PA PA - Corey Edkin, 2, New Columbia, 12 Oct 1986

Found the following - pretty much the same info as your link:

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Corey James Edkin age 2, Missing Oct 12, 1986, New Columbia, PA

COREY JAMES EDKIN
DOB: Jun 11, 1984
Missing: Oct 12, 1986
Age at time: 2
Age Now: 20
Sex: Male
Race: White
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height: 3'0" (91 cm)
Weight: 30 lbs (14 kg)
Missing From: NEW COLUMBIA, PA, United States
Non-Family Abduction

Corey was last seen sleeping in his mother's bed. His mother went to the local store at 12:10 a.m and when she returned at 12:40 a.m., the child was missing. He has very light blonde hair.

Link
http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...aseNum=601130&orgPrefix=NCMC&searchLang=en_US
 
Thanks for the reply. I should clarify that I am interested in the investigation: did the police have any suspects or clues as to what could have happened. I would also like more information on the mother's friend who was watching Corey while she went to the store.

What is the best way to reseach such an old case? I have not been able to locate any articles. Did anyone care about this sweet little boy ?
 
Usher737 said:
...Did anyone care about this sweet little boy ?

Someone always cares about the missing, lost and abducted. It may not appear that way to people on the outside, but many times there is one person in the background trying to find a missing person.

Please don't assume this child has been forgotten. When someone loses a loved one to this catastrophic problem, they are never forgotten.

Some become emotionally paralyzed when LE tells them they cannot locate the child. Many times LE does not refer these cases to the agencies that can help them with referrals and emotional and spiritual support. Sadly, in most of the cases we advocate for, we have had to locate the family either directly, or through LE, because they (LE) normally do not contact us.

That is changing, slowly, thanks to some major media we all have done the past few years, but it's still not enough. The goal is that someday every LE agency in the world will have a list of referrals for the family in the event their loved one disappears.

Hearts are changing. Laws are changing. They are coming home ALIVE.
Time is so critical. The first few minutes and hours are the most important in recovering a missing loved one safely.

If you want more information about this, please feel free to contact me via e-mail. I'd love nothing more than to see you (on anyone who reads this) volunteer for SAR (search and rescue) in your immediate area. The need is great, and everyone (even those in a wheelchair) can do something at a command center.

*NOTE* In the time it took for me to type this post, TEN people (adults and children) disappeared in America!! This problem isn't going away. We need your help!

Thanks for your inquiry, and God bless you.
With HOPE for Corey and all still missing, Lanie

*edited to add LE in bold*
 
WasBlind thanks for your information. I have used so many searches on the web, yahoo, msn, google, just to name a few, and I can not find any articles or information about the case. I have checked missing kids/adults websites and nothing but the same poster. I have found no discusion threads about Corey and would really like to find more information. For some strange reason, I just feel like I have to do this.

I was very suprised by you saying "we have had to locate the family either directly, or through LE, because they normally do not contact us."

What is the best way to research an old, cold case?
 
Usher737 said:
WasBlind thanks for your information...

I was very suprised by you saying "we have had to locate the family either directly, or through LE, because they normally do not contact us."

What is the best way to research an old, cold case?

No problem.

I just clarified what I was trying to say. It is not normal for LE to contact us. We normally have to contact them (LE). However, that is changing. We are contacted by family members daily. Sadly, many have gone months or even years without proper assistance, referrals and support.

If you want more information about this, please feel free to contact me via e-mail. I left you 24 links, that should be a good start. Just click the link I left you for 24 matches on yahoo. Then, e-mail, if you so desire or need more help. My e-mail addy is in my signature.

God bless you, Lanie
 
Awareness starts at home, everyone, no matter what age, needs a Personal Id Kit on hand in the tragic event someone you love disappears. Sadly, my own family found this out the hard way when our son Jason disappeared more than 3 1/2 years ago. We never knew why we should have a kit, nor that everyone, regardless of age should have one. If you still don't understand why you should have one, I invite you to read this:

Why Do I Need a Personal ID Kit?

Thanks for listening,

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
 
Kelly, thanks so much for posting that information. I found it very useful. I have read the thread about Jason on this board and my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
 
Usher737 said:
What is the best way to research an old, cold case?

There are a number of ways that you can do research on older cases. As indicated already, one of the first things that can be done today is to do some searching and sorting by key words on line. That might give you some references to begin with.

Next, check out Newspaper microfilm files for newspapers in the local area of where the crime was committed - or where the victim and his/her family lived. In this case, where the disappearance occurred in 1986, you will get the best information from microfilm, because it predated the internet.

What the internet will have on the case today will be articles written long after the incident, and many of those will be stories that are copied over and over again, sometimes with incorrect information or speculation added. But still, you might get some starting places by doing a google search.

After you have gotten as much media information as you can, contact the police department that has jurisdiction over the case and ask to speak with the case officer. They might be happy to talk with someone interested in the case, and might be able to provide you with some information, or might be able to correct some of what you have found on your own.

If there was an inquest or trial of any kind relating to this case, or possibly others like it in the same area, that information is public record. You could ask to read trial transcripts and findings at the County Court House where the trial was held.
 
Bumping for Corey. These kids need their mommies to look out for them and protect them!!! This didn't need to happen!
 
Thanks IdahoMom!!

I am still searching for more info on this case. It just seems so odd. Why go to the store at midnight? And who was this friend who stayed with Corey?
 
I don't think the friend's identity was ever released; all I know was that it was a female friend. I don't know if the woman was ruled out as a suspect or not.

I frequently make Wal-Mart runs in the wee hours, but I am a college student and we are a strange breed.
 
