October 1, 2023 • 39 mins
Donna Mullen was the mother of three daughters and lived in Jacksonville, Florida. She worked at the Ritz beach bar and had many local friends. Donna was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 29, 1948 and grew up in the Wilmington, Ohio area. Donna often traveled between Jacksonville, Florida and Cincinnati to visit family. She loved her daughters, but she also had her inner demons. She struggled with an addiction to alcohol.
Her daughter Candy Sharp said her mother was a different person when she was intoxicated. When sober, Donna would bring Candy’s two sisters to visit her in Ohio. Candy didn’t live with her mother. She lived in Ohio with her adopted family who raised her. Although Candy wasn’t raised by her mother, the two were close and Donna made sure she kept in touch with Candy.
Donna Mullen disappeared on July 19, 1986. A neighbor saw Donna leave her home on North 2nd Street in Jacksonville Beach. According to Candy, her mother had left home with a gun saying she was going to shoot someone. Donna's daughters believe it’s possible their mother was killed in a drug deal gone bad. Candy and her sister April have continuously sought justice for their mother. Unfortunately, their sister Michelle has since passed away without know ever knowing what happened to Donna.
Donna Mullen was 37 years old at the time, 5 foot 1 inch tall, with brown hair, and blue eyes. The mother of three had affectionately been known as “Duck” due to the way she walked. She had a few distinctive tattoos, including a black panther on her left shoulder and two red hearts with a black “K” on her right wrist. She also had pierced ears and a scar from a hysterectomy on her abdomen. She disappeared nearly 40 years ago. What happened to this missing mother?
Donna’s two surviving daughters have been on a quest to find out what happened to their mother. Can you help Candy and her sister April get answers for their missing mother who is presumed dead?
If you have a valuable tip, you can contact the Jacksonville Beach Police Department at (904)-270-1661. And if you wish to remain anonymous you can report your tip to First Coast Crime Stoppers at (866) 845-TIPS.
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. And if you are a parent, Law enforcement, official friend or relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide case. Please visit my website and complete the contact form.
Her daughter Candy Sharp said her mother was a different person when she was intoxicated. When sober, Donna would bring Candy’s two sisters to visit her in Ohio. Candy didn’t live with her mother. She lived in Ohio with her adopted family who raised her. Although Candy wasn’t raised by her mother, the two were close and Donna made sure she kept in touch with Candy.
Donna Mullen disappeared on July 19, 1986. A neighbor saw Donna leave her home on North 2nd Street in Jacksonville Beach. According to Candy, her mother had left home with a gun saying she was going to shoot someone. Donna's daughters believe it’s possible their mother was killed in a drug deal gone bad. Candy and her sister April have continuously sought justice for their mother. Unfortunately, their sister Michelle has since passed away without know ever knowing what happened to Donna.
Donna Mullen was 37 years old at the time, 5 foot 1 inch tall, with brown hair, and blue eyes. The mother of three had affectionately been known as “Duck” due to the way she walked. She had a few distinctive tattoos, including a black panther on her left shoulder and two red hearts with a black “K” on her right wrist. She also had pierced ears and a scar from a hysterectomy on her abdomen. She disappeared nearly 40 years ago. What happened to this missing mother?
Donna’s two surviving daughters have been on a quest to find out what happened to their mother. Can you help Candy and her sister April get answers for their missing mother who is presumed dead?
If you have a valuable tip, you can contact the Jacksonville Beach Police Department at (904)-270-1661. And if you wish to remain anonymous you can report your tip to First Coast Crime Stoppers at (866) 845-TIPS.
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. And if you are a parent, Law enforcement, official friend or relative seeking justice for an unsolved homicide case. Please visit my website and complete the contact form.
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Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy 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 Claremontson Newspaper in Ohio.
With a column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring attention
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to those cases that have not receivedmuch media attention, if any. This
week's story involves the disappearance of DonnaGeneve Mullen, who was thirty seven years
old when she disappeared. Donald wasalso the mother of three daughters. At
the time of Donna's disappearance, shewas a citizen of the Jacksonville Beach community.
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She worked at the Speech Bar andhad developed many friendships. On July
nineteenth, nineteen eighty six, DonnaMullin was reported missing. She had last
been seen by a neighbor near herhome on North Second Street in Jacksonville Beach.
According to Donna's daughter, Candy Sharp, she had left her home with
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a gun. Over thirty seven yearshave passed and no one has ever seen
Donna alive again. Donna Mullin wasthe mother of three daughters. She was
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born in Cincinnati, Ohio, onNovember twenty ninth, nineteen forty eight,
and grew up in the Wilmington,Ohio area. Donna often traveled between Jacksonville,
Florida, and Cincinnati to visit family. She loved her daughters, but
she also had her inner demons.She had struggled with an addiction to alcohol.
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Her daughter, Candy, said thather mother was a different person when
she was intoxicated. When sober,Dona would bring Candy's two sisters to visit
her in Ohio. Candy didn't livewith her mother, but lived in Ohio
with her adopted family, who hadtaken her in and raised her as their
own daughter. Although Candy wasn't raisedby her mother, the two were close.
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Donna made sure that she kept intouch with her daughter, Candy.
Candy said that her mother disappeared onJuly nineteenth, nineteen eighty six, when
her mother, Donna Mullen, wasreported missing. She had last been seen
by a neighbor near her home onNorth Second Street in Jacksonville Beach. According
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to Candy, her mother was lastseen walking out of her home with a
gun. According to Candy, Donnaand her boyfriend at the time spent a
weekend in Ohio, before traveling toMichigan by a new Harley Davidson motorcycle.
They then traveled to Russellville, Kentucky, to visit Candy's sister April, before
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returning home to Jacksonville. Donna wouldsoon disappear after her return trip back to
Jacksonville, Candy and her sister Aprilhave continuously sought justice for their mother.
Unfortunately, their sister, Michelle,has since passed away without ever knowing what
happened to their beloved mother. Duringa news interview, the sisters had stated
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that they were having a difficult timeliving without their mother. Just not knowing
what happened to their mother has beenvery difficult for the sisters. Candy has
said that she thinks about her motherconstantly. At the time of Donna's disappearance
from Jacksonville, she was thirty sevenyears old, five foot one. She
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had brown hair and blue eyes.The mother three had affectionately been known as
Duck to the way she walked.Donna had a few distinctive tattoos, including
a black panther on her left shoulderand two redhearts with a black k on
her right wrist. She also hadpierced ears and a scar from a hysterectomy
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on her abdomen. She's been missingfor nearly forty years. What happened to
this missing mother? The family believesthat her mom's boyfriend at the time knows
exactly what happened to their mother.His name is mentioned, but I have
blocked out his name because he hasnot been charged with any crime involving Donna's
disappearance. For this story, Ispoke to Donna's daughter Candy about her mother's
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disappearance, and now on with thestory of Donna Mullen, as told by
her daughter, Candy Sharp. Shewas actually born in Cincinnati, but she
grew up in a Wilmanton area.So as she grew up, she had
a sister, a biological balk sisternamed marriage Joe, and she was her
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bartender, go godmpter. She hadalways been back and forth from here to
Jacksonville, from since Nanny to Jacksonville. My oldest sister, Michelle Dahn Michelle
Crampton, is decease. She died. I try not to think about it,
so I can't remember the date.She died on July thirteenth. She
pretty much drank herself to death alot of it had to do with my
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mother's disappearance, and she did therunaway and to drug thoroughly, and that
led to her doing a lot ofdrinking while she died at forty eighty nine
of Cirricius of the liver, thatbeing sedge. She was married where she
was pregnant with my oldest sister,Michelle as we call her. We don't
call her Dawn Michelle. She marrieda man named James Crampton who fathered Michelle
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as well, even though it wasn'ta biological father. He took care of
but they got married and then theyhad another daughter, or their first daughter
together, which is April, whichis my middle sister. Then she cheated
on him and got pregnant with me. Though I was the giveaway baby.
