I just saw this today. I am a member of the Southern Cruisers Riding Club. We raise money for St. Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis. I have saved her page as a PDF and will send this to all of our members. We are nation wide and HATE people that mess with kids!! Good luck in your search and I hope this helps.

kodiakvalk wrote:I just saw this today. I am a member of the Southern Cruisers Riding Club. We raise money for St. Jude's Children Research Hospital in Memphis. I have saved her page as a PDF and will send this to all of our members. We are nation wide and HATE people that mess with kids!! Good luck in your search and I hope this helps.

Thanks, Kodiak.
Your efforts are much appreciated.

JSJ

I think it's awesome that you guys put this up here. Good deals on cool stuff is awesome, but bringing this kid home safe is better.

I am thrilled to see that when we have a way to alert as many people as possible to bring a child home, we use it.
Albuquerque, NM is on the look-out!
Prayers are with the family!

Thoughts and prayers are her.

Thanks for posting this woot.

im really happy that you guys have put this up, while the woot community is a small niche we are all out there and can be on the look out. my thoughts are with the family and hope that everything turns out ok.

Best of luck to the Woot family. Please give us updates.

I've Re-Tweeted your Twitter post about it. I hope someone takes a look at it and pass it on themselves, or has some information on this. This is a terrible thing to have happened. I do hope she's found soon. My thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.

Thanks all. We were just made aware and asked earlier today to do what we could to get the word out. I'm hearing there is some more information out on the web in general.

edit - looks like a news story repost here from yesterday: http://bankofkev.blog-city.com/the_latest_on_deborah_kalai_fourzan.htm

video link on that site. text transcript:

TECUMSEH — The mother of a missing Tecumseh teenager said her daughter may have been lured into leaving home with promises of attending an anime convention.

Deborah Kalai Fourzan, 14, has been missing since Monday. Authorities think she is with 40-year-old James Joseph Reimer, a former family friend.

Fourzan’s mother, Crystal Vanbuskirk, said Fourzan has never been in trouble and leaving home is out of her character.

"She may have gone willingly with him, but as far as I’m concerned she’s been kidnapped,” Vanbuskirk said.

Deborah’s parents recently discovered Reimer had been sending Fourzan sexually explicit text messages. They notified police and warned Reimer to stay away from her.

Vanbuskirk said police questioned Reimer, but nothing was done until her daughter turned up missing. Reimer was charged Tuesday in Pottawatomie County District Court in connection with the text messages.

Crow said that through interviews with people who know Reimer, they’ve found he has a history of violence against women.

Fourzan’s friends told authorities she left school Monday morning with plans to travel to an anime convention in California.

Reimer and Fourzan share an interest in the Japanese animation, and Fourzan left home that morning with a black backpack filled with anime costumes, Vanbuskirk said.

Authorities are checking anime conventions across the United States, including one this weekend in Austin, Texas, Tecumseh police spokesman Billy Crow said.

Vanbuskirk said she and her husband have known Reimer for about five years. She said he had been like an uncle to their daughter.

Crow said Reimer is the chief suspect in a burglary Sunday at a convenience store where he worked. Several thousand dollars were stolen, he said.

Tecumseh police Let. J.R. Kidney said he believes the pair is driving a ’90s white Mercury Cougar with front-end damage.

While I have been told that there is nothing worse than the loss of a child due to death (which I have experienced), I have always responded that there is always something worse. This is it. My prayers are with the family. I pray she is returned home safely soon.

I hope she gets home safely. All of us at Woottv will keep her in our thoughts.

Authorities thought they might show up at an anime conference in Austin this past weekend so everyone down here has been on the look out. My thoughts and prayers go out to her family in hopes of her safe return.

Man, if this helps find her and gets her home safe, this will be the biggest "woot!" ever!

Another reason why Woot is awesome. I live in Cali and will certainly keep an eye out for that weirdo.

i live in SoCal and there is an anime convention in San Fran Feb 14 - 15. some one should keep a lookout up there, or alert the police. it might be the one they were supposedly headed to.

Im a retired police officer from D.C. and I one thing cops hate for sure is people messing with kids. I have sent this to all my buddies still on the street and will be trying to get our union to send it to the other posts. Just so you know other agencies don't always communicate as quickly as us street cops would like so a phone call to any area u think they might go would be a good heads up.

