The first hours of a missing persons case are critical.  Pushing out information and descriptions of vehicles, location, victim, and suspect images as well as other data to the public in the first hours is crucial for successful intervention.

Gabby Petito, A bright 22-year-old with big blue eyes and big plans.  

Gabby worked hard to invest in a future filled with adventure and travel.  Her plans to blog and share the freedoms of van life came to an abrupt end in the Grand Teton National Park.  Her mother noticed some suspicious texts from Gabby’s phone after not receiving the regular calls she had grown to expect, sharing the adventure of a lifetime.  She informed the police and took to social media as Gabby’s fiancé arrived back in Florida with Gabby’s van and no sign of Gabby. Her lifeless body was discovered weeks later in a dispersed campground, strangled, battered, and decomposing.

Each year thousands of young adults go missing in America, many under suspicious circumstances.  The number of missing people never found or never identified is staggering.  

Naomi Irion, A Rainbow in a storm.  

Naomi wanted to feel life like every other normal young adult in American culture.  She wanted to learn to drive a car, have a job, and go on dates without supervision.  Naomi’s father was an American Diplomat and Naomi was raised within a secured environment.  When Naomi turned 18, she moved back to the states, found a job, bought a car, and was found in a shallow grave in the Nevada desert 8 months later.

We can do better than this! And if we had a way to get the word out fast for a missing young adult, we would.

The Butterfly Alert would spread awareness that a young adult has gone missing under suspicious circumstances.  Similar to an Amber or Silver alert, it would push out to all forms of media within a targeted demographic - including cellular phones.  It would also enter the missing persons information into a national database for the missing with all identifying information.

Taylour Young, Compassionate & Focused 

"He was humble, nice, active and friendly. He loves fishing, riding bikes, but most importantly skateboarding," "He's not argumentative. He's not a fighter. He loves helping people.” Words spoken by a mother desperate to find her son; "I have my moments when I ask, 'Did he eat? Is he in pain? Is he cold?'.  Taylour went missing December 9th, 2021, from a Capitol One Bank in Houston.  His body was discovered later, on Jan. 19th, 2022, in the trunk of his own vehicle at an impound lot in Dallas.  His killer is still at large.

We must spread awareness from the moment a young adult goes missing under suspicious circumstances.  This is a special age where when one is vulnerable to the evil predators involved in sex trafficking, domestic violence, and attacks by the criminally insane and or drug addicted.  Our future leaders, influencers, mothers, fathers and even law makers of America are being sold, strangled and stabbed while their loved ones are left pleading local police for help, told they should wait another day to start looking.

I implore you to sign this petition asking our lawmakers to enact a new opt-in alert for this vulnerable age group.  

UPDATE:  AN ALERT IS ALREADY OUT THERE.  SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW SO WE CAN GET THE STATES TO START USING IT! See link below.  https://bja.ojp.gov/library/publications/national-ashanti-alert-network-fact-sheet