Birgitta Kristensen

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What happens when a mentally ill adult goes missing?

Well, from my personal experience with my adult missing son - first I am told by a misinformed police officer that I cannot file the missing person report because I was not the last person to see my son, nor was he living with me at the time of his disappearance. Since my son was staying with his father at the time he went missing, I was told that the father had to be the one to file the report. Since his father denies that our son has a diagnosed mental illness, he was non-compliant in helping me to file the missing report. And 24 hours had already passed since my son went missing before I was made aware of the fact. I was extremely worried about my son’s well-being, especially since we were on the cusp of a record-breaking multi-day heat wave, and my son did not have a recent history of being able to take care of himself. In any case, I had to sit with this misinformation throughout the heatwave as I searched the streets myself and put up my own flyers and contacted park ranger stations etc just spearheading my own search - searching the morgue website, hospitals, and arrest website for John Does, since my son is largely non-verbal and carries no form of identification or telephone. Then I made more phone calls and was told that, yes, anyone can file an adult missing persons report - so, 5 days after he actually went missing, I filed the report, never received a call back, I had to begin inquiring again, just to find out there was no record of his report, to which I was told his report was ‘in transit’ downtown. The detectives downtown said this is incorrect because it would go straight into a database that they should still be able to see his information and assign a detective. My life had been a mess of searching for my son and sleepless nights, but I dug through everything in my car to find the printout of the report that I did not remember receiving (my fault for not keeping this close to me) to see that the ‘h’ in my son’s name was actually misspelled with an ’n’ instead. Therefore, he was undiscoverable in the system - apparently blanket searches by last name only is not possible. Also, my contact number was incorrect, along with many other spelling mistakes on the report. This was my fault for not noticing, but I would say I had my own form of temporary mental illness in this time period, especially since my brother had also passed away rather unexpectedly just a few weeks prior! So, finally almost two weeks after my son went missing, I have a detective working on the case, and I am just hoping for the best. I am not giving up my end of the search, but I have had to let go quite a bit and just hope and pray that I will have an answer, and of course I hope the news is good news, even though mental illness is so extremely difficult, and even if he is found, the story doesn’t end there.

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玛丽·科利尔（Mary Collier），38岁，在亚利桑那州圣坛谷的家附近的一片田地中被发现死亡，死因是被她18岁的儿子阿兰·阿什克罗夫特（Alan Ashcroft）刺死。阿什克罗夫特在10月30日报告说他的母亲被绑架后不久，科利尔的尸体被发现。警方抵达他们一起生活的家时，发现阿什克罗夫特浑身是血。他试图逃跑，当被警察拘留时，他要求警察“朝他的头开枪”。据称，之后阿兰承认了这起残忍的谋杀案，为这位四个孩子的母亲送上了悼词。