The primary case was recommended by our Patreon, Carey. It’s in regards to the disappearance of Joseph Pichler.
Joseph was finest recognized for his roles in Varsity Blues, Beethoven’s third and Beethoven’s 4th.
Joseph David Wolfgang Pichler was born on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1987 in Bremerton, Washington.
In keeping with imdb, his mom is Kathy Pichler and his siblings are Shawna, AJ and Matthew. There’s a medium.com article that claims Joseph has 4 siblings however Shawna, Matthew and AJ appear to be the one ones publicly talked about.
Joseph glided by Joe and he found his love for performing early. He landed his first position in a business for the Seattle division retailer ‘Bon Marche’ when he was six.
Kathy stated that at some point she and Joe have been watching the Academy Awards and he stated to her ‘I’m going to be there at some point, Mother.’
Joseph relocated from Bremerton to Los Angeles as a baby to pursue his performing profession. In 1996, Joseph landed a job on The Fan with Robert DeNiro and Wesley Snipes.
He appeared in lots of tv reveals together with:
Touched by an Angel
Promised Land
Lois & Clark
Within the Home
Mad TV
The final performing job that his dad and mom permitted him to do was within the comedy-drama Youngsters on Their Birthdays in 2002. His mom stated at the moment “I simply needed him to have some normalcy in his life. He’s boy and took it effectively, however he wasn’t actually blissful about it.”
‘ We all the time saved him actually grounded,’’ she stated. ‘ He’s all the time been an everyday child with a job a young person wouldn’t usually have.’’
In 2003, when Joe was round 16, his household needed to return to Bremerton, Washington. Joe went with them and he graduated from Bremerton Excessive Faculty in 2005.
Joe had braces on his enamel on the time and he informed his household that he deliberate to maneuver again to Los Angeles and resume his performing profession as soon as his dental work was full.
As soon as he turned 18, he gained entry to his belief fund and he moved into his personal residence in Bremerton, He lived throughout city from his household.
After he graduated, Joe took a full time job as a phone technician. He was additionally recognized to be experimenting with medication and alcohol, recreationally.
Joe additionally had a pet guinea pig that he adored.
On Thursday January 5, 2006, (Joe was 18 by this level), he was final heard from at 4.15am. He spoke to a pal at the moment on his mobile phone.
Joe’s automotive – a silver 2005 Toyota Corolla – was discovered on January 9, 2006 close to the intersection of Wheaton Manner and Sheridan Highway in Bremerton, half a mile from Port Madison Narrows.
Within the automotive was a be aware by which Joe wrote about wishing to be a “stronger brother’’ and asking that his belongings go to a youthful brother, his household stated. Additionally included have been a couple of poems. In keeping with imdb, Joe left behind two pages of notes.
Regardless of the seemingly suicidal be aware, a pal who noticed Joe earlier than he disappeared said that he was in good spirits on the time. That is contradicted in different experiences that say Joe was incoherent and distraught throughout the last name to his pal.
When his residence was searched, it was unlocked and the lights have been on. This was stated to be out of character for Joe.
Police theorized that Joe took his life by leaping off a bridge within the Port Madison Narrows. Authorities used canine to trace Joe’s scent, and they didn’t observe it to the bridge although.
Joe’s household stated they didn’t consider he was suicidal or depressed on the time he vanished and so they consider he could have met with foul play.
On the time of his disappearance, he was carrying a white steel Nixon The Rotolog Actual Wooden Watch on his left wrist, and probably a brown T-shirt and denims.
He has a round tattoo of a crimson Star Wars emblem on the within of his proper forearm and a small scar throughout the bridge of his nostril.
Kathy has leveled heavy criticism on the police investigation, claiming police searched his automotive and residence for ‘three minutes’ and shortly made up their minds that he had dedicated suicide.
Claims emerged from his household that traces of vomit have been discovered within the passenger seat of the automotive, and that they weren’t examined for DNA.”
Robbie Davis, the lead detective on the case, informed the Related Press that “There’s indication that it may need been a suicide, however we don’t know that,” including that there was no motive to suspect foul play. His physique has by no means been discovered.”
If he’s alive, Joe can be 38 years outdated right this moment. On the time he vanished, he was 6’2 and weighed 170lbs.
