Post by Scumhunter on Oct 29, 2016 3:36:13 GMT -5
(Above images: Munson, circa 1984. Photo Credits: Charley Project)
Missing Person Profile as of October 29th, 2016: (Based on Charley Project website)
Missing Since: February 13, 1984 from Catonsville, Maryland
Age (at time of disappearance): 39 years old
Height and Weight: 5'10, 160 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes.
TIPS: Anyone having information should call the Baltimore County Police Department (Maryland) at 1-410-887-3943
From the Charley Project:
Muson was last seen in Catonsville, Maryland on February 13, 1984. A neighbor saw him departing his residence at 7:50 a.m., presumably en route to Howard County, Maryland, where Munson was employed as an industrial arts teacher at Ellicot City Middle School. He never arrived at the school and has never been heard from again. His family reported him missing on February 14. On February 16, Munson's 1980 Ford Pinto was found parked on Braeside Road in Catonsville, two blocks from his home. The right front tire was flat. Munson's touring cap, school notebook and lunchbag were inside the vehicle. There was no sign of him at the scene.
On February 27, two weeks after Munson's disappearance, two video store receipts bearing his name, traces of human blood, and a spent small-caliber shell casing were located in a blue 1973 Datsun 240Z vehicle parked at the edge of Leakin Park in West Baltimore, Maryland. The vehicle had been reported stolen the same day Munson vanished. The blood in the car was typed as O-positive, but no one knows Munson's blood type and DNA technology wasn't available in 1984, and now the sample is too deterioriated to be tested, so it hasn't been confirmed that it was his blood.
Authorities believe Munson may have been murdered in retaliation for giving evidence against an automobile theft ring. He had unknowingly purchased a stolen vehicle from one of the thieves, Dennis L. Watson, the year before he disappeared. This was the same car that was found at Leakin Park. Munson was scheduled to testify against Watson on February 16, three days after he vanished. Watson pleaded guilty to auto theft and was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was paroled in 1989. In 1973, a man who was scheduled to testify against Watson in an armed robbery case was killed. Watson was charged with first-degree murder, but he was never brought to trial because one of the witnesses in the murder case died. Watson's current whereabouts are unknown. He was interviewed about Munson's disappearance, but maintained his innocence.
Munson graduated from the University of Maryland at East Shore. He was well-liked at Ellicot City Middle School and took his students bowling twice a week. He is one of six children and has a reclusive nature. He enjoyed working on old cars which he kept in his yard, and he frequently left town on the weekends to visit his mother and siblings on the eastern shore. He was declared legally dead in 1985; the judge ruled he was the victim of a presumptive homicide. No one has been charged in his disappearance; it remains unsolved.
charleyproject.org/cases/m/munson_oliver.html
Thoughts? I am placing Oliver Munson's case in the Missing on TV section since it was profiled on Unsolved Mysteries. Unsolved Wikia says his disappearance was first profiled on the January 26th, 1994 episode of the program.
Other relevant links:
unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Oliver_Munson
unsolved.com/archives/oliver-munson
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