"The Santa Rosa Police Department's latest social media push to find missing persons whose trails went cold long ago ended with five of the 25 cases featured being resolved, the department announced this week. The department's five-week "Missing Person Monday" campaign, in which police share the photos and last known whereabouts of people that it considers missing with the hopes that community members can provide information on where those people are now, kicked off Aug. 4."
"The first six-week campaign, launched in January 2024, featured 30 cases going back to 1984 and helped police locate five people, including one who had been missing since 2005, according to police. The second seven-week campaign, launched in August 2024, led to the resolution of three additional cold cases, police said last year. All together, the three campaigns have helped police resolve 13 cold cases, Sgt. Patricia Seffens said in an email Monday to The Press Democrat."
Santa Rosa Police Department ran three social-media Missing Person Monday campaigns in 2024 targeting long-cold missing-person cases. The campaigns ran six weeks in January, seven weeks in August, and a five-week effort beginning Aug. 4, collectively featuring 55 cases spanning back to 1984. The initiatives resolved 13 cold cases overall, with five resolved from the most recent 25-case push. The latest campaign generated over 300,000 views and more than 60 Facebook comments and was also posted on Nextdoor, Instagram, and X. Examples of unresolved persons include John Pressdee Bourne III, Kristopher Alyn Blankenheim, and Carl Russell Barker.
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