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[Kelly]

Project Jason Profile:



Name:  Jason Ellis
Alias:  J.T.
Date of Birth:  10/24/1986
Date Missing:  12/04/2006
Age at time of disappearance:  20
City Missing From:  Indianapolis
State Missing From:  Indiana
Gender:  Male
Race:  Black
Height:  6ft 1in
Weight:  160 lbs
Hair Color:  Black
Hair (other): Short
Eye Color:  Brown
Complexion:  Meduim Brown

Identifying Characteristics: Jason has a chipped front tooth, three tattoos: on his right arm he has "Jason" with a maple leaf above it, and on his left arm "Scooby and Scrappy Doo", across chest is his mother's name "Neatrice". He has piercings in both ears.  

Clothing: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Jason was staying in Indianapolis with some friends.

Investigative Agency:  Metro Police Missing Person Dept, Det. Charles Gold
Agency Phone:  (317) 327-6984
Investigative Case #:  IPO6143076

Print a Poster: http://www.projectja..._JasonEllis.pdf

[Kelly]

AAN Poster Notify Sent to AAN Subscribers  Code 49

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Click here to become a part of the solution: http://www.projectja.../awareness.html

[Kelly]

Jason Ellis and Bridgette Billotta are Project Jason's featured missing persons for August of 2009. The image you see below, with links to their news and information threads, is on the main page of the Project Jason website. This is one means of awareness for their cases, and with a high average of daily hits to the site, we'll reach many with their stories.

If your missing loved one is not registered with us for services, please click here: http://www.projectja...org/report.html

[Kelly]

Jason has been placed on Project Jason's 18 Wheel Angels campaign. A special poster has been made for him and can be downloaded and printed for placement. More information about the program, and the link for the poster can be found here:

http://projectjason.org/18wheel.shtml

In addition to the campaign, Jason was also featured in a national trucking publications, either Independent Contractor or TruckJobSeekers. These free magazines are distributed in truck stops nationwide and have a circulation of about 150,000.

Independent Contractor and TruckJobSeekers are two of Target Media Partner's many publications. In partnership with Project Jason, they each feature two missing persons each per month. You can pick up your free copies at a local truck stop, but if it's far from you, you may want to call and ask if they carry that magazine. These are NOT with the regular for purchase magazines.

We hope this helps in the search for Jason. Please consider printing and placing a poster in businesses in your community.



Thank you.

Kelly, Project Jason

[Kelly]

A story written by Jason's mother for the 18 Wheel Angels campaign:

Where is My Boy?

Jason was a happy child when he was growing up. He played little league baseball and and loved to play basketball, which he was very good at. Jason was a quiet child, although he loved to play tricks on his little sister. He is a very caring person and avoids confrontation when ever possible. He always called me and let me know how things were going with him. He talked to his Grandfather every week. He wanted to be able to help me out with household things, but I told him as long as you can take care of yourself that's helping me. I miss talking to my son. He called me every week once he moved away. I miss cooking his favorite foods for him. He would always take me places that I needed to go to. Jason is a kind hearted person, and very likeable.

I miss my son very much, and I want to know what happened to him. He went missing from the apartment that he shared with a sister and brother. A male roommate claimed that he came back to the apartment and Jason was gone. He said that Jason had taken all of his belonging and left. He left his car which let me know that something wasn't right because my son would not go anywhere without his car. He didn't call me and let me know that he was going anywhere. If anyone has any information please call Det. Charles Gold at the Indianpolis Police Dept. Missings Person Unit at 317-413-7440.

Thank You.

Neatrice Billingsley, Jason's Mother

[Kelly]

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Click here to become a part of the solution: http://www.projectja...awareness.shtml

[Jenn]

NamUs Profile for Jason: https://www.findthem....org/cases/5441

[Jenn]

Charley Project profile for Jason: http://www.charleypr...llis_jason.html

[Kelly]

This is a drawing made by the art teacher at Jason's school. It is not meant to be an age progression, but simply a drawing made with love for Jason's mother.

[Lori Davis]

http://www.theindych...298/detail.html

Police: What Happened To Missing Man?
Investigators Think Man Possibly Slain

POSTED: 8:43 am EST December 20, 2010
UPDATED: 12:12 pm EST December 20, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS -- Police have renewed efforts to find information about a man who has been missing for four years and may have been a victim of foul play.

