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Writing is a Crime-Branson Perry is Still Missing

April 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Diane Fanning, author of ten true crime and 5 mystery novels, blogs about writing, reading, crime and observations of life. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Today is the anniversary of the disappearance of Branson Perry.  He has been missing for ten years.  I first heard of Branson five years ago when I sat in the kitchen of his grandmother, Jo Ann Stinnett.  Since that day, I have never stopped hoping that the family would get answers to their questions about the young man torn from their lives.

Branson was last seen at his home at 304 West Oak Street in the small town of Skidmore, Missouri.  He was twenty years old.  He is presumed to be the victim of foul play.

His mother, Becky Kilno, passed away last February without ever knowing what happened to her son.  Family and friends have vowed to continue the quest for this young man in Becky’s name.

Somewhere out there, someone knows what happened to Branson.  Ten years is too long to carry the burden of that information.  Whoever you are, it’s time to tell what you know.

You can submit a confidential tip to the Missouri State Highway Patrol to Detective Roger Phillips, (816)387-2345 or through the CUE Center for Missing Persons, (910) 232-1687.

You can also submit a tip online.  The link and further information is posted on the website for Branson and on his Facebook page.

I orginally wrote about Branson in my book about the murder of his cousin Bobbie Joe Stinnett, Baby Be Mine.

http://dianefanning.blogspot.com/2011/04/branson-perry-is-still-missing.html

 

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New Billboards for Branson launched in St Joseph, Mo

March 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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New Billboards for Branson launched in St Joseph, Missouri
#1 w/s Belt Hwy .1 mile s/o Sherman
#2 w/s Belt Hwy .2 mile s/o Gene Field

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CUE Center continues search for Branson Perry

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Tue May 19, 2009

Volunteers from North Carolina traveled to Nodaway County to assist local authorities in the continuing search for local missing man Branson Perry this weekend.

The group included the Community United Effort (CUE) Center for Missing Persons of Wilmington, N.C., Sgt. Sheldon Lyon with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

“An area was looked at with the help of a group from North Carolina that specializes with search dogs,” Lyon said. “These dogs searched an area in western Nodaway County.”

Beyond that however, the Missouri State Highway Patrol doesn’t disclose the details of ongoing investigations, Lyon said.

Branson Perry went missing from his father’s home in Skidmore on April 11, 2001. Twenty years old at the time, Perry was cleaning the house with a friend when he took some jumper cables to his father’s shed. He hasn’t been seen since.

Neither the Missouri State Highway Patrol or Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department have been able to close the case.

“This is really unfortunate situation. A young man has been missing for so long. His family just has no closure on this at all,” Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White said. “The really sad part about it is, is as time passes it just becomes more and more difficult to resolve it.

“Here we are, all these years later, still searching.”

Anyone with any information is encouraged to call the Missouri State Highway Patrol at (816) 387-2345

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Search Resumes for Missing N.W. Missouri Teen-Branson Perry

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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QUITMAN, Mo. – At least two investigators from the Missouri Highway Patrol, joined by Nodaway County Sheriff’s deputies, searched a rural area near Quitman Sunday for possible clues to the disappearance of Branson Perry.

The northwest Missouri teenager vanished in 2001. He left his home on foot and indicated he was taking a pair of jumper cables to a shed that sat on a lot adjacent to the residence. It is unknown if he ever arrived.

The Highway Patrol in St. Joseph isn’t commenting on what led to Sunday’s search or whether new evidence may have surfaced in the long unsolved case.

Witnesses tell NBC Action News that a canine search team was also involved in the search of an area off Road 240 in Nodaway County.

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Search for Branson Perry heats up -

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Search for Perry heats up
by St. Joseph News-Press
Monday, May 18, 2009

MARYVILLE, Mo. — A team of searchers from the North Carolina based organization, CUE Center For Missing Persons were brought into western Nodaway County to use specialized equipment and dogs as part of a two-day search for Branson Perry.

Mr. Perry was reported missing April 11, 2001. He was last seen at his home in Skidmore, Mo. There is a $20,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Mr. Perry and/or the arrest and conviction of the person and/or persons responsible for his disappearance.

