MISSING: Donald George MacVicar

 On July 20, 1956, 26-year-old Donald MacVicar would go into a boat in Chandler Lake in Kotzebue, Alaska. The boat would sink and it was presumed that he had drowned. Searches continued for around 10 days but had to be stopped as it was too dangerous for searchers. 

At the time Donald was a Yale geologist working towards his doctorate. This was the second summer in Alaska that he conducted field studies. Two years later another Yale geologist would name Mount MacVicar after him. Mount MacVicar is located 4 miles Southe East of the South end of Chandler Lake and 15 miles North West of the headwaters of John River, Brooks 

Donald was a white male and was 26-years-old at the time. He was 5'11" and 165 lbs.

SOURCES:
NamUs
International Missing Persons Wiki
Alaska Guide

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner July 23, 1956

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner July 31, 1956

MISSING: John McInnis

 

On November 5, 1911, 54-year-old John McInnis was on a boat in Port Townsend Bay in Port Townsend, Washington. He was a police officer and was searching for deer poachers at the time. He and his boat were caught up in a bad storm and the next day his boat was found floating upside down inside Marrowstone Point. His body was never recovered. 

He had worked for the Sheriff's office for the last 4 years.

SOURCES:

Find a Grave
Doe Network

Officer Down Memorial Page

International Missing Persons Wiki

MISSING: Diane Marie Webb

 

18-year-old Diane Webb lived with her family in San Bernadino, California until 1959. In March her family would move to Dolan Springs, Arizona, and Diane would stay. She would then stay with her 16-year-old boyfriend, Bennie Webb, who would soon become her husband.

At least one time that year she stayed with her family in Arizona for a week. During the visit, she told her parents she was pregnant and that she was going to marry. Her father disapproved of the relationship, but her younger brother and mother made it to the wedding in Indio, California. 

The wedding was the last time her family saw her, but they would receive letters for several months after her wedding. The last letter was mailed on August 22, 1959, for her little sister's birthday. It included handkerchiefs that she crocheted for her. 

A letter would then arrive to Diane's family from Bennie in late 1960. He had believed that she was with them in Dolan Springs, and this confused them. They would send a letter back asking what had happened and when she had left. 

On January 5, 1961, he responded back stating that he hadn't heard from or seen Diane in a very long time. That he had given her $100 and put her on a bus to Dolan Springs. He stated she wrote one letter to him after she left and stated she had a miscarriage. Bennie recommended they to talk to a friend of Diane's in California to see if she knew something.

In August of 1961 Diane or someone else using her name visited a dentist's office in California. This was the last possible sign of her. 

Diane's family suspects that her husband had done something to her. Her father went to Bennies hometown in New Mexico where Bennies brother was a police chief. He was searching to see if he can find information on Diane. Allegedly Bennies brother chased him out of town. 

Bennie is still alive, but is not cooperating with the police and refuses a polygraph. He allegedly never recalled marrying Diane, but their marriage certificate exists. This however seems suspicious but does not mean he is guilty. 

Diane is a white female and was 18-years-old at the time. She's 5'2" to 5'4" and 110 to 120lbs. She has brown hair and grey eyes. She was pregnant at the time but may have had a miscarriage, one of her breasts was larger than the other, she has freckles on the tip of her nose, and her ears are pierced. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons

MISSING: Sveinbjörn Jakobsson

 At 7 p.m. on October 9, 1930, 46-year-old Sveinbjörn Jakobsson, an Icelandic fisherman, took a taxi to a household in Reykjavík, Iceland. He left the taxi without paying and went inside the household. When Sveinbjörn didn't return to the car the taxi driver contacted the police. 

Police would ask residents of the home the taxi driver claimed that he went into. People inside claimed to have not seen him, and he had not been there. Sveinbjörn was never seen again, and foul play was suspected in his case.

The next day he was supposed to return home on a cruise ship. He was a fisherman and was believed to have had a significant amount of money on himself at the time because it was the end of Herring season. 

 His case was the first disappearance to be investigated as a homicide in Iceland. 

Sveinbjörn is a white male and was 46-years-old at the time. He had false teeth.

SOURCES:

Internation Missing Persons Wiki

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IMDB2

MISSING: Marga Hillmer

 

On Jan. 18, 1949, 16-year-old Marga Hillmer went to her vocational school in Westersted, Germany. After school, she and two classmates cycled back to their homes that were 7 kilometers away in Ihausen. At the exit of the forest, the girls separated and Marga was to ride alone for a few hundred meters to her home. She would never make it back home. 

