Found Deceased LA - Garrett Wilson, 48, Bossier City, 24 Jan 2020

[JerseyGirl]

A massive search effort is expected to get underway on Wednesday morning, Jan. 29, for 48-year-old Garrett Wilson.

Wilson’s family said it was his girlfriend who saw him last, back on Friday morning, Jan. 24.

Now his family and friends fear foul play could be involved.

Search intensifying for missing Bossier City man

 

[indicolite22]

Another news story (KTBS 3 News):

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=752291578626819

 

[indicolite22]

News articles state that his phone was found thown off a small bridge.

Interesting comments about his past at: KTBS 3 News

 

[KatzEye]

News articles state that his phone was found thown off a small bridge.

Interesting comments about his past at: KTBS 3 News

This MSM article also mentions his past :

BCPD detectives seek information on missing man

Wilson has a criminal history. He served 7 years, 3 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2009 to defrauding the Bossier Parish School Board. In 1995, he was sentenced to 15 years as an accessory to murder and armed robbery for his involvement in the murder of a man on Interstate 49 in DeSoto Parish.

1995 was 25 years ago. Any chance any of his old acquaintances have been recently released ? Just thinking out loud.

 

[mlhenn]

News articles state that his phone was found thown off a small bridge.

Interesting comments about his past at: KTBS 3 News

I agree; very interesting comments.

 

[mlhenn]

Search intensifying for missing Bossier City man


Cajun Navy 2016, now called Pinnacle Search and Rescue, is expected to help with any organized searches.

 

[mlhenn]

Search group canvasses areas of Haughton for missing Bossier City man

Friends, family and others spent hours searching in the mud and cold in areas of Bossier Parish on Wednesday looking for Garrett Gene Wilson, or at least clues on where the Bossier City man might be.

Those who know him said he may have been planning to go fishing. However, they also said he was allegedly last seen going into someone else’s vehicle on Friday but hadn’t been heard from since.

Wilson frequents Caddo Lake when fishing, but all his vehicles and fishing gear is at his house.

the search group canvased both the north and south sides of the Flat River Bridge and other areas nearby; including the secluded areas around Oaklawn Cemetery behind a church on Sligo Road.

 

[mlhenn]

Search group canvasses areas of Haughton for missing Bossier City man

Wilson’s phone was found Monday morning on the Flat River Bridge on Sligo Road.
-and that his phone is considered an extension of his arm.

 

[mlhenn]

ON THE SCENE: Cajun Search and Rescue commander on search for Garrett Wilson

 

[PommyMommy]

JAN 29, 2020
Volunteers search for man near where his phone was found
[...]

And at this point, police say, there still is no indication of foul play.

[...]

Volunteers first gathered at Neighbors Travel Plaza at Sligo Road at Louisiana Highway 157.

That’s near a bridge over the Flat River on which Wilson’s cellphone was found by relatives just days ago.

[...]

The extent of the turnout Wednesday meant a lot to Wilson’s ex-wife, Jennifer Madison.

“It’s everything. It’s everything. And they’ll never know how much we appreciate it.”

[...]

“We’re a nationally recognized team,” he said of his group, the Cajun Coast Search and Rescue team.

[...]

The team has high-risk deployment K-9s.

“And they do both land and aquatics,” Wade explained.

“They reached out and went over the system in the search today with the K-9s.”

[...]

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 1, 2020

BPSO assist Bossier City Police and family in search for missing man

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 3, 2020
Deputies searching for missing Bossier City man at Red Chute over the weekend



[...]

Lt. Billy Jones and Dep. Reigan Malmay launched a jon boat into Red Chute Bayou at the Sligo Road bridge and traveled south down the bayou to the Caplis-Sligo Road Bridge. They conducted a thorough visual search of the water and the banks of the bayou. Meanwhile, Det. Kelly Downey launched a drone over the same area to conduct a visual search from above.

... When Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington found out the family would be searching in the area today, he offered assistance with the Marine Patrol boat and drone.

Wilson

[...]

