CA CA - Bob Harrod Last Seen at Home in Placentia - #20

[Snoop Sister]

Just wondering if this has already been posted to the thread? It seems BH's new bride may now be deceased? Yet no mention of Bob? Did she have the marriage annulled? She was said to have had a 'bad' marriage with her previous spouse and yet he is noted in her obit, but not Bob? Weird!

Harrod, Fontelle Y.​

January 12, 1936 — August 21, 2022

Fontelle Y. (Heeter) Harrod, 86, passed away August 21, 2022. Fontelle was preceded in death by her husband John and her son John, Jr. Survivors include her daughter Leisa Charles, son Kenneth Norberg and his wife Kelley, granddaughters Keely, Kristen (Nate) and Kaitlyn, great grandchildren Chandler, Cooper, Corbyn, Tenley, Cainen and Paxton, and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be 6-8PM, Thursday, August 25 at Park Lawn Funeral Home, 8251 Hillcrest Rd., Kansas City, Missouri. Funeral services will be 1PM, Friday, August 26 at Park Lawn Funeral Home; burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Fontelle Y. Harrod Obituary August 21, 2022 - Park Lawn Funeral Homes

View Fontelle Y. Harrod's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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Really odd that Bob was not mentioned in the obit. I was unaware until now that Fontelle had passed. I usually check on this page every month or so to see if there are any updates.
I wish LE would appoint someone new to have a look at Bob’s case…fresh eyes. I have three suspects in mind but no proof, just speculation.

 

[Snoop Sister]

DBM double post

 

[Snoop Sister]

Happy New Year for all those that have been following this case over the years. To a safe, healthy and joyous New Year!

 

[SuziQ]

RIP, Fontelle. You were a lovely lady.

 

[Snoop Sister]

Bumping for Bob!

 

[tarnishedhalo]

I believe this was all about money, the son-in-law pops out for supplies and in that small time frame Bob 'disappears', really..?

 

[Cubby]

Really odd that Bob was not mentioned in the obit. I was unaware until now that Fontelle had passed. I usually check on this page every month or so to see if there are any updates.
I wish LE would appoint someone new to have a look at Bob’s case…fresh eyes. I have three suspects in mind but no proof, just speculation.

I don't find it odd Bob wasn't mentioned. A lot of loonies out there and no point in drawing additional attention. Maybe they didn't want to mention Bob without mentioning his family, as doing so would have just given people another angle to bash the entire debacle.


I'm 100% certain the two persons of interest arrested back in 2019 are responsible for Bobs disappearance and presumed murder. There won't be charges until the authorities can ensure they have enough evidence to convict.

 

[Cubby]

Hiker discovers human remains in Running Springs

The skeletal remains seemed to be in an advanced stage of decomposition.

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Skeletal Remains found in Running Springs.

 

[Cubby]

If only JeM would have agreed to be interviewed by police and answered some of the contradictory information immediately after Bob disappeared.... He could have put an end to the finger pointing and allowed the focus to be on the two 2019 poi's. So much wasted time and energy.

I'm finding myself wondering if one of the two unnamed POI's had Bob's remains moved to RS as an attempt to redirect the focus back on JeM and JuM.

Hard to believe we are approaching 14 years since Bob disappeared.

 

[cocomod]

Really odd that Bob was not mentioned in the obit. I was unaware until now that Fontelle had passed. I usually check on this page every month or so to see if there are any updates.
I wish LE would appoint someone new to have a look at Bob’s case…fresh eyes. I have three suspects in mind but no proof, just speculation.

I am not surprised Bob wasn't mentioned. He didn't get to write her obituary and the people that did likely didn't know Bob that well since he was taken from her so soon after they found each other again. I have been thinking about Bob, but missed that sweet Fontelle passed. May she rest in peace

 

[cocomod]

A good recap of his story.

Why did Bob Harrod vanish shortly after reuniting with his first love?

Did someone want Bob Harrod gone?

vocal.media

There was a long court battle for Bob’s estate, which his daughters won, and five years after marrying Bob, they evicted Fontelle from the home so she returned to Missouri.



On August 21st 2022, Fontelle Harrod passed away in her hometown of Kansas city, Missouri at the age of 86.