She put me up for adoption toa family that she knew. They were
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family, distant family already though mymom and dad's names were Lois and George
Begley. Okay, so that's howthe three kids came about. She would
bring my two sisters to come andsee me when I was really little.
She would cook me up for theweekend. She would have to promise my
parents that she wasn't blinking or doingany kind of drug or anything while she
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had all of the skirl together.So I found out at a very young
age if these two girls that werecoming to see me were acting my sisters.
And the lady I was calling auntDonna was my biological mother. She
was very thick when I was bornand she couldn't forgive me, so she
gave me to the family where shewould always be able to come and jast
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me that. They ended up beingvery close, and like I said,
they world related somehow anyway to likethis and cousins or something like that of
my mother's were so in her adultyears. I knew her too. She
in nineteen eighty six when she didthe tiered I was only sixteen years old
when I was living in Amelia,Ohio. Form she had came up Kip
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Goze with her then and thebe six. I'm not sure Kamimo was still married
but was still good, but shewas going by his last name, So
she was going by Donna Suckers atthe time, and her boyfriend was who
was in the Navy station on Jacksonville. I'm just saying that's how they met.
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So she came up for the weekend. So when she came up missing
what have been July nineteenth of nineteeneighty six, she supposedly left her apartment
in Jacksonville with a gun and andshe was going to go kill someone.
This is from a friend, butended up reporting for missing. At this
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time, my older sister, Michelle, I just spent two years and the
when correctional fability and it's raally NorthCarolina for being accessory to a burglary.
And as my mother had it appearedfor only weeks at this time. Michelle
and her boyfriend moved right into mymom's apartment. Of course was there and
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her key were there. So whenthey moved out, I get they took
what they wanted and a little aboutlater I get the landlord finally decided that
he's been a clear out the apartment, called my grandmother and my aunt to
come and clean out for a belonging. Still to this day, no one
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has ever been questioned in this case. Does that just not found? Right?
Okay? And just to clarify,when your mother disappeared, she was
living in Florida at the time,is that correct? Injectionville? Yeah,
And she said that your oldest sisterand her boyfriend had both moved into your
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mom's apartment after she disappeared. Yeah. Yes, because she had just gotten
out of prison and she pretty muchdidn't have nowhere to go. She was
very young at the time she seeI was sixteen, she was twenty and
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had already spent two years in prison, so she didn't have anywhere to go.
Though she had this boyfriend. I'massuming that she was maybe seeing him
before she went to prison. I'mnot sure, but yes, it was
after she disappeared as they moved in. When you mentioned that part of the
story, I had thought that thatseemed kind of odd. I mean,
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your mom disappeared and then your sisterand her boyfriend just taken upon themselves to
just move in your mom had disappeared. Who authorized them to just move in?
Did your mom allow this before shedisappeared? Or did another relative or
someone else just say, hey,it's okay for you to move in,
although the woman who lives here isgone missing, it's okay for you to
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live here. Who okayed this?I don't believe anyone, but this is
nineteen eighty six. Remember, lawsweren't dads they are today, So I
don't believe the landlord probably didn't questionher being her daughter and being an apartment.
Like I said, the rent waspaid up for the month or whatever.
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And I'm not sure exactly how longMichelle stayed there. I'm just going
to call her a biker. Andthis is truly what happened. Michelle would
call up the police department down thereand literally cush these men and women out,
and my aunt would do pretty muchthe same thing. My aunt married
Joe, and so these people literallygot tired of listening to this crack that
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my sister was supposedly spooing at them, sending them letters and making phone calls
and just being belligerent. And thecaptain even told me this that it got
pushed back to the back of thedesk, the kate, and it just
got pushed back. Finally that wassomeone new on the kit who might look
over it in question of you beingthen in turn led to I believe her
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name was Kingsberry, and she reallywas doing some digging and trying to find
things out, and then she retired, And I mean, it just got
pushed back, and no one wasever questioned about her disappearance, not the
people that worked for her. Storkedat the writ and the employees there that
she worked with every day. Noone was questioned about anything, not her
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boyfriend. So now it's been thirtyplus years, we still know nothing.
But we did go to Okay,So when she disappeared, we'll go back
to this. When I was sixteen, she came up here with her boyfriend
in the Lincoln. I believe shechose her car up here and they were
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going to Michigan to pick up aHarley Davidson to drive it back to Florida.
They came up and they stayed theweekend with me at my parent apartment
in a Million where we live.But I'm only sixteen, and during that
visult, she made plan with methat in August, you know, I
was going to come down there andstay for a couple of months see if
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I liked it. It was verytough being adopted, knowing your biological mother
and not being able to be withher and struggling between two families. So
I was going to go down therewith her for a few months and see
if I liked it, and maybetransfer school if I did. On that
kind of thing. So they goto Michigan, Okay, they stopped to
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see me. On the way up, they go to Michigan, they drive
a Harley back the Harley they stoppedat my sister. My sister, April
has always lived in southern Kentucky,down in the Bowling Green area, so
they talked to my chists or Aprilon the way. On the way back
through to Jacksonville, something came upabout there being some's cocaine in the bike.
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I don't know how much. Idon't know if it's true. April
had three little kids at the time, and she asked my mother and to
leave. Obviously they had some sortof drawing down them, and April didn't
wanted around her kid, so sheleaves. They go back back fon Bill
and it's just literally not even twoor three weeks later, on July nineteenth,
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excuse reported by her friend Jack cangolle PB and a file five inches
thick. Even there, they've neverquestioned anyone and don't have any of that
kind of information to the fort.It was a lot of letters from Mike
sister Michelle to the Fleet department beggingthem to do this and do that.
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Are you doing anything? But likeI said, since she both flligerent and
rude, and cuffing at these people. It just got pushed the guide then,
So that's where we are today.Although ay for all and I we
went to Jacksonville and we did anews interview and we had to wear a
mask. So we did that betweenme and you and a guardrail when we
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were at that visit a couple ofyears ago in jackson though, I think
we went there two years in arow and then we haven't been back in
a couple of years. But wefound out that Donna had in turn her
family doctor to borrow ten thousand dollars, which we never knew about before.
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But I think it all thinks intwo stories of the bike then full of
cocaine, but she's leaving her housewith her gun. She's asking her doctors
for ten thousand dollars. Who's nowdeceased, by the way, and was
never questioned. It seems to methat something happened to the coke. Either
somebody ripped them off, or theysome kind of deal went bad. Maybe
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she was leaving with the gun tryingto get money because they ripped them all.
