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| ELL | Jan 16 2007, 09:03 AM Post #1 |
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Name: Ben Raymond Brunsvik Classification: Endangered Missing Adult Date of Birth: 1956-01-01 Date Missing: 2006-01-19 From City/State: Newman, CA Missing From (Country): USA Age at Time of Disappearance: 50 Gender: Male Race: White Height: 74 inches Weight: 225 pounds Hair Color: Black Hair (Other): With graying, curly. Eye Color: Green Complexion: Light Clothing: Possibly wearing a collared button-up shirt, docker style dark colored slacks, and black shoes. Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Ben is a self employed computer consultant. He left his residence in Gustine, CA to go to Sacramento, CA to see a client. Ben stopped at his office at approximately 8:00am in the vicinity of Anderson Rd. and Hwy 33 in Gustine, CA before heading toward his destination in Sacramento. He did not take an overnight bag for his trip to Sacramento and no calls were made to or from his cell phone. Ben's vehicle is also missing and is described as a green 1997 Ford Escort Wagon with CA Lic.# 4EOB746. Ben suffers from diabetes. Investigative Agency: Stanislaus County Sheriff's Dept. Phone: (209) 525-7105 Investigative Case #: S06-5038 NCIC #: M-185453970 http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/...php?A200603919S |
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| ELL | Jan 16 2007, 09:04 AM Post #2 |
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| ELL | Jan 16 2007, 09:05 AM Post #3 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Apr 2 2007, 09:20 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:49 AM Post #5 |
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http://www.modbee.com/local/story/11897924p-12667559c.html Missing: Have you seen this person? Last Updated: March 6, 2006, 04:12:31 AM PST NAME: Ben Brunsvik AGE: 49 DESCRIPTION: White, 6 feet 2 inches tall, 225 pounds, green eyes, wavy gray hair MISSING SINCE: Jan. 19 DETAILS: Brunsvik last was seen driving a 1997 green Ford Escort with license plate number 4EOB746 and was believed to be driving toward Sacramento from Gustine in the morning. There is a $10,000 reward for his safe return and a $5,000 reward for the recovery of the Ford Escort. WHOM TO CALL: Officials ask anyone with information about Brunsvik to call the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department at 525-7076. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:50 AM Post #6 |
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WEBSITE: http://www.helpfindben.com/ |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:50 AM Post #7 |
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EARLIER ARTICLES: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art...22/1001/ARCHIVE Nearly 100 join search for man Published Sunday, Jan 29, 2006 STOCKTON - Nearly 100 people searched San Joaquin County on Friday for a Gustine man who has been missing for more than a week. Ben Brunsvik, 49, an accounting consultant, disappeared Jan. 19 after leaving his home to visit a client in Sacramento . Brunsvik's may have traveled through San Joaquin County. He is described as 6 feet 2 inches tall with curly gray hair, driving a green 1997 Ford Escort wagon. Anyone with information about the missing man is asked to contact the Gustine Police Department at (209) 854-3737. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Family offers $10K reward for missing Gustine man Updated: February 3, 2006 By DHYANA LEVEY LOS BANOS ENTERPRISE GUSTINE — Searchers are still looking for a Gustine man reported missing Jan. 20. Friends, family and police said he disappeared without a trace. Ben Brunsvik, a 49-year-old software consultant, told his mother he was going to Sacramento on Jan. 19 to meet with a client, said his friend Amy Andersen. It was supposed to be a day trip, she said. "He had planned a 75th birthday party for his mother on the 20th, and he never made it," she said. He was last seen Jan. 19 in the Crows Landing area, said Marc Nuno, a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department detective. Since then, the 6-foot 2-inch, 225-pound man with gray hair and green eyes has not been seen. Neither has his 1997 Green Ford Escort station wagon with California license plate number 4EOB746. Friends and family are offering a $10,000 reward for his return. "We don't think he made it to (Sacramento)," said his niece, Jessica Brunsvik. "It could have been an accident or foul play." Police do not have reason to suspect foul play, said Vince Inaudi, Gustine's acting police chief. "It could be anything," he said. "People disappear on a daily basis — kidnapping to suicide, problems with family and friends. There have been people who have led double lives, set up bank accounts and then go off to parts unknown. We're not ruling anything out." Andersen said Brunsvik was a responsible man who took good care of his mother. He is also a diabetic. Disappearing without a phone call is definitely out of character, she said. "It's an unusual case," Nuno said. "It's not like he was a dope addict who ran away. He's a single guy who lived with his mom." Police ask anyone with information about Brunsvik to call 854-3737, log on to http://www.helpfindben.com or e-mail helpfindben@yahoo.com. http://www.modbee.com/local/story/11763175p-12483696c.html |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:51 AM Post #8 |
