Marisol Hernandez: Missing from San Antonio, TX Since January 16, 2004 - Unsolved Case

Missing Person: Marisol Hernandez

NOT the actual vehicle. Example of a green 1996 Ford Mustang.

Notes on the pictures:

The first image is of Marisol Hernandez. The second is an example of a green 1996 Ford Mustang, not her actual car, included to illustrate the vehicle she was driving.

Details from a government source (might be paraphrased):

Marisol was last seen at approximately 8:30 a.m. on January 16, 2004, at Avance Head Start Child Care on Acme Castroville Roads, San Antonio, after dropping off her toddler daughter. She was driving a green 1996 Ford Mustang, license plate F19SBT. Her car was later found locked and abandoned at a strip mall in the 4800 block of W. Commerce.

Last contact: January 16, 2004 (Friday), approximately 8:30 a.m.
Last location: San Antonio, Texas - Avance Head Start Child Care on Acme Castroville Roads
Age when Marisol Hernandez disappeared: 32
DOB: She would have been born between January 17th, 1971 and January 16th, 1972
Sex: Female
Height in inches: 62
Weight in pounds (lbs): 130
BMI: 23.77 - Healthy weight (calculated to help picture what Marisol might have looked like)
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Hair color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinctive Features: Pierced ears; red heart tattoo on upper left arm
Link to Government Source: NamUs MP4285 (right-click to open)
Websleuths discussion page: Marisol Hernandez Case (right-click to open)

Clothing Worn When Last Seen

Item	Description	Details	Source
Jeans	Dark blue Gap jeans	Worn on January 16, 2004	The Charley Project
Sweater	Black long-sleeve with white collar	Layered under another sweater	The Charley Project
Sweater	Black button-down	Worn over the long-sleeve sweater	The Charley Project
Shoes	Black closed-toe Easy Spirit	Size 6½	The Charley Project
Handbag	Black Fiesta Texas handbag	Red sides with white lettering	The Charley Project
Phone	Silver Sprint flip camera phone	Carried at the time	The Charley Project

Unraveling the Mystery: Key Insights and Updates

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: March 12, 2025

Has Marisol Hernandez been found?

As of March 2025, Marisol remains missing. Her home was in the 2400 block of Rivas Street, San Antonio, but she was last seen at Avance Head Start Child Care. Her car was found locked and abandoned on January 19, 2004, three days after she vanished, at a strip mall 1-2 miles away on West Commerce Street [KSAT, Jan 19, 2004]. The San Antonio Police searched extensively, but no major leads emerged. Her family, including sister Mary Lou Castillo, emphasized her role as a mother of three.

What does the vehicle discovery suggest?

She might have been shopping, but an in-mall abduction seems unlikely due to witnesses and security. A parking lot abduction—either as she exited or returned to her Mustang—is more plausible, given her small frame, though her family responsibilities complicate this theory. Furthermore, the theory is complicated by the fact that her car was found three days after he disappearance. This raises the question as to whether it sat in the parking lot for three days or if it was moved there close to the time when it was discovered.

Unexplained Words: Marisol’s Last Statement and Theories

Marisol reportedly told her mother, “Mom, if I don’t return, it’s because someone killed me,” on the day she vanished [KSAT, Jan 16, 2004]. Verbal statements like these are hard to authenticate, leaving questions about whether she sensed imminent danger.

According to her boyfriend Justin Meece, Marisol was set to meet her ex, Mark Martinez, at the Attorney General’s office on January 16, 2004, to discuss child support, though Martinez denied a scheduled meeting [KSAT, Feb 6, 2004]. Her sister Mary Lou Castillo also noted she was meeting someone about her kids but never made it [KSAT, Jan 26, 2004]. Martinez, the father of her two younger children and a person of interest who refused a polygraph test, remains unlinked by definitive evidence to her disappearance.

Although the remark’s authenticity is uncertain, it might have been a casual comment that later seemed prophetic or it could reflect Marisol’s awareness of a threat around her. Similar cases include Susan Powell, Amber Guichelaar, and Kathleen Savio, who made eerie predictions before their fates, suggesting a pattern worth considering in unresolved mysteries like this.

