As the holidays draw closer, many friends and family gather for drinks in bars and restaurants across the country. With recent changes in Kyle’s case – transfer from the missing person’s unit to homicide – America’s Most Wanted thought this would be a good time to review Kyle’s case and update the nation on where things currently stand. Our hope is that this national coverage, combined with the busy time of year, can help lead to public chatter that will help us resolve Kyle’s case.

If you have any information regarding Kyle’s case, please contact Homicide Detective, Michael Burke, below:

Detective Michael G. Burke
Homicide Division
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
601 E. Trade St. Charlotte, NC.
Office:  704-336-4455

Over the past week an opportunity to promote Kyle’s Story and the KFF at the upcoming Charlotte NASCAR weekend, on October 16-18th, has quickly materialized. With the help of Garret Turner, we will be able to capitalize on a partnership between Liberty Port and Ware Racing to gain marketing exposure on the #31 Rick Ware Racing Nationwide series car.

The gracious folks at Rick Ware Racing have also agreed to distribute fliers of Kyle to all of their Circle K locations throughout the country. This will include all but two continental states! Both Rick Ware Racing and Liberty Port have also vowed to utilize their PR avenues to distribute information about Kyle’s story and the KFF to customers, corporate sponsors, and valued media contacts.

In addition to this great exposure, we have been granted the ability to post flyer’s in and around Charlotte Motor Speedway before and during the race weekend. It is our hope that we will also gain valuable television exposure during the ESPN coverage of the races.

Anyone and everyone can play a valuable role in making this a big success.

How can you help?

• Spread the word about this opportunity via email, word of mouth, phone calls, and any other avenue possible to help garner support for the event.
• If you have any NASCAR contacts that can help spread the word about our efforts internally please forward this information along to them.
• If you have any valuable media contacts, please get this information in their hands as well and encourage them to get it live. 
• Take the time to bombard the Charlotte, Regional, and National media contacts with information about our efforts. Ways to do this can be found at: www.thekff.org/resources.
• Show up on Race Weekend - We would like to gather a very big crowd on race weekend to help distribute and post fliers around the speedway. For more information about this please contact Garrett Turner Garrett’s contact information is as follows:

              gturner@libertyport.com

              240.344.1006

Any help you can provide in making this last minute opportunity a big success would be greatly appreciated.  This is a great opportunity to generate some buzz about Kyle’s story and reintroduce it into the national media spot light.

Thanks so much everyone.

For additional information or questions please contact daniel@thekff.org or gturner@libertyport.com

At around 2:25am Kyle was seen buying pizza at Fuel Pizza at the uptown location. He is distinctly remembered by one of the cashiers at Fuel Pizza. His whereabouts from here are unknown.

Any one that may have been in fuel pizza that night please contact crime stoppers.

On Monday, July 13th the KFF was informed that it has received official recognition from the IRS as a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization.

We would like to extend a big thanks to everyone for your valuable help and support!

Please visit www.themissingtv.com to watch their feature on Kyle’s case and many other missing persons cases.

Come join the KFF and the Charlotte Checkers for the second annual Kyle’s Night with the Checkers on March 20th, 2009 to help spread awareness and education activity for missing adults. The KFF will be passing out free education and prevention information, host a Q&A booth, and will be passing out bracelets and ribbons while watching the Checkers take on the Florida Everblades.

For online ticket purchase go to:www.gocheckers.com/fundraisers or call Alice Garmon at 704.342.4423. Be sure to remind them you are purchasing your tickets to support the KFF!

Team Kyle will be participating in the Beech Mountain Parks and Recreation – A Cool 5 charity race traversing across the top of Beech Mountain – Eastern America’s highest town at 5506ft. – on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 9:00am. The five mile run and accompanying fun run will be open to runners and walkers of all ages and skill levels.

 Many runners, walkers, and cyclists specifically make the journey to Beech Mountain for high altitude training.  The mountain is remembered for Lance Armstrong Tour Du Pont stage win during the mid 1990’s and remains a playground for outdoor enthusiasts and endurance athletes.

A Cool 5 will benefit the construction of a new community playground at Buckeye Lake and the Buckeye Recreation Center. The playground will truly be a “community playground” as it will be built entirely from the help of volunteers and community members. The playground is a monumental undertaking for a small community such as Beech Mountain, but with the fundraising help from events like “A Cool 5”, we will be able to achieve our goal for the community of Beech Mountain.

For more information on A Cool 5, sponsorship forms, registration forms, and race details please visit www.acool5.com. If you are interested in participating in A Cool 5 as part of Team Kyle please contact Daniel Scagnelli at daniel@thekff.org.