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Silverman, Aron H. June 5,1993; Virginia 17 YO
Topic Started: Aug 23 2006, 11:53 PM (624 Views)
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/silverman_aron.html

Aron Holmes Silverman


Left: Silverman, circa 1993; Right: Age-progression at age 28 (circa 2004)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: June 5, 1993 from Norfolk, Virginia
Classification: Endangered Runaway
Date Of Birth: March 19, 1976
Age: 17 years old
Height and Weight: 5'10, 130 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Blond hair, blue eyes. Silverman has numerous brown moles on his body.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: A coral necklace.


Details of Disappearance

Silverman was last seen leaving a party at a friend's residence in Norfolk, Virginia on June 5, 1993. His brother attended the gathering as well and said that Silverman spent the majority of the evening with a dancer from Newport News, Virginia. Silverman was wearing a necklace that the unidentified girl had given to him. His brother stated that Silverman told her that his family owned a boat and she could accompany them on a ride in the future. Silverman and most of the partygoers were intoxicated at the time. His brother said that Silverman departed with the dancer sometime during the night. He has never been heard from again.
Silverman did not graduate from high school and has a history of drug usage. It was not unusual for him to disappear for several days at a time. His family did not report him as a missing person for two weeks as a result of his previous disappearances. He did not take any of his personal belongings with him at the time of his disappearance. Silverman apparently did not tell his loved ones or close friends that he was planning to leave in the near future.

Authorities classified Silverman's case as that of a runaway, since he had a history of leaving his home. Silverman's father began searching for his son after filing a report with law enforcement. He visited various bars in the Newport News area and learned that one of an establishment's dancers had a blond boyfriend who possibly fit Silverman's description. His father was told that the girl resided in a trailer park and drove a red Pontiac Trans Am. Silverman's father was unable to locate the dancer or her vehicle. It is unknown if she was actually involved with Silverman.

Silverman enjoyed fishing and played guitar at the time of his 1993 disappearance. He did not have his guitar with him when he vanished. A psychic told his mother that Silverman was residing in southern California, but that report has never been confirmed. His case remains unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Norfolk Police Department
757-664-7039



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated February 24, 2005.

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THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, April 19, 1995

SOURCE: BY ELIZABETH SIMPSON, STAFF WRITER



AT A LOSS AT FIRST, ARON SILVERMAN WAS A TEEN WHO DIDN'T COME HOME. BUT TWO YEARS LATER, HIS PARENTS ARE WONDERING IF HE'S A RUNAWAY OR WORSE.
ARON SILVERMAN was just the sort of kid you'd expect to disappear for a few days.

A 17-year-old from Norfolk, he had a wild mane of blond hair and ran with a rough crowd. He was a high-school dropout. He used drugs and had fights with his dad over money.

For all those reasons, his parents didn't even report him missing for a couple of weeks when he disappeared in June 1993. Ron and Debbie Silverman can't tell you the exact day he didn't come home.

But that day - whenever it was - turned into weeks, then into months. Now it's been nearly two years. The Silvermans are still waiting for Aron.

In that time, they've stopped thinking of Aron as a runaway. Now they dwell on evidence he's not.

He didn't take anything with him. No jeans, no underwear, no toothbrush. Not his beloved guitar, nor his favorite fishing rod. He didn't tell anyone he was leaving. Not his best friend, Shawn Gwinn; not his brother, Drew, with whom he'd used to party; nor his sister, Naomi, who'd spent many afternoons fishing with Aron.

And, as far as his family knows, he hasn't talked with anyone in those circles since. ``We were close friends, best friends. Buddies,'' says Drew. ``That's why I can't understand it.''

Today - two Christmases, two birthdays, countless family reunions, fishing trips, parties and jam sessions since that day in June - Aron's disappearance doesn't add up to the people who knew him best.

Ron Silverman, a long-haired, laid-back kind of guy, sits in an easy chair in his Norfolk home and looks out the front door.

