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Cahners SECURITY
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Sharing Loss of
Daughters
The McPikes, Clerys and Schmidts all, unfortunately, share the loss of a daughter at college, a daughter who was brutally murdered. In her personal two weeks of pure hell back in the Chicago area, Nancy McPike discovered the ironic cost of being close to her daughter. "I knew the patterns of my daughter's behavior better than anyone else," she says. So as soon as she felt something was drastically wrong, she called Memphis police, encouraged them to go to Hillary's apartment for a look and even talked with them on the phone while they were searching the premises. "We had a sense of immediacy," says Mrs. McPike. But that sense was not shared by the police, who more often view a missing adult with skepticism. "I found myself selling the character of my daughter to law enforcement. I was convinced that something was very wrong. But it was our word against the statistics (of missing adults)." Hillary's car was missing but, different than Nancy McPike's fears, the Memphis police suggested the daughter had just taken off on a trip before her planned return home for Thanksgiving the next week. Mother Knew On the phone with Memphis police that Sunday night, Nancy McPike knew differently. "It was her cats, they were there, unfed, with food such as tomatoes open on a counter Hillary loved her two cats and she just would not have left them in her place like that." The Memphis police still didn't agree with the mother's concern. Unlike missing children, a report of a missing adult doesn't usually set off an immediate criminal investigation. Most incidents, for example are resolved in 24 hours or less, Nancy McPike was told again by Memphis police Back in Chicago, the McPikes became even more frustrated. So they turned to a former neighbor, Ron Fishman, (image seen above), who they knew was in the private investigation field. And Fishman, director of investigations with Universal Security, Inc., got the Illinois Security Chiefs Association (ISCA) involved, say the association's chairman Lawrence Doria and executive director Jeff Sherman. Uniquely, the ISCA is comprised of security professionals from the private and public sectors as well as individuals responsible for loss prevention for business and industry. "If we had not know Ron, we would not have known what to do," says Nancy McPike. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5
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