The Disappearance of Ryan Blagojevic (Maine)
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Homelessness, substance use disorder and mental health chAllenges create significant barriers in missing person's cases, often causing individuals to fall through the cracks and their families fighting to get their names and stories heard. Ryan blagojevich disappeared without a trace in two and thirteen, and his sister eve continues the search to find him.

The circumstances of his life at the time he went missing has made IT even more difficult to get answers, but eve won't let her brother be forgotten. I'm kindly low. And this is the case of ryan pluggable average under downest.

IT was just after seven o'clock on sunday night, march thirty first twenty thirteen, when a call came in to portland in main police is back. IT was a staff member at milestone recovery, and they were calling to report that a man was being rude to guests and staff and refusing to leave. Milestone recovery provides care and services to individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illness and homelessness.

The man reportedly refusing to leave and disturbing people on site was thirty seven year old ryan blog age, a guest at milestone recovery himself, potlach police officer Brent abbott responded to sixty five india street on the portland in peninsula by seven or six P. M. The cool, detailed report from that night is just a few lines.

IT states that the shelter staff wanted ryan to leave for the night, but he could return the next day, so ryan was removed from the shelter and asked to move along for the evening. Officer abbot finished the call by seven eighteen P. M, where ryan an went next, who he saw or what he did.

There is no record of IT. He didn't return to the shelter the next day, and since that sunday evening in twenty thirteen, no one has seen or heard from him. Ryan sister eve blogger event is fourteen years Younger than ryan. They came from a family of five kids, all pretty far part in age, but the whole family was and is still close net.

My parents ran and a polestar business out of our family home. So they were like always there. So we were lucky in that sense, like we didn't have bad work in late or mom work in overnight night.

We were very lucky in that sense. They were like there to see us off on to us in the morning. And when we got home from school.

they lived on keep card in master huz ts, just a stones threw away from beautiful beaches in quintin tian, new england. Stinson IT was a delic fit for a postcard. But looking back on IT now, eve can see cracks in the perfect vanier. There is definitely .

always like a kind of darkness lingering over my family that, like, I couldn't understand, is like a child I always knew, like, something wasn't right. And today I sit here and I realized that my parents were human, just like all of us. But they did suffer from mental health issues.

And my father was also an alcoholic. I never saw him drank, but he did drink during some of the other kids childhood, and the issues were pretty severe. And I hate saying that because I want to honor them, know they were good parents.

They love us. We were always fed. We always had a roof go over by. I am sitting at the family house right now. You know, we we were taking care of, but so, as mental health issues were untreated, eventually passed down to us.

her mother and father have passed away now. But eve said that their home on cape cod, where he was sitting for the interview, the home that been in the family since the gets to stay in the family, preserving the memories that the households is important to her. Their family home is a place that has always been a soft landing and safe space for all of the kids, no matter what they faced through their lives. The darkness lingering over her family, as eve referred to IT, impacted ryan from a Young age. His experience with substance use disorder started in his early teenage years.

I have to be honest, like I don't remember a time when ryan wasn't drinking. I think he first went into rehab. He was thirteen.

Maybe I was fourteen. I remember maybe I was four years old than spending a birthday. We went to see him in the detox or rehab where he wasn't. I remember my mom being so upset because they wouldn't let her lie the birthday candles on the cake that they let us spring. So he really started struggling.

Young ryan had the support of his family as he worked through his recovery, but he ve believes there was always something more beneath the surface. He believes it's possible he may have experienced abuse or rather trauma in his life that was never discussed or address. He had a .

lot of help, a lot of help offers to him, but I don't think his trauma was ever dealt with. I think just the addition side of IT was dealt with. So he just capped option.

In the late two thousands, ryan was living in northern and downtown main, carving out of life in the small towns outside of bengal. He started dating someone, and in early twenty ten, ryan learned he was going to be a. His daughter was born that summer.

