26-year-old Johnathan Lee Hamilton left his home in Houston, Texas on May 2, 2015. Two days later, he showed up a couple hours away in the town of Bastrop, Texas. He abandoned his vehicle in a Best Buy parking lot, it had run out of gas. Several people in the town of Bastrop, including police, interacted with Johnathan that day and then he simply vanished without a trace. In this first part of Johnathan’s story, we’re going to dig into the days leading up to his disappearance up until the last time that he was reportedly seen on May 4th.
If you have not listened to Part 1, please listen to that first! Join me for Part 2 where we dig a bit deeper into this case. Where is Johnathan?
If you have any information about the disappearance of Johnathan Lee Hamilton, you can send tips on Facebook through Johnathan Lee Hamilton Missing or you can contact the Bastrop Police Department at (512) 332-8600 or (512) 332-8603 or you can even mail it to them anonymously at 104 Grady Tuck Ln, Bastrop, TX 78602.
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And I had a week and I will always believe that people lie to either hide o covers things up.
people, adults and walk away. Quite often, and just
the off the face of the earth
at mental illnesses. I've read that people
people and many others. Mental illnesses disappear for years. Sometimes there
never say again, sometimes it several here
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twenty six year old, Jonathan Hamilton left his home in houston, texas on may second, two thousand and fifteen. Two days later he made
tat with the bastrop police. After the vehicle he was driving, ran out of gas in the best buy parking lot. He somehow maybe
your property a little over a mile away where he made contact with several people. One of these peoples, supposedly
he's Jonathan a ride back into the town of backdrop and after that Jonathan vanished
never been seen again, I spend so much.
Time, trying to make sense of these stories so that their easy for you to follow along with, but this one none of it adds up. Who
Can you believe when stories are conflicting and constantly changing, has time clouds
people's memories or
reason for them to be hiding the truth. The most import,
question here is: where is Jonathan
I'm- and this is episode- ninety six of the vanished part. Two of
Jonathan hamilton story,
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Time line since I know that may have been a few days since you ve heard part one in the weak leading up to
jonathan disappearance. He was taken to the hospital twice by ems due to complications of his diabetes.
and on the second he left home and went to the store where he got a coke for his dad and a starbucks coffee for his little sister when he returned
from the store he took off, he had the family dog in the car, but he let the dog.
I and yelled to his dad that he better get the dog before got run over. This is the last time,
that is family ever saw him, then, on the fourth, he popped up a couple hours away in basque texas,
we pulled into a parking spot in front of a best, buy parking crooked in a handicap spot. Someone called the police to report a suspicious person in the parking lot and that's when the bastrop police made contact with a person that they believe was Jonathan, although they only asked his birthday name to confirm this
Due to conflicting statements, we can't really kneel down a time, but at some point after
nothing's interaction with law enforcement. He shut up at a property, that's about one,
miles away from where he left the vehicle. He spoke descent.
people while he was there an election.
He told them tat. He had travelled up the colorado river on a canoe but had lost his orders.
this is when a man justin who had been there.
Working on a jeep offered to give Jonathan right back into town. He supposedly too.
on earth into a walmart where he purchase
the twenty dollar visa gift card, bananas and coffee. Then he took him to it.
go back and bought him, some food he's others
listen started, acting normal again after eating, some tacos just had to go back to the property that they had come from to get his tools,
the two agreed to meet up again at eleven thirty p m that night in front of taco cabana justin
you said that when he came back at eleven thirty p m Jonathan? Wasn't there he waited ten minutes? And then,
seated to drive around backdrop looking for him
He has told Jonathan mom angie that he slept in his vehicle waiting for jonathan come back when Jonathan was with justin, he called his ex girl.
and from just and phone, and claim that
he'd been robbed. She tried to
Hence the number back but received a response in spanish, like the person couldn't understand english Jonathan also called his parents twice from justin's phone.
One of the major discrepancies in this story are the times adjusted remembers these calls happening and the times that John,
since family remembers, receiving calls the first phone call
His parents remember receiving on their way to backdrop while it was still light out, but just in and the other p
who encounter Jonathan other property? Claim they
an encounter him until after dark. So how could
nothin of called his parents while it was daylight from justin's phone if he hadn't yet met just in the second phone call in question
in her said the jonathan caught his parents at night before they parted ways, but jonathan
Parents, remember that call coming in the following morning on the fifth between nine and eleven a m. A lot of
who have listened apart. One have contacted me or comment that you think the way these people handle Jonathan, showing up was odd, that you wouldn't be so quick to get into a car with a guy who just showed up at your door.
