Missing
Willie Charles Standberry Sr.
Standberry, approximately 2006
Date and time person was reported missing : 12/07/2006
Missing location (approx) :
East Cleveland, Ohio
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Black
DOB : 10/28/1934 (86)
Age at the time of disappearance: 72 years old
Height / Weight : 6'2, 210 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A beige jogging suit, a suede jacket and a baseball cap.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: African-American male. Black hair, brown eyes. Standberry has a receding hairline. He wears eyeglasses and he limps on his right leg. Standberry's nicknames are Chuck and Willie C.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Standberry was last seen leaving a friend's house near east 89th and Grant in East Cleveland, Ohio at 7:15 p.m. on December 7, 2006. He may have been seen later at the Shell gasoline station on east 123rd and St. Clair. He was supposed to go to his girlfriend's house, which was fifteen minutes away from his own home, but he never arrived there and has never been heard from again.
Standberry's vehicle, a a hunter-green 2001 Ford Focus with a temporary Ohio license plate numbered EAU8688, disappeared with him. He does not fit the profile of a voluntary missing adult: he had a girlfriend and was close to his grandchildren, whom he spoke to every day. He didn't take any extra clothing with him and since his disappearance there hasn't been any activity on his bank accounts or cellular phone.
A private investigator who's studied the case believes Standberry was murdered inside his home, which has since been demolished. The investigator believes his body may have been put in his car and the vehicle destroyed at a local salvAge at the time of disappearance: yard.
Standberry played bass guitar and was a gospel singer. He is presumed deceased.
Other information and links : ncy
East Cleveland Police Department
216-681-2379
September 2021 updates and sources
411 Gina
Ohio Missing Adults
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio Attorney General's Office
News One
Fox 8
8 October 12, 2004. November 13, 2014; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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