Update on Joseph Duncan

UPDATE............the FBI announced yesterday that they have a single finger print connecting Joseph Duncan to the April 4, 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez..... So..... I was right....!!!! I really thought that Duncan matched the composite.....and that with him possibly being in the area........ it was a GOOD bet he was the perp!!!!! I am VERY glad I sent along that tip!!!


The following is ALL SPECULATION...... thinking out loud if you will....... I am looking into missing/abducted children and those that stand out.... I have listed below.... First the problem with missing teenaged children.... MANY if not MOST are listed as runaways..... not always the case.... but because this is the MAIN reason that teens disappear.... police often classify teens as runaways.... unless there is CLEAR initial evidence of something more sinister..... These three jumped out at me when I was researching missing children/murders that may be associated with Joseph Duncan.... the man being held in the Groene kidnap/murders.

Patrick Wayne Mello...... missing from Needles, CA.... disappeared on July 28, 1995..... listed as endangered missing........MAY be a runaway.... no information is available beyone the poster (no news reports)....... he was 13 at the time... 4'6" and 100 lbs...... missing from Needles, CA with from San Francisco is 555.6 miles from Needles..... 8 hours. 32 minutes.... it is adjacent to Mojave National Preserve....and quite near the Nevada state line.... hmm... first Anthony Martinez.... found in Joshua Tree.... disappeared from Beaumont 457.3 miles 7 hours 2 minutes from San Francisco.... NOTE........the SIZE of Patrick......he may not have LOOKED 13

Jack Daniel Phillips..... missing from Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, CA........ August 6, 1995 age at time of disappearance 9...4'0".....72 lbs.......last seen in the Aspen Glen Picnic grounds in the city of Big Bear Lake ...at around 5:00 - 5:30 pm........ Big Bear Lake, CA is 474.6 miles from San Francisco, CA....... 7 hours 18 minutes....... How ever if Duncan is responsible and in the Los Angeles area it is only 98.0 miles from LA to Big Bear Lake and drive time is approximately 1 hour 52 minutes.........

Notice above...... that Patrick Wayne Mello is ALSO gone missing on July 28, 1995..... it is 220.7 miles from Needles, CA........ US 40 goes from one place to the other..... and it is ONLY 96.1 miles to Joshua Tree National Park from Big Bear Lake, CA. So you have two youngsters missing within 220.7 miles of each other between Friday, July 28,1995 and Sunday August 6, 1995.... never to have been seen again.....

Manuel Mendez missing from Modesto, CA..... disappeared on December 22, 1996 listed as endangered missing.... he was last known to have been seen playing at the Tulumne River near his home on Shiloh Rd. LE fear he either fell into the river.... or was kidnapped..... Modesto, CA.... is 91.5 miles 1 hour 45 minutes...... from San Francisco....... the closest State Park..... is Yosemite National Park..... which from Modesto is..... 75 miles away.... Notice that this is CHRISTMAS time.... Shiloh Rd, is a short distance from US 5.... There is also a small park nearby........Laird Park...... it is of indeterminate size....... but is bordered by the Tulumne River..... surrounded is more like it.... where the road j16 is one border....... the river the other.... with just a small stretch on the East End that does not have anything on it's boundary...........Could Duncan have been visiting his father in CA at the time???