Missing Man: Shaun Thornill - MS - 01/22/2012

[LoriDavis]

Abandoned vehicle prompts search for missing man in Adams Co.

Submitted by News Staff
Friday, January 27th, 2012, 4:47pm


Law enforcement agencies in Mississippi and Louisiana are investigating a missing person case after a man’s vehicle was found abandoned in Adams County.

According to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, a vehicle linked to Shaun Thornhill, 41, of Mangham, La., was found abandoned on Kingston Road Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday, deputies and members of the Adam’s County Search and Rescue Team searched, by ground and by air, more than 600 acres of woods along Kingston Road where Thornhill’s vehicle was found.

Searchers are currently waiting for creek water levels to drop to continue the search, according to the sheriff’s department.

Investigators have been in touch with the Thornhill’s family in Mangham and St. Francisville, La. The last reported sighting of Thornhill is Sunday in St. Francisville.

Adam’s County investigators have also been in contact with St. Francisville authorities on this case.

Thornhill is a white male, has blue eyes, weighs 180 pounds and is 5-feet-10-inches tall.

Read more: http://adamscounty.wlbt.com/news/news/54546-abandoned-vehicle-prompts-search-missing-man-adams-co

If anyone has seen or knows the whereabouts of Shaun Thornhill, contact the ACSO at 601-442-2752.

[LoriDavis]

Deputies search over 600 acre area for missing man

Published 12:04am Saturday, January 28, 2012

By Vershal Hogan

NATCHEZ — Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputies and the Adams County Search and Rescue team covered more than 600 acres of the woods surrounding Kingston Road Thursday and Friday in search of a missing man.

The missing man, Shaun Thornhill of Mangham, La., is 41 years old, 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighs 180 pounds. He has a large tattoo of the sun with the number 798 inside it.

The number 798 represents Thornhill’s local pipe fitter’s union, his sister Christel Wyant said.

The search in Adams County began after a patrol officer found Thornhill’s truck parked on the side of Kingston Road. Thornhill’s last known sighting was Jan. 22 in St. Francisville.

Read more: http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2012/01/28/deputies-search-over-600-acre-area-for-missing-man/

[LoriDavis]

Search for missing man relocated to Louisiana

Submitted by News Staff

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, 2:37pm

Source: ACSO

The search for a missing Louisiana man whose vehicle was found abandoned in Adams County almost two weeks ago was moved to Louisiana Tuesday.

Teams have been searching hundreds of acres of wood lands in Adams County since Jan. 25 when 41-year-old Shaun Thornhill’s truck was found abandoned on Kingston Road.

According to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, the search for Thornhill has moved to St. Francisville, La., the location of his last reported sighting.

Monday, an all-volunteer search and rescue team from Slidell, La., searched move than 1,000 acres in the Kingston area branching out from where Thornhill’s truck was found.

Read more: http://adamscounty.wlbt.com/news/crime/55199-search-missing-man-relocated-louisiana

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http://www.wbrz.com/news/search-for-shaun-thornhill-continues-in-miss-/

Search for Shaun Thornhill continues in Miss.

Posted: Feb 23, 2012 5:26 PM by AE Stevenson

The search for missing person Shaun Thornhill continues. Thornhill was last seen almost a month ago in St. Francisville, and his truck was found in Adams County Mississippi.

West Feliciana Parish deputies are now going to go to Adams County on tomorrow to continue their investigation in this whereabouts.

Thornhill is 41 years old, 5'10", 180 lbs., with blue eyes and short black hair.

He also has 2 to 4 implanted teeth with a scar above left eye in eyebrow. He also has a sunflower tattoo on left shoulder.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged to call: West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office at 225-784-3136.

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https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/13850/0/

NamUs profile for Shaun Thornhill - Case 13850

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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/t/thornhill_shaun.html‎
Charley Project profile for Shaun Thornill
 

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http://www.knoe.com/story/20974565/without-a-trace-a-look-into-missing-person-cases-in-the-arklamiss

Without a Trace: A look into missing person cases in the ArkLaMiss
Posted: Feb 05, 2013 11:45 PM EST
Updated: Feb 06, 2013 11:00 PM EST
Posted By Jillian Corder, Reporter 

RICHLAND PARISH, La. (KNOW 8 News) – Thousand of people are reported missing each year. Many are never found and the case goes cold, but for two Richland Parish families, they will never stop searching.

Joshua Berry left his Rayville home for a quick trip to the gas station on the morning of September 13, 2012.

"I called him Josh, unless I was mad at him. Right now I'd called him Joshua Charles," says Lonnie Berry, Joshua's mother.

He was never seen again.

"I never would have thought that day that I would never hear from my husband in four months," says Berry's wife Jessica, "At first I thought I would hear from him by the end of the day, then we found out the his truck was wrecked."

