I know that "SheWhoMustNotBeNamed" started this thread back in February...but it was closed?!? So I thought I would start this again, because I think I found a possible match...
Here is SWMNBN's original post:
NamUs: https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/show/3305
Charley: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/miller_martin.html
*Now...Notes from Redsox:
Here are a few things/discrepancies I noticed in the reports:
1.Charley Project says "He rented a car and 10 days later HE returned it", implying he was alive/seen at that time. However police reports found on NamUs says "It is unknown if Miller returned the vehicle personally, only that is was returned on 6/4/80."
So anyone could have dropped it off, I know I have taken back rentals, dropped the keys in the drop slot, and left without anyone seeing me/after hours.
2. Sure, according to Google maps, the direct route from Hartford, CT to Huntsville, AL is about 1100 miles, but lets remember, this is 1980. No GPS, no cell phones, just paper maps & general geography knowledge. Could have just cruised down the coast, then headed west...or, more likely, was using the vehicle for something else...it doesn't take 10 days to drive 1700 miles. I don't really find the 1700 miles suspicious or very helpful except to eliminate the places the rental car COULDN'T have traveled during this time.
3. Worked at McDonalds...yet had a new Porche and a $400 Bike? I know wages haven't kept up with the cost of living, but this seem ridiculous! I know he could have inherited it, or come from money...but then explain why nobody reported him missing for 19 years?! I don't want to talk ill of the dead, but when I hear about the McD's Job, the Porche, the SECOND car, the bike, the seemingly unnecessary rental car, combined with the fact that no one reported him missing for 19 years, I can't help but let my mind wander towards "Drugs/Mule/Nefarious Things"...
Now, a long shot match that got me started on this guy in the first place. I live in Nebraska, and even though we get A LOT of J.Does, we almost always identify them, even along the Drug Highway (err, I mean I-80). We have only 2 John Does in NamUs, and the one I am looking at is from 1981...a White/Native American Male: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/9939
He did tell people he was going to California, so he probably would have driven right down the aformentioned Drug Highway, aka I-80, taking him all the way across Nebraska...
I know Martin Miller's info doesn't say if he is Native American or not, but he looks as if he could have that ancestry, and lets be honest, whoever reported him missing waiting 19 years, so maybe the profile isn't quite complete or accurate...which brings me to the slight discrepancies in the Height. I know when I was 17 my Driver's licence said I was 6-Foot tall. I told people I was 6-foot, but really I was more like 5-10 on a good day.
In any case...I wonder if this is a good match in your opinion or not, and also what possible conclusions can YOU come up with for the strange details of this story...
Here is SWMNBN's original post:
Martin Alan Miller (18) - West Hartford CT, 1980
https://www.findthemissing.org/en/photos/full/33248
Martin Alan Miller
Endangered Missing from West Hartford, Connecticut since May 1980
Age: 18 -- Height: 5'10" -- Weight: 165 lbs -- Hair Color: Brown -- Eye Color: Hazel
Martin has a small appendectomy scar on his abdomen. His front teeth are very crowded and crooked.
Martin left West Hartford, Connecticut in May 1980, leaving his job at McDonalds with 2 weeks notice and saying he was headed to California. He also closed his bank accounts and withdrew about $600. He rented a car, and 10 days later he (see below...notes from Redsox)turned in in Huntsville, Alabama. The car was driven 1,700 miles, indicating he had not driven directly from West Hartford to Alabama. Martin wasn't reported missing until 1999.
NamUs: https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/show/3305
Charley: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/miller_martin.html
*Now...Notes from Redsox:
Here are a few things/discrepancies I noticed in the reports:
1.Charley Project says "He rented a car and 10 days later HE returned it", implying he was alive/seen at that time. However police reports found on NamUs says "It is unknown if Miller returned the vehicle personally, only that is was returned on 6/4/80."
So anyone could have dropped it off, I know I have taken back rentals, dropped the keys in the drop slot, and left without anyone seeing me/after hours.
2. Sure, according to Google maps, the direct route from Hartford, CT to Huntsville, AL is about 1100 miles, but lets remember, this is 1980. No GPS, no cell phones, just paper maps & general geography knowledge. Could have just cruised down the coast, then headed west...or, more likely, was using the vehicle for something else...it doesn't take 10 days to drive 1700 miles. I don't really find the 1700 miles suspicious or very helpful except to eliminate the places the rental car COULDN'T have traveled during this time.
3. Worked at McDonalds...yet had a new Porche and a $400 Bike? I know wages haven't kept up with the cost of living, but this seem ridiculous! I know he could have inherited it, or come from money...but then explain why nobody reported him missing for 19 years?! I don't want to talk ill of the dead, but when I hear about the McD's Job, the Porche, the SECOND car, the bike, the seemingly unnecessary rental car, combined with the fact that no one reported him missing for 19 years, I can't help but let my mind wander towards "Drugs/Mule/Nefarious Things"...
Now, a long shot match that got me started on this guy in the first place. I live in Nebraska, and even though we get A LOT of J.Does, we almost always identify them, even along the Drug Highway (err, I mean I-80). We have only 2 John Does in NamUs, and the one I am looking at is from 1981...a White/Native American Male: https://identifyus.org/en/cases/9939
He did tell people he was going to California, so he probably would have driven right down the aformentioned Drug Highway, aka I-80, taking him all the way across Nebraska...
I know Martin Miller's info doesn't say if he is Native American or not, but he looks as if he could have that ancestry, and lets be honest, whoever reported him missing waiting 19 years, so maybe the profile isn't quite complete or accurate...which brings me to the slight discrepancies in the Height. I know when I was 17 my Driver's licence said I was 6-Foot tall. I told people I was 6-foot, but really I was more like 5-10 on a good day.
In any case...I wonder if this is a good match in your opinion or not, and also what possible conclusions can YOU come up with for the strange details of this story...