July 5, 2023 • 39 mins
This week’s story involves a 29-year-old Utah man named Cornelis “Casey” Bokslag, who was born in the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands and immigrated to America in 2001 with his family. Casey’s parents are Robert and Els Schuts Bokslag. Casey was also the oldest of three children. In 2007, the family settled in Sandy, Utah.
For this story, I will refer to Cornelis as Casey, which was his nickname. Casey would adapt to American culture and the English language after arriving in the country. On June 6, 2022, he was last seen at a Wells Fargo ATM in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Casey enjoyed being outdoors and was a frequent skier. His father Robert said Casey was an active and adventurous young man who decided to find adventure in the United States Marine Corps. After he left the Marines with an honorable discharge, Casey secured a job as a ranger working at the Watershed for Salt Lake City Public Utilities. It was the agency in charge of providing drinking water. Robert last saw his son on Saturday, June 4, 2022, and everything seemed normal. He had visited his parents and had dinner with them. Robert said the visit seemed normal.
On June 5, Robert said Casey was playing an online game with one of his younger brothers. He told his brother he had to go because his rice was done. Casey also bought a gun that same day. His father didn’t seem concerned because Casey enjoyed shooting. Besides, he was a Marine Corps veteran trained in firing weapons.
According to Robert, Casey was captured on a security before noon on Monday June 6th. He left his apartment alone in South Salt Lake. He had his backpack on and was likely headed to his job for his online training scheduled for noon.
He was also seen withdrawing $100 from a Wells Fargo ATM in Salt City which was near his job. He never made it to work. After leaving the ATM machine, he has never been seen again. Robert says law enforcement checked Casey’s cell phone records. And according to phone records, his phone was last active in the area of the ATM machine.
On June 8th, Casey's boss became concerned when he didn’t show up for work. His boss contacted Robert to share his concerns. It definitely wasn’t like Casey to not show up for work. He was reliable and would never not show up for work without a good reason. After launching a massive search, law enforcement found no trace of Casey. He’s been missing for just over a year. His family is desperately trying to find him.
Casey is 6’2” tall, weighs 140 lbs., has blond hair and gray eyes, with a goatee. He typically wears long green Wrangler cargo pants, a T-shirt, military boots or sneakers, and a cap. Anyone with information about Casey’s whereabouts is asked to contact the South Salt Lake Police Department at (801) 940-6179 or contact Valley Emergency Communication’s Center at (801) 840-4000 and reference case number LK2022-18693.
Additionally, the family has set up a website and Facebook page dedicated to finding Casey. The website is titled Casey Missing (https://caseymissing.bokslag-usa.com/). And the FB is titled Cornelis “Casey” Bokslag Missing. There is also a $50,000 reward for anyone who can provide useful information leading to finding Casey. This is the first part of a two part episode. Be sure to listen to the conclusion next week.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case.
For this story, I will refer to Cornelis as Casey, which was his nickname. Casey would adapt to American culture and the English language after arriving in the country. On June 6, 2022, he was last seen at a Wells Fargo ATM in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Casey enjoyed being outdoors and was a frequent skier. His father Robert said Casey was an active and adventurous young man who decided to find adventure in the United States Marine Corps. After he left the Marines with an honorable discharge, Casey secured a job as a ranger working at the Watershed for Salt Lake City Public Utilities. It was the agency in charge of providing drinking water. Robert last saw his son on Saturday, June 4, 2022, and everything seemed normal. He had visited his parents and had dinner with them. Robert said the visit seemed normal.
On June 5, Robert said Casey was playing an online game with one of his younger brothers. He told his brother he had to go because his rice was done. Casey also bought a gun that same day. His father didn’t seem concerned because Casey enjoyed shooting. Besides, he was a Marine Corps veteran trained in firing weapons.
According to Robert, Casey was captured on a security before noon on Monday June 6th. He left his apartment alone in South Salt Lake. He had his backpack on and was likely headed to his job for his online training scheduled for noon.
He was also seen withdrawing $100 from a Wells Fargo ATM in Salt City which was near his job. He never made it to work. After leaving the ATM machine, he has never been seen again. Robert says law enforcement checked Casey’s cell phone records. And according to phone records, his phone was last active in the area of the ATM machine.
On June 8th, Casey's boss became concerned when he didn’t show up for work. His boss contacted Robert to share his concerns. It definitely wasn’t like Casey to not show up for work. He was reliable and would never not show up for work without a good reason. After launching a massive search, law enforcement found no trace of Casey. He’s been missing for just over a year. His family is desperately trying to find him.
Casey is 6’2” tall, weighs 140 lbs., has blond hair and gray eyes, with a goatee. He typically wears long green Wrangler cargo pants, a T-shirt, military boots or sneakers, and a cap. Anyone with information about Casey’s whereabouts is asked to contact the South Salt Lake Police Department at (801) 940-6179 or contact Valley Emergency Communication’s Center at (801) 840-4000 and reference case number LK2022-18693.
Additionally, the family has set up a website and Facebook page dedicated to finding Casey. The website is titled Casey Missing (https://caseymissing.bokslag-usa.com/). And the FB is titled Cornelis “Casey” Bokslag Missing. There is also a $50,000 reward for anyone who can provide useful information leading to finding Casey. This is the first part of a two part episode. Be sure to listen to the conclusion next week.
Please also visit my website for more information about my true crime and paranormal newspaper columns at www.themarcabe.com. You can also help support my podcast by purchasing a cup of $5 coffee every month. To help support the podcast, please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/catchmykiller. If you would like to contact me about this podcast, please visit my websites www.catchmykiller.com or www.themarcabe.com where you can submit a case.
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Hello, and welcome to the CashMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For nearlyeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.
With the column at podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to cases that have not receivedmuch media attention if any. This week's
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story involves a twenty nine year oldUtah man named Cornelius Boxlog. For this
story, I will refer to Corneliusas Casey, his preferred nickname. Casey
was born in the Netherlands and immigratedto America as a child. He served
four years in the U. StatesMarine Corps. He transitioned back to civilian
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life after serving four years in theservice. On June sixth, two twenty
two. He would last be seenwithdrawing money from an ATM machine. No
one has seen Casey since leaving theATM machine. This is the first part
of a two part story. Besure to listen to the conclusion next week.
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Cornelius Boxlog twenty nine was born inthe city of Tilburg in the Netherlands
and immigrated to America in two thousandand one with his family. Casey's parents
are Robert and Ells shuts Boxlog.Casey was also the oldest of three children.
