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| 2005 Thompson, Bradley Milan 2-15-05; Humboldt County | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Dec 7 2006, 05:01 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/thompson_bradley.html Bradley Milan Thompson Above: Thompson, circa 2005 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: February 15, 2005 from Humboldt County, California Classification: Missing Date of Birth: September 24, 1960 Age: 34 years old Height and Weight: 5'10, 200 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Blond hair, blue eyes. Details of Disappearance Thompson was last seen in Humboldt County, California on February 15, 2005. He has never been heard from again. Few details are available in his case. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: CHumboldt County Sheriff's Department 707-445-7439 Source Information California Attorney General's Office Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated August 1, 2006; casefile added. Charley Project Attached Image IP: ---------- |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Dec 7 2006, 05:02 PM Post #2 |
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| wv171 | Apr 6 2008, 07:21 PM Post #3 |
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Reward for missing man at $20,000 Karen Wilkinson /The Times-Standard Article Launched: 03/13/2008 03:10:34 AM PDT Bradley Thompson has been missing for three years, but he remains in his mother's daily thoughts. ”When you don't know how your son died or where he is, it's disturbing,” Patricia Thompson Perry said. “It's a very mysterious disappearance.” The search for the Southern Humboldt man is being treated as a suspicious missing persons case with the potential of turning into a murder case, Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputy Ben Nord said. ”Some people can definitely fall off the grid,” Nord said. “We do everything we can to find that person and find out what occurred. The longer it is, obviously, the less chance we'll find him alive.” Thompson, a 44-year-old painting contractor, was last seen driving his 1989 Ford pickup truck in the Garberville, Redway, Myers Flat and possibly Rio Dell and Hydesville areas. He was last seen Feb. 24, 2005, and was reported missing by his live-in girlfriend. Six days after his disappearance, his truck and baseball hat were found along Boy Scout Road in Myers Flat. After searches by law enforcement officials, private investigators and even search dogs, no trace of Thompson was found. His family offered $4,000 for information on the location of Thompson's body and the prosecution of those responsible. Now they're offering five times the original reward amount -- $20,000 -- for information, in hopes that people will pay attention and come forward. ”It's not a matter of who did it, it's what happened to him,” said Carl Perry, Thompson's stepfather. “Can she have any closure on at least this much?” Ads placed in local print media bear the headline “We know you know what happened!” and show Thompson's photo, reward information and details about his disappearance. Nord said there's no indication of foul play, though numerous rumors about the circumstances of his disappearance have circulated throughout the Southern Humboldt area. Those rumors were investigated, Nord said, but the department still hasn't come any closer to locating Thompson. Thompson's mother thinks people know more than they're saying. She said he was involved in drugs. ”A lot of people are very reluctant to talk about it,” Patricia Thompson Perry said. “When this happened, he was really well liked in the community.” Carl Perry said Thompson had a good reputation as a painter, but he also had a problem with drugs. “It's possible robbery was the motive, because he was known to have concluded a painting deal and had a fair amount of money on him,” he said. “They're not going to come forward because I think they're afraid of retribution. It's a very close community as you can imagine.” Carl and Patricia Thompson Perry have traveled from their Southern California home to Southern Humboldt several times over the years to meet and talk with residents and search the Eel River and surrounding areas. ”We want to do what little we can as parents to keep the pressure on,” Carl Perry said. “If we don't do something, most likely nothing will happen.” Patricia Thompson Perry said she just wants closure. “I miss him and want to know what happened,” she said. Carl Perry agreed. “Even though it's been three years, a mother's loss and a mother's love never goes away,” he said. Anyone with information is asked to call Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputy Ben Nord at 268-3644. Karen Wilkinson can be reached at 441-0514 or kwilkinson@times-standard.com http://www.times-standard.com/ci_8556764 |
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| ELL | Sep 10 2008, 12:23 PM Post #4 |
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‘I’m never going to give up hope’: missing man’s mother makes plea to public By KAREN WILKINSON, The Eureka Reporter Published: Sep 9 2008, 11:29 PM · Updated: Sep 10 2008, 12:36 AM After 3 1/2 years without knowing what happened, all Bradley Thompson’s mother wants is closure. “As a mother, I just want to tell you I’m not going to give up hope — I’m never going to give up hope,” said Patricia Thompson-Perry, who attended a brief news conference Tuesday at the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office to keep her son’s missing-person case alive. Bradley Thompson, who was 44 when he went missing from Hydesville on Feb. 24, 2005, was a painting contractor in southern Humboldt County and heroin addict. His disappearance is being treated by the Sheriff’s Office as a suspicious missing-person case that could turn into a murder case if his body is found. “It’s like Bradley fell off the face of Earth,” said Detective Cheryl Franco, who took over the case about six months ago. Thompson is likely dead, and drug use may have been involved in the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, Franco said. “I believe there are people who know what happened to Bradley and where he is at,” said Franco, who took the case over from Ben Nord, who has since rotated back to duties as a sheriff’s deputy. Thompson was last seen driving his 1989 Ford pickup truck after visiting friends in southern Humboldt County. His truck was found six days later along Boy Scout Road in Myers Flat, but after searches by local law enforcement, private investigators and search dogs, the case remains unsolved. A couple people of interest have been identified, said Franco, who didn’t disclose more details to avoid compromising the case. “It’s a very tough case to work,” she said, as people aren’t forthcoming with information and it’s been difficult to get honest statements. Robbery could have been a motive, Thompson-Perry said, as her son had almost $2,000 from a recent painting job. “He had money on him that day,” she said. Thompson-Perry placed an advertisement in a local newspaper in February that offered a $20,000 reward for information on the location of his body and the prosecution of those responsible. It bore the headline “We know you know what’s happened!” Though a few responses have come in, none are conclusive, Franco said. “There are people out there who know exactly what happened,” Franco said. Anyone with information regarding Thompson’s disappearance is asked to phone the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at 707-445-7251 or Detective Cheryl Franco at 707-268-3644. (Karen Wilkinson can be reached at kwilkinson@eurekareporter.com or 707-269-7441.) http://eurekareporter.com/article/080909-m...-plea-to-public |
