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IN HOPE INC. receives
501 (c) (3) Status
By Ed Bishop
Approval as a public charity effective March 31, 2008. Exempt from federal income tax. Now qualified
to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the code. Under
the code IN HOPE INC. will be treated as a public charity.
Patti Bishop founder of IN HOPE started the process in early 2007 and was granted pending status of the code
during the process and final ruling. Patti stated on Saturday April 5th,2008 she was very happy to finally get the approval
and that all the documentation required was in the public interest and well worth the time spent to complete.
IN HOPE depends on donations to support it's efforts and donors can get a tax deduction for there contributions.
In Memory of Scott Michael Javins
Born November 19th, 1981
Passing May 24th, 2002
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 Scott Michael Javins of Terre Haute passed away May 24, 2002. He was born Nov. 19, 1981 to Mervin “Merv” R. Javins
and Doreena R. Davis Javins. Scott was a 2000 graduate of Terre Haute North Vigo High School and had completed his second
year at Indiana State University where he was majoring in safety risk management. He was employed at Paitson’s Ace Hardware
Store for four years in the Lawn and Garden Department.He was an avid basketball player who started playing at the Terre Haute
Boys Club at the age of 4. Scott played on the 7th and 8th grade teams at Otter Creek Junior High School and his freshman
year at North. He also played on the Terre Haute Boys Club All Stars and Top Gun AAU which both won State Championships in
1993. Scott went to play in the Nationals with AAU where they came in 8th place.Scott loved music, especially the Dave Matthews
Band. He also had a love for show cars and fishing with his dad. Scott had a smile and a laugh that was contagious and brightened
the entire room up. He was known for never saying an unkind word about anyone and he loved to tease the closest of friends.He
is survived by his parents; grandparents, C. Ray and Mary Kathleen Davis of Terre Haute; aunts, Janice Pender and husband,
Charles and Jane Holt and husband Steve, all of Terre Haute and Carla Zaylskie and husband Kevin of Troy, Ohio; great-uncle,
E.R. Dorsett of Terre Haute; cousins, Craig Pender of Greenwood, Ind., Eric Pender of Terre Haute, Eric Holt of Indianapolis,
Ashley Holt of Terre Haute, Lauren Zaylskie of Troy, and several other cousins; and his dog, Buffy.He was preceded in death
by his grandparents, Telford R. and Wilma H. Javins.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral
home with the Rev. Jeff Lee officiating. Visitation will be 2 until 8 p.m. Friday at Roselawn Funeral Home. Burial at Roselawn
Memorial Park.
Contributions may be made to Terre Haute Boys and Girls Club,
220 N. 3rd St., Terre Haute, IN 47807 or IN HOPE, c/o Patti Bishop, 9142 W. 225 N., Delphi, IN 46923 |
Scott Javins October 12th, 2007
DEO/PHOTOS: Police find Scott Javins' car; Investigation classified as a homicide
By Deb McKee Kelly
The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE — Police say there is too much silt and mud in the
car that belonged to Scott Javins to determine yet whether any human remains are inside.
However, authorities say they are treating the discovery Friday afternoon of Javins’ car in the Wabash River as the
start of a homicide investigation.
Javins went missing May 24, 2002, and has not been heard from or seen since. For the past five and a half years, Javins’
family members have sought local and national media attention to help find Scott, who was 20 years old and an Indiana State
University college student when he and his car disappeared.
Police say it was a tip Friday morning to the Indiana State Police Special Investigations Group out of the Evansville Post
that led them to search a section of the Wabash River near the eastern bank, just south of Fairbanks Park and the Terre Haute
Family Y. There, Indiana State Police divers located a car matching the general description of Javins’ 2002 Honda Civic
Si.
Shortly after pulling the submerged car from the river, police confirmed the vehicle identification number matched the
VIN on Javins’ title.
While other sections of the river have been searched in the past, that particular area never had been explored, Chief of
Police George Ralston said during a news conference Friday evening.
Police would not elaborate on the origin of the tip, or whether it was connected to a tip two weeks earlier that led them
to two other vehicles removed Sunday from a nearby area in the river.
Local fisherman Don Kyle, 53, contacted police when he discovered a car and a van while he was fishing in that area. He
was helping some people retrieve their boat when his foot hit what he thought was another boat, he said during an interview
Friday evening.
After diving down to take a look, he discovered a compact car and a van not far away from it. He notified the police immediately,
he said.