Name	What they said/wrote	Circumstances	Outcome
Marisol Hernandez	"Mom, if I don’t return, it’s because someone killed me."	Disappeared January 16, 2004, after meeting a child’s father.	Never found; statement unverified.
Susan Powell	"If I die, it may not be an accident."	Disappeared December 7, 2009; husband a suspect.	Body never found; husband killed self and sons.
Amber Guichelaar	"Am I safe sleeping next to him?"	Found dead November 16, 2020; husband convicted.	Husband sentenced to prison.
Kathleen Savio	Told friends her ex might harm her.	Found dead February 29, 2004; ex convicted.	Ex-husband Drew Peterson convicted.

How You Can Help

If you have information, contact the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (210) 207-7660 [KSAT, Jan 19, 2004] or submit a tip via NamUs MP4285. Sharing this post could bring Marisol’s family closer to closure.

Use Wayback Machine for Old Links Related to this Case

For those interested in diving deeper into Marisol Hernandez’s disappearance, the Wayback Machine offers a valuable resource to access archived news articles that are no longer available on live websites. One particularly insightful article is available at this KSAT link from February 6, 2004. This piece, titled "Missing Woman's Boyfriend Ruled Out As Suspect," provides detailed accounts from her boyfriend Justin Meece about her planned child support meeting with Mark Martinez, alongside Martinez’s denial of the meeting, offering critical context to the events of January 16, 2004. Readers are encouraged to explore this archived report to better understand the early investigation and the lingering questions surrounding her case.

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Sandra Faye Thompson Missing: Jacksonville, Florida Woman Vanishes in 1984 (Attempt to Match)

Missing Person: Sandra Faye Thompson

Notes on the pictures:

I have to say that these pictures do not look like the same person to me. I feel that way even if the black and white photo is from high school and the color photo is up to eight years later. However, there are no notes at NamUs suggesting that they are different people. The details for the case are sparse as well.

Details from a government source (might be paraphrased): Sandra was last seen in Florida on July 2nd, 1984.

Last contact: July 2nd, 1984 (Monday)
Last location: Jacksonville, Florida
Age when Sandra Faye Thompson disappeared: 26
Date of birth: February 13th, 1958
Sex: Female
Height in inches: 65 (approximation, often averaged from ranges)
Weight in pounds (lbs): 100 (approximation, often averaged from ranges)
BMI: 16.6 - Underweight (calculated to help picture what Sandra might have looked like)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Hair color: Black - Straight, thick blackish brown hair
Eye Color: Brown
Link to Government Source: NamUs (right-click to open)

Websleuths discussion page: Sandra Faye Thompson (right-click to open)

Unraveling the Mystery: Key Insights and Updates

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: March 11th, 2025

Has Sandra Faye Thompson been found?

The Websleuths community has kept Sandra’s case alive, with discussions dating back to 2016, without their activity, there would not be much available online to read about this missing person. There is speculation online about a possible connection to unidentified remains, such as UP116037, covered here at MPC. This is a Jane Doe discovered in Palm Bay, Florida, in January 1985, though no definitive link has been established.

Points Comparing Sandra Faye Thompson to UP116037 (Attempt to Match)

Websleuths Username: SimsGuy67, to my knowledge, associated the cases first.

Geographical Proximity: Sandra disappeared from Jacksonville, Florida, while UP116037 was found in Palm Bay, Florida, about 150 miles apart, both within the same state.

Timeline Alignment: Sandra went missing on July 2, 1984, and UP116037 was discovered on January 17, 1985, a gap of roughly 6.5 months, which matches UP116037’s estimated PMI of 6 months. This suggests the unidentified individual may have died around mid-1984, which is almost to the day when Sandra disappeared.

Age Range: Sandra was 26 years old at the time of her disappearance, fitting squarely within UP116037’s estimated age range of 24-28 years.

Height: Sandra’s height was 5'5" (65 inches), slightly above UP116037’s estimated range of 5'2" to 5'4" (62-64 inches), but within a reasonable margin of error for skeletal estimates.

Weight: Sandra weighed 100 lbs, aligning closely with UP116037’s estimated weight of 95-105 lbs, indicating a similar slender build.

Race/Ethnicity: Both Sandra and UP116037 are classified as White/Caucasian, supporting a potential match

Is there some kind of alignment between the UP and the MP in a more abstract way? The body seems to have been a body dump. Somehow, that's consistent with the MP having dangerous associations, as suggested at the Websleuths forum. However, the chart below sticks to more convincing points of comparison.

