OH OH - Robert Mohney, 29, Westerville, 18 July 1996

Police said Mohney returned home from work two days earlier, prepared dinner and was in the process of eating when he left the house in his red 1995 Pontiac Firebird.

Mohney left the house without his wallet. He never returned home and has not been heard from since.

Police believe Mohney, who would have turned 37 April 5, was a victim of foul play. His vehicle was found parked above the Hoover Reservoir a few days after his disappearance, but his body has never been recovered.
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/2963839/detail.html

Now, police and Central Ohio Crime Stoppers are working with a Philadelphia man who has offered huge cash rewards in other local and international cases.

Police said Friday that they are trying to secure a major reward in hopes of enticing people to talk.

Police said they have a suspect, but need more information. That's why they approached Crime Stoppers and reward benefactor Joe Mammana.

"We're hoping that enough money is put out there that it's going to get those last pieces of information … and help us put this to rest," King said.

Mammana is considering making a $100,000 reward available. Detectives believe that money would light up a pathway, identifying Mohney's killer.
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5146961/detail.html

Several local families gathered Tuesday night to thank a stranger who offered his help in their time of need.

Those families met Joe Mammana, a Philadelphia man who first made headlines by posting a $100,000 reward in the Natalee Holloway case, where the college student was reported missing in Aruba.

Westerville police hoped Mammana would also extend an increased reward in Rob Mohney's case. During his visit, Mammana agreed to offer the reward in that case.
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5175880/detail.html?rss=col&psp=news
Picture of Joe Mammana at link if you are curious

My mother's 2nd husband, whom she married, late in life, about 5 years after my father died, was named Harry Mohney. Harry was part of a very large family, spread throughout Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I don't doubt that this young man was probably part of that extended Mohney family.

I so hope this increase in reward will help solve this man's disappearance.
Thanks Joe!

JMHO
fran

The Knox County Sheriff's Office said Friday it is trying to identify a decomposed body of a man found in a wooded area.

The sheriff said two people found the body of a man Friday afternoon off Millwood Road.
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5202032/detail.html

Wonder if this is it. I checked yahoo maps and it is 36.1 miles from the center of Delaware Ohio to the center of Mt. Vernon Ohio. Mt Vernon is the capital of Know County.
If so can it be an odd coincidence that the body gets found within a week of the publication of the reward?

News article: Police are using a backhoe to dig for evidence on some farmland near Mohney's house. This same land used to be residential property.

http://www.10tv.com/live/content/lo...e-county-land-search-missing-man.html?sid=102

New reward offered: http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/07/10/story-columbus-crime-of-week.html?sid=102

http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/jul/10/missing-man-disappeared-during-dinner-reward-offer-ar-600728/

Rob Mohney was reported missing 16 years ago today.


Where are you Rob?

Here is Rob's Charley Project page:

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mohney_robert.html

His 47th birthday would be April 5th.

Robert Stephen Mohney


Above Images: Mohney, circa 1996
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mohney_robert.html

Robert has been missing for 29 years now.

Thank you for thinking of Rob but he's only been missing 19 years. He was 29 when he went missing.

Hey Rob? Give us a clue.

Rob has been missing 20 years now. His sister passed away the other day. At least she has answers.

moo

I'm sorry to hear about his sister, but as you said it is good that she now has answers.

Strange to leave in the middle of a meal. I'm guessing his roommate must not have been home at the time to shed any more light on the situation? I wonder if he received a visitor or perhaps a phone call - which, if they looked through the home's phone records (as I am sure they did), could be where they got the suspect mentioned in the first post.

Bump

It is incredible how people disappear this young boy just like that ... they may have invited him to a party or a meeting of friends or go out with a girl I see no more reason for a man to just go out without eating his food ... Anyway, I hope that one day it will be known what happened to him

True Crime Garage Podcast just released a two episodes about Rob's disappearance

Athens Messenger Nov 10, 2010​

Earth overturned in search for long-missing ex-Nelsonville resident​

• By STEVE ROBB Messenger staff journalist
• Nov 10, 2010

Rob Mohney is seen in an undated photo. Mohney disappeared in 1996 at age 29.

A Westerville police detective said Tuesday he believes investigators are getting closer to learning what happened to a former Nelsonville resident who disappeared 14 years ago.
Rob Mohney hasn’t been heard from since he was reported missing from his Westerville residence on July 16, 1996 — his billfold still in the residence, a half-eaten steak dinner on the table. His car was found at Hoover Reservoir, possibly wiped of fingerprints. At the time of his disappearance he was 29.
On Friday, Westerville police searched land where a house once stood on Hartford Road in Delaware County. Investigators believe Mohney may have been at that location shortly after his disappearance, according to Detective Scott Dollison. They dug up the area where the house’s basement would have been, and dug up areas indicated by cadaver dogs, Dollison said, adding that they found “items of interest that we are not going to release at this time.” He would not elaborate.

Asked what led them to the land, Dollison said investigators have received information over the past year that they are following up on. Although officially classified as a missing person case, Dollison said authorities have information indicating foul play was involved.
Mohney’s relatives learned of Friday’s search from a TV news report.
“It got us upset,” said Mohney’s grandmother, 92-year-old Helen Mohney of Nelsonville. As of noon Tuesday, she had not heard anything official from authorities.
“So far we don’t know anything,” she said. “I felt that it must be a pretty good tip, to go to all that.”
The elderly woman said that she has given up hope that her grandson is alive.

“I think somebody did something (to him),” she said. “We’d like to have him a service, bury him properly, say our goodbyes.”

Mohney’s sister, Susan Davis of Columbus, said she hasn’t given up hope her brother might be alive, but understands that the reality is likely otherwise.
“We just want closure,” said Davis, who cried when she saw the TV report.
Dollison said the investigation is ongoing, and that authorities have identified people of interest they want to question.
“I think we’re getting closer by the day,” he said of solving the case.
Mohney lived in Nelsonville until about age 9, according to his sister. He graduated from Westerville South High School, and at the time of his disappearance he was working as an excavator for Smith and Associates of Westerville.

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Mohney, circa 1996

He has a scar on his right thigh and a scar on his right finger.

Mohney was employed in the construction trade in 1996 and is described as a reliable worker. His loved ones stated it is uncharacteristic of him to leave without warning or to be out of contact with them. Authorities believe he met with foul play, but no one has been charged in his case. His disappearance remains unsolved

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available