KS KS - Christopher Michael Clark, 20, Dodge City, 12 Jan 1985

[Gardener1850]

Christopher Michael Clark
Nickname/Alias Chris
Ford County, Kansas
20 year old white male

Height (inches)

Weight (pounds)

[TD="class: view_field"]70.0 to 72.0[/TD]

[TD="class: view_field"]16.0 to 180.0[/TD]

Brown Hair
Green Eyes

Half inch scar under the chin; 3/4" scar over left eyebrow; Oval-shaped birthmark on the shoulder

Circumstances:
Clark had been celebrating his 20th birthday with friends. Clark's friends dropped him off near Minneola and Beeson Roads in Dodge City where he was supposed to meet a woman from the bar they had just left. Clark has never been seen or heard from again. Six months after his disappearance his wallet was found and returned to his family. Foul play is suspected. Clark has been declared legally deceased.

Dental information / charting is available and entered

DNA Status: Sample available - Not yet submitted

Fingerprint information is currently not available

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/13181/

 

[Gardener1850]

Article Published
January 27, 2010 12:00 AM
Updated August 08, 2014 09:55 AM

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Twenty-five years later, authorities still don't know who Clark was supposed to meet the night he disappeared. Nor has the person who found Clark's wallet contacted authorities.

But investigators have received new information about the case in the past two months.

Undersheriff James Lane said this week that the Sheriff's Office received a tip concerning Clark's disappearance from a confidential informant in mid-November, shortly after the Dodge City newspaper published a story about the case. That information, coupled with new interviews with possible witnesses, helped investigators track down a vehicle that may have been involved in the case.

Investigator Pat Williams said authorities collected possible evidence from the vehicle and sent it to the KBI lab in Great Bend for testing. Some of the collected material was sent to the FBI for additional testing.
Another possible break in the case came two or three weeks ago, when investigators received an anonymous letter that supported the information from the confidential informant. The letter bore a Jetmore postmark, but it was unclear whether the writer was from Jetmore.
Lane said investigators want to contact the writer in hopes that he or she can provide additional information about the case.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article1021653.html


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[Savemecastiel]

Bump..

 

[Coffee56]

MISSING IN KANSAS: Christopher Michael Clark

Christopher Michael Clark – The Charley Project

 

[PayrollNerd]

I zoomed in on the map on the link. The Arkansas River, a large lake at a campground or RV park and big chunks of undeveloped land are nearby this intersection. I’d be curious to know what was in the vicinity, as in businesses, in 1985. I can see a recycling business which would be a great cover for a body but did it exist back then? I wonder if there were truly in depth searches of the land, river or lake bottom over the years.

Just noticed this in another article:
“Six months later, someone found Clark's wallet — which still held his work ID and other documents — at a local salvage yard and turned it over to his family.”

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article1021653.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Gardener1850]

Current NAMUS link: The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[linzygye918]

I am from Dodge City, and this case still haunts many of the locals there. His mother died never knowing what happened to her son... Lets get justice for this family.

 

[Klatulip]

I am from Dodge City, and this case still haunts many of the locals there. His mother died never knowing what happened to her son... Lets get justice for this family.

I just recently started looking at this case after hearing it mentioned on a podcast. Do you know who the friends were that dropped him off?

 

[PayrollNerd]

Article Published January 27, 2010 12:00 AM
Updated August 08, 2014 09:55 AM

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article1021653.html
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It has been years since this article was updated. I wonder if they were able to find enough evidence for a grand jury or maybe enough DNA for a person of interest.

January 27, 2010 12:00 AM,
Updated August 08, 2014 08:55 AM

From the link:
Undersheriff James Lane said this week that the Sheriff's Office received a tip concerning Clark's disappearance from a confidential informant in mid-November, shortly after the Dodge City newspaper published a story about the case. That information, coupled with new interviews with possible witnesses, helped investigators track down a vehicle that may have been involved in the case.

Investigator Pat Williams said authorities collected possible evidence from the vehicle and sent it to the KBI lab in Great Bend for testing. Some of the collected material was sent to the FBI for additional testing.

Another possible break in the case came two or three weeks ago, when investigators received an anonymous letter that supported the information from the confidential informant. The letter bore a Jetmore postmark, but it was unclear whether the writer was from Jetmore.

Lane said investigators want to contact the writer in hopes that he or she can provide additional information about the case.

Lane and Williams said they will probably ask Ford County Attorney Terry Malone to consider opening an inquisition — much like a grand jury proceeding — into the case. They said they may discuss the case with him sometime next month.

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article1021653.html#storylink=cpy

 

[PayrollNerd]

Published Monday, June 10th 2019,

MISSING IN KANSAS: Christopher Michael Clark
Video at link.

According to the Department of Justice, he was celebrating his 20th birthday. He was dropped off near Minneola and Beeson Roads, where he planned meet up with a woman whom he’d met at a bar. He was never heard from again.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Published June 10, 2020

MISSING IN KANSAS: Christopher Michael Clark
Video at link.

 

[spartanx]

What happened to the friends who supposedly left him there? Were they too drunk to remember? Or did they act violently? Maybe Chris was in a bad way because of the alcohol and argued with them... and they made him disappear... It's likely that the women never existed... or maybe they wanted to rob him... What a horrible birthday present... This young man disappeared about 15 days before I was born...
Whatever the case
Rest in peace