My AI's Assistant's Guess on the Probability That This is a Match

Mathematical guesses using AI are just food for thought. But they are nice to have because they can eliminate the bias we bring to research efforts as humans. For instance, as a researcher, you sort of want the match to be right and that can affect you. AI doesn't have such wants. The more information that's available, the better but here's what Grok had to say about the chances of these two being one and the same person.

"I’d estimate a 70-75% chance that Sandra Faye Thompson and the Jane Doe are the same person. This reflects a strong likelihood driven by timeline, age, and physical overlap, tempered by the distance between locations and absence of conclusive forensic or circumstantial links. Rounding for simplicity, I’ll settle on 75% as a reasonable mathematical guess, acknowledging it’s an approximation based on available data." (Grok, X's AI)

Basically, the physical characteristics, age, and timeline match, but there is doubt due to distance and a lack of conclusive forensic evidence. Still, I think these two cases need to be looked at

Criteria	Sandra Faye Thompson	UP116037	Match?	Explanation
Geographical Proximity	Jacksonville, Florida	Palm Bay, Florida (150 miles)	✅	Both locations are in Florida, 150 miles apart, a reasonable distance for a potential connection.
Timeline Alignment	Missing: July 2, 1984	Found: Jan 17, 1985 (PMI: 6 mo)	✅	6.5-month gap matches the 6-month PMI, suggesting death around mid-1984, aligning with Sandra’s disappearance.
Age Range	26 years old	24-28 years	✅	Sandra’s age of 26 fits within UP116037’s estimated range of 24-28 years.
Height	5'5" (65 inches)	5'2"-5'4" (62-64 inches)	✅	Sandra’s height is slightly above the range but within a reasonable margin for skeletal estimates.
Weight	100 lbs	95-105 lbs	✅	Sandra’s weight of 100 lbs falls directly within UP116037’s estimated range of 95-105 lbs.
Race/Ethnicity	White/Caucasian	White/Caucasian	✅	Both are classified as White/Caucasian, supporting a potential match.

The Infographics Show: Rodney Alcala Featured in New Episode

By: Shane Lambert
Original time of writing: January 29th, 2025

A snippet from the episode.

The Infographics Show, a popular YouTube channel, released a new episode today. Titled "How They Finally Caught the Serial Killer With the Highest IQ," the show tells of the exploits of Rodney Alcala. Dubbed "The Dating Game Killer," Alcala's life is one of the worst stories of a serial killer walking openly in public despite numerous brushes with the law.

The first time I learned of Alcala was back in 2010 when a locker full of photographs that belonged to him was found. A lot of these photographs were published in hopes that the public would help identify the subjects. Some of the women in the photos self-identified as subjects while others were of missing people. Presumptively, Alcala had played a leading role in disappearing these missing people.

July 25th, 1979. LA Times.

The episode at The Infographics Show is short, running just 22 minutes and 31 seconds. I would recommend it for anyone that's interested in a general review of this serial killer's life and times. The point to take away is just how slippery a notorious murderer can be -- even when it's incredibly clear that he is exceptionally dangerous.

Exit link: Watch this Episode of The Infographics Show

Also, numerous subjects in his photographs have yet to be identified. They could be missing people or they could be people who survived their brush with Rodney Alcala. It won't be hard to find these photos online, with Websleuths.com one chat forum website where people discuss the photos.

Lucille Mae Grenz -- Missing Since March of 1962

Author: Shane Lambert (link opens to my Facebook profile)
Twitter: @UncoolNegated (link to Twitter)
All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Original Time of Writing: January 28th, 2021

Missing person: Lucille May Grenz
Last-contact date: March 30th, 1962
Disappeared from: Toledo, Oregon at her home. The address appears to have been 134 NW 6th street.

Link to Government Source: #MP28805

Ethnicity/Race: White
Sex: Female
Age at time of disappearance: 40 years old

Birthdate: Between March 31st, 1921 and March 30th, 1922*
Hair: Red
Eye color: Blue
Height and weight at the time of disappearance: 5'1" and 110 pounds
*If NamUs's details are right based on the age of her last contact

Chances of being found alive: virtually zero based on her age, that she has not been seen or heard from in nearly 60 years, and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance suggest that she was in mortal danger when she disappeared

This article started out as a photo search, however, this individual has a nice forum at Websleuths. Users there found the photo above using Newspapers.com. One person at the Websleuths forum indicated that Lucille had been married 8 times. This person identified as Lucille May Grenz's granddaughter.

