CA CA - Bob Harrod, 81, Orange County, 27 July 2009 - #18

[zwiebel]

Bob's Disappeared episode is playing right now on Discovery ID. Breaks my heart watching this again. Is there any information on how Fontelle is doing? TIA

I've seen something from a family member that said Fontelle is doing as well as can be expected. I guess that's the best to hope for, in a horrible situation like this.

I don't want to post a link though and call attention to that family member, so you'll have to take the above as rumor I'm afraid.

 

[zwiebel]

Is there any sort of method to the order/dates when Disappeared shows old episodes? I find it a bit confusing.

 

[Cubby]

How interesting the Disappeared episode aired on Bob's birthday. Thank you to whomever made that happen!

Interestingly, I had just checked Netflix to see if season 6 had been added yet, and it hadn't.... yet.

 

[Cubby]

Bumping my own post because another article explains that a 16 year-old young man went out to help to search for those remains and helped find them, with others.

Nobody he knew, but he wants to be a doctor and just wanted to help. What a wonderful thing to do for a missing person, from one so young.

ETA: Search led by Rita and Randy Beasley. He's a former crime scene investigator.

http://www.vvdailypress.com/articles/valley-47122-helps-lake.html

Perhaps it will be someone in their teens who breaks this case wide open!

 

[zwiebel]

I was listening to an interview by the father of a child who has been missing since 1978 recently. She is Genette Tate, a little British child, and she was almost certainly a victim of a serial killer called Robert Black.

Back in 2011, media announced Genette's dad was dying of cancer, and he was begging for the location of her body before he died. Yet in 2014 he is still alive and though sounding very, very sick, it's as though the sheer drive to keep searching for his daughter is keeping him going. It was just devastating to listen to his voice........

It looks like cold case investigators and (fingers crossed) brave prosecutors are going to try and bring some resolution to Genette's family at last though, and prosecute Black for her murder, which he has always denied.

It's not going to bring the little one home of course, but perhaps justice will be some comfort to her loved ones.

Having a missing person in the family is bad enough, but having the added burden of justice not done must be so, so hard to bear......

 

[zwiebel]

Within a week of being missing, supporters of a young man lost in a Malaysian jungle have managed to get Robert DeNiro tweeting on their behalf, and much, much else besides.

I am so glad for him but it makes me so sad for Bob - what happened to his case? He and Fontelle were already the subject of good media attention BEFORE he disappeared, with their reunion after 60 years. So how could attention just have died so quickly?

Such lost opportunities.

 

[zwiebel]

I still think Bob will be found though. I'm not really disheartened. Just frustrated.

 

[zwiebel]

There has been a very interesting breakthrough in forensic technology.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/06/04/dutch-scientists-crack-fingerprint-dating

Even if it is widely adopted, it still won't influence Bob's case as the cut- off is about 15 days. It's still very interesting though. Wait till next year. Bet the FBI will adopt this.

 

[zwiebel]

I have been really worried about Bob's case because of a couple of other missing persons' cases on WS at the moment - or rather, 1 missing person and an elderly couple who were never reported missing.

In one, a youngish adventurer was found deceased after a week of desperate searches in the jungle for him. In the base camp from where the searches were launched, and yards from where his distraught mother was staying.

In the other, the elderly couple were found buried in the backyard of their small, rowhouse - 15 years after their daughter and son in law said they had wandered off to France. Or Ireland....

One of our SAR people said people must never forget to start a search at the beginning. It has set me questioning again - was Bob's property really, really, thoroughly searched? What about the immediate area? Any other properties that might have been empty, or accessible?

We just don't know.

 

[zwiebel]

I forgot to say, that in the case of the seniors, their neighbor had actually seen the hole dug in the garden early morning, and had joked to his wife, 'He's burying them'.

He just couldn't imagine that it could be true, although what he saw was odd. So it was another 15 years before those poor people were found, when all their assets had been drained.

I keep thinking there may be someone around Bob's case who may also have key information, but because it's unimaginable, they haven't come forward. I am not talking about Bob being deceased in his garden as I'm sure he's not.

I'm just thinking someone may have seen someone they know in an odd place, at an odd time, or saw a strange reaction or something......I don't know. There must be something!