The family would eventually settle in Sandy, Utah, after moving there in
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two thousand and seven. For thisstory, I will refer to Cornelius as
Casey, which was his nickname.Casey would adapt to American culture in the
English language after arriving in the country. On June sixth, twenty twenty two,
he was last seen at a WellsFargo atm Machine in Salt Lake City,
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Utah. Casey enjoyed being outdoors andwas a frequent skier. His father,
Robert, said that Casey was avery active young man. He also
said that his son was adventurous andthat's why he decided to find adventure by
joining the United States Marine Corps.After leaving the Marines with an honorable discharge,
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Casey secured a job as a rangerworking at the watershed for Salt Lake
City Public Utilities. It was theagency in charge of providing drinking water.
Robert last saw his son on Saturday, June fourth, two twenty two.
Everything seemed normal. He had visitedhis parents and had dinner with him Robert
said there was nothing unusual about Casey'svisit. His behavior didn't arouse any suspicion
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or concerns. Casey had told hisparents that he had work prolated virtual training
for the upcoming Monday and Tuesday.Robert said that his son was miffed about
it because he had to take thetests on his days off. On June
fifth, Robert said that Casey wasplaying an online game with one of his
younger brothers. He told his brotherhe had to go because his rice was
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done. Casey had also bought agun that same day. His father didn't
seem concerned about the gun purchase becauseCasey enjoyed shooting. Besides, he was
a Marine Corps veteran trained in firingweapons. According to Robert, Casey was
captured on a security camera before noonon Monday, June to sixth. He
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had left his apartment alone in SouthSalt Lake. He had his backpack on
and was likely headed to his jobfor his online training scheduled for noon.
He was last seen with drawing onehundred dollars from a Wells Fargo atm Machine
in Salt Lake City, which wasnear his job, but he never made
it to work. After leaving theATM machine, he has never been seen
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again. Robert says that law enforcementchecked Casey's cell phone records and according to
phone records, his phone was lastactive in the area of the ATM machine
On June eighth. Casey's boss becameconcerned when he didn't show up for work.
His boss contacted Robert to share hisconcerns. It definitely wasn't like Casey
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to not show up for work.He was reliable and always showed up.
Robert has said he had not seenhis son and he did not know where
he was. Casey's vehicle would laterbe found abandoned off I eighty by the
Castle Rock exit near the Wyoming borderin Summit County, Utah. Casey's E
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six eight FE license plate was missing. After launching a massive search, law
enforcement found no trace of Casey.He's been missing for just over a year.
His family is desperately trying to findhim. And now on with the
story of Cornelius Boxlock is told byhis father, Robert Boxlock my soundly by
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now. He's thirty years old,so thirty years ago. He was born
in the city of Tilburg in theNetherlands, and he grew up without any
issues out just his regular school days, and we moved to the whole family
to the United States. Okay,he has two British younger and so the
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kids were still young, and hethought, okay, if we go make
the big leap, let's do itnow the kids are still small and that
easily. Okay, let me interruptyou real quick. I need to know
how do I pronounce his name?Is it cornelis box lag or did I
just totally butcher his name a little? But there's no no good way to
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say it in English? How doesyour family pronounce his name in Dutch?
It's Cornelis say Dick Bulach and hisnickname is Casey? Is that correct?
We nicknamed him Casey when we movedto the US. His nickname in the
Midlands was case which is spelled ke s, which is a very common
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Dutch name. Both my grandfathers wereold Corneliss, so he thold. His
son and my grandfather were was calledFrederick. So yeah, it's an issue
name. And how old was casingwhen your family left the Netherlands to move
to the United States. I thinkhumus a bit ate. Was the move
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a big change for him. Washe happy being in the United States or
was he ever homesick? No,he had a good friend in Nedlands,
like little kids have, you alwayshave a best friend. But they kept
in touch through the internet a littlebit. But you know, so many
new impressions and new things and theplace in the US. We went to
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Albuquerque, and that was a bigculture shock. It was for us and
for the kids really different. Youwere coming from the straight Netherlands to more
the Hispanic style of living in adifferent climate, different people. Everything were
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a little bit different. But thekids abducted their new country very quick.
At home, we stopped speaking Dutchfor the first filf year, so the
kids had to speak English and thatgoes amazingly fast. Little kids just pick
it up like it's We moved quitea few times after Albuquerque. That didn't
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even last year was the chip factoryI worked in closed, so I had
a new position in Boise, Idaho, so we moved there, which was
again totally different. That's where Caseywas still in elementary school. Then we
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moved to Virginia, where we wereway out in the sticks on the I
don't know if you know the Skylinedrive. It's a National Park. It
starts in the north at a littletown of Full of Royal and that's where
we lived. So we lived inthe Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a
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beautiful area, but it was asmall town. It's only at the time
fifteen thousand people, so it's areally small town out in the sticks of
Virginia. Look Gigs, you likedit there. He went to elementary and
later he went to middle school there. And then I got an opportunity to
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go more to the west because theWest we liked Boise and that kind of
living. So I had a chanceto start a job here in Lehigh,
Utah, and so we moved toSandy, which is a superb of Salt
Lake City, and that's where hereally grew up, did his high school.
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He wasn't a straight age student,but didn't have any problems in high
school, had a couple of friends. But when he came out of high
school, he really didn't know whathe wanted to do. He didn't have
a feeling that he wants to goto college like so many kids uncertain what
to do, and he liked outdoorand adventure. So he came to my
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wife and I traveled all for work. At the time he came to my
life, he says, I wantto go to the military. Out of
the blow. We never talked aboutit before. We were surprised, and
then we talked about it. Sowhy the Marine Corps? Why not the
Navy or any of the other branches. You know, the story isn't totally
clear. After he talked to mywife and then later he talked to me
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and he wanted to adventure in excitement. And I don't know if he came
with it or I came with it. It's like if he got to the
military eight for the biggest right.But later we found out he already knew
the recruiter of the Marine Corps.He ain't Sandy, So I think we
were blind syed about that one.But I think it was even before he
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graduated high school. He knew whathe wanted and the recruiter back to recruiting
office. Here he trained for physicaltraining because he wasn't a sports guy,
but he was fit, so hedid to training and all that, which
helped him tremendously in bootcare. Becausethe physical part of the boot camp was
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not an issue. You can't preparefor the mental tricks they play on here,
but especially the Marine Corps. Thirteenweeks so the Mangui. But then
he trained and he liked a recruiterand they did games and stuff. And
then when he graduated pretty much onlya couple of weeks later, he went
to Marine Corps. He went toboot camp, came back that his training
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for a warehouse clerk. He wantedanother job in the Marine Corps, but
he couldn't get it because he wasn'tan American citizen yet. So a lot
of jobs in the Marine Corps wereblocked because of confidentiality and that kind of
thing. And so he went tobe a warehouse clerk and did his training
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for that. After his training,because he was best of the class,
he got three weeks of leaf andafter three weeks of leaf, he had
chosen to go to Okinawa, Japan. So he got his wish, he
got his adventure. He going tofor har away Land. And because of
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his job, he never ever wasassigned to any action scene. He never
went to Iraq, he never wentto Afghanistan was big at time. But
he did the supply you know,engines for him VC. They came out
of the warehouse and there was onebroke down and putlands what kind of city
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somewhere in Afghanistan. They had toget that alne flight the kind of thing.
