outofthedark
Lyle Stevik 1976-2001
Okay, so I wanted to run something by you guys, since we are brainstorming. It could be a long shot, but since Lyle has a mysterious "foreigness" to him...do you think that there is a possibility that he could have been a foreign refugee who saught asylum status in the United States? We have thought him to be alot of different nationalities, but a place to start issuing these great posters could be high areas of resettlement in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho? I tried to look for those areas online, but could not find them. If he were to be slavic in nature, maybe he settled in a location with a high population of slavic refugees? This leads to my next question, if you are a missing refugee in this country, is there a database to be reported missing? How are you tracked? His family could be over anywhere, while he ended up here. I am really curious about this. So, if you any of you could provide links or information about this, please post it in the forum or send me a message. Thanks!
I've always wondered if he was possibly born outside of NA. But, if he was around 20 when he died, that would probably set the time of immigration to around childhood (at least before adolescence at best), in order for him to develop his accent ("Canadian"/"Other"), and complete dental work (to get teeth like his, the dental work would go on for quite some time. I know this from experience)
But he also could have been adopted from a foreign country and raised in North America.
I could throw out an abduction theory, but then I have no evidence for that.
I was thinking that for the immigrant resettlement areas, you guys could get someone to translate the posters into whatever languages in those particular areas, and have them distributed.