TL;DR: One of the FBI's unsolved codes aren't a code at all. They're the semi-literate, autistic shorthand of a terrified man documenting a drug operation, naming the people who would kill him, and recording his final movements all filtered through Transformers and X-Men storylines he used as a personal filing system. Every verifiable claim in the notes checks out against public records. The notes point directly to Gregory Lamar Knox as the killer, the four Hamdallah brothers as the operation, and the Amoco gas station at 1401 Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis as the center of everything.

Link to images of the notes: https://imgur.com/a/QNx5nPb

Link to the r/kallmekris video that inspired me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZBopyyLUQ&t=1s

THE CASE (Quick Refresher)

On June 30, 1999, the decomposing body of 41-year-old Ricky McCormick was found in a cornfield near West Alton, Missouri. 15 miles from anywhere he lived or worked, in an area known as a body dump site. He'd last been seen alive on June 27. No cause of death was ever determined. In his pockets were two handwritten notes covered in a strange mix of letters, numbers, and parenthetical groupings that no one,not his family, not the FBI, not the American Cryptanalysis Association has ever been able to read.

In 2011, the FBI publicly released the notes and asked for help. They've been unsolved ever since.

McCormick was functionally illiterate. He couldn't read or write in any conventional sense. He couldn't drive. He lived in the Clinton-Peabody housing projects at 1400 Chouteau Avenue in downtown St. Louis. He worked casual shifts at an Amoco gas station directly across the street at 1401 Chouteau Avenue. His entire daily world was essentially one city block.

He was also, based on everything we know about him, almost certainly on the autism spectrum and developmentally closer to a child or teenager... and that's the key to everything.

WHY EVERY PREVIOUS APPROACH FAILED

Everyone who has tried to crack these notes has treated them as a cipher, a system where symbols substitute for letters according to some consistent rule. Classical cryptanalysis. Frequency analysis. Pattern matching. None of it works, because the notes aren't a cipher.

They're personal shorthand written by a man whose brain organized the world differently than yours or mine.

The FBI and the codebreaking community made the same fundamental mistake: they assumed McCormick was encrypting information to hide it. He wasn't. He was recording information in the only way his mind could produce. It was a hybrid of phonetic spelling, pop culture references, bus route numbers, and a suffix system ("-SE") that he applied to nearly every word. He wasn't trying to be clever. He was trying to write things down, and this is what came out.

Once you stop looking for a key and start looking for a person, the notes open up.

THE AUTISM FRAMEWORK — WHY IT MATTERS

McCormick's family confirmed he'd been writing notes like this since childhood. His mother could read some of them. He had little to no formal education and was described as functioning at a very limited level and yet these notes display a systematic internal logic once you understand the rules.

Here's what the notes show that maps directly to autism spectrum traits:

Rigid systematization.

McCormick applies the suffix "-SE" to nearly every encoded word. WLDSE. NCBSE. SPRKSE. MTSE. It's not random. It's a personal grammar rule applied with obsessive consistency. Semi-literate people don't typically invent and rigidly maintain grammatical systems. People on the spectrum do.

Pop culture as an organizational framework.

McCormick didn't just watch and read Transformers and X-Men at work and at home. He used their storylines as a filing system for real events. When something happened in his life that reminded him of a Transformers plot, he'd encode the event using that issue number. This isn't metaphor or creativity it's a pattern-matching cognitive style where fiction and reality get organized into the same mental database. You see this in autistic individuals who use fictional frameworks to process and categorize real-world experiences they struggle to articulate directly.

Dual-layer number encoding.

The numbers in the notes carry two simultaneous meanings, a fictional reference (comic book issue number whose plot mirrors the real event) AND a geographic reference (bus route, highway exit, address). McCormick would have noticed that I-64 Exit 36A connects his home to the hospital AND that a particular comic issue #36 has a relevant plot, and encoded BOTH because to his pattern-matching brain, they're part of the same system. Neurotypical people don't naturally think this way. It's a distinctly autistic cognitive signature.

Transit system as mental map.

McCormick couldn't drive. He navigated St. Louis entirely by MetroBus. He would have memorized route numbers, stop locations, and connections the way a driver memorizes highway exits and for a person on the spectrum, those numbers would become deeply embedded organizational markers. The numbers in his notes aren't arbitrary; they're the geographic coordinates of his life.

This is why the notes defeated the FBI. The "cipher" isn't mathematical, it's neurological. You need to understand how McCormick's brain worked, not what algorithm he was running.

HOW IT WORKS

The Core Systems

Once you accept a potential autism framework, the notes resolve into four interlocking systems:

1. The "-SE" Suffix System.

Nearly every word ends in "-SE." Strip it, and you get the root word. WLDSE → WLD → WORLD. SPRKSE → SPRK → SPARK. MTSE → MT → MEGATRON. BOLTSE → BOLT → BOLTS. The "-SE" may stand for "Series Episode" (his mental label for "entry in my log") or it may just be a habitual word-ending he applied to everything. Either way, it's consistent and removable. Think "This (or Next) time on Dragon Ball Z.."

2. The "NCBE" Location Tag.

The string "NCBE" appears 10+ times across both notes. It decodes as "N CB E" — "on Chouteau Blvd [East]." This is his location stamp. Every time NCBE appears, it anchors whatever precedes it to Chouteau Boulevard — his home, his workplace, the center of the drug operation. Confirmed: Clinton-Peabody sits at 1400 Chouteau Avenue. The Amoco station at 1401. His entire world was "on Chouteau Blvd."

3. The Character Mapping System.

McCormick encodes real people as Transformers characters based on behavioral archetypes, not random assignment. The violent, destructive boss becomes Megatron. The scheming lieutenant who eventually turns on the leader becomes Starscream/Cyclonus. The brother who gets shot by his own family becomes a fallen Autobot. The minor player becomes a minor Decepticon. Every mapping corresponds to the real person's actual behavior and role.

4. The 7=T Substitution.

When the digit "7" appears inside a word (surrounded by letters), it functions as the letter "T." When "7" appears as part of a multi-digit number, it stays a number. This gives us: PR7SE → PRTSE → THIRD. 7XL → TXL → TOTAL. ONDE7 → ONDET → "ON THE." The visual similarity between "7" and "T" (vertical stroke with crossbar) is the likely origin.

