best if you don’t touch it either.

How to properly collect a scent evidence sample or scent item.
While wearing clean rubber gloves, turn the paper sack inside out, collect the scent item. Next place the item in the plastic bag(s) as directed. Then change rubber gloves. Remove the old and put on uncontaminated rubber gloves and collect the scent evidence SAMPLE(S). Follow our guidelines on collecting and sending those items.

When we receive the items (the scent in question and the scent article) we'll perform a scent identification search with two qualified search dogs and send you a report on our findings.
Cost is $250.00 for each examination.
This includes collection of sample and scent evidence.
Photographing and documenting items.
Conducting the scent evidence search.
Writing report and sending items back to client.

The general public can also send us their pet’s scent item (fir/hair collected from home) this will be considered the (Scent item). Then they can send us the sample fir/hair found at a scene in the area. We can then through scent evidence tell the client if the search dog indicates this is in fact their pet(s) scent or it isn’t. And if it’s alive, stress, or death alert.

For more information on this procedure feel free to order Mr. Oakes book available on CD Format
Search and Rescue By Harry Oakes.

We've also used the same procedures to identify fir/pet hair by pet owners at a specific scene.

1-22-2011 6 year old Vanesa Snegur from Portland, Oregon
01-22-2012 Little 6 year old Venesa Snegur from Portland, Oregon was with her family playing in the snow along the Clackamas River near Austin Hot Springs when she accidently fell into the frigid 37 degree waters moving at 35 feet per second and drowned.

For the next 2 1/2 days, Clackamas County and other law enforcement agencies brought out SAR resources to include divers, ground search teams, search dogs, helicopters, and found nothing except some of her clothing.
On 01-24-2012 The search was temporarily called off by the Clackamas County sheriff's office.

On 01-25-2012 I.K.9.S.A.R.S. team of Harry Oakes with SAR Dogs Willow and Tyler K-9-1. Responded on a private request for the continued search for little Venesa.
Here's portions of his report.
1135hrs. I stopped in Portland, Oregon and obtained a scent article from Vanesa's family.
I arrived in the search area (Clack. river) near Austin Hot Springs at around 1345hrs. I introduced SAR Dogs Willow and Tyler to Vanesa's scent and gave them the work command, "Go Find Vanesa". Both search dogs Independent of one another (off lead) traveled from PLS (Point Last Seen) approximately 100 yards down stream and stopped and indicated a death alert.

Orange flagging with the following documentation was noted and posted at the scene.
IK9SARS K-9-1 1359hrs. F# 2. H. Oakes "Death alerts".

The victim's clothing was found by family members and searchers down stream during the initial search. This indicates to me from 40 years of SAR experience that the victim is pinned down against rocks or a downed tree under the fast moving water and the force of the water removed the victim's clothing sending them down stream.
The victim's family, friends from her church were also on scene and witnessed the Search dogs search and posting of the flagging. Photographs of the scene, a diagram, and photograph was taken of something we believe belongs to the victim underwater and Location marked as flagging # 1.

All information turned over to law enforcement agencies involved on 01-26-2012. www.k9sardog.com
I.K.9.S.A.R.S. donated over $1,500.00 in services to this search effort on 01-25-2012

Harry Oakes K9 Search and Rescue SAR Coordinator.

1-22-2012 Cruise travel safety and you
With the recent events with the Costa Concordia running aground I've had several reporters asking me as a survival expert what can a person do to improve their odds of survival while on a cruise.

Know before you go. Do some research online and find out if there have been complaints with the specific cruise line and or captain.

Research the route your cruise line is expected to take. Then research online if your ship goes down, CLICK HERE to see a full list of everything you can do related to travel safety.

