Savemecastiel
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Christopher has been missing for 29 years now.
Just thought of his disappearance a few days ago...In my mind I keep going back to that letter that his parents received years after he had vanished.
I have to correct myself, letter sent to the Eagan PD- from Christopher Matthew Kerze – The Charley Project:
"In 2004, the Eagan Police Department got an anonymous letter postmarked Seattle, Washington that asked them to stop looking for Christopher. The letter writer said Christopher was a "guardian angel" and that he would return home when he was ready. Police eventually concluded the letter was a hoax."
This part also stood out to me reading his Charley Project profile:
"The family also got a lot of strange calls where the caller would not speak and there would be background noise like a party. Christopher's mother believes the strange calls were from him. They continued for six months before stopping abruptly."
Could have also been from someone that knew more about Christopher's disappearance, IMO. Maybe an individual that he had confided in before vanishing.
Those party noises in the background...possibly someone used to feel guilty for not speaking up and therefore reached out to his family when intoxicated. I don't know. Just pure speculation of course.
There's an extract from the CharleyProject that puzzles me:
Authorities believe the gun may have been abandoned somewhere in rural Minnesota and was possibly found later by a hunter.
How and why did the police come to form this belief?
On the face of it, this case has all the indicators of a suicide. It's not much of a mystery that Christopher's body was never found. The vehicle was found abandoned near vast forested areas. Over time, those remains would've been exposed to the environment and destroyed by scavengers.
Quite a few hunters have gone missing over the years, and their gear, especially their firearms, have never been found (Tom Messick, Mel Nadel, Ludger Belanger, to name a few). Even if the remains are destroyed and scattered into obscurity, their guns should still be intact. And it's possible one reason they aren't often found by searchers in subsequent searches down the road is that hunters and hikers over the years found them instead. And instead of turning them in, they've kept them, not knowing they could be a clue to a disappearance. Or they could still be out there, undiscovered.