THE PEOPLE — WHO McCORMICK WAS WRITING ABOUT

The Four Hamdallah Brothers

The Amoco station at 1401 Chouteau was run by the Hamdallah brothers — a violent family with deep ties to the drug trade. Previous investigations identified two brothers. Deeper digging turned up four:

Baha "Bob" Hamdallah— Primary enforcer.

Shot his own brother Bahjat in 1998. Shot at a man named Tarrence Clark in 1997. Killed Robert Steptoe in 2000. Linked to the Elroe Carr murder. Beat people with hammers. This is the guy McCormick worked for every day.

Juma Hamdallah (alias "David Radigan")— Business president, the brains.

Used a fake identity. Shot Baha in August 1999, two months after McCormick's death. Investigated by Maryland Heights Police. Eventually fled to the Philippines.

Bahjat Hamdallah— Shot by his own brother Baha at the Family Market in Tower Grove East, 1998.

Jameil Hamdallah — Registered sex offender. Peripheral figure.

In Note 1, there's a hyphenated roster:

MTSE-CTSE-WSE-FRTSE. Four items. Four brothers.

The order matches Decepticon command hierarchy. The archetypes match the real people's documented behavior. This isn't pattern-seeking. The roster has exactly four items, there are exactly four brothers, and the character dynamics mirror the actual family violence that played out in public court records.

Gregory Lamar Knox

Knox was identified by a March 2001 HUD report to Congress as "the number one supplier of narcotics to LaSalle Park Homes". This was the housing development immediately adjacent to Clinton-Peabody (which shares the address 1401 LaSalle Street). He was a suspect in at least four homicides in 1998-99 and at least two murder-for-hire schemes.

A confidential informant told police that Knox was responsible for "the murder of a black man who worked at the gas station on Chouteau Avenue and whose body was dumped near West Alton."

Point by point: Black man. Worked at the gas station. On Chouteau Avenue. Body dumped near West Alton. That description matches Ricky McCormick and essentially no one else in the known record.

Knox was arrested in July 2000 and pled guilty to drug and firearm charges in January 2001. He denied knowledge of the murder. He was never charged because the CI testimony alone couldn't meet the evidentiary threshold and no cause of death was determined in the autopsy.

THE GEOGRAPHIC PROOF — EXIT 36A

This is where the decode goes from "interesting theory" to "verifiable."

The notes contain the number line:

36 MLSE 74 SPRKSE 29KE NOOLE 173 RTSE

"36" corresponds to I-64 Exit 36A in St. Louis. That exit leaves the highway under a pedestrian bridge linking Chouteau Avenue to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital campus. McCormick couldn't drive. When he went to the emergency room on June 22 with chest pains (documented in hospital records), Exit 36A is the corridor connecting his home on Chouteau to the hospital. It's the route he would have walked.

"74 SPRKSE" decodes as Transformers issue #74, "The Void!" plus SPARK, the Transformers concept for a soul. His soul is in danger as the void closes in. But "74" also corresponds to MetroBus Route 74, the Florissant corridor heading north from downtown. That was the general direction of West Alton, where his body was found.

"29KE"— June 29, the day before his body was discovered. "KE" = KEY. The 29th was the key date.

"NOOLE"— "NO ONE." He was alone. Nobody helped.

The dual-layer encoding is the autistic signature: each number works as both a story reference AND a geographic marker, simultaneously.

WHAT THE NOTES ACTUALLY SAY

Note 2 (Page 1) — "The Story"

McCormick opens with a header identifying his Transformers framework, introduces the cast (Baha "Bob" Hamdallah prominently featured as "RCBBNSE" the double-B standing for "Bob"), and lays out his accusation:

"BPREHLD WLDONCBE" — "BETRAYED [at the] WORLD ON CHOUTEAU BLVD."

Someone betrayed him at the gas station. He was their puppet ("PRPPIT" = PUPPET). The operation was "REBORN" when new management took over, the transition from Fawaz Hamdan (the original Amoco operator who murdered his neighbor in 1994) to the Hamdallah brothers.

Then he gives three events, labeled FIRST / SECOND / THIRD, each tied to a Transformers issue:

He closes with a reference to Uncanny X-Men #194 — an issue where the X-Men are trapped between the Juggernaut and Nimrod, caught between two unstoppable forces with no safe direction. McCormick was caught between the Hamdallah brothers and Knox. Then: "7RFXL7" → TRFXLT → "TRANSFORMERS — FINAL." THE END.

Note 1 (Page 2) — "The Details"

This note provides the operational specifics:

"99.845 2UNE PLSE NCRSE BOLTSE" — "$99.85 in JUNE — [he] BOLTS." The Greyhound ticket price for his trip from St. Louis to Orlando. He left on June 15, 1999, minutes before sunrise. A walk-up one-way fare for an 860-mile trip in 1999 falls in the $80-$120 range. The non-round number ($99.845, not $100) suggests a real recorded price, not an estimate. Research confirms the Greyhound terminal was at South 15th Street — one block from Clinton-Peabody. He could walk there in five minutes.

"NSREOUSE PUTSE WLD NCBE (3 XORL)"— "Put [into the] WORLD on CHOUTEAU BLVD — 3 [trips to] ORLANDO." Three drug runs to Florida. The confirmed drug smuggling operation involved Greyhound trips to Orlando. "ORL" = Orlando is phonetically transparent.

"BN MSE NRSE 1 N2 NTRLERCB 9 NSE NTSRCK5 NE" — References to "NURSE 1 and 2" (two hospitals: Barnes-Jewish and Forest Park), "ER" + "CB" (Emergency Room on Chouteau), and "NOT SICK" — he wasn't actually sick when he went to the ER. He was hiding.

The final line: "D-W-M14 MPL XDRLX 1/2 MUN BPLSE"

This is McCormick's closing identification. It reads: "David [Radigan] — [near] 14th Street — Maryland Heights — David Radigan's Location — half a month — Baha's Place."

"XDRLX" contains D-R-L = David Radigan Location, with X as bookend markers. "MPL" = Maryland Heights, where the Juma-shoots-Baha incident was investigated by Maryland Heights Police. "1/2 MUN" = half a month — June 15 to June 27 (when McCormick was last seen alive) is 12 days, almost exactly two weeks. "M14" = South 14th Street, the eastern boundary of Clinton-Peabody.

He's naming the suspect, giving the location, and marking the timeframe. It reads like a witness statement closing.

