masnitram
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Last night, I e-mailed the Milwaukee Police Department and Walworth County Sheriff's about Jeffrey Gibson possibly being the unidentified man found in East Troy. This morning I received an e-mail from Captain Dana Nigbor of the Walworth County Sheriff's Department stating --
I keep going back and forth between two theories about the man in East Troy --
1. The UID is Mr. Gibson because there is a resemblance and the date and location he was last known to be alive are consistent with the UID.
2. The man in East Troy was someone from SE Asia who came in the late 1970s and didn't have very many ties to the area, so no one really noticed when he was missing. Unfortunately, at this time there are no Asian males reported missing before 1984.
A simple tagged "thanks" wasn't enough...I'm very happy that you proposed Mr. Gibson as a match...the timeline is perfect and the location is good. Who knows, maybe he was on his way to or from one of the many concerts at Alpine Valley that summer and got into an altercation....I guess we'll find out.
I grew up in the same county, about 25 miles East of East Troy...I remember there being seeing small groups of Asian men and women (and other ethnic groups) tending to small plots of land that I believe we're leased from local farmers. This would have been in the very early 80's...anyways, much of that land that was leased/rented is now built up with subdivisions/homes/commercial property etc...Just guessing here, but before the farmers sold off that land for development I (again just speculation) think they made extra money leasing out less-desirable farmland to immigrants. *Come to think of it, my parents former neighbor used to lease out a small plot to a Vietnamese lady and her husband...I remember talking to them when I was 5 or 6...very sweet people....
If the UID isn't Mr. Gibson, my feeling is the unidentified man may have been trespassing and was subsequently shot. Perhaps he was visiting relatives who had leased a nearby plot but he happened to be on the wrong land at the VERY wrong time. Being from "out in the sticks" in the very same county...I can say that racial tolerance at times was non-existant.