I'm not sure what exactly happened thatmade me have different thoughts, you
know, find it out that shehad literally asked her doctor Tom Barrow two
thousand tall her. I mean,who does that? But again, this
was nineteen eighty six. She wasa bartender. She was a very cute
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older lady. Well she wasn't olderthen, but yeah, it just leads
me to believe that that bike waspacked full coke. Something happened, Dad,
she went out to try to gether money back or threaten somebody,
because she wasn't a violent person thatI ever knew of. I mean,
yes, she owned a gun,but Gosha a bartender, Harley Ryder or
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she lives the Russian gruff. Sotwo weeks after this, we found out
that two weeks before she came upmissing, broke up with her. Right
now, he lives in North Carolina, and to this day, even though
the Jacksonville PD, no, theystill have not reached out to question him
about anything. Now, have youever contacted this guy and personally had a
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discussion with him about the whereabouts ofyour mother? We have not. He
would not return any kind of phonecalls when we did have an address.
His family is from Michigan, sothen I'm assuming that there's a possibility that
he may know exactly what happened toyour mother all those years ago? Is
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that an accurate statement? Oh?Absolutely, bike full of coke with you
in the first play. So where'sthe bike at today? Whatever happened to
it? Do you know? Ihave no clue? They wrote it back
to Jack then though far a guyknew it was here the matter cycle.
He should have been the first,you know, it's the only one questions
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should have been him, And eventhey said they by one point they could
have got the Navy involved, butthey still haven't. Still two years later
and there's a new guy on thecase. I believe his name is Justin
Thumpin. Still nothing. And Iunderstand there's a lot of cases down there,
Jeff, like my mom's. Iunderstand that. But you know,
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it's been thirty thirty some years afterDonna's tripp to purchase a Harley Davidson motorcycle,
she would disappear. I had askedCandy about life without her mother,
as she was a teenager when hermother disappeared. We will take a short
break in return with Candy's thoughts abouther mother's disappearance. Let me go back
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to when your mother and her boyfriendvisited you in Amelia, Ohio when you
were a teenager. How long didshe stay with you? And do you
remember anything that stuck out in theback of your mind from that visit?
Was there anything unusual about your mom'sbehavior or just anything that struck you as
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odd about her visit? Nothing worthout of the ordinary for the visit,
she was just loving, happy tosee me, happy to see us.
We were all her family, evenmy adopted parents. We all loved her.
So we had a nice visit.They only stayed I think one night.
I think they left the next day. And I'm guessing that after she
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left you, being a sixteen yearold teenager living in Ohio, you were
probably excited thinking, Wow, Imay be going from living in Amelia,
Ohio to Jacksonville, Florida in afew months. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Yeah, Yeah, I hate jackThenville. Now that I'm an adult
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and I know what's there and I'vebeen there a couple of times, now,
I don't like it. But still, yeah, sixteen years old,
and you gotta understand too, there'sa little rebellion going on because I've always
known that these people that adopted meare not my real parent. You know
what, I'm saying I had siblings. Luckily, I have an older sister
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and then two brothers and then me. I wasn't like them, I didn't
look like them. My grandmother treatedme like I was garbage because I didn't
belong to my dad biologically a realmom. For my adopted mom had two
miscarriages as well as the three children, so she was happy to have me.
I was born because Donna tried toabhord me twice. I was born
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with the beer food allergy, andI was purple. Though just though happen.
The parents that took me, Georgeand Loweck. He worked at Ford
Mighter Company at the time in Sharonville, and that was a great job with
great insurance, and they were ableto get me right in the doctors who
looked me up with braces for mylegs and all that kind of stuff.
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Though she really put me with agood family. But still there was rebellion.
Sixteen years. I'd come on,fifteen fourteen, You're like, I
don't have to listen to you.You're not my real mom, or you're
not my real band, or youknow what I mean. Mean things that
I never ever should have done,and I totally regret now, But I
was a kid. You just don'tknow until you're older and look back at
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how you treat it your parents,you know, But me and my parents
were very close to My dad endedthat all was ninth heart attack when I
was eighteen years old. Just twoyears after she disappears, I lost the
only father I had ever known,and I eventually did. She always told
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me who my real father was,and I did track him down, and
I did find my biological father andI knew him for ten years and him
and my adopted mother died in thesame year. Yes, then I have
four parents and then they're all dead. Still, what brought your mom to
Jacksonville? Why did she move there? I don't really know. She would
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hitchhike from here to Jacklynville and backand she would just I don't know.
She just loved it down there onceshe was there, want and kind of
like April and I once we've beenthere once. Now we go on a
sister's trip every year, but wedon't go to doc and will we go
to the other coast, which iswhere we just were. I really don't
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know what a doc had we're now, What do you know about this friend,
the one who had last seen yourmother. When did this person realize
that something bad may have happened toyour mother? I guess it was a
friend that reported her missing. Maybeshe didn't show up her work or something.
But I'm not understanding how someone fellher leaving with a gun. That's
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the part that I don't get,because nineteen eighty sick people didn't have cameras
on their houses and stuff like wedo now. I mean, she wasn't
the same person that saw her.Maybe a with her neighbor. I mean,
she lived in this little house,you know, that was apartment.
Maybe it was the neighbor that toldthe friend I saw her walking out the
door with a gun in her handor something to that effect. Supposedly was
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she alone when she left, Yes, And like I said, she didn't
take her life, and she didn'thave her keys. She literally left her
electrical on, lights on, theTV was on out the door, saying
I'm going to go kill someone,kill that bastard or something is what she
said. But I don't know thatfor sure. Now see, we've never
even talked to the friend that filedthe police report. She's never been questioned
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about anything. Is this person stillalive as far as I know yet,
I definitely think that this person wouldbe someone good to speak to about whatever
happened to your mother. I mean, if she can remember anything nearly forty
years ago. Yeah, and neitheryou nor your sister have ever spoken to
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this friend, is that correct?No. When my aunt and my grandma
Beer went down and cleaned out herhouse, they brought a back a few
little things. So one of thethings that I got was this little addressed
book, and I literally wrote lettersto everyone in this addressed book. I
didn't get not one letter back,but I didn't get not one response either,
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and some of them were business there, which we couldn't even get dental
records from the dentist office, ormaybe fifteen or twenty. Okay, But
when I was younger, she toldme that if I really wanted to leave,
that we could go away to thePilotines and no one would ever find
that. And so she and Jacklynville, there's a navy base right there,
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and she was into meeting the navymen, and she had my sister April,
I am so bad with me,and we were just talking about those
slow we were going there because shehad oh, maybe his name was Ray
and he was a little pilotinal guy. And see, I always wondered if
she just didn't up and off andgo to the Philippines and there's living her
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in best life. But we haveno way to or to find out because
something about they don't go bike hersecurity numbers or something. There would be
no real weight to identify her ifshe did new to the Philippine, but
her subsecurity number had not been youits nineteen eighty six. Either, we
could do from check to the securitydepartment. I don't know, I got
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be There's a lot of twists andturned. My sister really believed that this
guy named who I owned an apartmentbuilding, had killed her and buried her
under the building in the concrete.There's people that told my fifth are all
kinds of things. I don't knowif it was because she were an alcoholic
and they were taking advantage of her. Some people told her she was in
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the ocean. There's just been allkind of little stories, but nothing compares
to the fact that that bike wasfull of cocaine. And obviously that is
what has contributed to her disappearance.I mean, because even though she was
the biker type and the barmaid type. She wasn't a violent person in any
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way. I mean, she mighthave threatened to beat your ass, but
she never wouldn't have. Today,Candy is convinced that her mother's criminal activity
may have led to her disappearance.She also thinks that her boyfriend at the
time may know more about what happenedto her mother than what he has ever
said publicly. We will take afinal break in return with Candy's final thoughts
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on her mother's disappearance. So,based on everything that you have told me,
it does sound like she was possiblyinvolved in some type of criminal activity,
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right right, But whether or notthat she knew that the bike was
full of coke or whether they justhad a little bit of coke that I
don't know. So I can't saythat she was actually involved in the criminal
activity. Well I'm not going tosay that she wasn't. I don't know.
