PORTAGE COUNTY (WAOW) –

The last time Marie Jost was heard from was 1982. But every month since, her social security checks have been sent out, and authorities say every one of them has been cashed.

Now, three of her family members are sitting in jail.

“It’s definitely unusual,” Captain Dale O’Kray from the Portage County Sheriff’s Department said.

For two days sheriff’s deputies have been searching Jost’s property for any sign of the 100-year-old woman and her 74-year-old son, Theodore.

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“It’s basically an episode of Hoarders,” Captain O’Kray said. “There’s just a ton of stuff to go through.”

Investigators say their home, located in Amherst Junction, is uninhabitable with trash piled to the ceiling and no running water. They say that makes their search even more difficult.

“We have to start somewhere and we’re starting with the property and collecting as many clues as we can,” Captain O’Kray explained.

Jost and her son have been missing for almost 30 years. Their family never reported them gone.

“That’s the suspicious part,” O’Kray said.

This all started last week when Portage County authorities were contacted by the Social Security Administration asking them to check on Marie. But, when they got to her home, authorities say Marie’s son, Charles, was the only one there.

“He said she (Marie’s) has been on a trip since 1982. That’d be a long trip,” O’Kray said.

Now, cadaver dogs have been searching their home. Authorities say evidence has led them to believe Marie and her son could be buried on their own property.

“We have no indication she’d be somewhere else,” said O’Kray.

After further investigation, authorities arrested Charles Jost and two other family members, Delores and Ronald Disher. They say the group has been cashing Marie’s social security checks and keeping the money for themselves.

“The family is not very cooperative,” O’Kray said. “Their stories keep changing.”

On Thursday, Charles, Ronald, and Delores appeared in Portage County court. But their defense lawyers declined to comment. They told Newsline 9 it was still too early in the case.

All three remain in jail after a judge decided there is enough evidence of a crime, and enough evidence that they were likely responsible. Formal chargers are expected when the three return to court in two weeks. For now, they remain in jail on a $20,000 cash bond.

Authorities ask anyone with information on Marie or Theodore Jost to call the Portage County Sheriff’s Department.

Police say a 13 year-old from Texas stole her brother’s car, and could be on her way to Kentucky. Authorities say Elizabeth Robinson is driving to Hodgenville to meet a 12 year-old boy she met playing video games.

Thursday, police have tracked the girl to southern Arkansas, where they say she used her mother’s debit card. She’s said to have driven more than 200 miles so far, in brown, four door, 2011 Nissan Versa, with license plate DB2B924.

Robinson was last seen in her home around 9:30 wednesday night.

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TV stations in Texas report she left a note for her mom saying she was being bullied, and she would be sleeping over at a girlfriend’s house. But then her mom, Tressa Robinson, found an email that said she was going to meet a 12-year-old boy in Kentucky. He’s a gamer she met while playing xbox online. The two had apparently been talking for weeks.

Tressa Robinson says her daughter had recently asked questions about her brother’s car, such as what kind of gas mileage it gets.

The trip from her home in Cypress, Texas to Hodgenville is more than 900 miles, and despite the police work that points to Arkansas, the teen’s parents have no idea where their daughter is.

Robinson’s dad couldn’t stand to wait for police to track down his little girl. We’re told he got in the car and headed toward Arkansas this afternoon. If you have any information about where Elizabeth could be, call police.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina toddler and his mother visited a Lexington consignment store weeks after the boy was reported missing, the storeowner testified Thursday.

“I asked them what they were doing for the holidays,” Laura Beaver said of her interaction with Zinah Jennings and her son, Amir. “He was a wonderful baby.”

Beaver testified that the pair came into her shop just a day or two before Christmas Eve, nearly a month after Nov. 28, 2011, when authorities have said the then-18-month-old boy was last seen. That day, Amir and his mother were captured on surveillance video during a visit to a Columbia bank.

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Jennings is on trial this week on a charge of unlawful conduct toward a child. Authorities say she told them false, misleading stories about where the boy was, and she has been jailed since December.

Beaver said that Amir sat in a chair near the front of her store so that she could watch him while his mother shopped. Beaver, a former Columbia police officer, said that her surveillance equipment wasn’t recording, so there was no video of the visit.

