Nashville, Charlotte, and Lexington Firms Launch Attorney Marketing Venture LegalHub.com.

Nashville, TN (PRWEB) July 25, 2011

Amid fueling speculation in the online legal services industry, LegalHub.com, aimed at becoming a key player in the lawyer search market as well as the attorney marketing and lawyer advertising market, is set to launch its beta program on Monday, August 1st. The project has been a 9 month collaborative effort between Robert B. Trussell, Jr., former CEO of Tempur-Pedic International, Shane Messer, a managing partner at The Incubator Group (a Nashville business development collective), and AdDaddy Networks (a national leader in legal marketing and lead generation for attorneys).

Messer, LegalHub's front man and platform architect, has stated that the project has been under wraps for about 9 months due to privacy concerns regarding trademark and patent registration issues. Extensive time was needed for the complexity in creating such a unique platform. "There have been nearly a dozen programmers working on this project since late last year, and we've had to work through two complete rewrites based on one, evolving feedback from early-stage user interface testers, and two, complex social/algorithmic issues." Messer brought in his Nashville website design firm, Made To Order Websites, to assist in the initial core programming of the patented algorithms used in the site. He has also assembled a separate team of long-term programmers expected to take control of the site after the initial beta launch.

Messer, who has won numerous awards from organizations ranging from BusinessTN to the United Nations, has predicted a grim future for attorneys unwilling to embrace online attorney lead generation. "I'd say that within 10 years, 75% of an attorney's non-referral prospects will come from either Internet PPC marketing, Internet organic traffic flow from social media and search, geo-targeted impressions via mobile devices, and/or impression advertising, such as billboards, that consumers see along the roads they drive to and from work each day. The Yellow Pages, TV, and radio are going to die. People's nose's are pointed at Facebook, Google, and their iPad/iPhone during a serious amount of their waking hours. Our goal is to ease the impact on attorneys and help transition them so that their practice's marketing funnel remains full of qualified prospects."

Other members of the team include Raychle Searfoss, a noted SEO guru who, along with LegalHub's Marketing Director (and CEO of the lawyer marketing powerhouse, AdDaddy Networks), Barrett Sharpe, helped propel nearly 800 legal web sites into existence for clients of Lawyer Search, LLC (backed by RBT Investments) within 24 months. The dynamic duo have built a platform generating thousands of dollars in leads each day for hundreds of attorneys around the United States. "During beta, we won't be releasing all the features just yet, but instead will be really looking at our online footprints, as well as the impact of our pages in search and PPC. Like our other properties, we have to monitor daily the effect we are having not only on the lawyer search market as a whole, but also the indexation patterns that are so critical in this industry, which is dominated by Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Not to mention the impacts caused by their updates, such as the recent Panda algorithm shift," states Searfoss.

In fact, it was the success of LawyerSearch.com which drove the then-CEO Barrett Sharpe to contact Messer and inquire about building the LegalHub algorithm into an online platform, a place where lead generation could occur naturally between attorney and consumer. "We originally started out with Lawyer Search contracting one of my firm's daughter companies to assist in the build out," says Messer. "I was a bit skeptical at first because of his [Sharpe's] foray into online dating and the issues he faced in that space. However, as he and Raychle started working together more, I realized that somehow he'd managed to really become what I'd consider an oracle of knowledge in this legal space. The guy's talent in lead generation is so good that it's scary; my main question was whether he could translate that talent to the acquisition of attorneys en masse. We talked about me coming on as a partner to manage the development of the platform, so I got an extra office in downtown Charlotte so the Nashville business development team could be closer to the project. Everything just rapidly evolved from there. Needless to say, it was a good decision."

For anyone interested in signing up for the LegalHub beta program, they may visit http://legalhub.com beginning August 1st.

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College of American Pathologists Puts Medical Reminders in the Hands of Americans Through MyHealthTestReminder.org.(Disease/Disorder overview)

NORTHFIELD, Ill., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More and more people use mobile devices to manage their daily lives. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, 65 percent of Americans even sleep with their cell phones-many using the modern day necessity as alarm clocks.