I wasn't around her. And again, going back to the boyfriend,
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it sounds like he probably knows whathappened to your mother all those years ago,
right, probably everything that needs tobe known, if he will admit
to anything. If it's the thing, it's been so many years now he's
just thinking he's got away with murder. Where is he? Where is she?
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I just heard on the news likeday before yesterday they just pulled like
sixties b hicles out of lakes andponds and stuff in Florida. Oh thinking,
oh my god, could she'd bein one of them? And then
they just directed about me who killedover a hundred women several months ago.
He killed women just literally from allover everywhere, but he didn't kill any
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in Florida. And then there's thisGeorge Thorpe. They did follow up a
little bit of investigation on him,he ended up dying, but nothing ever
came of it. That we arejust stuff with no answers nowhere, And
it would be just be nice ifthe Jacklinville pete would get off their button,
do something, just question somebody beforeliterally everyone is dead because somebody still
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knows something. And you're using socialmedia to bring attention to this case,
correct, Yeah, we share withthings on Facebook. Do you have a
page dedicated to your mom's story?No, no, we don't. We
just share it on our pages.And what law enforcement agency is handling your
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mother's case? Jacklinville Beach, JacksonvilleBeach breet the cart, And when's the
last time that you've spoken to anyonefrom their apartment? Two years ago.
We've been on vacation two times.Technically, I guess that's been on nest
three years. And I'm assuming thatthere's been no updates. Yep, nothing,
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And that's how I know they Theystill haven't questioned the people that we
brought up that they should question,like her boyfriend, right, have you
ever been questioned if the apartment ownerdead is the owner of the rich dead?
I mean, I know some ofthem are dead. Her doctor who
dentists, her best friend. LikeI told you earlier, I think that
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the bike with bulletcoke, something happened. She went to try to write a
wrong and got wronged instead. Truly, that's what I think, and I've
only thought that then I found outthat she I knew that she had asked
April's dad for money. That washer first husband and they stayed close for
all these years, you know,having the two kids. So that was
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red flag number one. Not thatthey was out of the ordinary for her
to call anyone and asked to borrowmoney. At certain times. She was
a bar tenure, like I said, she wasn't rich. And this was
back in the eighties too, youknow people did that. She hitch back
and forth when she didn't have acar, and then she met this guy
who shot her the silver Link andcontinental when she came and picked us all
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up one weekend and me and mytwo sisters in her and we went out
to my grandparents' house who lived inWilmington, and we went to my uncle's
banks fall games and we just hadso much fun. We camped down on
lingram floor. And when I hada step grandma too, that was always
very nice with That's how I haveApril Michelle, and I have uncles that
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are all of our ages. Mygrandpa after he divorced his first wife and
his second wife got with a youngerwoman and had she had one kid,
and then he had two more kidswho were fifty six, fifty four and
fifty two years old. Who saysthey made it was me and my two
six sisters. But she just wasn'ta violent person. And for her to
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go off leaving with the gun inthe first place, that's another red flag.
You know. The ten thousand dollarsthat she asked her doctor for boom,
that's a huge red flag. Whoeven in nineteen eighty six, who's
going to ask her doctor for tenthousand dollars? I mean, this wasn't
hey, can I borrow one hundredbucks for gah? This is ten grand
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And as far as I know,he didn't loan it to him, but
we know that you might have.She came up missing. I don't know
she they could want the doctor.My honest ceiling is that, yeah,
it was a bike was full ofcoo. I don't know what happened.
But because up until two years agowhen I found that out, or three
years ago, I really felt inmy mark that it could really be that
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she just went to the Philippine.But maybe that was just told. Now
hope too that she's alive and happysomewhere because strangers that may theme. I
have my very best trend. Hermother actually disappeared too for twenty two years,
but then they found her. She'salive and well and living in Texas.
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And Joe I was twenty two yearsshe didn't have her mom. So
your mother has been missing for nearlyforty years, and you've been spending a
lot of your time, as wellas your sister, trying to figure out
what happened to your mother? Whatis driving you both to pursue this.
Wouldn't it just be easier to justsay she's gone, We'll let her rest
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in peace and just kind of moveon. I'm sure that would be the
easiest thing to do. What iskeeping you from doing that? I don't
feel elect and so we can puther to rest that she's resting in peace.
She was murdered. Having the wreckin peace when you're murdered, you
know what I'm saying, Just thatnot knowing that's it's horrible. It's really
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an undescribable feeling that you get.You have to know. I don't want
to go to my grave not knowingwhat happened to it. And just recently
I saw your mom's story on theback of a playing card. Now I
know that's something that seems to bea good tool for law enforcement. There
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are unsolved homicides and missing people casesthat are placed on these playing cards and
then they are distributed throughout prisons.So tell me about that. How did
your mom's story end up on theback of a playing card? So a
Project Cold Keith, you know whatthat is. Yes, I'm familiar with
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that agency. So we went toJacksonville when we met with Ryan and Frieda
who are Ryan with the founder,and a similar story happened to his dad.
He's murdered and that's how he foundit. Project case. So they
do spotlight on her anniversary every yearand they constantly run. She'll just pop
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up every once in a while.They're always project spotlighting new cases on their
page. So I'm not sure howthe playing cards came about, but we
were just notified last year that theydid playing cards with cold cases on them,
and they distribute them to praise endsand different things like that, and
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so this year they finally put herin and I haven't received my back yet.
I think they distribute them to allthese places where they could get a
kick just from other people, youknow, like you said, in Provence
and THERFP centers, wherever they candistribute them. Yeah, I actually think
that those cards is that's a prettygood idea. I have heard about these
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cards for a while and from whatI understand, law enforcement has actually gotten
tips from those playing cards. Right. Yeah, they run the story even
acton though all the time. Youknow, occasionally I'll get a call from
my uncle fan nights. They Ijust saw the new cliff or the missing
person you know story. They don'tdo it very often, but maybe once
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or twice a year. I thinkshe flumped up and that's in Jacklinville.
I'm up here and she's in Kentucky. Though anything we share it or don't
really go to Jacklonville. We don'thave friends there who can share the story,
you know what I'm saying. Imean, even though people do share
it, it doesn't get shared enough. If not. Her face isn't plastered
all over Jacklonville like it should be. And I do need to call that.
