Missing Children’s Division
The Executive Director of the Missing Children’s Division, Robert Lowery, said about the organization’s work: “Up until about 1982, law enforcement wasn’t even required to enter a missing child into the database, although we were tracking stolen cars aggressively or stolen property through serial numbers or the NCIC database. We didn’t put children on the same wavelength as we did property.”
Missing Children’s Division
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Unrecognizable
In any case, NCMEC’s forensic artist, Stephen Loftin, drew a sketch of what Crystal would look like at age 26. Detective Parker, who spoke to Crystal’s mother often “about her hopes and fears”, said in 2011 that “she probably wouldn’t even recognize her if she saw her.”
Unrecognizable