Today, the College of American Pathologists, the world's largest association of board-certified pathologists, announced a new service available on its website, MyHealthTestReminder.org. Taking less than one minute, visitors to the site can sign up to receive a free text message reminding them to schedule important health screening tests to the devices they use most-their cell phones.

"MyHealthTestReminder.org serves as a 'medical alarm clock' for individuals, prompting them to schedule health screening tests that are essential to their health and well-being," said Stephen N. Bauer, M.D., FCAP, president of the College of American Pathologists. "Putting off or avoiding screening tests such as a colonoscopy or Pap test can delay treatment options for patients, or in some instances, lead to death."

Pathologists are doctors and diagnostic experts who examine cells, tissues, and body fluids to diagnosis diseases, such as cancer and heart disease. They are essential members of the patient care team and serve as interpreters of medical laboratory tests to help guide a patient's treatment and care.

In the ever-changing world of health care reform, individuals can take charge of their health by scheduling important health screening tests to enhance and/or prolong their life, as well as head off the expense of hefty health care costs down the road to treat a disease in its advanced stage.

Scheduling a reminder is easy and convenient. It's as simple as 1-2-3:

1. Register at MyHealthTestReminder.org

2. Select the type of reminder and day that you would like to be reminded

3. Receive your reminder through a text message to your cell phone and/or with an email

Visitors to MyHealthTestReminder.org can schedule reminders for a mammogram; Pap test; cholesterol test; and colon cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes screenings tests, as well as make a blood donation. MyHealthTestReminder.org is available in English and Spanish.

While the use of cell phones continues to increase, receiving health screening tests unfortunately has not. The common excuses are centered on being too busy, fearful, or embarrassed. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that more than half of all Americans over the age of 50 who should have received colon cancer screening tests have not.

"As a physician who specializes in pathology, I know that screening tests save lives. In fact, with early detection and treatment of colon cancer, 5-year survival rates can be as high as 90 percent," said Dr. Bauer. "We are hoping that through MyHealthTestReminder.org more lives can be saved."

Visitors to MyHealthTestReminder.org can also access the CAP's website, MyBiopsy.org. The site was developed by pathologists to provide individuals who have been diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones accurate and credible information to help them better understand their diagnoses. Currently, the site houses information on more than 40 of the most common cancers and cancer-related conditions.

The College of American Pathologists is a medical society serving nearly 18,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world. It is the world's largest association composed exclusively of board-certified pathologists and is widely considered the leader in laboratory quality assurance. The College is an advocate for high-quality and cost-effective patient care.

SOURCE College of American Pathologists

SO MUCH FOR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY: NEW STUDY FINDS ELITE VIEWPOINTS DOMINATE ONLINE CONTENT.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- The following information was released by the University of California - Berkeley:

By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations

Anyone with Internet access can generate online content and influence public opinion, according to popular belief. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that the social Web is becoming more of a playground for the affluent than a digital democracy.

Despite the proliferation of social media - with Twitter and Facebook touted as playing pivotal roles in such pro-democracy movements as the Arab Spring - the bulk of today's blogs, websites and video-sharing sites represent the perspectives of college-educated, Web 2.0-savvy users, the study says.

"Having Internet access is not enough. Even among people online, those who are digital producers are much more likely to have higher incomes and educational levels," said Jen Schradie, a doctoral candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley and author of the study published in the May online issue of Poetics, a Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts.

Schradie, a researcher at the campus's Berkeley Center for New Media, analyzed data from more than 41,000 American adults surveyed between 2000 and 2008 in the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She found that college graduates are 1.5 times more likely to be bloggers than are high school graduates; twice as likely to post photos and videos and three times more likely to post an online rating or comment.

Overall, the study found, less than 10 percent of the U.S. population is participating in most online production activities, and having a college degree is a greater predictor of who will generate publicly available online content than being young and white.

The results suggest that the digital divide for social media users is wider between the haves and have-nots than it is between young and old, and underscore growing concerns that the poor and working classes lack the resources to participate fully in civic life, much of which is now online. That chasm is unlikely to break down until everyone has a host of digital production tools at both home and work, Schradie said.