Jason Ellis was 20 when he was last seen on Dec. 3, 2006 at 9820 Willow Tree Lane Apt. C. Ellis' family reported him missing a week later.

Police said they think Ellis is dead and that they suspect someone killed him. Family members have also resigned themselves to that possibility, but they are holding out hope that he might be found alive.

"I don't care about prosecution afterward. I just want my son," said Neatrice Billingsley, Ellis' mother.

Ellis lived in Gary and Indianapolis before his disappearance.

"Finding the body is paramount. If we can develop enough evidence after we find him, great," said Indianapolis police Detective Chuck Gold.

Ellis is about 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He has a tattoo of his mother's name, Neatrice, on his chest. He also has tattoos of Scooby and Scrappy Doo on his left arm, along with a tattoo of a maple leaf and his name, Jason, on his right arm.

Police said Ellis also had a chipped front tooth. Investigators asked anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.

[Kelly]

http://www.wibc.com/...aspx?ID=1331288

Gary Woman Pleads for Answers in Son's Disappearance
Jason Ellis vanished in Indianapolis four years ago

By Eric Berman
12/20/2010

The mother of a Gary native who disappeared in Indianapolis four years ago is pleading for information on what happened to him.

Jason Ellis, 20, hasn't been heard from since a couple of phone conversations in December 2006. His mother, Neatrice Billingsley, says she concluded within days of his disappearance that he's dead, but says she needs to know for sure.

"I'm to the point (where) whoever did it, if you can live with what you've done, Almighty God can take care of the rest of it. It's not about vengeance," Billingsley says. "I simply want to know what happened to my child."

Indy Metro Police Detective Charles Gold took over the investigation as a "cold case" in 2008. He says he's chased several leads, only to finish at dead ends. He says police agree with Billingsley that Ellis would have found a way to get in touch if he were still alive.

And he says police at this point agree that bringing charges against the killer is secondary to bringing closure to the family.

Billingsley had just wired Ellis money to replace the radiator on his car when he disappeared. The car was still parked at Ellis's apartment, and Billingsley says she found one of his shirts when she drove to Indianapolis to file the missing-persons report.

Ellis's last two paychecks were sitting untouched on his debit card.

Crime Stoppers has posted a $1000 reward for information on what happened to Ellis. Tips can be submitted anonymously by phone or via Internet. Several missing-person websites also allow tipsters to give information anonymously.

[Kelly]

http://www.theindych...298/detail.html

Police: What Happened To Missing Man?
Investigators Think Man Possibly Slain

POSTED: 8:43 am EST December 20, 2010

INDIANAPOLIS -- Police have renewed efforts to find information about a man who has been missing for four years and may have been a victim of foul play.

Jason Ellis was 20 when he was last seen on Dec. 3, 2006 at 9820 Willow Tree Lane Apt. C. Ellis' family reported him missing a week later.

Police said they think Ellis is dead and that they suspect someone killed him. Family members have also resigned themselves to that possibility, but they are holding out hope that he might be found alive.

"I don't care about prosecution afterward. I just want my son," said Neatrice Billingsley, Ellis' mother.

Ellis lived in Gary and Indianapolis before his disappearance.

"Finding the body is paramount. If we can develop enough evidence after we find him, great," said Indianapolis police Detective Chuck Gold.

Ellis is about 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He has a tattoo of his mother's name, Neatrice, on his chest. He also has tattoos of Scooby and Scrappy Doo on his left arm, along with a tattoo of a maple leaf and his name, Jason, on his right arm.

Police said Ellis also had a chipped front tooth. Investigators asked anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.

[Kelly]

http://www.fox59.com...0,4988898.story



Mother makes emotional plea for missing son
A mother is making an emotional plea just before Christmas for information about her missing son. Jason Ellis was 20 years old when he disappeared four years ago on December 3rd, 2006.


By News Staff Fox59
2:50 p.m. EST, December 20, 2010


Indianapolis —
A mother is making an emotional plea just before Christmas for information about her missing son. Jason Ellis was 20 years old when he disappeared four years ago on December 3rd, 2006.

