here's another from Ancestry:
MAW, white male born Oct. 13, 1946 in Ohio. Raised in Elkhart County, Indiana. One family tree puts him as
disappearing c.1962, while another puts him as dying/going missing in
1971. None of the family trees on him include any sourced information past 1956, however, info from Ancestry shows that he
seems to have been
alive up to
at least 1964.
I found some later mentions of him in the papers as well. Here's the information we know:
MAW's mother's
obituary lists him as predeceasing her; his
father's obit doesn't make any mention of relatives who predeceased him.
Some notes while researching:
- I suggest looking at the full records for all of the Ancestry links I shared above, as I have corrected some of the AI transcriptions, though those edits don't show up without clicking on Full Record lol
- Ancestry suggests some records for another boy from the same time with the same name who attended Ottawa HS in Toledo, OH; this seems to be a different, non-missing person, as he is visually dissimilar from the known photo of MAW
- There are some mentions of someone with the same first & last names and middle initial in Indiana newspapers from at least 1970 to 1973; this is a different person who was four to five years younger than MAW and lived in Marion, IN. He also seemed to have a different middle name
- There's also another MW who died in 1969; however, he was younger than, and lived in a different part of the state as, MAW. Furthermore, from above we know that MAW was alive up to at least December 1969; this MW died in March 1969
Important Update I found right after posting (lol whoops):
This clipping from March 1979 confirms that
MAW has been missing since September 1971.
namus.nij.ojp.gov
