OAKLAND -- When Jaycee Dugard was rescued nearly a year ago from a home in unincorporated Antioch, Sharon Nemeth Murch leapt out of bed and told her husband that they had to paint the kitchen before her daughter, Michaela Garecht, missing for 22 years, came home.

She so strongly believed that Dugard's captors had her daughter that she began planning Michaela's homecoming.

Mike Misheloff and his wife, Madelyne, have kept the same phone number from 1989 because they know it's the one their daughter, Ilene, knew as a child. They don't use the number, but when it rings, Mike Misheloff grabs the phone and demands to know who is on the other end. It could be his daughter, he said. The couple have refused to move from their Dublin home because that is the place Ilene knows.

When Ronald Hughes talks about the August 2009 disappearance of his son, Hasanni Campbell, he says he is "hopeful" the boy will be found. He talks optimistically about two reported sightings of the boy who disappeared when he was 5 years old, both of which turned out to be false leads.

Every year, 800,000 children younger than 18 are reported missing, an average of about 2,200 every day, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va. Of the children who are eventually found, about 200,000 were taken by family members, while about 58,000 were abducted by someone outside the family, the organization reports. The whereabouts of the remainder of the children are uncertain.

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"My thoughts are that (Hasanni) was kidnapped and I still have hope of finding him. I know somebody knows something," said Pamela Clarke, the boy's grandmother, who lives in San Francisco. In the past year, there have been at least a dozen searches for the boy, all of which turned up empty.

Hasanni was reported missing on the afternoon of Aug. 10, 2009, by his then-foster father Louis Ross. Ross, now 39, told Oakland police he left the child alone in a back driveway when he went to the front of Shuz of Rockridge on College Avenue in Oakland to alert his girlfriend, Jennifer Campbell, the boy's aunt and then-foster mother, that he had arrived to drop off Hasanni and the boy's 1-year-old sister.

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OAKLAND — The Citizens for the Lost Society is holding a fundraising rummage sale April 10 to raise money to continue the search for a missing Fremont boy who has not been seen in eight months.

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The rummage sale is from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 10 at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, 5951 College Ave. in Oakland. The group also will hold a barbecue and release 243 balloons — one for each day the boy has been missing — at 4:15 p.m. April 10.

Anyone interested in donating items for the rummage sale can call Wayne Slack at 510-414-8064 for pickup. Items also may be dropped off at The Citizens for the Lost Society office at 15976 E. 14th St. in San Leandro on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. until April 9.

Donations also may be dropped off at The College Avenue Presbyterian Church the day before the sale only — April 9.

A monthly vigil has been held on the 10th of each month since the boy went missing. For more information, call 510-315-2321 or go to www.citizensforthelost.com.

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FREMONT, Calif. (KCBS)  -- Volunteers fanned out Saturday in hopes of reviving public interest in the case of a 6-year-old disabled boy who's been missing since August.

The group gathered at the Park & Ride off Ardenwood Blvd. in Fremont armed with fliers bearing updated photos of Hasanni Campbell.

"We're out here trying to get his story back out there and let people know he needs to be found," said volunteer Sherri-Lyn Miller.

The volunteers will focus their efforts primarily in the Newark/Fremont area as well as Hayward and Berkeley.

"We want to go out at least once a month, re-search areas, search areas where we haven't searched. There's a lot of territory to cover; Fremont alone is over 100 square miles," said search coordinator Wayne Slack Sr.

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Volunteers trying to find a 5-year-old Oakland boy who's been missing for more than three months are hoping a $75,000 reward will bring some fresh leads to the case.

They've held a number of vigils for Hasanni Campbell since he was reported missing Aug. 10, but they say the latest one Tuesday had a poor turnout. Authorities and volunteers have now raised the reward, up from the $60,000 announced in September.

Hasanni, who has cerebral palsy, reportedly went missing when his foster father, Louis Ross, briefly left him alone in a parked car in the city's Rockridge neighborhood.

Police initially arrested Ross and his fiancee, Jennifer Campbell, on suspicion of murder, but prosecutors declined to file charges due to lack of evidence. Authorities say searches have turned up no significant leads in the case.

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The district attorney won't file charges against the man arrested in the disappearance of his fiancee's disabled foster child.

That word crossed the wires early Tuesday morning.

Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Tom Rogers says there's insufficient evidence against Louis Ross in the Aug. 10 disappearance of Hasanni Campbell.

Rogers says the 38-year-old Ross will be released later Tuesday.
     
An attorney who has consulted with the foster parents of the 5-year-old old, who was reported missing three weeks ago and is now believed to have been murdered, said Monday that he was "glad" that no  charges were being filed against the foster mother either.  Burris said police rushed to judgment in an effort to get new information in the case.

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Sherri-Lyn Miller, a volunteer whose company has created T-shirts and fliers during the search, said the focus should be on locating Hasanni, not on Ross and Campbell.

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The foster mother of Hasanni Campbell, the 5-year-old disabled Fremont boy who police now consider a homicide victim, was released from jail Monday.

Jennifer Campbell, who is six months pregnant, and her fiance, Louis Ross, were arrested Friday. Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Tom Rogers said no charges will be filed against Campbell, 30, who was released from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. "There is insufficient evidence at this time, and the investigation is continuing," Rogers said.

Campbell, just hours out of jail, attended a vigil Monday at College Avenue Presbyterian Church across the street from Shuz of Rockridge, where the boy was reported missing Aug. 10.

"I'm not doing well," she said in an interview after the vigil. "I'm inspired by the people who are here. I'm inspired by God. When I was incarcerated, my faith was stronger than ever."

Asked what she thinks will happen to Ross, she said: "They didn't have any evidence to hold me. They shouldn't have any evidence to hold him either. We wouldn't hurt (Hasanni) for anything in the world. Anyone who knows me knows that. Anybody who knows (Ross) knows he's not capable either."

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