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| Ellison, Roger J. February 10,1981; Colorado 17 YO | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Aug 8 2006, 10:48 PM Post #1 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Dec 17 2006, 08:21 PM Post #2 |
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Roger John Ellison ![]() ![]() Top Row and Bottom Left: Ellison, circa 1981; ![]() Bottom Right: Age-progression at age 27 (circa 1990) Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: February 10, 1981 from Cedaredge, Colorado Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: March 11, 1963 Age: 17 years old Height and Weight: 5'11 - 6'0, 145 - 150 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Dark blond hair, blue eyes. Ellison wears size 13 shoes. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A blue t-shirt, jeans, white socks, brown shoes and a blue parka. Details of Disappearance Ellison was a student at Cedaredge High School, south of Cedaredge, Colorado on Highway 65, on February 10, 1981. He rode the bus to school as usual that day and the boy who shared his locker saw him place his books inside the locker at 8:30 a.m. Ellison did not attend classes that day and has not been heard from again. His mother told investigators her son carried only his wallet with his driver's license and three dollars inside it when he was last seen. He left behind all his clothing, his car, and money in his bank account. Authorities suspect foul play was involved in Ellison's disappearance; they believe he was killed shortly after he vanished, probably by someone he knew. His mother says he had no reason to run away from home. He was a popular straight-A student at the time of his disappearance and had already been accepted at a college and selected a dormitory room. He was also an avid skier who was looking forward to an upcoming ski race which was held the weekend after he vanished. Ellison's case remains unsolved. His psychology teacher was questioned in his disappearance but never charged. Both of his parents are now deceased. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Delta County Sheriff's Office 970-874-9734 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Child Protection Education Of America The Rocky Mountain News NewsLibrary The Delta County Independent Newspaper Archive The Doe Network Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated February 7, 2006; alternate height and weight added, distinguishing characteristics and details of disappearance updated. |
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| luvmycat | Dec 28 2006, 01:25 AM Post #3 |
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| monkalup | Dec 29 2006, 10:36 PM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricte...DAC0894DA484D81 Published: May 30, 1982 It was raining hard that dreary fall afternoon when the slight figure pulled up the hood of his jacket and dashed out into the highway 10 miles east of Durango. The pickup truck driver did not have time to hit his brakes. The pedestrian struck the right side of the truck, fell backward and died against the curb. Officer Joe Martinez of the Colorado Highway Patrol tried to piece together information on the dead boy. He was a white male 15 to 17 years old, with brown eyes and brown shoulder-length hair, 5-foot-9, 150 pounds. There were a two-inch scar on his right elbow and scars on both hips. The only thing Officer Martinez found in his faded jeans was a quarter. His tan leather knapsack contained a single sheet of paper, a mimeographed tract promising ''Jesus Saves.'' Thus begins the only known history of ''Durango's Unknown Traveler.'' Thousands of similar cases around the nation baffle the police, bring anguish to parents, and have prompted a move in Congress to set up a computerized data bank on missing children. 'Touched a Lot of Us' ''What happened out there on the highway at 4:40 P.M., on Sept. 23, 1981, profoundly touched a lot of us,'' says Lieut. W.D. Sanburg, commander of Colorado Highway Patrol Troop A. ''We have followed every lead, every wild goose chase, trying to track down that boy's past. We've come up blank. ''The worst part for me is that somewhere somebody is worrying about this kid, waiting for him to call or come home. And they will never know he's lying in a pauper's grave in a southwestern Colorado town that now considers him one of its own.'' The United States Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 1.8 million children disappear from home each year. Most return almost immediately. Many are victims of parental kidnapping. Hundreds become victims of foul play. But 50,000 children still remain unaccounted for every year. And upwards of 4,000 bodies tagged ''John Doe'' or ''Jane Doe'' go unclaimed every year in this country, 1,000 of them youngsters. