WI WI - Leonard Foster, 20, Milwaukee, Dec 17, 1993

[Keiri]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Demographics
Missing Age
20 Years
Current Age
48 Years
First Name
Leonard
Middle Name
D.
Last Name
Foster
Nickname/Alias
--
Sex
Male
Height
5' 7" (67 Inches)
Weight
130 lbs
Race / Ethnicity
Black / African American
Circumstances
Date of Last Contact
December 17, 1993
NamUs Case Created
June 15, 2015
Last Known Location Map
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
County
Milwaukee County
Missing From Tribal Land
--
Primary Residence on Tribal Land
--
Circumstances of Disappearance
Missing
Physical Description
Hair Color
Black

Left Eye Color
Brown
Right Eye Color
Brown
Eye Description
--
Distinctive Physical Features
No Information Entered
Clothing and Accessories
Item
Description
Clothinggrey and blue "Dallas" jacket
Footwearblack footwear with blue and white stripes

Not entered on Doe Network.

No photo. Help me find Leonard's parents/photo?

 

[Murkywaters]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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www.namus.gov

Photographs of Leonard have been added to his NamUs profile.

 

[Murkywaters]

Added to The Charley Project.

Leonard Demarcus Foster – The Charley Project

Missing Since: 12/17/1993
Missing From: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Classification: Missing
Sex: Male
Race: Black
Age: 20 years old
Height and Weight: 5'7, 130 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A gray and blue Dallas jacket, blue pants with a white stripe, and black shoes.
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Foster may use the nickname Marc (sometimes spelled "Mark"). His front incisor is chipped.

Details of Disappearance
Foster was last seen in the 3300 block of West Highland in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 17, 1993. He has never been heard from again. Few details are available in his case.

 

[Caring1]

<MOD NOTE - WARNING: LAST PHOTO IN THIS POST IS GRAPHIC>

Leonard has 5 Unidentified Person Exclusions:

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2025
Date Body FoundMarch 03, 1998
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP903
Date Body FoundOctober 23, 1995
StateVA
CountyRichmond

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2560
Date Body FoundMarch 05, 2003
StateVA
CountyNorfolk

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP1997
Date Body FoundFebruary 10, 1999
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

Spoiler: Warning - Graphic photo

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP1880
Date Body FoundAugust 03, 2007
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

 

[Pennysmom1]

<<**UPDATE 5/15: Photos of Leonard have been added below.

Leonard Foster was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 17th, 1993.

He is an African American male, 5’7”, and 130 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.

Leonard was 20 years old when he went missing. He would be 48 years old today.>>

Leonard D Foster

**UPDATE 5/15: Photos of Leonard have been added below. Leonard Foster was last seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 17th, 1993. He is an African American male, 5’7”, and 130 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes. There is very little information available about him or his disappearance...

www.wimissing.org

 

[gracevenus]

<MOD NOTE - WARNING: LAST PHOTO IN THIS POST IS GRAPHIC>

Leonard has 5 Unidentified Person Exclusions:

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2025
Date Body FoundMarch 03, 1998
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP903
Date Body FoundOctober 23, 1995
StateVA
CountyRichmond

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP2560
Date Body FoundMarch 05, 2003
StateVA
CountyNorfolk

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP1997
Date Body FoundFebruary 10, 1999
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

Spoiler: Warning - Graphic photo

Unidentified Person / NamUs #UP1880
Date Body FoundAugust 03, 2007
StateOH
CountyCuyahoga

No profile on DoeNetwork still, but I reached out to them anyway via email to submit a potential match with UP5207 NamUs profile (DoeNetwork profile, Case #: 1485UMIL).


