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Crumblish,Martin JR missing May 3,1981; New York
Topic Started: Aug 8 2006, 11:50 PM (996 Views)
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Martin Crumblish Jr.


Above: Crumblish, circa 1981


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: May 3, 1981 from Dobbs Ferry, New York
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date Of Birth: January 7, 1964
Age: 15 years old
Height and Weight: 6'0, 165 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Blond hair, blue/green eyes. Crumblish has a slight cleft on his chin and a gap between his upper two teeth. His nickname is J. R. His hair was long at the time of his disappearance.
Medical Conditions: Crumblish has a history of substance abuse.


Details of Disappearance

Crumblish in Dobbs Ferry, New York on May 3, 1981. He had attended a party that evening at a popular clearing known as The View. At 11:00 p.m., he walked a female friend home and then returned to the party. Crumblish left the party again at about midnight and headed for a friend's house. It is unclear what happened to him afterward; he has never been heard from again.
There has been no activity on Crumblish's Social Security Number (SSN) since his disappearance. He left behind his wallet, Social Security card, and other personal items when he vanished.

Investigators are uncertain what happened to Crumblish. He was spending the night with a friend in Dobbs Ferry because he had to take the SAT exam in that town early the next morning. Crumblish was a junior at Dobbs Ferry High School in 1981. He is described as a sensitive, artistic person who enjoyed writing poetry. Crumblish's loved ones do not believe he ran away; he was excited about a new job and would not have left it, and if he had, he would have contacted his family eventually. His case is being investigated as a missing persons case rather than a crime.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Dobbs Ferry Village Police Department
914-693-5500



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
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Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated November 3, 2004.

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Endangered Missing
MARTIN CRUMBLISH
DOB: Jan 7, 1964
Missing: May 3, 1981
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
Eyes: Blue
Race: White
Age Now: 46
Sex: Male
Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Hair: Blonde
Missing From:
DOBBS FERRY
NY
United States
Martin's nickname is J.R. He was last seen around 11 p.m. on May 3, 1981 walking home from a friend's home. He has a gap between his upper front two teeth and a slight cleft in his chin.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)

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Dobbs Ferry Village Police Department (New York) 1-914-693-5500

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Missing since May 3, 1981 from Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York.
Classification: Endangered Missing

•Date Of Birth: January 7, 1964
•Age at Time of Disappearance: 17 years old
•Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 6'0" (183 cm); 165 lbs (75 kg)
•Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Blue eyes; blonde hair.
•Marks, Scars: Slight cleft in his chin.
•AKA: J.R.
•Dentals: He has a gap between his upper front two teeth.
•DNA: Available


Crumblish was last seen around 23.00 on May 3, 1981. Nearly all the leads in this case suggested that Crumblish had been killed shortly after a woods party near Ardsley Country Club. Detectives have publicly ruled out any other explanation for why Crumblish vanished that night.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Dobbs Ferry Village Police Department
914-693-5500

Agency Case Number: 050481/NamUs MP# 7457


NCIC Number: M082561435


NCMEC Number: NCMC600888
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
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http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS...ve-athlete-dead
MARTIN CRUMBLISH JR.: Police believe athlete is dead
12:06 AM, Aug 19, 2012 | Comments


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Martin Crumblish, a football and basketball player at Dobbs Ferry High School, vanished the night of May 2, 1981, after he left a friend’s house in the village, planning to visit his girlfriend.

