Found Deceased Italy - US Airman Halex Hale, 24, Aviano, 2 July 2016

los2188 · Jul 7, 2016

Indiana airman reported missing in Italy

Halex Hale was last seen on July 2 when he attended a cookout at a friends home. The Star Press reports he was stationed at Aviano Air Base about 50 miles northeast of Venice.

http://fox59.com/2016/07/07/indiana-airman-reported-missing-in-italy/

los2188 · Jul 8, 2016

Air Force searching for missing Aviano airman

Staff Sgt. Halex Hale, assigned to the 31st Fighter Wing, was last seen in Sacile, Italy, the evening of July 2, according to a base release. Sacile is about 10 miles away from the base.

http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/...rce-searching-missing-aviano-airman/86881270/

OkieGranny · Jul 10, 2016

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-calls-search-missing-u-s-airman-halex-hale-n606636

The father of missing U.S. airman Halex Hale told NBC News on Sunday that he doesn't buy Italian authorities' theory that his son was drunk and fell into a rain-swollen canal...

Michele said Hale was reported missing after he left a friend's house about 10 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) on July 2. He said more than 200 people — working with divers, helicopters and search dogs — had scrubbed an area of almost 4 square miles but had found no sign of Hale or his belongings.

mrsobrien · Jul 10, 2016

OkieGranny said:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-calls-search-missing-u-s-airman-halex-hale-n606636

Italian authorities need to get some new material. Not everyone that is misplaced is drunk and falling into canals over there. Jmo.

oasis72 · Jul 12, 2016

This young man went missing the night after Beau Solomon was killed in Rome..... Beau's credit cards were used in Milan on July 1st, and Hale went missing on the night of July 2nd about 200 miles NE of there..... Time for Italy to address the gangs targeting Americans over there.....

bluesneakers · Jul 12, 2016

OkieGranny said:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/italy-calls-search-missing-u-s-airman-halex-hale-n606636

But Hale's father, Lance Hale, told NBC News from the base that he doesn't accept that theory, saying a fellow airman had told him that his son left the party without his wallet, keys and mobile phone, "which is very strange."

If this part is true I would like to know if the friends knew he left without his things or if they realized after he left. If he left and they discovered his keys were still there - would they have tried to catch up with him or would they just wait for him to return? Did they not know the stuff was there until after they found out he'd gone missing?

Leaving those things behind... I don't like it.

bajatacos · Jul 12, 2016

Hmmm . . . Alex leaving his wallet and phone makes me think he just went outside to smoke a cigarette or talk to someone and planned to go back inside. I wonder if he actually said goodbye to his friends as though he was leaving. I also wonder if he was mugged, and the mugger became violent when Alex said he didn't have his wallet on him.

los2188 · Jul 12, 2016

Italian police examine body in search for missing Indiana airman

Italian authorities are investigating whether a body found in the Adriatic Sea could be related to the disappearance of a U.S. airman some 40 kilometers (30 miles) away.

http://www.thestarpress.com/story/n...ndiana-airman-halex-hale-middletown/86950232/

ms_x_to_the_m · Jul 12, 2016

los2188 said:
Italian police examine body in search for missing Indiana airman

http://www.thestarpress.com/story/n...ndiana-airman-halex-hale-middletown/86950232/

Oh no😮 it says in the above link that the body has been in the water a long time. Would a week be a long time? I'm thinking this is him. Possibly another mugging gone wrong.
Also, it's so very weird for someone to leave and not take his immediate possessions. Is it possible that there was some kind of disagreement and he left in a hurry.

kimi_SFC · Jul 12, 2016

los2188 said:
Italian police examine body in search for missing Indiana airman

http://www.thestarpress.com/story/n...ndiana-airman-halex-hale-middletown/86950232/

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margarita25 · Jul 12, 2016

los2188 said:
Italian police examine body in search for missing Indiana airman

http://www.thestarpress.com/story/n...ndiana-airman-halex-hale-middletown/86950232/

"Carabinieri Maj. Salvino Macli said Monday that they were in a phase of complete hypothesis and that it could take days to identify the body, which appeared to have been in the water for a long time. He said canals in the area where Staff Sgt. Halex Hale was last seen empty out into the Adriatic."

MelmothTheLost · Jul 12, 2016

ms_x_to_the_m said:
Oh no it says in the above link that the body has been in the water a long time. Would a week be a long time? I'm thinking this is him. Possibly another mugging gone wrong.
Also, it's so very weird for someone to leave and not take his immediate possessions. Is it possible that there was some kind of disagreement and he left in a hurry.

It may not be him. There's a lot of illegal migration across the Adriatic from Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Italy. It's entirely possible that this body may be that of a would-be illegal immigrant who came to grief or even an unlucky fisherman or leisure sailor.

MelmothTheLost · Jul 12, 2016

MelmothTheLost said:
It may not be him. There's a lot of illegal migration across the Adriatic from Albania and the former Yugoslavia to Italy. It's entirely possible that this body may be that of a would-be illegal immigrant who came to grief or even an unlucky fisherman or leisure sailor.

Unfortunately various media are reporting that his body has been found in a river in NE Italy.

http://fox59.com/2016/07/12/body-of-missing-indiana-airman-found-in-river-in-italy/

MelmothTheLost · Jul 12, 2016

Now reported in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3686459/Body-river-US-airman-went-missing.html

A sad outcome, and another young American life lost in Italy.

cvaldez1975 · Jul 12, 2016

rest easy.. what a handsome young man he was.

bajatacos · Jul 12, 2016

Oh no. My heart breaks for his family. He was so handsome and had his whole life ahead of him.

Inthedetails · Jul 12, 2016

bajatacos said:
Hmmm . . . Alex leaving his wallet and phone makes me think he just went outside to smoke a cigarette or talk to someone and planned to go back inside. I wonder if he actually said goodbye to his friends as though he was leaving. I also wonder if he was mugged, and the mugger became violent when Alex said he didn't have his wallet on him.

That's what I think happened. I also think a military man would not be afraid of a fight - so perhaps a fight occurred and he was outnumbered. I hope we get some answer on the actual COD and condition or body (indication of a fight, for example), and whether he was slipped a drug.

I find it very strange that smart, strong American men are somehow separated from their group and end up mugged....and a couple of them at least have ended up in the river. This is targeted, imo.

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