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[Jenn]

Project Jason Profile:

 

Name: Peter McColl
 

Date of Birth: 07/30/1979

Date Missing: 08/28/1995

Age at time of disappearance: 16

City Missing From: Berkeley

State Missing From: CA

Gender: Male

Race: White

Height: 6' 0"

Weight: 160 lbs

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Complexion: Fair

Identifying Characteristics: Peter has a scar on his right pinky finger. He is near-sighted and needs glasses or contact lenses.

Clothing: He was last seen wearing a tee-shirt, jeans, and Doc Marten boots.

Circumstances of Disappearance: Peter left home walking to a bus stop to go to downtown Berkeley CA. He had no ID in his wallet. The photo to the right on his poster is age-progressed to 30 years.

Medical Conditions: He has a history of heart rhythm irregularity, (PSVT) which was corrected in 1994 by radio ablation.

Investigative Agency: Berkeley Police Dept

Agency Phone: (510) 981-5900

Link To Poster: http://projectjason....PeterMcColl.pdf

[Jenn]

http://www.ci.berkel...n.aspx?id=53600

Media Release
Press Contact: Jamie Perkins, Public Information Officer, (510) 981-5778

VANISHED OVER FOURTEEN YEARS AGO - UNSETTLED MISSING TEEN CASE

Berkeley, California (Friday, May 07, 2010) - Over fourteen years have passed since the vanishing of Berkeley High School student, Peter John McColl. The case has had no viable leads since the day McColl disappeared leaving the family desperate for answers.

On August 28, 1995, Peter John McColl, 16, was last seen around 10:30 a.m. by family members at their residence in the 700 block of The Alameda in North Berkeley. McColl declined an invitation to have breakfast with his mother and told his brother he was going to a bookstore on Telegraph Avenue. At 11:39 p.m., when McColl had not come home, or contacted his parents, the family got worried and called The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) to report McColl as missing.

At the time of McColl’s disappearance, he was entering his junior year at Berkeley High School and had been a member of the school’s crew team. McColl was described by family members as a loving, quiet young man, who shared a passion for music and playing the guitar. McColl is near-sighted and requires corrective lenses for distance vision.

Since the day McColl vanished, the family has been haunted by the pain of not knowing what happened to their son, brother, and friend. Peter McColl’s father, John McColl, pleaded, “Peter, if you are out there, we still love you please come home. Our hearts ache for you.”

The family is disheartened by the disappearance of their loved one and urges anyone with information to please come forward. BPD Homicide Detectives are asking the same.

Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the BPD Homicide Detail at 510-981-5741 or the BPD non-emergency line at 510-981-5900. Callers can remain anonymous by calling the Bay Area Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

[Jenn]

NamUs Profile: https://www.findthem...g/cases/1870/1/

[Jenn]

http://www.missingki...earchLang=en_US

Endangered Missing
PETER MCCOLL



Age Progressed



DOB:  Jul 30, 1979
Missing:  Aug 28, 1995
Age at Missing: 16
Sex:  Male
Race:  White
Hair:  Brown
Eyes:  Blue
Height:  6'0" (183 cm)
Weight:  160 lbs (73 kg)
Missing From: BERKELEY, CA

Peter's photo is shown age-progressed to 30 years. He was last seen leaving his home to go to a bookstore. He may no longer be in California. Peter has 20/400 vision and needs contacts or eyeglasses for distance vision. He has slight scarring near the tip of his right little finger. He may use the nickname Rainbow. He plays guitar.

ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-843-5678 (1-800-THE-LOST)
Berkeley Police Department (California) 1-510-981-5900

[porchlight]

Missing Berkeley teen fails to show for school opening
- Ray Delgado, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Wednesday, September 6, 1995


BERKELEY -- Now that the first day of classes at Berkeley High School has passed without any sign of missing teenager Peter McColl, the youth's mother has started to fear the worst.

Susan McColl hoped that if her 16-year-old son had run away last week, his involvement in school activities such as rowing would have prompted him to return Tuesday for the start of his junior year.

But he didn't show, and now the family will take its search across several Western states in hopes that someone has seen the Berkeley youth.

http://sfgate.com/cg...06/NEWS5843.dtl

[Kelly]

http://www.charleypr...coll_peter.html

Peter John McColl




Age-progression to age 30 (circa 2009)

Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 28, 1995 from Berkeley, CA
Classification: Endangered Missing
DOB: July 30. 1979
Age: 16 years old
Height and Weight: 6'0, 160 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male.  Brown hair, blue eyes.  McColl has slight scarring near the tip of his right pinky finger.  He is extremely nearsighted; he has 20/400 vision.  He was wearing his contact lenses at the time of his disappearance and did not carry his eyeglasses.  McColl may wear his hair tied back in a ponytail.  He may have a moustache, beard or a goatee.  McColl's nickname is Rainbow.  He may have a tattoo of a skull on his upper left arm.
Clothing/Jewelry Description:  A light gray t-shirt with "Berkeley Crew" imprinted on the front, a light gray sweatshirt with "US Rowing" imprinted on the front, black jeans and Dr. Marten's boots.  

Details of Disappearance
McColl was last seen departing from his family's residence near the Alameda in Berkeley, CA at approximately 11 a.m. on August 28. 1995.  He told his brother that he planned to walk to the bus stop and take a bus to Cody's Bookstore near Salon Avenue and Telegraph Avenue.  McColl never returned home and has not been heard from again.  His wallet was discovered after his disappearance, but his identification cards were missing.  He left $100 in cash behind in his room.  He had just passed his driver's test, but hadn't gotten his license yet; it arrived in the mail a few weeks after he disappeared.

The driver of the AC Transit bus 43, near the corner of Redwood Road and 35th Street in Berkeley, claims McColl asked him directions to Montclair, CA on the day of his disappearance.  He appeared to have a prearranged meeting with an unidentified teenaged boy whom the bus driver also saw.  The boy was 16 to 18 years old with blond hair, well-dressed, with accented speech.  The boy has never been identified and the bus driver's sighting about McColl has not been confrimed.  A cab driver claims he drove a young man fitting McColls' description, and a teenaged girl with red-streaked hair, to the airport to catch a Southwest Airlines flight shortly after McColl disappeared.  This sighting has not been confirmed either and inquires at the airline have not turned up any relevant information.

It is unclear whether McColl left on his own accord.  He may have traveled to Oregon, Florida, Louisiana or Washington after his disappearance.  McColl is a guitar player and served as  rower on his high school's crew team.  He enjoyed hiking along the trails of Tilden Park and hiding his mountain bike in the Berkeley Hills, and he also liked music and poetry.  An extensive search of the are produced no clues as to McColls' whereabouts.  He was an honors student in 1995, and disappeared only a week before the start of his junior year at Berkeley High School.

McColl's family members said that he did not place any unusual phone calls and wasn't behaving strangely prior to his disappearance; on the contrary, he appeared to be happy with his life.  It is uncharacteristic of him to leave without warning, and he was not carrying any additional clothing or money when he vanished.  there were several religious groups recruiting on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, where McColl's father was then a professor, at the time of his disappearance.  McColl is described as a deep-thinking, spiritual person, and his parents looked into the possibility that he had joined one of the groups, but they could find no evidence to support this theory.  His family no longer lives in the Berkeley area.  McColl's parents now live in Poulsbo, Washington, where they run a foster care facility for troubled teens; his sister lives in Seattle, Washington; and his brother lives in San Diego, California.  McColl's case remains unsolved.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Berkeley Police Department at 510-644-6743.