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ADVOCATE FOR YOUR
LOVED ONE
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LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD!

STAND TALL & PROUD!


THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ONE THAT WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE AS GOOD  AS YOU CAN & WILL!!


Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. - Elie Wiesel

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YEARS OF TEARS
OUR HEARTS HAVE BEEN RIPPED FROM OUR CHEST
WAITING FOR JUSTICE?? IT SEEMS TO FADE AWAY....
 
To Advocate ~ The practice of supporting someone to make their voice heard.

Do you ADVOCATE for your loved one?
Do you know what ADVOCATE means?
Do you know HOW to ADVOCATE?
If you do not fight for your loved one, who else will??

WOULD YOU FIGHT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE IF THEY WERE ALIVE & SOMEONE HURT THEM OR TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEM? 

FACE IT, YOU WOULD STOP AT NOTHING TO PROTECT THEM.

NOW YOUR LOVED ONE IS MURDERED, ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR THEM OR ARE YOU ALLOWING THEM TO BE VICTIMIZED AGAIN?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR YOUR LOVED ONE? 

STAND UP & BE HEARD!!

YOU CAN BE THE VOICE OF YOUR LOVED ONE. 

YOU ARE THE VOICE OF YOUR LOVED ONE.

WE WILL STAND ASIDE YOU, BUT YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED.

WE WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR FIGHT, WE ARE FIGHTING FOR ALL VICITMS.

TOGETHER WE WILL WIN!!  
 



YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN YOUR JOURNEY OF THE UNKNOWN.
WE HAVE ALSO  STARTED ON THE SAME JOURNEY & CONTINUE ON THE WAY. TOGETHER, WE CAN HAVE OUR LOVED ONES VOICE HEARD. 

YOU MUST NOW BE THE VOICE OF YOUR LOVED ONE!!

YOUR LOVED ONE HAS BEEN MURDERED OR HAS DIED FROM SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. 

NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE CRIME.

WHAT DO YOU DO NOW? 

DO YOU SIT & WAIT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CONTACT YOU? 

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT? 

THERE ARE NO SET RULES ON WHAT TO DO IN OUR SITUATION!! 

DID LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTACT YOU ABOUT YOUR LOVED ONE?  

WHERE YOU GIVEN THE VICTIMS RIGHTS BOOKLET?  
  

 
The Victim Rights Booklet is to be handed to the victim or their family by the Law Enforcement Agency. Most often, it is forgotten. The Victims Witness Assistance unit located in the Berks County District Attorneys office can provide you with one. Their phone # is 610-468-6000.  You can also download the Booklet here.  -----------→
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Victims Rights Booklet --You can personalize this booklet with your information.
If Eligible You only have 2 Years to file for Compensation!!


The
Victims Compensation Assistance Program

In case you are entitled to any Compensation due to the crime. (as long as the person was not participating in the crime.) This can also include Funeral Costs, Relocation costs (certain cases), Medical bills, Counciling & Medication, costs for Clean up of the Crime Scene to name a few.  You can download the form here.
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Victims Compensation Assistance Form

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ONE THAT WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR LOVED ONE AS GOOD  AS YOU CAN & WILL!!

TO OTHERS, IT IS ONLY THEIR JOB & THEY WILL GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY.

THIS IS NOW YOUR LIFE! YOU EAT, SLEEP & BREATH FOR JUSTICE FOR YOUR LOVED ONE.

YOU NEED TO FIND ANSWERS, TO FIND JUSTICE FOR YOUR LOVED ONE.

HERE ARE SOME TIPS THAT MIGHT HELP YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY.

1.) Find out the name & phone number of the Detective or Criminal Investigator that is investigating your loved ones murder.

2.) Contact that person & introduce yourself & ask questions. (Any Leads, any suspects, any witnesses, why?) 

3.) Give them your contact information.
 
4.) If you do not hear from them, CALL THEM!!!!  Leave messages on their voice mail so they know that you are interested. Keep calling & leaving messages if they are unable to get back to you. Eventually, they will pick up the phone when you call or they will return your call.

5.) If no one contacts you in a few weeks, there is always their supervisor or police chief & ultimately the District Attorney.

6.) If ever need be, there are other avenues if the Berks Authorities do not appear to be doing the correct thing. There is the Attorney General, the Governor.

 
Be as VOCAL as you can about the murders in Berks, particularly your own loved one.
Speak out as often as you can.
Yes, the devastation is unbearable at times,
you must keep going.  There are others that can & will walk aside of you, to make your voice loud for all to hear.

If you keep quite, no one else will fight for your loved one.
 

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Unknown
 
Unsolved murders haunt not only those directly involved with the deceased, they haunt entire communities. Somewhere among us walks a person with the derangement to take a life and the cunning to hide his or her sins.