National Center for Missing Adults
| Kristen Modafferi | |
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| File:Kristen Modafferi.jpg
Kristen Modafferi, whose disappearance led to the creation of the National Center for Missing Adults, in 1997.
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| Born | June 1, 1979 Danbury, Connecticut[1] |
| Disappeared | June 23, 1997 Crocker Galleria Mall  San Francisco, California |
| Status | Missing for Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. |
| Nationality |  American |
| Known for | Missing person, believed murdered |
| Home town | Charlotte, NC |
| Parent(s) | Bob and Debbie Modafferi |
The National Center for Missing Adults is a United States organization which assists in tracking missing adults.
The organization was created in response to the disappearance of Kristen Modafferi of Charlotte, North Carolina, who vanished without a trace on June 23, 1997, three weeks after her eighteenth birthday. Having just completed her freshman year at North Carolina State University on a Park Scholarship,[2] she had traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area for the summer to study photography at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] Because she was 18 at the time of her disappearance, the lack of resources available for searching for her were noted.[4]
Kristen's Act was introduced by Representative Sue Myrick in 1999 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 2000. From 2001-2004, Kristen's Law "provided assistance to law enforcement and families in missing persons cases of those over the age of 17" and authorized $1M per year to support organizations including the National Center for Missing Adults.[5]
The center's federal funding ran out in 2005 when Kristen's Law expired. It has continued with volunteer efforts.[6] Modafferi's case has been profiled on Unsolved Mysteries,[7] Primetime Live[8] and America's Most Wanted.[9] It remains unsolved.
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- ↑ Fenske, Sarah (15 January 2009). The National Center for Missing Adults’ Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive, Phoenix New Times
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