murksiderock
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So today was the 52nd anniversary of when he got locked up in Vegas---->January 5, 1973...
He was from near here (Durham) and everything I've been able to research says he maintained ties to friends and family here in Durham until he disappeared. He got outta jail in NY on April 26, 1973, and the last known sighting of him was June 26, 1973...
There is no concrete evidence either way that he's dead or alive. If you go thru and watch documentaries and/or read up on him, there's also no strong consensus, on whether he's dead or alive----->if you listen to people who knew him, whether associates, adversaries, friends of family, or law enforcement, there's nearly a 50/50 split on whether he's dead or alive. They all have different opinions...
He'd be turning 81 next month, if he's still alive. For the record, Whitey Bulger was 81 when he was captured in 2011 after 16½ years on the run. The longest fugitive who was captured, was on the run for 56 years, so at coming up on 52 years, this shyt is approaching the longest fugitive run ever, if he's alive and ever captured...
What I'll say, far as my opinion, is this:
Research into him shows several people in law enforcement, believed he was being protected by family in Durham after his disappearance. Also, there's nothing I've seen, of any of his family members, ever going on record, either on film or in print, about his disappearance, which to me is a clear signal that there's some validity that he had help in hiding...
There's the thing that his girlfriend's parents, traveled to Venezuela, at least once, in the years after his disappearance...
At the same time, if you go to FBI's or the Marshal's top fugitive lists right now, he's not on there. Not on either one. Which, an argument has been made that the statute of limitations has long expired on his case; that his original case file disappeared decades ago; etc. If he's alive he'd likely know both of these things...
But I also think not being on the fugitives list for years, is an indication that The Feds think he's dead, because he WAS on the most wanted lists in the 70s. I can't pinpoint exactly when he dropped off, but most things seem to indicate that some time in the 80s, he was removed off most wanted lists...
Law enforcement spent decades chasing leads about him, as recently as the mid-2010s. So I think there are randoms that still follow believable leads, but I do think following the tea leaves, the major fugitive tracking agencies in the US seem to think he's dead...
I'd be inclined to agree. As to if he's dead, how he died, there are at least a half-dozen theories, so who knows...
I personally think he got away with it initially. But he also was known to have heart issues and a coke problem. Living 52 years on the run with heart issues you were said to have in your 20s, seems to defy all logic. So I don't know how long he lived afterwards, but I don't buy that he died soon after his disappearance, and I dont really buy that The Mafia got to him. Those honkies can't keep secrets, and especially wouldn't keep the secret of murdering a loud mouth black man...
Here's another thing too, several people in law enforcement seem to believe that the girlfriend he fled with, Cheryl Brown, came back to the US by the early 80s and just reblended into society. I saw this mentioned by a couple different people in law enforcement, but they also said she lived really incognito and under the radar and the trace on her was lost at some point...
I don't think he's still alive, because I don't think a mf having heart issues in his 20s lives 52 years after. I think the Marshals and FBI removing him off most wanted lists some time in the 80s, infers that federal authorities think he's gone, so he's probably been dead and gone since the 80s. And I think the family he was close to, just lost contact with him after some time, and don't know what happened to him...
I do think there are people he was close to in '73 who knew more info than they provided. You gotta think those people, virtually all of them, are either dead and gone in 2025, or senile. I doubt there is more than one or two people MAX walking around down here, who are still alive, who personally knew him...
Of course, I could be way the fukk wrong
and if you watch various YouTube videos, you'll see a few people in the comments of each video, who claim yo know how and when he died, or that he's still alive I don't know shyt. This is just my most logical hypothesis, I think he's been dead since some point in the 80s but that he fled the US in '73...
He was from near here (Durham) and everything I've been able to research says he maintained ties to friends and family here in Durham until he disappeared. He got outta jail in NY on April 26, 1973, and the last known sighting of him was June 26, 1973...
There is no concrete evidence either way that he's dead or alive. If you go thru and watch documentaries and/or read up on him, there's also no strong consensus, on whether he's dead or alive----->if you listen to people who knew him, whether associates, adversaries, friends of family, or law enforcement, there's nearly a 50/50 split on whether he's dead or alive. They all have different opinions...
He'd be turning 81 next month, if he's still alive. For the record, Whitey Bulger was 81 when he was captured in 2011 after 16½ years on the run. The longest fugitive who was captured, was on the run for 56 years, so at coming up on 52 years, this shyt is approaching the longest fugitive run ever, if he's alive and ever captured...
What I'll say, far as my opinion, is this:
Research into him shows several people in law enforcement, believed he was being protected by family in Durham after his disappearance. Also, there's nothing I've seen, of any of his family members, ever going on record, either on film or in print, about his disappearance, which to me is a clear signal that there's some validity that he had help in hiding...
There's the thing that his girlfriend's parents, traveled to Venezuela, at least once, in the years after his disappearance...
At the same time, if you go to FBI's or the Marshal's top fugitive lists right now, he's not on there. Not on either one. Which, an argument has been made that the statute of limitations has long expired on his case; that his original case file disappeared decades ago; etc. If he's alive he'd likely know both of these things...
But I also think not being on the fugitives list for years, is an indication that The Feds think he's dead, because he WAS on the most wanted lists in the 70s. I can't pinpoint exactly when he dropped off, but most things seem to indicate that some time in the 80s, he was removed off most wanted lists...
Law enforcement spent decades chasing leads about him, as recently as the mid-2010s. So I think there are randoms that still follow believable leads, but I do think following the tea leaves, the major fugitive tracking agencies in the US seem to think he's dead...
I'd be inclined to agree. As to if he's dead, how he died, there are at least a half-dozen theories, so who knows...
I personally think he got away with it initially. But he also was known to have heart issues and a coke problem. Living 52 years on the run with heart issues you were said to have in your 20s, seems to defy all logic. So I don't know how long he lived afterwards, but I don't buy that he died soon after his disappearance, and I dont really buy that The Mafia got to him. Those honkies can't keep secrets, and especially wouldn't keep the secret of murdering a loud mouth black man...
Here's another thing too, several people in law enforcement seem to believe that the girlfriend he fled with, Cheryl Brown, came back to the US by the early 80s and just reblended into society. I saw this mentioned by a couple different people in law enforcement, but they also said she lived really incognito and under the radar and the trace on her was lost at some point...
I don't think he's still alive, because I don't think a mf having heart issues in his 20s lives 52 years after. I think the Marshals and FBI removing him off most wanted lists some time in the 80s, infers that federal authorities think he's gone, so he's probably been dead and gone since the 80s. And I think the family he was close to, just lost contact with him after some time, and don't know what happened to him...
I do think there are people he was close to in '73 who knew more info than they provided. You gotta think those people, virtually all of them, are either dead and gone in 2025, or senile. I doubt there is more than one or two people MAX walking around down here, who are still alive, who personally knew him...
Of course, I could be way the fukk wrong
and if you watch various YouTube videos, you'll see a few people in the comments of each video, who claim yo know how and when he died, or that he's still alive I don't know shyt. This is just my most logical hypothesis, I think he's been dead since some point in the 80s but that he fled the US in '73...