He was good at it. Sohe remained stateside during these major conflicts.
Well he didn't be a stateside orOkinawa in this case, but he
never went to a conflict zone.It sounds like he was fortunate. Then
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he did the trainings, the bigexercises with the marine with the Navy.
Hope about sailed to Thailand do anexercise there, that kind of thing.
I think he went to Malaysia orsomething in that area that they did trainings.
So he had a couple of adventures. He did his helicopter survival They
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put you in a mock up helicopterthat falls into water and rotate and you
had to get out of it.And did his swim training. Of course
every marine has two is shooting training, which he was pretty good, not
excepting, but pretty good. Butin the Marine Corps he really excelled in
being a logical guy, a guywho's on task, guy who you can
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always rely on. And after histwo years in Okinaba, he came back
stateside. He did his last twoyears of his four year contract in I
think it's called Pendleton no Le JuneJune, Okay, June. Yeah,
that's in North Carolina. After servingfour years in the Marine Corps, Casey
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was asked to re enlist. Hechose not to because the Marines would not
guarantee the job that he wanted.In writing, Casey decided that he was
ready to leave the military and rejoinedthe civilian world. But we'll take a
short break and learn more about Casey'scareer goals. After he received his honorable
discharge from the Marine Corps and hewas looking he at one buddy from boot
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camp and that buddy also went toOknawa. He went to another American baseball
Loknava. But still they were incool text and once in a while they
show each other and at the facttime to come back stick side and the
same time they worked together. Sothat was the guy who he knew all
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the four years in the Marine Corps. So that was a good thing in
the end for because what it is, it's the rank just under sergeant.
That would be the rank of corporal. Yeah, corporal, yep, so
he got corporal before he uh,he said, now four years is enough.
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The Marine Corps offered him another four, and he said, I wasn't
that in that job, because bythen he was an American citizen. And
he said, I won't do thatjob. And they said, oh,
yeah, you can get it.And he said, okay, put it
in writing. Oh we'll do thatwhere you sign up for another four.
No, you put it in writingfirst. He learned from other guys they
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didn't want to do that. Hesaid, nah, never mind. I
had fun, but I'm going back, go back home. So that's what
he did, and his four yearsin the Marine Corps, he came back
home and being the adventures type.Here in Utah, we have a little
renter Sports and the ski area wherewe are self for skied it's called Felta.
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And he got a joke at theski area in Alpha to check his
people have to write tickets for thelift, you know that adult people don't
go in the kitch ticket and stufflike that. And how old was Casey
when his enlistment ended? But thenhe was twenty two okay? And what
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year would that have been? Twothousand and fifteen thereabouts. And I read
that after he left the Marine Corpshe was able to get a job working
for a lodge or something along thoselines. Is that what he did.
It's a ski area. They gotlike a five lift and the watches,
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so he's attending the lift, andthey're electronic gates that swing open if your
pass is nearby. It's an ideathing. You just have to have it
in the pocut of your ski jacket. And if you go to the gate,
the gate opens. But the gateopens for every velt pass, but
if it's an adult and has apass for a kid, which is much
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cheaper, it will still open.But then they have iPads, and then
on the iPad they can see whatkind of pass, and if it's a
season pass, they see photo ofa person. So sometimes people try to
go on the ticket off their twelveyear old order. You've got the craziest
things. I worked there myself toolater years now. Did he enjoy that
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type of warmth? He enjoyed that. He always liked skiing, even as
a kid, whisky when we livein Boise, and whiskied when we came
to a salt lake. So heenjoyed the skiing. And in that ski
area, the Alta ski area,you work fifty minutes fifty minutes off of
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course, you're in the elements.Right, you're standing on the snow,
So if the winter is cool,you need fifty minutes to get warm.
But if it's a nice day,he just goes skiing for fifty minutes.
So days were like that and heliked that. But ski areas are seasonal,
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so in the summer he needed todo something else. I believe he
worked at another ski area that inthe summer it's a resort and has all
kinds of games for kids and stuffto you know, sort of be an
old all around, a year roundthing. I think he worked there one
year. He didn't like that much. You little kids and stuff. That
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wasn't his big thing. So afteranother winter he went to work or the
city of Salt Lake City. SaltLake City has the department and it's called
the water shed, and it takescare of the areas where we got our
drinking water. And the funny thingis the ski areas are all on the
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Salt Lake City side are all partof that watershed. So in the winter
he worked there as a ski bunand in the summer he worked there taking
care of some plants that don't belongthere. They mow him or they take
care of that, so he wasa groundskeeper. Then, yeah, it's
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a groundkeeper, but it's also alittle policing because the canyons here, they're
called cotton boot canyons. They arenot accessible with dogs. Dogs aren't forbidden,
and that's all to keep the waterquality. And of course you got
people, I'll take my dog andgo for the walk, and then they
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got to go. And when theysee that, they got to go over.
He didn't you see the sign.You got to keep your dog out
of the canyon, walk back throughyour car, bring the dog down.
He can't bring the dog. Sohe did a little bit of policing.
And after a couple of years ofdoing that in the somewhere in the ski
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booming in the winter, he gota real position with the watershed. He
became a they're called rangers. Sohe gave a ranger in the watershed and
it comes with a jacket with alittle star on it and your official.
Yeah, you're a city official prettymuch. And they take care of the
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little dams that we have in thearea. They're the smaller ones, the
smaller reservorests there. They're not reallybig, but they take care of that.
They take care of the maintenance.They also take care say a car
gets off the road, they're goalsbecause maybe the car's leaking oil or diesel
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or whatever flu it. And theygot to protect the war and then they
worked together with the police and whateverauthorities. He liked a job a loot.
He liked it a lot. Ithink he got one promotion that he
applied for more lead senior ranger.It's a team lead. And according to
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his boss, he got a job. But just before that was officially announced,
he disappeared. And then we're talkingJune six, two twenty two.
Now, before he disappeared, didhe have any type of social life.
Did he have a serious girlfriend,children, or anything along those lines.
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What can you tell me about hissocial life? So he never had much
of a social life. Wasn't intofood or any sports. At school,
he always had a couple of goodfriends. He had no girlfriends, and
at some point in time he hada boyfriend. So we discovered that he
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was gay. Which we grew upin the Midlands and the Midlands is a
very free and open society, sofor us, it's no as you at
all. And when he came backfrom the Marine Corps, he had that
boyfriend. He wasn't. That wasa guy from here, from the city
here, and he and the boyfriendactually lived in our house for a while.
