mysteriew
01-01-2006, 09:56 AM
Jeremy Forquer was expected to visit his parents in Missouri at the end of October.
When the 19-year-old failed to show up by Nov. 4, his father, Clinton Forquer, called Gillette Police and asked for help finding his son.
Officers knocked on Forquer's door and called his home, but officials remained unaware that he'd been murdered until Dec. 23, when a suspect in a separate murder case told deputies about killing Forquer.
In Forquer's case, an officer knocked on his home but no one answered. When the officer called back later, an unknown woman answered the phone and said that he'd left for Missouri as he told his father.
No further investigation was done, which some have questioned since Forquer later turned up dead.
But Gillette police said they did all they could.
Gillette police say adult missing person reports are among the hardest cases to investigate. Officers take down the information, look in the missing person's usual haunts, searching for suspicious activity, and then send out a statewide teletype with his or her information, but there is often little else they can do track a person down, said Lt. Noland Peacock.
“We're willing to follow up on everything we have based on the resources we have and the information we're getting,” Police Chief Rich Adriaens said.
Part of the problem is that officers often don't know if a person is missing or just out of touch. Some actually want to disappear, as when a husband or wife leaves after an argument, Peacock said.
“Typically, most of them, when they turn up missing they go missing intentionally,” he said.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2005/12/29/news/news2.txt
When the 19-year-old failed to show up by Nov. 4, his father, Clinton Forquer, called Gillette Police and asked for help finding his son.
Officers knocked on Forquer's door and called his home, but officials remained unaware that he'd been murdered until Dec. 23, when a suspect in a separate murder case told deputies about killing Forquer.
In Forquer's case, an officer knocked on his home but no one answered. When the officer called back later, an unknown woman answered the phone and said that he'd left for Missouri as he told his father.
No further investigation was done, which some have questioned since Forquer later turned up dead.
But Gillette police said they did all they could.
Gillette police say adult missing person reports are among the hardest cases to investigate. Officers take down the information, look in the missing person's usual haunts, searching for suspicious activity, and then send out a statewide teletype with his or her information, but there is often little else they can do track a person down, said Lt. Noland Peacock.
“We're willing to follow up on everything we have based on the resources we have and the information we're getting,” Police Chief Rich Adriaens said.
Part of the problem is that officers often don't know if a person is missing or just out of touch. Some actually want to disappear, as when a husband or wife leaves after an argument, Peacock said.
“Typically, most of them, when they turn up missing they go missing intentionally,” he said.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2005/12/29/news/news2.txt