Thomas Messick was 82 when he vanished on a hunting trip in upstate New York. State Police along with a police dog search an area off of Alplaus Avenue on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Glenville, N.Y. State Police were in the area resuming the search for Craig Frear, who disappeared in 2004. Related to: Yolonda A Messick, Blanche P Messick, Devon M Robichaud, Lawrence T Messick, Lawrence Thomas Messick. Email not found. Fell forward via accident or heart attack while going to take a pee, rolled a bit under some brush or fallen tree and that's all she wrote. Lawrence Thomas Messick Jr., 56, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 12, after a three-month battle with COVID-19, in Auburn, Ala. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Cash had been stolen from the register. Thomas Messick RF Communications Specialist | Marine Corps Veteran | Staff Sergeant | Transmissions Systems Chief | Complex thinker | Lead | Mentor | Train Frederick, Maryland, United States. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. * Denotes films included on the IMDbPro Top 100 List Denotes films included on the Box Office Mojo Top 100 List Denotes films that applied for the ReFrame Stamp She was last seen that August selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door at the Creek and Pines mobile home park on Middleline Road in Milton. Police believe foul play was involved but no one was ever charged in his disappearance. Surprisingly, the FBI arrived on the fourth day, November 19th. The man was half deaf and half blind. In October 2017, Schenectady County officials said DNA evidence links Stanislaw Maciag to the killing of 17-year-old Suzanne Nauman, above, and Phyllis Harvey, 37 both of Schenectady. The following addresses were also found to be related to Thomas: . Mr. Messick had been in ill health for some time and during the recent few days he had been gradually sinking and. Also, if that were the case then why is it that dogs were unable to track him, and why hasnt his body or any of his belongings been found, despite such an incredibly careful and meticulous search? Elderly hunter disappeared in Warren County By Don Lehman Contributing Writer Horicon, N.Y. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is hoping the state's hunters can help solve the mystery of a fellow hunter's disappearance last fall. They didn't use a gun in OP's scenario. If my dad vanished, I dont even know that I could do an interview without losing it. Sinkhole was the last theory floating around on r/unresolvedmysteries, My uncle is missing and he is featured in the movie. Hell, the agents could have been hunters themselves and somehow involved in the crime while off-duty. The search would go on for 3 weeks, but nothing was found. Eleanor, 9; Evelyn, 8; Francis, 5; John Jr., 4; Edward, 2; and 4-month-old twins Patricia and Sarah Gratto were buried with their 31-year-old father, John, in a Troy cemetery. The room wasleft undisturbed in the family's home since his disappearance. Or, a Top Secret Human Experiment Gone Wild? It was well organized from the start. Thomas J Messick, 67. Tom never had a chance to call on the radio because he was immediately in the middle of a confrontation. What to know. (State Police). Thomas E. Messick Sr. Messick, circa 2015 Missing Since 11/15/2015 Missing From Horicon, New York Classification Lost/Injured Missing Sex Male Race White Date of Birth 03/14/1933 (89) Age 82 years old Height and Weight 5'10, 160 pounds A wife, a son, a good friend? The body of Jacqueline McCalop, 43, of Catskill was found by the Rip Van Winkle Bridge near Hudson on Sept. 30, 2000. Troopers said Hakan Karacay did not take along his medication when he disappeared. This is a carousel. Daughter of Thomas Jefferson Messick and Mary Frances Kelly California, Death Index, 1940-1997 Name Rita F Crocken Social Security # 558228491 Gender Female Birth Date 23 Apr 1924 Birth Place California Death Date 29 Aug 1973 Death Place Los Angeles . I don't think they were cadaver dogs, so they would not have alerted if they smelled blood. The only ones who are likely to know are the man himself and the trees around him, and they are not talking. On November 15, 2015, Thomas Messick Sr., aged 82, an ex-paratrooper, walked into the woods south of Brant Lake in NY State, to hunt for deer and was never seen again. Search Property Report. . Despite massive search efforts, no trace has been found of either Thomas Messick, 82, of Brunswick, or Fred "Fritz" Drumm, 68, of the town of Saratoga. Someone removed him from the scene. If he had seen something illegal or unsafe he would have approached and said something. Sources for this information include, but not limited to: Court Records (804 . The mans body was found on April 2, 1985, in a wooded area off Route 301 in Philipstown not far from Canopus Lake and the Appalachian Trail. The FBI said until they make a discovery, they're never going to know.". (Skip Dickstein/Times Union archive), Trooper Ronald K. Wall of Troop E, right, and University at Albany students search for Karen Wilson along tracks just west of Fuller Road and south of Railroad Ave. April 11, 1985, in Colonie, N.Y. (Times Union archive), State Police and Albany Police Department scuba divers search for the body of Karen Wilson at 6 Mile Waterworks in Albany, N.Y., in this undated image. He still believes he will play college baseball again. Deer drives can be intense. We encourage you to . They panic, pick him up and carry him to the truck and gone. She was reported missing on Sept. 24, 2000, 10 days after relatives last saw her. One of six other hunters with him claimed he heard a metallic sound. Audrey May Herron finished her shift at the Greene County Long-Term Health Care Center in Catskill at 11 p.m. Aug. 29, 2002, said good-bye to co-workers and got into her 1994 black Jeep to head home to Freehold, about 15 miles away. . Find