Prosecutors pressed Beaver on cross examination, questioning her motives and asking why she remembered the visit so vividly. The shop owner said she had never called to try to claim the $10,000 reward being offered for information leading to Amir, saying she just wanted to help find him.

“It isn’t about the money,” she said. “It’s about the child.”

A police investigator testified that he didn’t find Beaver’s story credible. Another officer described chasing down a false tip that Amir had been sighted in Abbeville.

Jennings’ attorneys rested their case Thursday, and closing arguments were expected later in the day. Jennings spoke in court for the first time during her trial Thursday, answering routine questions from the judge about whether she wanted to testify in her own defense. She said she did not.

Jennings faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Her mother testified Wednesday that she never felt Jennings would harm her son.

Last week, a witness for the prosecution said that Jennings was overwhelmed with the stress of parenting and had pondered selling or giving away the boy.

A Long Island doctor who has been missing since Monday was found by a police search and rescue dog on Thursday.

Jerome Nadler, 76, from East Setauket, parked his car at the Caleb Smith State Park Preserve on Labor Day to go fly fishing. He never returned to his car and seemed to have disappeared, reports Newsday.

The Suffolk County police began searching for him on Monday. The authorities used, divers, off-road vehicles and a helicopter to search for Dr. Nadler, but were not successful.

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On Thursday, a Suffolk County’s K-9 search and rescue dog began searching the area along the waterway in the park when he found Nadler in the thick brush.

The dog, who is trained to stay with a found person, stayed with Nadler, and would not return to the handler even though he was being called. The handler soon found the dog and Nadler in the brush.
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Nadler was covered with bug bites, semi-conscious and suffering from exposure. He was taken to the Stony Brook Medical Center, where he is recovering.

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) –

The family of missing child Isabel Celis planned to celebrate their daughter’s 7th birthday with a special Mass at church, praying for her safe return.

Isabel Celis vanished from her bedroom more than four months ago.

Her parents, Sergio and Becky Celis spoke to Tucson News Now on Sunday, saying they had not lost hope, and were still optimistic that their daughter would be coming home soon.

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They asked the community to pick up new flyers and posters, and re-post them in neighborhoods throughout Tucson, and they asked for more prayers.
“Anybody who’d like to come and pray for Isabel please come,” said Becky Celis.

Her family was preparing to celebrate Isa’s birthday by getting her room ready, and talking about things she would have enjoyed on her birthday.

“We’re trying to get her room nice and pretty, just fix it up. That’s where my concentration has been, but it’s really hard for me to see her picture and know she’s not going to be here for her birthday,” said Becky Celis.

Isabel’s father, Sergio Celis added that they would never lose hope. They wanted her room to be ready, in case they got the call from police that she would be coming home tomorrow.

Dozens of strangers posted birthday wishes on a Facebook page dedicated to finding Isabel Celis. Family members said they planned to celebrate their child’s birthday as though she were there, to enjoy it with them.

“We’ll have balloons, donuts early in the morning,” said Sergio Celis.

Becky Celis added, “She just loves to be home and be together as a family. We’ll have balloons for sure, we’ll do that tomorrow that before Mass.” :56

The special birthday Mass was scheduled to take place on Monday evening at 6:30 PM, at the family’s home church, St. Joseph Roman Catholic Parish, near Broadway and Craycroft.

The search for missing Bourbonnais man, Richard Roberts, continues this week as local and Chicago police have been unable to find the 47-year-old since he left work early more than two weeks ago.

Roberts’ disappearance was first reported by The Daily Journal on Aug. 28, eight days after he left work early due to chest pains. The story was picked up by several Chicagoland media outlets Wednesday when Chicago police issued a missing person alert.

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Roberts was last seen leaving work Aug. 20 in the 11700 block of South State Street on the South Side of Chicago. He was driving a purple 1993 Ford Ranger with Illinois license plate 29641Y, police said.

According to one published report, police said calls to Roberts’ cellphone were still going through recently, but no calls had been made by the phone.

His sister-in-law, Diana Roberts, told The Daily Journal that Roberts usually responds quickly to text messages and always takes calls.

Diana said Roberts suffers from pancreas and liver cancer. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder that reads “Louise” and has tribal tattoos on both forearms.

Anyone with information about Roberts’ possible whereabouts is being asked to contact the Chicago Police Department at 312-747-8274.