WV WV - Mark Anthony Cook, 24, Bluefield, 14 Jan 1993

[TheArtfulDetective]

Mark Anthony Cook​

Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: January 14, 1993
Location Last Seen: Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Description:​

• Date of Birth: circa 1969
• Age: 24
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Height: 5' 5" - 5' 9" (65 - 69 Inches)
• Weight: 135 - 140 lbs
• Hair Color: Brown
• Eye Color: Green
• Nickname/Alias: Tony
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
• Clothing & Personal Items: A black T-shirt, blue denim jacket with a black marker drawing and writing on the back, bleached jeans, black sneakers, and a white baseball cap.
• Identifiers: Not available

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Cook went missing from Bluefield, West Virginia on January 14, 1993. He was last seen walking away from Pedro's Bar at Airport Square at 3:00 a.m., heading towards U.S. Route 52. He has never been heard from again. He was reported missing by a friend of the family.

Cook disappeared five months after his girlfriend, Brenda Lambert went missing on July 26, 1992. Authorities believe their disappearances are connected and that foul play may have been involved in both cases. They stated that one male suspect failed a polygraph, but he has not been charged due to lack of evidence.

Both Lambert's and Cook's cases remain unsolved and their whereabouts remain unknown.

Investigators:

• Mercer County Sheriff’s Department: (304) 487-8364
  Reference Case #: 9300624

NamUs Case Number: MP33064
NCIC Case Number: Not available

266DMWV - Mark Anthony Cook
Mark Anthony Cook – The Charley Project
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[spartanx]

I have the impression that it may have been a classmate or acquaintance who envied him for the girlfriend he had... a spiteful person or maybe something with drugs but I think he is a quiet young man but you never know...
either way
rest in peace

 

[Aurora90]

Lambert and Cook disappearances: Local cases become subject of YouTube documentary

PRINCETON — Two disappearances that have been under investigation for almost 30 years are now the subject of a YouTube documentary, which includes new information discovered in the Bluefield Daily

www.bdtonline.com

He was married at one point, and had a kid.

 

[Caring1]

Bump

9 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Anniversary of disappearance today

 

[Pennysmom1]

July 29, 2022

Missing 30 years: Lambert's family remains focused on finding their loved one

BLUEWELL — Thirty years ago Brenda Lambert celebrated her son’s first birthday. As the party wrapped up she said good-bye to friends and family members.

www.ptonline.net

<<About five and a half months after Brenda’s disappearance, her friend, Mark Anthony Cook, also went missing after leaving a bar in Brushfork.

“Mark lived in Bramwell,” Christy said. “He went to Pedro’s and supposedly asked someone about Brenda and got beat up and thrown out. It was 20-some degrees that night.”

The late Mercer County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Darrell Bailey previously told the Daily Telegraph that he believed the two cases were connected and that foul play was suspected.

“I feel they are connected and always will,” Bailey said in 2006. “I feel if we close one of these, we will close both.”

Neither Brenda or Mark Cook’s bodies have been found.>>

 

[Brightchaser47]

Lambert and Cook disappearances: Local cases become subject of YouTube documentary

PRINCETON — Two disappearances that have been under investigation for almost 30 years are now the subject of a YouTube documentary, which includes new information discovered in the Bluefield Daily

www.bdtonline.com

He was married at one point, and had a kid.

I'm unable to access the article or the documentary. Are they saying there was info in the Bluefield Daily newspaper that shed light on the case?

 

[Brightchaser47]

Mark Anthony Cook​

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Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: January 14, 1993
Location Last Seen: Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia

Description:​

• Date of Birth: circa 1969
• Age: 24
• Race: White/Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Height: 5' 5" - 5' 9" (65 - 69 Inches)
• Weight: 135 - 140 lbs
• Hair Color: Brown
• Eye Color: Green
• Nickname/Alias: Tony
• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
• Clothing & Personal Items: A black T-shirt, blue denim jacket with a black marker drawing and writing on the back, bleached jeans, black sneakers, and a white baseball cap.
• Identifiers: Not available

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Cook went missing from Bluefield, West Virginia on January 14, 1993. He was last seen walking away from Pedro's Bar at Airport Square at 3:00 a.m., heading towards U.S. Route 52. He has never been heard from again. He was reported missing by a friend of the family.

RSBM
Was he not in regular contact with his family that a friend had to report him missing?

Cook disappeared five months after his girlfriend, Brenda Lambert went missing on July 26, 1992. Authorities believe their disappearances are connected and that foul play may have been involved in both cases. They stated that one male suspect failed a polygraph, but he has not been charged due to lack of evidence.

It sounds to me like there were other people involved, but someone covered their tracks well...jmo

 

[Pennysmom1]

266DMWV - Mark Anthony Cook

Identifiers​

Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available
Cold Justice on Oxygen investigated Brenda's disappearance, I must have missed that one.

2 People Vanished Months Apart In The Same Small West Virginia Town — Were The Cases Related? | Oxygen

Brenda Lambert went missing in Virginia decades ago. Read a recap of how the "Cold Justice" team aimed to solve the case.

www.oxygen.com