Thomas Messick's phone number, address, and email on Spokeo, the leading people search directory for contact information and public records. Their names are Frances E Hunt, Cicelia T Krug, and 41 others. The weather was poor with heavy rain but sniffer dogs were deployed before the worst of the rain arrived. He was last seen leaving his job as a berry picker, walking on Route 22. They then flew to Truk Atoll to drop their bombs. Biology, nature, and cryptozoology still remain Brent Swancers first intellectual loves. He was an experienced hunter and woodsman and taught hunter and survival training for many years. Maybe there was an argument with his wife the day before and she pushed him down some stairs or something. He had also just gotten over a case of shingles and nearly decided not to go on the annual hunting trip. Tom was a hunting instructor. The main idea here is that Messick had some sort of health issue and either got lost or dropped dead, but it would have had to have been very sudden for him to not have done anything to warn his companions with his walkie talkie or rifle. Denise Krohn's two goldendoodles, Quigley, age 6, (golden-colored) and Kirby, age 2, (black) were shot and killed in February 2016 during a burglary in the Montgomery County town of Florida. Instead, Perhaps it was the sound of a truck being driven off road, in a hurry, and truck hits a rock. Although the case is still officially open, it is totally unsolved. If they thought this was a simple missing person, would they have even bothered looking hard for evidence of a struggle in the first 2 days? Any vehicle coming or going would have been heard and seen by all of them. Tom's method of hunting is frowned upon in my area (but perhaps common in Tom's area). It's a plausible theory but the problem is there is only 1 road in, they were at the very end of it, and all of the watchers were 40 yards off the road. An autopsy determined Darling was a homicide victim and investigators found he was involved in the city's drug trade and carried large amounts of cash. Given his age, searchers were baffled as he could not have got far from his original location and some said it was weird that there were no sounds of wildlife whilst the SAR teams were in operation. Alvie, a former principal and teacher, was with his son, grandson and others and they had camped near Road 564A. He said he was going to school that morning but never arrived at the Maywood School in Colonie. Read more. Information and discussion about people who go missing in National Parks and forests, and rural and urban areas, as detailed in the Missing 411 media. (Times Union archive), Shirley Olmsted holds a picture of her daughter, Audrey May Herron, on Friday, May 13, 2016, in Hannacroix, N.Y. Herron is shown in 1996 with her daughter Sonsia Court, who was 4 years old at the time. A box with her case file sits next to him at Princetown State Police Station in Schenectady. Virginia Gratto, center, with her mother, Ms. Frank Bellrose, left, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Evelyn Pembroke, right, react during the burial of John Gratto Sr. and their seven children on June 6, 1978. The witness is very vague about it all, but it is a rather spooky little detail to the case. Ark 20 Lt 42 Bomb Sq AAF WW II AM-PH On May the 4th the crew of the Lemon took off from Kwajalein Atoll. Read more. Albany Police detectives questioned her former boyfriend but he was not charged. It creates a war zone of moving people and flying bullets. Detectives have pried into her life in the years since and she remained a suspect. We encourage you to . They won't share any theories if they have them. A tough guy, an ex-paratrooper, and not one to wander off into the woods when on a hunt. Authorities believe she was stabbed to death. Neither slaying has been solved. Mike Goodwin has been a stock broker, garbage man, and a house painter. Nah doesnt explain the fact there was no trace. Found . Since the mid-1880s, Brant Lake has been a popular fishing and hunting area among wealthy visitors including Theodore Roosevelt. He had a history of heart problems and lost an eye in an accident with an explosive device in his early 20s, so he had poor vision and limited hearing as well as 159 stitches in his hand. The shop was ransacked in the course of the homicide. Who was Tom Messick? Horicon, N.Y. A routine hunting outing in the southern Adirondacks turned into one of the biggest missing persons searches in upstate New York in recent memory as hundreds took to the woods for weeks to try to figure out what happened to an elderly hunter who vanished Nov. 15 without a trace. (Luanne M. Ferris / Times Union), Detectives and firefighters were immediately suspicious of Virginia Gratto, who fled the burning building without her twin babies, Sarah and Patricia, who were sleeping a few steps from Gratto when the fire struck their Cohoes apartment in June 1978. Like you said, we dont know what happend but his body was either removed from the scene by the person responsible or he fell into a sink hole that filled in and left no evidence of a sink hole. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union archive), Vader, a search dog, runs through the fields near Fish Creek under the direction of his handler Gwen Siemers of the Long Island Search and Rescue, background left, during the continuation of the search for Fred Drumm on Nov. 27, 2015 in Schuylerville, N.Y. Toms wife Beverly said "The FBI told me something isn't right with his case, but they don't know what. Toms disappearance is yet another really strange case on StrangeOutdoors.com. GREENVILLE State Police investigators say they need the public's help as they try to solve a 27-year-old mystery: Who was the well-dressed man whose body was revealed after a swamp was drained off Woods Road? Authorities said it could not be determined if she was strangled, choked or smothered to death.