10-28-2011 "Help Finding Her Missing Husband"
On 10-28-2011 Mrs. Perez contacted the Whatcom County Sheriff's office regarding her husband who had been missing since Oct. 28, 2011 in Bellingham, Washington.
After being very unsatisfied at the action (Or lack there of) being given to her husband case. Mrs Perez contacted I.K.9.S.A.R.S. on 11-01-2011 and asked for our help in finding her missing husband. During our search we were able to put the pieces of the puzzle (so to speak) and located her husband alive on 11-03-2011 with the help of the Sedro Woolley Police Dept.

From: Paula Perez November 4, 2011 9:45:15 PDT
To: Harry Oakes

Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication, and for the donation! I'm relieved to know he is alive and taking care of himself, or at least the basic human needs. You have given me and his sister some much needed peace of mind. If there is anything I can help you with for future investigation, or if you get a huge event and need donations, let me know, I will help if I can.

v/r,
Paula Perez

10-24-2011 An Atta-Boy
"Thank you Harry, we appreciate everything you did to help us find Caleb. Thank you for your donation of services. We REALLY appreciate that!

I am relieved that Caleb is alive and free. We still don’t and may never know what happened to him in the 3 days he was gone. I will call the sheriff’s office this morning.

Thank you, again, Harry. You are very professional and obviously know what you’re doing. We will call you if we need you again."

Sharon Crowson

6-8-2011 Beware Shoddy Contractors
Disaster victims beware of shoddy contractors. Check out this link:

http://disastervictims.blogspot.com/2011/06/disaster-victims-beware-of-shoddy.html

6-1-2011 Disaster Update
Hi everyone Our first search dog from Kentucky was able to help confirm 5 victims dead with the Missouri fema USAR team from MO. She informed us our help was needed. We arrived checked into a the EOC, (Head quarters). They were glad we had arrived and we developed a search plan. They wanted us to work with the non fema Missouri search dog teams. When we went over and talked with their person in charge chel Demery, she informed me that 10 new dog teams had just arrived and no further assistance was needed. So once we completed our assignment, (our dogs and handlers were hot and tired) we then did some grief counseling with some of the police officers on scene and left for home as we have several more SAR calls to handle upon our return. Joplin MO looked like a bomb blew up a 13 mile stretch of city. What a mess. Stop signs were blown through the high school down into the basement and stuck in the walls. Cars were picked up and blown across a high school track and smashed into a fence. Hundreds of houses / offices/ buildings were turned into toothpick sized wood.
Brick, steel, wood, it didn't matter. And OMG Even McDonalds was destroyed.
 
 

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5-20-2011 S.M.A.A.R.T.T Is Open For Business
I've started another business attached to IK9SARS for pet rescue called SMAARTT. It stands for Specialized Mobile Animal Ambulance Rescue Transport Teams. CLICK HERE for all the details.

5-9-2011 Hunters found Rita Chretien
Last week some hunters found Rita Chretien, a Canadian woman who had been missing for seven weeks in Nevada after taking a remote road while traveling.

Her husband Albert, 59 is still missing when he left their van on a mission to search for help. He stayed with Rita for three days while being stuck in the mud off a forest road on March 19.

When this couple first went missing, we offered our services to the RCMP's and they refused our help. "Search dogs can track people's scent escaping from the vehicle as they travel down the road. We could have determined which direction they did in fact travel. This could have saved this family from 7 weeks of hell. And Albert is still missing.
There's no excuse for not using professional K9 Sar teams to work this kind of search.

When families depend on GPS's to navigate areas unknown to them, the Sheriff's office should have determined by using the same type of GPS system where the GPS would lead this couple to. The GPS will pick the shortest route to their destination.
Then they could have determined which routes were probable and flew that route.

The same thing happened to the Kim family in S. Oregon a few years ago. You would think they would learn from others misfortune.

Ever hear of the stories about a family moving from Seattle to LA, Ca. and they leave behind their dog or cat and a year later the cat or dog shows up on their door step?
Like I said, when you drive down the road you are leaving scent that can be tracked. That's how pets do it. That's how search dogs trained in vehicle tracking can do it.

