Update Dec. 2, 2016:
The family of Nancy Paulikas shared the following thoughts of how Nancy went missing and why she has not yet been found, to include:
- How there is no simple, easily updated database or mechanism for matching missing person cases or “Jane or John Does”
- There are reportedly many incidents of people in LA County becoming “missing persons” for months or year, and then are “found” in residential care, or “pop out” of the system
- How to improve processes for local police to quickly bring in appropriate support for finding missing people in urban environments, such as search dogs used by Urban Search and Rescue (S&R) units. Although it sounds unbelievable, appropriate use of “scent-tracking dogs” can track individuals in dense urban areas many hours after the person has walked the street. And we have an expert S&R person consulting for us.
Our best guess at this point is that Nancy has “gotten into” the residential care system, probably under an erroneous name. Probably with the help of a good Samaritan. We’re trying to find her there and looking into methods to “pop her out” of the system.
Read the Nov. 30 story by Steve Lopez, LA Times, about the search for Nancy.
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A middle-aged woman with Alzheimer's, no money and no transportation vanished in Los Angeles ... Los Angeles Times Nancy Paulikas had gone with family to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Oct. 15, went to the bathroom, and vanished. Surveillance video ... |
Friends and family of Nancy Paulikas, a life member of Sierra Club from Manhattan Beach, have asked the Sierra Club for help finding her. On Oct. 15 Nancy got separated from family when visiting the LACMA museum. She is 55 years old and suffers from early onset Alzheimer's Disease.
For more information go to http://nancyismissing.blogspot.com/
