Found Deceased FL - George "Skip" Zelaya, 61, Homosassa, 13 Jan 2005

[Susan Zelaya]

Your father does not look 61. Blessings and prayers.

He is actually 62 now, he had a birthday last month. I hope as I get older I am blessed with his youthful good looks.

Again thank you for your prayers!

 

[jodierenee]

wow...that does sound fishy Daddy'sGirl....

Do you think she was that angry at him to do something bad to him?!

She does seem very materialistic. Would she have anything to gain money-wise from his death?

 

[Kelly]

Bumping at the family's request:

"Please don't forget our dad!"

 

[Kelly]

Press release from the family:

"For Immediate Release:

Homosassa, Fl--September 21 , 2005-- A new billboard display is now visible to the public on Highway 19 in Homosassa, FL. On the billboard, the face of missing George “Skip” Zelaya will loom larger than life, reminding passerby’s that he is still missing from this community of about 2,294.

George "Skip" Zelaya has been missing since January 13, 2005. His family has worked hard to locate him. Their efforts include a website with information and printable poster, a t-shirt, and the establishment of a reward fund. They hope that the billboard will bring in new leads to help resolve this now over 8 month-old mystery.

The billboard was provided with the help of the Ocala Lamar Advertising and Doug Howarth, son-in-law of Skip.

Skip Zelaya is a white male, 5 feet, 9 inches tall and 130 pounds, with brown and gray hair and brown eyes. He was last seen at 6 p.m. on January 13th at his residence in the vicinity of the 5700 block of South Sea Otter Path, Homosassa.

His white, four-door, 1988 Lincoln sedan was found Jan. 14 at a shopping center off U.S. 19 in Homosassa.

Anyone with information concerning his whereabouts or disappearance is urged to call the Citrus County sheriff's office at (352) 726-1121.

Website: http://www.findgeorgeskipzelaya.com/ "

Be sure to go to the website to see a photo of the billboard and please sign the guestbook while you are there. Thank you!

Kelly

 

[Kelly]

George's story, "Daddy's Girl" is now featured on the Project Jason Voice for the Missing blog.

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/10/10405-daddys-girl.html

It is a story about fathers and daughters and the special love they have for each other.

Be sure to help out the families of the missing by telling others about the blog. This is just another way we can reach out and let the faces of the missing be seen. We welcome appropriate website links. Other ideas are posting the blog link on other forums you frequent, and sending it out to your friends and family via email.

Thank you for helping us to help others.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[Kelly]

George has been added to Project Jason's Adopt a Missing Person program. Please consider helping reunite George with his family by wearing his photo button and sharing his story with others. For more details on how you can make a difference, please see:

http://www.projectjason.org/adopt.html

Thank you!

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[petra]

http://www.findgeorgeskipzelaya.com/

George has been missing almost one year. Family is still actively seeking and above post is for his website. Please take another look......you never know.

Thank you.

 

[Kelly]

George has been missing for one year today. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. George, if you're still out there, please call home.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
http://www.projectjason.org
Read our Voice for the Missing Blog
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[Kelly]

From the family:

" I'm writing you today to let you know that our missing father, George "Skip" Zelaya will be featured on the Montel Williams Show Friday, May 5. Three other missing people will also be featured - Tara Grinstead, Ali Gilmore and Julie Michelle Bullard. Please check your local listings or go to www.montelshow.com for channel and time.

To those of you who we (me and my sister, Susan) have met, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for befriending us and caring about our dad.

I hope you can watch and if you can't - record it!!

Thank you for caring! God bless you all in your search..........

With Hope for all the missing,
Kathleen "Daddy's Girl"

Help find our dad and bring him home....
Please visit his website: www.findgeorgeskipzelaya.com"
__________________
Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Read our blog about missing persons:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/

 

[Kelly]

Project Jason announces that George Zelaya was the early August 18 Wheel Angel campaign. His active campaign is over, but you can still go to the website listed below and print his poster.

George's family really needs your help. Missing adult males, especially ones who are older with no health concerns, are generally ignored by media and other sources. What if he were your dad?

18 Wheel Angels is a national missing person's locator program in which truck drivers or other business travelers are recruited to place posters of a specific missing person along the way as they travel.

In conjunction with the poster campaign, George is also featured on the front cover and inside the August issue of a free trucking magazine called Through the Gears, available at truck stops nationwide. Through the Gears has a circulation of approximately 150,000, and is published by J.P Scott Publishing of Anniston, AL.

For additional information, and to print and place posters of George, please see:

http://www.projectjason.org/18wheel.html

You do not need to be a truck driver to help please posters. You can also help by telling any truck drivers or trucking companies you know about this program.

Thank you.

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org

 

[jodierenee]

thinking about Skip today. Prayers for his family and I hope closure comes soon.

 

[KateB]

Help Find Kimberly Sanborn, George Zelaya And Other Missing People
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/awareness-missing-persons_n_4240611.html
Published Nov 2013
COLD CASE OF THE WEEK

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The exact details of his investigation have not been made public, but it left the investigator and Zelaya's family convinced that he did not disappear of his own accord. At the time of his disappearance, Zelaya was 61 years old, 130 pounds and 5 feet 9 inches tall. He had brownish gray hair and blue eyes. He uses glasses and has a full set of dentures. For more information, visit Findgeorgeskipzelaya.com/.

Lots more at link.
George has been missing for 10 years now.