This excerpt was a memorable one from the newspaper articles I read:

Wed, Oct 31, 1962 – 9 · The Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon) · Newspapers.com

If you read the article above, you may have noted the odd details about what was missing. It's not surprising when someone goes missing with their clothes. However, what does it mean when someone goes missing along with her mattress and drapes?

The most intuitive answer, in my opinion, is that the bedroom was a murder scene or, at least, a crime scene. The individual responsible for disappearing Lucille Mae Grenz may have perceived a benefit in taking some of her clothes, her mattress, and drapes as well. It could be that these items had blood on them but it should be noted that, in 1962, DNA was still decades away from being a legal thing. A criminal would not have this concern in his mind.

However, I think we might assume that this individual still perceived some kind of benefit in taking these items from the crime scene. That said, there was a seven-week gap between her disappearance and the discovery of the disarrayed room. That gap is a disgrace in my opinion but perhaps that's another matter.

When I assess this scene and try to brainstorm what could have happened this is what I think:

• Lucille Mae Grenz went to her and placed her nightclothes on her mattress;
• She was attacked there and that's where the blood came from;
• The attacker put her on the mattress, perhaps to rape her;
• Then he wrapped her dead body in the drapes and around the mattress, which could have been thin for easier transportation of the body;
• The mattress and drapes, thus, were for concealment and even absorption of blood which the killer did not want in his vehicle.

This person might be wrapped in the mattress and drapes still in a secluded area. Conversely, this body might have gone to the dump. If the latter is the case, then it's likely she will be missing for all time.

The address of 134 NW 6th St, Toledo, Oregon is mentioned as Grenz's address when she went missing. My research on this address indicates that another last name besides Grenz was present in the household. I have full names in my notes if anyone working on this, as opposed to just reading, wants to private message me. Twitter or Facebook can be used for that.

Pamela Mae Buckley's Missing Photo at NamUs Delayed Match

Author: Shane Lambert

The day of identification finally arrived for the Sumter County Does. They are James Paul Freund and Pamela Mae Buckley.

In a previous blog post, I showed that the identification of James Paul Freund could have been made years ago. The Sumter County John Doe, which was ultimately identified as James Paul Freund, bore a ring with the initials JPF. If James Paul Freund had an online profile with NamUs, for example, I'm sure someone would have looked at the John Doe, noticed the initials matching James Paul Freund's, and noticed that the dates made sense. This would have gotten the ball rolling, I think, into simultaneously solving both the mystery of the Sumter County John Doe and the missing person case of James Paul Freund.

I further submit that the Sumter County John Doe could have been identified in a much more difficult manner -- even without an online profile. I think the initials were all that were needed to produce a lead in this case. This is a topic I wrote about at Websleuths under my handle "UncoolNegated." 

There is a searching technique that can be used in some databases where question marks can be substituted for unknown letters. For example, if you know someone's name starts with a "J" then you can search for "J????" to find all names that start with J that are five letters in length.

The Sumter County John Doe was thought to have JPF as initials. If someone had searched for "J?????" and "P." and "F??????" in conjunction with "Legal Notices" and "presumed decedent" then it would have produced several thousand hits at newspapers.com. The latter terms are ones that commonly appear in classified ads having to do with the estate settlements of missing people who are assumed to be dead. These kinds of classified ads certainly should be studied by those who work on missing person cases because John Does and Jane Does have their names in these kinds of legal notices for sure.

Admittedly, there is hindsight bias in picking a name of five letters for the first name and a name of six letters for the last name. However, James Paul Freund's legal notice regarding his death in absentia was included in the thousands of hits that came up at newspaper.com when I tested my method out. It would have been tons of work to sort through the thousands of hits, keeping in mind that the name-length combinations would have been large. However, the Sumter County John Doe was identifiable through newspaper archive searches even though only his initials were known.

Sumter County Does Fri, Apr 22, 1988 – 38 · Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

Finding James P. Freund this way, I think, might have taken a volunteer who was organized about 40-60 hours of work with luck being a factor in finding a hit quickly. In the case of Pamela Mae Buckley, there was a much simpler method: she simply needed a photo included in her online profiles for her missing person case. 

Let's think about that.

Pamela Mae Buckley is the proper name of the Sumter County Jane Doe. Furthermore, the Sumter County Jane Doe was no ordinary Jane Doe.