``I keep picturing him walking up that driveway,'' he muses. ``I look for him every day to walk in that door.''

He has seen his son's face in the window pane of his front door a million times - and never.

It's true that Aron fits the profile of a runaway. He was a teenager when he disappeared. His parents were separated. He was having girl and money problems. And he'd recently had an argument with his father.

But in one excruciating way, his case is different.

He didn't come home. About half of runaways come home within two days; nearly 90 percent come home within a couple of months.

Only in a small number of cases, about 10 percent nationally, even fewer locally, do teens stay away longer than six months. In Norfolk, Aron is the only long-term runaway case on file.

Ben Ermini, who manages missing-person cases at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Arlington County, says that kind of time lapse weighs heavily on the psyche of a parent.

``They go through an awful lot of h**l,'' says Ermini, who manages Aron's case. ``You'll often hear them say, `If I only knew the outcome. . . . ' The hardest is not knowing. Not knowing whether they're in trouble, deceased. It becomes a living h**l.''

A gathering at the house of one of Aron's friends in late June 1993 could have been just another hazy memory, another party at a house famous for them. But now it stands out as the last time Aron's circle of friends and family saw him.

They only remember a few details about that night. Aron was drunk, like a lot of others there. He was with a girl who was a free-lance go-go dancer in Newport News. And he was wearing a coral necklace she had given him.

``He told the girl we had a boat, and that he could take her out,'' Drew says.

Aron and the girl left the party together.

When Aron didn't show up at home the next day, no one thought anything about it. Everyone figured he'd spent the night with the girl or crashed with friends. It wasn't unusual for him to be gone for days at a time.

But when more than a week had passed, Ron Silverman looked at Drew and said, ``Something's wrong.''

They called Debbie Silverman, Aron's mother. She hadn't seen him either.

Ron reported Aron missing to the Norfolk police. Since there was no evidence of foul play, he was listed as a runaway.

During those first few weeks, neither parent was too worried.

``I figured he'd show up,'' says Debbie, a part-time landscaper, who's now divorced from Aron's father. ``Then, as time went on, I thought maybe he ran off with a group of friends to do something wild, like follow The Grateful Dead around. That's just the kind of thing Aron would do.''

But time went on and on and on, and soon concern turned to worry and to fear.

Both parents set about trying to find Aron. Ron had quit his work as a carpenter a few years earlier because of a heart transplant, so he had time to do his own investigation.

He knew Aron had been last seen with a go-go dancer from Newport News. So he went from one Peninsula bar to another looking for the girl.

Someone knew of a girl who had a blond boyfriend. Ron searched through the trailer park where she supposedly lived, looking for a red Trans-Am, the car he was told she drove.

Ron never found her or the red Trans-Am or Aron. He felt like he was chasing shadows.

He also contacted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. They put Aron on a missing-person poster, distributed it across the country and mailed the Silvermans a stack.

Both Silvermans stuck the posters up everywhere they thought Aron might be. Fishing haunts in Willoughby. Convenience stores in Ocean View. Festivals that he used to attend with friends. Debbie sent fliers to truck stops in San Diego after a psychic told her Aron was living in Southern California.

Both parents have had good times and bad. Times when they resurrect their search, and times when they give up and cry.

``There used to be more ups than downs,'' Ron says. ``Now there are more downs than ups.''

Debbie remembers periods when she'd sit down at the kitchen table after her daughter, Naomi, had left for school in the morning and cry over a cup of coffee.

``You worry,'' she says, her voice gravelly from smoking. ``You go through periods thinking he couldn't be alive. It's a little something that's always there. But you go on. You can't walk around in despair. Naomi needs a mother.''

She keeps a cardboard box with Aron's things. There's a tumbled mound of his clothes, some gifts she bought when she was convinced he'd show up on Christmas Day, some family mementos. There's even a T-shirt she bought on a family vacation, not wanting to leave him out.

``When he comes back it'll be here for him,'' says Debbie, carefully packing everything back in the box.