The profile photo on ryan's facebook page shows him smiling down at his newborn e daughter, feeding her with a tiny bottle. So obviously proud of the life he held in his hands, eve told me that ryan loved his child. IT was undeniable, and IT was also undeniable that ryan was sick.

His behavior reflected that the mother of his child was granted a protection order against him, and ryan violated IT more than once, which resulted in jail time the following spring. Ryan merely lost his life, according to reporting in the bingo daily news on mth fifteenth twenty eleven, the hancock county sherif department responded to the scene of a car accident on newborn neck road in sri. First responders found a driverless jeep, grand cherri, ky, that had apparently gone off the road and hit a large rock and then a tree had on after running the S, U, V, S.

Info, police realized that I had been reported stolen. Ryan was found a short time later lying unconscious in someone's backyard. He had injuries consistent with a car accident.

Ryan was transported to the hospital with serious head injuries. He was not expected to survive. Following the accident. Ryan moved back into the family home in massachusets, again to the safety and support of his family.

However, in the fall of twenty twelve, ryans drinking reached a level that his parents could no longer tolerate in their home. His parents asked him to leave. That september, ryan received a settlement payout from injuries he sustained while incarcerated in a massachusets jail. So with six thousand or so dollars in his pocket, he moved back to main in october of twenty twelve.

Although a protection order remained in place, eve believes ryan chose mine because he wanted to be close to his daughter and the mother of his child, and hopes of reconnecting and ending that relationship ran first rented a room in bangor, and then when he was asked to leave, he moved south to portland and rented another room. Unfortunately, that arrangement didn't last either. His substance use Scott the way of his ability to maintain stable housing, and having run out of money from his settlement check, ryan became homeless.

There are some shelters and services available to those experiencing homelessness and substance use disorders in the greater portland area, including milestone recoveries. Shelter on india street. It's a wet shelter, meaning people can stay there even if they're under the influence of alcohol or other substances.

Although ryan was mostly emerged from his family during this time, his parents routinely heard from him around the first of the month when his social security disability benefits arrived. His parents were his payees, and ryan would call them at the beginning of the month every month, and they would wire him the money or otherwise get him his fines. On march thirty first twenty thirteen, as expected, ryan called his parents to check in about his money. IT was the very same night, or lin pd responded to milestone and removed ryan from the prevacid, but his family wouldn't know anything about that incident for weeks.

My parents talked to him that night that he were missing. He had called them asking for an advance on his social security because I was the thirty first of march, and I believe he got a social security on the second. So he had called asking for an advance.

But my parents told him, no, because he was drinking. And I believe they are not an argument, but they had a talk. My dad told him that he will always Carry him in his heart, but he can no longer Carry him on his back. And that was the last time anyone heard from.

A few weeks after that conversation between ryan and his parents, his family started to a worry. Ryan hadn't called back to ask for his social security money after they'd refused the advance. That money was his life eline.

So to go weeks without IT was concerning. I've started calling jails in mine and then checking at hospitals and shelters, trying to track rundown. He hadn't been admitted for treatment at any facilities that he could find, but even if he had been at a shelter, staff couldn't confirm one way or another milestone.

And similar shelters are covered by privacy and confidential restrictions. By may eighteen, twenty thirteen, now the second month without a call from ryan to ask about his social security check, his family knew something was terribly wrong. Eve called the potley police department to report her brother missing.

They were kind, but they said that there was basically nothing that they could do initially, because he was an adult, I tried to communicate to them that he had brain damage. He suffered from alcoholism, and he probably needed some help because he wasn't contacting us for his disability funds, and something had to have been wrong.

The original incident report taken by porting police officer josh a. McDonald lays out a summary of leaves call that night. Eve told me that the summary contains some inaccuracies.

For example, the report states that ryan called eve every day and that he was the pee for his social security, when in fact, IT was his parents who spoke to ryan about his social charity money, and she's not sure if the contact with her parents was daily. SHE hadn't personally heard from ryan since he left for main about a year before. Anyway, it's only after reporting ryan missing that even her parents learned about his interaction with police at the shelter on the night of march thirty first.

