Identified! FL - Big Cypress Natl Preserve, Male Hiker, Denim & “Mostly Harmless” July 2018 - Vance Rodriguez #2

[Bit of hope]

Ah. By the time I read the entire article I lost sight of the one phrase you guys focused on!

(edited to add quote)

Love your avatar btw!

 

[janewall]

Love your avatar btw!

Thank you! I've noticed quite a few owl avatars on WS. As sleuths we hope to be so observant and stealthy.

 

[Handsome Sailor]

Thank you! I've noticed quite a few owl avatars on WS. As sleuths we hope to be so observant and stealthy.

Many cultures worldwide view the owl as a symbol of death, or impending death

 

[Laughing]

Who is missing you, Denim???

 

[UnlicensedPI]

In a recent Reddit thread about him, someone came up with an interesting point I hadn't heard before. When he said he was going to visit his sister, he could have been visiting her grave. That would explain why she never came forward to report him missing. Just an interesting theory that had never occurred to me.

 

[PropaneYeeter]

His NamUs page was updated yesterday to add Alexander Glenn as a rule-out.

 

[Bit of hope]

His NamUs page was updated yesterday to add Alexander Glenn as a rule-out.

Looks a lot more logical to check this missing person and rule out, then the other ones. Remember he has gray/hazel eyes...

 

[Gardener1850]

His NamUs page was updated yesterday to add Alexander Glenn as a rule-out.

Alexander's thread: WI - WI - Alexander Glenn, 28, Florence County, 23 July 2017

I'm glad they are still working on this case and ruling people out.

Who are you Denim?

 

[PropaneYeeter]

His NamUs was updated yesterday and Anthony Daniel Medearis was added as a rule-out.

 

[Gardener1850]

His NamUs was updated yesterday and Anthony Daniel Medearis was added as a rule-out.

Here's a thread for him: MO - MO - Anthony Daniel Medearis, 29, Bismarck, 5 Aug 2002

 

[jessica-]

In a recent Reddit thread about him, someone came up with an interesting point I hadn't heard before. When he said he was going to visit his sister, he could have been visiting her grave. That would explain why she never came forward to report him missing. Just an interesting theory that had never occurred to me.

Oh wow, I never thought of that, interesting theory.

 

[UnlicensedPI]

Looking through new comments on old threads....Is this him?? (Apparently) taken at Christ Lutheran Church in Duncannon, PA. Can't find the original source. The church does "hiker meal ministries"

 

[PatLaurel]

Looking through new comments on old threads....Is this him?? (Apparently) taken at Christ Lutheran Church in Duncannon, PA. Can't find the original source. The church does "hiker meal ministries"

Great find. It sure does look like him!
Does the Christ Lutheran Church keep a record of the hikers they provide meals to?

 

[Bit of hope]

Looking through new comments on old threads....Is this him?? (Apparently) taken at Christ Lutheran Church in Duncannon, PA. Can't find the original source. The church does "hiker meal ministries"

It sure lookes like MH/Ben. I think he is wearing his watch on the same site.

 

[LadyBadWolf]

Wow, I'd have a hard time believing that *wasn't* him! Great find!

 

[Bit of hope]

@UnlicensedPI Do you have some kind of date this picture was taken?

 

[Coffee56]

I do believe that's him also. Don't we have other photos of him in Duncannon at a hostel? He may have hung around there for a little bit.

 

[LadyBadWolf]

This picture was uploaded on Apr25 of this year in the FB group "CLC Summer Hiker Meals"

Doesn't preclude it from being MH, as it looks like that is about when the page was started, and they may have just been uploading some pictures to get it going.

 

[UnlicensedPI]

I found the photo in a comment, so I don't have the original source. I'm not even 100% sure of the location, but it's definitely worth a good search to try to figure it out!

Here's the full version of the photo

Here's a video about the church's work with AT hikers. It looks like the same place for sure.

 

[LadyBadWolf]

Actually, looks like their hiker meal program typically runs mid-May to the beginning of August each year, which falls right into the time he was in Duncannon (June/July 2017, I believe?)