He was last seen in the 9800 block of Willow Tree Lane, near 30th and Post on the city's east side. Ellis' clothes were missing from the apartment where he was staying but his car was still there. Police think someone killed the young man. His mother just wants to know where her son's body is so she can bury him.

"I just want someone, if they know, just please call in. I just want to know what happened to him," says his mother, Neatrice Billingsly.

Jason Ellis has three distinct tattoos: one of his name on his right arm with a maple leaf above it, another on his left arm is a tattoo of Scooby and Scrappy Doo and on his chest is his mother's name, Neatrice.

If you know anything that could bring closure to his mother please call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.

[Kelly]

http://www.wthr.com/...-of-missing-son

Mom seeks closure in case of missing son


Updated: Dec 20, 2010 4:25 PM CST
Anne Marie Tiernon/Eyewitness News

Indianapolis - A mother is asking for help to solve the four-year-old case of her missing son, so she can have closure.

Neatrice Billingsley is hoping a reward and a personal plea will lead to her son.

"I go to sleep, 'Where is my child? Where is my child? What happened to him?,' you know," Billingsley said.

Her son, 20-year-old Jason Ellis, was last seen at an apartment on Willow Tree Lane on December 3, 2006.

"In that apartment complex, I find it hard to believe nobody seen or heard anything," Billingsley said. "Unfortunately, we live in a cold, callous, calculating world. People don't seem to care about people."

Detective C. Gold got the cold case in 2008.

"I interviewed a great number of people, I traveled the bigger portion of northern Indiana and into Chicago. Some people of interest have come up, but to make a long story short, I am no further along here in 2010-2011 than I was when I first got the case or even 2006, when this case first came to light," Det. Gold said.

"I am appealing to the people of this city," Billingsley said. "I simply want to know what happened to my son and where is his remains."

Ellis was 6'1" tall, weighing 160 pounds. It is hoped a new, $1,000 reward will lead to information that solves the case.

"It's easier if you have your child taken from you and you have them laid to rest, because you have that closure. I have none," Billingsley said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 262-TIPS. Any information will be anonymous.

[Lori Davis]

Missing without a trace
Most who disappear never get media attention

12:26 AM, Jul. 17, 2011

[Excerpt...]

Money, race and influence

Neatrice Billingsly, whose son Jason Thomas Ellis went missing in Indianapolis in 2006 at the age of 20, said race and class have a lot to do with media coverage.

"Unfortunately, people stigmatize each other according to where you are from, what you are and your nationality," said Billingsly, an African-American who lives in Gary. "It's just another black child missing a lot of the time."

She said her son's disappearance got no coverage when it happened, and no search parties were formed. Billingsly said she went looking through trash bins and ponds herself near the spot where he was last seen.

Read more: http://www.indystar....g-without-trace

[Lori Davis]

http://www.indystar....riend-/5391625/

 

Indiana Missing: Was man gunned down by drug dealers? A jealous girlfriend?

 

By Jill Disis

11:20 a.m. EST February 11, 2014

 

This is an occasional series featuring some of Indiana’s missing adults and children. Star reporters Kristine Guerra, Jill Disis and Diana Penner share the families’ stories and details of the missing-persons investigations in hopes of generating new information.

 

Last seen:

 

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Charles Gold doesn’t know what happened to Jason Ellis in December 2006.

 

But he has his theories.

 

The 20-year-old Merrillville native, who had been living in Indianapolis only for a few months before he disappeared, could have gotten swept up in the northwest Indiana drug trade.

 

He could have been gunned down by the very men running that trade, perhaps after an attempt to escape the lifestyle.

 

Or, Gold offers, Ellis could have been attacked at his Willowtree Lane apartment by a jealous girlfriend from out of town, furious to discover that her man had been less than faithful.

 

But they are all just theories. More than seven years after Ellis went missing from an apartment complex he was sharing with friends, Gold said, police are no closer to finding him.

 

“There’s a whole lot of nothing on his case,” Gold said. “And nobody’s talking.

 

“Nobody.”

 

Gold isn’t sure of the exact date Ellis vanished. Ellis’ mother, Neatrice Billingsley, last spoke to him on the phone Dec. 3, 2006. She reported him missing almost two weeks later when she hadn’t heard from him.

