06 Jan 2012, Posted by caburkes in Missing Persons, 6 Comments Tagged ATM, Check Robert Kirks, COMING, GOING, REALLY, Robert Kirk, WHO

Search: Stacey Nicole English

Here’s what’s known so far … and all of it rather late courtesy of Atlanta PD.

Well, I can’t completely blame them … I wouldn’t be surprised if some of it was kept low key. So anyway, compiled from News Reports:

• Stacey Nicole English was at a families house for Christmas December 25th (Saturday)
• Left to go meet a male friend, recently mentioned as Robert Kirk, at her place on Lenox Rd either the night of Christmas or Sunday the 26th. He came in from Missouri.
• Had an argument with Robert Kirk and told him to leave.
• The news claims there was a witness who said he saw a man leave the house by cab. Possibly on the 27th? Maybe the night of the 26th?
• Stacey vanishes by the 27th evening and family looses touch thereafter.
• She left important items…keys to the gated community she lives in and IPad.
• Car is found on the night of the 27th by a tow company and impounded at 215 Lakewood Way SW, approximately 12 miles from her home.
• Cops don’t realize it was impounded until likely yesterday (1/5/2012)
• Since this story was first reported, the police have claimed there was no foul play.
• Until a few days ago the police have not claimed Robert Kirk a person of interest.
• Now they do and are going to question him.

The map distance from her house to the library can be viewed here. Now, here’s my observations and questions that need to be asked (provided I have all I need to know):

1. Cops bungled this by not being proactive on the day she was reported missing giving evidence (the car impounded) a full eight days or so of being mismanaged and whomever took and left it an eight day window.
2. The fact that she left her gate key and IPad indicates a rush to leave and unplanned unscheduled departure. Nothing to say foul play … but nothing to say ‘something’ urgent did not happen or decided upon and she felt it was time to go … or go with someone.
3. I’d like to know her state of mind, generally speaking. Not ruling anything out, the holidays are really REALLY miserable for people. What kind of relationship did she have with Robert Kirk? Romantic? Was she obsessed with him? Him of her? Did he cancel, before New Years, some sort of plan and she was distraught? or vice verse. Something huge had to have occurred between them … or something huge they had between each other for a man to come from Missouri. Either a very deep friendship or a love.
4. If you come from Missouri … where do you go in the middle of the night if your plans were to stay in Atlanta and that changed? You certainly don’t take a cab back home. Regardless, someone claimed to have seen him get into a cab. WHO claimed to have seen him? Who knows Robert Kirk specifically to say they saw him leave? A neighbor? How do they know who comes and goes from her house by name? Plus, it rained the night of the 27th. Who can physically see correct descriptions. Also to note, are we sure the witness didn’t see the man COMING and not GOING from her place … if they saw anything at all.
5. Has anyone researched Robert Kirk from Missouri? I’m thinking a long distance … internet or skype communication on a regular basis. Has anyone reviewed past facebook/twitter/email conversations.
6. Has anyone checked flight schedules for Robert Kirk to come and leave Atlanta?
7. Who else would Robert Kirk know out here in Atlanta? Let’s say he’s a ‘player’, for instance. It would be better for him to know more than one person in the town he’s visiting as a backup. Or maybe something less tawdry and have family here or a close friend. A friend who would help get him out of a jam if need be.
8. The location of the parked car, car engine running, indicates a rush. The rain that night disturbed possibility of a second car pick up of someone…eight days later, it’s hard to imagine knowing if that happened. But the rain is very important to this situation. It obscured events and it was used as cover.
9. The car was found running at this location at what time? Do tow trucks just come around randomly to impound like that? I had MY car stolen years ago and from what i understand it was sitting on a street for about two days before someone called to have it towed away. Was the car called in? By who? When? I don’t think, on a holiday schedule, the a tow truck just happened on the car unless thats a high-crime drop off area of stolen cars and they do that regularly. If so, someone knew that.
10. Come to think of it … why the library? It’s 12 miles from her place. What’s near there that would be an easy drop off and escape? Or … lets say she drove the car. Why? I’m thinking it’s an obscure location. Maybe a make out spot. Was she there before? was she there before with him? Sometimes people park cars in locations to have heated conversations so no one can hear.
11. Do you know there is a lake to the above right of the location the car was found? Called Lakewood Fairgrounds Lake. There’s also a bus station.
12. Come to think of it, I do know that area and it’s as seedy as you can get compared to where she lives in Buckhead. All around the Amphitheater. Without knowing her, I don’t think she would go there willingly. In fact, I know she didn’t. You don’t own a nice apartment and a gate key … or an IPad … without taking these important expensive and necessary things with you. especially if you plan to come back home. You need the key to get through the gate.
13. That said, she had to be home to let the man in … but you rarely need one to leave … and the fool leaving didnt remember that.
14. Did anyone check for a scuffle or a fight at her apartment? How is access to her car from within the house to the garage (if there is one). I couldn’t find the layout of the condo … or house … she lived in.
15. How did anyone know she had an argument with Robert Kirk? Who was the last person she spoke to that she told this to, and what time? That can help identify her exact mental state at the time. Was it fear for her life? Was it I hate this person? was it sorrow that its over? Also knowing her state of mind at the christmas party would help to to understand from where she started and to where she fought with this person.

