Ruled out Aron Holmes Silverman

Angie4b1g · #1 08-12-2012, 10:39 AM

http://doenetwork.org/cases/516dmva.html

What do you think of this fellow? Has he been suggested?

Last seen in VA in 1993. So, 2 years before Jason was found, but the same state.

5'10" 130lbs, so a bit bigger than the estimations, which is neither unheard of nor inconceivable given the 2 year gap since DLC.

Would have been 19 at the time.

Says on his page he was a drug addict and was known to disappear for long periods of time. Having lived with a mother like this, I can totally picture her being gone for 2 years and living a life that no one knew about and no one heard from her.

Thoughts?

Angie4b1g · #2 08-12-2012, 10:50 AM

hmm, he's on the exclusions list on NamUs.

Wonder on what grounds they ruled him out.

Particularly as I had understood him to have red hair, but they are now calling it "brown or dark blonde" and the new reconstruction of him has blonde.

The blue vs. brown eyes are a problem, though.

Helper · #3 08-12-2012, 05:14 PM

I've raised his name a time or two, but he's been ruled out. There is an old newspaper article in which Aron's father said something to the effect that he wouldn't be surprised if Aron ran off to follow the Grateful Dead.

Helper · #4 08-12-2012, 05:22 PM

I posted about Aron on Jan. 12, 2006 (post #102). The same day, Paradise responded that Silverman had already been ruled out by doenetwork.

Angie4b1g · #5 08-13-2012, 08:12 AM

I figured someone else had suggested him. Other than the eye color, it seems like an obvious match. Maybe they should revisit that 'ruled out' list. Not even necessarily for this guy, but just in general. That new reconstruction is so different from the previous ones that it just makes me wonder on what grounds all those guys were ruled out.

Helper · #6 08-15-2012, 11:10 AM

Just to correct my earlier post, it was actually Aron's mother who commented that she wouldn't be surprised if he had run off to follow the Grateful Dead.
I believe someone added some information to the effect that the circumstances of Aron's disappearance indicated a likelihood of either drowning or foul play. I don't remember the details.
To me, Aron Silverman and Philip Koss have both seemed like good candidates.