 

[Sleuthster]

Human bones found in Citrus County woods. http://www.baynews9.com/content/new...icles/bn9/2015/1/27/authorities_human_bo.html

This area is about 2 blocks from where George Zelaya lived.

 

[bflocket]

Human bones found in Citrus County woods. http://www.baynews9.com/content/new...icles/bn9/2015/1/27/authorities_human_bo.html

This area is about 2 blocks from where George Zelaya lived.

FL FL - Human remains found in Homosassa woods

 

[Sleuthster]

Interesting article http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/04/Citrus/Kin__friends_share_ho.shtml

So he was living with his ex wife and she's the one who found his car 4 miles away in a parking lot? Things that make you go hmm.....

 

[Sleuthster]

I hope I can post this. The original like to the Baynews9 story doesn't work any more. I just want to note from the quote below from the news article that "He left all his clothes, left all his vehicles, left all his belongings." is not a true statement because she did find his car 4 miles away so he took one of his cars if he did indeed drive away that morning as she says.
Interesting reading in the news stories at this link.

http://projectjason.org/forums/topic/203-missing-man-george-robt-zelaya-fl-01132005/

Skip's ex-wife, Paula Zelaya, says they were living together, trying to reconcile. She admits they still had some problems, but were also still very much in love. His disappearance is very upsetting to their five children.

"Oh, they're devastated," said Paula Zelaya. "They don't think he would just up and leave and really, I don't either. But I don't really know what to think anymore. He sent everything. To his brother, his license. That's when I thought he probably killed himself. He sent him his license and gave him some checks and told him to deposit them into his account. He left all his clothes, left all his vehicles, left all his belongings."

 

[Sleuthster]

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/z/zelaya_george.html

He left his keys at home? Where they his car keys??

 

[MamaJoJo]

I hope I can post this. The original like to the Baynews9 story doesn't work any more. I just want to note from the quote below from the news article that "He left all his clothes, left all his vehicles, left all his belongings." is not a true statement because she did find his car 4 miles away so he took one of his cars if he did indeed drive away that morning as she says.
Interesting reading in the news stories at this link.

http://projectjason.org/forums/topic/203-missing-man-george-robt-zelaya-fl-01132005/

Skip's ex-wife, Paula Zelaya, says they were living together, trying to reconcile. She admits they still had some problems, but were also still very much in love. His disappearance is very upsetting to their five children.

"Oh, they're devastated," said Paula Zelaya. "They don't think he would just up and leave and really, I don't either. But I don't really know what to think anymore. He sent everything. To his brother, his license. That's when I thought he probably killed himself. He sent him his license and gave him some checks and told him to deposit them into his account. He left all his clothes, left all his vehicles, left all his belongings."

Another bit of information from the link above...

According to Kathleen, Skip was last seen by his roommate (who also happens to be his ex-wife), at about 6:30 p.m., on January 13, 2005. It was three days later when his former wife contacted Skip's brother, Joe Zelaya, to ask if he had heard from his brother. When Joe told her he had not spoken to his brother, she informed him that she was going to contact the police. Two days later, on January 18, 2005, the she again contacted Joe to inform him that she found Skip's car at a shopping center off Highway 19. She said that his wallet was found under the seat, empty, all but for his social security card and photos. His watch, keys and cell phone were found on a table in their house.

"Susan waited a week to call me because I was in Montana and she could not decide if she should call or not, so a week later, she could not hold it any longer and that was when she called," Kathleen said. "Since that time the pain has been unbearable. I don't know where he is or why he is gone."

Unfortunately, there were no surveillance cameras outside the mall, leaving detectives with no solid proof that Skip had parked his vehicle there. Investigators conducted a search of the area and brought in a cadaver dog to assist them; however, they were unable to find any indication that Skip was in the area.

According to a journal that Skip's now-deceased brother, Joe Zelaya, maintained during Skip's disappearance, he received an interesting clue in the mail on January 25, 2005. His journal entry read in part:

"Went to mailbox. Received a couple of envelopes from Skip. One contained his driver's license and check card, the other envelope contained three checks to be deposited and a check to me for $2000, along with a note that there should be $1300 left after the check. Note states, verbatim: 'After you cash this there should be about 1,300.00 left use the card pin <redacted> or use the checks. Remember, you're on the account too. Sorry. Skip.'"

The following day, a friend of Skip's ex-wife contacted Joe and informed him that she, too, had received an envelope from Skip, which contained an audio tape, with recordings of conversations his ex-wife had had with her friends about vacations she had taken and dates she had gone on with other men.

Following the revelation about the mysterious envelopes, investigators scaled back their search effort, something that Detective Sergeant David Fields detailed in a March 16, 2005, correspondence with Joe. That correspondence read in part:

"There is no indication of any criminal wrongdoing regarding George Zelaya and him being missing. All indication is that George left on his own accord. He has relinquished his control over the joint checking account, has sent you his debit card, drivers license and checks left to be cashed. The letter you received from George was post marked 01/14/05 which means it was mailed after 01/13/05 at 5:00 p.m. the date George went missing. There is nothing to do that we have not done already ... There is no evidence to support that a crime has been committed and if an adult wants to disappear, they can do that as an adult."

 

[MamaJoJo]

NamUs profile...

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/1368/54/

Lincoln was supposedly left in the shopping center parking lot. Work van at home. Both Lincoln and work van were sold by roommate/ex-wife.

 

[Sleuthster]

Update- Remains belong to an older adult male.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/citr...an-remains-found-in-homosassa/812865242102613