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So then it was a good relationship. No violence or anything like that,
No violence at all. It wasa good relationship to at some point,
some relations I'd say, they growapart and once things annoy you,
they started knowing you more and more. And then at some point in case
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she said, well, my friend, this is not working. So they's
played up. And the case hewas a person. I think the social
things he had hall was with peopleat work. He went with the guys
and the go from work. Theywent to cemovie, they went outward,
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dinner, things like that. Casehe came at least later because in twenty
twenty I had my stroke and sincethe stroke, he at least once a
week he came over and we hadn'tdinner together and stuff like that. You
know. And based on your descriptionof Casey, he sounds like a really
great son. Yeah he is.And that was the thing where his boss
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called me on June eight, becausecase he is always very reliable. If
he says I'll be there at two, he is there at five minutes.
Suit he's looking to leave you waituntil two thirty. He'll text her cool
and say, hey, I gota flat or whatever happened. But normally
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you could totally rely on him andthose sort. His boss was really worried
because it was the first time hedidn't show up. On June eighth,
Casey's boss became concerned when he didn'tshow up for work. Casey was a
responsible young man and would never notshow up for work. Casey's boss would
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then contact Casey's father, Robert,to share his concerns. We will take
a final break in return with Robertboxlogs thoughts on his son's disappearance. So
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this phone call would have occurred onj Days correct, two days after Casey
officially disappeared. Yeah, at Junenight and during fourth Saturday, we had
a dinner here at our house.He was there, my youngest film was
there, and it was normal.He just complained a bit because Monday and
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Tuesday were his days off, andon Monday and Tuesday he had to do
some online training page like, yeah, and I got to do a training
on my day off, and blahblah. But it was very cool and
very normal. Afternoon, we saidgoodbye and my younger son talked to MM
from the afternoon around four o'clock andthey talked about the game on Steam.
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I think they used Steam to talkto each other on the headset in the
computer. And but then the Monday, June sixth, he had to do
it training. Well, his bosssaid later told me that he never showed
up for the online training, sothat was strange. The seventy to do
another training online. He never didthat training. So on the age when
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he was expected to be back atwork, he didn't show up. I
suppose called me, he said,you know where case he isn't at work.
I guess no, he didn't showup, so we went to his
apartment and there was no answer atthe door. We went to the office
and they said, well, ifyou want to get into apartment, we
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Edward didn't have a key, soif you want to get into the apartment,
it con't take a police So theyhelped us because we don't know anything
in south Old Lake, it's anothercity, and they helped us contact police.
Police came and they did the welfarecheck and they said he's not there
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and he said he has a littlesilver Suzuki Oka. Check if his car
is there. So they went andsearched on the parking lot and his car
was also gone, and so hewas registered as missing, and his car
was the license plate and make andall were also registered with the Southold Lake
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Police. And by that time you'revery sick and hofull. He said,
we will investigate. In the evening, I got a phone call and they
said we found the cars. Like, whoa, that's a good well.
They found the car on a dirtdirt parking lot next to the freeway in
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the direction of Evanston, Wyoming.So it's a state border to the east.
It's about an hour and fifteen minutesfrom Salt Lake City. It's a
sparsely populated area, I would say, But the parking l and where they
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found the car, it's all opento right and there's no forest there.
It's all grass land because it's prettyhigh up and it's pretty dry, so
that's all grass land, and certainlyin the summer or in June, it's
all dry. It's all yellow grassand then a couple of bushes, but
nothing much there. So you cansee the car from the freeway. It
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wasn't hidden at all. But onething was very strange the largest plates were
removed, and one thing that immediatelytook my attention the screws were put back
in the car. It would bea thing that I would do, just
not willing to lose his screws.He put them back. That's the way
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you do it. But it alsosays that whoever removed the license plate took
their time. It wasn't rushed.It's something, yeah, I would say
some someone did that fairly, calmly. Was no reason to believe that case
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he would hurt himself. There weresome suggestions of other people, well maybe
money problems. Well no, hedid. He had and he still has
a very substantial amount of money inthe bank account. And she was sizing
up for buying his first house.And let me tell you, he had
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enough to do a substantial doubt andpayment. So money wasn't of an issue
in his personal life. We don'tknow, but we never found any reason
to believe there was an issue there. People from his work all say,
well, he seemed happy and greatto work with and this none that so
on a personal level, no indicationwhatsoever why he would leave. On the
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other hand, the police also foundno indication whatsoever over crime. There were
no blood in the car or anytraces of struggling every belonging. That more
scene on the video when he lefthis apartment, because there's video from June
sixth that he leaves his apartment.I think it was eleven forty or thereabouts.
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He has his backpack for work,although he didn't have to work that
day. Something that looks like alunch box or something like that. So
officially case he was last seen onthe sixth when a security camera picked him
up taking one hundred dollars out ofhis bank account. Does that sound correct?
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So from the sixth, we havea couple of cameras. One camera
is from his apartment building. Unfortunately, his apartment building had a lot of
broken cameras, so for instance,the parting lot of camera that didn't work.
But we have a friend of mineand my wife. They check down
a store or a business. Ithink they got to drive aall or stuff,
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and they have a camera facing thestreet and you could see a car
exactly like my son's car and witha person who is probably about six feet
which is my son's hide, drivingto the street at eleven fifty, So
that totally makes sense. That isabout ten minutes from his home. He's
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driving north towards his workplace, anda couple of minutes later he is on
camera at a nearby well Fargo atm where he very normally calmly gets a
hundred bucks in cash. And weeven know what probable backstory is why he
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needed cash because he was going totreat some of the temporary workers that the
ship employees in the summer. Hewas going to treat them for Peter.
So we know from a very shortperiod from about twenty minutes. We have
him on camera a couple of times, but never on his workplace. They
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have cameras on the parking lot andhe never showed them. And we think
he might have gone to his workplacebecause he couldn't connect to his training from
home for whatever reason, and thoughthe, I'll go to the workplace and
they grab one of the computers thereand do the training there. It's a
theory, it's not confirmed no oneelse. Another thing that he did on
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the Sunday before he disappeared is hebought a handgun. He talked to my
youngest son who likes guns. Theythey go bang and they loud, and
that's why he likes it. Noother reason, just why do you like
fireworks? While they go pay,and they talked about him buying a gun,
and then it's stuff that they talkedabout. Funny enough, I didn't
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talk about that one Sunday when theytalked on the steam and that was after
the gun was purchased. The policeknows when the gun was purchased. At
what time, I'm not sure,but it's possibly even at videos from the
gun store. And because if youbuy got here there is a background check,
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so his background check was done ata certain time and when it comes
back to the gun store as okay, that's okay, you can take the
gun home, So that's what hedid. That gun is also missing,
so we assume that gun was inhis backpack when he left on Monday.
