Three Santa Rosa adults who were considered missing have been located after being featured in a recent Santa Rosa Police Department social media campaign.
On Tuesday, the department revealed the results this year’s second Missing Persons Monday effort.
The seven-week campaign, developed and led by intern Erica Meyer, featured the photos and information of more than 30 missing persons on the department’s Facebook and Instagram pages between August and early October.
Two women and one man were found as a result of the push, police said.
According to police, “an alert community member” saw Malia Morrow 31, in unincorporated Santa Rosa and alerted the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy responded to the area and contacted Morrow, who was reported missing by her family in August and was described as being homeless in Santa Rosa at the time. Marrow was featured in the campaign on Sept. 16.
Meyer was also able to follow leads that provided her with new information for Patricia Hadsall, 63, who was last contacted in August. Hadsall was featured in the campaign on Sept. 23.
A third missing adult, Tobin McIntosh, 68, was contacted by the San Francisco Police Department. McIntosh was featured in the campaign on Sept. 30 and was last seen earlier that month, police said.
During the most recent campaign, Meyer also tracked down the whereabouts of Filoteo Francisco Gutierrez, 43, through a collaboration with the FBI unrelated to the campaign.
Guttierrez, who had been considered missing by police since 2008, had recent law enforcement contact in a different state as confirmed through fingerprint records. Meyer then confirmed his identity from a photograph provided by that agency, the department said.
The department’s first Missing Persons Monday campaign, which took place over six weeks between January and March, ended with five people located, including one who had been missing since 2005, the department announced in April.
In Tuesday’s announcement on social media, the department called the community’s involvement in the campaigns “instrumental” in resolving the nine missing adult cold cases and said that a third campaign will launch in early 2025.
