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[Lori Davis]

https://www.findthem.../cases/12843/0/

 

MISSING PERSON

Cameron William Remmer

MISSING SINCE: October 06, 2011

LAST SEEN: San Francisco, California

SEX: Male

HEIGHT: 70.0 to 72.0 in 

WEIGHT: 170.0 to 180.0 lbs

EYES: Blue

HAIR: Sandy

 

Contact San Francisco Police Department at 415-734-3145 with information.

 

Case #: 110819476 NamUs MP #: 12843

[Lori Davis]

http://sfappeal.com/...dlelight-vigil/

 

Families Of Men Who Disappeared In SF Hold Candlelight Vigil

MISSING PERSON SEAN SIDI

by Bay City News | December 12, 2013 5:31 pm

Sasha Lekach, Bay City News

 

In an effort to keep the search active for six young men who have gone missing from San Francisco in the past few years, their families are holding a vigil tonight.

 

Organizers of the candlelight vigil on the Polk Street steps of San Francisco’s City Hall at 7 p.m. hope to shed light on the disappearances of Sean Sidi, 19, Crishtian Hughes, 20, Shawn Dickerson, 24, Cameron Remmer, 31, Jackson Miller, 23, and Paulo Netto, 22.

 

The vigil will also serve as a memorial for 20-year-old Derrick Shao, who had gone missing on Nov. 7 on his way to school at City College of San Francisco, according to Lynne Ching, mother of missing 19-year-old Sean Sidi.

 

He was found dead the next week in the waters by the San Leandro Marina.

 

Ching’s son Sidi went missing in May, and since then Netto, a 22-year-old man visiting San Francisco from Los Angeles who was last in the San Francisco’s Mission District, went missing in October. Hughes went missing in February; Dickerson in December 2011; Remmer in October 2011 and Miller in May 2010.

 

A joint vigil was held in September in Golden Gate Park for what was then becoming known as the “California Five” for five young men that were missing at that point.

 

“This is a lot of young men,” Ching said this morning. “We cannot say these disappearances are related” but she said it raises the question of why this is happening so often to young men in San Francisco.

 

At tonight’s event, which includes family members and supporters of the missing men, Pastor Fred Harrell from the City Church in San Francisco and other community leaders, will speak, she said.

 

San Francisco Supervisor David Campos was expected at the vigil but due to a scheduling conflict will not be able to attend, Ching said.

 

She said the vigil is not happening to create hysteria, but to raise public awareness about the disappearances.

 

She said the vigil is to “give voice to the missing.”

 

Angeline Hartmann, a spokeswoman for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an organization that has been assisting Ching and her family in the nationwide search for Sidi, said the so-called “phenomenon” of men in their early 20s going missing occurs across the country.

 

She said although it seems a concentration of these disappearances are happening in San Francisco in recent years, there are similar incidents in many regions.

 

As to why these missing people cases keep happening, Hartmann said there is no easy explanation and each case is unique.

 

Those attending the vigil in San Francisco are asked to bring their own battery-operated or real candles and lighters.

 

Police said today that they have no new information on any of the missing person cases.

[Lori Davis]

Charley Project profile for Cameron Remmer

http://www.charleypr...er_cameron.html

[Lori Davis]

http://www.sfgate.co...who-5538048.php

 

Family hopes TV show will help find man who vanished in S.F.

Benny Evangelista

Published 6:47 pm, Sunday, June 8, 2014

 

Cameron Remmer was last seen at the Fairmont Hotel on Oct. 6, 2011. Now his family hopes that a TV show reenactment of his disappearance helps find him - or at least helps his family discover what happened to him.

 

"It's been a crazy, frustrating two years, and we've explored everything," Remmer's sister, Chelsea Gladden, said Sunday.

 

"We've filed a missing persons report, we've monitored his credit cards, we've monitored his e-mail, we've organized a search. We were at such a loss with no direction about what to do next."

 

The Investigation Discovery Network's series "Last Seen Alive" spotlighted Remmer's case in an episode that was to air twice on Sunday night and again on Saturday at 10 a.m.

 

Remmer, then 29, came to San Francisco in late September 2011 from his home in Encinitas (San Diego County), telling his family he wanted to start a legal medical marijuana business.

 

But he also was taking medication for a bipolar disorder that can include episodes of psychosis and is often misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, Gladden said.

 

And he went off his medication, she said.

 

"Part of the problem for my family is trying to make sense of a mind that wasn't making sense at the time," she said. "We're trying to retrace the steps for someone who was having a psychotic break."

