U.F.O.! Jim Sullivan's Disappearance

Jim (James Anthony) Sullivan

He was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who released two albums before he disappeared without a trace in New Mexico on March 6, 1975.
He was born on August 13, 1940.
He grew up in the Linda Vista area of San Diego, California.

He was a high school quarterback.
He "grew up in a government housing project.
He decided to play music after listening to local blues groups.
He married, and played guitar in a local rock band, the Survivors.

His wife worked at Capitol Records.

Sullivan wrote songs and performed in clubs in the Los Angeles area.
He became established at the Raft club in Malibu.
He became friends with Lee Majors, Lee Marvin, and Harry Dean Stanton.
He appeared in the movie Easy Rider.
He performed on the José Feliciano television show.
The album, U.F.O., was released in 1969, and featured his songs in a style blending folk, rock and country.

In 1972, he recorded a second album, Jim Sullivan.

Sullivan increasingly turned to alcohol and his marriage began to to fail.

Disappearance

On March 4, 1975 he travelled to Nashville, and try to find success there.
He drove alone from Los Angles in his Volkswagen Beetle. 

March 5, after being warned by a highway patrol over his driving, he checked into the La Mesa Motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. 

He did not sleep there, and left his key inside the room.

He bought vodka at the town store. 

He was seen the following day about 26 miles away, at a remote ranch owned by the Gennetti family. His car was later found abandoned at the ranch.

He was last seen walking away from it. 

The car contained Sullivan's money, papers, guitar, clothes, and a box of his unsold records.

He was never seen again.

Search parties failed to find any trace of him. 

Former Deputy Robin Renea Abrams Missing before going to trial against her police officer boyfriend.

Robin Renea Abrams

The last time anyone saw her was on October 4, 1990.

Abrams and her father waved to each other as they passed each other on Goodenow Road during the early evening  in her hometown of Beecher, Illinois.

Her red 1989 Dodge Daytona hatchback, turned up eleven hours later in Harvey, Illinois with the doors locked and keys still in the ignition. 

Her camera was in the car.

A witness said two men in a tow truck dropped the car off at 10:00 p.m.

At 3:00 a.m., a neighbor called the police to report someone breaking into the car. 

Three days after Abrams vanished, her purse was found in a residential area three blocks away from the car's original location. Whoever took it left her wallet, but took the credit cards from inside it.

She dated a married police officer, Anthony Marquez, beginning in 1987. 

They met while she was working at a McDonald's restaurant.

He convinced her to join the sheriff's department.

She was hired her as a deputy in January 1988.

October 1998, Marquez allegedly smashed a car that Abrams was driving with her mother was in the passenger seat. 

She ended her relationship with him and in November she filed a complaint against him.

She said he'd harassed her and slashed her vehicle's tires on four occasions. 

Marquez was charged with criminal damage to property, but the charge was dismissed for lack of evidence in April 1989.

The sheriff's department fired Abrams in December 1988.

Marquez then filed a criminal complaint against her, alleging harassment. that was dismissed.

Marquez filed additional harassment complaints against Abrams in the summer of 1989. 

She was arrested several times that year, including in May for disorderly conduct.

No charges were brought.

In August she was arrested for reckless driving, Marquez claimed she'd tried to run him off the road.
October 1989, a jury found Abrams not guilty.

In November 1989, Abrams got a restraining order against Marquez. 

She accused him of stalking her and falsely claiming she'd smashed her vehicle into his. 

The order was extended until November 27, 1990.

December 1989, she filed a federal lawsuit against Marquez and seven other members of the sheriff's department.

She alleged wrongful termination, sexual harassment and violation of her civil rights. 

She was scheduled to give a deposition in the case on October 22, 1990.

The police department fired Marquez in December 1990. 

He still lives in the area. 

Abrams's lawsuit was dismissed in January 1991.

Her family believes Marquez was involved in her disappearance. She told them if she ever went missing, he probably had something to do with it. 

Registered Nurse Missing From Alaska

Thomas Anthony Nuzzi

He was last seen by his friends on June 15, 2001.

At 9:47 p.m on June 18, he was captured on a surveillance tape at a store near the Super 8 hotel on Minnesota Drive in Anchorage, Alaska.
He purchased cigarettes, two lighters, chips and soda.
He failed to arrive at work in Bethel, Alaska on June 19.
He has never been heard from again.
His red 1997 Jeep Cherokee was found at the Alpenglow Ski Area in Chugach State Park twelve miles outside of Anchorage, with the keys inside.

