A sheriff's deputy named Steven Henry Calkins cited Santos for driving without a license before putting him into his patrol car and driving away. If you have any information or think you may know something regarding the disappearances of Terrance Williams and/or Felipe Santos, please contact the Collier County Sheriffs Office at 239-252-9300. He was originally from Tennessee, but have moved to Naples, Florida, to be closer to his family. Great job on bringing light to this tragedy. Plus, as Calkins told and retold his stories (especially his story of dropping Terrance off) they became more and more inconsistent. He would rely on his mom or his roommate, Jason, to get him to work. The concerned Marcia decided to file a missing person report, but the authorities decided to classify Terrance as a runaway. There have been no verified sightings. Steve changed his claim and claimed to remember pulling over Terrance at about 12:15 pm on January 12, 2004, after he saw the car of the former in trouble. According to the program, Steve said the 27-year-old wanted to take him to an area Circle K, claiming he was running late for work. S01E03 - Kelley Brannon Part 1. He had been in the United States for around three years and worked as a masonry worker. He was a hard working person, who was sending money back to Mexico for his family. This, along with the strange Circle K stories and inconsistencies, make him the prime subject of theories regarding the disappearances of Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams. This raises more alarms with investigators, because Calkins was adamant that he barely spoke to Terrance and did not even know his last name, considering he wrote unknown on the report. Suspended, padded, protective laptop sleeve. Terrance Williams Missing & Felipe Santos Missing He also has a vertical scar on his right shoulder and a dark birthmark on the right side of his abdomen. Two weeks after Felipe disappeared, his family filed a missing persons report and a complaint against Calkins. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. They do not take Marcia seriously and bring attention to the fact that Terrance is an adult, and adults can voluntarily go missing if they so please. Williams was the second man. Terrance had struggled in his life, at the time of his disappearance, he didnt have a drivers license because it was suspended due to a past driving under the influence incident. Calkins claims he changed his mind about both arrests and last saw . I mean it. Calkins stated he did not interact with any Circle K employees while dropping Terrance off, though an employee did state she saw both of them there Calkins used the restroom and Terrance filled a small canister with gas before walking away from the station without Calkins. But the fact that Calkins maintains that they were both dropped off specifically at Circle K really sticks with me. As per the show, when witnesses at the cemetery told Marcia that they had seen Terrance being pulled over and later getting into Steves car, she started continuously calling the sheriffs department. Janine Zeitlin is an enterprise reporter in Southwest Florida. He is not alarmed at first, though, as Terrance himself had said to not be worried if he wasnt home in a couple of days because he was most likely staying at a friends house. Keep the word. This struck Marcia as odd considering Terrance had just taken his car to be checked not long before this. Troy Cracknell Player Profile, Reading Rockets, News, Stats - Eurobasket A Mexican immigrant has been living without a passport in Immokalee, Florida, for three years since 2013. The last confirmed sighting of Felipe not by Calkins (who is an unreliable narrator at best) was at the scene of that accident. Calkins also stated that Terrance was pleading with him for a ride to work and asked him if he could take him up the block to his job at the Circle-K gas station. A Blur of the Badge - The Cases of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. The keys were found on the ground by the car. Case against former Collier deputy tied to Terrance Williams, Felipe Initially stating he did not remember Terrance, Steve changed his statement and said he could recall pulling over Terrance at around 12:15 pm on January 12, 2004, after seeing the formers car in distress. As per the show, Steve said the 27-year-old had requested him to drive him to a nearby Circle K, claiming he was late for his shift. On January 11, 2004, Marcia drove Terrance home after working at the pizza restaurant. The CUE Center for Missing Persons, a national missing persons nonprofit organization, has conducted searches for Williams and Santos, advocated for the cases, and has held awareness events and meetings with law officials over the years the two men have been missing. So why would he lie and tell Calkins he did? The last confirmed sighting of Felipe. 24 year old father Felipe Santos vanished the morning of October 1, 2003 On January. He was contacted later, and claimed to have a somewhat better recollection of his contact with Williams. He has a gold crown with the letter "T" on the upper right tooth and the other upper front tooth is solid gold. After a nearly two-month administrative investigation, Calkins was exonerated from any wrongdoing as far as his actions at the scene of the accident. Prior to these disappearances, Corporal Steven Calkins had a clean disciplinary record, but he had clearly mishandled the Terrance Williams case at the very least. Steve claimed that he dropped off Terrance there and returned to check his car for papers. One of the biggest advocates for this case is Tyler Perry. Both men were last seen being arrested by former Collier County Sheriff's deputy Corporal Steve Calkins for driving without a license. Disappearance of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos: Both men went He had been working long hours and sending money back to his family in Mexico. 