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Carole Mikita ReportingEvery time another child disappears or a case goes unsolved, a number of Utah parents find themselves reliving the horrors of their own stories.
As we have seen in the Norton case, some of the first people to contact the parents are other parents who have suffered through similar ordeals. One recent high-profile case is that of the Bishops.
Divers never found 19-month-old Acacia Bishop's body in the Snake River. It's been more than three years, and still nothing.
Adam Bishop, February 2006: "There still hasn't been a body found, and the longer that goes, the more concrete our purpose is, and our feelings that prove what we feel."
Acacia's grandmother, Kelley Lodmell, now in a Texas mental hospital, was convicted of kidnapping her. Police found Lodmell in the water but not Acacia. Witnesses never saw a child. The parents believe Lodmell gave their little girl to someone.
An age-enhanced sketch shows what Acacia might look like today.
Ten-year-old Anna Palmer was stabbed at her home in September of 1998.
Veronica Giron, Anna's best friend, 2004: "It was on a busy street, still daylight time, on her front porch. I feel that somebody knows something and is just afraid to come out and say it."
That is how police officers feel; the case remains unsolved.
Det. Dwayne Baird, Salt Lake City Police Dept., 2004: "The Anna Palmer case is a cold case that we have that we hope to look at in the near future."
The case of six-year-old Rosie Tapia, kidnapped through her bedroom window in the middle of the might in August of 1995, remains a mystery. Neighbors in the Hartland Apartment Complex searched diligently, and her body was found in a Jordan River surplus canal the next morning.
Lewine Tapia, Rosie's mother, 2004: "We thought that it had to be someone that lived in the complex or someone that lived nearby."
A person of interest surfaced in the Rosie Tapia case a couple of years ago, but no charges were ever filed. Police have also never found a suspect in the Anna Palmer case, despite the offer of a reward.