He’s allergic to mud mites, cats, canine, birds and lots of different issues discovered open air. He usually carries an albuterol inhaler for his allergic reactions, however didn’t have it with him at this disappearance.
The second case we’re going to focus on is that of Richard James Edwards, also called Richey Edwards, Richey James or Richey Manic.
Richey was a Welsh musician who was a part of the band Manic Avenue Preachers.
Richey was born on 22 December 1967. He was born and raised in Blackwood, Wales and his dad and mom have been Graham and Sherry Edwards. He had one youthful sibling Rachel. She was born in 1969. The 2 have been stated to be shut.
Rachel would later converse to GQ Journal:
It appears like a cliché nevertheless it was a really blissful household, a really blissful upbringing. I do know Richard is on report as having stated the identical factor. He was two years older than me and my overwhelming reminiscence of our childhood is that he was very supportive of me. After I was at college I used to have quite a lot of nervousness, significantly round schoolwork. After I went on to complete faculty, he’d already been there for a few years. On the finish of every day we’d stroll our canine Snoopy, I’d discuss to him about my homework and he’d assist me. He’d allay my fears, which, I suppose looking back, is ironic given the nervousness that he suffered years later.
Richey’s dad and mom have been religious Methodists and so they ran a hairdressing salon. Richey was stated to be a ‘quiet, acne-ridden child.’
Richey attended Oakdale Complete Faculty and that’s the place he met his future Manic Avenue Preachers bandmates. After he graduated from that faculty, he attended the College of Wales in Swansea and graduated in 1989 with a level in political historical past.
Richey labored initially as a roadie and a driver for the band. After he graduated in 1989, he was accepted because the band’s fourth member and most important spokesman.
Richey turned the principle lyricist for the band. He’s stated to have written about 80% of the lyrics for his or her third album ‘The Holy Bible.’
Richey suffered from extreme despair and was very open about his struggles. He frequently self-harmed – he stubbed out cigarettes on his limbs and he minimize himself. He additionally suffered from insomnia, anorexia and alcoholism.
In an article with the BBC, Richey is quoted as saying “After I minimize myself I really feel so significantly better. All of the little issues which may have been annoying me all of the sudden appear so trivial as a result of I’m concentrating on the ache. I’m not an individual who can scream and shout so that is my solely outlet. It’s all achieved very logically.”
“When it comes to the s-word,” he defined, “That doesn’t enter my thoughts. And it by no means has achieved, by way of an try. As a result of I’m stronger than that.”
In Might 1991, a journalist questioned Richey about how critical he was about his artwork and music. Richey responded by carving the phrases ‘4 Actual’ into his arm with a razor blade. The damage required 18 stitches.
Between 1993 till his disappearance in 1995, Richey had been relationship a lady named Jo Whiley. They two had an on-again, off-again relationship.
In 1994, Richey checked himself into rehab, which meant that he missed out on some promo work together with his band. In September 1994, Richey was launched from rehab and he toured with the band for what can be his last time. His final look with the band was in London on 21 December, 1994.
Richey gave his last interview to a Japanese journal on 23 January, 1995.
Richey disappeared on 1 February, 1995. He was resulting from fly to the US with a bandmate that day to advertise the band’s album. He had been staying on the Embassy Resort on Bayswater Highway in London.
Previous to at the present time, Richey had been withdrawing £200 a day from his checking account, which totalled £2,800 by the day of the scheduled flight (equal to round £5,500 right this moment – that is round $7.5k US).
The night time earlier than he vanished, Richey gave a pal a e book referred to as ‘Novel with Cocaine.
He informed his pal to learn the introduction. That a part of the e book concerned the creator staying in a psychological asylum earlier than vanishing.
Whereas Richey was nonetheless on the Embassy Resort, he eliminated some books and movies from his baggage. A duplicate of the play Equus was amongst what he took out.
Information about Equus:
Equus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer a few boy named Alan Strang who has a spiritual and sexual obsession with horses and blinds six of them. A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, is tasked with treating him, and as he delves into the boy’s thoughts, he begins to query his personal sterile, “regular” life. The play is a psychological drama that explores themes of ardour, religion, worship, and repression, mixing realism with surrealism to confront the contradictions of the human situation.