While waiting for police to arrive, Kyle said he swam out again as far as he could go and may have found a third car.
Though police said finding Javins’ car resulted from Friday’s tip, Kyle can’t help but feel that he,
too, may have contributed.
Still, Kyle said he doesn’t think that the discovery of the third car almost two weeks after the first two vehicles,
or the fact that Javins’ car may have been in that spot the whole time, reflects poorly on the police working the missing
person’s case.
"I really think they did their job," he said. "Actually, I think that they wouldn’t think to look that hard in a
place this obvious."
According to Vigo County Sheriff Jon Marvel, a forensic pathologist will begin processing the car todaySat. For now, the
car is secure in a bay at the Vigo County Sheriff’s Department.
"We now have a crime scene," Marvel said. "For five years, we didn’t have a crime scene, we didn’t have a car,
we didn’t have a body — we do now."
Marvel later stated he did not intend to indicate that police had a body, only that they have a car and a crime scene to
begin the investigation.
Indiana State Police First Sgt. D.L. Jones said the extraction of the vehicle went more quickly than expected, after equipment
was brought in to clear a section of trees on the bank so the crane could be positioned to bring up the car.
Jones added the "car could not have went in there" where it was found, because of the slope of the bank and the thick vegetation
along the shore. He said it probably went in further upstream, and floated down to where it finally settled.
"A car can float for two or three minutes before it will sink," he said, adding that Javins’ car had settled on the
bottom of the river.
Police said the vehicle was about seven or eight feet below the surface of the water at the deepest point.
Authorities could not say whether or not the windows of the car had been rolled up or were down, or any other information
about the state of the vehicle when it was recovered, because of the current investigation.
Marvel commended the efforts of the Indiana State Police divers.
"[They] have dove many, many times in lakes, and in the river, looking for this vehicle," he said Friday. "Today, they
were successful. I want to commend them and thank them very much."
The Vigo County Sheriff’s Department will be the lead agency in the case.
County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt, who was on the scene at the river throughout the afternoon, said as the investigation
continues, the evidence will be protected for the sake of a future trial.
"We feel good," Modesitt said. "We want to bring closure for the family and this is a start."
Crystal Garcia contributed to this story. She can be reached at (812) 231-4271 or crystal.garcia@tribstar.com.
Deb McKee Kelly can be reached at (812) 231-4254 or deb.mckee@tribstar.com.
The Scott Javins File
Name: Scott Michael Javins
Date of birth: Nov. 9, 1981 in Terre Haute
Education: 2000 Terre Haute North Vigo High school graduate; sophomore at Indiana State University majoring in safety risk
management.
Work: Four years at Paitson Bros., now know as Paitson Bros/ACE Hardware.
Last seen: Around 2:30 a.m. May 24, leaving the corner of 22nd Street at First Avenue in a silver 2002 Honda Civic Si
Description: Javins weighs 150 pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes and was wearing a gray T-shirt, blue jeans, blue sandals
and a rope bracelet at the time of his disappearance.
“THE AMAZING KRESKIN” ASSISTS MISSING PERSON’S CASES
The
World’s Foremost Mentalist, “The Amazing Kreskin” is offering to share his intuitive insight and thought
reading abilities with missing person’s groups, their families, and investigating law enforcement agencies involved
in the search for missing persons. This is the first time in his career that
Kreskin has publicly announced his interest in helping this cause. Kreskin has
been involved in other cases over the years but desires now to focus on the needs of these families. He will offer his skills to law enforcement agencies on selected unsolved cases.
“This is a great opportunity for me to work with law enforcement in their continuing support and never
ending concern for missing persons and their families,” stated Kreskin.
In conjunction with some of the cases, Kreskin
will present benefit performances to help missing persons organizations raise funds and public awareness to missing persons
issues. “The first benefit performance will be sponsored by INHope, Indiana
Missing for Missing Scott Javins from Terre Haute, Indiana. The Kreskin show will be May 14th at 8:00 p.m. at the Terre Haute North
Vigo Senior High School Auditorium”, announced Patti Bishop, founder of that organization. “Tickets will be available at supporting Terre Haute
businesses and at the auditorium the night of the show”, she added.
-MORE-
Known internationally as “The
World’s Foremost Mentalist”, The Amazing Kreskin has also become a training consultant to law enforcement
and security personnel throughout the United States.
