Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 04/13/1993
- Missing From:
- Missing From Oak Park, Illinois
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 12/28/1968 (56)
- Age:
- Age 24 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’7, 165 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A short-sleeved red shirt, black pants and brown shoes.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Some agencies may list Kimball’s eye color as blue. Kimball has several horizontal red discolorations on his back. His nickname is Jim.
- Details of Disappearance:
- After his father died in 1982, Kimball, age 13, acted strangely – he didn’t seem sad at all. He was diagnosed with a mental illness (schizoaffective disorder) in 1985. Over the years, he had good and bad times, needing hospital stays sometimes, but he managed to graduate high school and hold down jobs while taking his medicine.
He lived in a halfway house in Maywood, Illinois, near his family in Oak Park. During an Easter visit in April 1993, he got upset about a broken stereo, refused to go to the hospital, and went for a walk. He vanished and hasn’t been seen since.
His family searched everywhere. They found out he’d stopped going to work after he disappeared. A year later, a police officer in South Bend, Indiana (far from his home) found a confused young man who looked like Kimball. The officer thought he might be drunk, gave him a test, and let him go. Only later, seeing a missing person poster, did the officer realize he might have seen Kimball.
Police think someone might have kidnapped Kimball, and the police in Maywood, Illinois are investigating.
- Agency:
- Maywood Police Department 708-343-4244
- Source Links:
This person was missing Missing Since 04/13/1993