5-9-2011 Pomeranian Search

Dog owner Saneza Bacchus, left, and search-and-rescue co-ordinator Harry Oakes from Longview, Washington search for Bacchus' missing Pomeranian in Maple Ridge, with his dogs Willow and Tyler Sunday. (CARMINE MARINELLI, 24 HOURS)

By DHARM MAKWANA, 24 HOURS

Calling off the search for Teddy, a missing black and white male Pomeranian, wasn’t an option Sunday for his owner Shaneza Bacchus.
Since her pup went astray Friday afternoon, the Pitt Meadows resident had extensively canvassed her neighbourhood and circulated more than 500 missing posters. Over the weekend she turned to Washington State-based search-and-rescue coordinator Harry Oakes and his two scent-sniffing border collies Tyler and Willow.
Oakes’ service doesn’t come cheap, asking for $650 upfront to cover travel, time and lodging expenses. On the ground, customers are charged $50 for every 15 minutes of active searching.
“Yes, it’s a lot of money,” Bacchus said. “Yes, some people are going to say, ‘it’s stupid,’ but I love him and I want him home and I’m going to exhaust every avenue.”
Tyler and Willow picked up Teddy’s scent and tracked it more than 15 kilometres away from his home to Lougheed Highway and 207 Street in Maple Ridge.
After two hours on the road, Bacchus’s sister Rehana Frankland, 26, found herself in a Catch-22 when helping decide if the search should be called off.
“If we stop at a certain point and we start canvassing that neighbourhood, what if he went further and we don’t canvass that neighbourhood?” she said.
Both expressed confidence in Oakes, who’s been involved in searches for missing children, animals and others over the past 39 years.
“They’re working off emotion,” Oakes said of the sisters. “I lost my dog for three days and three nights and I was out in tears looking for my baby.”
Bacchus called off Oakes after two hours, but the hunt for Teddy continues.
Anyone with information is asked to call 778-994-2253 or 778-229-5431.

5-3-2011 Tornado Searching

Searching for live and dead victims in the aftermath of a tornado that’s hit a residential neighborhood. Where do you start?
Like in any disaster response, first obtain written authorization to respond. Find out where the .....  CLICK HERE to see the rest of this article ...

4-255-2011 Find Joanie Hall
Find Joanie Hall

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=8d352a18ed40300ddfb71b&skin_id=1605&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

4-10-2011 Missing Canadian Couple

Cost and effectiveness in the search for missing Canadian couple Albert and Rita Chretien,
Case# 2011-6789-094(A). 04-03-2011

Missing Canadian couple ALBERT CHRETIEN, age 59 and RITA CHRETIEN, age 56.

When I first heard of this case over the internet, I immediately talked with the RCMP's regarding how with 39 years of SAR experience and 25 years as a SAR Coordinator and K9 SAR Instructor I would suggest they conduct their search.
They ignored my suggestions.
You decide what is the right method.
First let me applaud the state police and county sheriff's office and RCMP for their efforts. I feel they did an outstanding job.
Oregon State Police and Burns County Sheriff's Department along with the RCMP have reportedly flown over 20 hours in their efforts to try to locate the missing couple.
They have reported that four counties surrounding the area where the couple was last seen have conducted ground vehicle searches covering thousands of square miles.
 Cost to the Oregon Tax payers well over $150,000.00 dollars.
Their effectiveness? They haven't located the victims as of yet.
Instead of using my suggestion.
Which was to obtain scent articles belonging to the victims. Allow my search dog teams to drive down there. Yes we can track a scent escaping from a vehicle. Determine which route the couple did in fact travel headed towards Los Vegas.
Then have our search dogs work an air scent / trailing search to determine where the couple was involved in a MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident). (Most likely scenario).
Cost to OSP or RCMP would have been max. $5,000.00 dollars to cover our fuel, search time, meals and motel.
Hmmm let's see, $5000.00 with a probability of detection rate of 75% or better.
Or $150,000.00 dollars with 0 success. You decide.

