Make-a-List Monday – The Charley Project Blog

Happy Memorial Day to all the people who have lost someone

May 31, 2021Meaghan3 Comments

Happy Memorial Day, everyone. I hope y’all had a good holiday and a safe one. Since Memorial Day was created to honor the nation’s veterans, especially the ones who were killed in action, I thought I’d make a list of military veterans who are on the Charley Project. Haven’t done a list in awhile. Service-related mental trauma has indirectly caused a lot of disappearances.

I put the branch, if known, in parentheses after the name. I doubt these are ALL the veterans on Charley but these are all the ones I know about.

Debra Ann Allen (Navy)
Larry Joe Ardley (Navy)
Paul Philip Batson (Navy)
Richard Gerald Bayne (unspecified)
Ricky Lynn Benton (unspecified)
Alvin Lamont Breed (Navy)
Jesse Breedwolf (unspecified)
William Brennan (unspecified)
Jason Alen Brice (Army)
Hattie Gertrude Brown (Army)
Walter Lee Brown (unspecified)
Jeffery Allen Burchett (Marines)
Patrick Francis Carnes (unspecified)
Walter Chambers Jr. (Army)
Daniel Gerard Chervenka Jr. (Navy)
John Darwin Chesley (unspecified)
John Edward Christoph (Navy)
Lawrence Scott Colton (unspecified)
Patrick Michael Combs (Air Force)
Donald Joseph Connell (Marines)
Christopher Lee Cook (unspecified)
Willie Cooper (Army)
Jeffery Roosevelt Crider (Navy)
Antonio Andrade Cruz (Army)
Charles Christopher Dart (unspecified)
Crist Nelson Dauberman Sr. (unspecified)
Bobby Davidson (Navy)
Darion Maurice Dawkins (Navy)
Steven Wayne Dean (Army)
David L. Decker (Marines)
Arthur P. Deering (Marines)
Lance Austin Martin Doan (Army)
David Charles Dodge (Navy)
Randy Stewart Doran (Marines)
Lloyd Edward Downey (unspecified)
Duwane Roy Dreher (Navy)
Charles Ellsworth Duke (Army)
Walter Dunson (unspecified)
Michael Elkinton (unspecified)
Ernest Newell Ellison (unspecified)
William Michael Ewasko (Army)
Ronald Leonard Farrell (Air Force)
Jack Fisher (Army)
Charles R. Fletcher (Army)
Lander Stanhope Freeman (unspecified)
Ryan Patrick Gaddy (Air Force)
Troy Robert Galloway (Marines)
Randolph Robert Hamm (Marines)
Richard Burks Hart (unspecified)
Richard Harvell (unspecified)
Lisa Michelle Hatchell (Army)
David Karl Heitman (Marines)
Robert David Helphrey (unspecified)
John T. Humphrey (unspecified)
Brenda Maria Jackson (unspecified)
Moise Shadrack James III (Army)
William Joseph Jamison (Army)
Clarence Earl Jenkins (Army)
Joseph Leon Johnson (Army)
Ronald Lee Johnson (unspecified)
Wilford Ray Johnson (Navy)
Sidney Edward Johnston (Navy)
Timothy Lee Keays (unspecified)
Bonnie Rae Kelly (unspecified)
Charles Ray Koller Sr. (Navy)
Earl Kuhl (unspecified)
James Charles Layne (unspecified)
James Bernard Liedtka (Army)
Peter G. Lorang (Marines)
Randolph Duane Lovette (unspecified)
Michael Pierce Madden (unspecified)
Eddie Matthew Martin Sr. (Army)
Harold Elmer Martin (unspecified)
Sharon Ann Martin (Air Force)
Alvin Edwin Matlock (Army)
Christopher M. Milfort (Army)
Kenneth Earl Mohler (Army)
John Joseph Moore (unspecified)
Jason Taylor Moorer (Air Force)
James Dolan Morse (unspecified)
Andrew Lee Muns (Navy)
Gerald Myers (Army)
Richard Neria (unspecified)
Thomas Joseph Nigro (Army)
Alma Louise O’Con (unspecified)
Franklin Jay Osgood Sr. (Air Force)
Marion George Perry (unspecified)
David Robert Person (unspecified)
Demakia Ann Phinizee (Army)
Kenneth Michael Plaisted (Navy)
Gerald Steven Polk (unspecified)
Matthew Robert Potts (Army)
James Floyd Powell (unspecified)
Floyd L. Price (unspecified)
Charles Anthony Radice (unspecified)
Daniel Lee Reich (unspecified)
Cory J. Rhinehart (Army)
Beth Ann Ricketts (unspecified)
Marcus Andrapolis Robinson (Army)
Edwin Clark Rogers (unspecified)
Christopher Domingo Saquic (Navy)
Harold William Schroetter (Navy)
Edward Robert Sekelsky (unspecified)
Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins Silver (Army)
Brandyn Simmons (unspecified)
Ernest Stanley Slavik (Marines)
Jerry Smith (unspecified)
Herlinda Ann Soto (Army)
John Smith South Jr. (unspecified)
John Michael Spira (Army)
Jason Matthew Spraggins (Coast Guard)
A.W. Steed (unspecified)
Ronelle Stephens (unspecified)
Keith Harold Stompro (Army)
Patrick Kevin Taylor (unspecified)
Wade D. Taylor (Marines)
Leo Paul Trabert (Army)
Richard Earl Trimble (unspecified)
Charles Albert Ulrich (Navy)
Jeremy Michael Van Meter (Navy)
Joseph Weber IV (Army)
Jacob Wesley Webster (unspecified)
John Albert Weichelt (unspecified)
Cloudia Leslie Wells (unspecified)
Ian Kirk Willcoxon (Navy)
Charles D. Wilson (unspecified)
Daniel Elton Windley (Navy)

I hope everyone is well. I am pretty excited about CrimeCon and am getting ready for it. The dog will stay with Michael’s parents while we’re gone. The cats can have the house to themselves for a weekend. The dog had a half-birthday party (in case she doesn’t make it to her 17th birthday in November, I mean she seems fine but let’s be realistic here) that coincided with the Memorial Day barbecue. We invited our friends and their dogs. The birthday girl ate two-thirds of a steak, one and a half hot dogs, half a hamburger, and some doggy ice cream.