"Conventional wisdom tells us that the Internet is leveling the playing field and broadening the diversity of voices being heard," Schradie said. "But my findings show the Internet is actually reinforcing the socio-economic divisions that already exist, and may even heighten them, which has all sorts of implications as more of civic and economic life moves online."

Since the early 1990s, the Internet has been billed as the greatest agent of change since the Industrial Revolution. With the 2004 launch of Facebook and the 2008 creation of the microblogging site Twitter, user-generated content has exploded with an estimated 2 billion social media users worldwide.

Previous data gleaned from the annual Pew Internet and American Life Project have shown that Americans in higher-income brackets are more likely to have broadband access and mobile devices and thus use the Internet more often.

Chart shows differences between high school graduates (darker bars) and college graduates when it comes to producing online content

However, Schradie's latest study breaks new ground in that it tracks the relationship between socio-economic status and 10 online activities most likely to influence the public, opinion shapers and policy makers. Among those uses are such social networking activities as Facebook; website building and design; blogging; photo-and video-sharing, such as on YouTube; chat room and newsgroup participation; and the posting of comments and ratings.

In 17 surveys, she tracked the demographics of users, including education level, income, gender, race and ethnicity. Despite users' racial, ethnic and gender differences, all 10 online activities showed a socio-economic class divide.

Many observers of social media assume that participation rates will increase as younger generations, known as "digital natives," embrace new technologies and modes of communication. But by tracking 10 different activities over time, the study shows strong patterns of inequality that are not likely to disappear when the next social media tool appears, Schradie said.

"The working class is underrepresented on the Internet," the study concludes. "Without their voices, their issues are ignored."

CARL BILDT TO ATTEND MEETING ON FUTURE OF ARCTIC IN GREENLAND.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The following information was released by the Government of Sweden:

How should the world respond to climate change in the Arctic? And how should we deal with increased demand for the natural resources hidden below the ice? This week, foreign ministers from the countries surrounding the North Pole are to meet to discuss these and other decisive issues facing the region. The meeting, which takes place on 12 May in the Greenland capital, Nuuk, is part of the work of the Arctic Council, which Sweden is soon to lead.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt arrives in Greenland on Wednesday evening. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergej Lavrov are also expected to attend the meeting. The five Nordic countries, along with the US, Russia, Canada and representatives of indigenous peoples, participate in the Arctic Council. Among the issues on the agenda are the momentous changes in the climate, the life of indigenous peoples, and how joint sea rescue operations can be coordinated.

The climate issue in particular is especially acute in the Arctic, since temperatures have risen twice as fast there compared with the rest of the world. And when the ice melts, larger areas are opened up to exploitation. During the two-year Swedish Chairmanship, which begins when the foreign ministers meeting is rounded up on Thursday, Sweden wants to see a coherent policy for dealing with these issues.

"The Arctic is facing decisive changes at present. A responsible, joint policy for the region is the alpha and omega, and not only for the countries around the North Pole," says Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt.

On Thursday, the same day as the ministerial meeting, Sweden is to launch the priorities for its Chairmanship as well as a national strategy for the Arctic. The texts will be posted on ud.se/arctic on Thursday morning, just after 09.00.

There will be opportunities for telephone interviews with Carl Bildt and Arctic Ambassador Gustaf Lind in connection with the ministerial meeting. Please contact Press Secretary Anna Charlotta Johansson for more information. A press conference will be held in connection with the meeting in Nuuk when Sweden assumes the Chairmanship, at approximately 17.00 (local time) on Thursday.

Video footage from the press conference, as well as interviews with Carl Bildt and other participating foreign ministers, will be posted on thenewsmarket.com/swedenchannel. If the internet connection in Nuuk allows, this will material be posted on Thursday afternoon and evening (Swedish time).

Dh225,000 for an Anti-Smartphone.

Summary: C*is plain ridiculous if you are asking Kipp.

If you aren't aware, this month, Kippreport is focusing on special mobile technology. While some members of Kipp are too poor to afford one of those savvy smartphones and the pricey data-packages that come with it [give us a raise, boss], it would seem some are too rich to buy a savvy smartphone.