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After that, the car was foundon money on a Wednesday evening. The
police has been able to find awitness who believes that the car was parked
there already on Monday. So betweeneleven forty leaving his suburbense and somewhere on
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Monday late afternoon or evening, thecar was brought to that parking lot because
she disappeared, and I'm assuming thatthere were no witnesses. So no one
actually saw anyone driving Casey's car tothat remote location. No, no,
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No one has been able to betracked or whatever. No, police doesn't
haven't been able to check anyone down. And what about a cell phone?
He did have a cell phone?Is that correct? Yep, you have
a cell phone. But he didn'thave much failures if to think inness him
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detect they make a phone call,he was good and a still smartphone.
He was handy with looking things upon his phone and stuff. His phone
was switched off for it at leastthe signal was lost again around that noontime
on the sixth, and according topolice, the last time the cell phone
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was in contact with the cell towerwas around the area where the ATM was.
And so the car was found wayto the east, like I said,
an hour and fifteen minute drive.There is no trace of any cell
phone things to any towers in thatarea or on the way to it,
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because along that freeway there's cell phonetowers almost everywhere. So yeah, the
cell phone was either switched off,empty, broke or whatever happened. Where
is his cell phone at now?That's with it. So his cell phone
and pistol both went with him becauseneither of those items have ever been located.
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That's correct, and his license plateis also missing. There's plate,
his bullet with his bank cards andhis credit card and on the website that
there's a list of things. There'ssome really weird special things that you're unique.
He had a key hangard that hadtwo pictures of diolate father who would
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died in twenty twenty. We madea key hanger everyone who gave everyone one
just as a remembrance, so thaton his key chain he had one of
those baracord doubles. I think therewas also on his keys. And that
concludes the first half of casey boxlogs story. Please listen to the conclusion
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next sweek. Have you seen thisadventurous military veteran Casey has described as being
six foot two, weighing one hundredand forty pounds. He has blonde hair
and gray eyes and a goatee.He typically wears long green wrangler cargo pants,
a T shirt, military boots,or sneakers in a cap. Anyone
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with information about Casey's whereabouts is askedto contact the South Salt Lake Police Department
at eight zero one nine four zerosix one seven nine, or contact Valley
Emergency Communications Center at eight zero oneeight four zero four zero zero zero and
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reference case number LK twenty twenty twoDASH one eighty six nine three. Additionally,
the family has set up a websiteand Facebook page, both dedicated to
finding Casey. The website is titledCasey Missing, in the Facebook page just
titled Cornelius Casey voxlog Missing. Thereis also a fifty thousand dollars reward for
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anyone who can provide useful information leadingto finding Casey. I will also provide
all of this information in the casestory It's and if you are a parent,
law enforcement official, friend, orrelative seeking justice for an unsolved Thomas
side case, please visit my websiteand complete the contact form. You can
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also contact me through Facebook. Thankyou for listening.
Hello, and welcome to the CashMy Killer Podcast. Thank you for listening.
My name is Mark. For nearlyeight years, I've written a weekly
newspaper column about true crimes and missingpeople for the Claremont Sun newspaper in Ohio.
With the column at podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring
attention to cases that have not receivedmuch media attention if any. This week's
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story involves a twenty nine year oldUtah man named Cornelius Boxlog. For this
story, I will refer to Corneliusas Casey, his preferred nickname. Casey
was born in the Netherlands and immigratedto America as a child. He served
four years in the U. StatesMarine Corps. He transitioned back to civilian
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life after serving four years in theservice. On June sixth, two twenty
two. He would last be seenwithdrawing money from an ATM machine. No
one has seen Casey since leaving theATM machine. This is the first part
of a two part story. Besure to listen to the conclusion next week.
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Cornelius Boxlog twenty nine was born inthe city of Tilburg in the Netherlands
and immigrated to America in two thousandand one with his family. Casey's parents
are Robert and Ells shuts Boxlog.Casey was also the oldest of three children.
The family would eventually settle in Sandy, Utah, after moving there in
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two thousand and seven. For thisstory, I will refer to Cornelius as
Casey, which was his nickname.Casey would adapt to American culture in the
English language after arriving in the country. On June sixth, twenty twenty two,
he was last seen at a WellsFargo atm Machine in Salt Lake City,
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Utah. Casey enjoyed being outdoors andwas a frequent skier. His father,
Robert, said that Casey was avery active young man. He also
said that his son was adventurous andthat's why he decided to find adventure by
joining the United States Marine Corps.After leaving the Marines with an honorable discharge,
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Casey secured a job as a rangerworking at the watershed for Salt Lake
City Public Utilities. It was theagency in charge of providing drinking water.
Robert last saw his son on Saturday, June fourth, two twenty two.
Everything seemed normal. He had visitedhis parents and had dinner with him Robert
said there was nothing unusual about Casey'svisit. His behavior didn't arouse any suspicion
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or concerns. Casey had told hisparents that he had work prolated virtual training
for the upcoming Monday and Tuesday.Robert said that his son was miffed about
it because he had to take thetests on his days off. On June
fifth, Robert said that Casey wasplaying an online game with one of his
younger brothers. He told his brotherhe had to go because his rice was
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done. Casey had also bought agun that same day. His father didn't
seem concerned about the gun purchase becauseCasey enjoyed shooting. Besides, he was
a Marine Corps veteran trained in firingweapons. According to Robert, Casey was
captured on a security camera before noonon Monday, June to sixth. He
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had left his apartment alone in SouthSalt Lake. He had his backpack on
and was likely headed to his jobfor his online training scheduled for noon.
He was last seen with drawing onehundred dollars from a Wells Fargo atm Machine
in Salt Lake City, which wasnear his job, but he never made
it to work. After leaving theATM machine, he has never been seen
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again. Robert says that law enforcementchecked Casey's cell phone records and according to
phone records, his phone was lastactive in the area of the ATM machine
On June eighth. Casey's boss becameconcerned when he didn't show up for work.
His boss contacted Robert to share hisconcerns. It definitely wasn't like Casey
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to not show up for work.He was reliable and always showed up.
Robert has said he had not seenhis son and he did not know where
he was. Casey's vehicle would laterbe found abandoned off I eighty by the
Castle Rock exit near the Wyoming borderin Summit County, Utah. Casey's E
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six eight FE license plate was missing. After launching a massive search, law
enforcement found no trace of Casey.He's been missing for just over a year.
His family is desperately trying to findhim. And now on with the
story of Cornelius Boxlock is told byhis father, Robert Boxlock my soundly by
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now. He's thirty years old,so thirty years ago. He was born
in the city of Tilburg in theNetherlands, and he grew up without any
issues out just his regular school days, and we moved to the whole family
to the United States. Okay,he has two British younger and so the
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kids were still young, and hethought, okay, if we go make
the big leap, let's do itnow the kids are still small and that
easily. Okay, let me interruptyou real quick. I need to know
how do I pronounce his name?Is it cornelis box lag or did I
just totally butcher his name a little? But there's no no good way to
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say it in English? How doesyour family pronounce his name in Dutch?