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Updates from Ben's website: 3/12/06 Family met with the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s department this week regarding the ongoing efforts to identify the individuals in the sketches and to follow up on other leads that have come from the public. One of the sketches has received a match from a photograph that is of positive interest, and will further be investigated. We are pleased with the direction the investigation is taking and we will provide additional information when it is appropriate. Again, we appreciate the kind emails and acts of service in behalf of Ben and the family. Please continue to be patient during this sensitive phase of the investigation. Please continue to pray that Ben’s mystery will be solved. 2/27/06 Law enforcement officials are following up on leads concerning the individuals depicted in the sketches shown below. Some concerned citizens have reported that the sketches bear some similarity to certain photographs recently published in the Modesto Bee with regard to the arrest of an auto-theft ring. Click on the link and make your own evaluation: http://www.modbee.com/local/story/11848466p-12561438c.html. There are other photographs not depicted in the Bee article and, as far as we know, not connected with the auto-theft ring that are also being investigated by the authorities. Due to the sensitive nature of these investigations, we will be very limited in the information we can post on the website and for that reason have deleted the earlier updates for the time being. We will try to provide updated information as soon as possible. We continue to receive beautiful messages of hope and inspiration from the ever-widening circle of Ben's friends. Thank you all so much. Your prayers and thoughts are appreciated and certainly effective in helping our family press forward in faith. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:54 AM Post #9 |
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From Ben's website: http://www.helpfindben.com/ RECENT UPDATES: BEN BRUNSVIK MEMORIAL SERVICE TO BE HELD Ben Raymond Brunsvik left his home in Gustine, California on the morning of January 19, 2006. He stopped by his Newman office to make some photocopies, hugged his landlady, Irma Mattos, and then drove off into the fog some time before 8:00 am that fateful morning, and has never been seen or heard from again. Despite a massive air and ground search mounted by his family and friends over the following weeks and sporadic searches in the months thereafter - covering a wide area from Gustine to Sacramento to Reno to Wendover to Las Vegas and back, no physical trace of his car or his person has ever been found. There has been no activity on any of his bank accounts or credit accounts. The authorities have not found any tangible evidence of accident or foul play. It is as if he and his car simply vanished into thin air. Many theories have been offered to explain Bens disappearance, some plausible, but most unthinkable, knowing the kind of person Ben was. A number of concerned strangers to Ben have shared with the family their psychic, spiritual, or supernatural impressions and experiences regarding Bens disappearance. All have been appreciated. The immediate family, his mother, two sisters, and brother, as well as others of his extended family and friends, have each, independently, through the manifestations of the Lords tender mercies, received their own peaceful assurance that Ben has passed on to the other side, that he is well and happy there, and that he is continuing to be of service to others there as he was while he was with us here in mortality. We all miss him. We will always miss him. But while we mourn our loss, we each have a treasure trove of special and happy memories of Ben. His influence for good, his sense of humor, his spirituality, wisdom, generosity, Christ-like love, and mischievousness will ever be remembered by those who knew and loved him. The family would like to announce that a memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 13, 2007, at 2:00 p.m., in the Crows Landing chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The chapel is located at 18601 Crows Landing Road, approximately a quarter mile east of Highway 33. The memorial service, taking place near the one-year anniversary of Ben\rquote s disappearance, is meant to provide some measure of closure to so many of Bens family, friends and associates. We hope it is an occasion to celebrate the life of Ben Brunsvik, to review some of the fond memories and experiences that we all have shared with Ben through the years, and to renew friendships with one another. Please do not send flowers or plants. The family instead requests that any remembrances be made to the American Diabetes Association, the Tosca Scholarship Foundation, the Missionary or Humanitarian Funds of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Boy Scouts of America; all causes that were close to Bens heart. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jun 16 2007, 11:55 AM Post #10 |
