With most items on the list, I was either very familiar with the cases or didn’t care, but the case of Richard Colvin Cox really grabbed my attention.
Based on the Wikipedia story, my only question is. “Why has this never been made into a movie?”
The Top 6 People Who Disappeared and Were Never Heard From Again
Can’t wait for the day you the 57 suicides linked to the Clinton’s but you won’t
Don’t worry all those were shapeshifting Reptilians controlled by 5G by vaccines so it was doing the world a favor.
I lived through this one:
One of my friends was on the same floor and knew Michael and was interviewed by the police.
Sadly, like a lot of these cases, he was almost certainly murdered or died accidentally and was never found.
For example, in the list that was linked, it seems likely that Rebecca just fell off the cruise ship.
There’s a ton of ’em, but the disappearance of Edward and Stephania Andrews is way up there. An older married couple who go to a party in Chicago in 1970, drive away in their car possibly drunk or ill – guy drives the wrong way down the road – and are never seen or heard from again. Every river and body of water around there was checked, many times over the years. 56 years later no trace of them or their car. They had no enemies, not much money, and no one could’ve known they’d be at that party on that night to potentially kidnap them.
The only going theory is that he drove off a bridge and actually hit so hard that he went completely under the river bed; so far under that no sonar was ever able to detect the car, which is ludicrous. If someone did carjack them, they made sure that car and their bodies would never be found… but why do that to these people, if robbery or vengeance or some sort wasn’t the motive? No one will ever know what happened to them. After 56 years, they’re gone for good.
Another stunner is the legendary Fort Worth 3, who unlike the Andrews family, actually got a piece of evidence in the case: a fake letter written by one of the kidnappers trying to pretend to be one of the missing girls – and it was definitely a woman’s handwriting. But nothing was ever heard from them again after 1974.
Wasn’t that the basis for the song ‘The Way’ by Fastball?
The Richard Colvin Cox one does not seem too mysterious to me. Just ask yourself a few questions: In what year would Cox have turned 35? 1963. In what year was JFK murdered? 1963. In what year would Cox have turned 40? 1968. In what year were both MLK and RFK murdered? 1968. Think about it. I rest my case.
This is the basis for Jim Carrey’s movie ‘The Number 23.
It really is scary stuff. If you have the number 30 and for no reason at all you subtract 7, you end up with 23!!!!! Terrifying.
My advice never see that awful movie. ‘
Here is an interesting reference today in the news to a ‘solved’ disappearance case. The person turns out to be alive and well, but just did not want to have contact anymore – and in fact asked that their location not be disclosed even after they were confirmed to be still alive.
I wonder how many ‘disappearance’ cases are actually not unsolved crimes or accidents, but people who have chosen to disappear and who do it quite successfully. It is not the explanation for all cases, but at the same time I am sure that it is not uncommon.
It is regarded as relatively common.
One of the people I thought would be on the list is Richey Edwards of the of the 1990s British band Manic Street Preachers. Most likely he committed suicide but he went missing in 1995 and his body has never been found. There was possibly other evidence that was more consistent with him choosing to disappear rather than commit suicide.
Of course, as long as there is no crime caused by a person disappearing (leaving unpaid bills, wanted for a crime…), it’s not illegal to simply disappear. In the case of Richey Edwards, the police were criticized for their initial limited investigation. However, that could be due to either them believing that he chose to disappear and no crime was committed or that they thought he committed suicide and finding his body was not their most pressing concern at the time.
Come to think of it, I believe that Scoop himself made some reference to having done it, although in his case I think it was via faking his death.