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Scott,Robert K.missing 1997; Florida
Topic Started: Aug 30 2006, 07:03 PM (940 Views)
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Robert King Scott


Above: Scott, circa 1997


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: 1997 from Brownsville, Florida
Classification: Endangered Missing
Age: 36 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes.
Medical Conditions: Scott has a history of drug and alcohol abuse.


Details of Disappearance

Scott moved from his home in Fontana, California to Brownsville, Florida in 1996. His family found the relocation odd; he had never lived anywhere outside of California before, except when he was in the military. He found a job in the shrimping industry in Brownsville and resided on east St. Francis Street.
Scott told his mother he would visit her after Christmas in 1997, but he never arrived. After months without word from her son, she reported him missing in July 1998. He has never been heard from again.

Scott spent two years in the Marines before being reportedly discharged for drug use. His case remains unsolved.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Brownsville Police Department
548-7060



Source Information
The Brownsville Herald



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated July 10, 2004.

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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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this gentleman is apparently only listed on charley. Can find no reference anywhere else
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http://old.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_commen...=58917_0_10_0_C

Marines remain missing after years-long searches
By DAVID ROBLEDO
The Brownsville Herald

BROWNSVILLE, April 21, 2004 — Two Marines with connections to Brownsville have been missing for years, and their loved ones are continuing emotionally draining searches that have yielded insubstantial leads.

Former Marine Robert King Scott, 36, disappeared nearly seven years ago after moving from California to Brownsville, where he came to “heal his inner wounds,” his mother said.

Marc William Oestrike, 21, has been missing two years, and was headed to Brownsville soon after being suspected of stealing $17,000 from his parents’ safe in Fort Myers, Fla., in July 2002.

Family members said both Marines used illegal drugs, and both had difficulties adjusting to civilian life.

But that doesn’t matter to Barbara Scott, who simply wants to know her son is alive and safe.

“This is what the agony and the grief is all about,” she said. “I have no idea where he might be.”

Robert King Scott

It was a strange decision for Robert King Scott to move to Brownsville from Fontana, Calif., six and a half years ago, said Barbara Scott in a phone interview. Robert Scott — one of five siblings — had never lived outside California, except during the two years he spent in the U.S. Marine Corps.

He did not adjust well to the military and was discharged for drug use 16 years ago, his mother said. The Herald could not confirm the discharge.

“He was never able to keep a job after he was discharged from the Marines,” she said of her son, who enlisted when he was 18.

“He didn’t have a job when he moved to Brownsville, and I thought it was odd that he would choose to go there, of all places he could have gone.”

Robert Scott moved to Brownsville from Fontana, Calif. in 1996.

After ending his service with the Marines, Robert Scott was troubled, and he turned to alcohol and illegal drugs, his mother said.

He couldn’t fit in Fontana and straighten out his life, so he decided to move to Brownsville — a place where he told his mother his frame of mind would improve because of the year-round sunshine.

He seemed to be right — at first. Robert Scott found a job in the shrimping industry soon after arriving in Brownsville, but disappeared less than a year later. He had promised to visit his mother in California after Christmas 1997 but never showed up, Barbara Scot said.

After months of no word, she called the Brownsville Police Department in July 1998, prompting officers to visit Robert Scott’s residence at 54 E. Saint Francis St., said Sgt. Robert Hines.

Robert Scott was not present.

Almost seven years after Scott’s disappearance, the Brownsville police have no leads his whereabouts.

Anyone with information on Robert Scott’s whereabouts is asked to call the Brownsville Police Department’s missing persons division at 548-7060.

Marc William Oestrike
Oestrike’s parents last saw him on July 4, 2002, soon after he was suspected of taking $17,000 from their house safe.

The parents were planning on using the money to buy land for Oestrike and his brother as Christmas gifts, his mother Sandy Oestrike said.

“I haven’t worked since Marc has been missing. I’m staying home every day, hoping he’ll show up here, in case he does come,” the mother said in a phone interview from Fort Myers.

Soon after the money turned up missing, Marc Oestrike left his hometown of Fort Myers and headed to Brownsville, where he was last seen at the A.K.’s Sports Bar and Grill on Expressway 77/83, according to a private investigator the Oestrikes hired to look for their son.
Marc Oestrike is a former Marine; he joined the service at age 18 and abandoned his four-year enlistment requirement two years later, his mother said. Authorities later apprehended him in Fort Myers and placed him in jail for his absence without leave.

He left town sometime after he was discharged.

Like the other missing Marine, Marc Oestrike had less than desirable habits, his mother said — including using illegal drugs.

Before he left Fort Myers, Marc Oestrike had been in a serious car accident on Memorial Day 2002. He spent three days in a hospital after cutting his face in several places and breaking several vertebrae. He was put in a back brace and a sling, but discarded them before he was healed, Sandy Oestrike said.

The gash on his eyebrow — about the size of a baseball — is an identifying mark that Sandy Oestrike hopes will help identify her son.

“He is our joy, our laughter, our love,” she said. “We hope and pray for his safety and for him to come back.”

About two months after the accident, Marc Oestrike disappeared, packing his things from his Fort Myers apartment and heading to Brownsville, the Oestrikes’ private investigator found.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Department has an active search open for him, and some leads have recently surfaced, sheriff’s Corp. Carol Billingham said.

There is no active search for Marc Oestrike in Brownsville or Cameron County, officials said, because of little evidence linking him to this area.

Anyone with information on Marc Oestrike’s whereabouts is asked to call private investigator Thomas Lauth toll-free at 1-800-889-FIND.

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