Or that at least is the idea behind the new Easir--a new super expensive phone that can set you as far back as Au37,000 (dhs225,000). So what exactly does this phone do, you ask? Does it have super fast internet? Or the ability to store more data that the chunkiest of hard drives?

No. The Easir does absolutely nothing.

It doesn't connect to the internet, it cannot download apps, it is just a basic phone that can make and receive calls. In fact, the company's CEO called the Easir, 'an anti-smartphone.'

But let Kipp not discredit it too much, the phone actually took three years to design, is apparently made from "watch-grade material by European craftsmen, and everything down to the ring tones have been designed especially for it." While a regular Easir would cost you Au6,400 (dhs39,000), a gold-plated version could cost as much as Au37,000.

Kipp can think of another thing that is dumb and we are not just talking about the phone.

2011 Dubai Business | Kippreport. All Rights Reserved.

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Stanley Black & Decker Announces Release Date for First Quarter 2011 Earnings.(Financial report)

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK) will report its first quarter 2011 results after the stock market closes on Tuesday April 26th, 2011 and host a live webcast and conference call at 10:00 am ET on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011. The call will last for approximately one hour.

A slide presentation which will accompany the call will be available at www.stanleyblackanddecker.com and will remain available after the call.

The call will be accessible by telephone at (877) 261-8992 and from outside the U.S. at (847) 619-6548; also, via the Internet at www.stanleyblackanddecker.com. To access, please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. Please use the conference identification number 29541774. A replay will also be available two hours after the call and can be accessed at (888) 843-7419 or (630) 652-3042 using the passcode 29541774#.

Stanley Black & Decker, an S&P 500 company, is a diversified global provider of hand tools, power tools and related accessories, mechanical access solutions and electronic security solutions, engineered fastening systems, and more. Learn more at www.stanleyblackanddecker.com.

mBlox Successfully Delivers 3.5 Billion SMS Mobile Transactions in 2009.(Company overview)

mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network, announced that it successfully delivered more than 3.5 billion application-to-person transactions in 2009 - over a billion mobile transactions more than in 2008, representing 46 percent year-over-year growth. During this period, mBlox was profitable with revenues in excess of $110 million.

In 2009, mBlox grew organically, while securing a breadth of new customers to increase its global footprint. North America saw the largest growth, with volume growth up 127 percent year-over-year and innovative messaging services and applications being the main driver of Short Message Service (SMS) transactions. Western Europe achieved 44 percent growth, with premium messaging spikes seen in France and Spain. Asia Pacific also saw growth, of 20 percent, and is expected to grow significantly in 2010 as mBlox expands its presence in the region.

Overall revenue for mBlox was up by over 10 percent versus 2008, despite a recessionary economy and the company's decision to terminate one of its largest contracts with a client unable to meet its commitments. mBlox Inc. generated profits at an adjusted Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) level for the first time in 10 years, showing a swing of over $10 million before exceptional items. 2010 will see continued revenue and profit growth as new, secure and resilient mBlox data centres come into service and a new technology platform is deployed. mBlox expects further organic growth in all existing and new markets, which will be opened up during the year through a combination of natural expansion and acquisition of competitors.

2010 will also see an expansion in product depth and new services, building on innovations mBlox introduced into the market, including Free-To-End-User messaging in the United States and Sender-Pays Data in the United Kingdom. The mBlox market position will provide many opportunities in 2010 to extend this business model into new sectors, services and territories.

"In 2009, mBlox saw its tenth consecutive year of 30-percent-plus volume growth globally for application-to-person messaging and we have also maintained our global leadership in processing premium transactions with a total retail value more than twice that of our next largest competitor," said Andrew Dark, CEO, mBlox. "This demonstrates the immense power of SMS to deliver consumer value for businesses. We have seen growth in many sectors, including financial services, entertainment, transport and online service sectors. Although the SMS market in North America began later, the impressive and accelerating growth hints at the innovation and vast potential in the region. The dramatic increase in mBlox market share in France and growth in other territories demonstrates the value of our global presence and focused strategy."