Aron's 18th birthday more than a year ago marked an important milestone.

It meant he was legally an adult, a time many runaways touch base with their parents because they know they're under no legal obligation to return.

``The usual kid will turn up sooner or later,'' says Norfolk Detective Rebecca Beacham, the youth services detective in charge of the case. ``They'll get caught shoplifting, or they'll call from a friend's house. For him to disappear and not call even after he turned 18 is very rare. That began to worry us.''

Ermini, of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, says cases of children never returning home usually fall into a couple of categories.

Sometimes they are children who have been abused, who want to cut all ties with their families. But Aron's closest friend says he doesn't think Aron falls into that group. ``He was never beat. He had an argument here and there and that was it.''

Naomi, says her brother had differences while living with both parents. Aron and her father fought a lot over money. Naomi says she can understand why he might leave, but not why he wouldn't call.

In some other runaway cases, teenagers go off and start a new life and never look back. This is the scenario that Aron's family hopes is true.

``I keep imagining him living in a big house somewhere with a wife and kids,'' Naomi says.

And sometimes teenagers don't come home because they've run into some kind of trouble; sometimes they've even been killed.

Aron's 18th birthday meant more than his becoming an adult. Because he's no longer considered a runaway, it meant his name would be removed from the National Crime Information Center - a computer database that police departments tap into across the country.

So if something happens to him wherever he is - a traffic violation, a car accident, a stabbing - his name won't register as a runaway.

Some cities change the status of runaways to ``missing'' when they turn 18 and leave them in the computer database. But in Norfolk there must be some evidence that the adult is in danger to do that.

The twisted feeling in the stomachs of Aron's parents doesn't qualify.

Aron's father, mother, siblings and friends have all caught glimpses of Aron. But it's never him. They've turned around in traffic. Run back through a crowd. Scanned the faces on news programs about Woodstock reunions, Grateful Dead concerts and summer festivals.

``I can't accept that he's alive, and I can't accept that he's dead,'' Ron says. ``It's like he's missing in action. We can't even grieve over him.''

Life goes on without him. His grandfather has died. He's got a new cousin. His parents' divorce has become final. He's about to become an uncle. His friends have grown up, and they've had children of their own.

Yet Aron stays the same in the minds of his friends and family. They'd like to know the 19-year-old they hope he's become.

``If he's dead, someone knows what happened,'' Debbie says. ``And if he's alive, someone knows where he is.''
Lauran

"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente.


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Aron Holmes Silverman
Missing since July 5, 1993 from Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia.
Classification: Lost Injured Missing

Vital Statistics

* Date Of Birth: March 19, 1976
* Age at Time of Disappearance: 17 years old
* Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10; 130 lbs
* Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Blond hair; blue eyes.
* Marks, Scars: He has many brown moles on his body.
* Clothing/Jewelry: White t-shirt and faded jeans. Black Converse tennis shoes. A coral necklace

Circumstances of Disappearance
Aron was last seen leaving a party with a female companion, and has not been seen since. At the time, Aron did not get along well with his parents and used drugs. He wasn't reported missing until a couple of weeks after he was last seen.
He didn't take anything with him. No jeans, no underwear, no toothbrush. Not his beloved guitar, nor his favorite fishing rod. He didn't tell anyone he was leaving. His friends last saw him in late June 1993.
Aron was last seen wearing a coral necklace that was given to him from a girl who was a freelance go-go dancer. He had told her that he and his friend had a boat, and he was wanting to take her out on it. Aron and the girl left the party together.
When Aron didn't show up at home the next day, everyone figured he'd spent the night with the girl or crashed with friends. It wasn't unusual for him to be gone for days at a time. When he hadn't returned in more than a week his father reported Aron missing to the Norfolk police. Since there was no evidence of foul play, he was listed as a runaway.

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

Norfolk Police Department
757-441-2261
Email

Agency Case Number: 236641

NCMEC #:
783972

NCIC Number:
M-362484969
Lauran

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