The EU may have been more likely to notify the police and your neighbors
now we all he knows situations differently, but I too find it odd in part
one. You heard a clip of a police interview with the people who live at that property. In that clip the detail
ass, the one man if he had followed just and jonathan into town, that night
as said to the guy down in the store where he was asking for help and everything cause. I need adjusting to go in case. He didn't have friends or whatever. I wanted to stay here, to protect my wife and my sister yeah
did you call my just following followed a little bit in the town?
dont, remember, remember saying here that area.
While I was reviewing jonathan file, I came across a statement that was given to the police by the sister of the man. You just heard that clip
was there that night too. She stated that she never personally spoke to Jonathan
because her father didn't want a strange man knowing that there was a woman on the property. She remembered that just in debt
give Jonathan ride back into town and that her brother
behind, in his car, at a distance, to make sure that
nothing was ok she's other just
And her brother returned to the property around nine p m, but she wasn't so sure about the time, only sure that it was after dark, I'm not sure what to make of that myself,
You would think that if you were concerned enough to follow someone, they would remember following them, but maybe I'm wrong. That's just another:
version of the story to keep in mind now
We like to introduce you to another person who, at one time,
to have seen Jonathan that night, but has since changed his story. This person is one of jonathan extended
We members- and you told me about this- family member and her interactions with him that have made her question his story theirs
a family member involved and like a dummy I reached out to this family member, because
While he is come to our house is called the ask how to fix cars, he showed that we will
without a warning or notice just any time for the past over thirty years, and so the last that we heard
was that the family member lived near backdrop, and so I reached out and called the family member after the police told me that they could not hold Jonathan, and I asked him if he could go there and say would Jonathan until we got there any said. Yes, what I did it no law.
Forced. My claims that they made contact with a family member and had made arrangements with family member for him to come and jonathan up.
the family member didn't say anything about any call from any police, he told us that he went with Jonathan across the her way to the day were and ass the family member gear. Thank my dad would like a ford truck
Dodge truck mind you now Jonathan doesn't have any money. Jonathan has been disabled since before he was twenty, two yourselves
Jonathan never had any employment and job and has never lived by himself taking care of himself ass. He spoke
born every job and went missing. We had several communications with the family member. At one point he asked me the job and have them in china was Jonathan suffering from some type of infection in his blood, and I said what any said. Yes, my wife had something
that and it cannot make some a little cookie- and I said no and then he wanted to know if Jonathan was suffering from malnutrition- and I said no,
And today the family member, he says he never saw our sun and I'm gonna tell you that when we came back home and we had those cucumbers
I shouldn't we didn't hear from him anymore. He never once called to say hey. Did you hear from Jonathan hey the job and get back home? Ok, nothing!.
When law enforcement officials spoke to this man, he said that he had spoken to Jonathan that night and had agreed to come pick him up. But when he arrived, Jonathan was gone. He spoke with Jonathan S.
second time from justin's phone and johnny
allegedly told him the story about wandering onto this property and how justin
helped him out by getting him some food when they spoke this second time job,
and also told him that just and would be driving him asked him and he would meet up
this family member there, the fall,
one just in case
this family member and let him know and when he went back to get Jonathan. He was gone.
One thing that really stands out a strange and conflicting and its, even though
By the backdrop, police in jonathan file as being I'm was that
his family member was able to describe what Jonathan was wearing the shirt that had
give it to him that night by justin, yet he now
I use a he never saw him. There is
the thing that possibly ties as family members to join in that night, and she told me
some strange item she later found in the envoy. We found the it look like some kind of garbage staff in the back of the vehicle.
one of them was like a vinyl cardholder. Later I found out the postman
at belong to and ask them to them in the mail. I I contacted them. I told them that it was in a car. I dont know how it that, where that I would like to return it to them and so
the the the person gave me their address and I have sent it back to them earlier,
and she mentioned the story that the family member had told about being at the car dealership with Jonathan. When he asked what kind of truck he thought his dad would want. Well, there is a car dealership right across the street from the best buy. It's called covert, chevrolet
on may forth, which is the day. The Jonathan was last seen a bastard covert shovel,
reported a burglary of a vehicle that was parked on their lot? Some personal items were taken from this vehicle.
