


Groups have searched areas of the large state park but found no trace of McKenney. His car was found on by a Ohio Department of Natural Resources officer, and his phone and some belongings were inside. Brandon McCroskey said McKenney was last heard from on May. But there was no trace of McKenney.įairfield Twp. That’s were his car was found parked on the Preble County side of state park. McKenney loved the outdoors and often spent time at Hueston Woods State Park and Rentschler Forest. Yalonda Middleton’s 28-year-old son, Michael McKenney of Fairfield Twp., has been missing for a year, and she too works to keep her son’s face in the forefront “I just want him back, I don’t care what happened to him, I will worry about that another time,” she said There are times Estes believes her son may still alive, but she knows that is not realistic. “You have got to put him out there because if you don’t, nobody will,” Estes said. Her advice is those families is to be relentless in keeping the case alive. I have even left his picture and a note on Bobcats outside asking them to please look for remains.”Įstes said it “tears her apart to see the desperation of other families” suffering from a missing loved one. “If I saw a house condemned or about to be torn down, I went in looking. “I have walked everywhere searching,” Estes said. Thanks to Estes, her son’s face has been everywhere over the years - billboards, benches, playing cards featuring unsolved cases, telephone poles, store fronts and even construction equipment. We still get tips and we look into them,” he said.

“Yes it is a cold case, but it is an active cold case. Mike Craft said detectives acted on a tip just last week and went to a location where someone found bones. location pointed out by a confidential informant.īutler County Sheriff’s Office Maj. But after a five-hour hunt with cadaver dogs, no sign was found at the St. In 2015, a tip led Butler County Sheriff’s detectives on a massive search, as they dug up a wooded area near New Miami in search of DiSilvestro. Explore ‘It really eats at you’: Missing persons news pains, inspires Butler County families The man thought he saw DiSilvestro at a gas station between the Florida state line and Tampa, but he could not pinpoint the location. Also in 2011, a retired Chicago police officer called detectives after seeing DiSilvestro’s face on a missing person ad in a trade magazine.