That interaction with police is where the investigation into ryans disappearance began, according to the incident report, officer mcDonald referred to field interview notes from that call on the thirty first and learnt that ryan gave his addressed as peaks island, one of the many islands off port land in castle bay that requires a far ride or another boat to access. The report states that there was someone on peaks island who allowed people experiencing homelessness to stay at his house after speaking with the patrol officer on peak island, though that sounds like this lead quickly fizzled out. The man who was offering housing had since moved off the island, and the island patrol officer was aware of the house but didn't recall anyone named ryan staying there.

Officer mcDonald contacted another shelter in port land and learned that ryan was no longer a loud there. And a check at cover and county jail confirmed what eve had already learned in the week's prior ryan wasn't in police custody, but he may have had a reason to make himself scarce at that point. There was a warrant out for his arrest for a product revocation.

The officer reported his findings to eve and suggested that ryan may be hiding out to avoid arrest. Eve was insistent, though, even with the warrant, ryan wood have called to check in and let his family know where he was. Two days later, detective Chris jessika was assigned to ryan case.

He, too, followed up with the peak island lead and came up empty. He sent ryan's photo around via department email in case any other officers encountered him on patrol, and he spoke with the staff member who called police to have ryan removed from milestone. On the last night he was seen, detective gsa learned that ryan was wearing a Green shirt and black pants that night, but that was the extent of the new information uncovered about the last time ryan was in.

Police were able to locate anyone who ryan may have associated with or who reported seeing him. After much thirty first IT had been more than a month than a half since anyone realized ryan was missing. The trail was nearly cold from the start.

Ryans name and information was entered into the national missing and an identified person system, and the state medical examiners office was notified in the event any uni dense fied mail remains were found. He was entered into N, C, I, C. As a missing person on july third twenty thirteen, but the eve doesn't recall any discussion by police about possible scenarios that could have caused her brother to go missing.

Did he walk off and start a new life? Was there in accident? Did someone cause his death? Did he harm himself as .

time went on? You know that it's not like my brother's case was like this active case on everyone's death. You know he was a missing homeless alcoholic that they thought just maybe had left the state, but really he was missing in a city like in downtown portland. You know you can't just go missing like that that he had to be. He's gotta be somewhere.

There were no organized searches for him, and little in the way of public alerts that he was missing. Eve checked in with portela in police regularly, but there was never anything new to a report. And then the ears just started to pass.

But in march of twenty sixteen, around the three year anniversary of ryan's disappearance, something strange happened. Eve hadn't spoken with the detective on ryans case for a while, so he contacted police to report the facebook activity. An incident report from partly in pd shows that detective gesa issued a sappi a to facebook for any activity on ryans account after a january twenty fifteen.

The incident report states that the resulting info from facebook showed there was no record of ryan's account being accessed after january twenty fifteen, but that the account was still active. The red messages were a glitch of some kind side note are not clear on why the sabino wasn't for any activity after january twenty thirteen, which would have encompass the days and months immediately before and after he was last seen. There is two years later, the date could be a type in the report though, because eve told me, as far as he knew, the last access to ryans facebook account was in twenty twelve, the year before he disappeared in january of twenty seventeen.

Determined to find her brother and get answers for their family, eve started a facebook page in memory of ryan in hopes of keeping his face and name in the public eye. SHE posted photos and missing persons' posters while dozens of comments of support and prayer pred in. But still, SHE waits for ryan to come home.

It's now been more than a decade since even her family have heard from ryan. But people don't just vanish to thin in air. So what the heck happened to ryan? Blogger verage, in a missing person's case, especially a case more than ten years old, without any evidence, one way or another, to indicate what happened to the person, every scenario was on the table until something is conclusively ruled out.