HOW THIS SOLVES THE MURDER

McCormick was a functionally illiterate, likely autistic man living in a housing project saturated with drug activity. The Hamdallah brothers, his employers at the gas station across the street, coerced him into making Greyhound runs to Orlando to move drugs. He made at least three trips. Something went wrong on the final trip (mid-June 1999). He came back terrified. He went to the ER twice. Not because he was sick, but because he was looking for safety. He knew he was going to die. He wrote it all down in the only language his brain could produce.

The CI statement names Knox as the killer. The notes provide the corroborating narrative the CI statement lacked: the drug operation, the three Florida trips, the chain of command, the timeline, the betrayal, and the people involved.

Two months after McCormick was found dead, Juma Hamdallah shot his brother Baha, the exact fratricidal violence McCormick had been encoding (Starscream turning on Megatron). He didn't just witness the danger. He understood the internal dynamics so well that his fictional framework predicted what would happen next.

He understood the story arc. He just couldn't survive it.

WHAT CAN BE VERIFIED RIGHT NOW

Every factual claim this decode makes can be checked against public records:

WHY AUTISM IS THE ROSETTA STONE

The reason this case has been unsolved for 26 years is that everyone looked at the notes and saw a code to crack. They didn't see a person.

Ricky McCormick wasn't encrypting secrets. He was a man whose brain worked differently. He organized reality through pattern-matching, pop culture frameworks, transit routes, and rigid personal systems. Writing down what was happening to him in the only way he could. The "-SE" suffix isn't a cipher key; it's a neurological tic. The Transformers references aren't obscure cultural allusions; they're how his mind filed and retrieved information. The dual-layer numbers aren't cleverness; they're how a pattern-matching brain naturally processes a world where the exit number, the bus route, and the comic issue all overlap.

The notes are a survival document. A final testimony. The last words of a man who knew he was going to die, written in a language that only his brain could speak, stuffed into his pockets in the hope that someone, someday, would figure out how to listen.

My grandma was reading the paper while we ate breakfast and saw an article in the paper about a woman with Alzheimer’s who turned out to be a missing person. After talking about it with me, she asked me if I knew about the missing person in my family, and proceeded to drop that bombshell. To summarize, my great aunt Barbara Hanson (they called her Barbie) was born in the 50’s, was pretty free spirited, and basically did anything she wanted to do. When some of my family moved to Florida in the 70’s, she came home one night, dropped off her boom box, said she had a date, and left. That was the last time anyone saw her. One of my grandma’s sisters said she might have seen Barbara with a biker gang, but it was from a distance. They filed a missing person report, and they searched for a long time, but she was never found. My grandma and her siblings still look through the papers for obituaries and missing people, hoping to find her. The reason she thinks Bundy might have done it is because it was around the time he was active, and she had a dream about her sister at a bar with a man, who she later realized looked like Ted Bundy’s newspaper pictures. I’m not sure about that part, but is there anyway I can try to find or figure out what happened to this lost family member I just learned about?

Update: Grandma typed out what she knows off the top of her head and is going to search albums and talk to her family. This is what I have so far:

Full Name: Barbara Mildred Hanson

Gender: Female

Race: Caucasian

Born in: Cedar Rapids, Iowa?

When: March 15 1952

Disappeared while hitchhiking about 1970 in Florida, age 20-something

My grandma has done a DNA Test with Ancestry around 2019, but the account was my late grandpa’s and she doesn’t remember the login info.

Taking a break for right now while we wait to hear back from family. I’ll keep updating here, and when I have all the info I can get, I’ll make a new post with just the facts.

More info:

Lived in Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Disappeared in the nearby small town of Destin, Late Summer, 1978. Was wearing jeans, a red halter top, and moccasins, as well as a Large Gold and Jade Ring on her first finger (unsure which hand) that was too big for her but she never took it off.

She was thin, ~120 lbs, about 5’5”, with Dark Green eyes and Dark Brown hair, no scars, “nice-looking”

She was apparently always high, mostly on cocaine or heroin

The last possible but unconfirmed sighting of her was October 1978, at Frank’s Bar in Mauston, Wisconsin, with a biker gang. The possible sighting was made by one of her sisters’ friends.

More than three decades after a newborn baby girl was found stabbed to death and discarded in a trash can, Franklin Police announced a major breakthrough in one of Indiana’s most haunting cold cases.

At a news conference on Monday, 31 years after the crime shocked the community, authorities revealed they have identified the infant known for years only as “Baby Hope.”

The breakthrough came thanks to advancements in DNA and forensic genealogy. 

Investigators confirmed the baby’s biological parents through DNA analysis, ultimately identifying the mother as Cheryl Dawn Larson, who lived near Temple Park at the time of the 1994 homicide. Larson died in 2018 and could not be interviewed by detectives.

Franklin Police Chief Kirby Cochran said Larson’s then-husband was ruled out as the biological father. 

Investigators later identified Paul Richard Shepherd as the baby’s biological father. Shepherd voluntarily provided a DNA sample and has fully cooperated with the investigation.

Upon learning the truth, Shepherd was given the opportunity to name his daughter. He chose Hope Shepherd.

In a written statement, Shepherd said he was devastated to learn he had fathered a child who died under such tragic circumstances. He stated he had no knowledge that Larson had been pregnant and described the discovery as “overwhelming,” saying the grief has exacerbated his health conditions and brought him and his family lasting anguish.

“The very thought that a child fathered by me was subjected to such evil is one I cannot escape from,” Shepherd wrote.

The case began on April 13, 1994, when two young boys searching for aluminum cans found the infant’s body inside a trash can at Temple Park. The newborn had been stabbed multiple times. Her death was ruled a homicide.

The brutal crime gripped the community and gained national attention. 

Without a name or identity, local authorities and residents came together to give the baby a proper burial, naming her “Baby Hope” and laying her to rest at Greenlawn Cemetery in Franklin.

The case went cold despite nationwide efforts to identify the child or her parents. In 2019, a fresh team of investigators reopened the case and partnered with the Indiana State Police Crime Lab and forensic genealogy experts. Unlike many modern DNA investigations, the Franklin Police emphasized they only used genetic data from individuals who had explicitly consented to law enforcement matching.

While the identification of Baby Hope provides long-awaited answers, police say many questions remain.

