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Posted by: merczephyr

One of my co-workers has been missing since mid-January. I've known this guy since I moved here 4 years ago. This is the first time something of this sort has happened to someone I knew. He was an avid Quad and stockcar racer. It just makes you hate people.

From the Abilene Reporter-News

Missing airman's remains found

Body pulled from tank on ranch at San Angelo

By Nicole C. Brambila / Scripps West Texas Newspapers
March 8, 2005

SAN ANGELO - A body recovered Sunday from a stock tank on a ranch near San Angelo was that of missing Dyess Air Force Base Staff Sgt. Michael Leslie Severance, his stepsister said Monday.

Weighted with cinderblocks, the body was found in 10 to 20 feet of water in a tank 15 miles northeast of San Angelo. The death has been ruled a homicide.

Severance, who lived in San Angelo but was assigned to Dyess, in Abilene 90 miles to the northeast, had been missing since Jan. 15.

Nicole Leighton, Severance's stepsister, said Air Force officials contacted her family Sunday night saying Severance's body had been found.

''He is deceased,'' Leighton said by telephone in Maine.

Lt. Brandon Pollacheck, a Dyess spokesman, said he could not confirm the family had been contacted.

The Dyess Office of Special Investigations was one of several agencies represented Sunday when Texas Department of Public Safety divers, acting on a tip, recovered the body. Six divers searched about four hours before finding the badly decomposed corpse, officials said.

The Tom Green County Sheriff's Office took the body to the Medical Examiner's Office in Lubbock for identification. A preliminary report is expected today.

Identifying the body through dental records could take up to six months, said Justice of the Peace Eddie Howard, who pronounced the man dead.

''The death, right now, is being ruled a homicide because it wasn't an accidental drowning,'' Howard said.

At the time of his disappearance Severance, 24, was on leave to visit family in Maine, but never arrived, family friend Heather Whitney told the Bangor Daily News.

According to a report that Severance's wife Wendy filed with San Angelo police, the airman had been behaving ''out of character'' prior to his disappearance.

A benefit dance and raffle in Maine to help the family find Severance has been in the works since last week, Whitney said Monday. To date, Whitney said she has sold more than 100 tickets. Whitney said the dance, scheduled for March 19, will go on.

''Like any family in this situation, they're really upset, along with the whole community,'' Whitney said. ''This has shaken up the community pretty bad.''

Severance, who was married four months ago, has a 5-month old son, Shane, Leighton said.

Missing airman's wife arrested

By San Angelo Standard-Times
March 8, 2005

Posted 11:57 a.m. Texas Rangers arrested Wendi Davidson of San Angelo late Monday in connection with the disappearance of her husband, Michael Leslie Severance.

Davidson is being held in lieu of $50,000 bond at the Tom Green County jail on a charge of tampering with evidence.

Severance, an airman stationed at Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene, 90 northeast of San Angelo, was reported missing Jan. 15. A body weighted with cinderblocks was recovered Sunday at a ranch near San Angelo.

In seeking an arrest warrant, Texas Ranger Shawn Palmer filed an affidavit in Tom Green County Justice of the Peace Eddie Howard’s office that said Davidson had access to and visited the ranch.

Severance’s stepsister said authorities have told the family they believe the body was that of Severance. The badly decomposed corpse has been sent to Lubbock for identification.

Posted by: 65fairlane

I don't even really know what to say that is so awful... I'm sorry man.

Posted by: skeezix

Holy shit!

Merc, buddy I'm at a loss. Go hug 'the missus' and your kids tonite.

All my Best.

Posted by: DeckSetter

man, that's horrible. I'll pray for all you guys...

Posted by: LS1JAY

Wow! That really sucks. Sorry to hear about that.

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

Sorry to hear the bad news...I hate to hear news like that...

Posted by: VETTKLR

Damn, Merc. That's Horrible.

Sorry to hear about that, man. We're prayin' for ya.

Posted by: LS1 Mopar Turbo

Man that is terrible, sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Mr. P

I try to look at the bright side of everything, but not too much bright side to this story. Very sad. It makes you wonder "why".

Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Mr. P

Posted by: cswrench

Terrible news. I am so sorry you and his family have to undergo that kind of emotional deluge.

Posted by: StgSeverancesbro

I know this is an old thread but I found this site by searching around and stumbled upon it, and thought i would throw out a post, just wanted to say wow, didnt realize how big this thing was, in case you couldnt figure out from the name, the guy that was found deceased was my brother Michael Leslie Severance, if anyboy would like to email for more on whats happening or that would like to answer a couple questions yourself, feel free to email me at frank_severance@hotmail.com
Thanks a bunch

Posted by: MadScientistMatt

I'm sorry to hear that. Words fail me at a time like this.

And I'm sorry I missed this the first time arround. Didn't check the dates

Posted by: John

That's some fucked up shit right there.

Posted by: GMR

Man, thats some crazy stuff there. Sorry to hear about your co-worker.

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