Keywords: Asia, China, Entertainment, Finance, Financial, Financial Services, Internet, Investing, Investment, Mobile and Wireless, Software, Technology, mBlox Inc.

This article was prepared by China Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2010, China Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.

Order Optimizer Selected as Finalist in the MS-HUGS Healthcare Innovation Awards.

HOUSTON -- Order Optimizer has been selected as a finalist in the MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards of 2009 in the category of Clinical Records, Inpatient focus, partnered with Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital. Order Optimizer is an Automated Admissions Decision Support (AADS) software platform, which guides admitting physicians though the time-consuming process of creating admission orders for incoming patients. Embedded in the platform are more than 180 diagnoses-specific order sets, supported by a unique order set merging engine to assist physicians in utilizing evidence-based treatment plans. Delivered over the Internet through a "Software as a Service" model, Order Optimizer requires no additional hospital IT headcount or capital infrastructure, while allowing physicians much greater workplace flexibility. The result is a physician-endorsed tool facilitating optimal clinical and quality outcomes, resulting in improved quality of care at lower cost. After implementing Order Optimizer, Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital saw dramatic improvements: a decreased length of stay, 28% below the mean for the hospital and a lower cost per admission that is 19% below the hospital mean, and 22% below the regional mean.

"We could not be happier that Order Optimizer has been acknowledged as one of the top innovations in healthcare management today," states Robert Weathersby, President, Order Optimizer. "The Bon Secours Hospitalist's success demonstrates that smart technologies, coupled with a deep understanding of physician needs, can result in high return on investment products that physicians like using."

In its twelfth year, the MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards has become a unique opportunity for organizations to display progress made in using innovative technologies to improve the economics and quality of today's healthcare environment. MS-HUG's goal is showcasing those organizations truly transforming patient care. To be chosen as a finalist is a distinguished honor, providing a showcase for Order Optimizer's sound technological approach to improving healthcare quality.

The MS-HUG Healthcare Innovation Awards for 2009 will be announced April 4-8 at the annual HIMSS Conference.

About Order Optimizer.

Order Optimizer is a Houston, Texas-based clinical software and service company. For more information about Order Optimizer please visit www.orderoptimizer.com.

Marvel names Marden CEO of new Marvel Software unit.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 1996--Marvel Entertainment Group Inc. (NYSE:MRV) has appointed Scott Marden to the position of chief executive officer of Marvel Software, a newly create business unit.

In his new position, Marden, 41, will be responsible for Marvel's move into electronic and interactive media. He will report directly to William C. Bevins, CEO of Marvel Entertainment Group. "Marvel has an unrivaled intellectual property base comprising more than 3,000 characters and story lines stretching back over 30 years and more," said Bevins. "Scott Marden's rich background in media, of all forms, will accelerate Marvel's push into the electronic frontier of today, as well as tomorrow. With this appointment, Marvel takes another important step in its continuing evolution as a broad-based youth entertainment company."

Marden was president and CEO of Philips Media, a unit of Philips Electronics, N.V., since its inception in 1993. In this position, he was responsible for the company's worldwide electronic media activities, including CD-ROM development and distribution, cable television operations, and a newly established Internet group. Prior to that, Marden spent 7 years on Wall Street as a leading advisor to the media industry. "I am delighted to become a part of the Marvel Entertainment Group. This move allows me to apply all of my media related knowledge and experience to a key strategic purpose in an exciting creative environment," said Marden. "Marvel Software represents a return to my publishing and financial roots while keeping my focus on electronic media."

Marvel Entertainment Group Inc. is the nation's leading youth entertainment company in comic books, trading cards, toys, children's activity stickers and consumer products and advertising promotions through its character licensing operation. -0-

CONTACT: Marvel Entertainment Group,

Pam Rutt, 212/576-8535

or

Investor Relations:

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Gary Fishman, 212/983-8550

MOM, BABY FOUND IN '87 ID'D DNA EVIDENCE SOLVES PART OF THE MYSTERY AS POLICE LOOK FOR FATHER.(News)(Column)

Byline: SCOTT GUTIERREZ, HECTOR CASTRO AND LISE OLSEN P-I reporters

A woman and child whose remains were discovered 20 years ago in three Northwest rivers have been identified from DNA samples submitted by relatives, the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

But police have been unable to find the victims' husband and father, who investigators now know disappeared about the time the victims were found.

