Show J by Senator Orrin Hatch Rachel Runyan case Police officers who are investigating the kidnapping of Rachel Runyan the 3 year Sunset girl irl who disappeared Aug 26 are starting to believe that the kidnappers kidnapper's trail leads out of Utah When Melanie Larsen a year old Kaysville girl disappeared several weeks earlier in a similar case she ended up in Nebraska The resolution of tragic cases like these usually depends on enough people knowing about the circumstances of the disappearance and the description of the victim and the suspect Virtually all of the leads in Rachel Runyan's case have resulted from people who saw a aman aman man or a car that fit the suspects suspect's description or a girl who girl who looked like Rachel A bill currently being considered by bythe bythe the Senate the Missing Children Act provides law enforcement agencies with the means to relay information that could lead to the resolution of such crimes The act establishes a national computer network to assist police agencies in locating missing children The network will allow police pollee to share the circumstances of a local disappearance the identity and appearance of the victim and the description of the suspect his car and his methods with the entire nation Law enforcement agencies in other parts of the country could learn of similar cases or similar suspects Then through pooling their information they could come closer to solving a case The Senate version of the bill allows parents to enter information about a missing child if law enforcement agencies are negligent In doing so Costs of the system will be almost insignificant The computers for the network are already In place the systems system's only cost would result from their use The network will correct the problems of our current missing persons Informational pipeline Records show that only of the children who are arc missing for an appreciable length of at time are arc entered into the Ite national missing persons file The FBI collects Information for that file on a voluntary not an obligatory basis The outlook for the bill is very optimistic It has 75 sponsors cosponsors in th the Senate including myself and Sen Jake Garn and It is scheduled for consideration by the full Senate sometime in September j J I |