Every theory has to be considered. Let's start where the police investigation began on peaks island. Ryan gave peaks as his address on the night he was last seen if he left milestone that night after being asked to leave, then decided to head to the island, maybe ryan somehow ended up in the waters of caso bay milestone recoveries. Wet sheltered location is on india state in portland land, which leads straight to the harbor. And there's really not that much in the way of fencing or barra es that would keep someone from tumbling into the sea water if they were close to the edge and unsteady on their feet.

Hypothetically, if ryan didn't stop at the end of india street, though, and he instead walked in the direction of caso bylines very terminal to catch the boat peaks, which was a three tens of a mile walk from the shelter, he also could have entered the water there near the dock or off the main state peer, or any number of the peers along the working waterfront. But if that's the case, would someone have seen or heard him go into the water? The areas of the waterfront between the ferry terminal and the street are fairly busy during tough season, usually after a memorial day and before labor day, but ryan was last seen on the evening of march thirty first, which was easter sunday.

By the way, it's reasonable to assume that the crowds were a little less dance, with fewer eyes to spot a man accidentally falling into the water and not enough ears to hear if he called out for help. But if ryan did enter the water on the night he was last seen, and nobody saw or heard IT happen, why wasn't his body eventually found? If you remember the episodes of darker downest from a few months ago, covering the case of Crystal lee higgins, I talked to in aqua death expert Andreas a.

Farers, who explained that there are many factors that impact what happens to a human body when IT enters. Water, weather, wind, tides, animal and human activity, temperature and other elements cannot dictate if that person's body stays near the shore or moves elsewhere. However, IT is generally accepted that the body of a deceased person first sinks in water, then the faces some time later due to the accumulation of gaseous produced during decomposition. So again, if ryan fell into the water and drowned, and his body resurfaced some time later, important harbor, why wasn't his body found? Maybe if there was a concentrated search effort in the water, he would have been, because just a few years after ron disappeared, the bodies of three men on three separate occasions, months apart, were all found important harbor.

According to Scott dolans reporting in the kennebec journal courtliness refighting, then police detectives were covered the body of forty three year old john fund bill floating in the water near the portland cruise terminal on the afternoon of August ten, twenty fifteen. The man's cause of death was later ruled accidental drowning. The location of this man's body was just about one block from the base of india street.

A few months later, in january of twenty sixteen, twenty three year old James dire disappeared after a night out with friends in portland in old port. David hunt reports for the port press herald that James was last seen leaving the perl nightclub on four street, and he got separated from his group as they left to walk back to their car. Security footage showed him outside of the club, but not much else.

Police decided to search courtland harbour for James based on the fact that the car that would have driven him home that night was parked on union warf that juts out to the harbor that, and as police said, other people reported missing from the old port had turned up in the water mad burn. Reports for the press herald that James s. Body was recovered from important land harbor on february twenty of about a month than a half after he disappeared.

There were no signs of foul play. When is believed that James drowned? And then in june of twenty sixteen, six months after James dire disappeared, another twenty three year old man named Matthew Foster was reported missing.

Also, after a night out in the old port, he was supposed to meet up with friends but never showed. Gillian gram reports that for about a week, police searched for Matthew in portland harbor after dogs try to sent to the waterfront. Sonar in diverse covered the water near chain's warm, but came up empty.

And the search was called off on june seventeen. But on june twenty second, Matthews body was spotted floating in the water between union and wigley war, not far from the initial search area. It's unclear what was determined to be Matthews cause of death, but IT seems this case was not as quickly labeled accidental drowning as the others.

Police were actively seeking information in tips about his disappearance, while further tests were pending. Now IT deserves mention that the similarities between James dire and Matthew Fosters cases and a series of apparent drowning deaths of men in the boston area gave way to speculation that a serial killer was victimizing men along the new england coastline. However, that theory has not been proven, and it's a case i'll have to dig deeper into with you at a later date.