 

Remmer checked into the Fairmont with cash and about 60 or 70 vials of packaged medicinal marijuana, said Tom Klatt, a Toronto private investigator hired by the show's producers to look into the case.

 

But when he checked out of the Fairmont, he checked his bags in with the hotel, intending to pick them up later. Police later found cash and the marijuana among his possessions, Klatt said.

 

"There was no indication they were stolen from him," Klatt said. "He left the hotel and he just didn't return. That sort of adds to the mystery. He had been involved with discussions with several people about going to Hawaii, and one would have thought he would have taken this with him."

 

Klatt said he learned that Remmer had hung out in a Tenderloin-area bar with a woman about 12 hours before he disappeared. They had met earlier in the city and hit it off, he said.

 

Remmer said he would call her, but the woman said she never heard from him again, Klatt said.

 

Gladden said her family found a Fairmont doorman who remembered hanging out with Remmer the night of Oct. 6, although that might have stretched into the wee hours of the next day.

 

Remmer, who would turn 32 in July, was drinking that night, so much that the hotel asked him to leave. That was the last time he was seen alive, Gladden said.

 

The family's hopes were buoyed a few days later when someone claiming to be Remmer turned up in San Francisco. But Gladden said those hopes were dashed because it wasn't her younger brother.

 

Although Klatt said there could have been foul play involved, he doesn't know for sure. And Gladden said police don't suspect foul play, since a body has never turned up.

 

"There's still a chance he doesn't even know he's missing," Gladden said.

 

Gladden hopes the TV show or any other publicity about the case turns up a new lead.

 

"We are hopeful that it could help, even if one person saw it who could provide some information," she said.

[Lori Davis]

http://sanfrancisco....jackson-miller/

 

Families Of 5 San Francisco Men Who Mysteriously Disappeared Seek Answers

 

February 24, 2015 11:36 PM

Devin Fehely

 

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – How can you just disappear without a trace? It’s a mystery, but it’s been happening with increasing frequency in San Francisco. That has the families of some of the missing wondering about foul play.

 

A day can’t go by without Lynn Ching thinking of her son. Sean Sidi was 19 when he disappeared without a trace almost two years ago. “I kept calling and calling him. I already realized something was wrong, but we were hoping,” she said.

 

Months of searches in Golden Gate Park, where Sean said he was headed, led nowhere. “Our life is on hold, we don’t know where he is,” Lynn told KPIX 5.

Lynn set up a Facebook page, and soon discovered her family wasn’t alone. Four other young men, Crishtian Michael Hughes, Shawn Dickerson Tyler, Cameron Remmer and Jackson Miller had also gone missing in San Francisco in the three years before Sean disappeared, all about the same age as Sean. Together they became known as the California 5, and all are still gone without a trace.

 

The mystery was about to get even deeper. Five months after Sean vanished from the streets of San Francisco, another young man disappeared, then another, and another.

 

The difference in these latest cases: Paulo Netto, Derrick Shao and most recently Dan Ha’s bodies were later found floating in San Francisco Bay.

 

Paulo’s mother suspects foul play. KPIX 5 talked to her via Skype, from her home in Brazil, with the help of an interpreter. She told us her son called in a panic from a building in San Francisco’s Mission District the night he disappeared, saying he had lost his wallet and was being followed by three men.

 

Later he also called 911.

 

But in Netto’s case, as in Derrick and Dan’s, the cause of death is officially “unknown.”

 

“I think it’s very disturbing,” said Lynn. “I mean no one does anything and it keeps happening?”

 

“I do not see a common link,” said San Francisco Police Lt. Ed Santos. He heads up San Francisco’s Special Victims Unit, where the city’s missing cases end up.

 

“There may be some cases where one might be similar to another, but when you really look at it, it’s not,” Santos said.

 

But parents of the missing wonder if police really “are” looking at each case. “The police have not followed up with me. I don’t believe they have ever contacted me,” said Lynn.

 

KPIX 5 asked Lt. Santos about that. “In order to really dig deep you have to do a lot of searching, and a lot of searching can take a lot of personnel hours,” he said.

 

And when we questioned whether resources aren’t being dedicated to fully investigate these cases, his response was quick: “That is incorrect. There’s a lot of work that goes into these cases,” Santos said.

 

For the families of the missing, it’s frustrating. “It’s hard,” said Lynn. “Humans are prepared for death, but not for someone going missing.”

 

Sean Sidi’s case is still open, as are the cases of the 4 other young men we mentioned. San Francisco police are asking anyone with information to call their hotline at 415-553-9225.