This is an ongoing investigation for the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol who have never closed the books on this case, said Sgt. Sheldon Lyon, a spokesman for Troop H.

Investigators were believed to be searching an area in and around Missouri Highway 113 and 240th Road in western Nodaway County on Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Lyon declined to comment on the results of the investigation. Anyone having information concerning this case, please contact the Highway Patrol at 816-387-2345.

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Missing Persons Cases Get New Attention- Cue Center

February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment


Missing Persons Cases Get New Attention-

CUE Center for Missing Persons

8/06/2007

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A North Carolina-based group is coming to Missouri this month to help raise awareness about several local missing persons cases.

The CUE Center for Missing Persons is going on a national tour, and scheduled to make numerous appearances throughout Missouri in August; distributing a trail of DVD’s, press kits and valuable information concerning 110 missing persons and six unsolved homicide cases.

The 2007 tour, On the Road to Remember will depart from Wilmington, NC on August 21, and will end more than 5,299 miles later returning the volunteers to their home state North Carolina, on September 2.

Hundreds of volunteers will take part in various legs of the tour, which will include 30 rally stops, traveling thru 17 states in an effort to promote a public awareness.

Missouri – RALLY STOPS

Family & Friends of Missing – Branson Perry – August 29 at 7:30 pm
Craig, Missouri 64437

Family of Missing – Jeremy Alex (Grand Rally Honoree Stop) – August 30 at 3:00 pm
Tom Watkins Park 2100 West High
Springfield, Missouri 65803

Family of Missing – Bianca Noel Piper – August 28 at 5:30 pm
(Intersection) McIntosh Hill Road & Hwy 79
Foley, Missouri 63347

Family of Missing – Amanda Jones – August 29 at 10:00 am
Jefferson County Sheriff Office 510 1st Street
Hillsboro, Missouri 63050

Families of Missing – Kara Kopetsky & Jesse Ross – August 30 at 10:30 am
Residence 15706 Lawrence Avenue
Belton, Missouri 64012

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Family Hopes Playing Cards Will Help Find Branson

February 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Family Hopes Playing Cards Will Help Find Branson

2/12/2009

SKIDMORE, MO – Branson Perry disappeared from outside his home in Skidmore April 11, 2001. He left his home on foot and indicated he was taking a pair of jumper cables to a shed that sat on a lot adjacent to the residence. It is unknown if he ever arrived.

More than seven years have passed with no productive clues to his disappearance, but those still searching for Branson hold hope the palm of their hands. It’s a simple deck of cards with Branson’s picture on the six of clubs. Five-thousand decks have been printed and are headed to jails and prisons for inmates to use.

Thirty law enforcement agencies throughout Missouri have submitted cold cases involving unsolved homicide, missing persons, unidentified persons and wanted fugitives.

The program began on February 1, 2009. “Families who suffer a long term missing person never reach a level of understanding or acceptance, in their loved ones unknown fate”, said Monica Caison, The CUE Center for Missing Persons founder. “The one thing commonly shared among families of the missing is they all believe that someone holds information in their case and they hold onto the hope that someone will step up and do the right thing”, she added.

The CUE Center for Missing Persons takes to the highways each year traveling thousands of miles promoting colds cases of the missing as a part a nation awareness campaign called “On the Road to Remember Tour”; the group endorsed, three years ago the card initiative through the program creation from the Center for HOPE located in Albany, New York.

In 2007 and 2008 CUE visited several towns across Missouri distributing sample cards to agencies, families of the missing and law officials that were in attendance at each pre planned rally stop; Branson Perry was a tour feature. “Many states are coming on board with this new effort and we hope in some small way our campaign has helped”, Mrs. Caison said; after the group distributed the cards throughout South Carolina in 2007, it was adopted in 2008 for state prison systems featuring the case of Eva DeBruhl, one of CUE’s cases and tour recipients.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Branson Perry or may have information concerning this case, please contact: Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office (660) 582-7451 or the CUE Center for Missing Persons (910) 343-1132 or (910) 232-1687 24 hr.; calls can be confidential.

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