these are believed to be the strange items that Angie later found like the business cardholder. That within itself is odd. Why would you break into a card to steal a business cardholder
But nothing of monetary value, so this family,
were placed himself at the cardio ship in the parking lot with Jonathan. But later on
the story. Then
from a car that was broken into at that dealership end up in the envoy. It's really strange! Isn't it when Jonathan parents weren bastards,
For four hours trying to get the envoy running
family member state, with them for all of those hours.
Is behaving in a way that now, in hindsight, Angie fines to be quite strange, they drove out of periodic
we don't know where he went to or for what reason, but it was more
more often than you would think, for a restaurant break.
when this family member left that evening, he was involved in an auto accident. Angie has
who always worried about this
When I was told about the accident I called law enforcement, and I was crying- and I was very upset-
And I told them I said he'd better, not have run over my phone or killed my son and I'll tell you. I dont know what to think. I dont know what to believe. None of this matter,
and even though we can see major inconsistencies in this family members story law enforcement.
I believe that he needs to be looked into any further.
always variations in little story. Spry
and so away as usual. There there's variations, but there is nothing flat out play in that way, basically indicate any kind of foul play from what he told us in the interview and kind of
that consistency with. Ah what justin's told us and the other people that we interviewed from the property and and
what you're saying.
They also don't believe that just in story needs we examined further either. I was
For at least there to know
possibly this just fella could have been
what's american and take all the doubt that I have in my hand out
Paragraph two years: look when what is really works to this day,
he has no. He has no history of mental health issues
It's only then that he has no history. That interests me tell ya. I called him, and then I communicated with him about this.
Yeah ain't
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Strange thing happened. Jonathan parents found some blood and the envoy that he had been driving. I would like
tell you that when the officer came to our home and cut it out before he left, he told us that it would take a long time for the results to come back and ah about a month later, when we went to.
the meeting? I think they notified me by email before the meeting, but they call me that
it came back. There was animal blood there without the insane
nobody in in the family, I'm hot or anything I'll. Just tell you that the tests that was wrong, there's too
What kind of test in my memory is really bad, but there's one type, a test that I take. That is not one hundred percent. I believe that that is the test that was run on evidence they got out of the car. There is
another test that cost a lot of money, and we were told that they did not have the funds the police department.
They did not have the funds for that kind of testing.
even though jonathan family can't think of any reason that there may have been animal blood in the car, the backdrop police department
has come up with some ideas. It's crazy to me. It's totally crazy
about the animal blood. The detective mentioned to me. Animal sacrifice a called devil that she also mention suicide and, if I was not so upset during that meeting,
what I said: ok, worse his body, the ranger said he didn't know why she said those things. One question that keeps
up is whether or not Jonathan could be living among the homeless. Now anything
as possible, but there are some things that make me question that we know the job.
I was having major health issues. He had just been hospitalized.
And many people who had encountered em on that last day described him as being
an altered mental state. Now we don't know
This was due to blood sugar issues or bipolar disorder, or even both in the two
a few years since he's been missing is possible
he's been able to take care of himself well enough that he hasn't popped up somewhere. We know
Jonathan didn't leave with a significant amount of money on him, and
You told me that insulin is very expensive. I will tell you that employment is not cheap. If you go and buy the ones you can buy over the counter without a prescription, you're still talking about sixty dollars for the two insulin, that's not counting the syringes. That's not counting ugly commoner or blood strips diabetes is a very, very
expensive, the these two hat, but unless somebody has money, I don't see how anyone could disappear off the face of the earth attacks, a stranger,
Attended the meeting that we had- and he told me he it looks like jonathan- walked away, but then turned around and says: do I noticed something bad didn't happen? No, I do not. I am what I was told about the homeless
community has places set up where people can go and not give their name and get free insulin and supply. That's what I was told.
