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Mel Wiley

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Trace Evidence

Ohio Mysteries

Amelia Earhart

Edgar Cayce

Jason Murphy

Matt Odom

Keith Reinhard

Henry McCabe

Jim Morrison

Darren Schaefer

William Desmond Taylor

Julia Wallace

Christopher Case

John Dillinger

Robert Johnson

Wyatt Earp

Jesse James

OwlTail

Visit CrimeCon.com and use promo code TRACE to save 10% on your pass today!In January of 1982, Melvin Wiley was appointed Chief of Police in Hinckley Township, Ohio. With a law enforcement career spanning nearly twenty years and a background in military intelligence, Mel was considered by most the be a prime candidate for the position. For more than three years, they had no reason to question that choice.Then on a warm summer afternoon in July of 1985, Chief Wiley mysteriously vanished. After failing to show up for work for two days, rangers discovered his abandoned vehicle at Edgewater Park in Cleveland, right on the shore of Lake Erie. While some believed Chief Wiley had been the victim of a crime, others theorized that perhaps the aspiring author had written his own mysterious exit.Nearly forty years later and the mystery of Chief Wiley remains. Friends and family never believed he'd have gone away by his own choice, and not one of them has heard from him since July of '85. He remains the first Chief of Police to have ever been listed by the FBI as a missing person and, all this time later, he has never been found.Trace Evidence FacebookInstagramTwitterOfficial WebsiteOfficial MerchMusic Courtesy of: "Lost Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#truecrime #truecrimepodcast #truecrimecommunity #unsolved #missing #disappearance #coldcase #forensics #hinckley #melwiley #medina

Visit <a href="https://CrimeCon.com" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">CrimeCon.com</a> and use promo code TRACE to save 10% on your pass today! In January of 1982, Melvin Wiley was appointed Chief of Police in Hinckley Township, Ohio. With a law enforcement career spanning nearly twenty years and a background in military intelligence, Mel was considered by most the be a prime candidate for the position. For more than three years, they had no reason to question that choice. Then on a warm summer afternoon in July of 1985, Chief Wiley mysteriously vanished. After failing to show up for work for two days, rangers discovered his abandoned vehicle at Edgewater Park in Cleveland, right on the shore of Lake Erie. While some believed Chief Wiley had been the victim of a crime, others theorized that perhaps the aspiring author had written his own mysterious exit. Nearly forty years later and the mystery of Chief Wiley remains. Friends and family never believed he'd have gone away by his own choice, and not one of them has heard from him since July of '85. He remains the first Chief of Police to have ever been listed by the FBI as a missing person and, all this time later, he has never been found. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TraceEvidencePod/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Trace Evidence Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/traceevidencepod/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TraceEvPod" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="https://Trace-Evidence.com" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Official Website</a> <a href="https://traceevidence.threadless.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Official Merch</a> Music Courtesy of: "Lost Time" Kevin MacLeod (<a href="https://incompetech.com" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">incompetech.com</a>) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a> #truecrime #truecrimepodcast #truecrimecommunity #unsolved #missing #disappearance #coldcase #forensics #hinckley #melwiley #medina

215 - The Vanishing of Chief Mel Wiley

On July 30, 1985, Police Chief Mel Wiley vanished. At the time, the 47-year-old had been a police officer since 1966 and an aspiring poetry writer and murder mystery novelist. Authorities initially believed Wiley drowned in Lake Erie, his car was found abandoned nearby but his body was never found. Police eventually ruled that the disappearance yielded no signs of foul play or suicide. Then certain clues pop up that suggest he disappeared to start a new life. What really happened to Chief Mel Wiley still remains a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On July 30, 1985, Police Chief Mel Wiley vanished. At the time, the 47-year-old had been a police officer since 1966 and an aspiring poetry writer and murder mystery novelist. Authorities initially believed Wiley drowned in Lake Erie, his car was found abandoned nearby but his body was never found. Police eventually ruled that the disappearance yielded no signs of foul play or suicide. Then certain clues pop up that suggest he disappeared to start a new life. What really happened to Chief Mel Wiley still remains a mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The Disappearance of Mel Wiley