Earlier, the 17-year-old attended a party at The View, a popular hangout on the Juhring Estate that borders the Ardsley Country Club golf course. Since 2002, the case has been treated as a homicide, even though a body has not been found. Dobbs Ferry police Lt. James Guarnieri said several people have not cooperated with his department’s investigation.
“It’s kind of our belief that he probably had some kind of dispute with someone locally and maybe an accident occurred or maybe some fight occurred and maybe he fell down and struck his head and died,” Guarnieri said. “He wasn’t troubled enough where he would have just run away nor did he have the economic means to do that.”
Crumblish’s father, Martin Crumblish Sr., 71, of Los Angeles, described his son as bright, good-looking, athletic — and a touch on the wild side. The father and son lived together in Huntington Beach, Calif., about a year before the teen disappeared. Crumblish Sr. sent Martin east to live with Martin’s mother because he was partying too much. He said he regrets that decision. If someone killed his son, he’s said he’s not looking for revenge.
“I would really like closure now. It’s been a long time, but it still hurts. I just want to know, if he’s dead, where is he? Just for peace of mind.”
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Martin Crumblish Jr. vanished in Dobbs Ferry more than 30 years ago.
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Three local teenage girls reported missing believed to be runaways
Etan Patz. Elizabeth Smart. Lauren Spierer. Their disappearances prompted national media frenzies.

Patz was 6 when he vanished while walking to a bus stop in lower Manhattan in 1979. Smart was 14 when she was kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002, reunited with her family nine months later. And Lauren Spierer, the Indiana University junior from Greenburgh, was 20 when she disappeared in June 2011 in Bloomington, Ind., after a night of partying. All have been the subjects of countless news stories.
But for other missing young people, including some in the Lower Hudson Valley, the spotlight has faded.
In Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, there are 12 people who went missing under the age of 21, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
Some parents have endured decades without answers, eager to learn whether their loved ones are alive or dead.
Others cling to hope because only months have passed.
Regardless, optimism ebbs by the day.
Karen Kelly, 71, of Lake Placid has waited more than 30 years for news about her son, Martin Crumblish Jr., who vanished in Dobbs Ferry. She moved from the village in 1992 because she was unable to bear the constant reminders of his disappearance.
“Every time I’d see a mound of dirt, I’d wonder whether he was under it,” Kelly recently told The Journal News. “If he was killed, was it fast? Did he suffer? So many things with a missing child. Wherever your mind can go, it goes.”
Crumblish is one of 121 children reported as missing in New York state and more than 2,500 in the country.
To solve many of the cases, police need a witness to come forward, a parent to surrender or a match in a DNA database.
Media bias, some experts suggest, accounts for why some missing children’s cases draw more attention than others.
Seong-Jae Min, an assistant professor of communication studies at Pace University, told The Journal News that his research demonstrates that media outlets cover missing-persons cases with a tacit awareness of bias.
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Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said.
“There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.”
The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white.
A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said.
“It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white.
“While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said.
“This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.”
Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing.
Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April.
“I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said.
“It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.”
Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back.
“It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.”

Factors that contribute to disproportionate coverage of certain missing children include race, gender, attractiveness and social status, he said.

“There is a long line of media research that documented the media’s over-representation of white victims,” Min said. “Missing-children cases are no exception. White missing children … tend to receive a lot more coverage, although half of all missing children in the real world are minorities.”
The bias may be because the majority of American journalists are white, Min said, and news organizations, deliberately or not, tend to prefer news stories that concern the majority audience group, which is white.
A child’s appearance can play a significant role in coverage, he said.
“It is a bit disturbing to say that better-looking missing children receive more media coverage, which basically means that attractiveness may determine one’s life or death as attractive children receive more coverage and hence increase the likelihood of being found,” said Min, who has compared FBI statistics to television news coverage and found a high representation of missing children who are white.
“While there are no conclusive, empirical results, the media may like stories of young, cute missing girls,” Min said.
“This also has to do with the make-up of the journalists and news audience. … From (the majority) perspective, cute, young girls are more ‘vulnerable’ and hence they need to be protected more.”
Still, news coverage or lack thereof doesn’t relieve anguish for families of the missing.
Vivian Jones of Yonkers hasn’t heard from her daughter, Stevie Bates, since April.
“I don’t know where my daughter is, and I don’t know when I’m going to know where she is and what happened to her,” Jones said.
“It’s difficult to get out of bed, but we have to keep looking for her.”
Tom Mauriello, 51, of Rye Brook knows his son is in another country, but he can’t do anything to get him back.
“It’s just awful,” he said. “I’ve shed so many tears over this. I’ve cried over this over and over and over again.”
http://www.lohud.com/article/20120819/NEWS...?nclick_check=1
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Greenburgh cops dig up woods to solve cold case but come up empty
Hoa Nguyen and Shawn Cohen
11:08 p.m. EDT June 11, 2014

GREENBURGH – More than 30 years ago, a girl noticed a large hole while walking in the woods.