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They can't give down there and findout what it's going on because it
has been three years and like Isaid, my sisters, she just really
like to talk about oh that much. The most amazing thing to me is
they never question that one damn person. That is what gets me all these
years. So they still not questionanyone. I just don't understand. I
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know they're busy. There's lots ofmissing people from jack Then though. I
understand this for thirty six years oldand probably never going to be solved,
but there's still people out here wholove her and miss Or. I want
to know what happened to her okay, and I have one final question for
you. For anyone out there that'slistening to this podcast episode that can hear
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the sound of your voice, ifthey know anything about what happened to your
mother all those years ago, whatwould you say to that person or person's
please report what you know. Imean, any little pip or little thing
could be it that could break thecase open. The smallest little siding or
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anything of anyone you know could breakthe case wide open, and then we
wouldn't be sitting here wondering. Wewould like to bury her remains and put
her direst in our eyes anyway,So that's what I would say, Please
anything, And that concludes the storyof Donna Mullen. On July nineteenth,
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nineteen eighty six, she vanished fromJacksonville, Florida, after last being seen
with a gun, stating that shewas going to shoot someone. Donna's two
surviving daughters have been on a questto find out what exactly happened to their
mother. The only thing that theyknow is that she just vanished into thin
air, as if she had nevereven existed. No one just disappears without
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someone else knowing what happened to thatperson, can you help Candy and her
sister April get answers for their motherwho is missing and presumed dead. And
if you have a valuable tip,you can contact the Jacksonville Beach Police Apartment
at nine zero four two seven zeroone, six six one, or if
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you wish to remain anonymous, youcan report your tip to First Coast Crime
Stoppers at eight six six eight fourfive tips and I will be sure to
provide this information and in the casestory notes. And if you are a
parent, law enforcement official, friend, or relativity injustice for an unsolved thomicide
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case, please visit my website andcomplete the contact for me. Thank you
for listening.
Hello, and welcome to the CatchMy 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 Claremontson Newspaper in Ohio.
With a column and podcast, ithas always been my objective to bring attention
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to those cases that have not receivedmuch media attention, if any. This
week's story involves the disappearance of DonnaGeneve Mullen, who was thirty seven years
old when she disappeared. Donald wasalso the mother of three daughters. At
the time of Donna's disappearance, shewas a citizen of the Jacksonville Beach community.
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She worked at the Speech Bar andhad developed many friendships. On July
nineteenth, nineteen eighty six, DonnaMullin was reported missing. She had last
been seen by a neighbor near herhome on North Second Street in Jacksonville Beach.
According to Donna's daughter, Candy Sharp, she had left her home with
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a gun. Over thirty seven yearshave passed and no one has ever seen
Donna alive again. Donna Mullin wasthe mother of three daughters. She was
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born in Cincinnati, Ohio, onNovember twenty ninth, nineteen forty eight,
and grew up in the Wilmington,Ohio area. Donna often traveled between Jacksonville,
Florida, and Cincinnati to visit family. She loved her daughters, but
she also had her inner demons.She had struggled with an addiction to alcohol.
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Her daughter, Candy, said thather mother was a different person when
she was intoxicated. When sober,Dona would bring Candy's two sisters to visit
her in Ohio. Candy didn't livewith her mother, but lived in Ohio
with her adopted family, who hadtaken her in and raised her as their
own daughter. Although Candy wasn't raisedby her mother, the two were close.
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Donna made sure that she kept intouch with her daughter, Candy.
Candy said that her mother disappeared onJuly nineteenth, nineteen eighty six, when
her mother, Donna Mullen, wasreported missing. She had last been seen
by a neighbor near her home onNorth Second Street in Jacksonville Beach. According
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to Candy, her mother was lastseen walking out of her home with a
gun. According to Candy, Donnaand her boyfriend at the time spent a
weekend in Ohio, before traveling toMichigan by a new Harley Davidson motorcycle.
They then traveled to Russellville, Kentucky, to visit Candy's sister April, before
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returning home to Jacksonville. Donna wouldsoon disappear after her return trip back to
Jacksonville, Candy and her sister Aprilhave continuously sought justice for their mother.
Unfortunately, their sister, Michelle,has since passed away without ever knowing what
happened to their beloved mother. Duringa news interview, the sisters had stated
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that they were having a difficult timeliving without their mother. Just not knowing
what happened to their mother has beenvery difficult for the sisters. Candy has
said that she thinks about her motherconstantly. At the time of Donna's disappearance
from Jacksonville, she was thirty sevenyears old, five foot one. She
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had brown hair and blue eyes.The mother three had affectionately been known as
Duck to the way she walked.Donna had a few distinctive tattoos, including
a black panther on her left shoulderand two redhearts with a black k on
her right wrist. She also hadpierced ears and a scar from a hysterectomy
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on her abdomen. She's been missingfor nearly forty years. What happened to
this missing mother? The family believesthat her mom's boyfriend at the time knows
exactly what happened to their mother.His name is mentioned, but I have
blocked out his name because he hasnot been charged with any crime involving Donna's
disappearance. For this story, Ispoke to Donna's daughter Candy about her mother's
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disappearance, and now on with thestory of Donna Mullen, as told by
her daughter, Candy Sharp. Shewas actually born in Cincinnati, but she
grew up in a Wilmanton area.So as she grew up, she had
a sister, a biological balk sisternamed marriage Joe, and she was her
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bartender, go godmpter. She hadalways been back and forth from here to
Jacksonville, from since Nanny to Jacksonville. My oldest sister, Michelle Dahn Michelle
Crampton, is decease. She died. I try not to think about it,
so I can't remember the date.She died on July thirteenth. She
pretty much drank herself to death alot of it had to do with my
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mother's disappearance, and she did therunaway and to drug thoroughly, and that
led to her doing a lot ofdrinking while she died at forty eighty nine
of Cirricius of the liver, thatbeing sedge. She was married where she
was pregnant with my oldest sister,Michelle as we call her. We don't
call her Dawn Michelle. She marrieda man named James Crampton who fathered Michelle
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as well, even though it wasn'ta biological father. He took care of
but they got married and then theyhad another daughter, or their first daughter
together, which is April, whichis my middle sister. Then she cheated
on him and got pregnant with me. Though I was the giveaway baby.
She put me up for adoption toa family that she knew. They were
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family, distant family already though mymom and dad's names were Lois and George
Begley. Okay, so that's howthe three kids came about. She would
bring my two sisters to come andsee me when I was really little.
She would cook me up for theweekend. She would have to promise my
parents that she wasn't blinking or doingany kind of drug or anything while she
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had all of the skirl together.So I found out at a very young
age if these two girls that werecoming to see me were acting my sisters.
And the lady I was calling auntDonna was my biological mother. She
was very thick when I was bornand she couldn't forgive me, so she
gave me to the family where shewould always be able to come and jast
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me that. They ended up beingvery close, and like I said,
they world related somehow anyway to likethis and cousins or something like that of
my mother's were so in her adultyears. I knew her too. She
in nineteen eighty six when she didthe tiered I was only sixteen years old
when I was living in Amelia,Ohio. Form she had came up Kip
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Goze with her then and thebe six. I'm not sure Kamimo was still married
but was still good, but shewas going by his last name, So
she was going by Donna Suckers atthe time, and her boyfriend was who
was in the Navy station on Jacksonville. I'm just saying that's how they met.
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So she came up for the weekend. So when she came up missing
what have been July nineteenth of nineteeneighty six, she supposedly left her apartment
in Jacksonville with a gun and andshe was going to go kill someone.