Looking at the trip from her place to the last spot the car was found, the airport isn’t too far … but you’ll need a ride to get there. There are major roads that connect between them and the library that may have surveillance cameras either at stop lights, or like at the gas stations and such. The good news about bad neighborhoods is they always have a camera somewhere. Even at the bank. Maybe a well positioned ATM that might show the car passing by at the evening in question. The rain is going to be a bitch though.

Robert Kirk needs to be grilled hard and by someone talented to ask the right questions as well as the depth of his relationship with Stacey, even if it was brief and spontaneous. All details if possible … and stop him from deleting any past record too. Hopefully, twitter and facebook can be subpenaed for his records if he makes the attempt. Let’s say he didn’t do anything, but he has a good 90% high mark that he did in my book, he knows everything about that night.

Also who knows about that night are the cab services involved. The ones that took him to her apartment and the one who allegedly picked him up.

Also, check for cabs that picked up in the area of the car. DEFINITELY do that. Check hotels in the area also of where the car was left.

Bad but probable thought: Has anyone checked the trunk? Let’s say the cops have and they’re likely not saying anything right now because they gave the guy eight days and only recently found it. i dont think it’s policy for tow impounder to look in the trunk of a found car. Maybe the cops did already and are holding tight to that info. That would look very ugly for them.

But then this whole case is ugly with cop delays as it is and the weather played a part in it as well. Why am I only finding out now they found the car on the 27th. They’re impound/police department communication stinks to say the least.

Summary: find Robert Kirk. Ask the right questions. Review video of the right stores on Pryor Road and if any on the Library itself. There is a bar on Pryor road. A good place to get warm and get a drink after a hard night of doing something stupid and wait for a cab. Check into that place too. According to Google map, it’s C&J SPorts bar and grill. Check Robert Kirks phone records as well. Depending on how big this person is, check that lake I mentioned.

The location of the library is bothering me alot. It’s like … why this spot. You have to know it’s there … or be in such a fucked up state of mind that you stumble on it out of fear and just jet.

So…looking at it from the fucked up state of mind point of view, you’re nervous and mad. you did something stupid and where do you go? Where do you dump the car? At one time, when I first heard this case, I thought it was driven to Missouri. So you’re a wreck and you want to just get away from this car. why here? 12 miles and a hidden kind of spot. You must have known this location. Did Robert Kirk live here? Did Stacey go to this library? I counted a few libraries closer to her that she would have gone to if she needed. Not here.

But it’s seclusion spot makes me think a make out location. She had her own home so that wasn’t necessary … but as men go .. they know their spots … and I’m thinking this was a known spot .. or erratically random. Lets say he’s not from Missiouri and had help from someone here who knows that spot.

Aren’t there any abandoned homes/apartments in that area? I think there are quite a few.