But I bring up the cases of James dire and Matthew Foster and john fund bill simply to show that there were three separate incidents of men ending up in port, land, harbour, and all three of them were found weeks or months later, either by chance or after a concentrated search effort. If ryan blog average had entered the water after leaving the shelter that night in march of twenty thirteen, IT is totally conceivable that he too could have been found by chance or by concentrated search effort. If there was one ryans last known location was within a half mile of the last no location of Matthew Foster and James dire, and within a few blocks of where john fan bill was found in the water, in at least the case of James dire, police checked security camera footage in the hopes of learning more about his movements on the city disappeared.

Though the footage didn't reveal much, at least police checked. I don't see any record in the incident reports regarding ryans disappearance that cameras at the shelter or near the crush terminal and visitor center, or at any number of the businesses along in the history, or ever checked for sightings of ryan. I asked the city of courtland about the cameras on the welcome center at the cruise terminal and waterfront near the end of india street.

I was told the email that those cameras were there back in twenty thirteen, and the footage is stored for ninety days. So it's likely footage from the night of march thirty first still existed when eve reported her brother missing in may. As for security cameras at milestone, they have some too.

I spoke with a long time milestone staff member who you will actually hear from in a moment, and he told me that the cameras typically a race footage after a week. So by the time ryan was reported missing and he recordings from that night, we're gone. Either way, I see no evidence of those being checked or requested by portland.

P. D. Security camera footage would have been helpful, even just to see which direction ryan walked when he was asked to leave that night.

Did he go towards the water or away from IT? And IT would have been in lightning to see if anyone followed him, like maybe the other guest at the shelter who he was reportedly being rude to that night. It's something eve can't get out of her mind.

I've always wondered if the person that he had an altercation with at the shelter, if something happened outside after ryan was asked to leave. That always been a big question in my mind, definitely.

An incident report dated february nineteen hundred and twenty eighteen states that there were no leads one way or another, and police still had yet to identify any known associates of ryans to interview. If anyone had a problem with ryan, if anyone wanted him to disappear, if he met with full play and someone saw something that night. None of that information has made its way to investigators all these years later.

So his disappearance remains classified as a missing person case, not a homicide. I asked eve about another scenario that has not yet been ruled out. Was IT possible that ryan harmed himself? I used .

to say no sometimes. Now I think there may have been a tiny chance just because of how low he was. So I can't say that I I don't think he would have for theirs a chance.

There is a chance any number of scenarios as possible, accident, homicide, suicide, finding him would help answer a number of lingering questions. And that remains eves number one mission and a driving factor in sharing his story.

I want to find him and bring him home. I just, I don't need to know what happened to him. I, I want to know, but I don't need to.

I just want to find him and bring him home. Put him to rest where we can all visit him. His daughter can visit him.

He deserves that. He doesn't deserve to be wherever he maybe right now. He just that I think of him being called and being Molly, and that he deserves to be back with us. So hopefully one day we can do that.

hopefully.

When a person experiencing homelessness goes missing, and when there are no occurring factors like substantives and mental health concerns, societal stigma and systemic issues impact the attention on their case, bylaw and by the media, there are also roadblocks in place that simply make IT more logistically chAllenging for a family member to independently find a loved one who does not have a permanent address.

I spoke with Joseph Michael I, who is the director of homeless services at milestone recovery. The place ryan blogger average was last scene. Joseph started with milestone in two thousand eight as a shelter attendant.

When I started here, there was just a parking lot across the street, and guys would often pass out in the parking lie fall. And I remember one time I went outside and I was just doing sort of, you know, a check around the neighbor, and there are somebody that was in that parking lot and people were literally stepping overhead and nobody bothered to reach down and check on him. See if he was OK, if he was breaking thing, you know. And so I think our staff really do a good job reminding folks that there are people that so care about them, and I want them to do well in life, whatever that looks like.

Milestones mission is about compassionate, respectful care and harm reduction, while helping those who won't or can't get help elsewhere for whatever reason. Right now, milestone recovery on india street has a thirty six bed wet shelter for men who are experiencing homelessness, and under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the shelter is low barrier, meaning you don't need an idea.

