FL FL - Jairo Sanchez, 25, & Gary Weaver, 30, Miami/Bahamas, 9 Dec 1983

[Gardener1850]

The Doe Network:
Case File 565DMFL

Jairo Javier Sanchez
Missing since December 9, 1983 from Nassau, Bahamas.
Classification: Missing

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Vital Statistics

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  [*]Date Of Birth: May 30, 1958
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 25 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'5"- 5'6"; circa 145 lbs
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White/Hispanic male. Brown eyes; red medium wavy hair; red mustache, medium beard. Much body hair.
  [*]Marks, Scars: Approximately 1/2 " scar on left eye.
  [*]Clothing/Jewelry: No clothing description. Wears a gold chain with crucifix.
  [*]Dentals/Fingerprints: Not available
  [*]Other: He is a Colombian national who grew up in Hialeah, Florida.

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Circumstances of Disappearance
Sanchez was last seen in Nassau, Bahamas on December 9, 1983. He was a resident of Miami at the time of his disappearance.

In August of 2005, Jairo's relatives found a published series in New Times about the disappearance of Gary Weaver and noticed similarities. The date Gary disappeared, December 9, 1983, was in the time frame that Jairo was lost. Both men were also last known to have been on a Beechcraft Queen Air plane that took off from the Nassau airport. And the tail number mentioned in the article, N88KP, matched the one the family had been given for the plane Jairo had boarded.
The family had also been told shortly after Jairo vanished that her son had taken the plane trip with an American friend named Gary Weaver.
Jairo's daughter contacted Bahamas Royal Police Force who is conducting a homicide investigation into the Gary Weaver case.
Jairo's relatives were informed there was a man named "Pete Gallo" on the plane. A former family friend, picked up Jairo on the morning of December 4, 1983, for what was Jairo's third and final trip to the Bahamas.
The relatives of Jairo say they had no idea at the time that he might have been involved in drug smuggling, especially since he rarely had any money and even had to borrow $30 for the journey to the islands. Jairo, who worked as a security guard and translator, told his family that he was importing TVs and other appliances to Colombia through the Bahamas.
Jairo last called the family on the morning of December 9. The family tried numerous avenues to locate Jairo. The missing man's wife went to the Miami-Dade Police Department, which opened a case but found little new information.
According to police reports from the time, federal agents knew that the white, nine-seat Beechcraft Queen Air was used by drug smugglers. The plane, built in 1966, was registered to a defunct Boynton Beach company called Air America Transport. Current Federal Aviation Administration records show it is still registered to that nonexistent firm.
Both men may have been killed on Andros Island, Bahamas.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
The Royal Bahamas Police Force
Central Detective Unit
Superintendent Glen Miller
1-242-502-9991
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Miami-Dade Police Department
Missing Persons
Detective Kinsey
305-418-7284
Agency Case Number: 38675-E
NCIC Number: M-355394673
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Florida Pulp Nonfiction

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/565dmfl.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/19437/

 

[Gardener1850]

The Doe Network:
Case File 950DMFL

Gary Richard Weaver
Missing since December 9, 1983 from Andros Island, Bahamas.
Classification: Endangered Missing

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Vital Statistics

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  [*]Date Of Birth: April 9, 1953
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 30 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'11"; 160 lbs.
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; brown eyes.
  [*]Marks, Scars: Large scar on right knee.
• Dentals: Available.

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Circumstances of Disappearance
Weaver was on a one week business trip in the Bahamas when he went missing. Another man named Jairo Sanchez disappeared on the same flight.
The trip to Nassau was supposed to take only a couple days. Gary worked on a bulldozer, but it paid only about $300 a week, so Gary's boss set him up with extra work, fixing boats and planes in the islands.
On December 2, his wife, Donna took Gary to the airport at 06.00 a.m.
He booked his flight home for December 9th. Just before his final flight, he'd called his wife from the Nassau airport and said he'd be home the next day. He never came back.
The next day she called John Sims, whom had once purchased engine parts that Gary took to the Bahamas. A few days later, Sims told Donna that he was told Gary's plane crashed in the water somewhere between Nassau and Colombia.
Gary's boss gave Donna the tail number N88KP. It was a Beechcraft Queen Air that his contacts in the Bahamas often used. He also mentioned that Gary may have been on the way to Colombia.
Donna contacted the Nassau airport and gave the tail number to an airport official. He discovered that the Beechcraft had indeed taken off at 10:46 a.m. December 9. According to the flight plan, there were three people aboard, including a pilot named Boudreau. The plane was supposed to be going to Hog Key, a private island in the Exuma Cays in the southern Bahamas. The pilot never radioed the tower after taking off, so the flight was never confirmed.
Through the embassy, Donna was able to contact the Bahamian Defense Force, which conducted an air search. It turned up nothing.
Police discovered that Sims had been arrested on drug charges in the past and was a suspected smuggler. They also discovered that the Beechcraft Queen Air was known to have been involved in drug-smuggling trips.
About a year after Gary disappeared, Sims again came to her apartment. This time, he was alone at her door, and he was crying. "It's not right what they did to Gary," he kept saying. He put $1,000 cash on her kitchen table and walked out the door.
Shortly after that visit, Gary's boss called Donna and told her that Sims had been killed in a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean off Palm Beach. Yet there was nothing in the news about it. There is no record of Sims' disappearance at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office or the Medical Examiner's Office. Like Gary, he seems to have simply vanished.
Weaver is believed to have been killed on Andros Island, but his remains have not been found.
A missing persons report was filed in his hometown of Coral Springs, Florida. Because of surrounding circumstances the case became an FBI matter and the local police investigation was turned over to them.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
The Royal Bahamas Police Force
Central Detective Unit
Superintendent Glen Miller
1-242-502-9991
Agency Case Number:
83-23227
NCIC Number: M-113078194
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Florida Pulp Nonfiction

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/950dmfl.html

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/17422/

 

[Teesside]

Plenty more on Gary's wife's search for answers here - hope links work!!

Forever Missing

Forever Missing Part 2

Forever Missing, Part 3

Forever Missing, Part 4

 

[John/Jane Doe]

565DMFL - Jairo Javier Sanchez

 

[John/Jane Doe]

950DMFL - Gary Richard Weaver

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Jairo Javier Sanchez – The Charley Project

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Gary Richard Weaver – The Charley Project

 

[spartanx]

This is another drug case disguised as a simple murder... I think that if Colombia did not export drugs the world would be a better place... but the United States and many other countries have a great demand for drugs and narcotics... 1980s, the good decade music but too many drugs and undocumented Latinos trafficking, murdering, stealing etc. and this is another case that we will never know the truth although it may be true that they were thrown from the plane in the air so they would not find anything...
either way
rest in peace