IA IA - David McAllister, 22, Bettendorf, 10 May 2017
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I feel so sad about this case. I hope sincerely he makes his way home, one way or another. He reminds me so strong of my one and only child, my dear son, who is struggling to deal with life too, like David. Every time I see David's face I wonder what could have happened to him and I feel so sorry for his loved ones.
I feel so sad about this case. I hope sincerely he makes his way home, one way or another. He reminds me so strong of my one and only child, my dear son, who is struggling to deal with life too, like David. Every time I see David's face I wonder what could have happened to him and I feel so sorry for his loved ones.
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Where are you David? I pray that your dear sweet and beautiful mother finds you soon. You seem so loved and so missed.
I will never understand how addicts can be pushed aside and forgotten by the world when they go missing, while their poor families desperately search and pray and cling to hope. We are all broken in our own ways and in the end we are all just walking each other home. Nobody should have to make that walk alone. I pray for answers for this poor family!
I will never understand how addicts can be pushed aside and forgotten by the world when they go missing, while their poor families desperately search and pray and cling to hope. We are all broken in our own ways and in the end we are all just walking each other home. Nobody should have to make that walk alone. I pray for answers for this poor family!
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Already a while ago...I followed David's tracks from his house to the park, digital, on Google maps.....there is a body of water along the way. Did they search for him with sent dogs or cadaver dogs.....
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Does somebody has a subscription to Quad City Times? In the article underneath there are more details about the investigation into David's missing case and thoughts about it by the family. It's mentioned in the Brainscratch video made by John Lordan.
Bettendorf man, 22, has been missing since May '17
David has been missing since May 2017 from Bettendorf, Iowa. We have been looking for so long with very little answers. The police have been little help. The media helps keep David in the local spot light from time to time and several people have done podcasts on David.
David is loved and deeply missed! We need help finding him. I have put the link to his missing person page here, he is also in nameus. Any and all help is appreciated.
David is 5’9 Caucasian Male, he is 160 lbs with long blonde hair. He has several tattoos, pierced ears and several scars. He walks with a limp.
BRING DAVID McAllister HOME
David is loved and deeply missed! We need help finding him. I have put the link to his missing person page here, he is also in nameus. Any and all help is appreciated.
David is 5’9 Caucasian Male, he is 160 lbs with long blonde hair. He has several tattoos, pierced ears and several scars. He walks with a limp.
BRING DAVID McAllister HOME
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There was a group of us that searched the creeks that run from Marquette Street all the way to Brady Street and the fields by Garfield park. I believe cadaver dogs were ran through Junge park months after he went missing. We also searched the wooded area of junge park.
Thank you. I didn’t know he was posted in here.
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Hi and welcome! Good to have you here. So sorry for all of you. Good thoughts sending your way.
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Faith played a major role in David’s life. He and his mother were baptized on the same day when David was younger.
They remained close as David grew older, and even when he hitchhiked from Colorado to California, rode trains and lived on the road.
“Every day, I’d get a text. Every day I’d hear from him … every day,’ Marilyn says.
At first, the parents wondered whether David had taken off again when he disappeared. But as days and weeks went by, his parents grew more worried – it wasn’t like David not to keep in touch.
Months later, officials traced the last ping of David’s phone off the St. Ambrose tower. That indicated he somewhere near Vander Veer or Garfield Park.
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“The easiest thing I <Davids dad> can relate it to is when a loved one passes,” he said. There’s nothing you can. They’ve done everything possible to find him, he said.
“I think there is somebody out there that knows something – somebody that has an idea of what happened to him,” Jeff <David's dad> said. “We’re not looking to punish anybody,” he said, adding that people have many options to remain anonymous.
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Vanished QC: Awareness ride aims to help with QC missing-persons cases
The mother of a man who disappeared five years ago invites everyone to a motorcycle ride with the hope of finding not only her son, but also other Quad-City missing people.
David McAllister, of Bettendorf, is now 27. He went missing in May of 2017, and each year that passes continues to bring pain and worry to his family.
The fourth annual “Doing it For David” group ride will be presented by Hawkeye Motor Works on Saturday, June 11, at Hawkeye Motor Works, 7805 N. Division St., Davenport.
Registration starts at 9 a.m., with “kick stands up at 10 a.m.” Donuts and coffee will be provided. Pearl City Disciples will do a blessing of the bikes. Music will be noon until 2 p.m. by Ben Coe of Bo Orrin Music. For more information, click here.
Marilyn McAllister-Snelling, of Davenport, recently has hired a private detective to find her son.
“He tells me that he will not leave David’s case until he finds him,” she said. “There’s hope again,” she said, although she also says “I don’t think David’s living on earth anymore. I understand that’s a possibility.”