One of the things I looked into pretty heavily is, I was trying to track him through is how would you
somebody that is in need of insulin and try to track down, and you can
If you can't you can't, but then the one thing that I came across was the amount of services or programs that offer free insulin to individuals and all they have to do is walk in and ask for it, and
Was kind of the one thing what I'm looking at it thinking well the opportunity for him to recover medical. They are seeking
aid it it's there if he doesn't want to be on the grid.
It's not like he's completely cut off. My hope is that this is what
on, but in reality was jonathan in a play
mentally and physically that he would have had the right.
Sources, define these charities. Another
See that I have a jonathan being homeless is how has it
not to avoid law enforcement for so long, just
take the day that he was last seen alone, he pulled into a best, buy
parking lot and immediately someone called and reported him a suspicious. I guess what I'm trying
say here is how can someone,
people notice that someone is acting strange or suspicious and then prove third, on one thing that I consider
is that maybe people were noticing him because he was in a small town. But what, if he's
bigger city now, where the homeless go unnoticed. Here is a club of the backdrop,
least discussing how often the homeless and austin get identified by the police we would
that, eventually within two and a half years that india be identified now I want to ask any other day. Not just
I gave a homeless guy. Five dollars is hey man. Can we talk for a second, I said: how often is a pd identify you, and he said about once every two years and
because he was camping on other arm now tail off I've, thirty five, which
we are pretty nice hotel, so they calling, but it sounds to me than they kind of stay under the bridge is innate. Do not panhandle the apron gives a mess with your pal. I just doesn't happen in our data.
Time of it,
at close to the count of how many homeless people yeah that's correct, yeah, so that's that's kind of
The battle is, but we don't know, word job
that- and we just don't know, we'd love if we could find out where he was at, we would just say we're we're done. You know he doesn't want to be around you or he doesn't want to do this or something like that, but we haven't been able to close it because we just can't find out where he's at and the other thing is. As far as from a police department perspective we have to, we can listen to me. I mean ultimately, what we're looking at here legally still have to she's still a victim considered a victim or somebody who's missing.
I still follow up and hopefully find her or her son, or at least assist her in finding her son
another family has made trips to ask them to look for dorothy in breaking up homeless, awake.
Before we went to the meeting with law enforcement by finally decide
let us put a flyer at o, my son and its libelled attempt to locate and underneath my son's picture if those may be living homeless and often, and so when we went to that meeting a week later, I was helpful. I thought possibly that they had some type of lead that would make them put that out there for the public, and when I asked about it I was told it was put out.
here because often is the nearest big coun. To best there were no late. We have got a couple of leads fighting that arsenals and often.
And I will tell you that we have loaded up in the car.
And we have gone down there and it's it. I was in shell shock. There is a huge homeless community down there and I have walked the streets with posters with my cell phone with pictures, I have approached homeless people, I've gone in soup kitchens, I've gone in churches that serve breakfast to the homeless. On saturday, I have gone to service centers for homeless. I have gone to mental health facilities. I have gone to Austin state hospital
and filled out, paperwork inquiring as too. If my son could be there, we ve done is my husband suffers from heart issues. I have health issues and we ve done this several times and nobody claims that they have all Jonathan.
I almost got robbed underneath the freeway, where they had a gathering to feed the homeless people. I got out of my car to get a cannon soda out of the ice chest in the trunk, and a man came upon. His bicycle
And my husband hollered it made to get my, but in the car that guy was fixin to try to rob me. I was tired. I wasn't paying attention. I was just trying to fun fun,
Angie worries that if he is out there somewhere what kind of state
May he be in two and a half years later, due to his health issues
These out there alive he's, probably in wash shape than I can even imagine, with both possibly partial or permanent mental impairment, and god knows what kind of emotional
he could be in because he know who he is, and I called the hospital for weeks after he went missing. I called r e m t I called morgues. I called medical examiners asking about John doe's or another
by an and nobody ever ever, you know said Harry somebody's here
And his dad- and I both submitted our dna and it's been completed and it's been entered into the system was always a possibility.
