Hi,
I was reading very sad and interesting articles about Mark's brother, Jeff, who died on 9/11 and saw that there is a book about him called
Jeff's Way by Douglas O'Keeffe, who was apparently a friend of his.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-...onepage&q=jeff collman's brother Mark&f=false is a link to an excerpt of the book that discusses Mark's disappearance. I am unable to copy and past from the excerpt but it indicates Mark had had a "fistfight" with his father on the day before his disappearance but that he left behind his paycheck and savings.
Amazon has this info about the author: Douglas O'Keeffe is a flight attendant for a major airline, and resides in Chicago. Douglas is a member of the National Air Disaster Alliance, and a member of his airline?s ASSIST Program which offers support to air accident victims. Jeff?s Way is his first book.
http://www.amazon.com/Jeffs-Way-Dou...FOY_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433299329&sr=1-1
I somehow missed the above post. There is some interesting information available at the link for the book titled
Jeff's Way. According to the book, Jeff, Mark and their dad all worked for the same company at the time of Mark's disappearance. That could explain why Mark did not show up for work nor pick up his paycheck. I can see an adult teenager who left after an argument with his father not wishing to run into anyone who is in contact with dad.
Additionally, the book mentions that Jeff's remains were not found after 9-11. That leads me to lean towards possibility that there is no FRS dna sample available to possibly id any remains that belonged to Jeff. I recall reading there were several families who chose not to submit dna because the process of identifying fragments of their loved ones was just too painful. Given the break up of the family as explained in
Jeff's Way and Jeff and Marks fathers comments in the MSM interview about Mark's disappearance, I can see how and why DNA would not be submitted for either Jeff or Mark's case. Plus, according to Find a Grave, Marks biological mother passed away in 2004.
I would like to know what led Mark's father to agree to the MSM interview about Mark's disappearance. Was that as a result of interest generated from Sheriff Dart's request for families of young males who disappeared in the 70's to contact regarding the unidentified Gacy victims? If so, did the initial interest generate from Mark's father or someone else?
I have been asked for my thoughts on this case and my first instinct tells me Mark is missing willingly. I think there were probably too many people around, both with the new family (step and half siblings) along with people from work who would be suspicious if foul play were involved. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any rumblings that might lead to foul play with direct involvement from/of the family. I don't buy the DH speculation which is out there.
As an adult, Mark has the right to be missing voluntarily (and his privacy) if he so chooses. Though, I do wonder if he wanted no contact with his father why not get back in contact with his siblings? He still has living siblings who probably wonder what became of him. He can always contact the detective handling his case and let her know he is voluntarily missing and doesn't currently wish for contact.
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/12546/122 The detectives contact info is at the findthemissing link.
It's odd, imo, that no one who personally knew Mark has made any comments online that I can find. Of course there are many questions, but most importantly is Mark's well being. Even if it is just to let the detective know he is ok without divulging any additional information.
Hopefully the mystery into Mark's disappearance is resolved soon.