 

[horselightning]

Just letting you know there is an obit online for Fontell Harrod she passed away last spring 2022. Oh you guys know. Did not see the posts before.

 

[charminglane]

Where are you Bob?

 

[Snoop Sister]

Bumping for Bob!

 

[cocomod]

It is Christmas time and I still wonder what happened to sweet Bob. You are not forgotten!

 

[Snoop Sister]

Bumping for Bob!

Sad that there is no new info…

 

[sreshowtime]

still thinking of Mr. Harrod...hoping he can be found some day

 

[fridaybaker]

I went back a bit to kind of refresh my memory on this case.. I had/have my suspicions from before when I was following this case... but.... looking at it from a new perspective because I have forgotten so much........

A couple of things....

i)I can't find where it was reported as to what the housekeeper had said, as far as what time she'd shown up at the house and was locked out? Can anyone send a link?

ii)I am wondering why more wasn't asked or whatever, of the particular timing................. I mean..... interesting that he disappeared *after* the wedding vows were already taken.. (one could speculate that it may have been more meaningful for him to disappear *before* the vows, if the perp was already known to have been a beneficiary of his estate?). It also seems weird to me... these reunited, madly-in-love, newlyweds, freshly married, but the bride goes off on her own to gather her things or whatever she was doing - one might speculate that it may have been fun for BH to have joined her, seen where she lived, perhaps met her friends and family, etc., while she did this - I mean, it isn't like he had a job to go to every day or something.. so why not?? Then, when he suddenly disappears... how long did it take for new bride to come back? Not long! Just kind of wondering why the newer people in BH's life have been given a cleared pass?

Replying to this very old post for what reason, I don't know, but here it goes! I think this is an interesting point, the disappearance happening after the wedding. I suppose there could be a couple of reasons, one being that perhaps the person responsible wasn't able to get to him before the wedding, and another being that the wedding happened so fast, they were taken off guard. As long as they weren't married, and weren't living together, there wasn't any danger to the estate. The next thing you know, though, they're married, and now it's bad news for those who'd planned to inherit.

Your other point, too, about Fontelle going back to pack up/move by herself is interesting. To this I might add that Bob not only didn't go back with her, he never went to her in the first place. She came to visit him in Cali when they first re-met. It seems like everything was on Fontelle to do the travelling, packing, etc. For a long time I thought I'd never have any opinion on the veracity of each side's story about the argument at the meeting, and Fontelle's assertion that he was going to add her not only to his bank accounts and house, but to the estate. (Apparently, LE found a note by Bob indicating that he was planning on adding her to the house, but found nothing about the estate.) Considering the above, it does seem to me now like perhaps Fontelle was a bit more "invested" in this relationship than Bob. The way he's described as meeting her at the airport makes it seem like he wasn't particularly frail or would have had any problem helping her move, or being with her for the move, etc. So, for me, this tilts things somewhat against Fontelle's claims, both about the argument at the meeting, and about her claim that he was adding her to everything.

 

[fridaybaker]

I do find it somewhat odd that the son-in-law was in and out of the house most of the day and wasn't concerned about Bob not being there. His housekeeper, of course, would likely know Bob's habits/schedule better than anyone but, still, I find it a bit odd that she was immediately alarmed and he apparently wasn't concerned at all. His car was there, his eyeglasses were there, where was Bob?

 

[fridaybaker]

To this I add that I'm a little surprised that Bob would add Fontelle to everything - bank accounts, house, and estate. They both had lived most of their adult lives married to other people and had created their own families. I can see two people getting together in old age due to loneliness, but in adding her to everything it's sort of like the last 50 years hadn't happened. I can't imagine thinking that I would receive part of an estate of a husband I'd just married in my 70's, each of us having had full lives with other people and our own families.

So I have questions: Did she have any provisions for herself before she married Bob? Was she destitute? She didn't seem to be. Certainly, I'd think that adding her to bank accounts and the house would be enough? It just seems a little greedy and unseemly to me. He's bonded to the daughters by a lifetime of father/daughter relationship; by blood; by a common wife/mother; and a lifetime of "togetherness" and experiences as a family. I can say for myself that I wouldn't be happy about someone sort of "breaking into the family" in that way. At least that's how I'd see it. It's one thing for my father to have company and companionship as he ages, another to have to share everything with someone who is essentially a stranger to me.