And he doesn't believe that Jonathan would have gone this long without making some kind of contact with his family. I can't see my child
even and going to live homework on the street. Jonathan dad has said that he believes its possible,
the family member may have promised Jonathan Jonathan some great something and Jonathan took off there. But the truth is we don't know, but my husband knows: have a family member has done other people. I think my son, without worse than somewhere and had his his mind and had decided to go with this life to just walk away. I think that he would have contacted us some. Why,
hasn't Jonathan loved. This little sister. She told her dad the other day daddy. We don't have fun anymore, because Jonathan gone. What do you say? What do you say almost days when you do good to barely function, a close, the stress and the worry has done so much to you. What do you say about trying to be apparent parent to this little girl that we love, and it's almost like- it's not fair to her because were not able to give her our best she's suffering, because her brothers gone
And our parents are suffering because her brothers gone I'd like to dig a little deeper into what jonathan mental state may have been leading up to his disappearance. The bastard pleased about.
And believes that most likely walked away to live within the homeless community. They have come to this conclusion
based on some Jonathan actions. But
If some of these actions were signs are jonathan, was desperately in need of help about a month before he disappeared. He started making some bizarre comments on facebook. Some of these comments went unnoticed for quite some time because he had an account.
No one knew about some of what he wrote seemed relatively normal for twenty six year old guy, but others
seemed more like religious ramblings. Here's one post from April, ninth, two thousand and fifteen-
Wherefore art, thou emmanuel, I believe he's up above he looks like blue cheese
may know he by Jesus. I miss my half brother, won't hear
Save me. He promised me, I hope, by art forsaken, for what I have did. I hope you
the same love for me as I do he. I would let him,
spur in my lowest of laws and highest of highs and all between he's my backbone and my feet he's my way
soon I shall had east or west until I'm home, I do not
long here I went back to the kingdom.
I shall die on my travel before I sit still and burn in hell a k a here he had better be
my shield and protect me from all evil. I need him for
anything that of a challenge to me and nothing is much of a challenge to me. G J, H, three peace
Other post that he made have led law enforcement to believe that he wanted to fall off the grid opposed from April. Third, two thousand and fifteen says lost.
phone ain't even worried about it, see me in person
Dont see me at all on my second.
which is the day they initially went missing, but before he shut.
Then vast, rob he posted a picture of what looks like someone cooking, a pot full of food and it
as hobo. Johnny loves fish, not bad for a homeless guy.
So maybe Jonathan did have a desire to leave his life behind for one reason or another, but
This a well thought out plan or part of a delusion assignment,
Jonathan was in need of help. Then maybe
His mental health was deteriorating. The posts that Jonathan,
and made referencing religion may tie in with something that he reportedly said to two of the witnesses and backdrop on the fourth.
review of the case are exhausted. All eve did it
are you there are some thought he was Jesus.
It is I'm not doubting that he may have some mental problems, but I'm just
Some account I was displayed was not display easier to deal. They did they.
It was a danger. He was a danger to herself or anybody else.
Jonathan stating that he was Jesus and the facebook post have let alone foresman and his family to wonder if he could have left to join some religious group or cult.
it is to say if he was
abused or maybe he was even sergeant for herself. I wonder
if he decided to.
I got some new religion. You know that that maybe.
We are not aware of
I pointed out cancer crazy step, but those crazy.
things could very well be true and ethnic.
I mean I've wondered most of the same things. When I've looked at the case, I wondered about if you become any kind of
converted to any kind of different religions. I mean just from indications of him, saying that he was Jesus. You nothin
like that end,.
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One of the people who Jonathan encountered a vast rob has told law enforcement the journal
and told him the he just wanted to get away.
Now the one thing that he didn't relay, I guess
when we interviewed one of the people is, as he was trying to get away from his life.
And that was one of the things he said his life from his life.
basically wanted to get away
He was running away, trying to leave behind his life. Now
I don't know how it meant that how events it some of the speakers-
people didn't know they just
during the interview said that that's what he relate to them, so
could have been his life personally. Airy could, in fact.
We life, we just don't know, and that's kind of why you know it wasn't
and food, a kind of come in as well and elaborate a little that for us, because we don't know,
we don't know what he was trying to get away from,
but there are some I
he hung railway as it was implies that he fell. I've always wanted to get away from his personal budgets completely leaving that can be tracked,
now now at least may who the hell is it.
yet another worry that Jonathan family has struggled with is even if he intentionally took off with his physical and mental state.
What? If he wandered into the woods or into the river there, ve never
in any organise searches of the area law enforcement won't conduct any sir.
