MP of the week: Corey Kelly

This week’s featured missing person is Corey Tahj Kelly, who was 19 and within days of becoming a father when he disappeared from North Charleston, South Carolina on September 11, 2017. He left his mom’s home to stay at his sister’s, then left his sister’s place and never came back.

Corey is black, 6’0 and 165 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a tattooed arm there’s a photo of, as well as other tattoos.

He had a history of drug abuse and mental illness, both possible causes for his disappearance, but his family doesn’t think a voluntary disappearance is likely because his baby was born just ten days later and he wouldn’t have abandoned his daughter.

Because thats not suspicious or anything

Yeah, Blake Deven? Whom I wrote about earlier? Another relative, a girl named London, is missing too. From this article:

FPD reported Thursday that investigators recently identified another possible missing relative. London Deven, who would be 28 years old today, was last seen in 2019 in Fayetteville. The most recent photo of London available to investigators was taken in approximately 2007, when she was likely 12 years old. No age progression photo is available for London.

Press X to doubt she actually went missing in 2019.

This doesn’t look good

So the cops are looking for this missing boy, Blake Deven, but apparently no one has seen him in years and years. The most recent photo they can find is from 2012. The NCMEC has put up a poster with an age-progression of how he’d look now, at age 17.

I think he’s probably dead. It seems like every time this happens–a kid not reported missing till YEARS afer they were actually last seen–it turns out the kid is dead and their family knew all along.

I really hope I’m wrong.

MP of the week: Khori Richards

This week’s featured missing person is Khori Navor Richards, missing from Miami, Florida since November 4, 2014, when he was 29. Khori is black, 5’7 – 5’9 tall and 110 to 130 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a possible goatee. He has a tattoo of a treble clef on his hand.

I don’t have many details in his disappearance. He simply walked out of the house and didn’t come back, so they say. If he is still alive, today, Khori would be 39.

MP of the week: Albert Haft

This week’s featured missing person is Albert Charles Haft IV, last seen in Columbus, Ohio on December 12, 2014. Haft was 52 then, and would be 61 now. He has black hair and green eyes.

Haft had been staying in a transitional home after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital. He was caught drinking which was against the rules of the home, and they kicked him out. This was a few days before he was last seen. He wound up with a room in a motel, but had gone missing by morning.

His sister believes he could be dead. Certainly that’s possible, even likely by now. But I wonder if he is still adrift in the homeless community somewhere.

The Harmony Montgomery story is so incredibly sad and infuriating

I updated Harmony Montgomery’s casefile the other day with news of her father’s murder conviction.

Justice was served, I guess, even though her dad tried to wriggle out of it by throwing his wife under the bus, claiming she did it and he only disposed of the body. Well, Adam, only one person in the family bragged (bragged!) about “bashing Harmony around” and giving her bruises, that person was you.

He will probably never breathe free air ever again and good riddance.

But it’s not just her father and stepmother that failed Harmony. Everyone did. Adam and Kayla should never have gotten custody in the first place. Harmony’s biological mother, Crys, did get her act together eventually—it was she who raised the alarm that Harmony was missing—but there was a reason Harmony was in foster care: Crys was an addict and an unfit parent at one time. She did get clean and has apparently stayed clean, but by then she’d permanently lost custody of her kids. Her son went to an adoptive family who sound lovely. Her daughter went to Adam.

So much suffering has come from this angry young man, this career criminal who couldn’t deal with his daughter’s toileting accidents. I don’t know why people have children if they can’t deal with that sort of thing.

I think it’s unlikely that Adam will reveal the whereabouts of his daughter’s body, unless something is offered to him, like a reduced sentence. She may never be found. Or she might be found by accident, like Logan Bowman was, after twenty years.

Harmony’s story has been told so many times on Charley. Just different names and different faces. Child abuse and systemic failure.

She sits alongside Peter Kema. Relisha Rudd. And more. So many more.

I hope you all are well. My husband is still trying to find a proper job—he’s working but not full time—on account of the circumstances I have previously mentioned. If it wasn’t for “generational wealth” (aka our families helping us out) I am not sure what we’d do. But I know a lot of people have less than us.