She remembers the day David disappeared.
“Early in the morning, I got up for work and David had already left. I leave for work by 5:30 and he already had been up and gone,” she said.
“I’m OK, mom, I’m just walking, thinking, and spreading the Word,” replied David who, as far as his mother knows, had only his backpack and his Bible. He was on foot.
He called his boss that day and said he wasn’t coming in to work.
His mother texted out a prayer to him and sent him on his way. “And that’s the last I heard from him,” she said.
Officials triangulated David’s flip phone. “They said his last ping was around noon on May 11, of 2017, off the St. Ambrose towers in Davenport, which they believe would have put him in the area of Garfield Park or Vander Veer.”
“Somebody knows something. Nobody just vanishes.”
Visit the Facebook page, Bring David McAllister Home, here.
David’s case is featured on The Charley Project site here.
David’s case also is featured on the Quad Cities Missing Persons Network.
If you have information that could lead to David’s whereabouts, contact Bettendorf Police Detective Brian Crouch, 563-344-4035, or Private Investigator Jim Terry at 813-993-2242.
Anonymous tips can be sent to P. O. Box 1474, Bettendorf, IA 52722.
“There’s a hole in your heart that cannot be filled by anything but knowing where he’s at. My life will never be the same,” Marilyn said. “I had two choices. I literally could have laid down and died, or I get up and I fight like hell for him,” said Marilyn, who is at work on a book about Quad-City men who are missing.
“I am begging anybody to come forward,” she said. “I believe he is no longer living. I feel that as a mom. I also am grateful he gave his life to Christ, because I know I will see him again someday.”
She wants to find her son to “bury him the way he asked me to, years ago.”
“Once we find out if it’s a bad result … that he’s dead now … we need to start that grieving process of him actually being gone,” she said.
The mother of a man who disappeared five years ago invites everyone to a motorcycle ride with the hope of finding not only her son, but also other Quad-City missing people.
David McAllister, of Bettendorf, is now 27. He went missing in May of 2017, and each year that passes continues to bring pain and worry to his family.
The fourth annual “Doing it For David” group ride will be presented by Hawkeye Motor Works on Saturday, June 11, at Hawkeye Motor Works, 7805 N. Division St., Davenport.
Registration starts at 9 a.m., with “kick stands up at 10 a.m.” Donuts and coffee will be provided. Pearl City Disciples will do a blessing of the bikes. Music will be noon until 2 p.m. by Ben Coe of Bo Orrin Music. For more information, click here.
Marilyn McAllister-Snelling, of Davenport, recently has hired a private detective to find her son.
“He tells me that he will not leave David’s case until he finds him,” she said. “There’s hope again,” she said, although she also says “I don’t think David’s living on earth anymore. I understand that’s a possibility.”
She remembers the day David disappeared.
“Early in the morning, I got up for work and David had already left. I leave for work by 5:30 and he already had been up and gone,” she said.
“I’m OK, mom, I’m just walking, thinking, and spreading the Word,” replied David who, as far as his mother knows, had only his backpack and his Bible. He was on foot.
He called his boss that day and said he wasn’t coming in to work.
His mother texted out a prayer to him and sent him on his way. “And that’s the last I heard from him,” she said.
Officials triangulated David’s flip phone. “They said his last ping was around noon on May 11, of 2017, off the St. Ambrose towers in Davenport, which they believe would have put him in the area of Garfield Park or Vander Veer.”
“Somebody knows something. Nobody just vanishes.”
Visit the Facebook page, Bring David McAllister Home, here.
David’s case is featured on The Charley Project site here.
David’s case also is featured on the Quad Cities Missing Persons Network.
If you have information that could lead to David’s whereabouts, contact Bettendorf Police Detective Brian Crouch, 563-344-4035, or Private Investigator Jim Terry at 813-993-2242.
Anonymous tips can be sent to P. O. Box 1474, Bettendorf, IA 52722.
“There’s a hole in your heart that cannot be filled by anything but knowing where he’s at. My life will never be the same,” Marilyn said. “I had two choices. I literally could have laid down and died, or I get up and I fight like hell for him,” said Marilyn, who is at work on a book about Quad-City men who are missing.
“I am begging anybody to come forward,” she said. “I believe he is no longer living. I feel that as a mom. I also am grateful he gave his life to Christ, because I know I will see him again someday.”
She wants to find her son to “bury him the way he asked me to, years ago.”
“Once we find out if it’s a bad result … that he’s dead now … we need to start that grieving process of him actually being gone,” she said.