There was evidence of where she was before she was abducted on the path she would have taken home in Ihorst.  Her bike was found in a ditch with her trouser clip and her comb was 250 meters further up the path. There was evidence of a struggle and she was nowhere to be found. Police and the locals searched for the girl everywhere for days, but there was no sign of her.

Marga is a white female and had just turned 16 on Jan 2nd. She had blonde hair.

SOURCES: 

Internation Missing Persons Wiki

NWZ Online

MISSING: Amelia Jo "Molly" Zelko

 

On September 25, 1957 47-year-old Amelia Jo Zelko who also went by Molly left her Newspaper's office on Cass St. in Joliet Illinois just before 11:30. A bartender claimed she stopped in for a drink and used the payphone on her way home. She then parked in front of her second-floored apartment on 413 Buell Ave.

Someone claimed to have seen some men bury a woman near where Zelko lived. Zelko's shoes were found and her friends stated that it meant she was in danger. She would kick off her shoes and run if she felt in danger. Police thought there may have been a ransom, but no note arrived.

Amelia was a newspaperwoman for the weekly paper in Joilet. She would blast mobsters, political corruption on the front page. She was also a big advocator against gambling. It's unknown if her work at the newspaper was the reason for her disappearance, but she did male a few enemies doing so.

She was reported legally dead in 1964.

Amelia was a white female and 47 years old at the time. She was 5'4" and 5'6" and around 120 lbs. She has dark brown hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a hat and a diamond ring and a bracelet they were worth $5,000 at the time.

SOURCES:
NamUs
Doe Network

Missing: Marion Alice Morton

2010 photo of Marion's home she was believed to be last seen alive.

On December 30, 1937, 52/52-year-old Marion Morton was reported missing from Georgetown, Delaware. THere's very little information in this case.

Her ex-husband was Bennet Carlton Morton. In the April 12 1930 Federal Census Marion was listed as the head of the house with her son Ralph (19 at the time) and school teacher Lewella Cain was a tenant in her home in Newark, New Jersey.

SOURCES:
NamUs

Missing Child: Melvin Charles Horst

On the afternoon of December 27, 1928 4-year-old Melvin Horst was playing with four neighborhood friends. They were playing at a vacant lot off of Chestnut St. in Orville, Ohio. The area was near the railroad tracks. At some point, Melvin decided to walk home alone because he only lived a block away. He was carrying his small red truck a gift he got on Christmas.

At 4:30 Zora decided to call him home from dinner and sent her oldest out to search for him at his friend's homes. He was not found.  He must have at least made it to his front yard as it was found his truck. They waited till his father Raymond got home and they searched the neighborhood at 6 p.m.

By 7 the police helped and they initiated the search at 8:30. The search was led by Roy who was Raymond's brother and village marshal. It was hoped that Melvin was mistaken as a child of a wealthy family and a ransom would come, but it never did.

Some theorize that his disappearance was to deal with Roy. The prohibition was going on at the time and Roy was zealous at getting bootleggers and enforcing liquor laws making several enemies. He was living with the family at the time and one of the bootleggers decided to get revenge. This included Elias Arnold and his children William, Arthur, and Dorthy McHenry and Dorthy's husband Bascom.

On Jan 2. 1929, the group was arrested for Melvin's disappearance. Elias had been in jail for the most part of 1928 and had a grudge against Roy. Later Charles "Junior" Hannah Elias 8-year-old nephew and a 9-year-old friend of Junior claimed to have seen Melvin go into the Arnold's house. Elias and Arthur were convicted and spent three months in jail when they realized the children had lied.

In 1930 Junior admitted that his father Charles Hannah and a neighbor Earl Conold had told him to lie. He said that they had killed Melvin and told the children to lie about seeing Melvin going to the Arnold's home. The men confessed, but it was coerced by Law Enforcement.

Some believe that it could be possible he was hit by a car and his body hid. That he was kidnapped and murdered. Or someone kidnapped him to raise as their own. None of these theories could be confirmed though.

Melvin was 4 years old at the time. He was 3'1" and 49 lbs. He had blue eyes and brown hair. He has a jagged burn scar on his hip. He was described as having an upturned nose and stocky build. He was wearing a checked sweater, a brown overcoat, and a stocking cap.

