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[dmccarty]

There was another article about the guy who was kidnapped. No word if he is still alive. Given that the kidnappers shot him in the leg, he could have died, and even if he is alive, his health is going to be a big issue.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep… same island I was flying but he was established, married a local and put out a lot of videos…

It’s said that kidnappings seem to be targeted and no doubt where to find this guy.

If he has ransom money is another discussion.

 

[California]

Yep… same island I was flying but he was established, married a local and put out a lot of videos…

It’s said that kidnappings seem to be targeted and no doubt where to find this guy.

If he has ransom money is another discussion.

You dodged a bullet by cancelling. Likely literally. Good call.

 

[dmccarty]

Yep… same island I was flying but he was established, married a local and put out a lot of videos…

It’s said that kidnappings seem to be targeted and no doubt where to find this guy.

If he has ransom money is another discussion.

Yeah, making the videos did not help, but given he stuck out from the local population, he had to be well known in the area and information would have spread about him.

We where once in a small town in Ireland. We had gone to the town to get a sim card and when we parked on the street my wife started to talk to a man with a dog. As we drive up the street, we saw the man and dog, and I ask my wife if she was going to go play with the dog. Of course she was. Before the car was stopped, she was out of the car and asking the man if she could pet his dog.

We had a long interesting conversation with the man, who was an American living in the town of 1200ish people.

Eventually, I got my wife away from the dog and we went into the cell phone store. Somehow, talking to the lady in the store, we mentioned the man with the dog. The lady said, something to the affect of, "Yes, that is John the American." So here is this guy who speaks the local language, looks like the locals, but the locals know he is not local and have nicknamed him from the land from which he came. To say the guy in Mindanao stuck out is an understatement.

The kidnappers likely think the US government will pay a ransom. The US government has been buying hostages back over the last few decades with the predictable results of more kidnappings.

 

[California]

The kidnapped guy was found dead, per a post on Reddit's Phillipine subforum yesterday.

I searched Google and Yahoo news, nothing yet.

 

[ultrarunner]

YouTube has postings speculating when a floating body found...

The same person that told me not to go said negative information is often suppressed because it hurts tourism...

This kidnapped guy posted his wife's family told him it's not safe for him to be out alone and in the end he was abducted from his home...

The thinking is this is personal since no ransom demanded...

 

[kenmbz]

sad stuff

 

[ultrarunner]

Still no updates and FBI is assisting...

Lots of speculation but leading theory is he ticked off the wrong people as opposed to kidnap for ransom.

Several credible sources link to known groups have come out publicly and back channel they have no involvement.

It's odd that while the story is out there is little from the scene, village and area... closed mouthed is one description.

 

[dmccarty]

Still no updates and FBI is assisting...

Lots of speculation but leading theory is he ticked off the wrong people as opposed to kidnap for ransom.

Several credible sources link to known groups have come out publicly and back channel they have no involvement.

It's odd that while the story is out there is little from the scene, village and area... closed mouthed is one description.

I don't have my data handy, so from memory, ten years or so ago two older white men had married local woman on Mindanao. The men were shot in the head one day while in public. I think at or near a beach. The attack was odd because one had to wonder if it was a terror attack but I never heard the terror groups say anything. Which then makes one think the two men ticked someone off over money, drugs, family issues, etc. I never heard why the two men got killed. Information about the murders just dried up. I am sure the locals knew what was up.

 

[JasperFrank]

Rent the Black Ecalade.... you'll be fine...