This is from a friend, butended up reporting for missing. At this
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time, my older sister, Michelle, I just spent two years and the
when correctional fability and it's raally NorthCarolina for being accessory to a burglary.
And as my mother had it appearedfor only weeks at this time. Michelle
and her boyfriend moved right into mymom's apartment. Of course was there and
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her key were there. So whenthey moved out, I get they took
what they wanted and a little aboutlater I get the landlord finally decided that
he's been a clear out the apartment, called my grandmother and my aunt to
come and clean out for a belonging. Still to this day, no one
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has ever been questioned in this case. Does that just not found? Right?
Okay? And just to clarify,when your mother disappeared, she was
living in Florida at the time,is that correct? Injectionville? Yeah,
And she said that your oldest sisterand her boyfriend had both moved into your
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mom's apartment after she disappeared. Yeah. Yes, because she had just gotten
out of prison and she pretty muchdidn't have nowhere to go. She was
very young at the time she seeI was sixteen, she was twenty and
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had already spent two years in prison, so she didn't have anywhere to go.
Though she had this boyfriend. I'massuming that she was maybe seeing him
before she went to prison. I'mnot sure, but yes, it was
after she disappeared as they moved in. When you mentioned that part of the
story, I had thought that thatseemed kind of odd. I mean,
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your mom disappeared and then your sisterand her boyfriend just taken upon themselves to
just move in your mom had disappeared. Who authorized them to just move in?
Did your mom allow this before shedisappeared? Or did another relative or
someone else just say, hey,it's okay for you to move in,
although the woman who lives here isgone missing, it's okay for you to
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live here. Who okayed this?I don't believe anyone, but this is
nineteen eighty six. Remember, lawsweren't dads they are today, So I
don't believe the landlord probably didn't questionher being her daughter and being an apartment.
Like I said, the rent waspaid up for the month or whatever.
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And I'm not sure exactly how longMichelle stayed there. I'm just going
to call her a biker. Andthis is truly what happened. Michelle would
call up the police department down thereand literally cush these men and women out,
and my aunt would do pretty muchthe same thing. My aunt married
Joe, and so these people literallygot tired of listening to this crack that
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my sister was supposedly spooing at them, sending them letters and making phone calls
and just being belligerent. And thecaptain even told me this that it got
pushed back to the back of thedesk, the kate, and it just
got pushed back. Finally that wassomeone new on the kit who might look
over it in question of you beingthen in turn led to I believe her
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name was Kingsberry, and she reallywas doing some digging and trying to find
things out, and then she retired, And I mean, it just got
pushed back, and no one wasever questioned about her disappearance, not the
people that worked for her. Storkedat the writ and the employees there that
she worked with every day. Noone was questioned about anything, not her
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boyfriend. So now it's been thirtyplus years, we still know nothing.
But we did go to Okay,So when she disappeared, we'll go back
to this. When I was sixteen, she came up here with her boyfriend
in the Lincoln. I believe shechose her car up here and they were
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going to Michigan to pick up aHarley Davidson to drive it back to Florida.
They came up and they stayed theweekend with me at my parent apartment
in a Million where we live.But I'm only sixteen, and during that
visult, she made plan with methat in August, you know, I
was going to come down there andstay for a couple of months see if
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I liked it. It was verytough being adopted, knowing your biological mother
and not being able to be withher and struggling between two families. So
I was going to go down therewith her for a few months and see
if I liked it, and maybetransfer school if I did. On that
kind of thing. So they goto Michigan, Okay, they stopped to
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see me. On the way up, they go to Michigan, they drive
a Harley back the Harley they stoppedat my sister. My sister, April
has always lived in southern Kentucky,down in the Bowling Green area, so
they talked to my chists or Aprilon the way. On the way back
through to Jacksonville, something came upabout there being some's cocaine in the bike.
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I don't know how much. Idon't know if it's true. April
had three little kids at the time, and she asked my mother and to
leave. Obviously they had some sortof drawing down them, and April didn't
wanted around her kid, so sheleaves. They go back back fon Bill
and it's just literally not even twoor three weeks later, on July nineteenth,
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excuse reported by her friend Jack cangolle PB and a file five inches
thick. Even there, they've neverquestioned anyone and don't have any of that
kind of information to the fort.It was a lot of letters from Mike
sister Michelle to the Fleet department beggingthem to do this and do that.
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Are you doing anything? But likeI said, since she both flligerent and
rude, and cuffing at these people. It just got pushed the guide then,
So that's where we are today.Although ay for all and I we
went to Jacksonville and we did anews interview and we had to wear a
mask. So we did that betweenme and you and a guardrail when we
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were at that visit a couple ofyears ago in jackson though, I think
we went there two years in arow and then we haven't been back in
a couple of years. But wefound out that Donna had in turn her
family doctor to borrow ten thousand dollars, which we never knew about before.
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But I think it all thinks intwo stories of the bike then full of
cocaine, but she's leaving her housewith her gun. She's asking her doctors
for ten thousand dollars. Who's nowdeceased, by the way, and was
never questioned. It seems to methat something happened to the coke. Either
somebody ripped them off, or theysome kind of deal went bad. Maybe
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she was leaving with the gun tryingto get money because they ripped them all.
I'm not sure what exactly happened thatmade me have different thoughts, you
know, find it out that shehad literally asked her doctor Tom Barrow two
thousand tall her. I mean,who does that? But again, this
was nineteen eighty six. She wasa bartender. She was a very cute
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older lady. Well she wasn't olderthen, but yeah, it just leads
me to believe that that bike waspacked full coke. Something happened, Dad,
she went out to try to gether money back or threaten somebody,
because she wasn't a violent person thatI ever knew of. I mean,
yes, she owned a gun,but Gosha a bartender, Harley Ryder or
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she lives the Russian gruff. Sotwo weeks after this, we found out
that two weeks before she came upmissing, broke up with her. Right
now, he lives in North Carolina, and to this day, even though
the Jacksonville PD, no, theystill have not reached out to question him
about anything. Now, have youever contacted this guy and personally had a
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discussion with him about the whereabouts ofyour mother? We have not. He
would not return any kind of phonecalls when we did have an address.
His family is from Michigan, sothen I'm assuming that there's a possibility that
he may know exactly what happened toyour mother all those years ago? Is
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that an accurate statement? Oh?Absolutely, bike full of coke with you
in the first play. So where'sthe bike at today? Whatever happened to
it? Do you know? Ihave no clue? They wrote it back
to Jack then though far a guyknew it was here the matter cycle.
He should have been the first,you know, it's the only one questions
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should have been him, And eventhey said they by one point they could
have got the Navy involved, butthey still haven't. Still two years later
and there's a new guy on thecase. I believe his name is Justin
Thumpin. Still nothing. And Iunderstand there's a lot of cases down there,
Jeff, like my mom's. Iunderstand that. But you know,
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it's been thirty thirty some years afterDonna's tripp to purchase a Harley Davidson motorcycle,
she would disappear. I had askedCandy about life without her mother,
as she was a teenager when hermother disappeared. We will take a short
break in return with Candy's thoughts abouther mother's disappearance. Let me go back
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to when your mother and her boyfriendvisited you in Amelia, Ohio when you
were a teenager. How long didshe stay with you? And do you
remember anything that stuck out in theback of your mind from that visit?
