The disappearance of Jonny Slater - Joplin Globe
Jonny squabbled with Ginger about it before finally leaving in a huff and taking their daughter's hearing aids with him. Ginger later told police that Jonny threatened: "If you don't watch your back, I'll burn your house down with you and your kids in it. ". When she tried to stop him from leaving with the hearing aids, he pulled a pocketknife on her, she told police. But the turmoil in the couple's relationship remained, according to police reports in the months leading up to Jonny's disappearance in September 2014. Then, on June 3 of this year, a surveyor working on private property near Carterville came upon... Chief Deputy Derek Walrod of the Jasper County Sheriff's Department acknowledged recently that there is no known connection between Jonny Slater and the property where the remains were found, and there was no vehicle left at the relatively remote... Sheriff's investigators and Joplin Police Department detectives familiar with the missing person case have been conducting interviews and running down leads for the past nine weeks pending results of a forensic examination conducted in Kansas... The case has yet to be ruled a homicide, and no one has been publicly named as a suspect in either the disappearance of Jonny Slater or his death. Source: www.joplinglobe.com