There is no wait list, its first come, first served, and doors open at three pm for general signing, and guests can stay until six thirty the following morning. Beyond the shelter, milestone offers medical services from volunteer doctors, outreach and supplies, adding captions via their home team program, a nonprofit medical detox and recovery program, housing services to help their clients obtain a stable living situation outside of the shelter and more, all of which is funded by grants and donations. So gas and clients are welcomed regardless of insurance or their ability to pay.

About seventy percent of the staff at milestone have disclosed that they have lived experience, and so they are compassion for the people they serve comes from having ben or they're standing. While milestones mission is to meet everyone where they are in their own journey, and they serve many different people with a range of backgrounds and experiences, there is a common code of conduct and expectations for guests. At the wet shelter where ryan blagojevich was known to stay during his time in portland, Joseph explained that while maintaining a low barrier facility, the big rules are no violence or threats of violence towards other clients or staff, no hate speech, and no stealing.

If someone was to violate those rules, they would be restricted, and the length of time can vary depending on how severe the incident was. And if I was a pattern of behavior, sometimes guests are restricted for an evening up to a month for a violation of the rules. Josef noted that they rarely use a trespass order on someone, as IT prevents them from using their services.

Joseph couldn't speak specifically about ryan, but when ryan was asked to leave on the night of march thirty first, the report said he was being rude to guess and staff, so he was likely in violation of one of those rules. And eve doesn't hold IT against the shelter for having ryan removed that night. SHE recognizes that his behavior often resulted in consequences, but sometimes he lets her mind wander into what if scenarios, what if, instead of just moving her brother along, the portland police officer had taken ryan into d instead, ryan was on probat the time, and if he was drinking, as eve suspects he was, ryan was in direct violation of his provision conditions.

If he'd spent the night in jail, maybe SHE wouldn't be looking for him right now. Another one, what if when eve started calling shelters looking for ryan, they could have informed her that he hadn't been seen in days or weeks? That was one of the road blocks eve ran into before SHE reported ryan missing shelters like milestone can't give out any information about their clients or guests.

They couldn't tell eve if William had ever been to the sheller, let alone the last time they saw him, which meant there was some time lost there, critical time that could have been used to start looking for ryan sooner. I asked Joseph about this policy, which again, is not unique to milestone. But I was curious what milestone can do in a situation like this when a family member is searching for their loved one.

One of the things that we always encourage folks to do is to leave a message. In that way, if somebody with that name shows up will relate that message will allow them to use the phone to make contact.

You know, we've had mothers and fathers brothers all call here and ask about, you know, john do and what we are staying there and and it's really hard when we tell them we can come from or deny someone here and you have the person on the other end in in tears because they haven't heard from him and you know x amount of time and it's one of the tough fer parts of the job is the confidential and because sometimes you want to say, yes, he's here, he's safe, is okay or sometimes that know we are worried about him as well. We haven't seen him in a month. So it's it's tough to really IT off.

These privacy protections are in place for a reason. You think of situations where someone is escaping a domestic violence situation in a shelter, for example, and their location being disclosed could put them in danger. But these privacy protections can also have unintended consequences, like eve not knowing her brother hadn't been seen at the shelter since that last night in march.

Homelessness, substance use disorder and mental health chAllenges create significant barriers in missing person's cases, often causing individuals like ryan blogger page to fall through the cracks. This is exactly why it's so critical to share ryan story and others like his. We can't let ryan be forgotten, because his family will never forget and eve will never stop looking for her brother.

Eve's most recent endeavour in ryans case is to have him declared red legally deceased. She's working with the main volunteer lawyer's project to obtain a depth certificate for ryan. While this is a necessary logistical step, as SHE sorts through the private process for her mother's state, a depth certificate means so much more than that to eve.

I believe the ryan deserves a death day. If we didn't truly believe that something happened that night, we would wait, you know, but I truly, we know something happened that night. We don't know why IT, but we know is no longer with us.

Heart of the death certificate process is getting all the information together about ryans case and the investigation to prove that police have at least made an attempt to prove that ryan isn't alive somewhere unknown, just hiding out in a new life. So I ve reached out to the park lin police department in the summer of twenty twenty four, trying to track down the detective who had ryans case.