Was there anything unusual about your mom'sbehavior or just anything that struck you as
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odd about her visit? Nothing worthout of the ordinary for the visit,
she was just loving, happy tosee me, happy to see us.
We were all her family, evenmy adopted parents. We all loved her.
So we had a nice visit.They only stayed I think one night.
I think they left the next day. And I'm guessing that after she
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left you, being a sixteen yearold teenager living in Ohio, you were
probably excited thinking, Wow, Imay be going from living in Amelia,
Ohio to Jacksonville, Florida in afew months. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Yeah, Yeah, I hate jackThenville. Now that I'm an adult
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and I know what's there and I'vebeen there a couple of times, now,
I don't like it. But still, yeah, sixteen years old,
and you gotta understand too, there'sa little rebellion going on because I've always
known that these people that adopted meare not my real parent. You know
what, I'm saying I had siblings. Luckily, I have an older sister
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and then two brothers and then me. I wasn't like them, I didn't
look like them. My grandmother treatedme like I was garbage because I didn't
belong to my dad biologically a realmom. For my adopted mom had two
miscarriages as well as the three children, so she was happy to have me.
I was born because Donna tried toabhord me twice. I was born
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with the beer food allergy, andI was purple. Though just though happen.
The parents that took me, Georgeand Loweck. He worked at Ford
Mighter Company at the time in Sharonville, and that was a great job with
great insurance, and they were ableto get me right in the doctors who
looked me up with braces for mylegs and all that kind of stuff.
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Though she really put me with agood family. But still there was rebellion.
Sixteen years. I'd come on,fifteen fourteen, You're like, I
don't have to listen to you.You're not my real mom, or you're
not my real band, or youknow what I mean. Mean things that
I never ever should have done,and I totally regret now, But I
was a kid. You just don'tknow until you're older and look back at
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how you treat it your parents,you know, But me and my parents
were very close to My dad endedthat all was ninth heart attack when I
was eighteen years old. Just twoyears after she disappears, I lost the
only father I had ever known,and I eventually did. She always told
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me who my real father was,and I did track him down, and
I did find my biological father andI knew him for ten years and him
and my adopted mother died in thesame year. Yes, then I have
four parents and then they're all dead. Still, what brought your mom to
Jacksonville? Why did she move there? I don't really know. She would
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hitchhike from here to Jacklynville and backand she would just I don't know.
She just loved it down there onceshe was there, want and kind of
like April and I once we've beenthere once. Now we go on a
sister's trip every year, but wedon't go to doc and will we go
to the other coast, which iswhere we just were. I really don't
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know what a doc had we're now, What do you know about this friend,
the one who had last seen yourmother. When did this person realize
that something bad may have happened toyour mother? I guess it was a
friend that reported her missing. Maybeshe didn't show up her work or something.
But I'm not understanding how someone fellher leaving with a gun. That's
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the part that I don't get,because nineteen eighty sick people didn't have cameras
on their houses and stuff like wedo now. I mean, she wasn't
the same person that saw her.Maybe a with her neighbor. I mean,
she lived in this little house,you know, that was apartment.
Maybe it was the neighbor that toldthe friend I saw her walking out the
door with a gun in her handor something to that effect. Supposedly was
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she alone when she left, Yes, And like I said, she didn't
take her life, and she didn'thave her keys. She literally left her
electrical on, lights on, theTV was on out the door, saying
I'm going to go kill someone,kill that bastard or something is what she
said. But I don't know thatfor sure. Now see, we've never
even talked to the friend that filedthe police report. She's never been questioned
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about anything. Is this person stillalive as far as I know yet,
I definitely think that this person wouldbe someone good to speak to about whatever
happened to your mother. I mean, if she can remember anything nearly forty
years ago. Yeah, and neitheryou nor your sister have ever spoken to
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this friend, is that correct?No. When my aunt and my grandma
Beer went down and cleaned out herhouse, they brought a back a few
little things. So one of thethings that I got was this little addressed
book, and I literally wrote lettersto everyone in this addressed book. I
didn't get not one letter back,but I didn't get not one response either,
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and some of them were business there, which we couldn't even get dental
records from the dentist office, ormaybe fifteen or twenty. Okay, But
when I was younger, she toldme that if I really wanted to leave,
that we could go away to thePilotines and no one would ever find
that. And so she and Jacklynville, there's a navy base right there,
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and she was into meeting the navymen, and she had my sister April,
I am so bad with me,and we were just talking about those
slow we were going there because shehad oh, maybe his name was Ray
and he was a little pilotinal guy. And see, I always wondered if
she just didn't up and off andgo to the Philippines and there's living her
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in best life. But we haveno way to or to find out because
something about they don't go bike hersecurity numbers or something. There would be
no real weight to identify her ifshe did new to the Philippine, but
her subsecurity number had not been youits nineteen eighty six. Either, we
could do from check to the securitydepartment. I don't know, I got
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be There's a lot of twists andturned. My sister really believed that this
guy named who I owned an apartmentbuilding, had killed her and buried her
under the building in the concrete.There's people that told my fifth are all
kinds of things. I don't knowif it was because she were an alcoholic
and they were taking advantage of her. Some people told her she was in
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the ocean. There's just been allkind of little stories, but nothing compares
to the fact that that bike wasfull of cocaine. And obviously that is
what has contributed to her disappearance.I mean, because even though she was
the biker type and the barmaid type. She wasn't a violent person in any
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way. I mean, she mighthave threatened to beat your ass, but
she never wouldn't have. Today,Candy is convinced that her mother's criminal activity
may have led to her disappearance.She also thinks that her boyfriend at the
time may know more about what happenedto her mother than what he has ever
said publicly. We will take afinal break in return with Candy's final thoughts
(26:30):
on her mother's disappearance. So,based on everything that you have told me,
it does sound like she was possiblyinvolved in some type of criminal activity,
(26:56):
right right, But whether or notthat she knew that the bike was
full of coke or whether they justhad a little bit of coke that I
don't know. So I can't saythat she was actually involved in the criminal
activity. Well I'm not going tosay that she wasn't. I don't know.
I wasn't around her. And again, going back to the boyfriend,
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it sounds like he probably knows whathappened to your mother all those years ago,
right, probably everything that needs tobe known, if he will admit
to anything. If it's the thing, it's been so many years now he's
just thinking he's got away with murder. Where is he? Where is she?
(27:38):
I just heard on the news likeday before yesterday they just pulled like
sixties b hicles out of lakes andponds and stuff in Florida. Oh thinking,
oh my god, could she'd bein one of them? And then
they just directed about me who killedover a hundred women several months ago.
He killed women just literally from allover everywhere, but he didn't kill any
(28:02):
in Florida. And then there's thisGeorge Thorpe. They did follow up a
little bit of investigation on him,he ended up dying, but nothing ever
came of it. That we arejust stuff with no answers nowhere, And
it would be just be nice ifthe Jacklinville pete would get off their button,
do something, just question somebody beforeliterally everyone is dead because somebody still
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knows something. And you're using socialmedia to bring attention to this case,
correct, Yeah, we share withthings on Facebook. Do you have a
page dedicated to your mom's story?No, no, we don't. We
just share it on our pages.And what law enforcement agency is handling your
(28:48):
mother's case? Jacklinville Beach, JacksonvilleBeach breet the cart, And when's the
last time that you've spoken to anyonefrom their apartment? Two years ago.
