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| ELL | Jul 6 2006, 08:57 PM Post #1 |
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Patrick J BEAVERS LAST DATE OF CONTACT : 04/03/1997 DOB : 10/18/1972 HEIGHT : 5'10" GENDER : MALE WEIGHT : 180 lbs HAIR COLOR : BROWN EYE COLOR : HAZEL RACE : WHITE CASE INFORMATION : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT HAS A FULL BEARD. SUBJECT MAYBE WEARING A BLACK COAT. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WITH THIS SUBJECT. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERSON PLEASE CONTACT : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JEROME PD 208 324-4313 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 23 2007, 09:49 PM Post #2 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/beavers_patrick.html Patrick J. Beavers Above Images: Beavers, circa 1997 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: April 3, 1997 from Jerome, Idaho Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: October 18, 1972 Age: 24 years old Height and Weight: 5'10, 180 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Beavers had a full beard at the time of his 1997 disappearance. Clothing/Jewelry Description: Unknown, but he usually wears jeans and denim vests. Medical Conditions: Beavers has been diagnosed as anti-social. He tends to avoid people in most situations. Beavers may be suicidal. His eyes are photo-sensitive and he often wears dark-tinted wrap-around sunglasses as a result of his condition. Details of Disappearance Beavers was last seen in Jerome, Idaho on April 3, 1997. He left a farewell note behind which insinuated that he was suicidal. Beavers has never been heard from again. Beavers enjoys reading and is an avid long-distance hiker. He smokes expensive cigars and drinks scotch, but he does not frequent bars. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Jerome Police Department 208-324-4328 Source Information Idaho Missing Person Clearinghouse Seminole County Sheriff's Office Charley Project Hom |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jun 22 2007, 06:56 PM Post #3 |
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UPDATED Patrick Jason Beavers Missing since April 3, 1997 from Jerome, Jerome County, Idaho Classification: Endangered Missing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: October 18, 1972 Age at Time of Disappearance: 24 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10"-6'0"; 180-250 lbs. Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair with full beard or mustache; hazel eyes. Clothing: May wear a black coat, blue jeans, and blue denim vests. Wrap around sun glasses. Marks, Scars: Tracheotomy scar, scars on abdomen from exploratory surgery. Medical: Has been diagnosed as anti-social. He tends to avoid people in most situations; he may be suicidal. Visual perception problems. He has to wear dark, wrap around type sunglasses due to a light sensitivity condition and may even wear the sunglasses during the evening hours. Attention deficiet hyperactivity disorder. Retinitis pigmentosa, possible marfans. Disproportionate upper to lower body ratio. Habits: He likes to read and hike long distances. Smokes expensive cigars and drink Scotch, however, he does not frequent bars. He is a loner who enjoys reading and long distance hiking. AKA: Pat Dentals: Available -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circumstances of Disappearance Beavers was last seen in Jerome, Idaho on April 3, 1997. He has not been heard from since. He left a "Good bye note" which could be taken as a suicide note. Was diagnosed with incurable condition causing blindness retinitis pigmentosa, had been drinking hard alcohol and cut up identification, left note and walked off in middle of night while it was snowing after having disagreement with stepfather about his unemployment. He did not know how to drive and an extensive search was made the following day of the canyon and surrounding desert area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigators If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Jerome Police Department Detective Dan Chatterton 208-324-4328 208-324-4313 NCIC Number: M-015087406 Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case. Source Information: Seminole County Sheriff's Office Idaho Missing Persons Clearinghouse The Family of Patrick Jason Beavers |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jun 22 2007, 06:57 PM Post #4 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Jun 22 2007, 06:58 PM Post #5 |
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| PorchlightUSA | May 28 2010, 09:04 PM Post #6 |
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Jerome Police Department Detective Duane Rubink or Detective Dan Kennedy 208-324-4328 Agency Case #: M0806014 NCIC Number: M-015087406 |
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| tatertot | Nov 28 2012, 12:46 PM Post #7 |
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http://magicvalley.com/news/local/after-ye...41d2d0ce66.html After 15 years, Jerome Family Hopes Missing Son will be Found ASHLEY SMITH • TIMES-NEWS 8 hours ago • By Alison Gene Smith JEROME • Every time a body is found, Barbara Zysett waits for a call. Is it her son Patrick, or will this body be ruled out too – by a different shoe size, mismatched dental records or a scar that’s too long or too short? Patrick Beavers disappeared from his Jerome home the night of April 3, 1997 when he was 24 years old. He cut up his identification card, left his wallet, rifle, coat and tax forms, along with a note. “My Will,” he wrote at the top. “Mom gets everything. Sorry but my time here is up. Love you all, no blame. Exsept [sic] my own. P Beavers.” Fifteen years later, the family is still hoping someone knows something or remembers seeing Patrick, a large bearded man, walking that night. The night he left, Barbara said she and her husband Merle Zysett went to bed while Patrick was still watching movies with his nieces and nephews. “He said I need to walk to the bank to the ATM and he never returned,” Barbara said. Patrick’s sister, Sheila Van Zant-Lewis said her daughter told her Patrick came in her room at about midnight that night and told her that he