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ROME N.Y. — State police are putting out a plea for information in the cold case disappearance of two teenagers from Oneida County.
Mark Seelman, 16, from Remsen, and his friend Douglas E. Goodwin, 18, were last seen at a bar called DJ’s on Martin Street in Rome on September 19, 1990.
why has the date of their disappearance changed? It has always been listed as June 8th 1990. Shows how interested the police are in this case they cant even get relevant date correct
i could be really reaching here, with the age being a few years off (he would have been 23 in 1995) and the height is 2 inches off, and the weight is off - but he could have obviously gained a few pounds over 5 years.
I have heard some speculation that his friend he went missing with, Mark Seelman, may be GD but certain things (tattos, etc) don't match up. But I haven't heard any speculation that Douglas may be our Doe - correct me if I'm wrong.
What caught my eye was the wavy hair and transient lifestyle - not much to go on, i know. but he could have easily started following the Grateful Dead around, and not kept in touch with family. It seems like he did not get along with his family.
it doesn't mean anything, but he disappeared from rome, NY where the grateful dead once played woodstock. that was just something i noticed.
any thoughts?
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/goodwin_douglas.html
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
The way I see it, there are only really three scenarios regarding his disappearance and both of them lead me to believe that he is no longer alive.
1. Mark and his companion left the bar intoxicated and the car ran into a lake or river. It will most likely be found under water, similar to the way Eli Vanderpool's body was found in Frankfurt NY. Everyone was thinking he had been abducted, he had died the same night he disappeared and this is the most likely scenario here.
2. Louis Lent was busy killing kids all over upstate NY and liked young men. Remember when he confessed he said he had other bodies that he did not want found. Both of these men were very vulnerable; they may have met their doom with him. Not as probable as scenario #1
3. Drug related homicide; both may have been involved in dealing or selling or owed someone money.
I do not think he ran away; he had a family he loved and the other boy had a child on the way; never unlikely they ran away