“Missing persons cases are very difficult to work because there are so many possibilities,” said Chief Huddleston. “You don’t know if there is a medical issue involved, you don’t know if someone doesn’t want to be found, you don’t know if something has happened to somebody. So when you have a multitude of possibilities, what you start doing is eliminating those possibilities.”

[...]

 

[mlhenn]

I hope he is found soon. There has been so much rain in the region recently & quite a bit more is expected this week.

 

[mlhenn]

More rain has hit the region. There are areas of localized flooding. Bayous and other waterways are swollen.

 

[swedeheart]

garrett wilson's business partner is now missing as well. Bossier man listed in National Crime Information Center as missing

Missing men from Bossier City were business partners

 

[PommyMommy]

garrett wilson's business partner is now missing as well. Bossier man listed in National Crime Information Center as missing

Missing men from Bossier City were business partners

Rut roh. They're business partners, live in the same subdivision - just blocks away from one another - and they both disappeared from their homes?

And, in the second link, there's another video in which the reporter says that Caddo Parish is watching these two MP cases carefully because of woman who went missing around the same time - Dorothy Yates-McCathran.

I'm going to start threads for business partner, John Hardy, and the missing woman, Yates-McCathran, if we don't have threads for them already.

This could get complicated... MOO

ETA:

LA - LA - John Hardy, 43, Bossier City, 19 Feb 2020

LA - LA - Dorothy Yates-McCathran, 40, Vivian, 21 Jan 2020

 

[TatianaBarbie]

Garrett's FB page:

Garrett Wilson (Last public post was Sept 2019)

 

[swedeheart]

Rut roh. They're business partners, live in the same subdivision - just blocks away from one another - and they both disappeared from their homes?

And, in the second link, there's another video in which the reporter says that Caddo Parish is watching these two MP cases carefully because of woman who went missing around the same time - Dorothy Yates-McCathran.

I'm going to start threads for business partner, John Hardy, and the missing woman, Yates-McCathran, if we don't have threads for them already.

This could get complicated... MOO

ETA:

LA - LA - John Hardy, 43, Bossier City, 19 Feb 2020

LA - LA - Dorothy Yates-McCathran, 40, Vivian, 21 Jan 2020

yes! there is speculation that the missing woman is connected, too. i couldn't find any msm stating that as fact, but i'm so glad you mentioned it, and thank you for a thread for each of them!

 

[PommyMommy]

This MSM article also mentions his past :

BCPD detectives seek information on missing man

1995 was 25 years ago. Any chance any of his old acquaintances have been recently released ? Just thinking out loud.

He was released from prison in April 2018.

Inmate Locator
GARRETT GENE WILSON
Register Number: 14238-035
Age: 48
Race: White
Sex: Male
Released On: 04/20/2018

Garrett's FB page:

Garrett Wilson (Last public post was Sept 2019)

Thank you!

In this July 3 selfie inside a truck, there is nothing on the windows.
Garrett Wilson

In this July 28 selfie inside the same vehicle, the windows have lettering that appear to be related to the heat and air business. Garrett Wilson

• Side window I can make out Eagle, Home Improvements, and a phone number *
• Rear window, can't see all of it but it looks like the word Eagle again and Conditioning

* Phone number matches Eagle Air Conditioning and Home Improvements, LLC and there are photos of the outside of the trucks.

I don't know what all this means yet - just noting it as I'm poking around. MOO

 

[PommyMommy]

FEB 20, 2020
BCPD investigating whether disappearance of business partners, reported theft connected

• John Hardy was reported missing by his family on Feb 19, hours after he was last seen around 11:45 a.m. at his Bayou Drive home in South Bossier.
• Hardy owns an HVAC business and operates it out of his home.
• He and Garrett Wilson were business partners.
• Hardy filed a report on February 5, telling investigators that $80,000 had been stolen from his business.
• BCPD says Hardy’s disappearance and the theft from his business are two separate cases but detectives are looking into whether they are connected.
• Wilson had been helping Hardy run his HVAC business after Hardy injured himself last year.
• Hardy uses a walker due to his previous injury to his left leg.