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center computer contains 9.6 million records. Nearly 25 percent of its current storage consists of data on stolen securities. Less than three-tenths of 1 percent pertains to missing people. There is no separate category for missing children. Measure Proposed in Congress A bill in Congress would authorize the F.B.I. to acquire and exchange information to help local, state, and Federal officials in searching for missing children and identifying unclaimed bodies. It is supported by the American Bar Association and the National Association of Police Chiefs, but the Justice Department opposes it on ground that it would add to the F.B.I.'s work and allow unauthorized people access to its computer data. Senator Paula Hawkins, a Florida Republican, is the primary sponsor of the Senate bill. She says, ''It's a national disgrace that we have satellites that can identify a car license plate from space, but don't have a centralized computer bank to help find our missing children.'' The boy struck by a truck in Colorado died of a broken neck. He was taken to the Hood Mortuary where, by law, the body would be held for 30 days while the police made initial attempts to track down next of kin. First, Lieutenant Sandburg tried fingerprints and missing people reports on file with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the F.B.I. He tried military records, but found nothing. A man who had let the youth out of his car right before the accident came forward. He said he had picked up the hitchhiker about 50 miles east, and the boy had told him he had been in New Jersey for a funeral and was headed for Phoenix to get a job. A highway patrolman in Denver and another in Alamosa also reported they had stopped a hitchhiker matching the dead boy's description on Sept. 22. But there is no law against thumbing rides in Colorado, so after brief interviews both officers permitted him to go on. Wanderer Gave Different Names In all three encounters, the wanderer had given a name. To the car driver he introduced himself as Doug Frey. To the Alamosa officer he identified himself as Doug Xceera. In Denver he called himself Douglas Xcibera. Lieutenant Sanburg got a cooperative telephone company supervisor in New Jersey to check 50 directories looking for variations of those names. Several hundred man-hours later, he still had no leads. Three Indiana telephone numbers were scribbled on the religious pamphlet in the youth's knapsack. But when Lieutenant Sanburg dialed them, he said, ''All of the people who answered said they didn't know anything about the boy. They were baffled how or why he had their numbers.'' So on the blustery, gray afternoon of Oct. 30, the boy was buried in a sealed wooden coffin in the Durango Cemetery. Two gravediggers, two funeral home attendants and the Rev. Richard Gilbert of the First United Methodist Church were present. Barbara Williams, a housewife with three grown sons, saw the photo of the body in the local paper. 'Hunted by What Happened' ''I was haunted by what had happened,'' says Mrs. Williams. ''I'd lie awake at night and think about that boy. He became every mother's son. When my husband and I watched our sons go off on trips, we'd look at maps every day to chart their progress. And we ordered them to call us just as soon as they got where they were going.'' ''Maybe this boy never had that kind of love from his parents,'' says Mrs. Williams, twisting her hands in her lap. ''Or maybe those parents are still waiting for a call that will never come. I just felt like the Lord was telling me to do something. So I did.'' On Nov. 3, Mrs. Williams went to Family Crafts Memorials to find out the cost of a tombstone. She then started walking down Durango's bustling main street. She stopped pedestrians and told them what she wanted to do, and within two days she had collected $253, enough to persuade the company's owner, Duane Fiorini, to provide a $500 stone. ''Everyone I talked to, except one man, wanted to give,'' she says. A local social worker, Tonia Thompson, says at least one minor a month comes to her office seeking food and shelter but refuses to give a name. ''We've become a mobile society, and kids like that dead boy now have the freedom to float beneath its surface,'' says Miss Thompson. ''The fact that he had so little on him is an indication he wasn't wise to the ways of surviving in the streets on his own. ''That boy got noticed because he got killed,'' says Miss Thompson. ''That makes me very sad. But I'm also worried about the living, the kids who just disappear into a subculture that's growing every day. What are we going to do for them?'' 10 Drifters a Month in Durango The Durango Police Chief, Chris Wiggins, says 10 juveniles a month drift through his town of 10,500. Last year he took 41 missing people reports. Five of those cases are still active, and three of those are children under the age of 18. ''A few years ago we knew all the kids in town,'' says Chief Wiggins. ''Now we don't, and we have to have a clear reason for picking them up off the streets - for instance, do they look 13, it's 3 A.M., 20 below zero, and they're wearing a T-shirt? If we do get hold of a runaway's parents, half the time the folks couldn't care less.'' This spring the simple stone was set on the grave. The inscription reads, ''Durango's Unknown Traveler.'' At the base the carver put, at Mrs. Williams's instructions, ''Donated by the Citizens of Durango.'' A space has been left for a name, and beside the date of death there is also room for a date of birth. Not every case of a missing youngster ends with such finality. The story of Roger Ellison is not unlike that of thousands of young people who have disappeared but may still be alive. Shortly after 8 A.M., on Feb. 10, 1981, Roger Ellison simply vanished. He had glanced out his kitchen window that Tuesday morning and remarked to his mother it looked like it might snow, a good omen for his upcoming ski race. Then he shrugged into his coat and boarded a school bus for the six-mile ride from his home in Eckert, Colo., to Cedaredge High School. Last Person Who Saw Him He bounded off the bus, waved to the driver, and just caught his locker mate as Mitch Coleman was about to close the metal door. ''Hold it open,'' Roger told his best friend, saying he wanted to get some books for his first class. Mitch hurried on down the hallway after Roger promised to catch up with him. Today, Roger's father is