The Missing Persons Thread

[Mindy]

https://www.kwqc.com/2024/04/11/all-hands-deck-police-continue-their-search-missing-east-moline-man/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kwqc

I have been following this since day one and he still is missing 

[SGR]

https://www.kwqc.com/2024/04/11/all-hands-deck-police-continue-their-search-missing-east-moline-man/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kwqc

I have been following this since day one and he still is missing 

I'll keep my eyes on how this case develops. Unfortunately, I have bad a feeling it won't have a happy ending. 

[Hope]

https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-shane-sexton

This is my oldest brother, he's been missing since 2019. I figure he met with someone finally better at kicking ass than he was. He led a violent life and spent many years in prison twice for almost killing people in fights.

[SGR]

https://charleyproject.org/case/christopher-shane-sexton

This is my oldest brother, he's been missing since 2019. I figure he met with someone finally better at kicking ass than he was. He led a violent life and spent many years in prison twice for almost killing people in fights.

Jeez, that's awful. If he wasn't reported missing until 2 years after the fact, I'm guessing you weren't really close (at the time)?

[Hope]

Jeez, that's awful. If he wasn't reported missing until 2 years after the fact, I'm guessing you weren't really close (at the time)?

He and my other brother Travis were taken away from me and my grandmother when I was 4. They went to live with their dad due to abuse from my grandmother. We lost touch for about 10 years. When my grandmother passed the three of us spent some months together in Florida, before they wanted to move back home and were both gone again. When Travis went to prison we exchanged some letters, same with Chris when he was in prison. But I didn't see them again until I finally decided to move back home.

We met up and took some pictures at my aunt's house one day when I was 18 and we were certainly never all three together in the same place at the same time again. I was writing with Chris a bunch of years ago, but we lost touch when he got out of prison the second time. And I never heard from him again. I lost touch with Travis when I was 19. Pretty shitty what happened to all of us when my mom died in a car accident. I wouldn't say we were ever close again after they left me at age 4. We tried a number of times, but it just wasn't meant to be I guess. The time apart weighed too much. 

I always wonder when they lost touch with each other. 

[Mindy]

I'll keep my eyes on how this case develops. Unfortunately, I have bad a feeling it won't have a happy ending. 

Yeah I agree kind of because it's been two weeks 

Once I saw it on the news Facebook page, I just figured they would find him within a week like a lot of the other missing people from the Quad Cities. I kept checking every couple days on the comments to see if he was found but nothing. His apartment building refused to allow missing person signs be posted around the property too, which is suspect in my opinion. He left in a car, and hasn't been seen since. I posted that link I shared here to a Midwest discord server with different people organized in different states but girl I know in there from the Quad Cities said she did hadn't even heard of his missing. It's sad.

[Mindy]

He and my other brother Travis were taken away from me and my grandmother when I was 4. They went to live with their dad due to abuse from my grandmother. We lost touch for about 10 years. When my grandmother passed the three of us spent some months together in Florida, before they wanted to move back home and were both gone again. When Travis went to prison we exchanged some letters, same with Chris when he was in prison. But I didn't see them again until I finally decided to move back home.

We met up and took some pictures at my aunt's house one day when I was 18 and we were certainly never all three together in the same place at the same time again. I was writing with Chris a bunch of years ago, but we lost touch when he got out of prison the second time. And I never heard from him again. I lost touch with Travis when I was 19. Pretty shitty what happened to all of us when my mom died in a car accident. I wouldn't say we were ever close again after they left me at age 4. We tried a number of times, but it just wasn't meant to be I guess. The time apart weighed too much. 

I always wonder when they lost touch with each other.

Sorry to hear about this 

[Mindy]

I'll keep my eyes on how this case develops. Unfortunately, I have bad a feeling it won't have a happy ending. 

https://www.kwqc.com/2024/04/30/one-month-later-92-year-old-east-moline-man-is-still-missing/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0XG8QdRsJUr0mZ4fVjNuSxPR730Ql7c7291HwD8bdGJXkP3iRZby1A8Ls_aem_AeQMNS9OIhlAtoRds4kVhaYy2HXwzr_WFGUM8StUZS9CvBRZdgJHydbsEuAwTtYJP5HC-Bf45LCdzQFHoxIO5ukr
still missing 

[SGR]

https://www.kwqc.com/2024/04/30/one-month-later-92-year-old-east-moline-man-is-still-missing/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0XG8QdRsJUr0mZ4fVjNuSxPR730Ql7c7291HwD8bdGJXkP3iRZby1A8Ls_aem_AeQMNS9OIhlAtoRds4kVhaYy2HXwzr_WFGUM8StUZS9CvBRZdgJHydbsEuAwTtYJP5HC-Bf45LCdzQFHoxIO5ukr
still missing 

This one is not going to have a happy ending.

