posting a link for ya'll

[CrushedVelvet]

I found a website that posts updates of missing people and has a section of "found" people as well. Go to the website and on the left you will see the "missing persons link" and from there scroll to the bottom for the "found" list. There are some UM victims listed (unfortunatly not under "found" such as Amy Bradley (cruise ship), etc. This is one of the most thorough websites I have found so far.


http://meyahna.tripod.com/id14.html

[nohwheregirl]

Just a warning for those of us who are sensitive, this website shows pictures of dead individuals (the one i saw was obviously posed for purposes of identification). I know these types of pictures always freak me out...i can't handle them. So if you go to this website, please be prepared.

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

I'm trying to make a decision as to whether I'll click on the link or won't click on it.

[CrushedVelvet]

Youre right, nowheregirl, I should have warned everyone. Im sorry, I wasnt trying to be insensative.....

[CrushedVelvet]

BTW.....You'd have to click onto the john/jane doe links to view deceased people. My intention of posting this link was for people to click onto the "missing persons" link. This website is just very thorough and even has photos of amnesia victims which is interesting and I think important to view cause you just never know.....

[nohwheregirl]

Originally posted by CrushedVelvet
Youre right, nowheregirl, I should have warned everyone. Im sorry, I wasnt trying to be insensative.....

No prob...it's the website that should do the warning, not you. These I had an "uh-oh" feeling when i clicked on one of the Jane Doe pages b/c i've been to these types of websites before, so it's my own fault. I just wanted to warn others who had never been to these types of websites before. Even families of murder victims will start their own websites and show pictures from the funeral home, crime scene, etc. Maybe they should say, "Warning: Do not visit this website while you're sitting in your house alone at night."

[meyahna]

Where do you want warnings to be placed? Most of the pictures on my site are not actual post-mortem pictures apart for some modified post-mortem pictures and there is a caution warning next to the links to websites containing hard post-mortem pictures. The pictures in my site didn't seem shocking to me but I'll add a warning if you think this is necessary.

[nohwheregirl]

I think a simple warning on the home page, or next to the links would be sufficient. For me, ANY post mortem photograph that shows a face is disturbing, but that is a personal thing...i understand that it doesn't bother others as much. I am interested in these cases, so these types of websites spark alot of curiosity for me. I know now, however, that may mean running into pictures of deceased individuals....I just thought it might be a good idea to warn others who weren't aware.

I didn't mean to hijack this thread...i think it's a great website!

[meyahna]

TY. If someone wants to see the missing persons websites links, it's on a separate url at: http://helpfindthem.tripod.com

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

I finally viewed the site and the content on it and some of the coroner sites aren't as bad as I thought it would be. I don't know, maybe it's because I can handle it and didn't think I would be able to.

[CrushedVelvet]

I too can handle it "now" , although the first few times it was difficult. I keep coming across successful stories of people solving cases because they were viewed. Just about eveything in the field of Criminology and Victimology you will find disturbing images and information. I know plenty of people that cannot hang with brutal realities (and cant blame them a bit) and they stick to their Mary Higgins Clark novels. Others, like myself, dive right in.

[magellan333]

I didn't think that the "reconstruction" pictures (images of reconstructed faces of unidentified decomposed bodies) bothered me until I had a nightmare one night that living people with faces like that were all around me. It was horrifying. They were trying to speak to me, but could muster no intelligible words. It shook me up all of the next day. For me to have a dream that bothers me like that is very rare. I had to refrain from visiting this board for a few days.