Is an angel is try to get places. I texas echo search involved, but she hasn't had any luck. I've been told that my son is not in their coun. My husband has been told that my son is not in the colorado river. How do they know these? Thanks and shortly after Jonathan went missing an area had good beer, flooding to wear the rivers were coming up on the peoples, property and roads were flooded. Land was flooded for
an excessive amount of time. I dont understand how they could say: Jonathan, not in the river
I don't know how they can say. Jonathan, not in backdrop.
during a meeting with law enforcement andrey asked if they thought Jonathan,
We in the river
You know we had all those floods. You know
he doesn't sound like he's an incapable person ever I mean he just doesn't it
sounds like he's very capable of doing what he wanted to do on his own terms
are speculating where he could be. I really I couldn't I can tell you I can tell you: is
You still aston in colorado in florida. Georgia can tell you that, but as far as his capable nest
seems like he was had the ability to take care of himself. He might be mexico
then a book, but I take the necessary steps- have been taken your job, you given dna. That way. If, for some reason you know his remains were found in,
is there which our? I personally, that don't I don't years he is. I think I think his was a fall off the grid
lives law by seven people, no reserves, but for some reason it
you know you didn't want also aware and die a blow butchers and why there
if it remains were found there,
if dna you're gonna take the necessary steps to submit the unity because s death was
that's what the council remains over
called you now. That is the reality.
in the database. It'll be ran against that, though
be imagined, but the signal
air, like a said yours will have your job is to point we're all forces on the actual. Ever they can do
to locate a body
more than a takes steps.
The dna to help out for things proceed in the future,
maybe in sixty children, extent yeah, so
If your heart's not totally understand that cause, I'm cause, I'm I'm a pump a period to under threatens and to me we have visits
cases monet easier. We still had never found his people
There are people that will never ever be found
I think. As long for me, we have done everything we can.
this person of their life. This this I felt like review the case. I think that's all he has done
it was I mean they would about those things and, lastly, to assist him
We will check the employment records they work,
It was a way is anywhere and recently
mental institutions around the state that was one of our questions but because of astern state hospital bed down the road, could somebody have failed? He alter altered mental stay
put it there and we felt the same thing and I subpoenaed their medical records.
It's not either that's the thing. If he's using some, please send a new identity. All we can share his name, we know, but
if he's a single entity with it, we may I, though,
there's no way of african him down. Unless he access is a bank account and eat is created in his neighbor, so topical,
I to be receiving. That is on the way you'd ever honey.
If he's a sense of other data. That is no way for law enforcement
It's really perceive that leave cause. We don't we don't have. We don't have there's no telling what they need. He can be used at this point.
Tito, as this is almost killed me
I made literally almost centres polly.
I mean you're doing exactly what any her. What do I mean you causing? I know you guys
flew to the inner probably making yet making you set
Tell you that this, the the database, that we answered jonathan into the missing person, one about
six months ago. I recovered a person that was missing. It had been sixteen years all because of that data base.
Sixteen years is a long time that was in the nineties, in the information was nowhere near as curve sophisticated is today, but it does.
Eventually, work at some point sort is trying to locate somebody but, as apparent, I think what you're doing as far as giving the dna and contacting the media
If Jonathan is out there living among the homeless or if he perished in the river or in the woods, it doesnt explain all of the conflicting stories that have been told.
This is what I mean when I say: nothing quite adds up completely in this case. Maybe people are just
remembering things wrong or maybe not. What do I think
happened jonathan, I honestly don't know, but I
would argue that when he left he wasn't enough.
go or mental state to properly care for himself or make rational decisions, sometimes when we look,
cases like this. We try to make sense of things rationally, but when the
and is an acting rationally. It's very hard to wrap our brains around what they may have been thinking or doing, there's something
happened: Jonathan family, that I'd like to mention it's not something. That's gonna help us solve this case, but is something
Happened to several families that have spoken too. I think it's important to put this information out. There
Other families are missing, listen to the show and just being aware of this could save.
some other families, the heart ache, the Jonathan hamley has gone through. I was sent these two pictures the few weeks ago,
They had a man in a chair, blindfolded would take overs mail
and they were holding a gun to the back of the man he had. I was sent these pictures. They told me they had my son, I'm good.
