In Search of Brother Rich

Post Script--December 2024.

In Search of My Long-Lost Brother…I Found My Nephew

Episode 16: From Here to There and Back Again

Join me in Episode 16 when I discuss getting feedback from my son and his fiancé aftertheir visit to the Corrales house that served as the commune where Rich livedin '69-'70. I also share my process in retaining an Albuquerque lawyer to represent me in navigating the New Mexico legal process to have Rich declared "dead" with me named as his representative.

Episode 15: A Few Moments of Reflection about the impact of the Vietnam War

Join me in Episode 15 when I take a few moments to reflect on the impact of the Vietnam War. Within thischapter, I share Rich’s Letter from Vietnam he wrote to my mother in Decemberof 1967 in which he asks my mother to have Reverand Van Dyke “Pray for theyoung children.” I also share two other newspaper articles she framed and hung,along with Rich’s letter, on her living room wall for fifty years.

Episode 14: "Lately, it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been."

Join me in Episode 14 as I discover and speak with twopreviously unidentified members of the Corrales Commune about their outlandishtheory Rich had been abducted by inhabitants of a UFO.

Episode 13: A Long and Winding Road

Follow my investigation in Episode 13: A long and winding road, as I navigate theNational Personnel Records Center (NPRC) website process to obtain Rich'smilitary records. My stymied attempt leads me to explore the requirements forcreating a missing persons case for Rich within the National Missing andUnidentified Persons System (NamUS) which required a missing person's case tobe "active" within a law enforcement agency in the county where hewent missing (Sandoval County, New Mexico). Faced with these challenges, Iasked myself: "Where do I begin to find a law enforcement agency inSandoval County, New Mexico willing to open an active missing person's file forsomeone who has been missing for fifty years?"