Found Deceased WV - John Jesse Willey, last seen 2018 *suicide or murder?*

[TMich6811]

Someone who killed one of their employees (SPECULATION) might want to continue paying him so that it looked like he was not a suspect...???

This is the only thing I can think too - do you keep paying him so it looks like he’s still alive and you’re not a suspect in him missing

 

[teeby]

I don't think anyone would expect a small business owner to continue paying someone who is no longer providing work for them for four years. After a couple months, no one would blame you or find it suspicious if you sent him an email telling him that you'll rehire him if he's found and but right now you have to stop paying him so you can use his salary to hire someone to do the work he was doing.

 

[MyBrothersKeeper269]

What does the autopsy report say about the bullet wound?

"A West Virginia medical examiner joined officers with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department this morning at the site where human remains were located yesterday by mushroom hunters. Those remains have been removed from an isolated spot along a small creek where they were found sitting against a rock. Skeletal remains were largely contained by clothing and included a jaw and skull, which the medical examiner will use to positively identify the person. Also recovered at the scene was a handgun and a bullet."

Police believe remains are those of man missing since 2018 - Morgan Messenger

Chief Deputy Johnnie Walter talks with a West Virginia Medical Examiner while Capt. Tim Stapleton and Sheriff K.C. Bohrer stand by on Thursday. A West Virginia medical examiner joined officers with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department this morning at the site where human remains were located...

www.morganmessenger.com

In Canada, everyone files taxes using their social insurance number. Do you have that number (whatever it's called in the USA) for Jesse?

YEs I have that number.

 

[MyBrothersKeeper269]

This conversation has changed a bit so let me start providing more info and maybe I can get everyone interested on board with my way of thinking and we can maybe think this out together...

Jesse is/was my older brother. I spent years trying search for him and now answer all the questions I have about his death.
I spent years trying find my brother- I was not able to file a Missing Person Report sooner (not bc I didn't try.. but bc I wasn't able to) My brother was known by the Local Sheriff Dept as an addict and alcoholic ...and yes my brother had struggled with those issues in the past but he wasn't doing hard drugs at this time. Alcohol and weed were staples in his life and he didn't know how to function normally without them. Regardless, it's no excuse not to help someone.
I had been told when I tried to file the report that he was out "doing what he does" and that he would contact me again when he needed something etc. I was naive and thought that if I was told that the police couldn't help..then they couldn't help. I mean that's the job right? Protect and serve..?
It took me a long time to understand that I didn't need to ask and hope they agreed with me.. I just needed to insist they file the missing person report. So, that's the reason it took so long to file the report- not bc I didn't try.
My brother and I were VERY close. We weren't always close in where we lived and made a promise to each other a long time ago that we would always make sure that the other knew where we were staying and how to get a hold of the other. My brother moved around a lot and didn't always have a cell phone. He would call or text me from friends or even strangers phones just to give me addresses and phone numbers where I could reach him.
Jesse and I have different moms but the same father. We never even knew this until we were preteen/teens. Jesse ended up moving to Berkeley Springs to live with his bio-mom. She had a horse ranch type place and she was dealing with cancer sooooo he went to help and learn how to run the place. He was still drinking/smoking weed but nothing else. He got clean there in hopes of changing his life and becoming better. Then he met and started also working for this man on the quail hunting/farm. Jesse was buying a corvette from this man and was super excited about how things had changed for him. I had gone several times and visited him while he lived with his bio-mom. Later, he had a fight with his bio-mom and was kicked out of the home. Jesse went to live with the man and his wife. He worked and lived there after that. Jesse called me and told me that he was living there and gave me the landline there. He told me I could still visit him but he didn't want me to come to that home.. we would just meet and go into town or something instead. I found that to be strange but never asked why.
I was the on that noticed that Jesse was missing. Several weeks had gone by with no word and that was unusual. I called the landline he gave me but I was just told that he was out and they didn't know when he would be back.
Finally, after many attempts I had to ask his bio-mom (who is local) to file the missing person report and they took it right away. She didn't even know any of the information for the questions asked so she just gave the officer my number and he called me.
Only then (years later) was the report finally filed. From that moment on I was on them about where to look and why things weren't being done. I didn't like the sheriff and he clearly didn't like me. He wasn't the officer who was handling the case though. We did finally get a search and in the middle of winter we looked around the area. I was however told specifically we COULD NOT go near the mans property that Jesse was living on. The search came up with nothing at all. Later on Jesse was found by a "mushroom hunter" ON THE MANS PROPERTY that he had been living with. The person that found Jesse told someone that he over heard people talking while drinking one night and said that they knew that someones body was out in the woods on the property. That's why the man knew where to go to find him. I was taken out to the location personally after the discovery of the body. There were no mushrooms anywhere in sight. This man heard a story and found Jesse.. so more than one person either knew he was there or put him there. I want to also note that there were AT LEAST 2 police reports I was shown after the discovery of his body.. both reports were about my brother running to neighbors for safety/asking for help bc this man and his son were chasing him with guns/shooting at him.
This is clearly just the story in a nutshell and if you have it this far I want to thank u for reading it all... my brother was hard person to love and tolerate sometimes but he was still my brother who I loved. I struggle everyday to find answers and maybe you can all help me decide if I am grasping at straws or whatever...
Please feel free to ask questions bc I know I didn't provide all the info.

 

[SimplyCass]

Okay, that's a start. Assuming that you don't have the autopsy report and need it...

Document Requests

The primary functions of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are to perform death investigations, establish cause and manner of death, formulate conclusions, opinions or testimony in judicial proceedings, and to be available for consultations as necessary.

dhhr.wv.gov

Call the OCME at 304-558-6920, get the case number. Submit the request in writing to the address listed. To prove that you're his sibling, submit copies of his birth certificate and your birth certificate. It should prove that you two have the same father (unless he's not listed on the birth certificate). Or submit his death certificate, assuming it lists that info. once you get the invoice number, submit payment and they should send you the autopsy report.