Thanks meggilyweggily!! If you know anything else about the case please post it!!! For example, Were there any leads or suspects!!! Thanks again Usher
 
I don't think there was anything much in the way of leads. Corey's parents were ruled out as suspects. The cops think he was abducted by a non-family member.
 
Richard said:
Corey was last seen sleeping in his mother's bed. His mother went to the local store at 12:10 a.m and when she returned at 12:40 a.m., the child was missing. He has very light blonde hair.


[/QUOTE] I can't imagine having ... for the missing those that love them, Ariel
 
micro is the way to go. like u usher i had this feeling that i need to help solve a crime ( missing person) my search started when carla brucci i think thats how u spell it. went missing in florida on the way home from a friends house and never made it back home. i then decided to futher my research localy and look for missing children and or adults in ct. the janice pockett case has always stuck in my head and my mind its like i was sent to find out what happed. errie but thats how i see it good luck in ur search if anyone wants to help me on the pockett case let me know.



alie
 
Today is Corey Edkin's 21 st birthday! I hope and pray that he is able to have a great time today celebrating it.

I strongly believe after my research that it is a extremely good possiblity that he is alive and well. I think he was taken by someone who wanted to raise a child. I will post more information at a later time.

Please take today to think and pray about Corey and his family. I am sure today is a hard day for them.
 
Corey mentioned later in the article...

Kids welcome lifesaving junk mail -
Missing-children effort marks 20th anniversary
Record, The (Hackensack, NJ)
February 20, 2005
Author: By WALTER DAWKINS, STAFF WRITER
Estimated printed pages: 3

It was during a weekend visit that Steve Fastow took off with his 10-year-old son, Sam.

"It's not right. You're taking a kid away from their family and their friends," said Sam Fastow, now 17. "He was teaching me how to lie and he was making my whole life a lie."

After leaving Sam's home in Hamburg, Sussex County, in July 1997, the pair crisscrossed the continent, first going to Canada, then California, before finally ending up in Texas.

Abby Potash, who had legal custody of her son, didn't know what to do.

"He was impossible to track because he wasn't using his real name, he had false identification for himself and Sam, and he wasn't using any credit cards," Potash said of her ex-husband, who had emptied his son's $40,000 college fund.

Then Sam was featured in the "Have You Seen Me?" card program, which posts pictures of missing children and an 800 phone number for any tips that may lead to their recovery on blue and white cards that end up amid your junk mail.

In March 1998, Potash got a call from police. Someone had spotted Sam after seeing the card, and he was recovered in Alvin, Texas.

"I felt like I was getting a second chance on life and it was the most wonderful day of my life," said Potash. "It's a lifesaving program."

Established by the targeted advertising company ADVO and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) two decades ago, the "Have You Seen Me?" cards are mailed out to as many as 85 million households each week.

They've become an effective tool: To date, 131 children have been recovered, a success rate of about one in seven.

"It puts a photograph into the hands of millions and millions of Americans," said Vince Giuliano, ADVO's senior vice president of government relations. "Picture programs are the most powerful tool for law enforcement to get leads to recover children. They are the hope for searching parents."

For the 20th anniversary of the program, ADVO is targeting its cards to areas where law enforcement officials believe a child is located.

Among those featured in the new approach is Corey Edkin, who may be in North Jersey. Corey, who would now be 20 years old, went missing from his New Columbia, Pa., home in 1986. Last month, his card, which also included an age-progressed image of how he might have looked at age 17, was distributed to 4.5 million households in the Northeast.

"We're just trying to bring this case back to life again," said Charles Pickett, Corey's case manager at NCMEC. "We just know that there is somebody out there who can help us bring resolve to this case. We don't ever let a case die."

"About three years ago, we did our first age-progression picture with Corey and we got a lot of responses, but they all turned up negative," said Pennsylvania state Trooper Philip Davis, the investigating officer on Corey's case. "We've exhausted our investigation, so we need some outside help."

But unless people really take a good look at the picture, the program doesn't work.

Toward this end, ADVO has introduced the "Take a Closer Look" initiative, which offers tips to help people better remember the photos, focusing on the features that don't change, such as the eyes and mouth.

"I tell people to put themselves in the position as if that were their child that was missing," said ADVO's Jeanne Boylan, a facial identification specialist. "And when people pull that card out of the mail and just toss it away as junk mail, imagine how heartbreaking that would be for the parent, because somebody is going to be crossing paths with that child."

ADVO employees came up with the idea for the cards after they saw the 1984 television movie "Adam," about an abducted child who is murdered.

"Now, we've made it part of our doing business," said Giuliano. "We don't send out any of our mailings without information about a missing child."

Giuliano finds it difficult to describe the feeling of helping to find the children.

"It's very, very special," he said. "I have met most of the children that we have recovered. One time, a little girl came to me and put her arms around my legs and said, 'Thank you for bringing me home to my daddy.'-"

Sam Fastow, for one, feels extremely fortunate to have been featured on the "Have You Seen Me?" card.

"It's an amazing program," he said. "All people need to do is look at a picture and they could be somebody's hero and save their life."
 
Sam is my wifes first cousin.I googled his name and found this thread.I'll give you a little update just to satisfy any curiosity you folks may have.Sam is graduating high school this week.There is a family party down this weekend.My wife and daughter are going.unfortunetly I have to work so I am unable to go.Sam is starting college in the fall at Temple.He has a lovely girlfriend and is very happy.

He hasn't spoken to Steve his father in a long time.Steve has been paroled after spending the last few years in jail.No one inthe family has any contact with him.

Another curious fact Steves cousin is the Fastow from the Enron fiasco.I guess sociopaths run in the family.

Thanks for your time.
 

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