 

Gold said he has pinned the time down to the weekend of that final phone call, though the circumstances are murky. Ellis’ roommates were out of town and didn’t think anything of it when they returned and he wasn’t there. Ellis, they said, had a habit of taking off to visit his old haunts in the Merillville area.

 

But something made Ellis leave his apartment that weekend — and, most likely, Gold says, left him dead.

 

Gold’s just not sure what.

 

The investigation:

 

The search for Ellis started with his mother.

 

When Ellis stopped returning her calls, Billingsley drove down from Merrillville to her son’s apartment on Willowtree Lane on the Far Eastside.

 

Her son’s car was parked on the street, and all his clothes were still inside. But Ellis was nowhere to be found.

 

IMPD detectives took over the investigation and searched Ellis’ place for clues, but there was very little to go on.

 

Ellis’ comforter was missing, Gold said, lending credence to a theory that he was perhaps beaten to death in the apartment and buried in the comforter somewhere between Indianapolis and Merrillville.

 

But investigators at the time failed to find any evidence that such a struggle occurred. They found no blood in Ellis’ apartment, and no signs of a fight.

 

Ellis’ roommates, a couple of friends from his high school days in Merrillville, didn’t have an explanation for police. Family and friends hadn’t heard from him, either.

 

Gold inherited the case after the initial investigation. By then, most trails had gone cold.

 

On a few anonymous tips, Gold and a team of investigators went up to the Gary region to look for a body. Nothing panned out.

 

He conducted several interviews with family members, friends, acquaintances and even some people he believed to be potential suspects.

 

Those also went nowhere.

 

“They didn’t come to the door,” Gold said, recalling his attempts to track down people who could have been involved or knew something about Ellis. “They didn’t come to the door, and when they did, they said, ‘I’m going to call my lawyer.’”

 

Without evidence or witness statements, Gold said he had nothing to go on.

 

The family:

 

Years passed. The answers never came.

 

Billingsley was sure her son was dead, but she never gave up the search.

 

“She kept in solid touch with me,” Gold said. “She was his advocate. No one else cares.”

 

Billingsley contacted Gold often, asking for updates and telling him about bodies found near Gary and Chicago, each time hoping her son might have been found.

 

But each time a negative identification came back, her hopes were dashed. Then, last year, Billingsley suffered a massive brain hemorrhage.

 

She died never knowing her son’s fate.

 

“She was an awesome lady,” Gold said. He met with Billingsley several times in his office and at her home, reviewing details of the case.

 

One meeting stands out.

 

“She just cries. She goes, ‘Are you going to find him for me? Are you going to find him for me?’”Gold said. “I shouldn’t have done it, but I promised her. I said,

 

‘Yeah, I’m going to find him for you.’

 

“And I never did.”

 

Where does the case stand?

 

If Jason Ellis is ever going to be found, it will take one of two things: a witness or a body.

 

“What will crack this case?” Gold asked. “If somebody says, ‘I saw this happen, and I’m finally not scared enough.’”

 

If Ellis is dead, the discovery of his body also would likely provide a wealth of clues.

 

Until then, Gold said, there are too many roadblocks, and no answers.

 

In the absence of a resolution, Gold said he hopes there is at least one silver lining.

 

During one of his last conversations with Billingsley, Gold said she wished she could one day see her son again.

 

“They’re together now. Maybe. Hopefully. I would like to think in my mind they are.”

 

Jason Ellis

Age: 20 when he disappeared.

Last seen or heard from: Dec. 3, 2006.

 

Circumstances: Police are unsure what happened to Jason Ellis, though he is presumed dead. Detectives theorize that Ellis may have been killed by members of a drug ring based in either Chicago or Gary.

 

Description: 6 feet 1, 160 pounds, brown eyes, black hair. He has a tattoo of his mother’s name, Neatrice, on his chest. He also has tattoos of the cartoon characters Scooby and Scrappy Doo on his left arm and a tattoo of a maple leaf and his name, Jason, on his right arm. He has a chipped front tooth and piercings in both ears.

 

Police agency: Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

 

Contact: IMPD Detective Charles Gold at (317) 413-7440.

[Deborah]

Jason is still missing.

 

IMPD Detective Charles Gold at (317) 413-7440.