“We know these aren’t 100 percent the answers we wanted, but we are here today with some closure for our community,” Chief Cochran said. “We will not stop seeking the truth.”

As of now, no criminal charges have been filed. Cheryl Larson’s death and a lack of clear evidence regarding her involvement in the child’s death have left the case still open. Authorities say that status could change if new evidence comes to light.

Johnson County Coroner Mike Pruitt confirmed that with Baby Hope’s identification, all previously unidentified persons in the county have now been named.

The press conference, held at Baby Hope’s gravesite, was not only a moment of closure but also a reminder of the decades of heartbreak and unanswered questions.

Investigators continue to ask anyone with information about the case to come forward.

Case from 2013, Brandon Lawson has been missing for 11 years and in 2022 there was belief that remains found were his. Clothing nearby seemed to confirm their beliefs.

Today on Facebook his wife confirmed the DNA results.

I have chills, I searched this case up on a whim today for the first time in at least a year and I find the update was posted by his wife three hours ago.

On April 2, 2000 my mother was murdered by her boyfriend and his friends. In Matheny West Virginia in the trailer park. She was pregnant and they set her body on fire. It's a cold case some how her name was Kimberly Dawn Dishmon Birchfield. I wish I knew what happened.

A week or 2 ago, someone posted an old car that was left abandoned in a parking garage just on an off chance it belonged to someone missing. Someone else commented thanking them for the post and said their friend went missing with their vehicle and had not been found. I replied and recommended that the waterways in the area be searched for their car and recommended several dive groups that search for people who went missing in their vehicles. Often when someone goes missing in their vehicles, they actually went into local ponds, rivers or lakes. Sometimes it's just a car accident, sometimes a suicide, and sometimes foul play and they were dumped in the water.

Anyway, I'm not in any way associated with any of these search groups. Never met them. I just follow them on Youtube. Anyway, one of the groups I suggested, Chaos Divers found another missing person today. Karen Schepers disappeared in her car 42 years ago. She had been at a bar with coworkers when she left after 1am and she just disappeared. No clue what happened and she was never found. The town just formed a new Cold Case group at the police department. This is their first case and they decided to search the river so they contacted Chaos Divers to help search.

They found her today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD9Jx1ns7bA&ab_channel=ChaosDivers

The dive groups I follow on Youtube are Chaos Divers, Adam Brown Adventures, Exploring with Nug, Depths of History, and Doug Bishop. They're all separate groups that have all gotten involved in searching waterways for missing people. They occasionally meet up to do searches together so they all know each other but operate separate Youtube channels.

My mom loved broken, fragile things: orphaned baby birds fallen out of the nest, baby squirrels who had no one to care for them, dogs who were literally dropped on their head and "not quite right" (Popeye - she loved him so much! such a silly little critter with one eye bigger than the other) She also loved me, not because of blood, but because she chose to love me. She chose to love my dad, and when she met me, she immediately became my maternal person in my life. I loved her more than I loved anyone in the world. She protected me from my dad's rage. She had a gift for seeing what was worth saving when no one else could.

On September 28, 2015, Jeni was found unresponsive in the bedroom of a home in Colorado Springs, CO. She had only been living there for 19 days, moved away from her family, all back in Texas and California. She knew no one else in Colorado except her husband and their "roommates". She was 36 years old. She died in the early hours of September 29. The El Paso County Coroner ruled her death a suicide by hanging. The Colorado Springs Police Department initially filed the case as a Death of Undetermined Origin. It was closed on November 1, 2015, just two days after they received information that she had messaged her cousin that she was afraid of her husband. The man who supposedly found her body. That information was documented, and yet, the case was closed anyway.

I have obtained the police reports, autopsy, and toxicology. Here is what the documents say:

1. The first officer on scene noted no visible marks on Jeni's neck and no ligature material visible hen he arrived, despite her husband's account that she had been suspended from the door handle.

2. Responding paramedics raised concerns that she may not have hung herself, significant enough that the Violent Crimes Section was called in.

3. Her blood alcohol level was 241–280 mg/dL, a level that would severely impair coordination and judgment.

4. Days before her death, Jeni sent a message to her cousin saying she was afraid of her husband. Her cousin contacted police on October 30, 2015. It was documented. The case was closed two days later, November 1, 2015.

5. The coroner's suicide ruling relied in part on AH (husband)'s own account of Jeni's prior suicide attempts, despite there being no record of this at all. He also claimed she was bipolar. She was not. Absolutely not.

6. There was a documented history of domestic violence between Jeni and AH.

I have reached out to the police department, and am waiting for a call back from another homicide detective. I am planning on calling the district attorney tomorrow as well, since it's been a week and I haven't heard back from the PD yet.

If you have information or want to follow updates:

Please share this post. Follow this thread for updates as I pursue this case through official channels. I am actively working to have this investigated as a potential homicide. If you knew Jeni, or know anything about the circumstances of her death, please reach out.

UPDATE 6.17.2026 I spoke with a homicide detective at CSPD and told him my concerns about what had happened. I was a little off put by how he offered answers to questions that were never asked to AH, like why did he tell me a different story than whats in the police report? The detective told me it was to somehow make her death easier on me, as if being told a cute little lie about going out to get ice cream for her is better than being told the truth 10 years later when youre finally in a position to seek answers. I would hsve preferred the same story, or ya know, the truth? Was he outside lighting a bonfire or did he go to the store? Did they even check to see if he had l lit a bonfire...?

This isn't going to be easy.

Hi, I am writing this in hopes to help out a family I have never met.

In March 2026, a sheriff & an FBI agent showed up to my father's door asking about a missing man who disappeared without a trace in San Diego, California in September 1988.

The missing person in question is James Ronald Peters. He was a 19-year-old, white male, with gorgeous blonde hair. Last seen September 3rd, 1988, in El Cajon, California. His mother was the last known person to talk to him and to see him. She was also the one to report him missing. I will leave more information about James and known details in the link at the bottom of this post.

This is where my father comes in and how I hope to help this family.

I do not know why the police wanted to ask my father questions or how they even linked him to this person at all (he didn't think it was important to ask. He just assumed he's the only one alive from the time). The information I am going to share is based on my dad's life and relationship's he had at the time that could possibly give further information as to who James was with when he went missing. I will try to make this as simple as possible.