34 year old Joshua Charles Berry was a loving father to two daughters and excited about baby number 3 on the way. On the night of September 13, Berry's truck was found wrecked into the woods on a farm near the Richland-Franklin Parish line. His wallet and cell phone were inside, and the keys were found in the ignition.

Lonnie Berry says it's so out of character for her son, that she suspects foul play. "It wasn't what you'd said really wrecked," says Berry's mother, "It looks like the truck was pulled up in there to be hid, and I don't think Josh did that, I think someone else did that."

Even after an extensive search, no leads, no clues, and no answers have ever been found. Jessica Berry says the search for her husband by Richland Parish Deputies was tool little too late. She says it's Berry's past that affected the search efforts.

"Because he had a drug problem," says Jessica Berry,  "I felt that they didn't do all that they could at first. Now that they do realize that he hasn't talked to any of his family in this long period of time, they do realize there's something wrong but it's too late."

The Berry's have a lot in common with another family, that of Shaun Thornhill, a Mangham man who's been missing for over a year. Both families are searching for the same thing, something that makes sense.

"My big joke is that when I find him I'm going to beat him, I'm going to whop him," says Mendy Roberts.

Roberts has spent the last year trying to keep her spirits lifted, but sometimes it's too hard to hold back the tears.

"We were best friends, I just loved him, he was real protective of me, he didn't want me dating anyone," says Roberts.

Her brother, Shaun Thornhill, was 41 when he was last seen, on January 23, 2012. He worked as a pipeliner for several years, and was looking for new job prospects.

"He was in St. Francisville, so we assumed he was looking for a job on a tug boat," says Roberts.

That's the last his family knew, but his truck was found more than fifty miles away in Natchez, Mississippi. The truck was locked, keys gone, wallet inside.

"Adams County did a little search, then when St. Francisville got it we did a really thorough search."

It was if he simply vanished, without a single piece of evidence left behind. Police in St. Francisville found footage of Thornhill paying for his hotel room, and another glimpse of him at an ATM. The last known sighting of Shaun Thornhill.

The families of these missing men are coping in much different ways.

"I hope that he just ran away, cause I just can't imagine some body hurting him," says Mendy Roberts, while the Lonnie Berry could not imagine her son leaving on his own, "That would never ever cross my mind, never, no."

The pain they feel is the same.

"I get my calendar every Thursday and I write down how long it's been," says Lonnie Berry.

"It's like a nightmare and you just wake up everyday and your eyes open and you just pray its over, it's going to be over, you're going to find some type of closure, hopefully alive," says Mendy Roberts.

For these families and so many others, they aren't able to put together the puzzle of their missing husband and son, brother and friend, because they haven't found any of the pieces.

[Deborah]

Shaun is still missing.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/13850/0/

[LoriDavis]

**10/2014 - Skeletal remains that were found in July near the Old Ferry Landing in St. Francisville, belonged to a man who has been identified as Kenneth Dwayne Bennett, 58, of Baton Rouge

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/man-finds-skeletal-remains-while-brush-hogging/

 

Man finds skeletal remains while brush-hogging

 

By - Associated Press - Tuesday, July 8, 2014

 

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) - A man whacking overgrown grass stumbled upon the skeletal remains of an unidentified person near the Old Ferry Landing in St. Francisville over the weekend.

 

Lee Willie Swan says he was brush-hogging and had backed up the equipment, when he saw a leg bone. Swan tells The Advocate (http://bit.ly/1jbWBeg ) he found the remains within the property’s overgrown shrubbery about 1 p.m. Sunday.

 

The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office says the remains have been sent to the LSU FACES Lab for DNA testing and examination to determine the cause of death. Authorities don’t expect to get results for a few days.

 

In a news release, spokeswoman Erin Foster said authorities had no information regarding “the race, sex, age or ID of the body.”

 

Swan said from what he could tell, it looks like a man’s body. “You could still see the clothes they had on; I saw the imprint of a wallet in his pocket,” he said.

Swan said he last brush-hogged the same property about a year ago and the remains weren’t there.

 

“(The body) had to be dumped there within that time frame,” he said.

 

Foster said the sheriff’s office has two unsolved missing persons cases from 2012, but made no indications Monday that this case was related to either of them.

 

The first case involves a Richland Parish man named Shaun Thornhill, 41, who disappeared on the night of Jan. 24, 2012.

 

“He was staying in a hotel here and hasn’t been seen since,” Foster said. “His truck was found in Natchitoches several days later.”

 

The second unsolved case involves Glenn Tankersley, 77, who was reported missing by his family on Dec. 5, 2012. “We have never found anything on him,” Foster said.

[Deborah]

Shaun is still missing.

 

West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office at 225-784-3136