FL-Claudia Perez - Oct. 2004/ Wildwood

[fourboys]

Claudia Perez

Description:
DOB: Jun 7, 1990
Missing: Oct 5, 2004
Height: 5'1" (155 cm)
Eyes: Brown
Race: White/Hisp
Age Now: 15
Sex: Female
Weight: 106 lbs (48 kg)
Hair: Black
Missing From: WILDWOOD, FL
United States

Circumstances:
Claudia was last seen on October 5, 2004. She may still be in the local area or she may have traveled to Illinois or Texas.

Contact Information:
Sumter County Sheriff's Office (Florida) 1-352-793-2621
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)[/b]

NCMEC POSTER (http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=1016661&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US)

[fourboys]

Police, family looking for girl

05/31/05
SARA BOTT
Staff Writer

WILDWOOD — Joaquin Burgos has not seen or heard from his granddaughter, Claudia
Perez, since she left home on Oct. 5, 2004.

Perez, 14, left home around 4:30 a.m. on the 5th, Burgos said. He said he is
very close with Perez and that is why he is so worried about her. Burgos said he
feels she should have tried to get in contact with him by now.

Burgos said Perez is a caring and tender girl and is always concerned about
people.

He said he was in a nursing home in The Villages for about five months and while
he was there he received a call at the nurses desk. He said they informed him it
was a girl and she asked if he was there alone.

“I just wish she would try to get a hold of me somehow and let me know that she
is OK,” he said.

Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said Perez’s mother,
Rosemary Burgos, called the police about her missing daughter on Oct. 5.
Caruthers said the police met with Rosemary at their apartment on County Road
242 and gathered information on the daughter. The mother told police she heard
two knocks on the door through the night. Rosemary said she went to the door but
did not see anyone and the next morning her daughter was missing, Caruther said.
She told the police she discovered her daughter missing around 6 a.m. Caruthers
said Perez had taken all her clothes and left a note with the grandfather
indicating that she was running away.

Joaquin said the note from Perez thanked him for everything he did for her, said
that she loved him and asked him to tell her boyfriend that she was sorry.

The family notified all the local papers as well as the police, Caruther said.
He said detectives and deputies have checked out Perez’s boyfriend’s house,
motels and put out a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) report. Perez’s school Wildwood
Middle School, also put a message up on their closed circuit television asking
friends and classmates to give the school, or police, any information they might
have on the whereabouts of Perez.

Caruthers said the police have had several calls since the initial report. She
was spotted at Wal-Mart and the police tried to get to the store in time but
came up with negative results, Caruthers said. He said the station has also
received calls stating she was at a specific house but when the police got there
she was gone and those in the home would deny the allegations. Caruthers said
the latest call was about a month ago stating Perez was in an unknown trailer
park in Belleview. He said the Marion County police were notified and nothing
came of the tip.

“We have been to her boyfriend’s house several times, and a niece might have
information on her whereabouts but is denying having any knowledge,” Caruther
said.

He said the information concerning her case has been presented at several
intelligence meetings, including ones in Lake County.

Caruthers said Det. Reese Thompson is the police officer in charge of the
investigation.

“Any information that would help us locate Claudia we ask that they call Sumter
Co. Sheriff’s Office,” Caruthers said. “We do want to find her and at least make
sure she is safe and reunite her with her grandfather.”

http://209.41.184.21/partners/701/public/news635848.html

[fourboys]

Claudia Perez missing since 10/5/2004

Claudia's grandfather woke up about 4:30 on october 5 2004 and found that she was not in her room she is from wildwood fl and no one has seen or heard from her since she left.

you can vist her site at http://www.geocities.com/findclaudiaperez

[Kelly]

www.dailycommercial.com


Family still searching for missing daughter

Hope remains one year after disappearance

By Staff Writer SARA BOTT

WILDWOOD - It has been one year since Claudia Perez left home, and Joaquin Burgos, her grandfather, has been patiently waiting to hear something from her. "I just wish she would try to get a hold of me somehow and let me know that she is OK," he said.

Perez, 15, left home around 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, 2004, Burgos said. He is very close with Perez and that is why he is so worried about her, Burgos said. He said Perez is a caring and tender girl and is always concerned about people.

Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said Perez's mother, Rosemary Burgos, called the police about' her missing daughter the day she was last' seen. Caruthers said the police met with Rosemary at their apartment on County Road 242 and gathered information on the daughter.

The mother told police she heard two knocks on the door through the night. Rosemary said she went to the door but did not see anyone. She told the police she discovered her daughter missing around 6 a.m. Caruthers said Perez had taken all her clothes and left a note with the grandpa indicating that she was running away. Burgos said the note from Perez thanked him for every*thing he did for her, said that she loved him and asked him to tell her boyfriend that she was sorry.

A little more than a month ago, Burgos started a Web site for his granddaughter. He said he has not yet received any information on the whereabouts of Perez, but he has received many notes of sympathy. "Seven hundred people have visited the site as of Sunday," Burgos said. Burgos said he has kept in constant contact with the Sumter County Sheriff's Office over the past year, and the department is still trying to help him locate his granddaughter. "

Her grandmother said she saw her at one point, but Burgos, said her sister looks a lot like her, causing some confusion about possible sigtings. "I would really like for her to try and get in touch with me," Burgos said. “That is the hardest part, not knowing anything."

He said he hopes that she will e-mail, call or get in touch with someone so the family at least know she is safe and healthy. He said there is nothing she has done that the family cannot resolve or forgive. "The family loves her and misses her," Burgos said.

Rosemary Burgos, Claudia's, mother, said nobody seems to know anything and the local police have not done anything to help the, family. She said she called the police and after a report was made they have not helped the family in any way to find her daughter. "It has been really weird, it is like they don't even care she. is missing," Rosemary said. "We have done everything we can to try and find her, but locally nobody around her has helped us at all."

Caruthers said Det. Reese Thompson is the police officer in charge of the investigation. "Any information that would help us locate Claudia we ask that they call Sumter County; Sheriff’s Office," Caruthers said. "We do want to find her and at least make sure she is safe and reunite her with her grandfather."

Go to http://www.geocities.com/ findclaudiaperez/

Those with information are asked to call:

Sumter County Sheriff's Office, (352) 793-0278

[Kelly]

Tonight, Claudia is scheduled to be shown as the featured missing person on the Nancy Grace Show on CNN Headline News.

Thank you.

With Hope,
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

[Kelly]

"Te Amo, Claudia", tells the story of a young girl, her grandfather, the special love they shared, and how her disappearance has changed his life.

You can read all three parts on the Project Jason Voice for the Missing blog. The links are as follows:

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111305-te-amo-claudia-part-i.html

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111405-te-amo-claudia-part-ii.html

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111705-te-amo-claudia-conclusion.html

Thank you for caring about the missing.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

[Kelly]

Claudia has been added to Project Jason's Adopt a Missing Person program. Please consider helping reunite Claudia with her family by wearing her photo button and sharing her story with others. For more details on how you can make a difference, please see:

http://www.projectjason.org/adopt.html

Thank you!

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

[Kelly]

Please merge threads. Thanks.

[hoppyfrog]

Found Safe http://www.geocities.com/findclaudiaperez/

[BethInAK]

I'm glad she's home and I'm very glad she's brave enough to tell other kids, via the press, that leaving home is a mistake. And whomever the adult friends who put her up without calling her family are...welll, they pissed me off.