Make-a-List Monday: Fighting with a Significant Other

March 26, 2018March 24, 2018Meaghan9 Comments

A lot of people, when they disappear, their spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend claims the MP got into some kind of argument with them, and one of the parties involved stormed away angrily, and the MP was never seen or heard from again.

I’m not saying it never really happens like that. I’m sure it does. But not always.

So I’m doing a list of people who disappeared after an argument with their significant other. I’m only doing fights with spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends and exes, not fights with other people. I am counting cases where the “left after an argument” story was later proven to be a lie. I am not counting cases where the MP was seen alive by a third party AFTER the alleged argument.

It’s quite a long list. And take note of the gender disparity.

Make-a-List Monday: People with diabetes

March 12, 2018Meaghan4 Comments

Quite a long list. Both Type I and Type II are included. It’s worth noting that diabetes can make a person really loopy and even cause amnesia if their blood sugar goes haywire.

Make-a-List Monday: Irish people

March 5, 2018Meaghan1 Comment

So it’s March, and St. Patrick’s Day is soon, and I thought I’d do this list of Charley Project MPs who are from Ireland. There are a lot of Irish immigrants to the US, even now.

Kieran Burke: not an immigrant but a tourist who disappeared on a trip to Yosemite National Park
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick: assume he’s an immigrant because it says he has an Irish accent
Micheal Fergus Griffin
John Lawrence McMeel: again, it says he has an Irish accent so I assume he’s from there
Kieran A. Murphy and his wife Ornaith Murphy
Hugh Martin Nolan
John Patrick Rowan Jr.
Daniel Gerard Ryan

Bonus cases:

Stephen Joseph Davaris traveled to Ireland AFTER his disappearance and probably met his death there. A sad case.
Annie Bridget McCarrick was an American who emigrated to Ireland and disappeared there. A former IRA member is actually a suspect in her disappearance.

Make-a-List Monday: Possible Green River victims

January 8, 2018January 5, 2018Meaghan20 Comments

Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, was definitely responsible for 49 murders, but it’s likely he committed more than that. His enormous plea deal, where he pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder (he was convicted of a 49th) was in King County, Washington. Any crimes he would have committed outside of King County did not apply, and if they were able to prove he committed other murders outside the county, he could face the death penalty.

Sensibly, Ridgway hasn’t admitted to any. But there are quite a few missing and murdered women outside of King County, but in the same general area, that seem to fit the profile of the Green River killings. I thought I’d make a list of the ones on Charley.

I’m not including the confirmed victims who are still missing. This list is probably incomplete; it’s based mostly on my own subjective judgment.

Make-a-List Monday: Filipinos

December 11, 2017December 7, 2017Meaghan9 Comments

MPs of Filipino descent. There are quite a lot of them in the US; for the uninitiated, the Philippines were an American colony between 1898 and 1946. Wikipedia says that Filipino people were in what is now the United States as early as the 16th century — as sailors, I would guess — and over 40,000 Filipinos have moved to the U.S. annually since 1979.

Make-a-List Monday: Cross tattoos

November 20, 2017November 20, 2017Meaghan5 Comments

This list is of MPs who have a tattoo of a cross somewhere. Very common. Can be very easy to make.

These days I’m getting a lot of photos of tattoos off of the MP’s personal Facebook pages from before they disappeared, cause loads of people who get a new tat want to show it off on Facebook. There was this one time I remember when an MP’s Facebook page was full of these tattoo photos and I thought they were his and he must be covered in them. I was saving every image to put in his casefile, then came to realize he was actually a tattoo ARTIST and most of the tattoos on his Facebook, though “his” in a sense, were not on his body. Fortunately I figured this out before I finished writing up the case and not after I posted it.

Make-a-List Monday: Praying hands

November 13, 2017November 9, 2017Meaghan5 Comments

After a bit of a break, the Monday lists return with a list of people with tattoos of praying hands. It seems like a fairly common tattoo design, especially for religious people.

Make-a-List Monday: Schizoaffective disorder

October 2, 2017Meaghan5 Comments

Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness with characteristics of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: you get hallucinations and/or delusions, AND major mood swings. It’s the worst of both worlds, I suppose. I asked my psychiatrist what the difference was between a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder and a diagnosis of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and he indicated that the latter might have more, or more extreme, symptoms than the former.

Make-a-List Monday: Females with masculine names

September 25, 2017September 23, 2017Meaghan1 Comment

This list is of missing girls and women with first names that are much more common among men. For whatever reason it’s more acceptable to give a girl a masculine name than a boy a feminine name. Nevertheless, there aren’t too many of these. I’ve decided to go by sound rather than spelling — i.e. including names like “Jeri” because it sounds identical to the far more common, and masculine, “Jerry.”

What constitutes a “masculine” name is, of course, entirely my subjective opinion. Part of it depends on what time period the person was born; what was considered a boy’s name in one generation might have become a girl’s name by the next generation. It’s also a matter of culture/country, too.