It's Cornelis say Dick Bulach and hisnickname is Casey? Is that correct?
We nicknamed him Casey when we movedto the US. His nickname in the
Midlands was case which is spelled ke s, which is a very common
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Dutch name. Both my grandfathers wereold Corneliss, so he thold. His
son and my grandfather were was calledFrederick. So yeah, it's an issue
name. And how old was casingwhen your family left the Netherlands to move
to the United States. I thinkhumus a bit ate. Was the move
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a big change for him. Washe happy being in the United States or
was he ever homesick? No,he had a good friend in Nedlands,
like little kids have, you alwayshave a best friend. But they kept
in touch through the internet a littlebit. But you know, so many
new impressions and new things and theplace in the US. We went to
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Albuquerque, and that was a bigculture shock. It was for us and
for the kids really different. Youwere coming from the straight Netherlands to more
the Hispanic style of living in adifferent climate, different people. Everything were
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a little bit different. But thekids abducted their new country very quick.
At home, we stopped speaking Dutchfor the first filf year, so the
kids had to speak English and thatgoes amazingly fast. Little kids just pick
it up like it's We moved quitea few times after Albuquerque. That didn't
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even last year was the chip factoryI worked in closed, so I had
a new position in Boise, Idaho, so we moved there, which was
again totally different. That's where Caseywas still in elementary school. Then we
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moved to Virginia, where we wereway out in the sticks on the I
don't know if you know the Skylinedrive. It's a National Park. It
starts in the north at a littletown of Full of Royal and that's where
we lived. So we lived inthe Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a
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beautiful area, but it was asmall town. It's only at the time
fifteen thousand people, so it's areally small town out in the sticks of
Virginia. Look Gigs, you likedit there. He went to elementary and
later he went to middle school there. And then I got an opportunity to
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go more to the west because theWest we liked Boise and that kind of
living. So I had a chanceto start a job here in Lehigh,
Utah, and so we moved toSandy, which is a superb of Salt
Lake City, and that's where hereally grew up, did his high school.
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He wasn't a straight age student,but didn't have any problems in high
school, had a couple of friends. But when he came out of high
school, he really didn't know whathe wanted to do. He didn't have
a feeling that he wants to goto college like so many kids uncertain what
to do, and he liked outdoorand adventure. So he came to my
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wife and I traveled all for work. At the time he came to my
life, he says, I wantto go to the military. Out of
the blow. We never talked aboutit before. We were surprised, and
then we talked about it. Sowhy the Marine Corps? Why not the
Navy or any of the other branches. You know, the story isn't totally
clear. After he talked to mywife and then later he talked to me
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and he wanted to adventure in excitement. And I don't know if he came
with it or I came with it. It's like if he got to the
military eight for the biggest right.But later we found out he already knew
the recruiter of the Marine Corps.He ain't Sandy, So I think we
were blind syed about that one.But I think it was even before he
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graduated high school. He knew whathe wanted and the recruiter back to recruiting
office. Here he trained for physicaltraining because he wasn't a sports guy,
but he was fit, so hedid to training and all that, which
helped him tremendously in bootcare. Becausethe physical part of the boot camp was
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not an issue. You can't preparefor the mental tricks they play on here,
but especially the Marine Corps. Thirteenweeks so the Mangui. But then
he trained and he liked a recruiterand they did games and stuff. And
then when he graduated pretty much onlya couple of weeks later, he went
to Marine Corps. He went toboot camp, came back that his training
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for a warehouse clerk. He wantedanother job in the Marine Corps, but
he couldn't get it because he wasn'tan American citizen yet. So a lot
of jobs in the Marine Corps wereblocked because of confidentiality and that kind of
thing. And so he went tobe a warehouse clerk and did his training
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for that. After his training,because he was best of the class,
he got three weeks of leaf andafter three weeks of leaf, he had
chosen to go to Okinawa, Japan. So he got his wish, he
got his adventure. He going tofor har away Land. And because of
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his job, he never ever wasassigned to any action scene. He never
went to Iraq, he never wentto Afghanistan was big at time. But
he did the supply you know,engines for him VC. They came out
of the warehouse and there was onebroke down and putlands what kind of city
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somewhere in Afghanistan. They had toget that alne flight the kind of thing.
He was good at it. Sohe remained stateside during these major conflicts.
Well he didn't be a stateside orOkinawa in this case, but he
never went to a conflict zone.It sounds like he was fortunate. Then
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he did the trainings, the bigexercises with the marine with the Navy.
Hope about sailed to Thailand do anexercise there, that kind of thing.
I think he went to Malaysia orsomething in that area that they did trainings.
So he had a couple of adventures. He did his helicopter survival They
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put you in a mock up helicopterthat falls into water and rotate and you
had to get out of it.And did his swim training. Of course
every marine has two is shooting training, which he was pretty good, not
excepting, but pretty good. Butin the Marine Corps he really excelled in
being a logical guy, a guywho's on task, guy who you can
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always rely on. And after histwo years in Okinaba, he came back
stateside. He did his last twoyears of his four year contract in I
think it's called Pendleton no Le JuneJune, Okay, June. Yeah,
that's in North Carolina. After servingfour years in the Marine Corps, Casey
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was asked to re enlist. Hechose not to because the Marines would not
guarantee the job that he wanted.In writing, Casey decided that he was
ready to leave the military and rejoinedthe civilian world. But we'll take a
short break and learn more about Casey'scareer goals. After he received his honorable
discharge from the Marine Corps and hewas looking he at one buddy from boot
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camp and that buddy also went toOknawa. He went to another American baseball
Loknava. But still they were incool text and once in a while they
show each other and at the facttime to come back stick side and the
same time they worked together. Sothat was the guy who he knew all
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the four years in the Marine Corps. So that was a good thing in
the end for because what it is, it's the rank just under sergeant.
That would be the rank of corporal. Yeah, corporal, yep, so
he got corporal before he uh,he said, now four years is enough.
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The Marine Corps offered him another four, and he said, I wasn't
that in that job, because bythen he was an American citizen. And
he said, I won't do thatjob. And they said, oh,
yeah, you can get it.And he said, okay, put it
in writing. Oh we'll do thatwhere you sign up for another four.
No, you put it in writingfirst. He learned from other guys they
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didn't want to do that. Hesaid, nah, never mind. I
had fun, but I'm going back, go back home. So that's what
he did, and his four yearsin the Marine Corps, he came back
home and being the adventures type.Here in Utah, we have a little
renter Sports and the ski area wherewe are self for skied it's called Felta.
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And he got a joke at theski area in Alpha to check his
people have to write tickets for thelift, you know that adult people don't
go in the kitch ticket and stufflike that. And how old was Casey
when his enlistment ended? But thenhe was twenty two okay? And what
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year would that have been? Twothousand and fifteen thereabouts. And I read
that after he left the Marine Corpshe was able to get a job working
for a lodge or something along thoselines. Is that what he did.