Leave the car running because you’re either a nervous wreck and forgot to … or a stupid ploy to let the gas run out in time. No .. that wouldn’t make sense.

This whole thing was unplanned. whatever it was. And the person who left the car there was nervous. So the location wasn’t planned either. Just a very ugly situation and it was dumped for a reason. I’ll be looking closer at the map to study what looks like woods in that area.

And of course check for dump bins near the library and or her complex.

Shit … has anyone really checked the whole house over?

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05 Jan 2012, Posted by caburkes in Missing Persons, 0 Comments Tagged BIGGEST, Marilyn Greene, Phylicia Barnes

Volunteer Work and Listening To Your Conscience

One of the BIGGEST arguments I have with almost everyone is how much I should charge someone. It’s been like that for me since I was a kid. I remember wanting to do my grandfather’s lawn … you know, mow it over the summer. He asked me how much was I going to charge him. I said .50 cents and both he and my friend balked at it. But here was my thinking:

1) That was my grandfather. I would do anything for him.

2)At the time, we were living upstairs from him so I felt I didn’t mind giving a little back to him.

I was mocked for my charity work and ultimately refused to do the lawn if I was to charge him more than that.

Flash forward to today, I wrestled with how to charge people for Bookcovermodels every day because I know times are hard and I’m simply not a greedy person. Money doesn’t drive me … although I need it. The last thing I want to do is charge steep prices for things because I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ that hikes up prices and squeezes out every dime from someone.

Meanwhile, i have a lot of debt.

Now, I know a lot of assholes who will be like: “You gotta make people pay!” “You gotta wake up and smell the coffee. This is business!”

Okay, never mind ‘business’ is so fucked up that rules of the game can evolve right before your eyes. You can’t trust anyone and business practices is only defined by who is successful no matter how they make their money … or charge less for it. Ask walmart.

Until I make a million on my ideas, I can’t say anything and I constantly tell people I know I’m not a great financier, but I don’t have to be. I’m an ideasman. I can get accountants to figure out how and what to charge people with no fight from me. This always goes back to how I have a lot of people giving me advice about what I’m doing wrong but won’t help to fix it. Fuck ‘em. My later journal entry will be about ‘Linear’ thinking people who have all sorts of advice but can’t come up with an original idea worth a damn. Granted, there are upsides to people who think in straight lines: school, graduate, family, house, children, work,retire, die. They always know where the next paycheck will be coming and it’s a guaranteed regular by-the-book life.

Boring as all hell if you ask me. Might as well slit my throat back at ‘school’.

Anyway, as i get older I’ve been feeling very VERY ‘wrong’. In me, I always feel we should do a little something to help others and answer the call when it’s called. Not a call by other people, but your own spirit. You’ll know it when you hear it and no one can tell you to answer it. Like a ringing telephone. It’s your phone, you can choose to answer it or not … most of us let it pass. Some of us answer it. I look at the 9/11 firemen that came from as far as Long Island to get to Manhattan. I don’t care if they were all told to go … they went. Some could have been, shit … thats not my jurisdiction. No … they seemed to have all went.

Or when a random act of kindness takes hold and you do it and keep on going. Somewhere in your consciousness, you are told to ‘act’ and either you do quickly because now was the time … or you fail to because of fear and the call passes.

I think answering that call becomes something of an exercised muscle after awhile.  You hear it so much and you act on it so much, you start being a stronger … something … each time you act when needed. People wonder what talking to God is these days and the conscience has to be the closest thing. I don’t think anyones conscience ever tells them to take what’s not theirs, or kill someone. That’s usually reserved for the desperate voice we make when we want or desire something. The conscience speaks softly and it messes with your gut (thus gut feeling). The more you listen. the louder it gets. The less you listen and do your own thing, the less you hear it.

For sometime now, I have been an ‘sofa detective’ sort of speak. wow .. come to think of it … it’s been years I’ve been doing this. I’ve been toying around with an interest in finding missing people. I think it’s the saddest thing on Earth when someone is missing and then it’s worse when they are gone for years.

