SC SC: Walter Rice dob 1920, found 1/27/91 McCormick

[wishBones1962]

Omg! this is an awesome timeline!!!!!
thank you.. now we have this to reference to!! Thank you judgejoe!

I have a couple of questions now that we have a clear timeline.

So from 1983 to 1990 we have no idea where he was.

We don’t know what years he got his passport stamped and went away.

Says that he went to 2 hospitals in Augusta Georgia .. do we know what year or years he went. It’s weird to go to another state to go to the hospital. Was he living in Georgia at that time but it was not recorded?

Okay, I find this website for the VA medical centers in Augusta. It also lists one in Aiken, SC.
About the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center - Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center

I would expect the CIA picked him up during his active duty military service, and asked him to consider working with them. He is of the right age to have served WW2, Korea, Vietnam conflicts.

His using the benefits for medical services at the closest VA Med Centers makes perfect sense to me. Depending on his status, he would have many of his needs taken care of.

His hospital stay in Abbeville- possibly due to the automobile wreck? Closest hospital?

 

[Kano]

The 'WHO' section here is a nice article

30 Jul 2007, Page 5 - The Index-Journal at Newspapers.com

 

[Kano]

Okay, I find this website for the VA medical centers in Augusta. It also lists one in Aiken, SC.
About the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center - Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center

I would expect the CIA picked him up during his active duty military service, and asked him to consider working with them. He is of the right age to have served WW2, Korea, Vietnam conflicts.

His using the benefits for medical services at the closest VA Med Centers makes perfect sense to me. Depending on his status, he would have many of his needs taken care of.

His hospital stay in Abbeville- possibly due to the automobile wreck? Closest hospital?

We don't know much about this guys entire life. Any military service at all just speculative. African Americans not conscripted into the draft until 1943 and WW2 ended in 45.

I'd love to be able to clear up some details lost in the fog of history. For instance did he have any form of accent and what nations stamped on his passport? "Exotic" doesn't do much for me. What type of car did he drive? If he didn't start his last known employment until 73 then he would have been in his 50s before starting.

 

[madamx]

Interesting rabbit holes on this one.

Yes this one is pretty deep ha!

 

[madamx]

We don't know much about this guys entire life. Any military service at all just speculative. African Americans not conscripted into the draft until 1943 and WW2 ended in 45.

I'd love to be able to clear up some details lost in the fog of history. For instance did he have any form of accent and what nations stamped on his passport? "Exotic" doesn't do much for me. What type of car did he drive? If he didn't start his last known employment until 73 then he would have been in his 50s before starting.

Yes Yes I have been saying the same thing .. Did he have an accent if so from where?!

 

[Kano]

Yes Yes I have been saying the same thing .. Did he have an accent if so from where?!

I believe this area over 50% African American. If he was some type of foreign national under protection that would explain the CIA thing. Though we also don't know if the CIA thing anything. It could have simply been they didn't know this man at all and said 'no comment'

I do imagine this guy that went through his possessions for the state after he died still alive and the best source for answers and interviews. If the fellow on the Unsolved Mysteries skit was the gentleman that actually did the work then he should well be around still.

 

[madamx]

Here is a map to show distance from McCormick to Abbeville and McCormick to Augusta Georgia. They both are pretty much the same distance from McCormick.

I have been looking but have not found anything else. Sigh

 

[Kano]

Here is a map to show distance from McCormick to Abbeville and McCormick to Augusta Georgia. They both are pretty much the same distance from McCormick.

I have been looking but have not found anything else. Sigh

I looked into that. I imagined his first trip might have been to the smaller town hospital or doctor (more immediate) and for his follow ups he went to a larger city with better medical facilities. You run into that kinda thing when people live in small towns.

 

[Hockeyfan158]

Just saw this guys story and I’m glad to find it here. Might be a stupid question but are there still companies that offer free room and board if you work for them? I was born in 1993 and have never heard of any company doing that is why i ask.

Also if he did work for the CIA at one point don’t you think they would’ve found any extended family of his living outside the United States at the time he died?

It’s just sad his money went to the state of South Carolina but i do think he was in the CIA or Witness protection program and maybe they told him to live that type of lifestyle to keep a low profile.

 

[Grungster]

Oh my, I'm going down a rabbit hole right now. I'll share everything when I can - there's a lot of info about Walter that hasn't been released and there some inconsistencies with the dates.

 

[madamx]

Oh my, I'm going down a rabbit hole right now. I'll share everything when I can - there's a lot of info about Walter that hasn't been released and there some inconsistencies with the dates.

oh wow Grungster! Really?! Iam excited and can’t wait. I have still looked around but have not found anything more.

 

[Andreee]

We don't know much about this guys entire life. Any military service at all just speculative. African Americans not conscripted into the draft until 1943 and WW2 ended in 45.

I'd love to be able to clear up some details lost in the fog of history. For instance did he have any form of accent and what nations stamped on his passport? "Exotic" doesn't do much for me. What type of car did he drive? If he didn't start his last known employment until 73 then he would have been in his 50s before starting.

 

[Andreee]

For those wondering which exotic places he travelled to, earlier in this thread it was mentioned. Heirs of Walter Rice

Supposedly, according to above link: Walter left one final mystery to ponder: his passport. Its pages are filled with visas from exotic locations, including Guatemala, Belize, Guyana, Curacao, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago. However, nothing is known about the time he spent outside of the United States.

 

[Grungster]

For those wondering which exotic places he travelled to, earlier in this thread it was mentioned. Heirs of Walter Rice

Supposedly, according to above link: Walter left one final mystery to ponder: his passport. Its pages are filled with visas from exotic locations, including Guatemala, Belize, Guyana, Curacao, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago. However, nothing is known about the time he spent outside of the United States.

Dream retirement maybe?

 

[Grungster]

Also if he did work for the CIA at one point don’t you think they would’ve found any extended family of his living outside the United States at the time he died?

CIA might be protecting them, since Walter may have been in witness protection.

 

[Hockeyfan158]

Coming back to this thread did anyone consider the possibility that he could be an escaped fugitive? it says Walter was born in 1920

But I’ve found some people who in the 1940s to 1960s escaped from prison

1. Willie T Listen escaped from a Tennessee prison in August of 1957 but used the date of his birth as 12/6/1929 his crime was Petit Larceny to me he kind of resembles a younger Walter Rice. Walter is said to be 5 ft 0 but Willie Listen was 5 Ft 3