FL FL - Jody Dean Davis, 25, Clearwater, 11/09/1986

[victoriarobinson642]

NAMUS:

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Missing Age - 25 Years
Current Age - 62 Years
First Name Jody
Middle Name - Dean
Last Name - Davis
Sex - Male
Height - 5' 11" (71 Inches)
Weight - 170 - 190 lbs
Race / Ethnicity - White / Caucasian
Date of Last Contact - November 9, 1986
Location - Clearwater, Florida
Circumstances of Disappearance - Jody was last seen in Clearwater, FL on 11/09/1986.
Hair Color - Brown
Head Hair Description - Brown hair with partial grey on sides, tiny bit, year prior. Was getting was known as a widow peak.
Body Hair Description - Slight hairy arms and legs. Did have some body hair on his chest.
Facial Hair Description - Mustache and sometimes with a full beard
Eye Color - Blue
Eye Description - Perfect Vision
Description - Scar/mark
Round / Oval scar on his upper thigh.
Tattoo - SW tattooed on his left upper arm roughly 2-3 inches tall and black lettering.
Other distinctive physical characteristic - He was able to tan very easily so could have possible tan complexion.
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[victoriarobinson642]

Not finding a ton on him in the newspapers - mostly articles about Cubs player Jody Davis, which are skewing the results.

 

[PeriwinkleE]

Not finding a ton on him in the newspapers - mostly articles about Cubs player Jody Davis, which are skewing the results.

His namus is brand new. I wonder if he was reported missing recently.

 

[megs1477]

This is from a Pensacola newspaper in 1982. In the photo he is in a Navy uniform. Perhaps he was stationed at the Naval Air Station.

 

[HopeRains]

Pensacola News, 22 Jan 82, pg 3 - Marriage Licenses Issued January 15, 1982

 

[HopeRains]

November 9, 1986 was a Sunday.

Noting case # of TW23-145420. (prefix of 23 may mean a more recent or re-opened report?)

Additionally noting LE contact listed in Namus is a Homicide Detective.

 

[Sleuthster]

Jody Davis was wanted for driving on suspended license for a charge in 1985. I was told by a fb Florida missing group that the 1995 date means it was closed because of the statute of limitations. They claim he was arrested on November 9 and disappeared. I see nothing showing he was arrested Nov 9. The last image is his fathers obituary where it lists Jody as survivor but does not show a city. These images are from Pinellas County Clerk website
I was surprised to see this guy reported missing decades after the fact. I wonder why no one reported him missing before this. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[apearn]

Do we know if he had a car?

 

[Sleuthster]

Do we know if he had a car?

No. He was allegedly arrested that day by Clearwater PD for the suspended license warrant. If this is true they probably had his car towed I would imagine.
I posted his missing info and his address at the time on a grew up in Clearwater group. Just before moderators deleted the post because it did not meet TOS an older woman told me her father lived right next door to this address and did in 1986 also. She was going to check if he knew anything but it was deleted. I didn't save her name. Shame

 

[megs1477]

I believe he had a child. Was divorced in 1987.
In Florida, CPS was called HRS in the 1980s.

 

[Sleuthster]

I believe he had a child. Was divorced in 1987.
In Florida, CPS was called HRS in the 1980s.

So it is interesting that the date for the divorce is judgement is 11/04/1986. This is 5 days before he went missing. HRS is called DCF now. CPS would be child protective services and would be through Pinellas Sheriffs Office investigators. Jody Davis is listed on this page as grantee his ex wife and HRS as the grantor. The date is 10/13/87 almost a year after he went missing. I would guess this was from some proceeding where the state and the now ex wife had some case against him that they dropped and closed. Im guessing child support from the divorce. It's interesting in the fact that they knew he was not coming back and would not be paying child support. It would have taken some time to get on the docket. Child support cases moved slow back then. Why were they so sure he wouldn't be back or just hiding out like a dead beat dad.

 

[megs1477]

So it is interesting that the date for the divorce is judgement is 11/04/1986. This is 5 days before he went missing. HRS is called DCF now. CPS would be child protective services and would be through Pinellas Sheriffs Office investigators. Jody Davis is listed on this page as grantee his ex wife and HRS as the grantor. The date is 10/13/87 almost a year after he went missing. I would guess this was from some proceeding where the state and the now ex wife had some case against him that they dropped and closed. Im guessing child support from the divorce. It's interesting in the fact that they knew he was not coming back and would not be paying child support. It would have taken some time to get on the docket. Child support cases moved slow back then. Why were they so sure he wouldn't be back or just hiding out like a dead beat dad.

Sorry, I should have clarified, these are both in Escambia County, where he was married in 1982. I started searching on Ancestry last night.
Jody was born in 1960
He attended High School in Des Moines, Iowa in 1977
in 1978 he moved during the school year to Pensacola, FL, where he continued High School
On January 17, 1982 he was married in Escambia County, Florida
On July 21, 1986 he was divorced in Escambia County, Florida

That you for clarifying CPS/DCF...my brain gets letters and words jumbled sometimes. I apologize for the error.

 

[Brown3734]

Okay so information from the family. Aka I’m who started the namus profile and did the missing persons on behalf of the family. So Jody wasn’t reported missing when he actually went missing because the families last contact with him was actually while he was in AZ. The police in AZ wouldn’t let his mother file a report saying “your not here you don’t know he’s really missing” and her local agency was also no help trying to say he had no criminal record so they couldn’t do anything. We actually didn’t find out about his arrest for the DUI in Clearwater until we opened a missing persons for him in AZ right before this one. That being said the report says he was driving a friends car from Indiana and left it in a parking lot for the friend to pick up instead of it being towed. Yes he has a child who was adopted by their stepfather with no contest because Jody was unable to be located and never responded to adds in the papers. The stuff with DCF isn’t the ex wife. That is actually the state looking for him for reimbursement for the support they provided prior to their stepfather adopting them. Ex wife, child, mother and siblings all have not heard from him since he went to AZ. It was around the holidays he asked his mom to wire him money for a bus ticket to come home and she did, then he called and said he wasn’t going to make it home and was staying in AZ. She mailed his Christmas gift out to him and it got sent back to her return to sender a couple months later and that’s what alerted everyone to him being missing. We think him being in Clearwater was him making his way to her but we just don’t know. No new DL has been issued to him since the early 80s and that one was suspended and the ex wife actually has the physical copy of it where he left it before taking off.

Hope this answers questions. We honestly are looking for him for his mothers sake. We’ve tried different things over the years but didn’t get anywhere.

 

[Brown3734]

Jody Davis was wanted for driving on suspended license for a charge in 1985. I was told by a fb Florida missing group that the 1995 date means it was closed because of the statute of limitations. They claim he was arrested on November 9 and disappeared. I see nothing showing he was arrested Nov 9. The last image is his fathers obituary where it lists Jody as survivor but does not show a city. These images are from Pinellas County Clerk website
I was surprised to see this guy reported missing decades after the fact. I wonder why no one reported him missing before this. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Please see my response below as to why not reported missing when it occurred. Also no city was listed because they family had no clue where he was. I also have a copy of the police report for his arrest. It’s where he went from the jail that we do not know.

 

[Sleuthster]

message me who the arresting officer was and the date please. Im curious.