dead, the victim of a stroke, perhaps touched off by his son's disappearance. His mother is suffering from a serious heart condition and depression. His brothers and sister often find themselves in the grips of despair. ''It looks like Roger Ellison just disappeared into thin air, but I know that can't happen,'' says Detective Keith Waibel of the Delta County Sheriff's Office. ''We've never had a single solid lead. We can't find a trace of where he went. This case has turned me into a blithering idiot.'' To Detective Waibel, to his teachers, to his family, and to his friends, Roger Ellison was the all-American boy. A straight-A student, the popular senior already had been accepted at Western State College in nearby Gunnison, and had paid his firstsemester dormitory fee. He was 5-foot-11 and 145 pounds, and his big dream was to make the country's National Ski Team like his sister Becky had done a decade before. With his heavy blond hair and thick-lashed blue eyes, he was popular with girls but did not have a steady date. He had managed to accumulate $1,000 in a savings account by being a grocery store bag boy, a dairy farm helper, picker at a local orchard and a neighborhood handyman. But when he disappeared from school, Roger Ellison was believed to be carrying only $3, enough for lunch in the cafeteria and some change. His car and skis were still at home, and he was not dressed to be out long in the Colorado winter. He wore tennis shoes, a light blue nylon jacket and brown pants. 'Waited Up All Night' ''When he didn't come home on the bus we thought he'd call,'' says Evelyn Ellison, her voice cracking. ''My husband and I waited up all night. The next morning we called the sheriff. ''He told us we had to wait 48 hours before he could begin a search. We tried to explain that Roger'd never done anything like that before, that he always called or left us a note on the kitchen table. This time there was nothing.'' Ernest and Evelyn Ellison were convinced their son had not run away, so they got in the car and started looking for the youngest of their five children. ''We drove down backroads, we combed the woods, we walked ditches. Gradually it dawned on us that something terrible had happened to Roger, and was happening to us.'' Detective Waibel was assigned to the case. He interviewed the bus driver, teachers, all of Roger's friends, his ski coaches. And he came up with nothing. ''I've known the Ellisons for years, they're a good family, and I gradually became convinced Roger was not a runaway,'' says Detective Waibel. ''There was absolutely no evidence of a drug problem, no hint of mental illness, nothing to indicate Roger had been the slightest bit depresed. I didn't know where to turn.'' Detective Waibel fed the facts on Roger's disappearance into the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's computer, but the F.B.I, could not enter the case because there was no evidence of foul play or transit across a state line. Detective Waibel put photos and a description of Roger Ellison in local newspapers, called around to nearby law enforcement agencies to alert them to the case, ''and followed up crank calls that didn't pan out.'' Friends and neighbors put up a $10,000 reward for information leading to the definite whereabouts of Roger Ellison, and for months the boy's mother has been inundated with calls from self-proclaimed psychics, amateur detectives ''and a lot of weird people.'' Mrs. Ellison says her religious faith and friends have been the only things sustaining her and her family. ''You think nothing like this could ever happen to you,'' she says. ''When it does, at first you can't believe it. But slowly you just sink into this depression, where you exist one day at a time, hoping that tomorrow, at last, you'll know what happened to your child.'' |
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| monkalup | Dec 29 2006, 10:36 PM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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| monkalup | Oct 7 2008, 07:16 AM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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By The People Date Published 10.03.08 Few things are more unsettling than a body without a name. Even in the most complex murder investigations the victim’s identity provides detectives with a rich history to sort through on the way to the truth. No so for the unidentified. Without a name or a past, they are frozen in and defined by the worst moment in their lives --- their murder. The circumstances of their death, what they were wearing, how badly they were hurt, are facts stacked together, not the story of a life. To have a story you need a name. Here are two examples of ordinary people driven to provide a name, a story, to unidentified murder victims. What Happened to Roger Ellison? The small towns around the Grand Mesa in western Colorado are breathtaking and remote. Take Cedaredge, population 1854. Named after a local ranch ringed by cedar trees, Cedaredge is a farming town, producing apples, peaches and wine. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows each other, and each other’s business. Twenty-seven years ago the town was even more tightly knit. The idea that one snowy morning a bright, popular young man could simply vanish into thin air, never to be seen again, was unthinkable. In 1981, Evelyn and Ernest Ellison lived about six miles outside Cedaredge, in a town called Eckert. The Ellisons were farmers. Their son Roger, 17, a high-school senior, was their pride and joy. Roger, a gifted and avid skier, was rangy and good-looking; he was also a straight-A student who had already been accepted into college. Roger Ellison The morning of Tuesday, February 10 was a good one for Roger. His mother would later recall how he stood in the kitchen door and told her the weather that morning looked great for the ski race he was to compete in that weekend. Then he picked up his books, $3 for lunch and his yellow backpack and boarded the school bus for the ride to Cedaredge High School. About 8:30 a.m. Roger’s friend and lockermate, Mitch Coleman, saw Roger getting books from locker No. 191. Roger told Mitch he’d catch up with him in class. But Roger never made it to class, or any other class. He never made it home. He’s never been seen again. How did a popular, high-achieving young man disappear without a trace in a small town where secrets are impossible to keep? Investigators were stumped. Roger’s car, clothes and bank account were left behind. Police came to believe that foul play was involved --- Roger was killed shortly after he vanished, they suspected, most likely by someone he knew. One intriguing detail: authorities confirm they questioned Roger’s psychology teacher about his disappearance, but they decline to elaborate on what the motive or connection might be. Roger’s disappearance destroyed his parents. His father stood at the curb every day for months waiting for the school bus that used to drop Roger off. He would scan the students coming off the bus. Then he would hang his head and cry. Ernest Ellison died just months after Roger’s disappearance; his family believes it was from a broken heart. The case ran out of leads. The family lost hope. Fast-forward twenty-seven years. On Websleuths, an online crime sleuthing community, a female member going by the name Intuition started a thread in the “Missing but not forgotten” section. The subject line of her post was “Roger Ellison 1981 VANISHED FROM HIGH SCHOOL UND POSSIBLE MATCH.” Intuition says she was interested in older cases of missing persons; looking through reports posted online, she came upon Roger’s story. Intrigued, she began digging through public records of unidentified remains, seeking a possible match with Roger. A case on The Doe Network, an online organization of volunteers who try to connect missing persons with John/Jane Doe cases, caught Intuition’s attention. Case File 1107UMCO details the discovery of an unidentified white male on September 10, 1981 in a wooded area near Clear Creek in northern Chaffee County, Colorado. That’s about three hours from Cedaredge. The victim was estimated to be 17 years old, and while the height estimate was shorter than Roger, the weight was about the same. Clothing scraps found nearby resembled the description of what Roger was last seen wearing. Five years after the remains were found, more bones were found in the same area and determined to be from the same person. Three cartridge shell casings were found near the second set of bones. But it's the reconstruction of the victim’s face that’s most remarkable. On the left is the reconstruction of the unidentified victim’s face. On the right is an age progression sketch of Roger Ellison. ![]() Intuition contacted the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office and suggested they look into the possibility of a match with Roger. They said they would. How is it that seven months after Roger disappeared the remains of a white, 17-year-old male were found three hours away and no one looked into a connection? Det. Luke Fedler from the Delta County Sheriff’s Office is the latest investigator on Roger’s case. He said he doesn’t have an answer for why it wasn’t looked into earlier. It’s possible that the problem was different counties, or small, remote sheriff’s departments, or simply a lack of publicity about the cases. Roger’s parents are both deceased, but he has siblings who are alive, making DNA testing a possibility. Twenty-seven years later, the mystery of what happened to Roger Ellison on that snowy Tuesday morning is closer to being solved. What’s remarkable is that it wasn’t a dogged investigator, or high-tech forensics, that brought hope to the case. It was a woman sitting alone at her computer, armed with just a few facts, driven by curiosity. http://www.truecrimediary.com/ |
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| tatertot | Apr 22 2009, 11:03 AM Post #7 |
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Update on his Charley Project page: "His family reported he had been acting oddly in the month prior to his disappearance and appeared to be preoccupied, but he has no history of runaway behavior and his parents never believed he ran away from home. One of Ellison's teachers, John Pash, is considered a person of interest in his disappearance. He taught social studies and coached wrestling at Cedaridge High School. After Ellison's disappearance, Pash went to Ellison's mother and told her son had a lot of personal problems and was suicidal. None of Ellison's loved ones believe this; his coach said he was in good spirits before he disappeared and would never have taken his own life. Ellison did visit Pash's home on a regular basis to turn in his homework. It was right next to Cedaridge High School. In 1994, a former classmate of Ellison's said his body might be buried at the house where Pash lived in 1981. Pash had sold it in 1984 and moved away. Authorities searched the house with ground-penetrating radar and saw some anomalies, including two under the concrete garage floor, but they decided not to dig. Ellison's case remains unsolved. Both of his parents are now deceased." |