I tell you now that I'm calmed down and the shock is over. I don't believe it's my son, I'm, but wanting five hundred dollars in itunes cards, I called the f b. I I was
To go to my local police, my by wishes to dig in away when I was talking to the plate with a horrid messages, and I was told that I have a right to protect myself and then I was told to contact bass, drop police department. The detective answered my email back, and he said this is a scam. They ve been happening. The people in your circumstance. Ok, so then my point
and I didn't ask Libya is if you know this is a scam, and you know that at least one of these individuals, but tell me up on this
nigeria, why haven't they ve been stop? Stop him, put a stop to it where they can. You know what it is. It's my word: sport, its emotional terrorism, I've heard of people losing their homes. I've heard all kinds of horror stories. I'll tell you,
An end somebody may say it different. The way that I took it hurt me really bad because I would be willing to be
Anything I have to have my son back, but the fact that there's all these colours and stuff and I've heard all these people- that's been ripped off from money and life's savings and bore a one k plan and all this stuff. The boastful pleased,
did investigate this and, as Angie said, these messages were coming from nigeria. Unfortunately, there isn't much at the backdrop please,
Farming can do about scammers in nigeria, but I do feel like making the pub
aware of these scams could help prevent others from being scammed as well. I am sure that we could all report these scam accounts
facebook all day long and they would just create new accounts people who are dealing with
Heartache of having a missing love, one should not have to deal with this nonsense on top of it. At this point in time, Jonathan case has been suspended, which doesn't mean that,
closed. They just believe that they run down all the leeds and there's nothing left to investigate. He still consider.
Sang and is listed in all the appropriate databases. Having his case suspended
left Jonathan hamley wondering how they will ever find him. If no one is actively looking for him law enforcement.
Angie that her best bet is. I he'll get picked up by law enforcement somewhere.
So what is your best bet is that he is picked up and he's arrested than he's held,
that's all I've ever gonna know if he's a lack right. That's probably the
whether if he doesn't want to be found by you are located relative to the families, but he's not going to he's not going to pop open. If, if, if isn't he
disappear from knowledge. I that's not biggest was isn t, it was just leave
unless what they own. That's. Why was look it that this case then the gap
This will be a cave required to be arrested,
your failure. As he said to me,
walking down. Road love was comes in contact with him
they ve already
if you give the same name. Hopefully
the other idea under another name, the others,
it was a match, offer clues into it. It doesn't further research, but
But I think, like she says, muslim law enforcement contacts, most of how he's going to be he's going to be family Jonathan,
appearance has taken a huge toll on his entire family, the guests,
In the wondering is like torture that bought or endless and those thoughts of wondering what happened have about. Throw me crazy and caravan has a much younger sister who will be turning fifteen very shortly and.
She does not talk very much about this, but she asked me she says mom, do you think Jonathan could be alive and I'm
I tell you that as a mom, it's my job, no matter how, I feel, are what I think or issues that have come up a happened, that she knows nothing about. It's my job to try to protect my child, and by doing that I had said shiny job and came across a good person. He could be alive
But the truth is, I don't know that brings us to the end of episode. Ninety six in part, two of johnny
in story. If you have any information,
about the disappearance of Jonathan Lee Hamilton? You can send tips on facebook through
Jonathan Lee hamilton missing or you can,
contact the backdrop police department at five one two, three three too
six zero zero. You can
so called five one, two three three to eight six: zero. Three! You can even more
The tip in anonymously to the police department at one zero for Grady tuck lane backdrop texas, seven, eight six, zero to at the time of his disappear,
Jonathan was described as being six foot, two inches tall and wing about two hundred and ten pounds here
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and with a good looking young maiden and I'm not saying that big obama's mom.
It out there somewhere. Somebody has seen take away peoples tat you take away. Their body
you're saying: take away their habit, they're all human beings, somebody shuttle somebody or other somebody nephew, somebody, the grand on sunday,
for him, and every body belongs to somebody in it. I have both tight. They could see if my son wandered off and went to that property, or did
somebody pick him up on the road they would have more or less than what they have, but
everything that I have asked for as a model has been shut down, shut down and
so I don't know I don't know. What's gonna happen, I don't,
I think I can learn numerous here. They'll like I feel.
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