FL FL- Violet Watzulik, 83, Sarasota, 10 June 2000

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Violet Ellen Watzulik

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Violet, circa 2000

• Missing Since 06/10/2000
• Missing From Sarasota, Florida
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Date of Birth 07/05/1916 (104)
• Age 83 years old
• Height and Weight 4'11, 106 pounds
• Medical Conditions Violet is required to take medication for unspecified reasons. She has a pacemaker.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Gray/white hair, brown eyes. Violet wears eyeglasses. Her maiden name is Reavey. She was born in Ireland and moved to the United States as a child.

Details of Disappearance
Violet resided in the 300 block of Suwanee Avenue near the Whitfield area in Sarasota, Florida. She lived with her son, Carl Watzulik.

Carl told authorities that his mother visited friends in Naples, Florida and took a cruise along the western coast of the state during the early summer of 2000. He said that Violet returned home on June 10, 2000 and spent two hours packing additional belongings. She told her son that she was embarking on an extended cruise from the eastern coast of Florida to New England.

Carl said that Violet planned to travel with the boat's owner, an elderly Caucasian man named David Richardson. Violet's loved ones are not familiar with anyone fitting the individual's description. Richardson may have resided in Naples or Fort Myers, Florida in 2000. Violet has never been heard from again.

Violet last spoke to her daughter, who resides in Arizona, sometime during March 2000. Her daughter reported Violet as a missing person in July 2000. She said that her mother often travels, but it is uncharacteristic of Violet to not contact family members. There has not been any activity on Violet's credit cards or bank accounts since her disappearance.

An extensive investigation failed to produce any evidence as to Violet's whereabouts. Authorities suspect that foul play may have been involved in her case. Officials are not certain if Richardson exists. There have not been any arrests in Violet's disappearance, which remains unresolved. Violet Ellen Watzulik – The Charley Project

 

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Daughter believes missing mom dead
The 84-year-old disappeared from her home in July 2000, leaving no clues.


By TIMOTHY O'HARA
[email protected]

MANATEE COUNTY - For the past year and a half, Eileen Mager has been
searching for her mother, who vanished.

In July 2000, Mager reported her 84-year-old mother Violet Watzulik missing
after she disappeared from the Whitfield home she shared with her son Carl.

Since then, Manatee County sheriff's detectives have questioned people,
tried to track down a man who may or may not exist and monitored her credit
and bank cards for activity.

There is no trace of her anywhere, and her disappearance has left her
family to wonder what happened.

"I believe she is dead," Mager said from her home in Arizona. "But we don't
know why or what happened."

Detectives have questioned Mager's son. Violet Watzulik lived with her son
in a small home on Suwanee Avenue in a quiet neighborhood just west of
Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

Months after his mother's disappearance -- which Carl Watzulik never
reported -- detectives asked him to submit to a polygraph test.

The results were inconclusive, but Watzulik is no longer allowed in the
home he once shared with his mother.

"Carl has done very little to help the investigation and done more to
hinder it," Mager said.

After Mager reported her mother missing, detectives used a dog to search
the house and back yard for a body, but found nothing.

"Obviously I'm the number one suspect. I certainly had nothing to do with
it," Carl Watzulik said. "By the time I got worried about her my sister had
already filed a missing persons report."

With no body, Manatee County sheriff's detectives said they must treat the
case as a missing person investigation.

Veteran sheriff's Detective Dan Whidden was recently assigned to the case.

"He is like a (wood) chipper. He just chips, chips, chips away at a case,"
Detective Sgt. Chris Atkinson said.

Mager and her husband, who set up a log to document their findings, have
talked with detectives and police officers from Manatee County to Miami.
They have checked for any activity in her credit card and checking accounts.
They have interviewed friends and acquaintances.

Still nothing, not a trace of her mother.

In the past year, they also hired two private investigators. One of the
investigators sent a copy of his findings to the Manatee County Sheriff's
Office.

Mager said the story surrounding her mother's disappearance is suspicious.

Carl Watzulik told detectives his mother came home in June 2000 with a man
named David Richardson. He said she packed some clothes and left with
Richardson for a boat trip.

Mager, who talked with her mother every week, said her mother would never
take a trip without telling her. And, she said, her mother would not take
off for months without checking in with family members.

Detectives have never been able to find Richardson or to prove that he even
exists.

Watzulik, a retired piano teacher, raised her two children in the Cleveland
area. She and her husband, Richard, retired to Tennessee and then moved to
Florida.