![]() ![]() The coasters, paid for by DeCrescente Distributing Co. The group also makes drink coaster and playing cards available with photos and detailed information about missing persons. Each missing person is also assigned a case manager. The Lyalls also were successful in getting federal legislation passed called “Suzanne’s Law” that obligates police to promptly file information about missing 18- to 21-year-olds on a national website. Some efforts, such as the New York State Missing Persons Day held April 6 in Albany, are done to raise awareness. Her parents, Doug and Mary, founded The Center for Hope that has led numerous initiatives to other families with missing loved ones. On March 2, 1998, Suzanne Lyle, of Ballston Spa, was last seen exiting a bus near SUNY Albany where she was in her sophomore year. “Sometimes solving a case takes good old-fashioned police work just go banging on doors.” “Any time there is a body recovered anywhere in the country, dental records are filed, looking for a cross-match,” Catone said. Highly-trained canines, improved police interview techniques and missing persons data bases also come into play. ![]() But to his disappointment, they have haven’t followed up. Zurlo said one network recently contacted him. Sometimes, crime-related television shows yield results. “We can resubmit evidence from these cases and send it to the state police lab. “DNA has come a long way in past five to six years,” Zurlo said. However, police now have several new tools that weren’t previously available. The longer a crime goes unsolved, the tougher it is to crack. Different people have different perspectives.” “I’m going to have fresh eyes look at these cases again,” he said. However, Zurlo, who took office in January, said he wants some road patrol deputies to review files, too. The Sheriff’s Office has nine investigators. Some day they’ll meet their Maker and get their Judgment Day.” I’ve come to terms that we may never get that answers. “It’s important just make sure the public knows we’re looking for answers,” said White’s mother, Suzanne White. Hammond and White are both considered homicides, as is Betty Conley, who was shot and killed during a Charlton convenience store robbery at 3 a.m. It’s especially troubling to Zurlo, a former sheriff’s investigator, because he worked on most of these cases and led the investigation on White’s. These people have families who want to know what happened.” “It’s very frustrating,” Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo said. ![]() These are two of the more than half-dozen unsolved homicide and missing persons cases, from nine to 34 years old, that still baffle local police investigators. Her remains and those of Christina White, 19, who lived at a different Milton mobile home community, were found three years apart in remote wooded areas of Greenfield, suggesting a possible connection between their disappearances. BALLSTON SPA > Jennifer Hammond, 18, of Littleton, Colo., went missing from a Milton mobile home park where she was last seen selling magazines in August 2003. ![]()
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