Harry Oakes K9 SAR Coordinator.
www.k9sardog.com

04-01-2011
On 04-01-2011 Jennifer Mau from Guardians of the Children Mt St Helens Chapter asked I.K.9.S.A.R.S. to bring in cadaver search dogs on Saturday 04-02-2011 for the private search efforts on behalf of the family of Yashanee Vaughn (Missing child). DLS: March 19 Reported missing 03-21-2011.
Portland Police has arrested a suspect regarding the murder of Yashanee Vaughn. The suspect has since pleaded, “not guilty”.
I.K.9.S.A.R.S. teams will be using two search dogs, one search coordinator, and one assistance SAR coordinator for this private search efforts. They will be donating their time, efforts, skills and own money for this search efforts.
Anyone wishing to assisting I.K.9.S.A.R.S. with their private search efforts through support with gifts of money to help us pay for meals, fuel for the private search teams, can send a gift of money to the above listed address. C/O Yashanee Vaughn Private Search efforts.
Remember we are NOT a nonprofit and your gift is NOT tax deductable.
Thank You
Harry Oakes SAR Coordinator.

3-23-2011 Update Japan
On Wed, 3/23/11, Marla Petal mpetal@imagins.com
From: Marla Petal mpetal@imagins.com  Subject: Re: frustration at best.
To: "Harry Oakes" <sardogk91@aol.com  Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 5:31 AM
Dear Harry, I hear you. The frustration and sorrow you are expressing is exactly what got me involved in this field. I remember vividly on Day 5 after the Kocaeli earthquake, hearing that the Turkish government had told all of the international rescuers that they had to leave or 'be quarantined'.
I remember the fury and helplessness of the teams. The government declared that all that was left was 'cosmetics'. The professional and self-sufficient rescuers knew that they were abandoning dozens or perhaps hundreds still clinging to life, trapped beneath concrete and steel, who could hear every word uttered just a few feet away, but whose cries could not be heard by those outside. By then you had explained to us the tiny spaces that human beings could survive in - and the many mitigating conditions under which they could survive for many days.
On Day 6 you and your beloved and hard-working canine companion, Valorie - with Suha and I as witnesses - found 3 more people whom Valorie told us unequivocally were alive under the rubble. When their dead bodies were eventually dug out, their bodies were still warm, and those present agreed with Valorie, and believed as we did, that being found was a final comfort to them.
But as for those who could hear us from within the concrete and steel, but who died abandoned, and as for their loved ones who stood outside the rubble unable to reach them - they still haunt me, and I still wonder daily what we can do to protect people from these fates worse than death.
The only example I know of where hope and dignity prevailed, was after 9/11 when professional search and rescue continued uninterrupted until every bone had been collected. That the scale of this disaster is so much wider, that there are other dangers involved are not much excuse. There are dozens of stories after Hurricane Katrina of ordinary citizens who had to defy, or find their way around whatever bureaucracy and authorities stood in the way of helping others.
What our reporters don't understand when they remark on the "miraculous" stories of finding someone alive after 5 or 7 or 10 days of being trapped, is that for every one of those, there are dozens, or maybe hundreds, dying a slow death, entirely abandoned.
What can we do to make a difference?
- gather the available evidence?
- document the ways in which bureaucracy and ignorance prevent additional lives from being saved?
- partner with some researchers for additional documentation?
- get together with some like-minded folks?
- get some excellent reporters and writers to work with us?
- write / talk / explain?
In spite of all that could be done, when the big one hits my homeland in California - all I will know to do is to dig with bare hands...
Love, Marla
Marla Petal Email: mpetal@imagins.com
Skype: shmarla USA: 1-212-644-8937
USA Mob: 1-408-806-7888
Efax: 1-408-516-5841
From Harry Oakes - Independent Search and Rescue professional and canine trainer in Washington and Oregon
On Mar 23, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Harry Oakes wrote:
Japan is turning into another Katrina FUBAR.
The doctors and nurses, EMT’s paramedics, medical supplies are in Japan and not being used.
Why? Because of the Japanese bureaucracy.
420 SAR teams from around the world offered free assistance.
15 were allowed in. 15.?
Just as our USA govt had it's head up its ass in Katrina and thousands of humans and animals died needlessly, now Emperor Akihito is doing the same damn thing.
Why don't you folks learn from other people's mistakes?
There are over 500,000 people who are in shelters
in Japan starving right now.
Thousands more still trapped in the rubble waiting for rescue.
No fresh water, no fresh food. Cold. Scared.
Where is the food, water, rescue supplies?
It's all in warehouses in Japan. Why isn't it being distributed to the needy?
There's no fuel for the military and rescue vehicles to transport the material to those in need.
"That's what's being said by Japan officials to the reporters around the world.
Why aren't the doctors and other medical staff being allowed to help the needy?
Because they aren't licensed to practice medicine in Japan.
This isn't right.
Governments need to waiver medical rules / requirements licensing restrictions during disasters.
The same damn thing happened in Katrina.
The US Navy Medical ship arrived and wasn't allowed to treat the sick and injured after three days because the state of Louisiana refused to allow the doctors on board the ship to practice medicine in their state.
So people (the innocent) that needed the help died needlessly.
Come on world, let's force our leaders and NATO to pull all medical licensing restrictions during times of disasters.
Let's apply the "Good Samaritan laws" internationally instead of just within the confines of the USA.
I totally understand there are extreme hardships in major disasters. I've been to many of these first hand as a rescuer and know the hardships the governments, citizens, police, fire, EMS, and others face.
But let's not lose track of one thing. The victims human and animals alike need our help.
The rescuers from around the world stand ready to help but due to bureaucratic bs, aren't being allowed in. What's up with that?