This Jane Doe was someone who attracted scores of attention from journalists, unsolved mystery enthusiasts, composite sketchers, hobbyists who work on missing person cases, her coroner, and law enforcement. The Sumter County Jane Doe had many artistic renderings of her likeness produced. Lo-and-behold, these renderings looked like Pamela Mae Buckley.

According to a post at Websleuths by username Gardener1850, Pamela Mae Buckley had her missing person case profiled at NamUs where she was #MP62300. I think that she was added sometime in 2019. The post at Websleuths commented that there was no photo included with the profile. I couldn't verify this because once an identification is made the profile is deleted from NamUs, however, I do generally trust Websleuths on such matters.

If there had been a photo included, I am absolutely certain that someone would have drawn a comparison between one of the artistic renditions of the Jane Doe (or the Jane Doe's postmortem photos) and Pamela Mae Buckley's likeness. I further submit that this likeness would have produced leads because the dates would have been intriguing: Buckley was last seen in the months that preceded the discovery of the Sumter County Jane Doe. I'm sure it all that would have ultimately produced an identity match quicker than the one that came about. 

Furthermore, it would have saved loads of labor.

In the real world, Buckley was identified after her DNA was matched to her place in her family tree. That required a lucky break -- a living relative uploaded their DNA to 23andme. In this process of identification, the closer the living relative is in the family tree, the quicker the match. My understanding is that it takes an educated group of people who know what they are doing a good while to make such matches in some cases and the effort can be painstaking. It is worth the effort but it's a shame when it has to be done to make up for laziness.

Here's a better idea: when a missing person has their profile added to NamUs, someone gets a photo. If there isn't one readily available then make the photo "pending" and someone needs to make the effort to get one whenever possible. I'm willing to practice what I preach as I'll be using the tag "Photo Search" at this site for Jane Does and John Does with no photo.

The solved case of Pamela Mae Buckley actually reminds me of a scene from Naked Gun, starring Leslie Nielsen. A police lab professor has a wild plan for identifying someone, a plan that just might work. When Nielsen, in character as Frank Drebbin, says the plan is too tenuous, the professor instead produces the subject's wallet.

So, instead of identifying Jane Does using DNA and huge family trees with trained staff laboring away, let's first look at the obvious. Jane Does have composite sketches and those sketches can be matched to photos of missing people sometimes. The trick is that it requires some minor effort to locate a photo of the missing person but I think the effort should be made. 

Anyone who suggests that it shouldn't need to weigh all of the following against the effort of locating a photo: 

• the effort that's put into producing composite sketches
• the effort that goes into amateur investigation by volunteers
• and the effort that a team of trained investigators puts into combing through a Jane Doe's extended family. 

The total volume of this effort wasn't necessary in the Sumter County Jane Doe: Pamela Mae Buckley could have been suggested as the Sumter County Jane Doe from a photo alone and the DNA match could have been made. The amount of effort that was spent on this match could have been much smaller or spent on the many other worthwhile Does that are out there.

Identification of Sumter County Does Highlights Shortcomings of Database Records

Author: Shane Lambert

January 22nd, 2021

The Sumter County Does have been identified. For fans of unsolved mysteries, this has been a very long time coming. For Websleuths and amateur investigators, it's a huge sigh of relief. The male and female murder victims that were found dead in August of 1976 now have names: they are James Paul Freund and Pamela Mae Buckley.

Mon, Aug 9, 1982 – 1 · The Item (Sumter, South Carolina) · Newspapers.com

The case should highlight one glaring fact: the number of missing person cases that do not enter the online and searchable documentary record must be immense. I couldn't find missing person reports for either of the two individuals on the Internet nor in newspapers.com's database, a database that scours an immense volume of historical archives. 

I did find legal notices for James P. Freund but not news articles about his disappearance. The difference is important: more people read the news than the classifieds. The following legal notice pertains to the John Doe in the right gravemarker pictured above.

Thu, Sep 19, 1985 – 52 · Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com

The implications of James Paul Freund's and Pamela Mae Buckley's missing person details not entering the searchable archives cannot be ignored by those that work on missing person cases. These were not people on the fringe of society. If they go missing without entering the newspapers in authored articles or the databases like NamUs, then what should be expected of the more marginalized? There must be thousands and thousands of missing person's cases that aren't getting solved simply because no one is taking the time to get the reports into the newspapers or into databases.