My dad is an ex-convict. He spent most of his time in and out of prison. He hung out with gang members, drug dealers & questionable people to say the least. Throughout his troubled life, he ran into many people and would do "odd jobs" for them just to make a living. Anyone who would hire felons. My dad was 40 years old in 1988.

One of the men he met was a man named George Keen. He was a business man who was part owner of Archwell Shipyard in San Diego. Which in 1990, George and his partner were accused of embezzling money through the company (Link will be posted below). My dad worked for George as a ranch hand on his ranch.

The FBI agent showed my dad a picture of a Blue Flatbed Truck and asked if he ever drove it before. The detectives think that was the last known vehicle James was seen in around the time he went missing. Which my dad remembered as a company truck that was used for employees to transfer things throughout the shipyard & ranch property.

My dad remembers that George had a son who was big time into drugs and morally not the best person. The sons name was Richard. According to an online obituary site, George died in 2008 and Richard died in 2025. They're mentioned because it's the only link between my dad and James. Plus their criminal backgrounds is suspicious.
My dad never met James and has no idea who he was. But if James was last seen in the flatbed truck, I am assuming that they worked for the same company at the time. The shipyard had over 300 employees working there at the time.

My dad is not a person of interest in this case. Besides, he was in prison at the time when James disappeared (completely unrelated). He also moved away from California in 1994. I think since it's been 38 years since this happened, the detectives are trying to close the case and bring closure to the family. My dad is 78 now and probably the only one alive who still remembers some people who were around at the time.

So if anyone in the El Cajon, San Diego, Ramona area were around in the late 1980s that are relevant to George Keen, Richard Keen, or Archwell Shipyard, can you please bring information to light. Even people who might have possibly known James Peters can maybe tell what kind of people he was hanging around with. I'm really hoping that sharing this information could help this young mans' poor family move on with their lives. Maybe my dad is the missing link after all these years.

A few more details about James' case.

- James went missing in September, 1988 in El Cajon. His green Volkswagen Bug was found 2 months later in December, 1988. 33 minutes away (24 miles difference) in a remote area in Ramona California, with the vehicle stripped of its parts. There was also a foot-long swastika carved on the top of the vehicle. There is a picture in the articles I will share below.

- James had a roommate who was charged in October 1988 for drug possession and attempted murder. He allegedly beat another roommate with a baseball bat. The charged roommate was named Salvador Richard Ruiz. I guess he was cleared as a person of interest.

- There are rumors James' disappearance could have been linked to the Children of the Rainbow Group. It is unclear if he had any association with the group at all.

Please read the articles posted for more details on James and anyone else mentioned in this post.

I will be cross-posting this to multiple subreddits that are related to missing persons, cold cases, and unsolved cases just to spread the word.

To be clear, I am not accusing anyone of anything nefarious or criminal as I post this.

I will post updates if my dad remembers any more information or if someone reaches out. Thank you for taking the time to read and share this.

James Peters missing person information also includes information about roommate-

https://charleyproject.org/case/james-ronald-peters

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/information-sought-on-el-cajon-man-missing-since-1988/3126175/

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=1017dmca

Article about Lawsuit for George Keens embezzlement-

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-03-me-3135-story.html

Obituary for George Keen-

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G2N9-973/george-thomas-keen-jr.-1932-2008

For more information please contact-

Agency Name: El Cajon Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Cold Case Unit
Agency Phone Number: 619-593-5774
Agency E-mail: [email protected]
Agency Case Number: 387530

NCIC Case Number: M330264916
NamUs Case Number: 11673

As reported by PHILADELPHIA (CBS NEWS):

A murder mystery that has gripped Philadelphia for 65 years has been solved. America's unknown child, "The Boy in the Box," now has a name and criminal charges could still be filed.

A child was found murdered, stuffed in a box and abandoned in Philadelphia decades ago. On Wednesday, for the first time, the Philadelphia Police Department said they have uncovered the boy's name.

"To have a name on that stone, that's what everybody has been wishing forever," Linda Tamburri said. "I'm just glad I'm here to actually know I'll see that little boy's name on the stone."

Cemetery workers at Ivy Hill were brought to tears Wednesday when CBS3 Investigations told them Philadelphia police now know the name of "The Boy in the Box."

People like Dave Drysdale and Tamburri have cared for him and for his final resting place like he was their own.

"I think it's wonderful," Drysdale, cemetery secretary and treasurer at Ivy Hill, said. "I just wish that the police officers and all the people involved who long passed away were still here to see it because that was one of their goals and a couple of them said 'I hope they live long enough to see a name put on there.'"

Drysdale was here on the day in 1998 when the remains were transferred to Ivy Hill from Potter's Field. He can't believe police have a name. He's humbled to now engrave it on this headstone.

"Some day, there will be a name on there and it will be great," Drysdale said. "It will be great."

CBS3 Investigations confirmed police know the boy's name after years and years of DNA analysis, cross-referenced with genealogical information.

Lead detectives never stopped searching for answers, and CBS3 reported developments along the way.

"Cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma," now-retired Det. Sgt. Bob Kuhlmeier said in April 2021. "He appeared to be cleaned and freshly groomed with a haircut."  

Police first told CBS3 major progress had been made in their search for an identity after a DNA profile was successfully developed.

Detectives exhumed the remains at Ivy Hill Cemetery in 2019, retrieving more DNA.

Investigators used that fresh DNA and information obtained from genealogy databases to track down family members.

Philadelphia police will be giving an update on the case as early as next week.

I wonder if anyone here knows of any resources to track down information on the murder of my grandmother. I have only very vague details as it's something I am aware happened but we were never allowed to talk about it or know of any details and from what I understand it was never solved. I don't even know her first name that's how little it was talked of growing up. Her last name was Kelley, it happened in Auburn, Maine in 1957/58. That is all I know and am unable to find anything just using a Google search. Maybe it's something that just doesn't exist on the internet, was wondering if anyone here knew of resources or databases that I am not aware of. Thanks for any help.

My mother saved my life by cursing me out and making me go to school. It was the day after my 11th birthday. I had every intention to stay home and play the new Super Nintendo games I had received for my birthday. Usually, my mother wouldn’t have had any problem with this, but that day she was adamant that I was going to get up and go to school. We got into a terrible argument and both said very hurtful things to each other. I had no choice but to go.

