WA WA - Michael Madden, 32, Bellingham, 15 Sept 1986

[Kat]

The Doe Network:
Case File 1296DMWA

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1296dmwa.html

Michael Pierce Madden
Missing since September 15, 1986 from Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington.
Classification: Endangered Missing



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Vital Statistics
•Date Of Birth: October 29, 1953
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 32 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'9"; 150 lbs.
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; blue eyes.
•Marks, Scars: Steel pins in left knee, glasses.
•Dentals: Available.



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Circumstances of Disappearance
Madden was last seen by his landlady on September 15, 1986, in Bellingham, Washington. Senior at Western Washington University, he went missing along with Silver Audi. He left valuables in his apartment.
Madden was a full-time student at Western Washington University in Bellingham, 90 miles north of Seattle. He didn't work and lived on a Veterans Administration disability pension.

A suspect rented a post office box in Madden's name and diverted all his money there, including a $7,000 GI Bill check for his education.
The suspect sold Madden's car a few days after he disappeared.
Foul play is suspected.



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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Bellingham Police Department
360-676-6941

Agency Case Number:
86B24317

NCIC Number:
M-953354793
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
California Department of Justice
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Pacific Stars And Stripes
WASPC


http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/madden_michael_pierce.html
More details at Charley Project

Michael is not listed in NamUs at this time.

No archived articles found at this time.

Michael has been missing almost 24 years. Come home soon.

 

[awakeandaware]

Michael,
We care about you. You have not been forgotten.

 

[apearn]

Bump - I don't see him in Namus still but I'm going to share around what I can find.

 

[Jake479]

Bump - I don't see him in Namus still but I'm going to share around what I can find.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[raerae2]

Did the police or someone do ground penetrating radar in the yard near where billy mulligan lived? Where Michael lived?

 

[imstilla.grandma]

William Milligan, 31, was arrested last week in Florida. He walked away July 4 from the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital in Columbus, where he was sent after being found innocent by reason of insanity in 1978 on charges raping three women.

Milligan, believed to display up to 24 distinct personalities, used the name Christopher Carr in Bellingham, Wash., where he became acquainted with Michael Madden, 33, while they lived in the same apartment house, police said.

Madden has been missing since his landlady last saw him with Milligan on Sept. 15.

″He’s very definitely a suspect,″ Bellingham police Lt. David MacDonald told The Columbus Dispatch for a story published Wednesday. ″We questioned him a few times; he told us several different stories and then he disappeared.″

MacDonald believes Madden has been killed.
Arrested Fugitive Suspect In Disappearance Of Student

Michael Pierce Madden

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Michael Pierce Madden – The Charley Project

 

[spartanx]

The culprit is more than clear... I imagine they can't blame him because of his mental condition... maybe they had an argument and this guy Milligan reacted violently... maybe he still hasn't understood it but since there can't be a doctor who can tell the judge that it's possible to prosecute him or at least tell him where he left the body...
whatever it is
rest in peace

 

[HopeRains]

Map showing Bellingham, WA (along with close proximity to BC/Canada). There was a note left in the "abandoned" apartment of the primary suspect stating he took Mr. Madden to Canada. Police believed it to be a ruse, but I am mentioning anyway,

Article clipped from Spokane Chronicle

Clipping found in Spokane Chronicle published in Spokane, Washington on 11/26/1986.

www.newspapers.com

 

[Pennysmom1]

Michael Pierce Madden – The Charley Project

• Date of Birth 10/29/1953 (72)
• Age 32 years old
• Height and Weight 5'9, 150 pounds
• Associated Vehicle(s) Silver Audi (accounted for)
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Madden wears eyeglasses. He has steel pins implanted in his left knee

<<After Madden's disappearance, William Milligan rented a post office box in Madden's name and diverted Madden's pension checks there, as well as a $7,000 GI Bill check intended for his education. Milligan also sold Madden's silver Audi a few days after he went missing.

Milligan, who also uses the alias Christopher Carr, has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and had escaped from an Ohio mental hospital earlier in 1986. He was committed there in 1978 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity on the charges of raping three women.

Milligan escaped from the hospital in July 1986 and traveled to Washington, where he lived in the same apartment building as Madden. He was apprehended after Madden's disappearance. He is considered a strong suspect in Madden's case. He was the last person known to have seen Madden before he disappeared and he gave conflicting stories to the police.

He has not been charged in connection with Madden's disappearance, however. He stated Madden had given him his car prior to going missing, in payment for a loan, and that he had a right to sell it.

Madden is missing under suspicious circumstances; valuable items were left behind in his apartment when he vanished and his loved ones stated it is uncharacteristic of him to leave without warning. Foul play is suspected in Madden's case.>>

 

[Pennysmom1]

Michael Pierce Madden

oag.ca.gov

Michael Madden Missing Person Washington

Michael was last seen on September 15, 1986, in Bellingham, Washington.

www.veterandoe.com

1296DMWA - Michael Pierce Madden

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown