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'T 1 1 E-8 Missoulian, Sunday, September 11, 1994 Missing continued from pae E-l Gendert Male. Blrthdata: Jan. 21, 1953. Afl when disappeared: 31, Age now: 41, Contact: Missoula Police Del. Capt, Bob Weaver, 523-4777, ext.

4f96 Curtis Holmcn, a math teacher at Target Range Elementary School in Missoula, was last seen on the evening of Sunday, July 22, 1984, when he left hit home on a drive to charge his truck's battery. His truck was found 12 days later near Placid Lake in the northern part of Missoula County, but searches in the rugged country turned up no trace of Holmcn. Authorities don't know for sure what Molmen was doing in the area, but he reportedly had told friends he wanted to scout some different lakes that he hoped to hike to later with his brother. A search that included use of a helicopter turned up no sign of him. "It's extremely rugged country," recalled Missoula Police Del.

Bob Weaver. "It was country where you walk 10 feet from an individual and not see him." Authorities monitored dolmen's Social Security and bank accounts after his disappearance, but detected no activity. He is presumed dead, but foul play is not suspected, Weaver said. Holmen may have had an accident in the woods or possibly been attacked by an animal. Weaver said, noting that a sow grizzly bear was seen in the area during the search.

label of a cull, The organization, now willed The Family, says ii link members, including children, worldwide, Members claim The Family has cleaned up its act and that its primary goals are lu proclaim the Gospel and save soul for Jesus, though critics are skeptical, Delaying a return to college in the summer or 1985, the siblings drove to Regina, Canada, where they left their car and caught a plane to Frankfurt, Germany. They didn't return as scheduled that November, They telephoned their parents in late November to announce that they wouldn't be returning home, "They told us they met up with some missionaries. They were going to preach the word," Jean Carney recalled. Before Christmas that year, Robert and Terry mailed a letter and materials that their parents Carney used to make the link to The Family, Through later letters and phone calls, the two arranged to meet their parents in Europe in May 1986, first setting Munich, Germany, as the meeting place but later changing it to a train station in Zurich, Switzerland, At the request of their son and daughter, Jean and Richard Carney sent money for train fare to a post-office box in Vienna, Austria. "They never showed up," Jean Carney said, There was a two-year period in which the couple didn't hear from their son and daughter, but they know from relatively recent communications that the two are alive.

Robert called in December 1993, saying he was in Moscow. Terry called in February 1994. She didn't say where she was but gave her parents a Philippines address for mail. They are not traveling together, Jean Carney said. Jean and Richard Carney have contacted American representatives of The Family to try to arrange a visit with their son and daughter.

"They were great kids, doing well in college, relating well," he said, noting that both worked summers at Yellowstone National Park. "They weren't isolated or introverted. They were just normal kids." Jean Carney said she mostly wants her 89-ycar-old father to see his grandchildren. "He thinks he's going to die before he sees them again," she said. bike rider, He told officers that she had left lu, get help, i Fergus County Search and Rescue members with tracking dog and dozens of volunteers searched the rugged area for about two weeks, but found no sign of her, The search was plagued by snow.

Authorities don't know whut the two were doing on the road and consider foul play a possibility, i TIMOTHY OSCAR KIMBRELL ofKallspell Last seen: Nov. 29, 1987, San Francisco, Gender: Male, Blrthdate: Jan. 28, 1953. Age wheq disappeared: 34, Age now: 41, i Contact: Kalispcll Police Det, Sgt. Gene 1 Holliday, 752-6400.

Ext. 243. Timothy Kimbrell of Kalispcll was living in San Francisco in November 1987 when he i broke up with his girlfriend and became depressed. Shortly thereafter he told his boss at the i telephone company that he had been stricken by a disease and had no reason to live. He said he was going to quit, sell his belongings and give the money to needy people for Thanksgiving, suid Kalispcll Police Det.

Gene i Holliday. 1 Kimbrell asked his boss to mail his last paycheck to his mother, Venetta, in Kalispcll. i "She did receive the check, but didn't hear from him," Holliday said. i The last time Kimbrell was seen was Nov. 29, 1987, by friends in a bar in San Francisco, according to reports from the investigation, i On Aug.