 

[zwiebel]

Does anyone know if these red light cameras operate in Placentia too? It would be wonderful if an old traffic ticket could provide some clue to where Bob might be, one day. Someone abducting him might not have driven well.

But I guess that would already have been investigated.

Unless someone's missed a tiny bit of info. You never know. It can happen.

http://monrovia.patch.com/groups/po...ht-camera-tickets-in-california_01de7cb554714

 

[zwiebel]

It's so sad about those Las Vegas police officers being shot while just having lunch. That's what pulls heartstrings about Bob's case - he was just going about his business.

I'm just sure being disappeared was the last thing to cross his mind. I should think he couldn't believe it was happening, even as it did.

 

[mikkismom]

Bob will be avenged! He did his best for his family and country. He will NOT be forgotten, though others have 'forgotten' him. I have every belief that whoever 'disappeared' Bob Harrod will be prosecuted, in this life or the next.

jmo

 

[Seajay]

Still thinking of Bob and Fontelle, still praying Bob comes home before he is declared legally dead and puts a halt to his assets being distributed. They need to find out where Bob is and who disappeared him before liquidating his estate.

 

[zwiebel]

I have seen pictures of people with missing loved ones who have kept their rooms exactly as they are, for years.

It seems so strange that almost from the day Bob went missing, his house and things seemed to be disturbed in a territorial way, as though he was gone forever.

 

[travelbug]

Does anyone know if these red light cameras operate in Placentia too? It would be wonderful if an old traffic ticket could provide some clue to where Bob might be, one day. Someone abducting him might not have driven well.

But I guess that would already have been investigated.

Unless someone's missed a tiny bit of info. You never know. It can happen.

http://monrovia.patch.com/groups/po...ht-camera-tickets-in-california_01de7cb554714

I've driven around most of Placentia and the surrounding area and have not seen any red light cameras. What a good idea Zwiebe!

 

[zwiebel]

I love this story; A woman walking on the beach found a camera containing photos of a couple's wedding. She made efforts to find them, failed, and then turned to the media who found the newlyweds.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/25704657/link#.U5grzMsaySO

It's just a lovely story of someone going to a little bit of effort for complete strangers, and perhaps because they were newlyweds. Bob and Fontelle were very special newlyweds and I do think his case deserves special attention.

Hopefully his case is getting it, from someone who is very good at following trails ranging from parking tickets to floating timelines. I'd still love to know if those highway workers were in Carnation Drive the morning Bob disappeared, and if LE ever spoke to them.

 

[zwiebel]

I've only just noticed that an old article about Bob and Fontelle say Bob's wedding ring was purchased at Sam's Club, which is a membership only retail chain.

I'm hoping that will mean the store will have a record of exactly which ring he bought (although I'm sure Fontelle would know anyway) and can find out the maker's marks on it, in case that information is ever needed?

 

[ELB]

Here's a name of a man,that Det Loomis knows well, they call him the "evidence whisperer." His name is Larry Montgomery and he works for the county of Orange in California. The reason I know this is I saw a true crime show that featured Detective Loomis being interviewed, the show was on in May 2014. I believe the year of this case to be 2002-3. There was a young woman who disappeared yards from her home, they interviewed all they could and just couldn't come up with where she was and who was involved with her disappearance. So, Detective Loomis asked her friend Larry Montgomery to take a look at the case, everyone says he is the "evidence whisperer." To make a long story short, he did solve this case, which led to where the young woman was buried and what happened to her. Please forgive me, but I can't remember Larry's title/job, what he did. Seems like he had something to do with the prosecutor's office, but I could be wrong. So, how about contacting Det Loomis and seeing if she could ask her friend Larry to look over the Bob Harrod case? When I saw this same Det Loomis being interviewed, her investigating this earlier case, then asking LM for help when she came to a dead end, my ears perked right up. Now, this happened 10 years ago, but Larry didn't look that old then and I'm sure if he's still around, and if anyone could help Bob, it would be him. How do you go about making this suggestion? I live close to Placentia, but I wouldn't know how to approach Det Loomis. Maybe someone else here has more experience then me could do it. If you're interested in this other case, I could tell you more about it. What does everyone else think? I tried to make this post as clear as possible so you could understand it.

 

[ELB]

Oh, Mr. Montgomery is alive and well! All you need to do is type in his name, Larry Montgomery, the evidence whisperer and you see him sitting there in many, many cases!