MS MS - Dau Mabil, adult, Belhaven Heights, 25 Mar 2024

[TwinkieDefense]

April 1 2024 article - (I am unsure exactly where he is missing from based on this).

Jackson community rallies to find missing Belhaven Heights resident

Dau Mabil, a Belhaven Heights resident, went missing March 25 and his community is rallying to find him.

mississippitoday.org

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A week since Jackson resident Dau Mabil was last seen walking on his usual path, family and community members are pleading for his return and for anyone with information to come forward.

Dau Mabil, a Belhaven Heights resident, went missing March 25 after going on a walk without his phone. Video footage showed him near Jefferson Street between Fortification and High Street around 12:15 p.m., which is when he texted his wife about going to walk around his usual area, from home toward downtown and back.

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[GuyfromCanada]

APR 5

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The search continues for a Jackson man who went missing in Belhaven.

Friday marks 11 days since Dau Mabil was last seen. The 37-year-old went for a walk that afternoon and hasn’t been heard from since.

Search crews spent hours on Friday searching for him.

More at ‘He disappeared in broad daylight’: Jackson man still missing after nearly two weeks

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“Twenty-five minutes after he left home, he was taking his completely predictable normal walk,” said Bowley. “He was at a normal pace; he was in a normal state of mind. I know that if he could be home, he would be home. He just didn’t disappear. I just want to really follow up with what happened, and I need people to all be together in following up with what happened.”

“We’re not satisfied with no development, but we just have to; I just have to keep pushing.”

“There’s a lot of encouragement and a lot of hope and a lot of strength, that comes out of a love for Dau, so we do,” said Bowley. “I have been assured recently that when there is a development that can be shared, that it will be shared with me first. That was somewhat of a comfort, it was reassuring.”

‘He didn’t just disappear’: More than three weeks since Jackson man went missing, still no signs of his whereabouts

It’s now been nearly three weeks since anyone has seen or heard from Dau Mabil. The Belhaven man was last seen on March 25.

www.wlbt.com

 

[Unalienable Rights]

MS Dept of Public Safety Facebook:

Mississippi Department of Public Safety (Official)

MISSING PERSON‼️ Dau Mabil was last seen around 12:00 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 2024, leaving his home to go for a walk, in the Belhaven Heights area. Mabil was wearing electric blue Adidas...

www.facebook.com

Mississippi Department of Public Safety (Official)​

March 27 at 10:02 am ·
MISSING PERSON

Dau Mabil was last seen around 12:00 pm on Monday, March 25, 2024, leaving his home to go for a walk, in the Belhaven Heights area.
Mabil was wearing electric blue Adidas joggers with a white stripe on the side, orange long sleeve shirt, and yellow hoodie wrapped around his waist.
He is a black male, 5'11, brown eyes, and short black hair.
If seen or if you have any information, please contact Capitol Police at 601-359-3125.

 

[Quill]

Well sadly I must edit this post. Dau has been found and it is sad news, I am afraid.

Missing Belhaven man's body believed to be found, judge orders autopsy

After weeks of searching, a missing Belhaven man has been found, according to an attorney.

www.wapt.com

Still missing after nearly a month. Dau Mabil has survived the horrors of being a Lost Boy of Sudan, being brought across the world to a strange culture and then the foster care system to became a beloved member of his community. He has a wife, family in Africa as well as a work family and neighborhood who miss him. I'm still praying he is found alive but I feel the odds are dwindling knowing what I know about the crime rate in the area. * see edit above*

 

[azure]

Dau's brother and son have hired an attorney and obtained a court ruling that says his body must be autopsied before it is buried or cremated. Odd. I wonder who is in a hurry to bury him?

During a court hearing Thursday, a judge issued an order that prohibits burial or cremation until the state can conduct an autopsy. Mabil's wife, Karissa Bowley, did not attend the hearing.

Ross said they have been waiting for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety to make an announcement confirming the body is that of Mabil, but because it took so long, they took the issue to court.

Missing Belhaven man's body believed to be found, judge orders autopsy

After weeks of searching, a missing Belhaven man has been found, according to an attorney.

www.wapt.com

 

[TwinkieDefense]

Thank you for posting about this gentleman. Sympathies extended to family and friends.

 

[Quill]

Dau's brother and son have hired an attorney and obtained a court ruling that says his body must be autopsied before it is buried or cremated. Odd. I wonder who is in a hurry to bury him?

Missing Belhaven man's body believed to be found, judge orders autopsy

After weeks of searching, a missing Belhaven man has been found, according to an attorney.

www.wapt.com

It may precautionary, but there is clearly some mistrust/suspicion going on between family members here and I will leave it at that due to TOS. That said, you don't have to squint too hard to read between the lines. Let me add that crime in the area is absolutely out of control. I had alway assumed that he was a victim of the violence that is rampant in the area. I'll be interested to see what his brother has found to be unusual in the circumstance surrounding his disappearance. Either way, poor Dau. I feel for the family who loves and misses him.

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Body found in Pearl River confirmed to be missing Jackson man

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The body that was found in the Pearl River in Lawrence County has been confirmed to be that of a missing Belhaven man. Lawrence County Sheriff Ryan Everett sai…

www.wjtv.com

 

[Unalienable Rights]

The sheriff says the preliminary autopsy shows no foul play. The family believes otherwise.

Family of missing Mississippi man found dead suspects foul play in his disappearance

Dau Mabil, who disappeared in March, was confirmed dead this week.

www.nbcnews.com

(From the long article that is linked. See full article for more information.)

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A network of local and national civil rights leaders and community advocates have gathered surveillance videos and photos that they say point to possible suspects in Mabil’s disappearance and death, with some believing that a hate crime might have occurred. In one of those videos, the family believes what’s shown is a handful of men carrying a body-sized object under a white sheet, in the area where Dau was last seen alive. Dau was 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighed about 145 pounds. NBC News has seen a number of these clips, provided by the NAACP, which also show a pickup truck and various unidentified men in the area where Mabil would’ve been. One of those men appeared to have a stocking or mask pulled over his face, wearing a jacket and gloves, on a day with a high temperature in the 70s.

This and other bits of new information have sparked a call for federal intervention in the investigation. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, whose district includes Jackson, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland expressing his concerns over Dau Mabil’s disappearance and calling on federal assistance “before evidence is lost or destroyed.”

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[imstilla.grandma]

Karissa Bowley, Dau Mabil’s wife, speaks during a press conference to ask for the public’s help in finding Mabil at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson Miss., on Monday, April 1, 2024. As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. In April, fishermen found his body floating in a river in the state — prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death

Mississippi police were at odds as they searched for missing man, widow says

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In the weeks after Sudanese Civil War refugee Dau Mabil vanished without a trace in Mississippi, officers from two police agencies blamed each other for the

www.thestar.com