6, 1989, Sanransisco police impounded an abandoned vehicle registered in, Kimbrcll's name, but authorities found no sign of foul play or evidence that shed any light on the mystery. i His mother reported to authorities in August 1991 that she had received a call from a man claiming to be her son, but she didn't recognize the voice and dismissed the call as harassment. "We've tried to run him down every which 1 way you can think of and have been unable to determine his whereabouts," Holliday said, i i WAYNE W. HICKMAN of Evaro Last seen: Oct. 1, 1985, along Highway 93 north of Missoula.

i Gender: Male. Blrthdate: July 19, 1958. Age when disappeared: 27. Age now: 36. Contact: Missoula County sheriffs office, Capt.

Gerald B. Crego, 721-5700, ext. 3320. Wayne Hickman of Evaro was last seen Oct. 1, 1985, hitchhiking along Highway 93 on his way from Thompson Falls to Missoula and "hasn't been seen or heard from since," said Missoula County sheriffs office Capt.

Gerald Crego. Family members didn't report him missing until December 1985. Hickman was developmental disabled, Crego said. Hickman apparently was on his way to Missoula to get "food stamps or something like that and to see somebody here," Crego said, reading from the investigative report. Authorities found no evidence of foul play and never turned up any of Hickman's clothing or personal effects.

"It's strange just to disappear off the face of the Earth," Crego said. -DAVE FENNER, Missoulian State Bureau bank accounts. "There was really nothing to go on when It happened," the sheriff suid. NYLEEN KAY MARSHALL of Alhambra Last seen: June 25, 1983, Elkhorn Mountains east of Clancy. Gender: Female.

Blrthdate: Sept. 18, 1978. Age when disappeared: 4. Age nows 15. Contact with Information: Jefferson County Undersherill Tim Campbell, 225-3323.

Nyleen Kay Marshall was 4 years old when she vanished during a family outing in the lilkhorn Mountains east of Clancy on the afternoon of Saturday, June 25, 1983, Jefferson County Undersheriff Tim Campbell, who's worked on the case ever since, said he still doesn't know whether the little girl got lost or was She was barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt when she wandered off while playing near beaver dams on Maupin Creek, about 15 miles south of Helena. The rain-plagued search extended two weeks and involved trucking dogs, helicopters, airplanes, divers and hundreds of volunteers who combed creek bottoms, mountain ridges and mine shafts. The girl had been with her parents, Kim and Nancy Marshall, ho were attending a ham-radio operators gathering in the area. She was last seen by other children along the creek. The Marshalls now live in Japan, said Campbell, who talks with them occasionally.

Searchers found no trace of the girl, nor has any evidence been turned up in the woods in the years since. "No clothes, no body no bones," the undersheriff said, but "there's also nothing in the way of positive evidence to say she was abducted." PATRICIA MEEHAN of Bozeman Last seen: April 20, 1989, on Highway 200, southwest of Circle. Gender: Female. Blrthdate: Nov. 1, 1951.

Age when disappeared: 37. Age now: 42. Contact: McCone County Sheriff Bob Jensen, 485-3405. Patricia Meehan disappeared after walking away from a head-on car collision on Highway 200 seven miles southwest of Circle, and her family has never heard from her. Meehan, who had been living in Bozeman, was traveling northwest on the highway when her car crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle.

She crawled out of the wreckage, looked blankly at the other driver involved in the accident, climbed over a fence beside the road and walked off across a field. A search turned up nothing. Her parents, of Pittsburgh, were convinced their daughter sustained amnesia and then hitchhiked aimlessly across the country with truck drivers. Through photographs and videotapes, her family verified several sightings in the ensuring months in towns in Washington, Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. Meehan's story has appeared twice on the TV show, "Unsolved Mysteries." And the Dawson County Search and Rescue team searched old coal mines around Circle after a Florida psychic said she believed Meehan's body could be found in a cave or mine in that area.

Before her disappearance, Meehan had been doing odd jobs for her landlord and hud been a ranch hand in the Hocnian area. Tom Median said his duughter called him the day before the accident and told him that she was under stress and wanted to come home for a while. No one knows why she was driving near Circle, which would have been far out of the way had she been traveling to Pittsburgh, OOLLY BIGHEADMAN COLLINS of Ashland Last seen: March 9, 1976, in Lame Deer. Gender: Female. Blrthdate: Aug.

23, 1953. Age when disappeared: 22. Age now: 41. Contact: Winficld Russell, criminal investigator, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs' Northern Cheyenne Agency, 477-8242.

Dolly Bigheadman Collins, an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe, was last seen on March 9, 1976, in Lame Deer. At the time, she was picking up a check from her Individual Indian Monies account at the headquarters of Northern Cheyenne Agency of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to an agency report, The agency's realty office last had contact with her on Jan, 17, 1975, when she sold part of her inherited interests, the report staled, Authorities say there have been no recent leads In the case. JODY FERN HOWARD of Frazer Last seen: Oct. 7, 1991, in Wolf Point.

Gender: Female Blrthdate: Aug. 7, 1963. Age when disappeared: 28. Age now: 31. Contact: Nelson Heart, Bureau of Indian Affairs special investigative officer, 768-3448.

Jody Fern Howard of Frazer, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, was reported missing Nov. 10, 1991, more than a month after she was last seen Oct. 7 at the Town Pump in Wolf Point. Nelson Heart, special investigative officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, said he and other investigators have looked into reported sightings of Howard at various places in the area and in other stales, but turned up nothing. "We've just been looking all over," he said.

Foul play is a possibility, he said, because she has money in a tribal account and "hasn't touched it." DOROTHY KELLER SMITH of Lewistown Last seen: Sept. 23, 1989, northeast of Lewistown. Gender: Female. Blrthdate: July 30, 1909. Age when disappeared: 80.

Age now: 85. Contact: Fergus County Sheriff Gene Couch, 538-3415. Dorothy Smith was last seen Sept. 23, 1989, about three-fourths of a mile from where her broken-down car was discovered on a dirt road in Lime Kiln Canyon in the Judith Mountains about eight miles northeast of Lewistown. Smith, 80 at the time, had been traveling with her 92-year-old brother-in-law, Ervin Smith, when the 1975 Ford LTD broke down.

He was found alive in the car by some dirt- Youth Camp passed through Ronan the night Kerrigan disappeared, later kidnapping and raping a young woman in The two denied any involvement in Kerrigan's disappearance, suid Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich. On July 22, 1984, the day after Kerrigan's clothes were found, 18-ycur-old Reed Nevins killed a 4 1 -year-old woman in her Poison home. He had been in Ronan the night Kerrigan disappeared. Nevins was questioned, but also denied involvement, Geldrich suid. NANCY LYNN KIRKPATRICK of Columbia Falls Last seen: April 21, 1976, in Kalispcll.

Gender: Female. Blrthdate; Jan. 25, 1960. Age when disappeared: 16. Age now: 34.

Contact: Whitefish Police Det. Sgt. Dan Voelker, 862-2521. Relatives and police thought Nancy Kirkpatrick had run away again when she disappeared April 21, 1976. But this time, the teen never resurfaced, leading authorities to suspect foul play.

Kirkpatrick was from a broken home and was living with her grandmother in Columbia Falls at the time. She was a chronic runaway. Authorities would track her down in places as fur away as Los Angeles and Seattle, retrieve her, lock her up for a day (that was the norm then) and let her go back to her grandmother's, from where she'd eventually take off, said Whitefish Police Det. Dan Voelker. The last time she was released from custody in Kalispcll to return to her grandmother's, she never arrived, he said.

"We had no clues nothing," said Voelker, who inherited the case in 1980, when it was four years old. The trail was cold until May 1983, when a grade-school teacher of Kirkpatrick's claimed to have spotted her in the Frontier Bar in Anchorage, Alaska. Voelker said Alaska state troopers investigated, including a check of the bar, but "we could never come up with anything." JOSEPH HUNYADI of Dayton Last seen: Feb. 15, 1981, in Dayton, 20 miles north of Poison. Gender; Male.

Blrthdate: Dec. 1, 1936. Age when disappeared: 44. Age now: 57. Contact: Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich, 883-4321.