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| monkalup | Jan 8 2010, 10:27 PM Post #8 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Ellison, Roger Date Missing: 2/10/1981 Date of Death: Jurisdiction: Delta County Location: MISSING fromCedaredge High School Local Case Number: 05M-0003 CBI Case Number: Case Status: Unresolved Case Type: Missing Person Detective Name and Phone: Lucas G. Fedler 970-874-2000 http://www.echelondata.com/clients/FOVAMP/...tail.php?id=301 |
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| monkalup | Jul 2 2011, 06:55 PM Post #9 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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ROGER JOHN ELLISON Age Progression Case Type: Non Family Abduction DOB: Mar 11, 1963 Sex: Male Missing Date: Feb 10, 1981 Race: White Age Now: 48 Height: 5'11" (180 cm) Missing City: CEDAREDGE Weight: 145 lbs (66 kg) Missing State : CO Hair Color: Blonde Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Blue Case Number: NCMC601166 Circumstances: Child's photo is shown age-progressed to 27 years. He was last seen in the morning at the Cedaredge High School, but did not attend any classes that day. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. His hair is dark blonde. http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/ser...earchLang=en_US |
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| monkalup | Jul 2 2011, 06:58 PM Post #10 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Can you help solve a 30-year-old cold case? Posted on February 10, 2011 by findrogerellison| 2 Comments The year was 1981. The Cedaredge High School senior class motto was “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” The wrestling team was named District Champs. It was the last year of the Cubs and the last time anyone saw Roger Ellison alive. Roger boarded a school bus on February 10, 1981 that took him to Cedaredge High School in western Colorado at the foot of Grand Mesa National Forest. He got off the bus and walked south to his locker, No. 191 in the school’s basement, where he talked with friends while putting his books away. He didn’t attend classes that day and vanished without a trace. Roger’s case is classified as a non family abduction. He was 17 years old at the time of his disappearance. His age today would be 47. He’s 5’ll” tall and weighs 145 pounds. He has blue eyes and blond hair. He was last seen wearing a light blue parka, blue jeans and brown leather ankle top boots. In 2005, Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee told the Delta County Independent newspaper that he believes Roger was killed shortly after his disappearance. His body has never been found. McKee said he believes they’ve talked to people who know what happened, but theorizes that some of the witnesses are reluctant to speak out due to their own involvement in illegal activity which may or may not be connected to Roger’s disappearance. Even though it’s been 30 years since Roger disappeared, it’s not too late to come forward with information that could crack the case. Contact the Delta County Sheriff’s Office at 970.874.2000. Lori http://findrogerellison.wordpress.com/ |
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| monkalup | Jul 2 2011, 07:03 PM Post #11 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Roger John Ellison Missing since February 10, 1981 from Cedar Ridge, Delta County, Colorado. Classification: Non-Family Abduction Vital Statistics * Date Of Birth: March 11, 1963 * Age at Time of Disappearance: 17 years old * Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 6'0; 150 pounds * Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark blond hair; blue eyes. Fair complexion, freckles. Size 13 shoe. Double crown birthmark. Possible cleft in chin. * Clothing: Jeans or brown pants; a blue t-shirt; white socks; and a light blue nylon parka. Size 12 or 13 tennis shoes. Orange or yellow backpack. * Dentals: Available * Fingerprints: Available * DNA: Available Circumstances of Disappearance Ellison was last seen in the morning hours of February 10, 1981 at Cedaredge High School. He was last seen by his locker at approximately 08:30. Ellison did not attend classes that day, however. He was never seen again. His car and bank account were left behind. He took no clothes with him. He left the family home with only the clothes he was wearing, $3 for lunch and a backpack full of books, nothing else – not his prized skis, money from his bank account or his motorcycle or car. He also paid a dormitory deposit at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., for the fall semester and was trying to secure a scholarship at the time of his disappearance. The 17-year-old high school senior was a member of the Powderhorn Racing Club and regularly trained and raced in competitive weekend ski meets outside of school. By all accounts, Roger was a likable young man, a good student and gifted skier with dreams of making the U.S. Ski Team. Roger had a good home life and wouldn’t stay away from home without letting his parents know where he was. He loved skiing and riding his motorcycle and worked odd jobs at the grocery store and peach orchards to earn extra money. Foul play is suspected. Investigators If you have any information concerning Ellison's whereabouts, please contact: Delta County Sheriff's Office Missing Persons Unit 970-874-2015 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case Number: 05M-0003 NCMEC #: NCMC601166 NCIC Number: M-085481660 Please refer to this number when contacting any agency regarding this case. Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Delta County Independent 1/20/05 Find Roger Ellison Law Week Online |
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