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| tatertot | Jun 8 2009, 01:07 PM Post #5 |
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http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12544301 Retired deputy keeps looking for Humboldt's missing John Driscoll/The Times-Standard Posted: 06/08/2009 01:21:14 AM PDT Looking for Humboldt County's long-lost missing persons is an exercise in patience and keeping an open mind. Assumptions must be abandoned and the seemingly absurd considered. When someone vanishes and doesn't surface for months or years, the job often falls to Dan Paris. Paris is a retired sheriff's sergeant who is handed missing persons cases when the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office's full-time detectives have to move on to tackle the steady flow of new cases. The cases Paris gets are cold, sometimes even more than a decade old. Paris never lets a file get dusty. He'll comb through them making sure that every shred of information on the missing person is accurate -- age, race, eye color, hair color. He'll work the phones, scour computer databases and talk to friends and family to keep the case fresh in their minds. ”We want to let people know we're not forgetting,” Paris said. Sometimes he'll let the file sit briefly, in the hope that he can return to it with fresh eyes and pick up on a previously undetected detail. The recent solving of the case of Curtis Huntzinger, a Blue Lake teen who went missing 19 years ago, is an impressive example of how a cold case can be closed. Investigator Wayne Cox with the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office worked tirelessly to get a confession out of Huntzinger's killer and locate the boy's body. It was amazing police work, although it's of a different sort than many missing person cases. There was little doubt Huntzinger was dead: Cox had to confront his killer and convince him to talk. With many missing persons cases, there is a possibility that the vanished person is still alive. In fact, in many cases, the person is trying to stay lost. The California Department of Justice reports that in 2008, 29,187 people were reported missing, suspected of voluntarily dropping off the radar. The majority of them will likely return to family and friends of their own free will at some point. Thousands more are located by law enforcement. A few hundred adults are suspected to be victims of foul play. The numbers of missing children are far higher. The Justice Department took 108,073 reports of runaways in 2008, while about 6,000 were reported missing under suspicious or potentially tragic circumstances. What may seem obvious to the uninitiated has to be challenged by a career cop like Paris. Take the case of Christine Walters, a Wisconsin woman who went missing from Eureka on Nov. 11, 2008. The 23-year-old's backpack, wallet and ID were found just after her disappearance. A bank account with a few hundred dollars in it has not been touched. She was known to take long walks in the Arcata Community Forest by herself. She hasn't contacted her family. It sounds highly suspicious. But of the 15 cases currently on Paris' desk, Walters is the one for whom he has the most hope. Surprisingly, it's not uncommon for people to leave possessions behind -- even money. Walters was supportive of the environmental movement in the area, and Paris has seen a photo of a young woman with strawberry-blond hair being shown how to climb trees at a Southern Humboldt activist camp. ”For a lot of these people, their possessions aren't that important,” Paris said. While none of her acquaintances has come forward with information on Walters' whereabouts, Paris said that's not unusual, either. In contrast, the case of Bradley Thompson, a 44-year-old painter who went missing from Redway in 2005, appears to be tragic. Thompson was last seen on Feb. 24, 2005, driving his 1989 Ford pickup truck in Garberville, Redway, Myers Flat and perhaps through Rio Dell and Hydesville. A week after he disappeared, the truck was discovered along a back road in Myers Flat. Thompson had struggled with heroin addiction, and the truck was parked close to a house occupied by two recovering heroin addicts, Paris said. Drug users are often not forthright with information, Paris said, and there have been few leads in the case. A $20,000 reward generated little information. One rumor had it that Thompson may have stolen a motorcycle, whose owner was seeking revenge. Another rumor was that his body had been dumped in a septic tank, but a search of the tank in question turned up nothing. Now Paris is looking at a femur bone found by law enforcement in another county, and has collected DNA from Thompson's family in an effort to determine if the bone belonged to Thompson. The California Department of Justice lab has asked for additional samples. The state's missing persons program is among the most vigorous in the United States. Law enforcement agencies are required to take reports of missing persons immediately; people don't have to wait 24 hours to make a report as is commonly believed. Its missing persons system is real-time, so cases can be routinely updated, and its unidentified remains database helps match DNA and dental records to the missing. Another of Paris' head-scratchers is the case of Scott Hayes, last seen in Arcata in 1996. Hayes' truck was found parked on U.S. Highway 101 near Redcrest. It was out of gas and locked. There were no signs of foul play. The case is as cold as can be. ”I mean, (he) just dropped off the face of the earth,” Paris said. No gas card transactions were recorded, no hotel receipts were found, the kind of stuff Paris looks into when searching for a missing person. Cell phone records, ATM receipts, tax and Social Security records all provide possible clues to a person's whereabouts and well-being, Paris said. After long periods of time, some missing persons' families resign themselves to the idea that they may never find their loved one, Paris said. But Paris said he doesn't stop, despite the fact that he doesn't expect to solve many of the cases he has. Just the slim possibility that a case may be solved keeps him going. ”You just get a sense of frustration,” Paris said. “You know, we're cops, we like to see things wrapped up.” |
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