That's important to note, especially in the case of James Paul Freund. He had a ring that bore his initials "JPF," a ring that was found on the John Doe. If James Paul Freund had been entered into NamUs, then I absolutely think that he would have been identified a very long time ago. I think that because the mystery of the Sumter County Does is not your standard John/Jane Doe mystery: this one had a huge following. 

Such was the interest in this mystery that I am convinced that someone, like a keener Websleuth, would have plugged the relevant dates into NamUs. You can do that by simply looking for someone who went missing prior to the discovery of the bodies. You select the date of death of the John Doe as the end date  for the search and for a start date you could go back a year if you wanted -- or more if you felt it was needed. While such searches would produce small hundreds of matches, it wouldn't take that long to look for someone with the initials JPF that went missing at about the right time. If James Paul Freund had a NamUs profile, then one-half of the Sumter County Does would have been identified ages ago -- I'm sure of that.

The lesson is clear: if you know someone who is missing that is not entered into your government's online resource for missing people, then that is something you should remedy. While it can take a long time to get these databases up to date, there are people that cross-reference missing person's details with John/Jane Does.

Some people who disappear can't be traced, however, many can. That missing person you wonder about needs to be in the searchable archives to stand a better chance of being found. The case of James Paul Freund shows that: he went unidentified for 44 years and, in my opinion, that could have been much shorter. Freund and Buckley were murdered: what a shame it would be if the murderer lived out his natural life when simple data-entry could have produced a break in the case a long time ago.

Robert Charles Browne's Timeline -- American Murderer Claimed He Killed Dozens

Author: Shane Lambert
Time of writing: January 14th, 2021

This is a WORK IN PROGRESS for the timeline of Robert Charles Browne, a self-professed serial killer. Although he stated that he killed 49 people, I stuck to the crimes that are conventionally associated with him when constructing his timeline. Note, that many of the murders that he is mentioned in conjunction with are NOT convictions. However, I decided to include them as food for thought as there are those that are familiar with his life that think he should be considered a suspect in many murders.

If there a date and location that you think should be included, feel free to mention it in the comments. I'll have a look.

Sat, Jul 29, 2006 – 3 · Springfield News-Sun (Springfield, Ohio) · Newspapers.com

October 31st, 1952

• Born in Coushatta, Louisiana, USA

1969 -- Sometime

• He joined the US Army.

1976 -- Sometime

• He was discharged.

July 1980 -- Allegation of Murder

• If he killed Katherine Jean Hayes, 15 then he was in Coushatta, Louisiana in July 1980.

March 30th, 1983 -- Allegation of Murder

• If he hilled Faye Self, then he would have been in Coushatta, Louisiana around March 30th, 1983.

May 28th, 1983 -- Allegation of Murder

• If he killed Wanda Faye Hudson then he was in Coushatta, Louisianna on May 28th, 1983.

February 2nd, 1984 -- Allegation of Murder

• If he killed Nidia Mendoza, then he would have been in Sugar Land, Texas around February 2nd, 1984.

March 25th, 1984 -- Allegation of Murder

• If he killed Melody Ann Bush, then he was in Flatonia, Texas on March 25th, 1984.

November 10th, 1987

• Robert Charles Browne pled guilt to the murder of Rocio Delpilar Sperry, 15. He was killed in Colorado on November 10, 1987

September 8th, 1988

• Marriage license issued for Robert Charles Browne and Diane Marcia Babbitts. Implies that he is in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

September 25th, 1988

• Date of Marriage Certificate. It places him at Woodland Park in Teller County.

September 17th, 1991 

• Browne can be placed in Black Forest, Colorado outside of Colorado Springs. That's when Heather Dawn Church went missing and he was convicted of her murder. Browne has an address for Brookside Street in Colorado Springs at about this time.

November 3rd, 1991

• If he killed Lisa Lowe, then that would place him in Memphis on November 3rd, 1991. 

March 28th, 1995

• Apprehended and I believe he has been in custody ever since.

Michael Frank Fullerton -- Missing From Seattle Since 1986

Author: Shane Lambert
Original Time of Writing: January 14th, 2021
All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Missing person: Michael Frank Fullerton

Last-seen date: September 27th, 1986 -- maybe October 2nd, 1986
Last-seen location: Seattle, Washington -- car found abandoned on Capitol Hill
Link to Government Source: NamUs #MP11140
Ethnicity/Race: White
Sex: Male

Age at time of disappearance: 26 years old
Hair: Dark blonde/strawberry; wore a mustache
Eye color: blue
Height and weight at the time of disappearance: 6'2" and 185 pounds
Clothing: Street shoes

Other: Scar on one of his wrists; his jaw was cracked and healed in several places.

