National Center for Missing Adults

Who is National Center for Missing Adults?

The National Center for Missing Adults is a United States organization which assists in tracking missing adults.

The organization was created in response to the disappearance of Kristen Modafferi, a former college student from Charlotte, North Carolina, who vanished without a trace on June 23, 1997, three weeks after her eighteenth birthday. Having just completed her freshman year at North Carolina State University, she had gone to spend the summer in the San Francisco Bay Area for the purpose of working and going to school. Because she was 18, the lack of resources available for searching for her were noted. Her case has been profiled on Unsolved Mysteries, Primetime Live and America's Most Wanted.

The Center's federal funding ran out in 2005, and has continued with volunteer efforts.