Explain that to the mother holding her dead children who survived the quake but died from hypothermia because help didn't arrive soon enough.
Explain this to the child who is still alive trapped in the rubble lying next to their dead mothers and fathers.
Explain this to me as a seasoned rescuer who can't begin to believe this BS is happening all over again.
Explain this to the victim’s families who are asking me daily, why aren’t we over there helping find their loved ones?
 

03-12-2011 Update Japan

International Office of Emergency Management
Disaster Response Division.
PO Box# 1472 Longview, Washington 98632
Office; 360-414-8093 Mobile: 503-705-0258
Email: searchdog@iinet.com Web: www.k9sardog.com
As you can well imagine our International Office of Emergency Management Center has been swamped with emails, texts, and telephone calls regarding the 03-11-2011 8.5 earthquake in Japan.
Are we sending in resources? The answer is, “No, not yet”.
We've been in contact with the Japanese embassy officials, and NATO, and if they need our K9 Disaster search dog’s teams, SAR coordinators, and other resources, they will request us and then and only then will we mobilize and send in our USAR disaster response teams.
Like we've done over the last 25 years, we've offered our services.
If the Japanese government requests our assistance, then we'll try to raise the money to purchase air fares for the search dog teams that are responding, the cost of the shots, travel, and equipment that we'll be responding with.
This will be approximately $5000.00 per dog team. The government will not pay for our response. The airlines will not fly our teams in for free.
We must come up with this money on our own to pay for the airlines tickets, shots, equipment, etc. This is the way it’s always been for the last 25 years.
Since we are NOT a non-profit, but in fact a FOR PROFIT Professional K9 Search and Rescue team, the gifts sent to us are NOT tax deductible.
Do we charge for Search and Rescue during disasters? NO. We never have.
We take time off work (two weeks) and donate our own money and services to the victims of disasters.
We’ve assisted in numerous disasters around the world. Armenia, Northridge, SF, Ca. Philippines, Kobe, Japan, Oklahoma City Bombing, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, both of the 1999 Turkey quakes, 2010 Haiti quake, and other disasters we’ve responded to directly or indirectly with coordination efforts, supplies and SAR dog teams. (Katrina, 9-11) etc.
There are times the resources become so overwhelmed that we’re only allowed to assist through sending in rescue equipment, medical supplies, food, water, etc. Other times we’ve been asked to physically respond and assist in the search and rescue and recovery efforts.
How can the public help the victims in the Japanese earthquake?
To avoid scams, contact your local Department of Justice and see which foreign aid teams will be responding to this disaster.
Don't send anyone any $ money or equipment unless you have confirmed with a team that they are in fact responding.
Before you donate or gift money or equipment.
Request to see a copy of their written permission to respond from the Japanese government.
Get a receipt for all monies gifted or donated to that team.

