Ronald Zellmer (Courtesy Iowa Department of Public Safety)
At approximately 5:50 a.m. on April 6, 1985, South Sioux City, Neb., police located a 1984 Chevy Cavalier, registered to a Ronald Zellmer, age 31, parked on the south end of the Veterans Memorial Bridge. The vehicle was left unattended with the motor running.
Sioux City Police were called to check Zellmer’s residence at 1003 Pierce Street, Apt. B-3, and found it empty with nothing unusual within the apartment.
Sioux City in Woodbury CountyLater the following day, Ronald’s mother Lucille was asked to come to the Sioux City Police Station where she filed a missing persons report.
Ronald was described as a 5-foot-10 white male weighing 170 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. He may have a mustache.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Missing Person Information Clearinghouse lists his status as an involuntary disappearance.
According to family members, Ronald Zellmer was very depressed and had suffered from depression for years. A search of the Missouri River proved unsuccessful in retrieving Zellmer’s body.
The case remains open.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Ronald Zellmer, please contact the Sioux City Police Department at 712-279-6960.
Suicide or faking death
Excellent finding Sue. It is worth to check. The Police can check the missing report for his last wearing clothes description to match those of 2UMIA. However, it seems police treated this unknown white male as a drifter – “The individual may have been traveling from Ohio to California. He had a one dollar bill, pink blanket and a match book in his possession.”
Does the DOE Network automatically cross reference the Iowa Missing Persons and Cold Case databases and vice versa? I saw one DOE case where they list who it is not ( Not Jodi Huesintraut (sp.?) specifically), but do they all do that? Case 2UMIA seems to fit this one..
Sounds suicide to me.