Thursday, March 1, 2001
	Mom Uses Web Site To Create Missing Person Flier Tragedy : Victorville woman first to use tool set up by Polly Klaas' father
	SCOTT VANHORNE/Staff Writer VICTORVILLE - The mother of a 15-year-old runaway hopes to find her missing daughter using fliers she made on a Web site set up by the father of Polly Klaas, the Petaluma girl whose kidnapping, rape and murder led to the state's Three Strikes law.     Cindy Stone's daughter, Julie "Jewels" Ann Baker, ran away from her father's home in Las Vegas on Feb. 15.     During her search for help, Stone contacted Marc Klaas, whose daughter was kidnapped at knife-point from her Petaluma home in 1993. Her lifeless body was found three months later, prompting her father to start an organization in hopes of preventing future tragedies involving missing children.     Klaas recently set up a Web site called BeyondMissing.com, where parents can create fliers they can circulate to help them find a missing child, and Stone is the first parent to use the tool, Klaas said. "You want to get those fliers ready as soon as possible," Klaas said. "(Stone) doesn't want to wait around for people to do things for her."     Stone said she printed up about 100 black-and-white fliers and plans to make color copies to distribute at local teen hangouts and at locations between Victorville and Las Vegas.     Stone contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and sent for a professionally made flier on Monday, but by Wednesday, she still hadn't gotten anything back.     "This one is instantaneous," Stone said. "Since I am her parent and have all the information, I can get them out without	having to sign any release papers."     Stone said she doesn't know where her daughter has gone, and she's spent many sleepless hours worrying and searching for her.     Baker had been staying with her father since August, but she planned to move back to Victorville where she'd grown up, Stone said.     "She was supposed to call me," the worried mother said. "It was all set up, but she never called me."     Friends saw Baker at a party in Victorville two days after she left her father's home. Stone said her daughter told her friends that she planned to call her.     Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department investigators consider Baker a voluntary runaway, but San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies have listed Baker as a missing person.     A sheriff's detective is actively seeking information about the teen's whereabouts, sheriff's spokeswoman Tracey Martinez said.     Las Vegas Police Sgt. Dan McGrath said investigators can't actively search for all of the more than 5,000 runaways reported every year in the city, but he said he would encourage parents to take the time to create fliers and search for their missing child.     "You never really know with runaways because they are so susceptible to being a victim because of their age," McGrath said.     Stone said the fliers she made at BeyondMissing.com are helping her cope.     "You feel like you are doing something instead of sitting around and waiting and waiting," she said. "First of all, I felt powerless like I was pounding my head against a wall."     This isn't the first time Stone has had to deal with a tragedy involving her children. Her son, Michael, died in 1997 in a fiery crash on National Trails Highway.     "I don't want to lose another child," she said, as tears welled up in her eyes.     Anyone with information about the case can contact the Victorville sheriff's station at 241-2911.