loved her and said goodbye. He left in the middle of the night, in bad weather. According to almanac.com, an online weather almanac, the low temperature the night of April 3, 1997 was 21 degrees. Van Zant-Lewis said she remembers it was snowing hard. According to a Times-News article from April 13, 1997, about 40 people, including members of the Jerome County Search and Rescue, Jerome County sheriff’s deputies and Jerome police officers, searched an area south of Jerome, including the north rim of the Snake River Canyon. One boat on the river and a light airplane were also used in the search. At the time, Patrick had no physical or mental health problems, Barbara said. Because of that, if a police officer believed if they found him safe they could take little action. “It’s a wellness check,” Barbara said. “If they stop him somewhere, they can ask him to call home.” Not Giving Up Jerome Police Sgt. Duane Rubink has been working on the case since about 2003, he said. Three or four times a year, he gets a tip about someone who might be Patrick Beavers and follows up. Rubnik said the case is unusual, especially for a small town like Jerome. Usually, if someone decides they want to leave town, there are clues, he said. “The case tends to point that way, to suicide, but I don’t have anything to prove or disprove that,” he said. “We just have to keep going.” Although the initial Canyon search didn’t turn anything up, Rubnik said Beavers could still be close to home. “They did a search of the canyon, but it’s so expansive you could search every day for a year and not find anything,” he said. A Curious Mind Missing persons reports on several missing person websites noted Patrick left after having an argument with his step-father about his unemployment. Barbara said Patrick had a habit of working seven days a week with 12-hour shifts for a year or two, saving his money, then taking several months off. During his time off, he would read and study subjects he was interested in. “He was offered a promotion at Cactus Pete’s,” she said. “He said, ‘No. I don’t want to wear a suit.’” At work, the family said Patrick grabbed the attention of the casino floor, with groups of people gathering around him as he shouted like a carnival barker for people to play the game Hot Button. At home, he was much quieter. “Not necessarily anti-social,” Barbara said. “He’d join in the conversation and say what he wanted and then start reading.” Barbara described her son as something of a homebody. “He was a reader,” she said. Patrick read so much and so widely he sometimes fooled people into thinking he’d worked on a cattle ranch or as a cook, or lived in Chicago, Los Angeles or another city when he’d simply read a book about it. “He was always in the gifted programs at school,” Barbara said. “But he was an underachiever. If he wasn’t interested he didn’t do the work.” Many Theories At first, when her brother went missing, Van Zant-Lewis said her mind jumped to suicide. Her own father killed himself nearly 30 years to the day of Patrick’s disappearnace and her grandfather also committed suicide. Since then, Van Zant-Lewis said she’s considered a dozen scenarios of what happened to her brother. “Suicide; he could be here and we don’t know; he could be living another life with a wife and kids. Foul play crossed my mind,” she said. According to his family, Patrick loved to walk. After the family was in a terrible car accident near Kings Canyon he never drove again, Barbara said. He’d often walk from their Jerome home to Twin Falls, or take an hours-long hike at Massacre Rocks State Park or to Balanced Rock without a second thought, she said. “A few years before he disappeared he wanted to hitchhike across the country and try other jobs,” Barbara said. Barbara said he got the idea from one of her husband’s employees who had traveled the country for years. “I vetoed it,” she said. “I said, ‘Did you notice that he doesn’t have any teeth?’” When he disappeared, Barbara said that’s what she assumed he did, but as the years went on with no contact, she’s had her doubts. While Patrick never disappeared before, he loved reading about mysteries and even came up with his own. When they lived in the San Francisco Bay area, Merle Zysett said Patrick and he worked at different 7-11 stores across town. “He’d call me and say ‘I have a plan,’” Merle said. Then Patrick would share a plot he came up with for how to rob a convenience store and get away with it or how to disappear without a trace. “He loved reading books about the perfect crime,” Barbara said. It’s also possible Patrick wanted to go to Texas, where his father lived, Van Zant-Lewis said. Patrick sometimes talked about making the trip to find his father there. After he disappeared, Van Zant-Lewis said she found the father, but no sign of Patrick. Barbara has retinitis pigmentosa, which left her legally blind since she was 15. The disease slowly narrows the field of vision as time progresses. Van Zant-Lewis said Patrick had gone to an eye doctor who said he may have inherited the disease shortly before he disappeared. For a while, he wore dark wrap-around glasses because his eyes were sensitive to light Still Searching In the last 15 years, Van Zant-Lewis has spent countless hours of research trying to find what could have happened to her brother. She said at times she’ll spend weeks poring over missing person websites, matching up missing people to death records and ruling out her brother. The whole family sent DNA to investigators, and recently, Rubink said he sent DNA from Beavers’ father and half-brother to the University of Texas’ research lab. Every sheriff’s office in the continental United States received fliers, Van Zant-Lewis said. Barbara said she gave stacks of fliers to truck drivers who were heading to Canada to pass out fliers there. For years, the family spent weekends driving around leaving fliers with Patrick’s picture at rest stops, diners and every telephone pole in the towns they’d visit. By the time Patrick would have been in his 30s, police told the family their photos were beginning to be too outdated to make a match. “We have no idea what he’d look like now,” Van Zant-Lewis said. |
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