At first it wasn’t unusual for Dave to be gone. He would go off camping or traveling by himself. What was unusual was the depression and mild delusions he thought that his nose was getting bigger. My mother was worried soon after Dave left in September 1979 she contacted hospitals jails and men's crisis centers. She went to the Minnetonka Police dept and fills out ATL (attempt to locate). In April 1980 flyers were sent to the Department of Agriculture to be distributed to US forest areas where Dave had spent time. Even back then everything was private, if some is gone the police would they say maybe want to be left alone. Sometime in 1980 my sister sent a letter to Social security the deal was you would send a letter to them with a stamp and no address and if they had an address they would forward it to the person you are trying to contact. They wouldn’t tell you if they had a current address or not.
Later I dream up an ill conceived plan to get Social Security information. I was going to write a letter to Social Security from “Dave” requesting an earnings statement. I had gotten a New York drivers license and started to make a new one with Dave’s name and signature. At work I had a color plotter for a drafting program I had. I started doing the color border and adding the text but the fonts didn’t match very well. We took a picture of a friend and put it on the license and laminated it. There was a logo that didn’t turn out very well and even at arm length it looked fake. The plan was to use it to get a post office box. I dropped the fake license plan and we found somebody to go in to rent a P.O. box with no ID but the post office wouldn’t do it. I then thought about renting an apartment for long enough to get a letter back from Social security but finally gave up on the idea. If I had gotten caught my plan was to ask for a jury trial and hope for at least one sympathetic juror.
After about a year I was pretty sure that something was wrong yet somehow I would half expect him show up with a story about what he was doing sometime.
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Later I dream up an ill conceived plan to get Social Security information. I was going to write a letter to Social Security from “Dave” requesting an earnings statement. I had gotten a New York drivers license and started to make a new one with Dave’s name and signature. At work I had a color plotter for a drafting program I had. I started doing the color border and adding the text but the fonts didn’t match very well. We took a picture of a friend and put it on the license and laminated it. There was a logo that didn’t turn out very well and even at arm length it looked fake. The plan was to use it to get a post office box. I dropped the fake license plan and we found somebody to go in to rent a P.O. box with no ID but the post office wouldn’t do it. I then thought about renting an apartment for long enough to get a letter back from Social security but finally gave up on the idea. If I had gotten caught my plan was to ask for a jury trial and hope for at least one sympathetic juror.
After about a year I was pretty sure that something was wrong yet somehow I would half expect him show up with a story about what he was doing sometime.
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