VA VA - Gerald K Bradshaw, 21, Virginia Beach, 17 Mar 1982

[Gardener1850]

Gerald K Bradshaw

Age: 21

Sex: Male

Race: White

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Height: 5’8”

Weight: 150 lbs

Missing From: Virginia Beach, Virginia

Missing Since: 03/17/1982

Details: Gerald was last seen March 17, 1982. He wears glasses and has a deformed left leg.

Contact: Virginia Beach Police Department 757-385-8175

Virginia State Police

 

[Gardener1850]

Gerald K. Bradshaw

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Bradshaw, circa 1982

• Missing Since 03/17/1982
• Missing From Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Classification Missing
• Date of Birth 06/24/1960 (58)
• Age 21 years old
• Height and Weight 5'11, 150 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue shirt, blue shorts, white socks with red stripes across the top, and brown loafers.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Sandy brown hair, brown/green eyes. Bradshaw's left leg is deformed and he has scars on his body. He wears eyeglasses.

Details of Disappearance
Bradshaw was last seen in Virginia Beach, Virginia on April 6, 1982. He moved out of the motel where he'd been staying, but did not return to his mother's residence in Florida. His mother had wired him some money so he retrieve his stolen van, which had been located in Texas.

Bradshaw has never been heard from again. The circumstances of his disappearance are unclear.

Some agencies give the date of Bradshaw's disappearance as April 6, 1982.

Gerald K. Bradshaw – The Charley Project

 

[Gardener1850]

NAMUS:

Circumstances of Disappearance
Victim last heard from on 03/17/82. Victim moved out of a motel he was staying at and did not return to his mother's residence in Florida. Mother sent money via Western Union to victim so that he could travel to Texas to retrieve his stolen van that had been located. Victim has not been heard from since.

Missing Person Case

 

[madamx]

I know this has nothing to do with him missing BUT He reminds me of Jim Morrison..


Jim Morrison

Gerald K. Bradshaw

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[madamx]

The Doe Network: 1384UMIN

Artistic renderings and tattoo of the victim


Unidentified Male

• Date of Discovery: October 18, 1983

• Location of Discovery: Lake Village, Newton County, Indiana

• Estimated Date of Death: 1981-1983

• State of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton

• Cause of Death: Homicide by stabbing

Physical Description
** Listed information is approximate

• Estimated Age: 17-23 years old

• Race: White

• Gender: Male

• Height: 5'2" to 5'11"

• Weight: 160 lbs. with an average build.

• Hair Color: Reddish brown or auburn, wavy and of medium length.

• Eye Color: Unknown

• Distinguishing Marks/Features: Homemade tattoo of a cross with two dots or dashes above the horizontal found on the right forearm, palm side closer to the wrist. A second homemade tattoo is of a rectangle or U-shaped design with dot located on the outer right arm. He had severely fractured his nose earlier in life and also fractured his left ankle.

• Dentals: Available. Several dental fillings. Staining on his teeth suggesting possible tobacco use.

• Fingerprints: Not available.

• DNA: mtDNA and nucDNA available. mtDNA uploaded to NDIS.

Clothing & Personal Items

• Clothing: Brown slacks with small buttons on the front (size 30x30), jockey undershorts, brown leather fleeced-lined ankle high hiking boots with brown shoelaces through metal eyelets (size 10 1/2).

• Jewelry: Unknown

• Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Mushroom hunters found the victim in a shallow grave on an abandoned farm near Sumava Resorts, off US-41, a half mile north of SR-10. The victim was found along with three other victims. The victim had been drugged, bound and stabbed to death. Two of the additional three victims were identified via dental records. The third victim, 999umin, remains unidentified. They were all victims of serial killer, Larry Eyler.

Larry Eyler, a Crawfordsville native, confessed to murdering nearly two dozen young men in the Midwest in the early 1980s. He was dubbed the "Highway Killer" because of where most of his victims' bodies were found - left in locations between Eyler's two residences in Terre Haute and Chicago. His path often followed U.S. 41 in Indiana and Interstate 57 in Illinois.

Five victims have been found in Newton and Jasper counties, and all linked to Eyler. Eyler would take victims from southern Indiana and bury them in northern Indiana - and vice versa - to avoid detection. Eyler, who was convicted of murder and other charges in Illinois and Indiana, died while in custody in Illinois of AIDS-related complications in 1994.

 

[MadMcGoo]

Refreshing for Gerald...

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up. How sad that he's been missing for so many decades.
It seems he wasn't the UID mentioned above by madamX, which now says "Identified."

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Gerald was mentioned in a new thread about an unidentified victim (?) found in someone's garage. The claim is that a man found bones approximately 20 years ago and placed them in his garage and never reported it.
I don't think this is likely Gerald, but I'm mentioning it since he was named on that thread...:
VA - VA - Smithfield, UnkMale 17-23, Found In The Woods, Sept' 18

 

[Savemecastiel]

Bump

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[Curious_in_NC]

There are currently 69 exclusions on Gerald's NamUs file, including the Newton Co. Indiana UID suggested earlier in this thread by @madamx.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[TSL7584]

Missing for 41 years

 

[Pennysmom2]

Gerald K. Bradshaw – The Charley Project

Newer info:

• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Sandy brown hair, brown/green eyes. Bradshaw's left leg is deformed and he has scars on his body. He wears eyeglasses.

4362DMVA - Gerald Bradshaw

Dentals: Available
Fingerprints: Available
DNA: Available

https://coldcase.vsp.virginia.gov/virginia-beach-police-department/case/virginia-beach-police-department-case-1982-042493-gerald-bradshaw/

 

[chaddylex]

Gerald's NamUs Profile has been modified today. 3/25/24 with another rule out added.
He currently has 70 rule outs