June 2015 – The Charley Project Blog

Expect a big update for tomorrow

June 30, 2015Meaghan12 Comments

I’ve been raiding the absolutely wonderful Iowa Cold Cases website and it has yielded rich nuggets of information. I’ve written updates for 26 cases and I’m not done yet. w00t!

MP of the week: Robert Putman

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015Meaghan6 Comments

This week’s featured missing person is Robert C. Putman, who was 78 when he went missing from Missouri in 2000 and would now be 93. Since he suffered from dementia and a pretty severe heart condition, I doubt he survived long after his disappearance. My guess is that his body is somewhere close by to where he went missing.

Ya know, it would be nice if they said when this guy went missing

June 29, 2015July 1, 2015Meaghan10 Comments

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency makes it look like James Aaron Toole disappeared on October 20, 2014. At least, that’s the “date issued” they give, and that’s the only dated listed in his casefile on there. In fact, Toole disappeared in 1995, a full nineteen years earlier.

Stupid deaths, stupid deaths…

June 29, 2015Meaghan10 Comments

I’m writing up today’s cases and while normally I do not criticize an MP’s life choices, I will say this: if you are driving your car 130 mph in a 35 mph zone and crash right through a metal guardrail into a 45-foot-deep river, you deserve what happens to you. That is all.

Make-a-List Monday: Sweatpants

June 29, 2015October 14, 2015Meaghan7 Comments

This list is (obviously) for MPs who were wearing sweatpants, or sweat shorts, or a sweatsuit, at the time of their disappearance. It’s quite a long list but I’m betting one for sweatshirts would be a lot longer.

*maybe

More rampant narcissism :-)

June 28, 2015Meaghan3 Comments

My father volunteers at the local hospital. He was there today and was talking to the Catholic chaplain. They’d never spoken before. Dad told him about me and the chaplain recognized my name as the author of a certain letter to the editor about mental illness and gun control. It was published over a year ago and still he remembered it. The chaplain told my father it was one of the best letters to the editor he’d ever read, and that I had an excellent point, and that he thought I had a very good heart and was very brave to share my story in a public forum.

Dad of course is delighted. I am very touched.

Bernadine Paul article

June 28, 2015June 28, 2015Meaghan6 Comments

I was very excited today to come across this article from yesterday about Bernadine Paul, missing from Connecticut for 15 years. She’s one of the very few cases where I have never updated her file, even once, in the ten and a half years I’ve been running Charley. And alas, it looks like it’s going to stay that way because the article tells me nothing new. I even checked NamUs and there’s nothing on there I don’t already have. Sigh. But I thought I’d bring up the article anyway, if only to bring her case to the forefront for awhile.

Okay, change in policy

June 28, 2015Meaghan5 Comments

Because I like making those YouTube videos so much, YouTube Saturday will now become Post As Many YouTube Videos As I Darn Well Please Saturday.

Select It Sunday: Anthony Urciuoli

June 28, 2015July 1, 2015Meaghan1 Comment

This week’s Sunday case is Anthony Guy Urciuoli Jr., selected by Brad through an email. Anthony’s been missing from Poughkeepsie, New York since January 24, 2001. He was 31 years old and worked as a restaurant server. The night of his disappearance he got a page from someone and said he was going out to play pool and would be back in a few hours. He never returned, no one could trace the page he got and no one saw him that night at the pool hall where he usually went.

Anthony’s missing under very mysterious circumstances. His car was found abandoned and the police said it looked like he left it there himself and departed the scene with someone else…but who? He was known as a responsible person and an ideal employee and it seems unlikely that he would have walked away from his life and everything he knew, but on the other hand, there doesn’t seem to be any hard evidence of foul play.

Aw shucks, I couldn’t resist

June 27, 2015November 9, 2015Meaghan3 Comments

Having completed my Charley updates today, and not having much else to do, I found myself making more YouTube videos. Even though I promised to do only two a week, I wound up doing six more:
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