Jon Jonsson -- Missing Poker Player Since February 2019

Author: Shane Lambert

Time of writing: January 7th, 2021

Missing person: Jon Jonsson
Date of disappearance: February 9th, 2019 (Saturday) at 11:15AM
Last-seen: on CCTV -- at the exit of Highfield Hospital, heading towards Collins Avenue in Dublin, Ireland

Jon Jonsson's case is a well-known missing person's case because he was a well-known poker player in Iceland. Furthermore, there is CCTV footage covering his footsteps in the hours before he was reported as missing. That footage has helped make him the subject of some Youtube videos that cover missing person's cases.

Guesses as to what happened to him abound. In October 2020, there were articles on the Internet that he might have been killed by accident in a heated exchange over missing money. Without conclusive evidence, there certainly is room for conjecture within the known facts.

One detail that is important in the case is the fact that Jonsson, when he left his hotel room, did so without taking his wallet, his passport, or his cell phone. In the CCTV footage, he can clearly be seen walking in public areas where there is vehicle traffic.

In the past, people have gone unidentified in hospitals, morgues, and then cemeteries after walking in public without identification. If you walk out in public without any ID on you and, for example, you get into an accident of some kind that requires hospitalization, then you could end up a John Doe because of that.

The case of Joseph Norman Spears is one that could be taken into consideration. In 1973, he was walking in public without identification in Texas City, Texas. He was killed in a motor vehicle accident and was not identified until 2016. That those who knew him best were not in Texas City severely reduced his chances of being identified in the short term.

But a motor vehicle accident need not be involved to produce a John Doe. Any serious medical ailment, such as a heart attack or aneurysm, could lead to someone without ID being admitted into a hospital as a John Doe. If this hospital visit leads to death and then burial, it could produce a missing person's mystery.

That is especially the case because someone entering the health-care system without ID might be treated as a lower-classed individual. Any such presumptions of you being a transient or a homeless person would only work against within a society that's elitist -- as all society's in our times are.

If the lead over the heated exchange doesn't lead to anything, then those interested in finding Jon Jonsson better comb over all hospital admissions in Dublin on the day in question -- and double-check them if that's already been done. All it would take is an assumption of transience and he could slip through the cracks of an investigation.