Michael Frank Fullerton went missing in the fall of 1986 and, make no mistake, he remains missing at the time of writing. He has a grave and that might confuse some of those looking into this case.

However, the grave is a memorial only and does not contain his remains. If you are searching on Find-a-grave and finding the same-name match and same-birth-year match for a grave and think his case is still active by accident, it's not. He's not in the grave at the time of writing.

Michael's vehicle was a silver and black sedan with Washington plates. It was found ten days after he disappeared at Capitol Hill. It's possible that he was seen on October 2nd and the finding of his vehicle would be after that, on October 7th, 1986.

When you read his profile information, you have to wonder if he was depressed: scars on wrists can be a clue to a suicide attempt. That circumstance and the fact that he has not been heard from in what is now 35 years has to make you wonder if finding him will mean finding a John Doe.

On that matter, when it comes to finding Michael, Websleuths and amateur investigators can focus on the details of the jaw area from his profile. In more scientific terms, the jawbones can be called "the mandible." Even after all of this time, if Michael's remains are found then his mandible or jawbone injuries and healings may be detectable in his skeletal remains. The same can't really be assumed regarding his wrist scar. Furthermore, someone looking at his remains might be able to tell that he had injuries to the mandible or jaw in life and these details might end up in his John Doe report. Accordingly, someone familiar with the John Doe reports in the Seattle area should keep the mandible injuries in mind.

Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck -- Missing at Sea Since September 2018

Author: Shane Lambert

Original Time of Writing: January 12th, 2021

Tue, Sep 11, 2018 – A12 · The Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Newspapers.com

All articles are subject to editing after the original posting.

Missing person: Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck

Last-seen date: September 9th, 2018 at about 5AM in the morning
Last-seen location: Off the coast of Canada while on a cruise ship

Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian, a German national
Sex: Male
Age at time of disappearance: 33 years old
Hair: Brown
Eye color: Brown

Daniel Kaiser-Küblböck went missing after jumping overboard from a cruise ship early in the morning of September 9th, 2018. This happened at sea with the closest country being Canada. 

The Canadian authorities executed a search for the German pop singer, however, they were not able to locate him. It's unlikely that he would have survived very long in the water, even if he was intact enough to swim after jumping from the cruise ship into the sea. The search focused on a nautical area about 200 kilometers north of St. John's. It was ended on September 11th, 2018.

Ocean currents are very difficult for experts to predict. Those that try will usually work with averages.  If you took two identical objects and placed them side-by-side in a sea or ocean then they would drift apart immediately and, if they went to shore, then they could still be very far apart. There is simply no telling where any of the missing person's remains might have ended up. Like a lot of missing person's cases that involve being lost at sea, this isn't one that Websleuths or amateurs should be devoting much attention to.

In fact, there are missing person's cases where the people went into the water due to a wave that encroached the shoreline. In one case, two people who are missing for nearly 20 years were 'lost at sea' when they were at a well-known beach. If people who get lost at sea from a beachside last-known location can't be traced, then it's super-futile to try and trace someone who is lost to the ocean hundreds of kilometers from civilization. It will take incredibly luck for this person's remains to be found, not investigating skill.

Ricky Jean Bryant (NamUs MP #5890) - Very Likely Dead in Fire

Author: Shane Lambert

I read about the missing-person case of Ricky Jean Bryant tonight and did some research on it using online newspaper databases. I thought, for a short time, maybe she was kidnapped and alive somewhere. However, after researching this case, I think Ricky Jean Bryant simply died in a house fire that occurred the day she went missing. Furthermore, I think it's futile for websleuths or amateur investigators to work on this case any further.

Ricky Jean Bryant, the missing person, disappeared at the age of four in December of 1949 in Wisconsin as the house on her family's farm burned down. As described at Doenetwork.com, the case sounds as though a "tall blonde lady in a new car" kidnapped 'Jeannie' as flames leveled the house.

