Silman Sao
January 3, 2019
Dear
Mr. Moody,
My
name is Silman Sao. I have the honor to write to you to express our gratitude, my
wife and I, for the organization you helped create, LA FOUND.
On
December 20th, at 2:00 pm, my wife disappeared from the comer of
Wilshire and Norton in LA. She was diagnosed in March of an early stage of
Alzheimer's. On November 27, she was offered the LA Found tracking bracelet. I left her in our car parked under a very
shaded tree. I was only going to be away less than 15 mins to pick up a few
items inside the building and be back. She explicitly refused to follow me in
the building, preferring wait for me in the car, because she was a little dizzy.
I kissed her goodbye and left. I came
back 10 mins later the passenger seat was empty.
I
first thought she was just walking around the block and be back. After 2 hours,
I decided to call 911 to file a missing person claim. A few minutes later, the LAPD team was there
followed by the Sheriff Department one. They mobilized all their logistics. A
first team was supposed to track the device my wife was wearing, driving
through the streets on which we thought she could be walking. A moment later a
helicopter came to support the teams on the ground. After hours of unsuccessful
search, they finally brought a canine unit with dogs sniffing around along the
path my wife took. That did not lead to anything, since the dogs lost her track
about a mile away from the point of disappearance.
All
those attempts took us up to 4:00 am, Friday early morning. I was dead with worries, not having eaten nor
drunk anything for the whole time, without noticing it.
The
following day, in the evening, I received a phone call from a guy saying he
surprisingly found my wife's purse in his car. He honestly couldn't understand how that purse
got in it.
He
gave me his address in Highland Park. I notified immediately the Lieutenant
John Gannon from Sheriff s Department. He put right away the necessary
logistics together, one hour later he located the tracking device my wife was
wearing.
I
went through these details to tell how much I can understand the pain you have
been through since the disappearance of your own wife. For a lot shorter time I
have been through the same worries, anxiety, sleepless nights, but it all ended
happily when I found my wife
This
success story would not had been possible didn't you have the inspiration to
help create La Found organization, with new tools to find missing persons. During the deepest period of your life, your
other half disappearance due to her medical condition, you have had the
inspiration and the strength to follow it to put together this such great
organization as LA Found, to help all other families going through those
horrible pains, find a fast relief.
Having
experienced firsthand how that feels to recover missing loved one, I could not
stay silent after the rescue I have had because of the tracking bracelet we
have graciously received from your organization.
Your
wife has finally released her physical body, may her rest in peace.
However,
even though she is not present physically anymore around, she will always be
present not only throughout the everlasting love binding her to you, but also,
she will keep shining throughout every single person, your program has helped
find.
She
is our Guardian Angel. May her light keep shining over all of us.
I
will always, always pray for her.
Sincerely
and with my eternal gratitude,