SOURCES:
Charley Project
NamUs
Daily Record
Daily Record

Strange Company

Murder of Thora Afton Chamberlain

On November 2, 1945, 14-year-old Thora Afton Chamberlain was last seen outside her High School in Campbell California. School was over and she was planning to go to the football game afterward. She was also looking forward to her 15th birthday on the 22nd.

Her classmates saw her speaking for several minutes to a man in a vehicle. One of the witnesses said he was dressed like an ex-serviceman and was looking for a babysitter for his sister's children. She got into the vehicle with him presumably to take the babysitting job. She was never seen again.

Thomas Henry McGonigle was immediately a suspect in Thora's disappearance. He had an arrest record dating back to his teens including assault and intent to commit rape. When he found that they suspected him he fled to his father's home in Illinois. On December 6, 1945, he returned to San Fransisco, California by bus. He tried to attempt suicide on the bus by taking sleeping pills. He tried to overdose but recovered after treatment at the hospital.

Several classmates and witnesses Identified him as the man she left with. It was found he was wearing stolen Navy-issue clothes and military medals and was not an ex-serviceman. He said he had found the clothing in a footlocker he'd stolen. The footlocker was later found in his garage.

He claimed responsibility for Thora's abduction and murder. He had various different statements about how Thora was killed. He claimed he had stabbed her, strangled her, fell out of his car, shot her, and that her death was accidental and he that he also didn't kill her.

It's more likely he shot her in his car. He'd claimed he shot her accidentally and because she bled on the padding and upholstery he tore it out. He told the FBI where he had buried it and they found it and it was stained with her blood.

There was also a bullet hole in the door of his car. He'd claimed to have removed it and buried it under a tree in his yard. The FBI found it and determined it had been fired from his .32-caliber Colt Revolver.

Not only did he give different statements on how he killed her he did the same with how he disposed of her. He'd said he had thrown her body off the 350 ft cliff known as the Devil's Slide. It overlooks Half Moon Bay on the San Mateo County coast. two pairs of red and blue socks were found wedged in two different crevices partway down the cliff face that belonged to Thora.

At the time he had been working at a construction site and got permission from his boss to fill a ditch with concrete blocks. Inside the ditch were Thora's shoes, schoolbooks, papers, binder, and cowbell. He told them he buried her clothes in his yard, but they turned up nothing.

More than likely she rejected his sexual advances and she was killed. He tossed her body off Devil's Slide and her body was possibly carried out to sea.

Mcgonigle confessed to another murder as he was on death row for Thora's. He didn't get charged due to begin on death row. At one point he claimed to have killed 11 people, but those murders couldn't be verified. Before his execution from the gas chamber in 1948, he retracted his statement. He claimed to have been innocent of all involvement in Thora's disappearance.

Thora is a white female and was 14-year-old at the time of her disappearance. She was 5'2" and around 120 lbs. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She was wearing Garbarand coat, white blouse, red skirt, blue sweater, and two pairs of socks one being red and one being blue, and tan shoes.

SOURCES:
The Charley Project
NamUs

MISSING: Myrisha Faye and AJ Campbell

 Myrisha Faye Campbell circa 1958 and age-progressed to 57

A.J. Campbell jr. circa 1958 and age-progressed to 54

3-year-old Myrisha Faye Campbell and her little brother 11-month-old A.J Campbell jr were picked up by their father A.J. Campbell sr. on September 6, 1958, from their home in Goliad, Texas. Their father claimed that he just wanted to take them out for a ride during one of his scheduled court-ordered visitations. He took them at 9:00 a.m. and was supposed to return with them at 3 p.m., but the children never returned home

Jewel and A.J. sr. had been married for 8 years and throughout the marriage A.J. sr was abusive towards Jewel. So eventually had left A.J. sr. and had taken the children with her. She had supported them by taking a teaching job in Goliad, Texas.

William Randal jr. was the only other person to last see the children alive. William Randal and A.J. sr. picked up the children together in Randal’s 2- door pink and charcoal-gray 1955 Chevrolet Tudor. The had went through Cuero and Gonzales, Texas and picked up two large cans of lard. When they were 3 miles out of Goliad A.J. sr. said he needed to go see a friend and Randal had gotten out of vehicle leaving the children alone with A.J. sr.

