Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced the launch of the Missing Persons Project on Sept.1, reports WTTW news. The initiative will assign several new detectives to longtime missing person cases. For years, Chicago police and media have been accused of not doing enough to solve missing person cases in the area. Angela Martin-Fields spoke at the announcement, sharing her experience looking for her mother Viola Martin who has been missing since 2009. “My mom did have a drug problem but she was clean for five years,” Martin-Fields said. “We thought it was probably just a little relapse, like three days, that’s it … we just left her house from Christmas and she was going to my sister’s house … to take her a plate because she just got out the hospital. After that, we didn’t hear from my mom or see our mother again.” The initiative aims to target at least 170 cases dating back to 1930, according to ABC 7 Chicago. "Our goal is to help the different families who have had their hearts...
