MP of the week: Tamika Howard

This week’s featured missing person is Tamika Howard, a 37-year-old who disappeared from Newark, New Jersey on May 25, 2008. She had a high-risk lifestyle, with a drug problem, an arrest record and a history of prostitution. Perhaps because of this, her mom didn’t report her missing for three months.

It’s possible Tamika simply moved on, as there were reported sightings of her plying her trade at Penn Station in New York City after her disappearance. But I wonder if she’s still alive; it seems unlikely that someone with her history could have avoided law enforcement attention for over a decade.

Native American Heritage Month: Martin Ellefson

In honor of Native American Heritage Month I’m featuring a Native American missing person for every day in the month of November. Today’s missing person is Martin George Ellefson, a 38-year-old man who disappeared from Spokane, Washington on March 14, 1999. I don’t know what his tribe was.

Unfortunately, I don’t know anything else about Ellefson’s disappearance. It’s a “few details are available” one.