MT MT - Dwayne Dicicco, 25, Kalispell, 13 Aug 1974

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[h=1]Dwayne Alexander DiCicco[/h]
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DiCicco, circa 1974; Thomas Creech



  • Missing Since 08/13/1974
  • Missing From Kalispell, Montana
  • Classification Endangered Missing
  • Date of Birth 11/12/1948 (69)
  • Age 25 years old
  • Height and Weight 5'11, 165 pounds
  • Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. DiCicco has a mustache and beard. His nickname is Dago.


[h=3]Details of Disappearance[/h] DiCicco was last seen in Kalispell, Montana on August 13, 1974. He was working as a heavy equipment operator in Columbia Falls, Montana at the time. He has never been heard from again.

DiCicco graduated Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, California and served in the military in Vietnam. He moved to Montana a few years before his disappearance, and married in Kalispell. He disappeared around the time of his first wedding anniversary.

He called his mother shortly before he disappeared and their conversation was normal, and he said he'd call her again in a few days, but he never contacted her again.

Thomas Eugene Creech confessed to DiCicco's murder. A photo of him is posted with this case summary. After he was charged with the double murder of two transients in Idaho in 1975, he stated he committed over 40 murders in thirteen states. He said he'd been paid to commit the homicides for a motorcycle gang, which he claimed sold drugs and practiced devil worship.

DiCicco did ride a motorcycle but wasn't involved in any clubs. Creech named him as one of the victims, stating he shot DiCicco three times and dumped his body in Lake Sammamish in Washington. Later, he changed his story and said he'd only witnessed the murder and DiCicco's body had been hidden in a cave.

When police dragged Lake Sammamish they did find a body, but it wasn't DiCicco's, and they aren't sure whether Creech was involved in his case. Some of Creech's confessions were subsequently discounted, but he lead the police to two bodies, one in Nevada and one in Wyoming, and he was convicted of a 1974 murder in Oregon as well as the two transients' murders in Idaho.

While serving a life sentence in Idaho, Creech murdered a fellow inmate and was sentenced to death. DiCicco's mother began a correspondence with him on death row, hoping for answers in her son's case. Creech told her she had become like a mother to him, and he wrote her poems about prison life. He has never proven his involvement in DiCicco's case, however, and has been awaiting execution since 1983.

Foul play is suspected in DiCicco's case; investigators believe he was murdered. His case remains unsolved.

http://charleyproject.org/case/dwayne-alexander-dicicco

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/18934/
 
Dwayne and his seventeen year old girlfriend obtained a marriage license in Aug 1973. In March 1974, a "Mrs Dwayne Dicicco and baby" were discharged from hospital.

In September 1974, his mother placed an ad in the newspaper advertising an reward was being offered for information on Dwayne (Dago) Dicicco.

The Daily Inter Lake (Jan 24, 1975)
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A court notice was published in April 1975, which gave Dwayne 20 days to respond to his wife filing for divorce or an annulment.

His mother passed away in 2001; Dwayne is mentioned as having predeceased her.
 
Posting due to the location. Depending on where the decedent entered Flathead Lake and the exact location the skull was picked up by the boat's gill net, the lake is about 15 mins. (Somers, MT) to 1 hour (Polson, MT) from Kalispell. My thoughts are with investigators as they attempt make an ID and also with the victim's loved ones.

Human skull found in Flathead Lake Wednesday | FOX 28 Spokane
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POLSON, Mont. –
...operators of a gill netting boat who located the skull inside their net while pulling it in.
 
Article today in the Canadian Press regarding death sentence impending this Wednesday for Dwayne's suspected killer. Creech was sentenced to death for the death of another inmate in 1981.

For nearly 50 years, Idaho's prison staffers have been serving Thomas Eugene Creech three meals a day, checking on him during rounds and taking him to medical appointments.
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This Wednesday, some of Idaho's prison staffers will be asked to kill him. Barring any last-minute stay, the 73-year-old, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates, will be executed by lethal injection for killing a fellow prisoner with a battery-filled sock in 1981.
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Creech's killing of David Jensen, a young, disabled man who was serving time for car theft, was his last in a broad path of destruction that saw Creech convicted of five murders in three states. He is also suspected of at least a half-dozen others.
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