About a year ago, I was planning to develop this skill further. I even spoke with a renown missing persons investigator, Marilyn Greene, and she kindly gave me some advice. But I went about my approach to enter this field all wrong. Completely wrong. I was scared and concerned for the safety of my family and botched a few entry points. This was bad because last year, this time, I had charted out the possibility of Phylicia Barnes being murdered when everyone else was certain she was held captive or something less crucial. The most I did for that case was send an email to someone else asking them to deliver it to the mother of the missing person. Basically a detailed list of necessary questions that would have pointed in the right direction to the people involved. I never heard back from anyone.

Which was fine … I wasn’t doing anything right anyway. The interesting thing was, I took my writers perspective and acute awareness of people, which is what adds well to storytelling, to help me map out what could have happened to her. I had all the players known, the locations, the timing that was told and literally designed a few probable story outcomes and the most realistic was she was dead by accident … by a family member or close friend. Scared and afraid, they hid the body and denied everything.

April 2011, Phylicia’s body washes up from the waters after they thawed. Because you know it was an exceptionally cold winter in Baltimore that year. So, as expected, all that excessive smoke screen about her leaving for food the next morning was erroneous. You don’t dump a body during the day. Not if you have an ounce of discretion.

But of course, all this is my opinion from my ‘sofa’ detection. Backed by excellent Google research and mapping. The cops are saying child porn industry but that seems to be a huge stab in the dark. I would believe a micro-porn industry setup. A bunch of thugs that her step-sister knew if there is evidence that supports sex at all. I’m thinking accidental drug overdose. But who knows.

Anyway, I’ve done this for years. At home location of people and creating probable directions that sometimes people don’t think of. Shit, it’s fairly consistent with my writing as a whole.

Well, it’s 2012 and I feel I should volunteer my time to help people in that kind of pain. I’m not saying I’ll be out there shifting through the forest looking for bones and what not … yet … I’m just saying I would be happy to give advice and maybe offer suggestions to put people on the right path. Most of that I can do from home.

Being the ideasman that I am and I won’t stop … don’t ask me to … I just bought a domain (missingpersonsassistance.com). I wouldn’t call it a service because I’m not charging anything at all. Maybe donations if anyone so wishes … but it’s a casual site and the way I’m thinking it needs to be is like an online help desk. Ideally, if someone needs help finding someone, they post the details and I give my assessment. No guarantees, of course, but here I can help without going to far and answer that call that’s been nagging at me for damn well 30-something years. Seriously. It’s like I’m one of those guys who has the question for every answer on Jeopardy. But then when asked if he would try out for the show, he says no.

I’m trying out for the show and doing what I can until I can’t. I have to see where this sort of thing fits into my life because it’s been an ever present ‘gut feeling’ for years.

Now, I would probably have some detractors: What the hell do you think you can do? They got trained detectives searching for people? Don’t get involved!

Some of the people who would like say this are the same people who claim to be Christians. I’ve said this before many many times … I’m probably the worlds BIGGEST sinner with a certificate in SINology (graduate studies!) … but I hear God clearer than the bible thumping church going born again zealot who misses God’s voice because they’re so loud thumbing that bible. Oh and don’t for one minute think I think I’m doing the work of God. For all I know, he could be calling me an idiot! I am responding to a call … if the call is wrong … I’ll know, but many many MANY roads have lead me to this act so why the hell not follow it.

No I’m not giving up on any other work I’m doing. This is side stuff to fulfill my obligation to the human race. I’d rather do this than join the army (again) and shoot somebody and that’s only satisfying whatever orders by my government.

I would like to experience the joy of connecting a missing child with his or her parents. I have never had a child missing, and it doesn’t take much for me to imagine what i would do to find my child. I think knowing that potential anguish allows me to feel the parents sorrow a little better; giving me the insight to do a little volunteer work. Besides, they always ask for help so here it is.

The website idea is better than my original direction because it gives people a chance to come to me willingly. Before, I felt like I was trying to help and they rejected me because they didn’t know who i was. Valid reasons … so my door is open. I’ll be messing with the site later today. I need a template that helps in a Q/A design. I have one in mind.

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