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http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_013000027.html Jan 12, 2007 10:18 pm US/Pacific Funeral To Be Held For Missing Stanislaus Co. Man He Disappeared Nearly One Year Ago Without A Trace Serene Branson Reporting (CBS13) CROWS LANDING, Calif. Ben Brunsvik was last seen at his office in Crows Landing in Stanislaus County. There are no leads, no suspect, no sign of him, and no answers for the family that so desperately wants them. “It's bizarre, just Poof! Gone,” said Ben's brother Gary Brunsvik. Ben's family and friends never saw his smile or heard his voice again. “It's been awful,” said Ben's mother Lillian. Ben's mother said he'd left his office to see a client in Sacramento. Despite extensive air and ground searches there was no sign of him or his green Ford Escort. “I know he's okay, he's not here, but we'll see him again one day,” said Lillian. Loved ones say he was a computer consultant and describe him as a family man, a church-goer, and Boy Scout leader. He was also a diabetic who didn't have medicine with him. “It's been stumping,” said Police Sgt. Vince Inaudi. Gustine Police and the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Office investigated Ben’s disappearance. Detectives said it's considered a suspicious missing persons case. They found no evidence of financial trouble, personal problems, his bank accounts were never touched. "Ben's not the type of person to go missing," said family friend Amy Andersen. Although they have no idea what happened, Ben’s friends and family are holding a funeral tomorrow, nearly a year to the day he vanished. The family and the community need closure. “We can get together to mourn him miss him and remember him, have some healing it seemed like the thing to do,” said Gary. But it doesn't mean they’ll ever stop searching and hoping. “We're still looking for him for his car, we hope to bring him home,” said Andersen. “Well always be looking for Ben," she added. The funeral is tomorrow in Crow's Landing at the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Apr 6 2009, 08:37 PM Post #11 |
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West Sider's disappearance remains an unsolved mystery Written by News Staff Monday, April 6, 2009 Case featured in upcoming television show More than three years have elapsed since the January morning Ben Brunsvik drove away from his rural Anderson Road office and vanished without a trace, but the passage of time has shed no light on the unsolved mystery. Brunsvik’s many close friends and family members still wonder what fate befell the Gustine resident, but know nothing more than they did in the days following his disappearance when scores of searchers fanned out across areas that would encompass hundreds of miles. Their tireless efforts covered dirt roads, canal banks, airport parking lots and hospitals.....and yielded not a sign of the 49-year-old Brunsvik or his 1997 green Ford Escort station wagon. The disappearance of Brunsvik will be featured Monday, April 6, on the BYU Television show “Living Essentials from BYU.” Brunsvik friends Amy and Brian Andersen of Newman and Linda and Richard Perrett of Gustine said recently that the show recounts the disappearance on an episode dedicated to the subject of what to do when a loved one goes missing. It is a scenario played out far too often in the United States; but one which rarely occurs on the rural West Side – at least not to the extreme of somebody disappearing without a clue. And it is one which Brunsvik’s friends and family know far too well. Three years later, they carry the burden of still not knowing what happened to Brunsvik; but at the same time not knowing means that his friends still harbor a glimmer of hope that he will be found alive – although they acknowledge the probability is otherwise. His disappearance is a reality they live with daily. Brunsvik, who worked as a computer software consultant, was last seen on the morning of Jan. 19, 2006, leaving his office. He was believed to be on his way to see a client in Sacramento, although that was never confirmed. Friends and family launched a search effort when he failed to return, confident that the explanation was simple and that they would locate Brunsvik, a lifelong West Sider who was raised in Crows Landing. “We thought we’d see him; we’d find him,” Amy Andersen recounted. “We got back at 11 o’clock that night and thought, now what do we do? You don’t know what to do.” His friends dismiss the idea that Brunsvik may have simply chosen to drop out of sight. He had been planning a surprise birthday party for his mother the night after he was last seen, and had left needed medications behind. When Brunsvik didn’t return in time for the party, his friends said, they knew the situation was dire. It was not an occasion he would have missed. “Not for a second would he go elsewhere,” Richard Perrett stated. “That was not Ben.” The legion of volunteers followed every suggestion for an area to search, scoured Brunsvik’s phone records and contacted each of his clients to see if any were expecting him that day. None were, but Brunsvik’s brother Gary said that was not completely unexpected because Ben often showed up unannounced when he visited a client. Their efforts produced no hint of what may have happened to Brunsvik. Neither did the formal missing-persons investigation by the Gustine Police Department, which was assisted in the case by the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department. “The leads we did have were very few, and we followed up on them all,” recalls Gustine Police Sgt. Vince Inaudi. There was no indication of activity involving Brunsvik’s credit cards or bank accounts after his disappearance, and an attempt to triangulate his cell phone also produced no evidence. “The last place we were able to track his cell phone to was his office,” Inaudi said. Rarely is a case so completely without clues. “Out of my 20 years here, I can say that was a first for me,” Inaudi said of the absence of evidence. “Everything we had led to a dead end.” Eventually, the search for Brunsvik wound down to a halt. The searchers had nowhere else to turn. The