IA IA - Johnny Joe Shields, 32, Carter Lake, 15 Dec 1988

[TheArtfulDetective]

Johnny Joe Shields​

Case Classification: Endangered Missing /Involuntary Disappearance
Missing Since: December 15, 1988
Location Last Seen: Carter Lake, Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Description:

• Date of Birth: February 12, 1956
• Age: 32 years old
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Height: 5' 6" (66 inches)
• Weight: 160 lbs
• Hair Color: Black
• Eye Color: Brown
• Nickname/Alias: Unknown
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
• Clothing & Personal Items: A light blue down vest, a plaid flannel shirt, blue denim jeans, and white Nike sneakers.
• Identifiers: Dental records available.

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Shields was last seen at the home he shared with his mother in Carter Lake, Iowa on December 14, 1988. He was heard leaving at approximately 2:00 a.m. the next day and has never been heard from since. He was reported missing on December 16, 1988.

Shields worked at a fish market in Omaha, Nebraska at the time of his disappearance. He left his pickup truck and all his belongings behind, and there hasn't been any activity on his bank account since he went missing. Foul play is suspected his case and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• Carter Lake Police Department: (712) 347-5920
  Reference Case#: 89-00081

• Missing Person Information Clearinghouse - Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation: (515) 725-6036; (800) 346-5507; [email protected]

NCIC Case Number: M-337585780
NamUs Case Number: MP27996

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Johnny Joe Shields – The Charley Project
Johnny Joe Shields

 

[spartanx]

his own son wrote on another page of unresolved cases in iowa.. his son says that his disappearance has to do with drugs... once again we see that this crap cuts a person's life short..

Johnny Joe Shields

Johnny Joe Shields, 32, was reported missing to the Carter Lake Police Department on Dec. 16, 1988.

iowacoldcases.org

Silence Hubbard says:
October 18, 2022 at 1:19 pm
Look at the time frame, there is no way he could be buried there unless someone kept the body in their home for months. The ground wouldve been frozen solid. Digging any kind of hole without large very noticable equipment would have been impossible and I highly doubt that anyone would damage heavy machinery to that. This is the first anyone has even proposed this idea that I know of. Seeing that I’m his son pretty sure that story would have atleast crossed my path at some point. I’d really like to know what happenend that night though. Lots of questions as to why he would vanish, leaving me to suffer the childhood I went through. His own family has barely spoke a word to me. Idk kind of messed up if you ask me. Ive only been able to piece together bits and pieces over the years and I have an idea of what happenend but without being able to talk to folks who knew him personally I’ve hit a dead end.

 

[Pennysmom1]

article was behind paywall, mentions Johnny Shields
November 28, 2022 The DesMoines Register

https://archive.ph/EUclN

<<Two others went missing after that time period: Johnny Shields, 32, who left his house in December 1988 in Carter Lake and never returned, and Dennis Addlesberger, 46, who went missing in March 1999 from Council Bluffs, who was labeled by authorities as “physically endangered” at the time.>>