Just a hunch, but I think there was foul play here. Someone, possibly someone he knew, got him into his car and they drove off somewhere for reasons yet unknown.

What do you think happened?

[Mindy]

This one is not going to have a happy ending.

Just a hunch, but I think there was foul play here. Someone, possibly someone he knew, got him into his car and they drove off somewhere for reasons yet unknown.

What do you think happened?

I agree, it's been a while now. The guy had knee problems, and needed a walker. They said he left that and his wallet and ID. So you're right, someone had to snatch him up and take him somewhere in his car. Which means that person might have bought more gas for his car to go further from the quad cities area. Then it makes finding him very hard now. Who randomly targets a 90 year old veteran though too?! I would love to read the metadata from his phone, Im sure the powers that be are already doing that though, I hope 

[SGR]

I agree, it's been a while now. The guy had knee problems, and needed a walker. They said he left that and his wallet and ID. So you're right, someone had to snatch him up and take him somewhere in his car. Which means that person might have bought more gas for his car to go further from the quad cities area. Then it makes finding him very hard now. Who randomly targets a 90 year old veteran though too?! I would love to read the metadata from his phone, Im sure the powers that be are already doing that though, I hope 

The first thing I'd look at (which I'm sure the police already are) is who is listed as the beneficiary of his life insurance plan? And where were those person(s) when he supposedly went missing? People are crazy - he might have a son with a drug addiction for example...

Start with who might have motive for this poor old guy to disappear and/or die and go from there.

[SGR]

I forgot to bring over my previous posts on this same topic from MB, so I'll do so in the posts that immediately follow in case anyone here didn't get to see those posts. I won't add any personal speculation like I've been doing for the cases I've posted about thus far (as I didn't originally for these cases, and I'd need to refresh myself on each case), but if anyone wants to discuss any of these cases, perhaps I will give my personal speculation:

The Disappearance Of Jason Jolkowski (2001)

Jason Jolkowski - American - Male - Omaha, Nebraska - missing since June 13th, 2001 - age 19 at time of disappearance

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On June 13, 2001, Jolkowski was called into work early. He planned to walk to his job due to his car being at an auto repair shop, but later made arrangements for a co-worker to give him a ride. Since Jolkowski had trouble giving directions, he arranged for them to meet at Benson High School, which Jolkowski had previously attended. The school was eight blocks from his home.

At 10:45 a.m., Jolkowski was last seen by a neighbor, who witnessed him helping his younger brother pull trash cans from the curb back to the house. Under an hour later, between 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., his co-worker called his house stating that he had failed to turn up at Benson High for the ride to work. Jolkowski has not been seen or heard from since then. Shortly after his disappearance, the school's security cameras were checked, but none of them showed Jolkowski arriving at the school.

A police officer investigating his disappearance deemed it "the most baffling case" he had seen in thirty years.

Other resources:

19-year-old Jason Jolkowski disappears without a trace while on his way to meet up for a ride to work


Into Thin Air: The Baffling Disappearance of Jason Jolkowski

Any tips or information?
Please call the Omaha Police Department, the investigating agency, at 402-444-5657.

[SGR]

The Disappearance Of Tara Calico (1988)

Tara Calico - American - Female - Belen, New Mexico - missing since September 20th, 1988 - age 19 at time of disappearance

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On Tuesday, September 20, 1988, Calico left her home at about 9:30 A.M. to go on her daily bike ride along New Mexico State Road 47. She rode that route almost every morning and was sometimes accompanied by her mother, Patty Doel. However, Doel stopped riding with Calico after she felt that she had been stalked by a motorist. She advised Tara to think about carrying mace, but Tara rejected the idea.

On the morning of Calico's disappearance, she had told Doel to come and get her if she was not home by noon, as she had plans to play tennis with her boyfriend at 12:30. When her daughter did not return, Doel went searching for her along Tara's usual bike route but could not find her; she then contacted the police. Pieces of Calico's Sony Walkman and a cassette tape were later discovered along the road. Doel believed that she might have dropped them in an attempt to mark her trail.

Several people saw Calico riding her bicycle, which has never been found. No one witnessed her presumed abduction, although several witnesses observed a light-colored pickup truck (possibly a 1953 Ford) with a camper shell following closely behind her.

Developments since disappearance:

On June 15, 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and a boy, both gagged with black duct tape and seemingly bound, was discovered in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. The woman who found the photo said that it was in a parking space where a white windowless Toyota cargo van had been parked when she arrived at the store. She said that the van was being driven by a man with a mustache who appeared to be in his 30s. Police set up roadblocks to intercept the vehicle, but the man has never been identified. According to Polaroid officials, the picture had to have been taken after May 1989 because the particular film used in the photograph was not available until then.