MP of the week: Montel Aker

This week’s featured missing person is Montel Veshawn Aker, who was last seen in Rantoul, Illinois on August 10, 2011, when he was 19 years old. He’d be in his thirties today, if still alive. Montel is described as black, 5’11 and between 140 and 170 pounds. He has a tattoo of a Capricorn sign on his chest and a tattoo of a dragon on his left arm. His nickname is Mookie.

He planned to get another tattoo on the day of his disappearance.

Rudy Farias gives interview with the news

So Rudy Farias, who was recently located alive (if not well) after eight years and turned out to have been at his mom’s house the entire time, gave an interview with Fox 26 Houston. From this article:

“She would manipulate me into saying I would get arrested for speeding ticket,” Farias says. “It just felt like brainwashing, honestly.”

He says he had the free will to leave but, felt manipulated into staying and described it as feeling like “Stockholm Syndrome”.

When family or friends would come over, he had to hide. Farias says the only person he could trust was his mom because she told him so many things he wasn’t able to verify.

“I was stuck at home,” said Farias. “Somebody would come up, my mom would just tell me to stay in the room, keep the door locked, don’t let them in [and] don’t make any sounds.”

According to Farias, family members would visit the home while he was missing.

“I would just have to listen to my family, be happy and cheerful on the other side of the (expletive) door,” said Farias. “I wanted to scream for them, but at the same time I couldn’t. The only person I could trust was my mom.”

In regards to claims of sexual abuse and his mother, Farias denies them saying, “She didn’t force herself on me or anything like that. It would never be anything like that. Just stuff that really made me uncomfortable.”

Per this article, Rudy was forced to work and wasn’t compensated:

When he did leave the house, Farias said he was forced to work “12-hour shifts, seven days a week,” he said, noting he was only paid $60.

Farias also wanted to be clear: he did not have sex with his mother.

Last week, a Houston-based activist, Quanell X, told reporters after speaking with Farias that the mom had kept him as a virtual slave, at times forcing him to kiss her on the lips and sleep with her while she was naked.

Santana did try to blur boundaries, Farias said.

Yeah. That sounds godawful. Rudy’s mom sounds absolutely insane and toxic, but I’m not sure if she actually broke any laws. Since Rudy was over 18 for most of the time period in question, and he says she did not physically force him to stay at home, I don’t think this is kidnapping or false imprisonment. That’s assuming he’d even want to testify against her.

He is now staying with relatives of his mother and says he never wants to see her again. I really hope he DOESN’T see her again because I’m afraid she would take the opportunity to try to manipulate him into returning to her. Children want to please their parents, even when those parents are awful.

MP of the week: Brandon Williams

This week’s featured missing person is Brandon Steve Williams, who disappeared from Nashville, Tennessee on May 18, 2013. He was 33 at the time. Brandon is white, with black hair and brown eyes, and several scars and tattoos described/shown on his Charley Project page.

The circumstances of his disappearance aren’t very clear to me. He was Greyhounding across the country, starting in Salt Lake City, and contacted his friends and family on the way while in Nashville. He picked up some money his sister wired to him and bought a bus ticket to Florida to continue his trip, but didn’t board the bus. And he was just gone. And the police in Nashville didn’t get involved until nearly two years later.

His family has a Facebook page set up for him.

MP of the week: Terry Reeves

This week’s featured missing person is Terry Edward Reeves, a 37-year-old man who disappeared from Nottoway, Virginia on August 31, 2016.

I’ve decided to, when possible, find and post a large image of the missing person of the week on their blog entries. Not just small headshots like the Charley Project casefiles have. I won’t be able to do this with every case but I can do it with Terry:

That photo is from Donna McIntyre, the Missing and Not Forgotten lady, who posts a lot of info about missing persons on her social media. She’s a great resource. Regarding Terry she says he “got up and left only wearing his pajama bottoms, he was not even wearing any shoes. He’s a father of three children and his family knows he would not willingly just walk away from them.”

If Terry is still alive, he’d be about 44 today. I found significant discrepancies in his listed height; it was anywhere from 5’9 to 6’0, with the weight given as somewhere between 140 and 155 pounds. He has several different tattoos (there’s a photo of one of them at the casefile) and, at the time of his disappearance, he had a long beard. His nickname is Chuck.

I don’t have much information on Terry’s case, but the fact that his family doesn’t think he would have left them, and the fact that he was wearing only pajama pants, suggests that whatever happened to him was bad and that he’s no longer alive.