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VK9 Scent Specific Search and Recovery
About Us
K9 Scent Detection Unit is..
A reliable, professional K9 and Equine scenting organization with years of combined experience fielding Scent Specific K9's to Law Enforcement Agencies, and the community, primarily for use in K9 Scent Detection for Search, Recovery, and Criminal Investigations.
Although Search and Recovery is among the requests to assist, K9 Scent Detection Unit specializes in "Scent Specific" Mantrailing for criminal investigations which may include lost and/or missing persons. When the call comes in to assist, they listen to the requesting agencie/s, and work with them to field the appropriate K9's and /or refer other K9's Units that will address the needs of the particular case working together as one Team/Unit. By combining resources they "get the job done."
Julie R. Jones, Director
New England Region, VK9 Scent Specific Search and Recovery
P.O. Box 3684
Brewer, ME. 04412-3684
207-735-4350
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The Jeremy Alex Fund
The Jeremy Alex Fund, "Helping Kids at Risk Find the Right Road," has been created as a permanent fund with the Piscataqua Charitable Foundation, Piscataqua Region. Funds are designated with the Portsmouth Rotary Club to help kids at risk.
How can you help? Perhaps you saw or heard something unusual on the night of April 24, 2004 that would help us find Jeremy.
"We believe foul play may have been involved and really need to find closure. We hope and pray Jeremy is still alive and need help in finding him." - Ted Alex, father
Jeremy was born in Portsmouth, N.H. on April 8, 1976, the son of Ted Alex and Paula Caswell. He lived a good part of his life in Belfast, Maine. He is 5' 7" tall and weighs approximately 155 lbs. He has short-cropped brown hair and brown eyes. He works as a self-employed landscape gardener.
Jeremy visited his girlfriend the morning of April 24 and was moving items that day to their new home at Harbor Road in Northport. His van was found by police late Sunday, April 25. Police called Ted Alex, Jeremy's father, early Monday, April 26, after retrieving his number from Jeremy's cell phone records.
The Maine Warden Service, along with the Waldo County Sheriff's Department, conducted an extensive search of the immediate area on April 27. Dogs and GPS tracking were used, and there was an aerial search. The search went on for four full days. There was a follow-up search on May 2. No leads were found. Police have continued to follow up on any leads that are provided.
If you have information, contact:
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Waldo County Sheriff's office, (207) 338-2040. Ask for Detective Trundy.
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Contact Ted Alex, Jeremy's father, at (603) 431-2200 or, email the family at findjeremy@comcast.net
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The Story Begins
October 2, 2014
I’m making this film because Mary Tanner spoke to me with an urgency and directness that I could not ignore. I was trying to build a video business and the prospects were good, but this seemed more important somehow. I notified my clients, finished up a pending project and called Roger McCord.
More than a year later, we have gotten The Mary Tanner Story as far as it can without help. We began this story in collaboration with Mary Tanner’s friends and family. It is time to ask the community at large whether this story deserves to be told.
I can’t speak for the people of Kennebunk. I would not presume to speak for Mary Tanner’s family.
However, the fact that Mary’s brother and two sisters have cooperated with the production thus far indicates a level of trust and support that is essential if this project is to go forward.
Ask any documentary filmmaker and they will tell you that cooperation from the subjects of a story such as this is the key element. Without it you have nothing. Without the blessing of Charlie, Beth and Gail Tanner, “Girl on the Bridge” would not have been made.
No less important are the people behind Justice For Mary. This story is about them and their lives and their memories of Mary.
Everyone agrees that Facebook is the platform from which Justice For Mary was launched. Would JFM have succeeded without social media? Who knows. The point is that Mary’s friends saw what a powerful tool it was and seized the moment.
They had waited 35 years, holding on to painful memories, frustrated that this crime had gone unsolved, still carrying the sorrow they had felt every day since that weekend in July when Mary died.
Now they had a tool to organize for action – any action – that might resolve this mystery.
Many of them are cooperating in the making of this film. Four of them are extending their personal and professional lives, their standing in the community, to see this made. I asked Tim Ames in August of 2013 if he thought we should make this film and if he would be willing to help me.
This is his answer.
– R.D. O’Neal