His bicycle was found at his unlocked storage unit
This leads authorities believe he was on foot when he went missing.

A security guard reported witnessing a woman and a man, attempting to break into Nuzzi's Jeep on June 15.
The same woman was apparently seen, in a surveillance video, standing next to Nuzzi at the gasoline station on the night he was last seen.

June 18, people living across the street from the Super 8 hotel saw apparently the same couple, break into the vehicle.
The man eventually got into the Jeep and drove away.

A housekeeper at the Super 8 says she saw a man lying on the floor of Nuzzi's room on the morning of June 19.
She came back in the afternoon and saw the same man, sitting in Nuzzi's room on the bed.

At the time, the woman was described as Caucasian and possibly in her twenties, about 5'2 and 105 pounds with dark hair past her shoulders.
The man was described as tall, thin and dark-skinned with decaying teeth.

Nuzzi's nephew called back all the recent dialed, missed and received telephone calls on Nuzzi's cellular phone.
Several of the numbers connected to pagers and motels, and one to a halfway house.
None of the people who answered had heard of Nuzzi.

Nuzzi was employed as a registered nurse in 2001.
He traveled throughout the state for his job.
He had few friends and no permanent address.

Some agencies give his date of disappearance as June 21, 2001.

Nuzzi was born on January 23rd,1949. He is 5 Feet 8 Inches tall and weighed190 Pounds. He had brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Thomas Nuzzi, please contact the

Anchorage Police Department and reference case number 01-31713:

Anchorage Police Department or

(907) 786-8900

Alaska State Troopers

Missing Persons Clearinghouse

(907) 269-5038

What happened to Lee Roy Young? Was he killed by the Colombian Drug Cartel?

Lee Roy Young

He was a fifty-six-year-old bank fraud investigator at the time.

He was last seen leaving a restaurant in Scottsdale, AZ at 12:30 pm on May 4, 1990. 

Three calls were made from his car phone to a payphone and to a woman who denied ever talking to him. 

The next day, his Lincoln Town car was found engulfed in flames in the desert a day later 100 miles south of Phoenix, AZ.
Thousands of dollars worth of jewelry were in the trunk of his car. The only things that was missing were his personal Rolex watch and his briefcase that he kept his files in.
He was investigating into money laundering by a Colombian drug cartel. 

The cartel allegedly was using the bank he worked at for their operation. 

He had contacted federal agents that dealt with drug smuggling. 

A week before he vanished, he tried to reach the agents, without success.

It is believed that one of the killers made the phone calls from Lee's car.

California lady, Kristi Krebs was Last Seen in Park City Utah, Have you Seen her?

Kristi Krebs

She left the Round Table Pizza, on August 9, 1993 in Fort Bragg, California.

She never arrived at her family's house.

Her red Toyota Tercel was discovered abandoned in a shallow creek in MacKerricher State Park. 

Her wallet, driver's license, bra and panties were found inside her car.

The car stereo was missing from her vehicle at the time of its discovery.

A woman matching her description was seen hitchhiking along Highway 20 out of Fort Bragg.

She had been receiving medical treatment at the time. 

She experienced an similar incident involving her car becoming stuck in an area near her home in May 1990.
She had been hospitalized multiple times over the next six months and was under medical supervision. 

Her therapists advised her to go back to work part time.

She listened at first, but later she had multiple jobs and was working 10-12 hours a day.
She had wandered away from her car during the previous incident.

She disoriented when she was discovered by passersby shortly after leaving the scene. 

She required medical attention at the time. 

A driver told authorities that she picked up a hitchhiker who matched Krebs's description later in August 1993. 

The driver said that she met the hitchhiker in Salt Lake City, Utah and dropped her off at a McDonald's restaurant in Park City, Utah. She said that the lady didn't seem quite right.

It is possible that she is hitchhiking in Utah, California, Nevada and Texas. 

Foul play is possible in her case.

Man from Texas goes missing without a trace

Gregory Keith Mann Jr.

He also went by Ron Roberts.
He was working at Ford in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1997.
He was last at work on May 10, 1997 and sold two vehicles. 

He had plans to deliver one of the cars after the upcoming weekend.
He borrowed a demonstration vehicle to use for the weekend.

He selected a red 1996 Ford Mustang and requested a gasoline voucher.

It is believed that he filled the car's tank after leaving work that evening.
He returned to his residence in Fountaingate Apartments on Barnett Road.