The photo was broadcast on A Current Affair in July, and Doel was contacted by friends who had seen the show and thought the woman resembled Calico. Relatives of Michael Henley, also of New Mexico, who had disappeared in April 1988, saw the episode and said that they believed he was the boy in the photo. Doel and Henley's parents both met with investigators and examined the Polaroid. Doel said that she was "convinced" it was Calico. She also noted that a scar on the woman's leg was identical to one that Calico had received in a car accident. In addition, a paperback copy of V.C. Andrews' My Sweet Audrina, said to be one of Calico's favorite books, can be seen lying next to the woman. Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive.

Henley's mother said that she was "almost certain" it was Michael in the Polaroid. The identification of the boy in the photograph as Henley is considered highly unlikely: his remains were discovered in June 1990 in the Zuni Mountains, about 7 miles (11 km) from his family's campsite from which he had disappeared and 75 miles (121 km) from where Calico disappeared. Police believe that Henley wandered off and subsequently died of exposure.

Polaroid picture



Other resources:

The Disappearance Of Tara Calico And The Eerie Polaroid Left Behind

Tara Calico - Disappeared

Any tips or information?
Please call Valencia County Sheriff's Department, the investigating agency, at 505-865-9604

or:

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Albuquerque, New Mexico Office
505-224-2000

[SGR]

The Disappearance Of Lars Mittank (2014)

Lars Mittank - German - Male - Varna, Bulgaria - missing since July 8th, 2014 - age 28 at time of disappearance

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On June 30, 2014, 28-year-old Lars Mittank traveled to the seaside resort of Golden Sands, Bulgaria on a vacation with a group of friends. On July 6, 2014, Mittank got into a fight with four other men after a disagreement over football: Mittank, a fan of the football club Werder Bremen, had differences with fans of Bayern Munich. The fight resulted in Mittank suffering a ruptured ear drum. At the end of his trip, a doctor advised Lars not to fly due to his injury, and prescribed the antibiotic Cefuroxime (500 mg). That doctor later referred him to a hospital. Mittank's friends wanted to stay with him, but he insisted he was fine on his own.

Mittank stayed in Bulgaria without his friends, and checked into the Hotel Color Varna. However, a day after his friends left, Mittank began to act oddly, and his erratic behavior was recorded by the hotel's closed-circuit television security cameras. He spent only one night in the hotel, during which he appeared paranoid and frightened.

While at the hotel, Mittank called his mother. In a whisper, he stated that four men were coming to kill him, and that she should cancel his credit cards.

Mittank was last seen at Varna Airport, the airport that serves Golden Sands in the nearby city of Varna. He was consulting with the airport doctor when they were interrupted by a man who was a part of a construction crew. He then fled the building. He was captured by airport security cameras running away. Once outside the airport, he was seen climbing a fence, running into a meadow, and disappearing into an adjacent field of sunflowers near Bulgarian national highway A2. He has not been seen since.

Video captured from airport - last known footage of Lars before disappearance

Other resources:

Why did 'the most famous missing person on YouTube' flee a Bulgarian airport never to be seen again? Bizarre mystery of German tourist who vanished that has baffled the Internet since 2014

How the chilling mystery of lad, 28, who vanished on holiday in Bulgaria made him 'the most famous missing person case on YouTube'

Any tips or information?
Please call the Hessen Police Department, the investigating agency, at 49 151 61378673

[SGR]

The Disappearance Of Bryce Laspisa (2013)

Bryce Laspisa - American - Male - Castaic, California - missing since August 30th, 2013 - age 19 at the time of disappearance

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Laspisa was last seen in Castaic, California on August 30, 2013. He was attending Sierra College in northern California and was driving home to visit his family in Laguna Niguel, California at the time of his disappearance. He called his mother at 2:00 a.m., saying he was too tired to drive and was going to stop his car and sleep. He said he'd call her when he woke up.

Laspisa's beige 2003 Toyota Highlander was found abandoned in a ravine off Lake Hughes Road near Castaic Lake a few hours later, lying on its side, the rear window smashed. His cellular phone, wallet, laptop computer and other belongings were still inside the vehicle but there was no sign of him. An extensive search of the area turned up no clues. He has never been heard from again.

Laspisa's loved ones stated he was unfamiliar with the area he disappeared from, didn't hitchhike and didn't enjoy outdoor pursuits. He's originally from Illinois and graduated Naperville Central High School in 2012. His case remains unsolved.

Other resources:

The Story Of Bryce Laspisa And His Chilling Disappearance In California

The Mysterious Disappearance of Bryce Laspisa

Any tips or information?
Please call Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, the investigating agency, at 323-890-5500