In a time when police and security personnel are needed at their peak performance levels, The Amazing Kreskin has engaged
on a tour to help these guardians of our safety to become more prepared to face the threats they encounter on a daily basis.
In a program coined “ICOPS”,
Kreskin teaches the basics to help law enforcement and security officers increase their “intuitive” skills to
better cope with their day to day on the job situations. Intuitive Cops Observational Preparedness Seminars are an opportunity
for law enforcement officials at all levels to learn more about the human thought process, gain insight into human behavioral
actions and learn how to better evaluate threatening situations. Audience participation is the best means to convey the existence
of enhanced mental abilities and give those in attendance an opportunity to have an actual “hands on” experience.
Attendees will leave the seminar with information and methods to improve their own powers of observation and “intuitive”
skills. Additional information is available by visiting: www.ICOPS.net.
- Law enforcement agencies interested in discussing a missing person’s case with Kreskin, are
asked to contact John Kleiman by email at: Jkleiman1@aol.com for information and details.
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Tickets Available at the Door
of the Auditorium Terre Haute
North Vigo High
School
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Pittsboro honors founder of In
Hope Indiana group
by Brian Kern
— PITTSBORO — Police Chief
Christi Patterson presented a certificate and letter of appreciation to Patti Bishop of In Hope Indiana Missing for the organization’s
assistance in searching for a missing Pittsboro man in early December.
The body of Clifford “Jack” Obenchain
was discovered in a Jay County creek on Dec. 17, nearly two weeks after the 91-year-old delivery driver failed to return home
after several routine delivery runs. Investigators found no evidence of foul play in Obenchain’s death and authorities
believe that a medical condition may have caused him to become disoriented.
“They were absolutely great in their
assistance to a small police department trying to bring a man back home,” Patterson said. “It’s an amazing
network of people.”
Bishop and her husband, Ed, established In Hope Indiana Missing in memory of Ed’s daughter,
Karen Jo Smith, who disappeared in December of 2000.
In 2004, Smith’s ex-husband, Steve Halcomb, was convicted of
first-degree murder and is currently serving a 95-year prison sentence, although Smith’s body has never been recovered.
“We
were lucky enough to receive justice,” Bishop said. “But we still don’t have her, so we continue to reach
out to others and do whatever we can.”
The Obenchain family was on-hand for the presentation and expressed their
gratitude to the Pittsboro Police Department and to the In Hope Indiana Missing organization.
“When something like
this happens, you are thrown into a situation and you don’t really know what to do,” Obenchain’s granddaughter
Nancy Bray-Boggs said. “It didn’t matter if it was 7 a.m., they were there for us.”
Ed Bishop says that
he and his wife can certainly relate to the family’s feelings of frustration.
“It is one of the absolute worst
things you can go through,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe the things you start to think about.”
He
also noted that he and his wife have encountered many police departments much larger than Pittsboro that have not been nearly
as prepared or professional in investigating missing person’s cases.
“This department is an A-plus department
and we have worked with all kinds from A to F,” he said.
Patti Bishop added, “No one can ever move fast enough
when it’s your loved one. Sometimes that compassion [that police departments have] gets lost. And when there’s
screaming, shouting, and crying, we’re listening.”
Not only is the organization listening, but Bishop frequently
finds herself in a networking role attempting to drum up resources and support to further expedite and enhance missing persons
investigations. In Hope Indiana Missing has nationwide ties that have rendered the organization able to provide local law
enforcement with access to items such as search helicopters, heat seeking devices, and additional K-9 assistance.
“We
have a lot of resources out there that we want people to know about,” Patti Bishop said.
The Bishops also noted that
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Va., provides cost-free missing persons training that
is open to any law enforcement agency in the country. Patterson is hopeful that her schedule will allow her to attend a training
session in the near future.
Bray-Boggs plans to meet with State Senator Connie Lawson on Friday to brainstorm new legislation
that might narrow the window between the time that a missing person’s report is filed and the time in which a search
might occur.
“Our focus is really on the elderly because I think it happens much more than you hear about in the
media,” Bray-Boggs said. “Every second counts, so we are hoping to make some end roads.”
Ironically,
the investigation into Obenchain’s disappearance led police investigators to a Motel 6 in Huber Heights, Ohio, where
they found not Obenchain, but another Indiana elderly man who had become disoriented and in need of assistance.
For more
information on In Hope Indiana Missing, visit the organization’s website at www.inhopeindianamissing.com.
brian.kern@flyergroup.com
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