That's when eve learned that detective Jessica retired from the department and after that, ryan case was never reassigned. According to the september twenty twenty four supplemental report SHE received, ryan's case is considered inactive. However, courtland police officer Christopher did review rhinds filed when he called, and he took steps to follow up on a few lusine.

In the process, officer chana made a confusing discovery. Ryan was delisted from the N, C, I, C, missing person file in two thousand. Ryan was no longer listed as a missing person. According to the FBI, the records in the N, C, I, C, missing person file are retained indefinitely until the individual is located where the record is cancelled by the entering agency.

So then why was ryan removed? Did another agency have contact with ryan? Did his trail lead further than the night of march thirty first twenty thirteen, the officer requested in offline department of justice audit for ryan's name in birthday to see if his information had been run at any police terminal nationwide between twenty thirteen and twenty four.

About six weeks later, the results came back and they showed that ryan may have had contact with two separate police agencies since he was reported missing. There was possible contact with ryan on july twenty first twenty twenty one, by massacres at the police when he was served with a protection order. And before that, some kind of contact with the plumas county jail and masaccio's in twenty seventeen officer should made direct contact with these agencies to follow up on these supposed hits and determine if they were accurate.

The massacres at state police couldn't find any record of the protection order that the twenty twenty one hit referenced, nor could they find any record of contact with ryan after twenty eleven. The agency couldn't explain why this hit was generated, but suggested that IT was possible. A trooper or dispatcher ran ryans name through their terminal for an unknown reason.

There's really no clear answer here, except that ryan an did not have contact with massachusets police in twenty twenty one IT was a that end lead. The other police contact with pump county jail also turned out to be a dead end lead. There were no booking photos in takes, paperwork prints or other documentation to show that ryan was at that facility in twenty seventeen.

But again, the explanation as to why the audit showed ryan had contact with the agency was all conjecture. Since ryan was from that area. Maybe someone ran his name around the university of his disappearance when media coverage brought him to the forefront again.

Who knows what officer should I finally concluded after following up with the person in charge of N, C, I, C reporting for pourtant was that the names are urged from the N, C, I, C system on a routine basis and require confirmation from the reporting agency to prevent them from being removed. The person in charge said they remembered confirming with N, C, I, C A few times, but it's possible one of those confirmation emails was messed. Ryan's named being removed from N, C, I, C as a missing person could have had implications for the ongoing effort to find him. But then again, as eve pointed out to me, there was a warrant out for ryans arrest, and so if he had made contact with a police agency after he was reported missing, SHE likely would have heard about IT anyway, because he would have been arrested. So eve's effort to find her brother, to have him declared legally deceased and to honor his life and share his story continues SHE hopes people can learn from ryans journey and from her own.

I'm very blessed. I just celebrated five years sober, and I am so thankful for every day, because I could have been ryan when I was in my worst with my alcoholism. I could something bad could have happened to me.

And so i'm very lucky that i'm here today. And my oldest sister is sober. She's been sober for a very long time. My other brother and another sister.

Are they are getting help right now and they're really trying to go the stray road, you know? So we're trying to pick up the pieces now. But ryan never got like that chance.

And I just want to be that voice for him and like for people also that are struggling with mental health issues and with addiction issues, because we matter to, and we deserve a voice. He was an awesome guy, and he was so much more than his relationship with alcohol, like he was so funny. He was a mastercraftsman.

Build a house from bottom up, you know, could play the violent so well. I was so beautiful, and he was just such a cool soul, like, he was just so awesome. He was a good person and had a good heart.

And like I said, like when I was a kid, he was going through and then, you know, but he treated me so well. He spoiled the fricking hack atomy. I always, always remember you got me an and sixty four, like when I first came out. And who does that for their little sister? You know, he was a good guy, and I I hope one day his daughter can, I hope he knows, is that gi loved her.

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