CA CA - Andrew Mantheiy, 17, Redding, 19 May 1977

[dogperson]

Newly listed on Charley Project. Possible Randy Kraft victim?

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mantheiy_andrew.html

 

[Ambercat]

This is Andrew's page on NamUs -- https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/23609/91

Redding, CA is pretty far north from Long Beach (where Randy Kraft lived). NamUs states that Andrew was hitchhiking on I-5 -- does anyone have more information about where he was headed?

 

[Needtoid]

Possible wi uid match??

 

[ikaffy]

Newly listed on Charley Project. Possible Randy Kraft victim?

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mantheiy_andrew.html

I am not sure how to post a picture here nor am I an expert I stumbled across this and just thing the two ave very similar. Unidentified boy found dead February 1984

 

[Needtoid]

I am not sure how to post a picture here nor am I an expert I stumbled across this and just thing the two ave very similar. Unidentified boy found dead February 1984

I did a google search. Are you speaking of the one found on the 12th? If so, he was thought to have only been there for weeks. They look like a good fit but the time frame doesn't seem to match. However, that doesn't mean that an error didn't occur. Perhaps they estimated wrong.

 

[Needtoid]

Ikaffy, do you have a tablet or smartphone? If so, try downloading the app "Tapatalk", as it is so easy to upload pix from here. I'm using it right now and love it! I hate using the Websleuths interface; it's rather confusing to navigate. Tapatalk will also alert you as soon as someone posts to this thread, if you hit the star button.

 

[alucardsdream]

There's a resemblance between him and the John Doe found in CA in 1978, though it could be just because the hair is so similar in the reconstruction. Height is a couple of inches off.

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1392umca.html ***No post mortem photo at this site but it does link to one.***

 

[ohthatkatgirl]

Finally Andrew Mantheiy's DNA is in namus. May have been for a while but I've only noticed recently.

Another missing person from Redding is 20 year old Andrew Scott Ewing, who disappeared just over 6 months earlier when planning to hitchhike to Sacramento.

 

[CastlesBurning]

For the Lost Blog » Andrew Mantheiy missing forty-two years

 

[Coffee56]

New Charley link:
Andrew Paul Mantheiy – The Charley Project

 

[PropaneYeeter]

There's a resemblance between him and the John Doe found in CA in 1978, though it could be just because the hair is so similar in the reconstruction. Height is a couple of inches off.

1392UMCA ***No post mortem photo at this site but it does link to one.***

Andrew has just been ruled out as being this Doe, according to NamUs. Though, the similarity between John Doe's second NCMEC recon and the picture of Andrew is astonishing.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Bumping for Andrew - it's now been over 44 years.

 

[PropaneYeeter]

Never far from my thoughts. You haven't been forgotten, kid.

Disappearances like these break my heart - the ones with very little available info and very little media attention that have gone unsolved for decades. To think it's been so long with no conclusive answers for those who care about Andrew and seemingly no substantial leads is harrowing. It baffles me how someone can just vanish off the face of the Earth.

 

[PropaneYeeter]

accidental double post

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Andrew Paul Mantheiy has been Added to The Doe Network.

5746DMCA - Andrew Paul Mantheiy

 

[DS2021]

bump

 

[Borders Road]

I was looking through my local cold cases and came across this: On August 22, 1977, at approx. 9 am, a nude decomposing male body was located in the 22000 block of FM 1097, Montgomery, Texas on an iron ore road. The body showed evidence of a gunshot wound to the head. The body was taken for autopsy and is described as being a White male 5’09”, 125 to 140 pounds, light Brown hair 10” long, 17 to 25 years of age. It is believed body had been there for at least two months.

After combing thru NamUs, Andrew fits the description almost perfectly as does the timeline. My theory is that a trucker hauling lumber or something else either to the port of Houston or Houston in general picked up Andrew who was last seen near a highway and shot him before the trucker reached his final destination (potentially he lived in the area or was a trucker for the iron ore company before). Just a hypothesis but I am going to see what else I can dig up.