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He last was seen at his Bettendorf home. He left in the early hours of May 11, 2017, and said he would return that evening.
He had his cell phone, a Bible and a backpack, according to The Charley Project, which profiles cold-case missing-persons cases.
His mother, who earlier spoke to our Local 4 News crew, remembers going to work early that day, and she noticed David wasn’t home. She texted him, and asked whether he was doing OK.
“He said he was doing some walking and thinking and spreading the Word.,” Marilyn McAllister-Snelling remembers. She texted him a prayer, and said something she never had said before: “I love you to the moon and back. And I’ll never say it again.”
Faith played a major role in David’s life. He and his mother were baptized on the same day when David was younger. They remained close as David grew older, and even when he hitchhiked from Colorado to California, rode trains and lived on the road.
“Every day, I’d get a text. Every day I’d hear from him … every day,’ Marilyn says.
At first, the parents wondered whether David had taken off again when he disappeared. But as days and weeks went by, his parents grew more worried – it wasn’t like David not to keep in touch. Months later, officials traced the last ping of David’s phone off the St. Ambrose tower. That indicated he was somewhere near Vander Veer or Garfield Park.
“My gut tells me somebody killed him, and here in the Quad Cities. I believe it was somebody he trusted,’ his mother said. “I don’t think he saw it coming,” she says. “That’s my gut. I can’t prove it.”
“If you know anything, tell,” she asks the public. “I don’t care how small it seems. Somebody knows something. Nobody just walks off the face of the earth. He was 22 years old. He didn’t just disappear.”
“There is a hole in our family that you just can’t fix,” said Marilyn, who only wants to know the whereabouts of her middle son.
“We need to find him, regardless of what that means,” she said. “I would rather find him deceased, and know that he’s in the arms of Jesus, than to wonder every day where he’s at. Is he cold? Is he hungry? Is he lonely?” His family has said he was dealing with some personal problems when he disappeared, but until then he always kept in touch with them. He did not have a car.
“People always use the word ‘closure.’ But it’s really not closure. It’s a different kind of grieving. Right now we’re just grieving that we can’t find him,” she said
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He had his cell phone, a Bible and a backpack, according to The Charley Project, which profiles cold-case missing-persons cases.
His mother, who earlier spoke to our Local 4 News crew, remembers going to work early that day, and she noticed David wasn’t home. She texted him, and asked whether he was doing OK.
“He said he was doing some walking and thinking and spreading the Word.,” Marilyn McAllister-Snelling remembers. She texted him a prayer, and said something she never had said before: “I love you to the moon and back. And I’ll never say it again.”
Faith played a major role in David’s life. He and his mother were baptized on the same day when David was younger. They remained close as David grew older, and even when he hitchhiked from Colorado to California, rode trains and lived on the road.
“Every day, I’d get a text. Every day I’d hear from him … every day,’ Marilyn says.
At first, the parents wondered whether David had taken off again when he disappeared. But as days and weeks went by, his parents grew more worried – it wasn’t like David not to keep in touch. Months later, officials traced the last ping of David’s phone off the St. Ambrose tower. That indicated he was somewhere near Vander Veer or Garfield Park.
“My gut tells me somebody killed him, and here in the Quad Cities. I believe it was somebody he trusted,’ his mother said. “I don’t think he saw it coming,” she says. “That’s my gut. I can’t prove it.”
“If you know anything, tell,” she asks the public. “I don’t care how small it seems. Somebody knows something. Nobody just walks off the face of the earth. He was 22 years old. He didn’t just disappear.”
“There is a hole in our family that you just can’t fix,” said Marilyn, who only wants to know the whereabouts of her middle son.
“We need to find him, regardless of what that means,” she said. “I would rather find him deceased, and know that he’s in the arms of Jesus, than to wonder every day where he’s at. Is he cold? Is he hungry? Is he lonely?” His family has said he was dealing with some personal problems when he disappeared, but until then he always kept in touch with them. He did not have a car.
“People always use the word ‘closure.’ But it’s really not closure. It’s a different kind of grieving. Right now we’re just grieving that we can’t find him,” she said
Public invited to Moline prayer vigil for missing Quad City people
“Doing it For David” will present a prayer vigil for missing people from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at 1535 36th Ave., Moline. “Anyone and everyone is welcome to join us,” a news release says. “I…
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I think of David every day. He is such a sweet guy. For years, I had an old dog he gave me, a little min pin we named Sophie. He’d found her but couldn’t keep her-his dogs hated her. She passed away a couple years ago. My interest in missing persons stems from him. It bothers me so much. He loves his mother immensely-I never saw him without her there also. I can’t stand not knowing. Can only imagine the nightmare his family lives.
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