IN IN - Chalmer Tuttle, 60, Auburn, 28 Jan 2003

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Chalmer Paul Tuttle
De Kalb County, Indiana
60 year old white male

Height: 69-70 inches
Weight: 150-155 lbs
Hair color: Gray or partially Gray
Eyes: Blue

Tuttle's disappearance is suspicious because he left without personal belongings. A slow-cooker was found at Tuttle's home still turned on, with burned food inside.

His pickup truck was recovered where it was apparently abandoned at the sale barn in Topeka

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/34636/

 

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Article from Feb 28, 2006:
[h=1]Avilla man missing[/h]

A pickup truck belonging to a missing rural Avilla man has been recovered where it was apparently abandoned
at the sale barn in Topeka.

DeKalb County Police Detective Lee Stoy said Chalmer Paul Tuttle, 60, was reported missing at 11 a.m. Thursday by a brother and a cousin. The relatives said they had daily contact with Tuttle up until Jan. 30.
His vehicle is a dark green Toyota T100 pickup truck with Indiana registration 204715A. It was impounded by Topeka Police and turned over to DeKalb County Police Thursday evening, Stoy said.
Tuttle, who farms on C.R. 36 near the Noble-DeKalb county line northeast of Avilla, is described as 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds, with graying hair, which originally was brown.
In addition to farming, Tuttle is a sales representative for Beck Seed Co. of Atlanta, Ind. Stoy said he has been in contact with Beck, and the company reports it has had no contact with Tuttle since the end of January.

When Topeka Police

still suspicious because of the manner in which the abandoned truck was parked

again checked the license number Thursday, it had been entered in the national data bank of stolen or missing vehicles and DeKalb police were notified.

Stoy said the vehicle showed no signs of violence or foul play.
Tuttle is fairly well known in the Avilla community, according to a resident whose family knows the missing man.
"He used to raise hogs and milk (cows), but now he just farms a little," the source said.

http://www.kpcnews.com/article_8a30011a-c138-54c0-9a89-51ad379b133d.html


Article from March 10, 2008:
Daughter wants missing dad declared dead

AUBURN — The daughter of a missing rural Avilla man wants a court to order that her father is presumed dead.

Jamie Rene Jacquay of Fort Wayne has filed a petition in DeKalb Circuit Court for the presumption of death and the unsupervised administration of the estate of her father, Chalmer P. Tuttle.

A hearing on the matter has been scheduled for April 8 at 9 a.m.

Tuttle was reported missing Feb. 13, 2003, by relatives who said they had been in daily contact with him until Jan. 30 of that year. According to police reports at the time of his disappearance, police found Tuttle’s pickup truck, a dark green Toyota T100, at a Topeka sale barn on the same evening he was reported missing. At the time, police reported discovering that Tuttle apparently had left his home on C.R. 36, near the Noble-DeKalb county line northeast of Avilla, without taking personal items. They found a slow-cooker still turned on with burned food inside.

Police reported Tuttle’s vehicle showed no evidence of violence or foul play.
Tuttle, who was 60 at the time of his disappearance, was a farmer and also worked as a sales representative for Beck Seed Co. of Atlanta, Ind. Police described him as 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds, with graying hair.
“The case has gone cold,” DeKalb County Sheriff John Dennis said Wednesday. “Nobody has ever located him. The only thing we had was his truck was abandoned at Topeka around the livestock auction area. All our leads went nowhere. He just disappeared. ... All leads have been exhausted. We have no idea where he or his body is.”

Dennis said no financial transactions were made on Tuttle’s bank account after his disappearance. The sheriff said he cannot recall any similar cases in DeKalb County. He said Tuttle’s disappearance was treated as suspicious, because it appeared Tuttle planned to return home but never did.

http://www.kpcnews.com/article_24f084e8-10dd-5319-b99f-17b91ef25397.html

 

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Unidentified Skeletal remains found in Auburn: http://fox59.com/2018/02/18/investig...rea-in-auburn/

UID Thread: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ering-Feb-2018

 

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This is a case that I have researched in my free time over the last few months, there really is not much information on this case at all. . I am local to the area and had not heard about this case until searching through Namus.

 

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High school photos from Garrett HS.

 

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Chalmer Paul Tuttle (1942-2003) - Find a Grave...

Tuttle was reported missing Feb. 13, 2003, by relatives who said they had been in daily contact with him until Jan. 30 of that year. According to police reports at the time of his disappearance, police found Tuttle's pickup truck, a dark green Toyota T100, at a Topeka sale barn on the same...

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