15 minutes to an hour later, the deputy returned alone and moved Terrances car from the parking spot where it was left to the side of the road and requested a tow. More at the link. Terrance Williams was 5'8 and 160 pounds at the time of his disappearance. Police found no evidence, means or motive for foul play in Felipe Santos' disappearance. [2], A few days later, Calkins's supervisors asked him to submit an incident report. Plus, as Calkins told and retold his stories (especially his story of dropping Terrance off) they became more and more inconsistent. He, along with the other driver pulled into a parking lot to exchange information. On October 1, 2003, an immigrant named Felipe Santos drove to work with his two brothers. He had a good relationship with his parents, as evidenced by their righteous campaigning after his disappearance (which we will get to in the next section). Just like we see in Felipes disappearance, there is no concrete evidence of foul play here, but Terrance has not been seen since that day, walking away from Circle K. At the time of his disappearance, Terrance stood somewhere between 58 and 6 tall, and weighed between 160 and 175 pounds. Felipe Santos was driving to work in Naples, Florida on the morning of October 1, 2003 when he got into a minor accident with another vehicle. He was born on January 1, 1979, in Oaxaca, Mexico, and moved to Immokalee, Florida. Actor, director and producer Tyler Perry has made several public appeals to bring more awareness to the cold cases. I will say that I dont really find this very compelling. The Disappearance of Terrance Williams & Felipe Santos How I wish that the disappearance of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos could get half as much attention as this Jussie Smollett thing. Oddly, Calkins was also the last person to see Terrance Williams, who disappeared in January 2004, a month after Calkins was exonerated in the Santos case. Now, lets discuss his disappearance. He was last seen wearing a short sleeve shirt, jeans and Timberland boots. Florida cold case marks 19th anniversary: 'There's always hope' for He was able to find work on a construction site and also worked at the local Pizza Hut joint. His mother, and filmmaker Tyler Perry are determined to find her lost son. When Felipe failed to show up for his court date to address his citations, his family filed a missing persons report along with a complaint against Calkins for possible criminal misconduct. Terrance was a 27 year old man, also had four kids, but they were living back in Tennessee with the mother of his children. But the fact that Calkins maintains that they were both dropped off specifically at Circle K really sticks with me. Keep the word allegedly on the tip of your tongue here, folks. Calkins claimed that he returned to the Cadillac, and discovered that the proper registration was not in the car, and that he felt deceived, so he called Circle K from his work-issued cell phone and asked to speak to Williams. Terrance Williams was driving the car and may have faced a number of infractions he didnt have a license or insurance, the cars registration was out of date, and he did not own the car. So, at the very least, we know they were both there that morning. Calkins was fired despite his 17-year track record of good behavior (note: just because he had 17 years without having anything reported against him doesnt mean he never did anything wrong police misconduct is notoriously underreported due to fear of retaliation). Marcia Williams appealedto aFlorida appellate court. He said he dropped him off at the Circle K, wow sounds familiar. Florida wrongful death lawsuit envelops Cedar Rapids man, a former Witnesses saw him getting placed in the back of a Deputies patrol car. [11][12], Approximately twenty minutes later, at 1:12 pm, Calkins requested a background check on "Terrance Williams", giving an inaccurate birth datea specific date that Williams had previously given the police when he was arrested. He would also send some money to his family in Mexico to take care of them as well. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, whose firm isrepresenting Terrance Williams family, said his team is pursuing other avenues for justice, including sharing information with the U.S. Department of Justice in hopes the agencywill open a federal investigation. Help needed for podcasts This is pretty self explanatory Felipe, fearing being deported due to the citations from the accident, left the United States and fled to Mexico and Terrance went on the run to avoid the possible citations that Calkins could dole out from the stop, or for another reason unknown to us at this time. The circumstances surrounding his disappearance were amplified, when it was connected to another disappearance. Felipe Santos, for driving without a license. I dont really have the bandwidth to get into that, but you can read more about it here. The Strange and Abnormal: The haunting disappearance of Terrance A Mexican immigrant living undocumented in Immokalee, Florida, for 3 years since 2013, Felipe Santos was also trying to find a better life for his family, much like Terrance. Felipe Santos was 57 and 150 pounds at the time of his disappearance. His story was contradicted again when he was heard talking to dispatch at 1:12pm asking for a background check on a Terrance Williams. Felipe Santos, an Immokalee man, who men missing on 14th October 2003, has not been found and is still considered a missing person. Felipe was in an accident where Calkins was the responding officer and Calkins pulled over to question Terrance regarding the vehicle he was operating. "Known Facts About Terrance Williams" | The disappearance of Terrance While living in his native Chattanooga, he struggled to make ends meet while helping to support his four children, and had also lost his drivers license due to a citation of driving while under the influence. Both, Calkins claimed, were both last dropped off at Circle K gas stations. When he awoke the following morning, Terrance did not return to his home. Collier County Sheriffs Office Corporal Steven H. Steve Calkins. When Steve Calkins was asked where Felipe was, he said he let Felipe go because he was cooperative. At this point, I feel I can say with almost absolute certainty, unless another suspect arises in the cases, that Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos were destined for death the moment they stepped foot into Steve Calkins' cruiser. Connect with her at jzeitlin@gannett.com or on Twitter @JanineZeitlin. As part of a national tour to raise awareness of missing children and adults, investigators asked for information in the cases of 23-year-old Felipe Santos and 29-year-old Terrance Williams. He was living illegally in the US before his disappearance. On October 1, 2003, around 6:30am, Felipe and his brothers were driving to work when they got into a car accident. Gonzalez became concerned when Williams did not return home and emailed Marcia on January 13 about his concerns. The Disappearance of Terrance Williams & Felipe Santos Steve did not discover any and contacted Circle K about Terrance and confirmed that he was not employed there. He had been living in the U.S. for three years at the time of his disappearance, and was sending money back to his family in Mexico. Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos: Missing or Found!! Both men sadly disappeared after. At this point, Marcia filed a complaint against Calkins. Disappearances of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing in 2004 and 2003, respectively, under similar circumstances in Naples, Florida, U.S. [8], Felipe Santos, 24, was a Mexican national living illegally in the U.S. in nearby Immokalee, Florida. Tyler Perry, who is best known for his work in film and as an advocate for racial justice, has been outspoken about this case. This was exactly what happened to a 27-year-old American known as Terrance Williams and a 24-year-old Mexican identified as Felipe Santos in January 2004 and October 2003, respectively. Investigators also place a GPS inside of his patrol car to see if he went to any remote places that he could have possibly taken Terrance. Upon being contacted by dispatch, Calkins claimed to have no memory of making any arrests or having any cars towed on the day of Williams's disappearance. He was last seen with Calkins at the Greentree Shopping Center at the intersection of Airport-Pulling and Immokalee roads in North Naples. A lawsuit seekingto hold a former Collier County sheriffs deputy accountable for the 2004 disappearance of a Naples man was denied onappeal Wednesday. The Missing: Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams Santos has not been seen or heard from since. After Williams disappeared, Calkins was asked to appear before a federal grand jury, but he refused to testify and later moved to Iowa. He has brown eyes and brown hair. Detectives encourage anyone who may have information on either Williams or Santos to contact the Collier County Sheriff's Office at 239-252-9300, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477) or email a tip or call the Cue Center 24-hour tip line at 910-232-1687. Later, Calkins began tweaking his story to fit newly discovered facts for instance, he claimed to have left Terrance at the gas station, returned to the Cadillac to begin the towing process, and then called the Circle K to check on Terrance, only to discover that he was not an employee there. [14], The case went without any leads for a number of years until 2012, when a number of national programs began covering the case, including Disappeared, Anderson Cooper 360, and Dateline NBC. Click here to download public records associated with these investigations. Since losing his license for driving in an inebriated state, he was driven to and fro from work by Marcia. Like Terrance, Felipe had also failed to pick up his last paycheck or make contact with anyone in his family. Shortly afterward, Williams's aunt was able to track down his Cadillac, which had been towed from Naples Memorial Cemetery after obstructing traffic. He claims he changed his mind about It just doesnt seem likely. He was wearing diamond earrings and a watch with a silver band and a face surrounded by white stones. In January of 2004, Terrance Williams went missing after a deputy claimed to have dropped him at a Circle K. When investigators started looking into this, they realized it was similar to the story of Felipe Santos, who went missing in October 2003 after the same deputy claimed to have dropped him off at a Circle K. Some people believe that means outright murder, but I have another train of thought maybe he took them somewhere rural, left them, and they succumbed to the elements. The morning of January 12 rolls around, and Jason wakes up to realize that Terrance has not come home yet. Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing in 2004 and 2003, respectively, under similar circumstances in Naples, Florida, U.S. He has brown eyes and brown hair. He was never seen again, and was only 24 years old. Williams, who had attended a party that evening at a co-worker's house, did not then have a valid driver's license after being cited for driving under the influence, and the registration on his car had expired. There is no concrete evidence of foul play, and investigating officials have posited that it is possible he may be flying under the radar in order to avoid being arrested for the accident a month after Felipe disappeared, a warrant was put out for his arrest for missing a court appearance in regards to the accident. The still-unsolved missing persons cases of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos tonight take center stage on Investigation Discovery's Deadline: Crime With Tamron Hall. Felipe Santos got involved in an accident in Naples, Fl. He was last seen wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and boots. Calkins attempted to appeal his firing, but was unsuccessful. When investigators reach out to Calkins regarding what happened, he states at first that he has no memory of pulling Terrance over. Slip pockets for tablet or notepads. There has, however, been no evidence of this found by Passport Offices in Mexico or the United States Consulate. Felipe Santos disappeared from North Naples on October 14,. Marcia then called and filed a missing persons report. The Williams family continued to call the police department wanting to speak to Steve Calkins. He tells him that he found Terrances car abandoned and needs it towed. Florida cold case marks 18th anniversary: 'There's always hope' for Terrance Williams, More on the missing men:What to know about missing Collier men Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos. Why did Deputy Calkins move Terrances car to purposefully obstruct traffic? The residents of Naples, Florida were shocked when they found out that two men disappeared after they were last seen boarding a police car. Two weeks after Steves internal report submission, Felipes family filed a complaint against him as well as a missing person report. Calkins, for whatever reason, chose not to issue any tickets. Employees stated that Calkins patted Williams down and put him in the back of his patrol car.
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