SAVE AMERICA'S CHILDREN! Our children are our most prized possessions. Do you know what to do if your child is kidnapped or missing? If not, then you may have your local law enforcement agency contact the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Criminal Reference Service, Rockville, Maryland to obtain our manual: THE COBRA SENTINEL--HELP SAVE A CHILD! which we wrote and published in 1980 and the U.S. Department of Justice took over the publication of the manual in 1983 because we could not keep up with the demand for the citizen action manual.

Don Bennafield, President & Founder of Bennafield Enterprises, Inc., ran a normal non-profit self help development agency when suddenly his oldest daughter Venus disappeared. He was panaic stricken, even ran photos in the local newspapers. The Police Department in those years had no knowledge whatsoever on how to locate missing children. Neither did Bennafield. Consequently, he heard of several agencies and contacted them. The end result, a new concept was created and Cobra Connection Global Missing Children Network was born. Now known as Cobra Missing Children Network, Don Bennafield became National President. Thor Thunder the Chief Investigator and Joan Simon the 2nd chief investigator in command. Other investigators are: Craig Shell of Medina, Ohio, Darla Hubbard Contrucci, and Karen Spradling. Cheryl Hatcher, Secretary. And the Bureau of Missing Children based out of Florida provided Cobra with 3,600 private investigators working Pro Bono. With the new concept Kathy Wamsley and Judy Byrd of the National Organization of Women volunteered their services and went on speaking engagements at hospitals, television stations and all over Ohio enlightening people what to look for and how to find missing children. The end result, Cobra was successful in returning over 4,989 runaway, missing and kidnapped children to their families, including the founder's daughter, Venus. Our Major Advisors during these formative years were: Dee Scofield Awareness Program; Adam Walsh Resource Center; Find me, Inc; Bureau of Missing Children; Akron, Ohio Police Department and President of Canton City Council, Mr. Ray Denczak.

The Cobra Connection was the 6th missing children agency in the United States and the first global missing children network ever in existence, negotiating contracts with other missing children agencies and with the help of ex-Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar and her chief aide Mr. Al Kosen and the investigators, Cobra continued to find and return kidnapped children and runaways. And where the runaways were concerned, it became a known fact that they all congregate in Florida. And so they were picked up also. With such successes, Cobra received citations from the Governor of Ohio, Mr. Celeste and from the Mayor of the City of Canton, Mr. Sam Purses and other citations from numerous organizations. We were also summoned to the State Capitol on several occasions in Ohio to testify and instrumental in getting the toughest missing children legislation ever in existence enacted in the State of Ohio, Senate Bill 321 as introduced by the then Senator Lee I. Fisher.