Police were able to identify the bodies after relatives, including the woman's brother in Sydney, Australia, came forward after reading about the case in a Seattle P-I investigative report about unsolved deaths in Washington. The series, "Without a Trace," revealed flaws in how missing-persons and unidentified-body cases are handled and tracked.

A fisherman found Raj Narain's torso in the Lewis River south of Kelso on Sept. 11, 1987. A few days later, her legs were found in the Willamette River in Portland. That Sept. 24, a fisherman found the toddler's body - clothed in a striped pink playsuit and cotton diaper - floating in the Cowlitz River near the confluence with the Columbia River.

But the search continues for Ashok Kumar Narain, who has not been seen since several months after his wife, 24, and their 14-month-old daughter, Kamnee Koushal Narain, disappeared, the Sheriff's Office reported.

Detectives from the Sheriff's Office and police in Eugene, Ore., where the Fiji islanders were living in 1987, have been searching for Ashok Narain for a year, following potential leads in Washington, Oregon and California, said Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig, one of the deputies who retrieved the bodies from the water. Investigators are uncertain if Narain is a victim or if he has knowledge of the slayings.

"We're hoping to locate him, and we're hoping when we do, it will help us answer more questions that we have," he said.

Authorities said Tuesday that several detectives exchanged the case over the years, each time trying to "breathe new life" into it. Then a relative came forward in April 2006.

Raj Narain's brother, Jai "Bobby" Prasad, who resides in Sydney, saw the P-I story about the two unsolved deaths on a night in April 2006 and was struck by a forensic artist's sketch that recreated the infant girl's face. It resembled miniature portraits his sister had sent of his niece. He found a number for the Kelso Police Department, which also was investigating.

"The story was so amazing. There was a breakthrough coming in. I wasn't sleeping that night," he told the P-I.

Prasad said Tuesday he was looking for his sister, using Internet resources, faxes and phone calls, for several years.

"I started tracing the case in 2004," he said.

Raj Narain was a Fijian-born Indian from a family of 11.

The youngest of the family, she was the first to leave Fiji, in 1984.

The couple lived in an apartment in Eugene, and their daughter was born in June 1985. She sent letters to her brothers and audiotapes to her mother, who could not read or write. Then, the family stopped hearing from her. Her disappearance went unreported.

The victims likely were slain just a few days before they were discovered, Rosenzweig said Tuesday. When authorities were unable to identify them, they were buried in unmarked graves in a cemetery near Kelso.

Prasad, who has known about his sister's identification for months but did not discuss it before Tuesday at the police's request, is preparing a trip to the U.S. to exhume his sister's body, hold a brief ceremony and take her and her daughter home to her native Fiji.

However, Prasad said he has not gotten the letters from the authorities, the death certificate or other information that he needs to proceed from the Cowlitz County Coroner's Office.

Ashok Narain's brother, Robert Narayan of Woodland, Calif., also called Kelso police in 2006 and said his brother had been missing since April 1988 and that his brother's wife and daughter also had vanished, Rosenzweig said. Narayan said his call was prompted by his discovery in an Internet search of the article published by the P-I.

DNA evidence and samples obtained from the victims' relatives were sent to the University of North Texas, where forensic scientists were able to confirm the mother and daughter were related to Raj Narain's siblings, Rosenzweig said.

Detectives found several people named Ashok Narain during their search through three states, but none was the person detectives are looking for. They've interviewed friends and co-workers, looking for him, Rosenzweig said. He is now listed in the National Crime Information Center database as a missing person.

"We track him in the Eugene area through the spring of 1988, a few months after the murders. Then, all indications are that he disappeared and we really don't know why," Rosenzweig said.

Lise Olsen, now a reporter at the Houston Chronicle, first reported this case as part of the P-I series, "Without a Trace." Find it online at seattlepi.com/missing.

P-I reporter Scott Gutierrez

can be reached at 206-903-5396

or scottgutierrez@seattlepi.com.