Joseph Hunyadi, who a half-year earlier had moved to Dayton from Lancaster, packed up and left his home Feb. 15, 1981, according to the people with whom he'd been living. "He or his vehicle has never been seen since," said Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich. Hunyadi and his sister and brother-in-law, of Lancaster, were in the process of selling a piece of land at Lolo and had been planning to close the deal in mid-March, Geldrich said. They had been talking over the phone regularly until mid-February, Geldrich said, reading from the investigative report.

Hunyadi was living with a woman and her teen-aged son, the sheriff said. They told authorities that Hunyadi packed his belongings and left on Feb. 15 and that was the last they'd seen of him, Geldrich said. Hunyadi never sought a new driver's license, and no activity was detected in his JOHN PATRICK KERRIGAN of Ronan Last seen: July 20, 1984, in Ronan. Gender: Male.

Blrthdate: Jan. 10, 1926. Age when disappeared: 58. Age now: 68. Contact Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich, 883-4321.

The Rev. John Patrick Kerrigan, a Catholic priest, vanished two days after his transfer from Plains to Ronan's Sacred Heart parish. Parishoners reported him missing after he failed to show up for weekend services. He was last seen the night of July 20, 1984, at a Ronan bakery, where he had stopped on his way home from jogging. Kerrigan's clothes were found July 21, 1984, along state Highway 35, three miles northeast of Poison on the east shore of Flathead Lake.

His shirt was stained with his own blood. A $100 bill was tucked in a pocket. His 1976 Chevrolet Impala was found eight days later parked in a swale just outside the Poison city limits. The car had spots of blood on the interior. In the trunk, police found a bloody pillow and shovel and a small cardboard box containing a wallet with hundreds of dollars.

The car keys were found in a field about 30 yards from the car. Authorities found no links with the disappearance of an Episcopal priest in southwest Montana two years earlier. Kerrigan and the other missing priest, the Rev. James Anderson of Townsend, were friends, having worked in White Sulphur Springs at the same time earlier in their careers. Kerrigan's case has been featured on NBC's television program, "Unsolved Mysteries," which focused on possible connections with the unsolved murder of another priest, Reynoldo Rivera, who was shot near Santa Fe, N.M., in 1982.

Two escapees from the former Swan River It's easy to getTHE BLUE? when you run a small business. 'Jt A 4 1 MEGAN GlNEVICZ of Colorado Last aeen: April 29, 19K0, east of St. Ignatius. Gender: Female. BlrthdatotJan.

12, 1978. Age when disappeared: 2. Ago now: 16. Contact: Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich, 883-4321; William Ginevicz (father), 303-635-9204; Sgt. Jeff Hendry, Boulder, Sheriffs Department, 303-446-3613.

Two-year-old Megan Ginevicz wandered off early in the afternoon of April 29, 1980, while playing with her brother outside a house in a thickly forested valley east of St. Ignatius and hasn't been seen since. Local authorities figure the toddler drowned in a nearby creek or was snatched by a grizzly bear or mountain lion. But her father, William Ginevicz of Loveland, believes she was abducted and could be alive today, a teenager with a new identity. "I can't give up.

Somebody took my kid, and I'm going to catch him, sooner or later," he told a reporter in his hometown this spring. More recently, he told Lee Newspapers that financial limitations and failing health are preventing him from aggressively trying to find his daughter. Megan was in Montana with her mother, Dona Smith, now of Nederland, Colo. Smith's marriage with William Ginevicz had failed, and she had gone to work as a nanny for a couple at a home eight miles east of St. Ignatius in exchange for room and board.

As she wrapped up chores Tuesday afternoon, she left Megan to play outside with her brother, Joseph. When Megan wandered off, Joseph told their mother, who couldn't find the child, Ginevicz said. Hundreds of searchers were aided by dogs and helicopters but hampered by rain and snow as they scoured the rugged terrain for a week before giving up. Not a shred of clothing or any sign of attack was turned up, said Lake County Sheriff Joe Geldrich. "It's a real Geldrich, adding that he figures foul play would have been obvious.

William Ginevicz said he received an anonymous phone call in 1984 from a woman who told him to stop looking for Megan, that she now belonged to a spiritual movement. He also noted a rumor that a little girl matching Megan's description was seen being loaded onto a plane at a nearby landing strip and flown off. CURTIS A. HOLMEN of Missoula Last seen: July 22, 1984, in Missoula. Have we got a line for you.

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