I really hope he gets caught by an officer who has kids/daughter. God Bless.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family. It's good to see woot taking advantage of the community they have here to bring this girl home.

I'm a former staff member of Katsucon, ironically going on this weekend in DC. I reposted this info to the Katsucon LJ as a lot of staff and con goers frequent and hopefully some people will pass it along the chain of con fans, maybe some people will be on the lookout at that con in San Fran this weekend.

Good luck, stay positive!

I'm happy that you posted this, and reading the other comments, I hope she's found safe and soon. Once she's home it would be good if you do the same for other lost kids...would be another reason to check woot daily. Good luck!!

Being a mom, I am very proud of woot for posting this. My thought and prayers are with the family.

You guys area really Awesome for posting this here!

Pleas consider doing a link a day for something just like this.

Saddened to learn of this.


If you get wind of them heading towards paducah ky, let me know, I will be all over that.

I'm happy to see this on Woot. I have supported the US Amber Alert for a while and have their ticker on my websites.

Come to think of it, Woot! should add their ticker somewhere. As many visitors as you have it would probably help a bit and it wouldn't hurt anything.

I saw the twitter update earlier today, too. Awesome way to get the word out about the missing girl. Fingers crossed and prayers prayed for her and her family.

Good job Woot. I pray this helps bring Deborah home safe & sound.

all I have to give is to pray she gets home safe.
You guys should make a page on woot and buttons to link to it. I'm sure every woot user with a website/blog/etc... would post it.

this is a horrid thing to happen. odds are, if they were saying they were going to an anime con, they wont show up to any. id watch local gas stations and hotels for the vehicle. our thoughts are with you.

As a Parent...Thank you Woot for posting this!

Keeping an eye open in Cal, and prayers for her safe return home, soon!!!!

I hope she is found, and found well.

I sent this out to my brother in San diego who is part of the Missing and Expolited Persons task force there. I am sure he will be on this ASAP as he is also an dedicated Woot member.

Our prayers and resources go out to and for you.

Why was a 14 year old girl traveling by herself to a convention in CA? Prayers to her and her family...With much hope that this will have a happy ending.

My prayers go out to the family. I hope she returns home safe. Please keep us updated.

Nice editorial, but I think you're full of it. Getting stopped by a couple of cops who are dads is exactly what needs to happen. I hope they cripple that joker.

Hope everything works out good for that girl and her family. People who take advantage of a childs nievaty deserve full punishment.

Prayers coming from Buffalo NY for her safe return.

Bravo WOOT for posting this. Brilliant!

Anybody who has any connections with Animé should pass this along and find people who can blast it on sites and newsletters. That sounds like one of the best ways to get this resolved.

They will be going into stores that sell Anime, sooner or later, that is probably for sure. They may not show up at an event as it's so public. So any Anime reseller sites, business news, etc should be commented on,emailed, called etc...

Everybody can get in on this: make a connection, comment on a forum, etc and then go back here and update where and when so others may do the same, or at least not repeat on your efforts.

Let's show what the Woot community can do!

OK. I went to animeforum.com and sent them this:

I just saw a post on Woot! concerning a missing/abducted child. The child and the suspected abducter may be going to an Animé event.

CAN you make a difference and get these links posted on your site!?

I have no connection to this, just saw an opportunity to make a difference. Here are the links:

http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=2970237&PageIndex=1&ReplyCount=37#post2971498

http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewChildDetail&caseNum=1115255&orgPrefix=NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

WOOT -feel free to edit my post to help communicate what I think is a great message.

Perhaps move my previous call to action post to the top of this list? Or make one of your own.

A viral attack on this could be the best opportunity you have.

You could add to this effort a mini-site, with strong SEO (for ranking.) (we are quite good at this and will offer our services, if needed.)

Something that people could embed in Facebook, Myspace, etc... could help. An image or simple video animation of pictures.

Maybe a FAN PAGE on Facebook? I know it sounds perverse to become a fan but it may be a good viral tool.

You get my point: harness the power of the web, this community and viral marketing!

I also sent an email to the website editor of Anime.com