Cunningham & O’connor Mortuary

Brandy English, 41, was reported missing in May by her daughter, according to police. English was a friend of Lindsay Bogan, who was missing for months before her remains were found in July by a farmer.English, police told the Journal-News, was helping detectives with the Bogan investigation.English has not been seen or heard from since May 11, according to Middletown Police Lt. Jim Cunningham. She is described as white, 5 feet and 5 inches tall, and weighing 145 pounds with blond hair and brown eyes.A second woman — Amber Flack — was reported missing by her father on Sept. 1.Detectives have followed leads about Flack’s whereabouts, even traveling to Lexington, Ky., but have not found anyone who has heard from the 30-year-old, according to Cunningham. Not displaying unsupported type image for object PortalWebObjectWrapper [+ 32748#] /Pub/p7/MyDaytonDailyNews/2016/10/20/Images/photos.medleyphoto.11834868.jpg [ConcreteProxyImpl:Image, 2.0.282849275] -- Flack is described as white, 5 feet and 9 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.Both Flack and English, like Bogan, were known to police for drug use and prostitution, Cunningham said.“That lifestyle means people can disappear for a while,” he said, but added their families are concerned about them and detectives want to find them.English made it known to others she was helping police in their investigation of Bogan’s death, Cunningham told the Journal-News.He said English’s disappearance may be connected to the Bogan case, but Flack’s is not.“There’s not someone out there responsible for all of them,” he said.Anyone with information about the whereabouts of either woman is asked to contact Middletown police at 513-425-7737.Detectives continue to investigate Bogan’s death as a homicide and are awaiting results of DNA testing after searching a a residence on Woodlawn Avenue multiple times for evidence that Lindsay Bogan died in the basement of the home, this news outlet has learned through newly released documents related to the case.“We believe she was killed in th... (MyDaytonDailyNews)

Each day, hundreds of visitors walk through the halls at O’Connor Mortuary in Laguna Hills for funeral services. They cry. They embrace. They mourn loved ones who’ve passed, grieving, remembering when they last saw them and wondering how well they ever knew them. Neil O’Connor, the president and CEO running the family business founded in Los Angeles in 1898, witnesses these scenes every day. He’s a compassionate man with a soothing voice and a comforting presence, empathizing with their grief, their loss. Then, this past Saturday, something strange happened at the mortuary. O’Connor suffered a different kind of loss, sudden and mysterious, but triggering his own search for answers about his family going back four generations. It was the theft of two antique gold pocket watches that had been mounted in display cases in a hallway near the mortuary’s restrooms and side exit doors. While giving clients a tour of the building on Saturday afternoon, funeral arranger Carrie Bayer noticed the exposed bolts and empty space on the beige-painted wall in the hallway showcasing the history of the family-owned mortuary. “Someone had to use a lot of strength to pull those cases off the wall,” O’Connor said. “There’s nothing there now except the bolts where the cases were attached.” O’Connor knew the watches were inside. One watch believed to be about 150 years old belonged to O’Connor’s great-grandfather, Patrick Joseph O’Connor, the founder who partnered with Thomas Cunningham to open the first Cunningham & O’Connor Mortuary in 1898 on Fifth and Main Streets in downtown Los Angeles. The other watch belonged to his grandfather, Joseph Alan O’Connor Sr., who opened mortuaries on West Washington Boulevard in 1942 and Hollywood in 1950. He oversaw the services for Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby and Spencer Tracy. Joseph O’Connor Jr., Neil’s father, expanded the business to the San Gabriel Valley in 1965 and then the exclusively owned O’Connor Mortuary in Orange County in 1976. On land where cattle and sheep used to graze, he built what the family ca... (OCRegister)