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I see the remains of Gavin Smith (missing since May 2012) were found in a shallow grave at Angeles National Forest last month. Clearly he got mixed up with the wrong people!
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Waratah
Originally posted by Ginger View PostFrom what I've read on the Waratah, many people, then and now, believe that the ship simply rolled over in rough seas and didn't recover. It had apparently been designed in such a way that it was very slow to recover from a roll, which made for a comfortable ride for passengers, but posed an obvious risk under extreme conditions. This was, IIRC, only the ship's second voyage, and on the first one it had taken a list to one side so severe that water would not drain from the bathtubs, and held that position for an hour or more. On the ship's last port of call before vanishing (in Durban, South Africa), an engineer with passage booked through to England got off and booked a different ship, declaring the Waratah to be dangerously top-heavy. On the night the ship went missing, there were high winds and seas, to the extent that one of the ships sent to search for her (a cruiser, HMS Hermes) suffered hull damage from the waves.
"Waratah" was lost with about 212 people on board, but is known as "the Titanic of South Africa" due to the mystery involved. There have been numerous attempts to locate the wreck along the coast (not the easiest to plumb the depths of due to the dangerous currents from the Cape of Good Hope). Clive Cussler thought they found the wreck in 2002, but it was a torpedoed British ship from World War II.
Jeff
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Originally posted by Mayerling View PostTo try to start this off, I will list my initial choices of the best known vanishing acts.
Ships
City of Glasgow
Collins liner "Pacific"
City of Boston
Naronic
Warahtah
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Originally posted by Harry D View PostThe Disappearance of Damien Nettles, while not an exceptional missing persons case, has often haunted me.
This is the last remaining CCTV of Damien that night:
http://youtu.be/yOrMuplmxWo (Damien's the guy on the left with his back to the camera when it starts)
Does anyone see anything amiss in this brief video?
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Originally posted by GUT View PostIt even made the news here in Aus.
I can't even begin to imagine how his family is feeling.
I understand that the house had been searched previously.
I can believe the mother is relieved to have her son back, and he must be relieved to be back. To me this is the most incredible return from oblivion story in terms of disappearance kidnappings since the one about those three women in Ohio held by a man who was assisted by his two brothers - four up to eight years (I believe)! The guy showed how brave he was when sentenced to prison by killing himself within one month.
Jeff
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Originally posted by Mayerling View PostI don't know if anyone was following it but the authorities in Atlanta, Georgia just located a boy who was missing for four years. It turned out he had been hidden in a cubby behind a linen closet in the home of his father and stepmother (both arrested with some of her relatives). The boy managed to contact his mother in Florida with some pocket computer or phone, and she tipped off the Atlanta Police. The boy is now with his mother again.
Jeff
I can't even begin to imagine how his family is feeling.
I understand that the house had been searched previously.
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Originally posted by Mayerling View PostI don't know if anyone was following it but the authorities in Atlanta, Georgia just located a boy who was missing for four years. It turned out he had been hidden in a cubby behind a linen closet in the home of his father and stepmother (both arrested with some of her relatives).
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I don't know if anyone was following it but the authorities in Atlanta, Georgia just located a boy who was missing for four years. It turned out he had been hidden in a cubby behind a linen closet in the home of his father and stepmother (both arrested with some of her relatives). The boy managed to contact his mother in Florida with some pocket computer or phone, and she tipped off the Atlanta Police. The boy is now with his mother again.
Jeff
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The Disappearance of Damien Nettles, while not an exceptional missing persons case, has often haunted me.
Damien Nettles disappeared from the Isle of Wight on November 2, 1996 when he was 16. The investigation into his disappearance has been ongoing ever since, with five men arrested in 2011, although no charges have been brought.
http://youtu.be/yOrMuplmxWo (Damien's the guy on the left with his back to the camera when it starts)
Does anyone see anything amiss in this brief video? I do wonder if Damien happened to have been jumped by some yobs that night, it got out of hand, and they ditched the body. I can't really see a lanky 16 year-old being abducted for nefarious purposes. His mother has speculated that he might have owed money to drug dealers, since he smoked cannabis, and they murdered him.
Apparently there was another CCTV of Damien walking down the street, he was only 15 minutes from home. However, the police lost the footage. Was this police incompetence or cause for suspicion?
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Originally posted by gallicrow View PostIt seems to me that the most likely scenario is that the "missing" children died of smoke inhalation in the house that night and that their bodies were burnt to an extent that their remains were not easily recognisable. Then these remains were broken up and scattered by the inexpert searchers over the next few days. I think the entire area was bulldozered by Mr Sodder about a week after the fire, which severely diminished the chances of finding the remains of the children after that.
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Sodder children
It seems to me that the most likely scenario is that the "missing" children died of smoke inhalation in the house that night and that their bodies were burnt to an extent that their remains were not easily recognisable. Then these remains were broken up and scattered by the inexpert searchers over the next few days. I think the entire area was bulldozered by Mr Sodder about a week after the fire, which severely diminished the chances of finding the remains of the children after that.
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Originally posted by Harry D View PostAnother one that might interest you is the missing Sodder kids:
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Originally posted by Harry D View PostAnother one that might interest you is the missing Sodder kids:
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Originally posted by sdreid View PostA lot of people believe that all the kids were consumed in the fire to a point that all traces of them were obliterated. That seems preposterous to me. Even bones in a crematorium have to be manually pulverized.
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