PBSO TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO ‘SPEAK’ FOR MISSING GIRL
Sheriff will speak in voice of girl who was lost 34 years ago.
Sunday will mark 34 years since Marjorie “Christy” Luna left her Greenacres home in search of food for her cats, never to return.
For the second straight year, a social media account created by the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office will speak in her voice.
This time, the account will spotlight cases involving other missing children.
“This is National Missing Kids Week and I will be spotlighting other missing kids like me throughout the week,” a post on the sheriff ’s Christy Luna Twitter page said Monday. The posts will continue through the anniversary of her disappearance.
The first case spotlighted was that of Jarkeius Adside, a 1-year-old boy from Miami who was abducted Oct. 18, 2001, by three unidentified men during a robbery, according to the Sheriff ’s Office.
According to published reports, Jarkeius was being looked after by a baby sitter at the time of his disappearance because both of his parents were in jail. A woman told authorities the child was taken as she and her boyfriend were robbed in their home and bound with duct tape.
Jarkeius would turn 18 in September.
The Sheriff ’s Office has used social media over the past year to spotlight its missing-persons and coldcase murders.
Luna was 8 years old when she disappeared. Last year, to mark the 33rd anniversary, the Sheriff ’s Office used its Twitter page to recreate the moments before and after Christy’s disappearance, speaking in her voice.
In March, the sheriff’s office created a separate Twitter account to spotlight the cold-case murder of Rachel Hurley, a 14-year-old girl who was raped and murdered 28 years ago inside Jupiter’s Carlin Park.
The Sheriff ’s Office also took to Twitter and Facebook this year to spotlight the shared March 23 anniversary of Cynthia Moffett and Randi Gorenberg, who were killed one year apart in 2006 and 2007.
Spokeswoman Teri Barbera said at the time that the Sheriff ’s Office hopes to use the social media campaign to extend its reach beyond Palm Beach County to those who lived in the area at the time of the murders but have since moved away.
“Hopefully, our social media campaign can still reach those people where ever they may now reside,” Barbera said in March.