OH OH - Harold Shope, 30, Nevada, 5 Dec 1991

[TheArtfulDetective]

Harold Shope



Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: December 05, 1991
Location Last Seen: Nevada, Wyandot County, Ohio

Description:

• Date of Birth: circa 1961
• Age: 30 years old
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Height: 5' 8" - 6' 0" (68 - 72 inches)
• Weight: 135 - 150 lbs.
• Hair Color: Blond/Strawberry
• Eye Color: Hazel
• Nickname/Alias: Unknown
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unspecified tattoos.
• Clothing & Personal Items: Unknown
• Identifiers: Unavailable

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Shope went missing from Nevada, Ohio on December 5, 1991. He was last seen by his parents shortly before they left for Kentucky. He has never been heard from again and he left his motorcycle behind. He and his parents ran a trucking firm together at the time of his disappearance.

Shope's ex-girlfriend stated he got into the backseat of a car at their rural residence with a man and two women and never returned. His mother doesn't believe he would have left in a vehicle with anyone he didn't know. Few details are available regarding Shope's case and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• Wyandot County Sheriff's Office: (419) 294-2362
  Reference Case#: 2007-0432

NamUs Case Number: MP31598
NCIC Case Number: Unavailable

Harold Shope – The Charley Project
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[HopeRains]

From newspapers.com, The Marion Starr (Marion, OH), 15 Dec 02, pg 1

 

[PeaceLoveTruth]

Has anyone advanced this case any? I'm from the area where Shope is from and am interested in this case.

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[alb1on]

Harold Dempsey Shope appears to have been born 17 September 1961. But of more relevance to this case is that he was married with a daughter in Florida but was divorced from his wife in Florida in September 1991, three months before going missing. When I see this sort of close time period between a major life event and going missing it always makes me think there is a possibility they are linked. It could be in several ways, including deciding on a clean break to start a new life. He had been married for 10 years so it would have been a real upheaval. Oddly Ancestry has multiple address records for Harold D Shope in Jacksonville subsequent to his missing date (some by many years) but I suspect these are just rollovers from residence before he went missing.