He spoke to his fiancee on the telephone during the evening and they planned to meet the following day.

Mann, along with two of his friends, stopped at the Fina gas station on McNiel Avenue and Kell Boulevard a little while later.

Security camera videotape shows them inside the store at 10:00 p.m. 

Then they visited a McDonald's restaurant before going mudding in one of the friends' vehicles.
Mann said that he needed to return home while his friends cleaned the automobile at a local car wash. 

He said that he was meeting someone at 12:15 a.m. the next day, but did not mention a name or location.

It was around 11:45 as his friends watched as he walk up the stairs towards his apartment. 

They did not see if he went inside or not.

That was the last time he was ever seen or heard from.

The next morning, the vehicle that he was using was discovered by his parents, abandoned in a church parking lot near their home near the 4300 block of McNiel Avenue.

The trunk was partially open and a side panel was apparently lowered inside the compartment. 

The inside had been cleaned and there was nothing in there, except for an audio cassette inside the stereo. 

The car doors were locked, and the alarm system had been turned off.

Mann's fiancee said that she did not believe Mann slept at his apartment the previous night. 

All of his personal belongings were inside his apartment.

$100 was in his savings account and never retrieved his paychecks from work. 

He used his fiancee's credit card at the gas station when he was with his friends mudding the night before.

Mann's fiancee planned to move into his apartment in 1997. 

Foul play is suspected in Mann's case.

What do you think happened?

Could whomever he was meeting at midgnight with have done something with him?

Or was it his friends that were the last to see him alive?

One of Michigan's oldest cold cases. Can you help solve it?

Paige Marie Renkoski

She was born February 2, 1960, in Lansing Michigan.

She disappeared from Okemos, Michigan,  on May 24, 1990 on her way to her boyfriend's baseball game.

She had dropped her mother off at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport around 11:30 a.m. and then visited a friend in Canton.

She was seen around 2:30 p.m. at a store west of Interstate 275 in Canton.

She bought a beer.

She was last seen talking to two African-American men, in an agitated manner, on the shoulder of Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, Michigan.

Then men were driving a maroon colored minivan.

Someone had reported seeing Renkoski near her car at about 3:00pm.

Later, the 1986 silver Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais she had been driving was found still idling, with her shoes and purse inside.

It was not processed as a crime scene because the responding officer to be an abandoned vehicle.

There was no damage found to the vehicle.

There doors were unlocked.

Police found several fingerprints and palm prints, but no matches  on any law enforcement databases.

There were many different reports of people thinking they saw Renkoski.

Some of them said they thought they saw her driving west on I-96.

Some claims to have seen her at a restop.

She was last seen wearing a white silk shirt, with a long beaded necklace, and silk patterned pants.

UPDATES

May 2011, after a woman reported seeing a pair of cement-covered boots around the time of Renkoski's disappearance, a search began of a pond in Handy Township using ground-penetrating radar.

Nothing was found.

November 2011, the FBI, state and local police began a dig operation in Conway Township, Michigan.

Cadaver dogs identified the site a week before the dig started. 

There was a 1999 case file, that included a "hand drawn map indicating Renkoski's remains were buried there", that led investigators to that spot.
Nothing was found there either.

The police have ruled the case a homicide.

Her body has never been located and no one has been charged in her disappearance or death.

The Michigan Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $2,500 for any information.

On February 2, 2018, a dual memorial service was held for Renkoski and her mother, who died in December 2017.

Sherri Holland Vanished Off the Face of the Earth

Sherri Holland

Holland lived on Peachtree Battle Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. 

She was staying at a vacation home in Flagler Beach, Florida, which she also owned.

Holland was planning to return from her house in Florida to Atlanta on August 16, 1996. 

She was last seen between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. leaving from her Flagler home. 

She was never seen again.

There were few personal belongings inside her house. 

Her gold-colored 1987 BMW 325I with Georgia license plates numbered BKT664 was found abandoned on August 25, 1996, on the northbound side of Interstate 75 in Morrow, Georgia, just south of Highway 54. 

It was parked near Exit 76 between Macon, Georgia and Atlanta. 

It had a nail in the right side front tire, which was flat.
Inside the car there was a loaded gun, a purse and more than $2,400 in cash inside, but no wallet and no suitcases.

Her two dogs were found in a field near the Stratford Arms apartment complex in Riverdale, Georgia, two miles from where her car was found. 

One of them had been killed in traffic, the other,Gracie, was rescued and given to Holland's sister.