As soon as I got to school I had this overwhelming feeling that I just wanted to go home and lay on my mother's lap and cry. It wasn’t because of the argument but it was something else I just couldn’t put my finger on. The school day was finally over and I still couldn’t shake this feeling. My godbrother and downstairs neighbor wanted to come over and play the game and even though I still just wanted to get in the house and cry, I reluctantly agreed.

When we got to the door it was locked. No big deal. Looked under the mat and the key wasn’t there. Still not unusual. I climbed up the back patio and let myself in. I immediately went to the front door to let my company in. After I let them in I went to the kitchen to get a piece of cake and my downstairs neighbor went straight to the tv and cut it and the game on.

For some reason, my godbrother started to walk through the apartment. When he came back into the living room he told us that we needed to go outside. We begrudgingly went. Once outside he proceeded to say “I don’t know how to say this, but your mother is dead”. I darted back in and went straight to her bedroom. She was tied to the bed with the phone cord and her throat had been sliced open. There was blood everywhere.

I ran back outside and downstairs to call 911 as our phone wasn’t connected at the time. I didn’t really know what to say and I think the operator must have thought it was a prank because she hung up on me. So I called my grandma and told her. After that, I just sat on the bottom step until the police and paramedics started pulling up. My grandma arrived shortly after and it gets blurry from there.

It will be 26 years on September 26 that this happened. Still no arrests. I feel like everyone in town knows exactly who did it, the same people I’ve been saying for years, but no one is willing to say anything. Mind you her boyfriend was killed in the same way about a year before. This happened in Plymouth, North Carolina, and her name is Sonja Day. You can also look at details of her boyfriend’s murder on the North Carolina Innocence Commission website under the Spruill case. My cousin was wrongfully convicted of his murder and after all this time they are finally trying to do something about it. I’ve always been adamant that the same people are responsible for both murders.

Sorry for being so long-winded. Probably should have made this its own answer. So that’s how my mother saved my life. I would like to think that if I stayed home that day, I could have saved her somehow, but it likely wouldn’t have gone that way.

Heike Leich went missing in Central Pennsylvania in 2007, a hiker found a skull across the street from her home in 2020, and today (Feb. 20, 2024) the DA confirmed that DNA evidence matched the skull to her.

https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/dauphin/found-skull-matched-to-pa-woman-missing-16-years-da-says/?utm_source=reddit-cold-cases&utm_medium=seed

For me, I always go back to the Brandon Swanson case in Minnesota. He accidentally drove his car into a ditch and then went missing while on the phone with his father. After massive searches of the surrounding areas and the Yellow Medicine River, no sign of Brandon has ever been located.

Where is Brandon Swanson?

It bothers me badly that someone can vanish without a trace and never be seen or heard from again.

I wish Brandon Swanson could be found in 2025.

I was looking through some cold cases in my area and ended up finding 6 possible victims of an unknown Serial Killer from 1977-1987. There are some striking similarities between these cases from the age and gender of the victims, the way they were killed, to the area they were dumped. Should I inform the cold case detectives in the area of this? Or have they likely already came to a conclusion on that possibility?

On Saturday, November 2 1996, Val Nettles waved goodbye to her 16-year-old son Damien as he headed out the door around 7.30pm.

Gurnard, the village on the Isle of Wight where they lived, was the type of place where you’d leave your windows open if you popped out to the shops and where teenagers roamed freely between each other’s homes. The teenager left their home braved the grey and gusty evening to meet with his friend Chris Boon and his brother Davey, as well as two 14-year-old girls they knew.

When Damien and Chris grew bored of the small gathering, they went in search of a more exciting Saturday night. The friends picked up a few cans of cider from a newsagent and took a ferry from East Cowes to Cowes, a journey that took just a few minutes.

After wandering around the town, at 10.30pm the boys parted ways. But instead of heading home to dry off from the rain like Chris had, Damien nipped into local chip shop Yorkies where some Army personnel were ordering food. When the manager of Yorkies closed up shop, she spotted Damien, dressed in blue jeans and a dark fleece, stride past at 11.45pm. 

Witnesses saw the teenager walking along the High Street and he was last seen around 12:02am on November 3 on street CCTV. Police have since lost this footage.

The following morning, on November 3, Damien’s family woke and realised he hadn’t come home. Val and Ed called his friends then jumped into their car and drove all across the island looking for their lost son.

While the Coastguard scanned the waters for Damien that day, police refused to send out search teams or sniffer dogs immediately.

‘People have told me he was cut up and fed to the pigs, that he was chopped up and put in a lobster pot, that he was thrown overboard in the middle of the Channel, that his head was kicked like it was a soccer ball, that he was stuck with a pitchfork…’ Val, 72, told Metro as she reeled off just some of the horrifying rumours she has heard in the 28 years since her son Damien vanished.

‘All of these things can’t be true,’ she continues. ‘But they stay in my mind, like visualisations. Even if I dismiss a rumour, those thoughts are still here.’

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary have made a total of eight arrests in relation to Damien’s disappearance but each were let go without charge.

On October 3rd, 1993, my brother, Dominic Namnard, was murdered with a gunshot wound to his head and then shoved under a bus bench in the Butterfly Light Rail Station when he was thirteen in Sacremento, California. Including his friend, Jones (12), who was also shot.

I appreciate everyone’s help in giving me information on what I can do. I was given the number to homicide and their email and called everyday but never got an answer.

I called the Sacremento Sherriff’s non-emergency department and the Sacremento Sherriff’s records department. They had me call back each department back and forth and kept redirecting me back to homicide who didn’t answer my emails or voicemails.

I told them I need a different number or at least the number to the detective. Initially, Sherriff’s records told me they did not have an records of my brothers murders. I told them that it was a high profile case that was on the news for week. She directed me to another officer who contacted her Sergant and was able to give me the last name to the new Detective Sergant who is now currently assigned to this case. They informed me that records are blocked out of the case because it’s highly confidential.

The department told me to keep calling homicide and to expect they don’t answer because they are busy with other cases but to keep trying and leave voicemails.

I decided to do my own research with the little information they gave me and I was able to locate the Sergant’s (who is assigned to his case) full name and badge number as well as personal number. I finally got in contact with him. He gave me his desk number so that I can finally get ahold of him so that I don’t have to contact his personal phone number.

He informed me that he never saw this case before and didn’t know about it until I brought it to his attention. He did confirm that he is assigned to it and that he is getting his team to look further into it now.