30 to 40 minutes later A.J. sr. returned with none of the children in sight. He had claimed that he had gotten into a fight with his brother-in-law and had left the children with another relative. Randal noticed that A.J. sr was acting nervous and agitated. A.J. sr. even asked if there was blood on him and warned Randal not to tell anyone about the fight. A.J sr. and Randal had driven to Austin Texas and separated promising to meet at a bus stop at midnight the next day to return the car. A.J. sr. never arrived causing Randal to ride the bus back home and reported his car stolen.

On September 7, A.J. sr. called a minister in Fort Worth, Texas. He had implied to the minister that he had killed the children by telling him that they were “at rest with the world” and that he was going to kill himself. Which he had followed through with when his body was found in Randal’s car on a road near Austin. It was ruled a suicide because he shot himself in the head with a 16- gauge shotgun.

A suicide note was found addressed to Jewel. In the note, he admitted he had buried both of the children. He also stated that he loved the children and that he still loved Jewel. He wished her happiness. His note did not indicate where he had buried the children or their whereabouts.

Jewel remarried afterward and took the last name Robertson, and had two more children. Jewel passed away in 2013, but her two other children are still actively looking for A.J. jr and Myrisha. They believe that there might be a chance that A.J. sr. had sold or given the children away instead of killing them.

Myrisha was 3 years old white female with dark blonde hair and blue eyes. She was 2’6 and 28 pounds. Myrisha was last seen wearing a pink dress with puffed sleeves and a Peter Pan collar, pink socks, and white buckle shoes.

A.J. Jr. was 11 months old he is a white male with blonde hair and blue eyes. He was 2’2 and 25 lbs. He has a birthmark on his eyelid and a birthmark below his lower lip. His fingers were also clubbed at the ends. A.J was last seen wearing a light blue and white checkered shirt with a dark blue collar and a yellow diaper with a clear plastic liner over it.

SOURCES:
Charley Project (A.J)
Charley Project (Myrisha)

MISSING: Harvey "Gene" Eugene Whitacrel.

In 1947 20-year-old Harvey Eugene Whitacre also known as Gene was a Corporal in the U.S. Army stationed at Sandia Base. He was also treasurer of his bowling league and was considered an above-average bowler.  

On the night of June 30, 1947, he was last seen leaving the bowling alley in, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was carrying around $400 for his bowling league. He did not show up for roll call at the base the next day. It caused people to worry about him. 

In a side street near the bowling alley, there was a sign of an attack, but some believe it was staged. At the scene were his broken glasses, necktie, army cap, and a bloodstained shirt with slashes in the back, as if someone had been stabbed. 

The FBI and the Defense Department looked into the case s if Gene was AWOL. They spent a lot of time asking friends and family about Gene's whereabouts. They had even wiretapped phones and intercepted mail to try to find Gene. They claimed that his work wasn't National Security, but they were trying really hard to find him for someone who wasn't.

Gene was a white male who was described as a kind of Asian looking in some reports. He was 5'9 and around 145 lbs. He had brown hair cut in a military-style and brown eyes. He also has bad eyesight and wears very strong subscription glasses.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Doe Network

Missing Veterans

Missing: John William Gates

John William Gates was born in the early 1880s in Iowa. Before the 1900's he moved to Colorado and worked as a farm laborer. In 1903 he married his wife. By 1910 his occupation was listed as a teamster in the transfer. His family claimed that it means that he delivered supplies to miners in the mountains. 

On April 23, 1916, 34-year-old John left him home in Longmont, Colorado. It was believed he may have had an accident when he left. It may have been a mining accident or the wagon he used for movement of mining supplies fell off the mountain. At the time in Colorado, there were several mines open due to the need of tungsten for WWI. It's possible his remains were found on the mountain and they never identified as him. His fate is unknown though.  It isn't believed he left on his own. He was said to be a good provider and a good husband and a wonderful father.

When his wife in May of 1917 filed for "Mother's Compensation in Boulder county she had to explain why she needed help and her husband's disappearance. The Mother's Compensation Act was a way for mothers to provide for their children. This was long before social services.

John William Gates was 34 at the time of his disappearance. He was 5'7 to 6'0 and weighed around 160 to 180 lbs. He had brown receding hair and his eye color is unknown.

SOURCES

Daily Camera 

Find the Missing