Gracie had periodically walked along Valley Hill Road and Upper Riverdale Road during that time. 

One of the residents said that Gracie attempted to lead him towards a wooded area across the street from the apartments. 

Investigators searched there, nothing was found.

Authorities received an anonymous tip that Holland was seen near her BMW on Interstate 75 loading luggage into a white pickup truck on the day she disappeared.

Investigators searched the area where her car was abandoned, but found no evidence.

Holland operated an escort service in 1996. 

Her former partner told investigators that he believed Holland had been murdered because of business she was involved in.

Her partner spoke of her in the past tense during their interview.  Holland had made several enemies in the past.

Holland allegedly placed hidden video cameras,recorded her employees and clients in compromising situations, then used the materials for blackmail.

Holland's partner said that he heard several people discuss murdering her.

Holland had been involved with a married man since 1989.

Holland and the married had apparently planned to marry by December 1996, but he was having second thoughts at the time of her disappearance.

The married man stated that he had argued with her, about their relationship, before she left for Florida.
She paged him at 11:30 a.m. on the day she disappeared. 

He called her back and she said she would phone him after she arrived in Atlanta. 

He said that he never heard from her again. 

Holland's friends told authorities that she was depressed and was tiring of the escort business in August 1996. 

She wanted to travel to Europe.

A recorded phone conversation between one of Holland's sisters and an unidentified person in September 1996, stated that it was possible that Holland went abroad and essentially staged her own disappearance.

UPDATES

Investigators received a tip earlier this year.
Local and state authorities are combing a wooded area near Atlanta and reportedly found Holland's personal effects.

Jeramy Carl Burt is missing and his little girl would like to know where he is.

Jeramy Carl Burt

He was an Navy veteran.

He was last seen on February 11, 2007 when left his father's on house 2200 block of Hervey Street in Boise, Idaho at 10:30 p.m.

He was going to a friend's home, but never arrived there.

Burt's ex-wife, Kim George, got a text message from his cell phone, stating he planned to disappear.

He was moving to a new address and and getting a new life. 

George didn't believe the text messages were from him. 

That was the last time he was heard from.

Three months later in May, the red Mercury Cougar Burt had been driving was found abandoned and burned 45 miles north of the Nevada state line.

The spot was an extremely remote desert area in the Owyhee Desert in southwest Idaho.

The car was searched, but found no evidence was found.

Before he disappeared, Burt was living with his father and his baby daughter. 

He had had an affair with his attorney, Jeannie I. Braun, and tape-recorded conversations with her about illegal activity.Someone else was also secretly recording Braun, and the evidence was brought to the police. 

Braun was charged with several felonies and disbarred.

Burt testified against her before a grand jury in 2004. 

Braun claims that her and Burt hadn't been in touch for months before he went missing.

George remarried after Burt's disappearance, and committed suicide in 2016.

Although no evidence has surfaced to connect the two cases, Burt and another man, Ahren Bernard had some mutual acquaintances. Barnard disappeared from Boise in 2004.

Burt's family doesn't believe he would have abandoned his daughter.

Foul play is suspected in Burt's disappearance.

His case remains, unsolved.

Christopher Kerze Disappeared into thin air

CHRISTOPHER KERZE

If you've ever seen Soul Asylum's music video Runaway Train, chances are you've seen Christopher Kerze with a bunch of other missing kids.

SOUL ASYLUM'S VIDEO

Christopher Matthew Kerze  was born February 19, 1973. 

He went missing American from Eagan, Minnesota. 

He was last seen on April 20, 1990. 

The vehicle he was driving was found abandoned  two days after his disappearance.

On April 20, 1990, Kerze told his parents he was sick and stayed home.

When his parents returned home later that day the family vehicle, a blue 1988 Dodge Caravan, was missing.

They found a note from Kerze stating that he would be back by 6 pm unless he got lost.

The word lost was underlined twice.

On April 21, 1990, the family received a letter from Duluth, Minnesota.
The letter stated that Kerze lied to use the van and run away for awhile.
The writer indicated they did not know where Kerze was going. 
Kerze took a O.F. Mossberg & Sons 20-gauge shotgun with him, but no ammunition.
The van was located abandoned on April 22, 1990, near Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

An anonymous letter was received in 2004, by the Eagan Police Department.
It read that they should stop trying to find Kerze and he would return home when he is ready. 

TO CHRISTOPHER

FROM HIS FAMILY