Richey positioned the belongings in a field with a be aware that stated ‘I like you.’ He wrapped up the field like a present and adorned it with photos and quotes. He addressed the bundle to his now ex-girlfriend Jo – the 2 had damaged up for good a couple of weeks prior.
On 1 February, 2005, Richey collected his pockets, automotive keys, fluoxetine (Prozac) and his passport. He checked out of the Embassy Resort at 7am. He left behind his toiletries, a packaged suitcase, a full bathtub and a few extra of his Prozac. He drove to his residence in Cardiff, Wales – round a 3 hour drive.
When he bought to his residence, he dumped his passport and his Prozac.
His dad and mom, Graham and Sherry, issued public appeals for Richey to allow them to know he was protected.
Over the following few weeks, Richey was noticed at each a passport workplace and a bus station in Newport, Wales. That is round a 30 minute drive from his residence in Cardiff.
A fan spoke with Richey at the moment. This individual was unaware that Richey was lacking. The 2 have been stated to have mentioned a mutual pal, earlier than Richey left the realm.
On 7 February, 2005, a taxi driver alleged that he picked Richey up from the King’s Resort in Newport. The motive force stated he drove Richey to a number of places, together with his hometown of Blackwood. The motive force stated that Richey spoke in a Cockney accent however would sometimes swap to a Welsh one and that he requested if he might lie down on the again seat. He additionally requested the driving force to keep away from most important roads.
When the driving force arrived on the Blackwood bus station, Richey apparently stated ‘This isn’t the place’ and requested to be taken to Pontypool prepare station. This was an extra 20 minute drive away.
The individual regarded as Richey bought out of the taxi on the Severn View Service Station in Gloucestershire and paid the £68 fare in money.
On 14 February, 2005, two weeks after he vanished, Richey’s automotive, a Vauxhall Cavalier, was ticketed on the Severn View service station. By 17 February, the automotive was reported as deserted.
Police stated that the battery of the automobile was useless and that there was proof it had been lived in.
The service station neglected the Severn Bridge, a well-known suicide spot.
The “Severn Bridge” is the unique suspension bridge crossing the River Severn between England and Wales, opened in 1966.
A toll bridge receipt was additionally discovered amongst Richey’s belongings and the timestamp indicated he was on the bridge at round 2.55am.
After no hint of Richey might be discovered, the band went on hiatus.
They resumed enjoying dwell in December 1995, virtually a yr after Richey was final seen.
In March 1997, a fan informed authorities that she had seen Richey in Goa, India at a commune. Some sightings at a market in Goa have been additionally reported.
A person additionally reported seeing Richey at a bar within the Canary Islands, and stated that ‘Richey’ fled when he was confronted.
Richey’s household refused to consider that he was useless. By 2008 although, they requested a Grant of Probate which meant that they might settle Richey’s affairs and property. His private property was valued at £455,990, which was diminished after liabilities to a web worth of £377,548 – round $500K US right this moment. The doc issued by the Probate Registry of Wales named his dad and mom as his executors and said that he had “died on or since” February 1 1995. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan police stated that although that they had retained an open lacking individual’s file on Richey, the coroner’s declaration now meant the case was closed.
By 2020, each of Richey’s dad and mom had handed away. His sister Rachel spoke to the media and stated “I’m by no means going to search out out what occurred. That’s perpetual. It’s a perpetual loss moderately than a bereavement the place you expertise a grieving course of. As I discussed earlier, each of my dad and mom are actually useless. It’s solely me left to hold on the seek for new details about what occurred to my brother.”
It’s stated that his bandmates have been putting 1 / 4 of the royalties earned by Manic Avenue Preachers in an account for him, ought to he resurface.
His bandmate Nicky Wire stated “I’ve no issues with him coming again. Coming spherical and ingesting tea like he all the time did. However with the press, I’d be very nervous for the boy.”
SOURCE LIST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pichler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richey_Edwards
https://www.imdb.com/identify/nm0681665/bio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/websites/manic-street-preachers/pages/richey.shtml
https://www.theguardian.com/friday_review/story/0,,239956,00.html
