Five days after Lance Hering went missing in Eldorado Canyon State Park, the police have called off the search and now believe the disappearance may be a hoax.
After five days of searching to no avail, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office now believes that the Marine who was lost in the mountains was never missing and may have staged his disappearance.
Lance Hering disappeared just days before he was set to return to Iraq, Denver TV station KMGH reported.
Steve Powers, Hearings friend who told the police that Hering fell and hit his head while both were rockclimbing has been arrested for providing a false story to the police.
Powers, 20, was arrested Wednesday night after he admitted during police questioning that he made up the story about the hiking accident and helped Hering stage his disappearance, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said.
“There were a number of inconsistencies in his story and as we pursued that with him in an extensive interview last night, he ultimately confessed that he and Mr. Hering had colluded in staging this whole event,” Boulder County Sheriff’s Lt. Phil West said.
(NBC6)
Sheriff Says Marine Disappearance Staged
DENVER – Authorities who spent five days searching for a Marine after a friend reported him lost in a hiking accident have arrested the friend and said Thursday they believe the disappearance was staged, so the serviceman could avoid returning to duty.
Authorities are still trying to find Hering, 21, who returned from Iraq in July and was due back at Camp Pendleton, Calif., this month.
(The Sentinel)
Marine’s friend jailed, Boulder authorities believe Iraq veteran’s disappearance staged
Steve Powers was arrested by Boulder officials for filing a false missing persons report to police. Powers admitted admitted to investigators that he made up the story because his friend did not want to return to the Marines.
BOULDER – A man arrested for filing a false police report about a missing Marine pleaded guilty in 2004 to felony burglary – a crime in which the Marine also took part.
Police, who spent five days searching for Lance Cpl. Lance Hering, said Thursday they believe his disappearance was staged so the 21-year-old Marine, who served in Iraq, could avoid returning to duty.
(Rocky Mountain News)
First Disappeared, Now a Deserter
Whether Hering has taken off to Mexico, is living off the land in the Rocky Mtn. foothills, or is just on an extended walkabout before reporting (and probably facing time in the brig) remains unclear. It’s pretty clear,though, that this is a case of the general military disaffection with the unpopular war in Iraq striking home in the person of one confused Marine.
(New West)
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Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger, 33, disappeared Tuesday after being separated from a group of
servicemen while visiting a department store in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Local police rule out a kidnapping; however, one just does not vanish from a department store.
A U.S. military spokeswoman said Thursday that nothing has been ruled out in the disappearance of an American servicewoman who vanished two days ago, even though the local police chief said she was not kidnapped.
“I rule out the theory that the U.S. citizen may have been kidnapped,” Interior Minister Murat Sutalinov told reporters. He said that police had received no demand for ransom.
However, Capt. Anna Carpenter, a spokeswoman for the U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan where Metzger is stationed, said “nothing has been ruled out.”
On Thursday The Pentagon formally declared Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger missing.
The Pentagon on Thursday formally declared Metzger missing, a status officially known as “duty status whereabouts unknown,” and disclosed that her normal duty station is Moody Air Force Base, Ga., as a member of the 347th Mission Support Squadron. It said she was on temporary duty in Kyrgyzstan but offered no other details.
(Yahoo News)
Military: Nothing ruled out in officer’s disappearance
Investigators continues to look for missing Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger. Metzger and another US servicewoman were recorded on a security camera on Tuesday afternoon as they entered a department store.
Metzger and another U.S. servicewoman were recorded on a security camera on Tuesday afternoon as they entered the TsUM department store in central Bishkek. She separated from her companion three minutes later, he said.
In the next three hours, two calls were placed to her cell phone but neither was answered; records show that the phone was in the area of Bishkek’s bus station when one call was placed, but was in another neighborhood for a later call, Jangarayev said.
(Air Force Times)
Jill Metzger Update: Kyrgyz Police Consider All Angles
“Police are considering all angles in the case of the missing officer, including personal reasons,” a service spokesman said.
After examining the department store’s videotapes and a list of the officer’s cell phone calls, investigators established that she spent about 10 minutes in the store before leaving through the central entrance. She then made two local calls before her phone was switched off at 8 p.m. local time.
(Post Chronicle)
BREAKING: U.S. Air Force major found Alive in Kyrgyzstan
Thank God, Maj. Jill Metzger was found alive. Her family must be overwhelmed with joy.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – A U.S. Air Force officer who disappeared earlier this week in Kyrgyzstan was found alive and returned to the American air base in this Central Asian nation, a U.S. military official said early Saturday.
Maj. Jill Metzger, 33, was located by Kyrgyz law enforcement agents in Bishkek, the capital, where she had last been seen before vanishing during a shopping excursion Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. base at Bishkek’s airport, Capt. Anna Carpenter, told The Associated Press.
Metzger was found on the side of the road with her head shaven, her father-in-law, Kelly Mayo, said in a telephone interview with the AP from Colorado Springs, Colo.
(Yahoo News)
Missing Air Force Major Found Alive; Jill Metzger Reports She Was Kidnapped Two Days Ago In Kyrgystan
What really happened and how she was abducted. She was abducted by 3 young men and a woman.
Metzger said she had been abducted by three young men and a woman in a minibus and held in a rural area 30 miles from Bishkek, Suvanaliyev told The Associated Press, citing local police in Kant, where he said she approached the first house she came to. He said she looked exhausted and her hair was dyed.
That account differed somewhat from one given by Metzger’s father-in-law, Kelly Mayo, who said in a telephone interview with the AP from Colorado Springs, Colo., that Metzger was found on the side of the road with her head shaved.
Maho said she had also been beaten. “I know she’s coherent, and whoever had her let her go,” said Mayo. “We’ve got her back. Praise the Lord.”
Suvanaliyev said the people who took Metzger in when she knocked on their door called the police.
Mayo said the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations notified the family Friday afternoon but were given few details. He said his son, Air Force Capt. Joshua Mayo, was elated after being told about his wife.
“I can’t even describe it. He’s just beside himself, just unbelievable joy,” Mayo said.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:39pm
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