Friday Jun 16, 2023

6. Howell County

The story we have for you this week is focusing on two men who disappeared from West Plains, Missouri in 2020. However, While researching these two missing men, I went down a rabbit hole. There were several other active missing person cases for people who have disappeared in the last few years and their bodies had never been recovered. They all disappeared from West Plains, Missouri in Howell County. One of those active missing people I discovered was specifically missing in the Mark Twain National Forest. So then I started looking at people who went missing specifically in the Mark Twain National Forest. That's how I found there were two others missing in the Mark Twain National Forest. 3 total. I just couldn’t get past how many people, so close to us, have gone missing. I didn’t know about most of them. Not only had I not heard of them, there is very little information available, so I couldn’t make an entire episode on each person, even though they deserve their own. Long story short, there is a lot of info crammed in here.

https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/CJ51/Search?page=1&county&personType=a

https://charleyproject.org/case/kermit-steven-collins

https://www.newsnationnow.com/missing/ira-lee-briscoe/

https://missingpersonscenter.org/missing-persons-directory/missing-adult/ira-lee-briscoe

https://www.westplainsdailyquill.net/stories/24-months-later-efforts-to-find-out-what-happened-to-ira-briscoe-persist,146313

https://uncovered.com/cases/ira-briscoe-west-plains-mo

https://www.ky3.com/2022/11/29/detectives-follow-new-leads-surrounding-two-missing-howell-county-men/

https://meaww.com/the-missing-files-family-friend-of-ira-briscoe-who-vanished-in-2020-says-he-was-lured-and-killed

https://m.facebook.com/groups/277323923926535/?ref=share&mibextid=DcJ9fc

https://charleyproject.org/case/ira-lee-briscoe

https://locationsunknown.org/the-missing-list

https://www.fs.usda.gov/main/mtnf/learning/history-culture#:~:text=Today%2C%20Mark%20Twain%20National%20Forest,southern%20Missouri%20and%20northern%20Arkansas.