Media response. Our PIO (Public Information Officer) Mr. Harry Oakes will be updating this blog as well as our web site as we receive accurate information.
Our web site is www.k9sardog.com
Or click on the below listed URL http://www.k9sardog.com/index.htm
If you are a media person requesting an interview with Mr. Oakes our disaster SAR Coordinator re: this or other disaster information, preparation, people and pet rescues contact us.
Please send us an email at searchdog@iinet.com to make an appointment or call our office at 360-414-8093.
Only call our emergency # at 503-705-0258, if you need to contact our office right away.
We’re extremely busy assisting numerous agencies regarding the possibility of the Tsunami striking the west coast.
Rescuing people and pets, as well as livestock will be our first priority should the Tsunami be a large one that causes major devastation.
If you want to volunteer your time and efforts, contact the local chapter of the American Red Cross, or if the Tsunami causes damage here in the USA, the stricken areas that are hit and donate your time helping rescuing livestock and domesticated pets from the stricken areas.
Please make sure you obtain permission to enter the disaster site before you respond.
That permission can only be granted by the local law enforcement agencies.
Thank You
Respectfully
Mr. Harry E. Oakes Jr.
International Disaster K9 SAR Coordinator
International K9 Search and Rescue Services.
International Office of Emergency Management

2-21-2011 Questions Need Answering

Growing up, we’re all lead to believe in our local law enforcement and the love and support of our own family.

When a child disappears it falls onto the child’s family to do their part to help law enforcement to bring their child home. It falls on the law enforcement’s responsibility to do the best job they can free from egos and politics to find this missing child and to bring those responsible for the child’s disappearance to justice swiftly.

When the sheriff’s office and family fails to do all they can to find the missing child, shame on all of them.

I totally understand that it’s the DA’s call on whether to prosecute certain individuals regarding their participation in the disappearance of a missing child.

When circumstantial evidence is present to prove or disprove active participation and deception in a on going investigation, the DA needs to make sure he or she does his / her job to the fullest extent of the law. And, I understand that some investigations do lead to dead ends.

But it’s the law enforcement’s responsibility to use all available resources including private resources when their own resources fail to produce results.

It’s the family’s responsibility to turn over all information to the investigating law enforcement agency so that law enforcement can do their job.

It’s also the family’s responsibility to use all available resources including private resources on their own, should the law enforcement agency fail to find their loved ones.


When the family refuses to use private resources to help resolve a case, this brings up some very valid questions.

Over the last 25 years while working with the search dogs we’ve handled thousands of cases. We’ve often brought closure to many of these cases when law enforcement and or the family had failed to find any real clues on what happened to the victim.

On this recent local case I must ask the following questions as a concerned citizen.

Why is the birth father still trying to raise money when he’s already testified in court that his wife “Did harm to his son”? If he know’s his son isn’t alive anymore then what is the money that’s being raised going towards?

Why is the birth mother and birth father refusing to allow private search dog resources to help find their missing son?

