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Just noting the above is not Marvin Shahan. Identified as Thomas Aquinas Cooney.

A few articles from the time.

Last paragraphs are concerning

Most likely the answer is closer to home… March 1990

5th March 6th March

Found some newspaper articles that might shed some new light on a disappearance. Age and middle initial matches, also the date being 4th March 1981.

I feel the information in NamUs of 5f 3 could be wrong? Ancestry records show his height of 6f, also a record for his brother also a pilot as 6f NameEldon Elmer Shore RaceWhite Age24 Birth Date7 Nov. 1922 Birth PlaceChariton, Iowa Residence PlaceJohnson City, Washington, Tennessee...

A very intriguing deep dive and an angle I certainly had not pondered. I think the people in his life would have known a lot more. Found another couple of articles.

Seems police had two suspects. I wonder if any dna could tie them to the crime? Psychics Help Police Track Girl's Killer VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) - Since 17-year- old Priscilla Wilson was beaten and strangled to death a year ago, police have tried to track her killers as far away as Iceland. But...

27th March 1981

I’m perplexed, could the newspaper report have got the information so wrong? Aside from the girls names being somewhat different, Irene M was born in 1902 according to ancestry, so this one would be 17 in 1919. The William has no “Charles” or “C” as a middle name, both 1910 and 1920 census has...

Wow, a very detailed article. The former West Point Police Chief Bobby Mawyer is like a dog with a bone! A couple of snippets : Interviews with former students turned up a person of interest, another student named Lloyd Hodges. Classmates said Elsie had been dating Hodges at the time of her...

Thinking about your post and hoping they throughly search in and under any deserted cars, appliances, old junk/trash etc. self harm seems unlikely. Such a vulnerable age.