We've been on vacation two times.Technically, I guess that's been on nest
three years. And I'm assuming thatthere's been no updates. Yep, nothing,
(29:12):
And that's how I know they Theystill haven't questioned the people that we
brought up that they should question,like her boyfriend, right, have you
ever been questioned if the apartment ownerdead is the owner of the rich dead?
I mean, I know some ofthem are dead. Her doctor who
dentists, her best friend. LikeI told you earlier, I think that
(29:33):
the bike with bulletcoke, something happened. She went to try to write a
wrong and got wronged instead. Truly, that's what I think, and I've
only thought that then I found outthat she I knew that she had asked
April's dad for money. That washer first husband and they stayed close for
all these years, you know,having the two kids. So that was
(29:56):
red flag number one. Not thatthey was out of the ordinary for her
to call anyone and asked to borrowmoney. At certain times. She was
a bar tenure, like I said, she wasn't rich. And this was
back in the eighties too, youknow people did that. She hitch back
and forth when she didn't have acar, and then she met this guy
who shot her the silver Link andcontinental when she came and picked us all
(30:19):
up one weekend and me and mytwo sisters in her and we went out
to my grandparents' house who lived inWilmington, and we went to my uncle's
banks fall games and we just hadso much fun. We camped down on
lingram floor. And when I hada step grandma too, that was always
very nice with That's how I haveApril Michelle, and I have uncles that
(30:44):
are all of our ages. Mygrandpa after he divorced his first wife and
his second wife got with a youngerwoman and had she had one kid,
and then he had two more kidswho were fifty six, fifty four and
fifty two years old. Who saysthey made it was me and my two
six sisters. But she just wasn'ta violent person. And for her to
(31:08):
go off leaving with the gun inthe first place, that's another red flag.
You know. The ten thousand dollarsthat she asked her doctor for boom,
that's a huge red flag. Whoeven in nineteen eighty six, who's
going to ask her doctor for tenthousand dollars? I mean, this wasn't
hey, can I borrow one hundredbucks for gah? This is ten grand
(31:32):
And as far as I know,he didn't loan it to him, but
we know that you might have.She came up missing. I don't know
she they could want the doctor.My honest ceiling is that, yeah,
it was a bike was full ofcoo. I don't know what happened.
But because up until two years agowhen I found that out, or three
years ago, I really felt inmy mark that it could really be that
(31:56):
she just went to the Philippine.But maybe that was just told. Now
hope too that she's alive and happysomewhere because strangers that may theme. I
have my very best trend. Hermother actually disappeared too for twenty two years,
but then they found her. She'salive and well and living in Texas.
(32:17):
And Joe I was twenty two yearsshe didn't have her mom. So
your mother has been missing for nearlyforty years, and you've been spending a
lot of your time, as wellas your sister, trying to figure out
what happened to your mother? Whatis driving you both to pursue this.
Wouldn't it just be easier to justsay she's gone, We'll let her rest
(32:39):
in peace and just kind of moveon. I'm sure that would be the
easiest thing to do. What iskeeping you from doing that? I don't
feel elect and so we can puther to rest that she's resting in peace.
She was murdered. Having the wreckin peace when you're murdered, you
know what I'm saying, Just thatnot knowing that's it's horrible. It's really
(33:02):
an undescribable feeling that you get.You have to know. I don't want
to go to my grave not knowingwhat happened to it. And just recently
I saw your mom's story on theback of a playing card. Now I
know that's something that seems to bea good tool for law enforcement. There
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are unsolved homicides and missing people casesthat are placed on these playing cards and
then they are distributed throughout prisons.So tell me about that. How did
your mom's story end up on theback of a playing card? So a
Project Cold Keith, you know whatthat is. Yes, I'm familiar with
(33:45):
that agency. So we went toJacksonville when we met with Ryan and Frieda
who are Ryan with the founder,and a similar story happened to his dad.
He's murdered and that's how he foundit. Project case. So they
do spotlight on her anniversary every yearand they constantly run. She'll just pop
(34:06):
up every once in a while.They're always project spotlighting new cases on their
page. So I'm not sure howthe playing cards came about, but we
were just notified last year that theydid playing cards with cold cases on them,
and they distribute them to praise endsand different things like that, and
(34:27):
so this year they finally put herin and I haven't received my back yet.
I think they distribute them to allthese places where they could get a
kick just from other people, youknow, like you said, in Provence
and THERFP centers, wherever they candistribute them. Yeah, I actually think
that those cards is that's a prettygood idea. I have heard about these
(34:49):
cards for a while and from whatI understand, law enforcement has actually gotten
tips from those playing cards. Right. Yeah, they run the story even
acton though all the time. Youknow, occasionally I'll get a call from
my uncle fan nights. They Ijust saw the new cliff or the missing
person you know story. They don'tdo it very often, but maybe once
(35:12):
or twice a year. I thinkshe flumped up and that's in Jacklinville.
I'm up here and she's in Kentucky. Though anything we share it or don't
really go to Jacklonville. We don'thave friends there who can share the story,
you know what I'm saying. Imean, even though people do share
it, it doesn't get shared enough. If not. Her face isn't plastered
all over Jacklonville like it should be. And I do need to call that.
(35:36):
They can't give down there and findout what it's going on because it
has been three years and like Isaid, my sisters, she just really
like to talk about oh that much. The most amazing thing to me is
they never question that one damn person. That is what gets me all these
years. So they still not questionanyone. I just don't understand. I
(35:59):
know they're busy. There's lots ofmissing people from jack Then though. I
understand this for thirty six years oldand probably never going to be solved,
but there's still people out here wholove her and miss Or. I want
to know what happened to her okay, and I have one final question for
you. For anyone out there that'slistening to this podcast episode that can hear
(36:20):
the sound of your voice, ifthey know anything about what happened to your
mother all those years ago, whatwould you say to that person or person's
please report what you know. Imean, any little pip or little thing
could be it that could break thecase open. The smallest little siding or
(36:40):
anything of anyone you know could breakthe case wide open, and then we
wouldn't be sitting here wondering. Wewould like to bury her remains and put
her direst in our eyes anyway,So that's what I would say, Please
anything, And that concludes the storyof Donna Mullen. On July nineteenth,
(37:00):
nineteen eighty six, she vanished fromJacksonville, Florida, after last being seen
with a gun, stating that shewas going to shoot someone. Donna's two
surviving daughters have been on a questto find out what exactly happened to their
mother. The only thing that theyknow is that she just vanished into thin
air, as if she had nevereven existed. No one just disappears without
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someone else knowing what happened to thatperson, can you help Candy and her
sister April get answers for their motherwho is missing and presumed dead. And
if you have a valuable tip,you can contact the Jacksonville Beach Police Apartment
at nine zero four two seven zeroone, six six one, or if
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you wish to remain anonymous, youcan report your tip to First Coast Crime
Stoppers at eight six six eight fourfive tips and I will be sure to
provide this information and in the casestory notes. And if you are a
parent, law enforcement official, friend, or relativity injustice for an unsolved thomicide
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case, please visit my website andcomplete the contact for me. Thank you
for listening.
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