Why are they refusing to allow private search dog resources with a proven track record to search around their property?
My heart goes out to these parents. There isn’t a searcher out there who doesn’t feel their pain and anguish. But I do get really discouraged and disappointed when I’ve repeatedly have asked for a scent article of this missing child and they flat our refuse to respond.

When I’ve asked to search around the perimeter of the property where the child lived and am refused.


This makes me ask,”WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID I’M GOING TO FIND?”.

Shame on them. This isn’t about me, it’s about finding answers to bring a little boy home.

I’m just making the public aware of what’s really going on. The public should be demanding answers.

If this was my son or my grandson, I wouldn’t care who found him.

Whether it be a police officer, private investigator, family member, friend, neighbor, or a private search dog team. Just bringing closure in this case is what’s important.

Many folks are frustrated with this ongoing case. I’m one of them. Especially knowing that if we were able to have a scent article of the missing child from the beginning,

we could have determined;

What direction the child took from inside the school to the parking lot.

What vehicle the child got into (where it was parked). This would have showed the police if this was a family or stranger abduction.

Whether the child was alive, injured, scared, or dead when he got into or was placed inside the vehicle.

Which direction the vehicle went after it left the school. Towards the child’s home, towards a different direct.

And it would have either cleared or directed law enforcement to certain individuals based on SCENT EVIDENCE.

We’ve repeatedly documented findings such as this that have been upheld in other murder kidnapping trials. This is where the DA has failed. He / she should have demanded that the detectives in this case use private proven resources once their own SAR teams failed to find any thing. (Review the Ward Weaver 2002 case for just one example).

A qualified trained search dog can determine if a person that enters a vehicle is under stress, sick, injured, dead, or giving off normal live scent. If the victim was laying around the property dead or in a vehicle used by the family, the search dog will determine this and this gives investigators more information on where to direct their search efforts.

If the child’s death scent is detected in a family vehicle or around the family property, then the family has some explaining to do.

This could have saved the tax payers $250,000.00 dollars in an ongoing investigation that so far hasn’t revealed any real evidence.

Is it disturbing that two women who knew the missing child purchased untraceable disposable cell phones before the child disappeared raise any red flags?

It is disturbing that these same two women can’t / won’t account for 1 and ½ hour of their time the day this child disappeared?

Is it disturbing that both the birth mother and father of the missing child are still raising money to bring home their son even though they totally refuse to cooperate or use private resources?

Where’s the accountability for all the money raised? Is the Oregon DOJ auditing their 501C3 files so that the public who has donated thousands upon thousands of dollars knows how and where their money is spent regarding the search for this missing child?

If I must be accountable for every penny I earn and spend then why are they so different?

My prayers are that this child is brought home alive and safe. That the law enforcement agency handling this case can locate this child and bring the suspect(s) to justice.

My experience says this probably won’t happen.

2-15-2011 SEARCHES COST MONEY

SEARCHES COST MONEY
YOU ARE ASKED TO DONATE
International K9 Search and Rescue Services is a for profit K9 Search and Rescue team. We average between 450 and 750 search calls each year.
Searches cost money.

Fuel to drive to and from the search scene.
Medical insurance for the searcher and search dogs.
Telephone calls.
Paper and ink for the reports and maps.
Travel expenses such as meals and motels.
Specialized equipment for the searches such as radios, boots, head lamps, ropes, etc.
Then we try to include the wage for the searcher if we get paid.

On missing person cases, we often end up donating our services as the families can't afford our services and the state, county, and federal law enforcement agencies refuse to pay for SAR services even though they themselves get paid and charge for services.

If you want to help support a search, feel free to send a gift of money to:
I.K.9.S.A.R.S.
PO Box# 1472
Longview, Washington 98632

Remember we are NOT a 501-C3 so your gift is not tax deductable. Your gift will help us help others in their time of need. Or you can click on the PayPal "Donate" button below and donate here".
Thank you.
Mr. Harry Oakes SAR Coordinator.

 
 

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