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Age-progressed photos of Luhk sisters now out
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released yesterday computer-generated age progression images of how sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk would possibly look now, three years after their mysterious appearance at a bus stop in As Teo.
The FBI will coordinate with the Department of Public Safety in distributing all over the CNMI photos of Faloma and Maleina, who are age-progressed to 13 and 12 years old respectively.
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- Left photo shows Maleina Luhk when she was just 9. Right photo shows her computer-generated age progression image. (WWW.MISSINGKIDS.COM)
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- Left photo shows Faloma Luhk when she was just 10. Right photo shows her computer-generated age progression image. (WWW.MISSINGKIDS.COM)
FBI special agent Tom Simon said the FBI regards the case of the missing Luhk sisters as an ongoing investigation.
Simon said they are hoping that these new age-enhanced photos may provide them with some promising leads.
“Anyone with information to provide should contact their local FBI office or police,” said the FBI spokesperson.
FBI Saipan office special agent Haejun Park and FBI Guam office special agent Joe Strantz released to the media the age-progressed images of the Luhk sisters yesterday afternoon.
The FBI and DPS are jointly investigating the mysterious disappearance of the Luhk sisters.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children produced the computer-generated age progression images at the FBI’s request.
The FBI will contact other law enforcement partners in Guam, Palau, Marshall Islands, and Federated States of Micronesia, to also distribute the images in their respective jurisdictions.
Then 10-year-old Faloma and 9-year-old Maleina were last seen on May 25, 2011, near a bus stop pavilion in As Teo, Saipan. Their disappearance triggered the most extensive searches in CNMI history, with FBI agents and DPS officers combing a landfill, caves, jungles, beaches, villages, abandoned buildings, and other areas on Saipan for several months.
Many civilian volunteers joined some of the searches. The U.S. military even conducted aerial searches. A tracking dog was also sent from Hawaii to join the search.
Alan Santos Aguon, a former DPS firefighter who refused to undergo a lie detector test in connection with the investigation, was tagged as “a person of interest” but he has never been charged. In 2012, he was reportedly arrested in Burien, Washington state for domestic violence.