fear, Richard Perrett said, was that they were giving up too soon. “Ben would never quit looking for us,” he remarked. Gary Brunsvik said he has come to know and accept that his brother is deceased, although he holds out hope that his remains, or at least clues about what happened, will be discovered some day to give the family a final closure. Dozens of different scenarios have been posed, he reflected, ranging from the highly unlikely to the plausible. “We wish we could know the rest of the story,” Gary Brunsvik said. “We don’t know that will ever happen.” A memorial service was held for Brunsvik about a year after he went missing. The Perretts and Andersens still hold a thread of hope for their friend, and believe that the upcoming BYU broadcast may bring a renewed attention to the case – and possibly generate information. Though the official search has long since ended, Brunsvik’s friends continue to keep a watchful eye out for any shred of evidence or clue. Brian Andersen keeps the license plate number of Brunsvik’s Escort on the dashboard of his vehicle. “Whenever I see a car that matches the description, I check it out,” he explained. One of the many oddities in the case, he reflected, is that the car was never found. “Logically we know he’s gone, but until we know for sure.....there could be some circumstances,” Brian Andersen continued. Amy Andersen agreed. “If we knew what happened, it would be easier,” she reflected. “I go up to Sacramento a lot, and I can’t drive down that highway without looking. My head tells me he is not going to be there, but my heart hopes.” (The BYU Television show will air Monday, April 6, at 6 p.m. on Dish Network Channel 9403, Direct TV Channel 374 and Comcast Channel 232.) http://www.westsideconnect.com/content/view/2181/162/ |
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| tatertot | Oct 24 2009, 05:03 AM Post #12 |
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http://www.kcra.com/news/21407475/detail.html Remains Found In Mud-Caked Car Missing Man's Wagon Pulled From Delta-Mendota Canal POSTED: 3:47 pm PDT October 23, 2009 UPDATED: 4:15 pm PDT October 23, 2009 STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. -- A mud-caked car belonging to a man who vanished without a trace nearly four years ago was pulled from the Delta-Mendota Canal on Friday morning. Ben Brunsvik was last seen driving back to Newman from Sacramento in January 2006. He never arrived home. At about 9:30 a.m. Friday, human remains were found in Brunsvik's green Ford Escort wagon when was pulled from the canal near Bell and Stuhr roads. Investigators took it back to the coroner's office to try to identify the remains by dental records or DNA. There was no immediate sign of foul play, Stanislaus County Undersheriff Bill Heyne said. |
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| tatertot | Oct 24 2009, 05:06 AM Post #13 |
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http://westsideconnect.com/content/view/2829/1/ Missing West Sider's vehicle found in canal with body inside Written by News Staff Friday, October 23, 2009 Authorities confirm car was that of Ben Brunsvik; no positive ID of remains NEWMAN – The car of missing West Sider Ben Brunsvik was discovered Friday morning in the Delta-Mendota Canal with a body inside. A sheriff's department spokesperson confirmed early Friday afternoon that the mud-caked green Ford Escort wagon was Brunsvik's, but said that authorities will not be able to confirm the identity of the remains inside for some time. Undersheriff Bill Heyne said workers cleaning the canal near the intersection of Stuhr and Bell roads discovered the vehicle and notified the sheriff's department shortly before 9:30 a.m. “There is no way to know at this point exactly why the vehicle ended up in the canal,” Heyne commented. “We will process the vehicle to look for any evidence.” A law enforcement officer at the scene said the vehicle's air bags were deployed. Brunsvik vanished without a trace in January 2006, prompting an exhaustive search by friends and family which criss-crossed Northern California and stretched into Nevada. |
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| tatertot | Oct 24 2009, 05:08 AM Post #14 |
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http://www.modbee.com/local/story/905550.html Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 Car recovered belonged to man who disappeared in 2006 Bee Staff Reports Authorities on Friday morning discovered a station wagon, belonging to a missing Gustine man, inside the Delta-Mendota Canal just west of Newman, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department. Human remains were found inside the vehicle, but the body had not been identified Friday evening, said sheriff’s Lt. Mike Parker. Ben Brunsvik, 49, was last seen on January 19, 2006, when he told his mother he was leaving for the Sacramento area on business, but he didn’t pack an overnight bag. Relatives said at the time that Brunsvik had not placed any calls on his cell phone since his disappearance, and he was diabetic in need of his medication. Brunsvik, a computer software consultant, drove a 1999 green Ford Escort station wagon. Authorities found it in the canal near Bell and West Stuhr roads. Parker said the station wagon was packed with mud, but there was nothing inside that would indicate foul play was involved. He said dental records will be used to identify the body. If that doesn’t work, coroner officials will use DNA to determine who was found in the station wagon. |
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