It's a ski area. They gotlike a five lift and the watches,
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so he's attending the lift, andthey're electronic gates that swing open if your
pass is nearby. It's an ideathing. You just have to have it
in the pocut of your ski jacket. And if you go to the gate,
the gate opens. But the gateopens for every velt pass, but
if it's an adult and has apass for a kid, which is much
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cheaper, it will still open.But then they have iPads, and then
on the iPad they can see whatkind of pass, and if it's a
season pass, they see photo ofa person. So sometimes people try to
go on the ticket off their twelveyear old order. You've got the craziest
things. I worked there myself toolater years now. Did he enjoy that
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type of warmth? He enjoyed that. He always liked skiing, even as
a kid, whisky when we livein Boise, and whiskied when we came
to a salt lake. So heenjoyed the skiing. And in that ski
area, the Alta ski area,you work fifty minutes fifty minutes off of
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course, you're in the elements.Right, you're standing on the snow,
So if the winter is cool,you need fifty minutes to get warm.
But if it's a nice day,he just goes skiing for fifty minutes.
So days were like that and heliked that. But ski areas are seasonal,
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so in the summer he needed todo something else. I believe he
worked at another ski area that inthe summer it's a resort and has all
kinds of games for kids and stuffto you know, sort of be an
old all around, a year roundthing. I think he worked there one
year. He didn't like that much. You little kids and stuff. That
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wasn't his big thing. So afteranother winter he went to work or the
city of Salt Lake City. SaltLake City has the department and it's called
the water shed, and it takescare of the areas where we got our
drinking water. And the funny thingis the ski areas are all on the
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Salt Lake City side are all partof that watershed. So in the winter
he worked there as a ski bunand in the summer he worked there taking
care of some plants that don't belongthere. They mow him or they take
care of that, so he wasa groundskeeper. Then, yeah, it's
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a groundkeeper, but it's also alittle policing because the canyons here, they're
called cotton boot canyons. They arenot accessible with dogs. Dogs aren't forbidden,
and that's all to keep the waterquality. And of course you got
people, I'll take my dog andgo for the walk, and then they
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got to go. And when theysee that, they got to go over.
He didn't you see the sign.You got to keep your dog out
of the canyon, walk back throughyour car, bring the dog down.
He can't bring the dog. Sohe did a little bit of policing.
And after a couple of years ofdoing that in the somewhere in the ski
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booming in the winter, he gota real position with the watershed. He
became a they're called rangers. Sohe gave a ranger in the watershed and
it comes with a jacket with alittle star on it and your official.
Yeah, you're a city official prettymuch. And they take care of the
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little dams that we have in thearea. They're the smaller ones, the
smaller reservorests there. They're not reallybig, but they take care of that.
They take care of the maintenance.They also take care say a car
gets off the road, they're goalsbecause maybe the car's leaking oil or diesel
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or whatever flu it. And theygot to protect the war and then they
worked together with the police and whateverauthorities. He liked a job a loot.
He liked it a lot. Ithink he got one promotion that he
applied for more lead senior ranger.It's a team lead. And according to
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his boss, he got a job. But just before that was officially announced,
he disappeared. And then we're talkingJune six, two twenty two.
Now, before he disappeared, didhe have any type of social life.
Did he have a serious girlfriend,children, or anything along those lines.
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What can you tell me about hissocial life? So he never had much
of a social life. Wasn't intofood or any sports. At school,
he always had a couple of goodfriends. He had no girlfriends, and
at some point in time he hada boyfriend. So we discovered that he
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was gay. Which we grew upin the Midlands and the Midlands is a
very free and open society, sofor us, it's no as you at
all. And when he came backfrom the Marine Corps, he had that
boyfriend. He wasn't. That wasa guy from here, from the city
here, and he and the boyfriendactually lived in our house for a while.
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So then it was a good relationship. No violence or anything like that,
No violence at all. It wasa good relationship to at some point,
some relations I'd say, they growapart and once things annoy you,
they started knowing you more and more. And then at some point in case
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she said, well, my friend, this is not working. So they's
played up. And the case hewas a person. I think the social
things he had hall was with peopleat work. He went with the guys
and the go from work. Theywent to cemovie, they went outward,
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dinner, things like that. Casehe came at least later because in twenty
twenty I had my stroke and sincethe stroke, he at least once a
week he came over and we hadn'tdinner together and stuff like that. You
know. And based on your descriptionof Casey, he sounds like a really
great son. Yeah he is.And that was the thing where his boss
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called me on June eight, becausecase he is always very reliable. If
he says I'll be there at two, he is there at five minutes.
Suit he's looking to leave you waituntil two thirty. He'll text her cool
and say, hey, I gota flat or whatever happened. But normally
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you could totally rely on him andthose sort. His boss was really worried
because it was the first time hedidn't show up. On June eighth,
Casey's boss became concerned when he didn'tshow up for work. Casey was a
responsible young man and would never notshow up for work. Casey's boss would
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then contact Casey's father, Robert,to share his concerns. We will take
a final break in return with Robertboxlogs thoughts on his son's disappearance. So
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this phone call would have occurred onj Days correct, two days after Casey
officially disappeared. Yeah, at Junenight and during fourth Saturday, we had
a dinner here at our house.He was there, my youngest film was
there, and it was normal.He just complained a bit because Monday and
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Tuesday were his days off, andon Monday and Tuesday he had to do
some online training page like, yeah, and I got to do a training
on my day off, and blahblah. But it was very cool and
very normal. Afternoon, we saidgoodbye and my younger son talked to MM
from the afternoon around four o'clock andthey talked about the game on Steam.
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I think they used Steam to talkto each other on the headset in the
computer. And but then the Monday, June sixth, he had to do
it training. Well, his bosssaid later told me that he never showed
up for the online training, sothat was strange. The seventy to do
another training online. He never didthat training. So on the age when
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he was expected to be back atwork, he didn't show up. I
suppose called me, he said,you know where case he isn't at work.
I guess no, he didn't showup, so we went to his
apartment and there was no answer atthe door. We went to the office
and they said, well, ifyou want to get into apartment, we
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Edward didn't have a key, soif you want to get into the apartment,
it con't take a police So theyhelped us because we don't know anything
in south Old Lake, it's anothercity, and they helped us contact police.
Police came and they did the welfarecheck and they said he's not there
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and he said he has a littlesilver Suzuki Oka. Check if his car
is there. So they went andsearched on the parking lot and his car
was also gone, and so hewas registered as missing, and his car
was the license plate and make andall were also registered with the Southold Lake
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Police. And by that time you'revery sick and hofull. He said,
we will investigate. In the evening, I got a phone call and they
said we found the cars. Like, whoa, that's a good well.