Jeannie and two of her siblings were home with their grandparents, who also lived on the farm. Ricky's brother, who was 5 years old at the time, remembers leaving Jeannie and their younger sister outside, when a tall blonde lady in a new car, drove up and told him to run to a neighbor's house for help. He said the woman sent him to a home further away and told him the phone wasn't working at the nearby house. When he came back with a neighbor, Jeannie was gone, and the lady and the car were nowhere to be found. The neighbor said she put the children in the family car and then went inside to look for Jeannie. She found the grandmother in the kitchen collecting canned goods, and she said that Jeannie was gone. As the house continued to burn, the neighbor kept searching for Jeannie. Finally, the grandmother told her to stop worrying about Jeannie because she was with relatives.

After the fire, Jeannie's father had the local authorities, state police and the FBI searching the ruins of the fire for any possible human remains. No remains were found during the search and her father searched the property three additional times by himself. Each time he found nothing. He never believed that Jeannie perished in the fire.

The description above leaves a lot to be desired. For starters, the timing seems a little strange.

Ricky's brother, whose name is Forrest, supposedly runs to a neighbor's house to get help, and when he returns the grandmother is in the house collecting canned goods. Seems to me that the house would be burning this entire time and wouldn't be safe enough to enter. I do find the story details strange and I find it strange that the grandmother, who is one Mrs. Casper Halverson, would advise stopping looking for Jeannie as though canned goods were more important.

One major fact that I did not ignore during my research was that, according to the original journalist back in 1949, Jeannie was considered dead in the fire. The Daily Tribune out of Wisconsin Rapids on December 21st, 1949 calls Jean Bryant "the little girl who lost her life as fire destroyed the Bryant farm dwelling" (no author listed).

Mrs. Casper Halverson, the grandmother, reportedly got the children out of the house and then climbed a ladder to rescue her husband, "an invalid," from "an upstairs bedroom." If there was a time frame where Mrs. Halverson was preoccupied with getting that ladder, setting it, climbing it, and getting her husband out of the house while Forrest went for help then that leaves the two-year-old child and Jeannie unsupervised. For those playing the entire scenario out, be sure to include a scene in your mind where the invalid grandfather suffers burns to his body: his rescue was a narrow one and certainly would have had Mrs. Halverson's undivided attention.

Could be that the four-year-old Ricky Jean Bryant wandered back into the house while unsupervised. Why wouldn't she? If the grandmother felt that it was safe enough to retrieve canned goods then a part of the house might have looked safe to a four-year-old. Then maybe Mrs. Halverson just assumed that Jeannie was in safe hands when she was able to face the issue.

A big part of this missing-person case is that the Doenetwork says no human remains were found in the fire. The Daily Tribune article might contradict that: it says that "bone particles" that were found "were sent to the state crime laboratory" for testing and that the fire was hot enough to melt metal.

As for the father not believing that his daughter had died in the fire, it's not something to criticize him for. The death of a child is hard to accept. You might settle on remote possibilities instead. In fact, I have a great deal of experience talking with people and/or reading reports that include opinions of loved ones in regard to their missing relatives. Sometimes people think that someone is alive in lieu of much-much more likely scenarios. It seems that the death of a loved one is just unfaceable for some.

NamUs MP #5890 · Wed, Dec 21, 1949 – 9 · Eau Claire Leader (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) · Newspapers.com

My guess is that the fire cremated Ricky Jean Bryant. I'm aware that skeletons usually survive house fires but I wonder if that's the case for such young victims, victims who might not have completely developed bones of adult volume. The elephant in the room, in this case, is that firefighters heard screams that originated from inside the house, ones that were attributed to a little "tyke."

Take it or leave it, but I think this missing person will be missing for all time and that those researching this mystery should focus their efforts elsewhere. That Ricky Jean Bryant died in a fire and that her parents had trouble accepting that is, in my opinion, much more likely than a tall-blonde woman of mystery kidnapping the girl as the house burned down. That would be one on-the-spot child abductor operating in a hurry with witnesses both already present on the scene and converging on the scene.

This is not a good case for Websleuths or amateurs to be working on at all. Make sure you aren't being too imaginative or fanciful when trying to think of leads. You could spend loads of time with basically a 0% chance of producing any kind of results.

NamUs MP #5890 · Wed, Dec 21, 1949 – Page 1 · The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin) · Newspapers.com

NamUs MP #5890 · Wed, Dec 21, 1949 – Page 1 · Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, Wisconsin) · Newspapers.com