OR OR - Frances Brewster, 75, & Walter Cierley, 88, Bend, October 1999

[OkieGranny]

http://www.bendbugle.com/bend-police-issue-nationwide-alert-for-missing-couple-fear-foul-play/

In July 1998, Walter Andrew Cierley, who now would be 91, moved suddenly from his Prineville apartment. A relative who “a couple of weeks later shows up and cleans out the apartment of belongings” told police that Cierley was traveling around the country with friends in a motor home.

Fifteen months later, in October 1999, Frances B. Brewster, who now would be 76, moved out of a Bend retirement center – with the same male relative’s help – and last was seen in the Sunriver area, Hayes said. The relative she had been living with said Brewster had left with Cierley to travel around the country in a motor home.

Hayes said police were told Cierley had been married to Brewster’s sister, who passed away several years ago. Relatives said they have been unable to contact the pair and have not heard from them on key dates when they normally would have, such as “birthdays, Christmas and such,” Hayes said.

http://www.bendbugle.com/suspect-in-mothers-uncles-slayings-kills-self-as-police-move-in/

A 45-year-old Seattle man who allegedly killed and buried his mother and uncle in Central Oregon – then cashed their Social Security checks – apparently shot and killed himself when confronted by police in Seattle last Friday on Deschutes County arrest warrants, authorities said.

Federal indictments regarding the cashing of the checks were pending when Seattle police and federal agents went to a Seattle address to arrest John Henry Shipman on two warrants out of Deschutes County, said Bend police Lt. Jerry Stone. The warrants were for violations of a release agreement and a restraining order. Stone said the warrants stemmed from Shipman’s arrest and related investigations by Bend police into domestic violence directed at a former girlfriend.

When contacted in Seattle, around 4:30 Friday afternoon, Shipman retrieved a shotgun inside the residence, and officers retreated. A Seattle SWAT team was called in, but negotiators were unable to contact Shipman again. The SWAT team entered the residence around 11 p.m. and found Shipman dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Stone said.

Charley Project:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/brewster_frances.html
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/cierley_walter.html

NamUs (Frances): https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/25666

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

NamUs information for Walter. What a tragic case.

 

[theshadow45]

Frances Brewster, possibly Spring River Road Jane Doe? Doe Network: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1269ufor.html and NamUs: https://identifyus.org/cases/11434. Bend, Oregon is approximately 17 miles from Sunriver and even thought the age is off (believed to be 60 at the oldest) she also had no teeth. Little information is available due to only the skull being recovered.

 

[theshadow45]

Frances Brewster, possibly Spring River Road Jane Doe? Doe Network: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1269ufor.html and NamUs: https://identifyus.org/cases/11434. Bend, Oregon is approximately 17 miles from Sunriver and even thought the age is off (believed to be 60 at the oldest) she also had no teeth. Little information is available due to only the skull being recovered.

Submitted via NamUs.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Frances and Walter, now missing 21 years

 

[Pennysmom1]

4042DMOR - Walter Andrew Cierley

Walter Andrew Cierley – The Charley Project

Walter Andrew Cierley​

• 

Cierley, circa 1998

• Missing Since 07/01/1998
• Missing From Prineville, Oregon
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Male
• Race White
• Date of Birth 12/31/1909 (113)
• Age 88 years old
• Height and Weight 5'8, 170 pounds
• Associated Vehicle(s) Motor home
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Gray hair, blue eyes. Cierley wears a full set of dentures.

Details of Disappearance​

Cierley was last seen sometime during July 1998 when his nephew, John Henry Shipman, helped him move out of his Prineville, Oregon apartment. Shipman later told people that Cierley was traveling around the country in a motor home. He has never been heard from again.

Shipman is the son of of Frances Brewster, who was reported missing by one of her other children in May 2001. She was last seen in October 1999 and was living with Shipman at the time of her disappearance. Shipman told authorities that Brewster was traveling with Cierley, whose late wife was Brewster's sister.

Police discovered that Shipman was cashing both Brewster and Cierley's Social Security benefit checks after they disappeared. When they tried to arrest him on some unrelated domestic violence charges in September 2001, he killed himself with a shotgun. Federal indictments related to the check-cashing were pending against him when he died.

Although Shipman never admitted to involvement in his mother and uncle's disappearances, authorities believe he murdered them both and buried their bodies somewhere in central Oregon.

Brewster and Cierley have never been located. Foul play is suspected in their cases due to the circumstances involved.

Investigating Agency​

• Bend Police Department 541-388-5550

Source Information​

• Bend.com
• North American Missing Persons Network

Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated May 9, 2005.

 

[Pennysmom1]

I hope someday soon Frances' and Walter's remains are located- very sad

Missing Person / NamUs #MP25666

View NamUs missing person case MP25666 for Frances B Brewster missing from Bend, Oregon. Date of last contact: Oct 01, 1999. NCMEC case number: --.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

2777DFOR - Frances B Brewster

Frances B. Brewster – The Charley Project

• 

Brewster, circa 2001

• Missing Since 10/01/1999
• Missing From Sunriver, Oregon
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 08/11/1924 (99)
• Age 75 years old
• Height and Weight 5'7, 150 pounds
• 
  
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Gray hair, blue eyes. Brewster wears a full set of dentures. She may use the names Frances B. Shipman and/or Frances Shipman Brewster. Brewster has had both hips replaced, the right one more recently than the left. She has previously broken her right wrist.

Details of Disappearance​

Brewster was last seen sometime in October 1999 in Sunriver, Oregon. She was living with her adult son, John Shipman, at the time of her disappearance; she had moved in with him after leaving a retirement center in Bend, Oregon. After she vanished, Shipman said his mother was traveling with Walter Cierley, who disappeared in July 1998. Cierley had been married to Brewster's late sister, making him Brewster's brother-in-law.

In May 2000, one of Brewster's other sons reported her missing. Her relatives had become worried because they had not heard from her for such a long time. Subsequent investigation revealed Cierley's disappearance as well.

Police discovered that Shipman was cashing both Brewster and Cierley's Social Security benefit checks after they disappeared. When they tried to arrest him on some unrelated domestic violence charges in September 2001, he killed himself with a shotgun. Federal indictments related to the check-cashing were pending against him when he died.

Although Shipman never admitted to involvement in his mother and uncle's disappearances, authorities believe he murdered them both and buried their bodies somewhere in central Oregon.

Brewster and Cierley have never been located. Foul play is suspected in their cases due to the circumstances involved.

Investigating Agency​

• Bend Police Department 541-388-5550

Source Information​

• Bend.com
• North American Missing Persons Network

Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004. Last updated May 9, 2005.

 

[DS2021]

bump

 neither have exclusions listed in Namus

 

[theshadow45]

Frances has been missing for 25 years this month.