They found the car on a dirtdirt parking lot next to the freeway in
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the direction of Evanston, Wyoming.So it's a state border to the east.
It's about an hour and fifteen minutesfrom Salt Lake City. It's a
sparsely populated area, I would say, But the parking l and where they
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found the car, it's all opento right and there's no forest there.
It's all grass land because it's prettyhigh up and it's pretty dry, so
that's all grass land, and certainlyin the summer or in June, it's
all dry. It's all yellow grassand then a couple of bushes, but
nothing much there. So you cansee the car from the freeway. It
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wasn't hidden at all. But onething was very strange the largest plates were
removed, and one thing that immediatelytook my attention the screws were put back
in the car. It would bea thing that I would do, just
not willing to lose his screws.He put them back. That's the way
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you do it. But it alsosays that whoever removed the license plate took
their time. It wasn't rushed.It's something, yeah, I would say
some someone did that fairly, calmly. Was no reason to believe that case
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he would hurt himself. There weresome suggestions of other people, well maybe
money problems. Well no, hedid. He had and he still has
a very substantial amount of money inthe bank account. And she was sizing
up for buying his first house.And let me tell you, he had
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enough to do a substantial doubt andpayment. So money wasn't of an issue
in his personal life. We don'tknow, but we never found any reason
to believe there was an issue there. People from his work all say,
well, he seemed happy and greatto work with and this none that so
on a personal level, no indicationwhatsoever why he would leave. On the
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other hand, the police also foundno indication whatsoever over crime. There were
no blood in the car or anytraces of struggling every belonging. That more
scene on the video when he lefthis apartment, because there's video from June
sixth that he leaves his apartment.I think it was eleven forty or thereabouts.
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He has his backpack for work,although he didn't have to work that
day. Something that looks like alunch box or something like that. So
officially case he was last seen onthe sixth when a security camera picked him
up taking one hundred dollars out ofhis bank account. Does that sound correct?
(30:45):
So from the sixth, we havea couple of cameras. One camera
is from his apartment building. Unfortunately, his apartment building had a lot of
broken cameras, so for instance,the parting lot of camera that didn't work.
But we have a friend of mineand my wife. They check down
a store or a business. Ithink they got to drive aall or stuff,
(31:08):
and they have a camera facing thestreet and you could see a car
exactly like my son's car and witha person who is probably about six feet
which is my son's hide, drivingto the street at eleven fifty, So
that totally makes sense. That isabout ten minutes from his home. He's
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driving north towards his workplace, anda couple of minutes later he is on
camera at a nearby well Fargo atm where he very normally calmly gets a
hundred bucks in cash. And weeven know what probable backstory is why he
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needed cash because he was going totreat some of the temporary workers that the
ship employees in the summer. Hewas going to treat them for Peter.
So we know from a very shortperiod from about twenty minutes. We have
him on camera a couple of times, but never on his workplace. They
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have cameras on the parking lot andhe never showed them. And we think
he might have gone to his workplacebecause he couldn't connect to his training from
home for whatever reason, and thoughthe, I'll go to the workplace and
they grab one of the computers thereand do the training there. It's a
theory, it's not confirmed no oneelse. Another thing that he did on
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the Sunday before he disappeared is hebought a handgun. He talked to my
youngest son who likes guns. Theythey go bang and they loud, and
that's why he likes it. Noother reason, just why do you like
fireworks? While they go pay,and they talked about him buying a gun,
and then it's stuff that they talkedabout. Funny enough, I didn't
(33:08):
talk about that one Sunday when theytalked on the steam and that was after
the gun was purchased. The policeknows when the gun was purchased. At
what time, I'm not sure,but it's possibly even at videos from the
gun store. And because if youbuy got here there is a background check,
(33:31):
so his background check was done ata certain time and when it comes
back to the gun store as okay, that's okay, you can take the
gun home, So that's what hedid. That gun is also missing,
so we assume that gun was inhis backpack when he left on Monday.
(33:52):
After that, the car was foundon money on a Wednesday evening. The
police has been able to find awitness who believes that the car was parked
there already on Monday. So betweeneleven forty leaving his suburbense and somewhere on
(34:15):
Monday late afternoon or evening, thecar was brought to that parking lot because
she disappeared, and I'm assuming thatthere were no witnesses. So no one
actually saw anyone driving Casey's car tothat remote location. No, no,
(34:36):
No one has been able to betracked or whatever. No, police doesn't
haven't been able to check anyone down. And what about a cell phone?
He did have a cell phone?Is that correct? Yep, you have
a cell phone. But he didn'thave much failures if to think inness him
(34:59):
detect they make a phone call,he was good and a still smartphone.
He was handy with looking things upon his phone and stuff. His phone
was switched off for it at leastthe signal was lost again around that noontime
on the sixth, and according topolice, the last time the cell phone
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was in contact with the cell towerwas around the area where the ATM was.
And so the car was found wayto the east, like I said,
an hour and fifteen minute drive.There is no trace of any cell
phone things to any towers in thatarea or on the way to it,
(35:46):
because along that freeway there's cell phonetowers almost everywhere. So yeah, the
cell phone was either switched off,empty, broke or whatever happened. Where
is his cell phone at now?That's with it. So his cell phone
and pistol both went with him becauseneither of those items have ever been located.
(36:12):
That's correct, and his license plateis also missing. There's plate,
his bullet with his bank cards andhis credit card and on the website that
there's a list of things. There'ssome really weird special things that you're unique.
He had a key hangard that hadtwo pictures of diolate father who would
(36:36):
died in twenty twenty. We madea key hanger everyone who gave everyone one
just as a remembrance, so thaton his key chain he had one of
those baracord doubles. I think therewas also on his keys. And that
concludes the first half of casey boxlogs story. Please listen to the conclusion
(36:59):
next sweek. Have you seen thisadventurous military veteran Casey has described as being
six foot two, weighing one hundredand forty pounds. He has blonde hair
and gray eyes and a goatee.He typically wears long green wrangler cargo pants,
a T shirt, military boots,or sneakers in a cap. Anyone
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with information about Casey's whereabouts is askedto contact the South Salt Lake Police Department
at eight zero one nine four zerosix one seven nine, or contact Valley
Emergency Communications Center at eight zero oneeight four zero four zero zero zero and
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reference case number LK twenty twenty twoDASH one eighty six nine three. Additionally,
the family has set up a websiteand Facebook page, both dedicated to
finding Casey. The website is titledCasey Missing, in the Facebook page just
titled Cornelius Casey voxlog Missing. Thereis also a fifty thousand dollars reward for
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anyone who can provide useful information leadingto finding Casey. I will also provide
all of this information in the casestory It's and if you are a parent,
law enforcement official, friend, orrelative seeking justice for an unsolved Thomas
side case, please visit my websiteand complete the contact form. You can
(38:29):
also contact me through Facebook. Thankyou for listening.
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