Recent content by Vital Forces

People often looked older back then. Smoking, drinking alcohol, leaded gasoline and a desire to "look more mature" easily made people look years older than they actually were. The evidence is all circumstantial, but I am 75% confident it was Long (minimum 60%), leaving a healthy error rate of...

I've posted this point before and it needs to be repeated. This was 2001. Caller-ID was just becoming widespread. It was in the era before you knew the name and phone number of the person before you answered. A child answering the phone and informing any random person on the other end that he...

I was awful at giving directions at that age. A car pulled up in front of me while at college and they wanted directions somewhere on campus. I had no idea how to tell them where to go. Today giving directions isn't a problem. You just need to know where things likes stores and landmarks are...

Hitchhiking seems to have still been fairly common during that time period, which explains how she travelled so far.

Today would have been Carolyn's 60th birthday.

Goodbye, OJ!

Omaha currently ranks as the worst city in America for drugs. Perhaps a drug dealer mistook him for someone who owed them money.

Here are my recent thoughts on the "unexpected person offers him a ride or asks him to enter their car" angle. This person could have offered a ride directly to Fazolis, to the school parking lot, or to a third location such as their house. They would have to deal with the problem of the ride...

It isn't known exactly how much money he had with him. $60 is simply the maximum estimated amount of money he had with him.

That's an interesting point that if he entered a house nearby then the occupant of said house would be taking a serious risk harming him. Whether it was a random invitation inside or someone he regularly visited, it would have been game over had someone seen Jason enter the house and then appear...

Branson Kayne Perry, 20, disappeared two months earlier in Skidmore, Missouri. It looks like it's about an hour away from Omaha. This stood out to me. It is probably a coincidence but it is worth considering.

This gets me wondering why he took a baseball cap and T-shirt with him to work in the first place. He would presumably get a ride home straight after work so why the need for the extra clothes? Did his brother or neighbor see him with these or were these articles simply missing from his room...

I was wondering if anything had been discovered in the two years since her identification.

Was a connection ever made between her and the inmates or staff at the prison?

I'm not very familiar with this case but do remember when it first happened. Was it a bizarre burglary gone wrong?