UP5207
Date of Discovery: April 22, 1998
State: Illinois
County: Will County

1. Leonard Foster reported to have been wearing blue and gray Dallas jacket, UP5207 reported to have been found in light blue nylon "Starter" jacket (example of 1993 Dallas Starter jacket below).
2. Leonard Foster also reported to have been wearing "black footwear with blue and white stripes." UP5207 reported to have been found in "black Charles Barkley high top sneakers" (example of 1993 Charles Barkley black high top sneakers below).
3. Leonard Foster reported to have a chipped front tooth incisor. UP5207 reported as having a fracture in "number nine, upper central incisor."

 

[gracevenus]

No profile on DoeNetwork still, but I reached out to them anyway via email to submit a potential match with UP5207 NamUs profile (DoeNetwork profile, Case #: 1485UMIL).

View attachment 486546
UP5207
Date of Discovery: April 22, 1998
State: Illinois
County: Will County

1. Leonard Foster reported to have been wearing blue and gray Dallas jacket, UP5207 reported to have been found in light blue nylon "Starter" jacket (example of 1993 Dallas Starter jacket below).
2. Leonard Foster also reported to have been wearing "black footwear with blue and white stripes." UP5207 reported to have been found in "black Charles Barkley high top sneakers" (example of 1993 Charles Barkley black high top sneakers below).
3. Leonard Foster reported to have a chipped front tooth incisor. UP5207 reported as having a fracture in "number nine, upper central incisor."

View attachment 486544 View attachment 486545

Just updating this post...

Potential match was officially submitted to DoeNetwork yesterday and I received the following response:



I will post another update if/when I hear anything more (not sure how long that could take, I have never submitted a potential match that was reviewed by the panel before).

 

[gracevenus]

Another update

I received the following email from the Doe Network (a forwarded exchange between DN and the LE contact for UP5207):



It appears that UP5207 is likely not a match for Leonard Foster, however the investigator for UP5207 did say that they have been in contact with the Milwaukee PD and that they would check Leonard Foster's family tree/history against their UP.

So it's not officially excluded yet, but I don't have my hopes up...

My only confusion is that I'm not quite sure what the investigator means by, "[w]hen UP5207 was entered into NAMUS it was believed that he was African American but later shown not to be the case," because according to the NAMUS and Doe Network websites, that actually seems to have happened in the opposite order — when the remains were first examined, they believed UP5207 was white and/or Hispanic (first sketch below released in May 1998), but it was later determined that he had been African American (latest reconstruction released in 2015 — see image below).
So it's not clear if the remains were examined again since 2015 (and/or his DNA has been tested), resulting in a (third) different conclusion and my information from DN and NAMUS is just outdated, or if the person who sent this email is somehow mistaken (which I doubt). I have to assume, with DNA genealogy being so new, that the information provided to investigators by Othram (which was founded in 2018) about UP5207's race/ethnicity is more recent than 2015, but the details are unclear.

Sketch #1 (May 1998):


Sketch/Reconstruction #2 (2015):


Anyway, I will continue to update if/as I receive any new information!

 

[Keiri]

No luck with circuit court of Wis, newspapers.com, ancestry newspapers, or genealogy bank. Or plain google.

 

[Keiri]

I submitted him and he was added to Doe Network https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=6555DMWI

 

[Keiri]

Leonard Foster Missing: Beyond the Frame; 30 Years Gone

Leonard Demarcus Foster "Mark" has been missing for 30 years. A Media Milwaukee Project on the investigation of missing people in Milwaukee.

mediamilwaukee.com

 

[Keiri]

Small snippet from the above article. After all these years we know a tiny bit more.
“… last saw Foster at 29th and Highland in West Milwaukee leaving in a Brown 70’s style stick shift van. But Mark was not alone. Police records state that Mallet saw Foster leaving with a man with a dark complexion and a mustache, an estimated age of late 30’s to early 40’s. The two were allegedly traveling to South Milwaukee to look at a gun and a VCR that was for sale. Mark was never seen again after that. ”

Also the article says they have dental and dna for comparison now.

 

[Keiri]

how did the witness know it was a stick shift?