IN IN - Joseph Spisak, 11, Hammond, 27 January 1974

[summergirl1]

The boy mentioned below vanished from Indianopolis four years later. Indianapolis is a little over two hours away from Hammond. There is very likely no connection, but it is the closest missing person case I can find in terms of similarity, distance, and the year it happened.

One thing not mentioned in this link (but mentioned on his thread on here), is that his family did suspect some man known to them who they felt had a unhealthy interest in Scott prior to his disappearence. Of course, he was 14 and had a history of running away, too. As for the phone calls from the carnival, missing persons cases have often attracted fake phone calls, sightings, etc. It's hard to know if it was actually him. I wonder if there was a carnival in town at the time he vanished, or in the area?

Scott Michael Morris – The Charley Project

It is also possible whoever abducted Joseph- if he was abducted, which seems likely ( otherwise maybe something accidently happened to him), was only successful once. I wonder if there's any record of unsuccessful abduction or possible abduction attempts in the area in the years or decades close to when he vanished? Those would be more obscure, but they may exist.

 

[ivonne]

NE - MIDWEST - WILLIAM "Freight Train" GUATNEY, suspected serial killer of children, 1970s-1980s

I am starting this thread because I couldn't find one for him. He's been listed as possible suspect in several missing person or unsolved murder cases on here, but doesn't have his own thread. If he does, I'm sorry about that. This guy hopped trains and traveled throughout the Midwest...

www.websleuths.com

 

[ivonne]

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[Diane Redfern]

1723UMIN

I know the age and the estimated date of death are off, but it's the only possibility I've found.

 

[Deleted member 300796]

The boy mentioned below vanished from Indianopolis four years later. Indianapolis is a little over two hours away from Hammond. There is very likely no connection, but it is the closest missing person case I can find in terms of similarity, distance, and the year it happened.

One thing not mentioned in this link (but mentioned on his thread on here), is that his family did suspect some man known to them who they felt had a unhealthy interest in Scott prior to his disappearence. Of course, he was 14 and had a history of running away, too. As for the phone calls from the carnival, missing persons cases have often attracted fake phone calls, sightings, etc. It's hard to know if it was actually him. I wonder if there was a carnival in town at the time he vanished, or in the area?

Scott Michael Morris – The Charley Project

It is also possible whoever abducted Joseph- if he was abducted, which seems likely ( otherwise maybe something accidently happened to him), was only successful once. I wonder if there's any record of unsuccessful abduction or possible abduction attempts in the area in the years or decades close to when he vanished? Those would be more obscure, but they may exist.

Scott Michael Morris is an interesting case all by itself, but I have been looking at a different directional theory. Are you still looking for similar cases?

 

[Rush4087]

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Hammond police have released a new age progression image showing what a boy missing since 1974 might look like now.

Age progression image released of Joseph Spisak, missing from Hammond since 1974

Why would whoever created the age progression image of Joseph show the part in his hair on the wrong / opposite side of his head (compared to all the other childhood photos of him on this thread)?

The script / writing is correct on the age progression image - so it does not appear that the image is just inadvertently flipped in publishing. And if his childhood photos were inadvertently flipped, somebody would have had to have inadvertently flipped all 3 of them..

Just strange. All jmo

 

[summergirl1]

Scott Michael Morris is an interesting case all by itself, but I have been looking at a different directional theory. Are you still looking for similar cases?

What is your theory? I haven't looked into this case since my last post.