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Damian Kinte Dill – The Charley Project
5204DMAL - Damian Kinte Dill
See Charley Project and Doe Network Link above. Damian Kinte Dill was 20 years old when he was last seen on 2/15/2005 in Montgomery, AL
This is another one of an endless amount of adult men’s cases with few details in it, but with Damian there is one little lead that we can use to at least theorize a few things: It is said on the case that it is possible Damian “went to the Job Corps in Florida”. Of course, a quick search on Google doesn’t come up with any further information about there being any record of him actually being accepted into or showing up at a Jobs Corps campus, so without a report on that we just don’t know if he ever did go to the Job Corps. BUT, there is another deet on the Doe Network case for Damian: The doe file gives two dates for Damian going missing. It says “Missing since December 15, 2005” on one section, but that he was “last seen on February 15, 2005” on another. I note that neither Charley Project or Doe Network seems to provide a date of birth for Damian. I could only speculate as to why no birth date, but one idea is him being reported missing by someone who did not know him that well, or just that the info simply never made it onto the case file. A quick google search does not turn up any internet family activity IE anyone posting looking for Damian, Facebook groups etc, though Damian went missing in 2005, when social media was not used in as many applications as today. It is always possible there is stuff out there, but I am not skilled at advanced searching. If it’s not on the top couple pages of results, and subsequent results look less and less relevant, I give up!
My notes taken as a whole above, I am left to consider a few possibilities about Damian. I consider the possibility either his parents could have been older, his extended family and friend group could have been small, and who knows if he had any social media in 2005. A lot of people did have it in 2005, but not everyone, technology took time to extend its reach and since I live in the Deep South, I can report that even in 2024, I routinely come across people in their 40s and 50s (Damian would be nearing 40 today), who do not have email or a smartphone.
Since there is some inconsistency in the reported date Damian went missing, yet always a mention about the Job Corps, does this mean Damian could have just dropped out of sight shortly after telling many people he had plans to join the Job Corps? Could he have attempted to or completed travel to Florida, or even elsewhere? Could Job Corps be a red herring and maybe Damian left Montgomery for other reasons? Perhaps to a big city? The date inconsistency leads me to wonder if he was reported missing months after he actually was last seen, perhaps by someone close to him who had expected they should have heard from him after awhile but didn’t. Who knows if Damian had a cellphone. I am a year older than Damian, and didn’t get my first cellphone until 2004.
As you can understand most of this is intellectual speculation on my part, but I have always found that you can at least generate reasonable ideas with few clues.
Whatever the case, Damian’s case appears to have been open and unsolved for almost 20 years. Somebody posted a thread about Damian here on Websleuths in 2010, but it got no interaction.
