Moms looking for justice at an Advocate event in Jefferson City

CAPE GIRARDEAU Mo. (KBSI) – Many local moms travel to the Capitol if Jefferson City where Advocate for Moms allow families to speak on their missing persons cases. 

“Just asking for them to be investigated in the cases, be opened up and looked at justice for our families,” said Hall. 

Barbara Hall is the mother of Timmy Dees. Timmy was 25 when he went missing the summer of 2022.

Timmy’s body was found 5 months later. 

Barbara got to see her son’s body one last time, but she hasn’t had any resolution. 

Hall now joins events like this one to highlight all the families who have not received justice for their missing loved one.

Families want to get the message out there and have their cases reopened. 

Hall wears her shirt that shows her son Timmy, bringing bracelets, and stories with lists of the families in the Madison County area to speak out on the event.

“I brought stories, I brought these and the back page is names of everybody trying to get justice and as you see Gina, Dawn Brookes at the top,” said Hall. 

Hall met lots of friends who are going through similar situations like her. Hall also met a political figure who spoke out on trying to bring a new law into a missing persons case. 

“We just talked about the story and people came in and spoke with us like ladies at Senators. She came and spoke to us working on some law about the missing,” said Hall. 

Hall also got the chance to meet with crime writer author Synova Cantrell who is an advocate in writing true crime stories for the past six years. 

“I am a publicity maker. I just bring publicity to all the obscured cases and try to raise awareness about those. I am a victims advocate first and I write books second,” said Cantrell. 

Cantrell loves writing books but loves helping others more. 

Cantrell has a podcast that she also speaks out on about these obscure cases like Barbara Halls.

“And I just tried to take the obscure cases where they’re not getting publicity because to me we all know who John Benet Ramsey is and that’s a horrible terrible case everybody would like to see soft, but it’s our countries a little bit lopsided you got people like Barbara that can’t get enough publicity so then you get a ton of marketing dollars on certain cases and they become nationwide news and then you got other cases that can’t get enough publicity to even get in their local newspaper.”

Barbara Hall says she found more evidence about her son’s case and presented it to the Prosecuting Attorney. 

Halls hopes to get more of a conclusion of what happened to her son Timmy.