Missing Man: John Victor Dial--TX--07/01/1966

[Denise]

Name: John Victor Dial

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Date of Birth: 1943-04-28
Date Missing: 1966-07-01
From City/State: Childress, TX
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 23
Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 70 inches
Weight: 140 pounds
Hair Color: Sandy
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Light

Identifying Characteristics: Freckles across nose.
Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. John was last seen in May 1966 at a family member's residence in the vicinity of the 400 block of Ave. A NE in Childress, TX. He left the residence to travel to Panama. It is believed he returned to visit the Childress, Texas area at an unspecified date in 1990.

Investigative Agency: Childress Police Department
Phone: (940) 937-2546
Investigative Case #: 05000280

Dial was last seen in Childress, Texas in May 1966. Dial joined the Air Force when he was 16 years old and sometime after he was stationed at Howard Air Force Base in Panama Canal Zone. He went home for a visit to Childress, Texas in May 1966 then he returned to Panama in June 1966. The phone calls to his family stopped by July 1966 after he told his family he married a woman from Panama named Elsa "Caballero" Dial.

It is believed that Dial returned to the Childress,Texas area sometime in 1990. He may be still in Texas and working in the gun trade business. One witness states that he spoke to Dial and that Dial had a oriential wife and two children with him.
Dials' current whereabouts are not known.


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[Denise]

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John Victor Dial

15-Nov-05

This story is about my uncle John Victor Dial that has been missing since July 1, 1966 he went into the Air Force at the tender age of 16 which my grandparents agreed to let him go and they signed the papers and regretted it they both died in the late 1980's not knowing what happened to their son. Uncle John was this careing, loving man is what I was told and he was funny and from what I was told that he loved his family and all his neices and nephews and a cousin told me she remembers him visiting her she was about 8 years old at the time and he put her up on his shoulders and she wore his Air Force cap and he told her he would be back for a visit he was stationed at Howard AFB Panama Canal Zone he came home for a visit May 1966 and he had married Elsa (Caballero) Dial from Panama her family was from around Panama City after about a month all contact stopped and days, months, and years went by. My grandparents never filed a police report and I don't know why not the only answer I came up with is because he was in the military and living oversea's and did not know the process and why the remaining brother's or sister's did not file it I just think they honestly did not know over the years several family members tried to find him including my mother in the 1970's she wrote several government agencies and finally it had drained her so she gave up and in those days everything was done by MAIL and was much slower that was before computers the last time my mother saw her brother was 1963 I was a 3 month old baby.

Click on the link provided above to read the complete article written by his niece about him.

[Denise]

Left: Dial, circa 1966 Center & Right: Progressed to age 62

John Victor Dial
Missing since May 1966 from Childress, Childress County, Texas
Classification: Endangered Missing

Vital Statistics

Date Of Birth: April 28, 1943
Age at Time of Disappearance: 23 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5"10; 140 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Sandy blond hair; blue eyes.
Marks, Scars: He has a few freckles across his nose.
DNA: Available.

Circumstances of Disappearance
Dial was last seen in Childress, Texas in May 1966. Dial joined the Air Force when he was 16 years old and sometime after he was stationed at Howard Air Force Base in Panama Canal Zone. He went home for a visit to Childress, Texas in May 1966 then he returned to Panama in June 1966. The phone calls to his family stopped by July 1966 after he told his family he married a woman from Panama.
There is a high possibility he might be living in the United States. The American Embassy did a 4 month investigation and it was determined he is no longer living in Panama. There has not been any reported earnings on his SSN since 1968.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Childress Police Department Childress
Chief Reese Bowen
940-937-2546

Agency Case Number: 05000280

Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

[Denise]

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dial_john.html

John Victor Dial

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: July 1966 from Childress, Texas
Classification: Missing
Date Of Birth: April 28, 1943
Age: 23 years old
Height and Weight: 5'7 - 5'10, 140 - 150 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Sandy blond hair, blue eyes. Dial has freckles on his nose.
 
Details of Disappearance

Dial was stationed at Howard Air Force Base in the Panama Canal Zone with the United States Air Force in 1966. He went home to Childress, Texas for a visit in May 1966. He was last seen at a family member's residence in the vicinity of the 400 block of Avenue A northeast in Childress.

Dial returned to Panama in June 1966. He kept in telephone contact with his family until July of that year, when he told his family he had married a Panamanian woman named Elsa Caballero. The phone calls stopped after that and Dial has never been heard from again. He may have returned to the Childress area for a visit sometime during 1990.

Authorities believe Dial is living somewhere in the United States; an investigation turned up no signs of him in Panama. He may have returned to Texas. His case remains unsolved.

Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Childress Police Department
940-937-2546
OR
Texas Department of Public Safety
800-346-3243

Source Information
The National Center for Missing Adults
The Doe Network
Texas Department of Public Safety

[Denise]

Mr. Dial has now been missing for 42 years. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.

[LoriDavis]

https://www.findthemissing.org/cases/932
NamUs profile for John Dial - Case #932