He looked through my brothers incident records and he is having his team move forward with this case and will re-examine the forensics since they have not done so before with the new advanced technology we have today compared to 1993.

He said he can’t promise me anything but they do have a history of solving cold cases from decades ago.

He said he cannot give me any information right now because he doesn’t have any at the moment but will continue to inform me and my dad (I gave him my dad’s name and current phone number).

They are finally looking into his case for more information which I’m very relieved about but hoping for a little more.

If anyone has information or can find information can you let me know? Small or large information is helpful.

I posted in the Sacremento Reddit, the Elk Grove Reddit, and the Citrus Heights Reddit. No one who knew my brother or family has commented or reached out yet.

I have contacted my friends in Elk Grove to do some research and find anyone who may have known my brother and family but have not found anyone yet.

Also I had a lot of people tell me about the podcast with Cindy Brown and podcaster, Jonathon Mark on CONNECT. I just want to inform everyone that I already knew about Cindy Brown because my sister and mom showed it to me. She does not know my brother or Jone and she has never met them. I already spoke to her directly and she has zero information and everything she claimed on the podcast was false and disappointing as well as disrespectful. I do appreciate everyone for bringing her to my attention though.
I informed Jonathon and he claimed he would help me with his connection to law enforcement but never reached back out to me. I’m honestly not expecting anything from him since he is a claimed celebrity medium.

ADDITIONAL UPDATE: The news says the police suspected that the boys ran away from home because they had multiple pairs of clothing. They did not have multiple pairs of clothing. They had enough for only one night and for school as well as school supplies. There's no evidence of them planning to run away.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7511567/dominic-namnard

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/cold-case-homicides-that-haunt-the-greater-sacramento-area/103-477359931

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/10/05/2-boys-bodies-discovered-at-sacramento-rail-station/

I want to bring attention to a missing person case that went cold way too fast. Katelin Akens was 19 years old when she disappeared on December 5, 2015, after visiting family in Spotsylvania, Virginia. She was supposed to fly back to Arizona for beauty school, but she never made it to the airport.

Her former stepfather was the last person to see her. He claimed to have dropped her off at a commuter rail station, but her suitcase was later found dumped in a drainage ditch miles away. And despite being the last known person with her, he refused to take a lie detector test.

Now, I knew Katelin personally, and she confided in me back in high school that he had sexually assaulted her. If she was telling the truth (and I believe she was), that means she was left alone with a known abuser right before she vanished. And yet, this case was barely investigated.

I don’t want to put personal details out there, but I grew up in this area, and I can tell you Caroline County, Virginia, has a history of messed-up things happening and getting swept under the rug.

Roomer has it her former stepdad had connections in law enforcement. People around her suspected that police deliberately didn’t press him as hard as they should have. And in a town this small, once the cops decide something is a dead end, it dies.

But this case doesn’t feel like a dead end. It feels like a cover-up, or at the very least, negligence.

I’m posting this because I don’t want her story to disappear completely. Maybe someone out there remembers something, maybe someone has new information, or maybe this just needs to be put in front of the right people again. Because Katelin didn’t just vanish into thin air. Something happened to her, and the people who were supposed to find out never really tried.

If anyone has resources or ideas for how to get renewed attention on this case, I'd appreciate it. She deserves better than being forgotten.

On December 16, 1994 in Splendora, Texas, Dudley Truett Scott got in an argument with his mother and took off walking into a wooded area near Creekwood Drive at 3 PM. Dudley had done this hundreds of times, but this day he never returned. What happened to this 52-year-old disabled man? Dudley is one of the first of the 61 unsolved missing persons cases in Montgomery and Liberty counties. What evil has been lurking in these neighboring Texas counties?

Dudley was non-verbal and had Down syndrome. He was on medication at the time of his disappearance that could cause disorientation and seizures if not taken. Dudley is a 5 foot, 140-pound Caucasian male. He has brown hair and blue eyes. Dudley has a cleft palate and had no teeth. He also has a vertical scar on his abdomen.

Last seen wearing blue short sleeved coveralls with no shirt, blue boxer shorts (possibly John Blair) and brown lace up boots. Carrying 2 wallets, a homemade identification card, and a Swiss Army knife. 

Dudley Scott is my great uncle who disappeared before I was born. Growing up, I was told a lot of stories about Dudley. He was a sweet old disabled man who wouldn’t hurt a fly and was a mommas boy. My grandma died wishing she knew where her brother was. I hope one day this sweet old man receives justice and his body is recovered so he can be laid to rest with his mom and sister. 

EDIT TO ADD LINK TO FAMILY PHOTOS OF DUDLEY: https://imgur.com/a/8uVhLSO

Sources

https://charleyproject.org/case/dudley-truett-scott

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/994dmtx.html

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/9051

40 years ago today in Blairstown NJ A teenager was found brutally murdered. investigators couldn’t find her identity until today. At 9:30 am est this morning She has been identified as Dawn Olanick. She was a 17 year old girl from long island.

It made me feel like my hard work paid off

Here is the link to the news article: https://newsradio1310.com/ixp/97/p/south-idaho-man-still-missing-since-leaving-for-work-19-yrs-ago/

Here is the link to one of my posts on the case and the one that is linked in the article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Idaho/comments/1hjuu0d/it_has_been_19_years_since_an_idaho_father_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

In September 2015, my mom Jennifer Hedge (maiden name Kelly) died in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her death was ruled a suicide by hanging.

I have now obtained the full police report. It documents:

- A prior domestic violence incident between Jeni and her husband
- A Facebook message Jeni sent to her cousin just days before her death saying she was afraid of him
- Responding paramedics' concerns at the scene that she may not have hung herself

She had recently relocated to Colorado with her husband. She knew no one there except him.

The case was closed. I am seeking justice for her. Has anyone navigated something similar? What are my next steps?

UPDATE 7/11/2026:

Thank you to everyone who commented, shared search strategies, and reached out. I want to share what has developed since I first posted.

I now have the complete CSPD case report from an incident on September 18, 2015 — ten days before Jeni's death. Officers were dispatched after a 911 call in which Jeni could only say "I can't, I can't, I can't" before the line disconnected.

