Some more info on Scott Dusa, all gathered from public records and open source intelligence:
In 1988, Scott Dusa was arrested for selling cocaine for the fourth time and made a plea deal, sending his dealer to prison:
Court Documents
The significance of the "Snowman" tattoo makes sense, now. Snow is slang for cocaine. When someone snitches on a high-level drug dealer and then goes missing, I think it's safe to assume the worst, even years later. I wonder when the dealer got released and what drug cartel he was involved with?
Scott has a felony warrant entered in NCIC for passing a forged check. Entered 9-6-05. Without access to NCIC, I can't tell when he cashed the forged check, or from where.
Whose bike did Scott ride off on? His ex-wife said he never went for bike rides...was it her bike? His son's?
About a month after the missing person report was filed, a man called deputies to say that he heard Mr. Dusa was fine and living in a trailer in the woods of Northern Michigan, but that could not be verified by police. Who was this man? This is the strangest part of the case, to me.
The way I see it, there are 4 possibilities with this call:
1. The call was a legitimate tip from someone who had inside information. If this is true, Scott Dusa could be alive and his family probably knows this, but doesn't care because he abandoned them. If the caller cared enough to call the police, I assume he cared enough to tell his family. Wherever this information came from, it was kept vague enough to protect Scott, which means it was a friend or family member. If Scott is alive and off the radar, he's probably making money selling drugs again. You don't tattoo Snowman on your arm unless you're serious about selling cocaine.
2. Scott made the call himself to thwart further searches for him as a missing person, in which case he could still be alive and off the radar, as mentioned above. There's a chance he has been in contact with his son or ex-wife or some family member, which would explain why no one in his family has any pictures of him posted or Facebook posts asking if anyone has seen him. His entire family appears to have ghosted him, which is a weird reaction if you don't know where someone is.
3. Someone made the call as a hoax, or it was a mistake. In this case, I think it's likely that Scott committed suicide, perhaps in nearby Lake Monroe. It's an easy bicycle ride from his
house, it used to be a quarry, and people die in it all the time. They pull cars with bodies out of this quarry every couple of years, and often times the bodies are decades old. Do not go swimming there...yuck.
News article and
another. There are dozens of these reports throughout the years.
4. Someone made the call under false pretenses because Scott was not alive, and not in Northern Michigan. If he reached out to his drug connections for a chance to make money, he may have been killed for ratting out his dealer years ago and his body disposed of in whatever professional way career criminals do that. The call to the police further convinces everyone that Scott just ran off to be alone and slows down the investigation.
Scott Dusa didn't seem very successful at much in life...how he successfully vanished off the face of the Earth on a bicycle with no ID, no keys, and no money is strange to me. I would assume he committed suicide in Lake Monroe if it weren't for that weird phone call trying to convince people Scott was alive.
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