NBC Spotlights Cold Cases: New Page Showcases AP Images

NBC News has launched a powerful new page featuring NCMEC’s long-term missing cases and age progression images—helping us shine a national spotlight on children who still need your help. 

Age progressions keep cases of long-term missing children visible and can spark new leads, even years after a child disappeared. Since NCMEC began creating these images, hundreds of children have been found because someone recognized a child from a NCMEC age progression. The image is a powerful tool, but this only works if someone sees the new age progression and recognizes the face. That’s why media coverage is so important. No matter how many images we create, they need to be seen to bring answers.

The new page on NBC’s website showcases some of the stories featured on Dateline’s Missing in America and Cold Case Spotlight series that include NCMEC’s age-progression images. The page features cases of long-term missing children from all over the U.S., including Teekah Lewis, Charles and William Vosseler, Janteyl Johnson and more. It’s a great new way to see NCMEC cases spotlighted by NBC, all in one place!

Most recently, Dateline’s podcast interviewed NCMEC forensic artist, Colin McNally, on the case of Kevin Verville Jr., an infant who was abducted from California in 1980. To learn more about age progressions and the case, you can listen to Colin on the podcast starting at 24 minutes.

You can explore these powerful stories here—and who knows, you might recognize someone or remember a detail that could help solve a case. Take a look, share a face and help bring a child home.

For more on NCMEC’s age progression process, visit our website here: https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/longtermmissing.