According to the report, Jeni told officers her husband:

- Choked her with both hands
- Dragged her by the throat from the front porch into the house
- Held her down on the bed
- Repeatedly threatened to "break her face"

Officers documented redness on her neck and chest. The domestic violence form filed that night has "strangled" marked under the defendant's actions. He was arrested at the scene for assault, harassment, and resisting arrest.

Ten days later, Jeni was dead, and her death was ruled a suicide by hanging. The case was closed on the same date the coroner signed the autopsy....one day after a family member contacted police with concerns.

I am now working with a writer and a podcast on telling Jeni's story fully (thank you both so very much), and I am continuing to pursue legal options and an independent forensic review.

If you lived in the Colorado Springs area in 2015, knew Jeni, or have professional insight into strangulation cases and death investigations, I would be grateful to hear from you.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS)

"The Boy in the Box" has been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, Philadelphia police said Thursday.

Police on Thursday revealed the name of the "Boy in the Box," answering a decades-old question of his identity and bringing new light to a mystery that has bewildered the nation and investigators for years.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the case was Philadelphia's oldest unsolved homicide.

"No one ever came forward to claim the child," Outlaw said, noting that countless officers, detectives, geneticists and doctors worked the case that had "haunted" the city and the world.

"His entire identity and his rightful claim to own his existence was taken away," Outlaw said. She added that she hopes no one will never again have to wait this long for justice, and honored the detectives who worked the case and did not live to see this break.

"This announcement only closes one chapter in this little boy's story, while opening up a new one," said Outlaw.

DNA investigation brought police to discovering the boy's identity.

CBS3 has closely followed the investigation and kept the case on TV and online. Last week, CBS3 Investigations was first to break that police had finally identified the boy.

Details of the investigation

Police said they had suspicions as to who was responsible for Zarelli's death, but no information on suspects to release at this time.

Zarelli has surviving relatives in the area, police say.

New development in a long investigation

The young boy was found along a Fox Chase roadside in February 1957. A bassinet box held the badly beaten remains.

Investigators were desperate early on to find his name.

Posters were distributed by the thousands across the city.

Despite exhaustive efforts, police were left empty-handed.

Evidence found inside the lair of the man suspected of killing Madeleine McCann, Christian Brueckner, has been revealed for the first time.

The findings came about after a dog ran on to the property in 2016 and alerted to a shallow grave. A full scale search of the premises was then launched, with 100 officers combing through the site to find any evidence to link him to Maddie’s disappearance in 2007.

Detectives uncovered a number of shocking pieces of evidence.

Weird finds: Unlicensed guns, ammunition, children’s toys and bikes were all uncovered inside the factory. More than 75 swimming costumes belonging to children were also discovered.

Incriminating images: Photos show Brueckner at a key location of interest for detectives searching for Maddie.

Hard drive evidence: A hard drive of images were found hidden on a laptop inside the lair. The photos are believed to be crucial in persuading investigators Maddie died shortly after her disappearance.

Chemicals inside his car: A car matching the description of Brueckner’s vehicle in Germany was found inside the lair. Pictures show bottles of substances inside the car – but officers destroyed them without testing what they were.

Suitcase full of images: A metal suitcase containing images of young girls was discovered during the police search. There was also a list of phone numbers and an address book found inside.

Insurance document: This document proves for the first time Brueckner was at a festival in April 2008, where he allegedly all but confessed to killing Maddie. Witness Helge B said Brueckner told him the young girl ‘didn’t scream’. But the credibility of this has since been questioned.

Read a breakdown of the evidence in full here, as well as a timeline of events following Madeleine's disappearance: https://metro.co.uk/2025/05/07/six-new-pieces-of-evidence-found-hidden-inside-madeleine-mccann-suspects-lair-23039241/

The FBI was digging in Centerville, Kentucky this week. Property records show that the land they’re interested in used to belong to a former trucker who passed away in 2013. There are some interesting details coming out about this place. The news mentioned that when this guy lived there, he had “no trespassing” signs everywhere and kept dogs chained up in a wooded area on the property. After he died, it sounds like the house was torn down by just pushing it into the basement—apparently, that’s cheaper than hauling everything away.

New owners came in, bought the land, and built a new house in a different spot on the property. But this week, the FBI showed up with heavy equipment and started digging on the site of the old house. They told the news it was part of some “judicially authorized activity.”

With him being a trucker, there’s a lot of speculation that this could be connected to the Redhead Murders from the '80s. Another name people use for that killer is the Bible Belt Strangler. The trucker who owned the property before had a pretty rough life, with a lot of tragedy and stress, especially during the '80s, so there’s talk that maybe he could have snapped and started killing.

But here’s the twist—apparently, a group of high school kids ‘solved’ the Redhead Murders a few years back, pointing the finger at a different guy who died in prison. So now people are debating whether the FBI’s digging is related to this old theory or if there’s something entirely new going on here. (As far as I can tell, the FBI has never officially closed the Redhead Murders case.)

“In November 2015, 17 Year old Ryan Zimmerman was reported missing from Columbus, Ohio. This was after his parents received a certified letter stating their car, Ryan had been driving, had been impounded. They had last heard from Ryan just two months earlier. He moved to Ohio from Corbin, Kentucky. Family says he moved to Ohio to move in with friends. Ryan was an avid gamer.

In January 2016 a woman walking her dog discovered human remains. Mercer County detectives have been working the case for the last three and a half years. Forensic analysts were unable to use regular techniques for identification because the head was sawed off and arms and legs were cut off at the joints.

In May 2017, the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department contracted IsoForensics who created a map based on the water content found in the bones. The water samples were compared to regional dirt samples across the country to find areas where the victim could have lived the last 10 years of his life.

An area that hit all the compound found was near north of Corbin, Kentucky.

An analyst at BCI became intrigued with the case because the time frame, victim’s age and description matched a missing person’s case in Columbus. The missing person was Zimmerman.

The parents have been ruled out as suspects in the case, according to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department.

Current subjects of interest are being located and questioned by authorities.

A location for the murder has not been found. Mercer County Police believe that his body was brought to the state park after his death.

The Mercer County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public to help them share Zimmerman’s photo to try and get more information.”

Sources: https://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2020/06/18/remains-found-belong-to-ryan-zimmerman-police-ask-for-help/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dayton247now.com/amp/news/local/mercer-county-sheriff-identifies-remains-found-in-2016

https://www.wymt.com/2020/06/16/mercer-county-sheriff-ids-victim-in-ohio-2016-human-remains-case/