She didn't think much of it until she read a story a few months ago in The Journal News about a cold case investigation into a boy who disappeared from Dobbs Ferry during that same period, authorities said.

Having only recently moved back to the area, the girl — now a woman — returned to the site where she could still see the outline of a rather large depression reminiscent of graves. This time, she called police.

This led to a massive, daylong dig Wednesday. Greenburgh police detectives and others meticulously excavated a 10-by-12-foot depression in the woods north of Dobbs Ferry Road. They divided the area into a grid and methodically excavated each using shovels and other hand tools.

Over the course of the day, police only found rubbish — including remnants of a flower pot and Budweiser beer bottle — along with large rocks and hard clay in the hole. They stopped the search after digging at least 5 feet.

"There's nothing recovered of any evidentiary value," Greenburgh police Capt. Brian Ryan declared as police packed up their equipment shortly after 5 p.m.

Meanwhile, Martin Crumblish, a former football and basketball player at Dobbs Ferry High School, remains missing. He vanished the night of May 2, 1981, after he left a friend's house in the village, planning to visit his girlfriend.
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Hoa Nguyen, htnguyen@lohud.com 12:35 a.m. EST November 5, 2014


The case

Originally reported as missing by family members, 17-year-old Martin Crumblish of Dobbs Ferry is now believed dead, the likely victim of foul play, in a case that remains unsolved more than three decades later. Crumblish was seen May 2, 1981 leaving a late party at The View, a clearing in the woods near a country club. Some accounts said he climbed into a car and headed to a friend's house, while at least one report said Crumblish left the house a short time later and never returned.

His uncle and aunt, with whom he had been staying in Yorktown, had expected to pick him up from a train station the next day. When he didn't show up, his uncle called Crumblish's mother who then called village police.

The victim

Crumblish was born in Dobbs Ferry in 1964 and would have turned 50 this year. He spent time in California as a young boy but returned to the village after his parents divorced. He enjoyed playing sports, drawing and writing poetry. At Dobbs Ferry High School, Crumblish played junior varsity football in his sophomore year. During those years, he began drinking and using drugs. He was sent to California to live with his father in 1980 but returned to New York a few months later.


Friends described Crumblish as fun-loving and happy and said he had given no indication he wanted to run away from home. His wallet was never found but his Social Security card was found in his bedroom and the number and identity haven't been used since he disappeared.

The investigation

Multiple investigators have worked on the case over the years. Former Dobbs Ferry Police Chief George Longworth, now Westchester County's public safety commissioner, asked for help from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after taking a training course there in 1999. A retired New York City police detective who reviewed the case recommended investigators re-interview friends and take another look at the case with fresh eyes.

From the start, there were rumors about a late-night fight and run-ins Crumblish may have had with some teenagers. Since 2002, the case has been treated as a likely homicide even though a body has not been found.

Dead-end dig

Earlier this year, acting on a tip from a resident who had noticed a large depression in woods nearby, Greenburgh police excavated a 10-foot-by-12-foot plot in the woods north of Dobbs Ferry Road, dividing it up into grids and methodically digging each section to a depth of 5 feet using only shovels and hand tools. The excavation took the entire day June 11 but only uncovered rubbish, including remnants of a flower pot and a Budweiser beer bottle along with large rocks and hard clay.

While investigators found no evidence of value, police said they were hopeful the excavation would encourage others with clues on what happened to Crumblish to contact authorities. So far that hasn't happened.
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2014...scene/18484563/
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