John Glasgow 45 VP & CFO MSG From Little Rock, AK Since 01-29-08

[Grande]

UPDATED: Police Search for Missing CDI Contractors' Chief Financial Officer John Glascow
By Gwen Moritz
1/31/2008 11:44:33 AM

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A "multi-agency" search has been underway in Petit Jean State Park since Tuesday, when a car belonging to John W. Glasgow, vice president and chief financial officer of CDI Contractors of Little Rock, was found in the parking lot at Mather Lodge, a State Parks spokesman said early Thursday afternoon.

Tim Scott, who has been designated public information officer for the search, said more than 200 manhours had been devoted to the search for Glasgow, 45, who was reported missing by his wife, Melinda Glasgow, late Monday afternoon.

According to the Little Rock Police Department report, Glasgow was last seen leaving his home on South Lookout Street in Little Rock about 5:15 a.m. on Monday. He left "a bank account number and the code to their personal safe on a pad of paper and left it on the table along with some checks to be mailed," according to the officer's report.

Melinda Glasgow also told police that "a .22 rifle was missing from the residence." She also said that her husband was "stressed over events occurring at work" but "never made any statements about harming himself," according to the report.

Many Agencies Involved in Search

Scott said about 34 people had been part of the search. Agencies involved in the search include the state Parks & Tourism Department, Arkansas State Police, Conway County Sheriff's Office, Franklin County Search & Rescue, Buffalo River National Park Service, Arkansas Game & Fish Department and the Pope County Office of Emergency Services.

Investigators had found no indication that anyone else was with John Glasgow and had no way to know whether he had come prepared for camping, Scott said. There was nothing in his car to indicate his direction of travel after arriving at the Mather Lodge, Scott said.

ArkansasBusiness.com will update this story.

CDI is one of the state's largest commercial contractors, with revenue topping $400 million and a roster of high-profile projects including the Clinton Presidential Library.

CDI's former CEO, William E. "Bill" Clark, founded the firm with publicly traded department store chain Dillard's Inc. of Little Rock in 1987. Clark died last year. His son, William, has since become the firm's chairman and CEO.

This week, Arkansas Business reported that the ownership of CDI was changing, with Dillard's retaining its 50 percent stake in the firm and Clark's family selling its 50 percent to a management group.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=102735.48651.114877

[Texas53]

I wonder if he committed suicide. People get so distraught, they think killing themselves will leave others better off. He left the code to their personal safe and a bank account number, makes me think he was not going to return. I hope they find him alive.

Prayers for the family.

[Grande]

I wonder if he committed suicide. People get so distraught, they think killing themselves will leave others better off. He left the code to their personal safe and a bank account number, makes me think he was not going to return. I hope they find him alive.

Prayers for the family.

Unfortunately it is sounding that way, I hope I'm wrong!

Poor guy, I feel for his friends and family as they have to deal with this tragic situation.

[Grande]

Brother: Search Called Off For Missing Contracting Executive

Police have called off a five-day search for a missing executive from a major Little Rock contracting firm.

John W. Glasgow, vice president and chief financial officer of CDI Contractors, was reported missing Monday. His brother Roger Glasgow told Arkansas Business magazine Saturday that officers called to tell him the search ended after turning up no new leads in the disappearance.

Roger Glasgow said his brother's wife was at Petit Jean State Park coordinating volunteer searchers, including about 50 from CDI Contractors of Little Rock. That's where the 45-year-old has served as chief financial officer for the last 12 years.

John Glasgow's Volvo was found Tuesday in the Mather Lodge lot in the park atop Petit Jean Mountain south of Morrilton. Roger Glasgow said officers found the Volvo unlocked with a laptop inside. He said his brother's cellular phone and credit cards have not been used since he disappeared.

CDI Contractors was founded in 1987 by the department store chain Dillard's and the late William Edward "Bill" Clark.

The company grew into one of the state's leading construction companies, with annual revenues of more than $300 million.

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=59939

[Grande]

CNN Show Publicizes Glasgow Search
By Gwen Moritz
2/5/2008 12:49:33 PM

CNN’s “Nancy Grace” talk show on Monday evening broadcast a photo and other information about missing Little Rock businessman John Glasgow and was planning a segment on the continuing search on Tuesday evening.

Meanwhile, Glasgow’s brother Roger said volunteers from Texas Equusearch have arrived at Petit Jean State Park, which Glasgow’s Volvo SUV was found a week ago. On Monday, the Conway County Sheriff’s Office began reviewing surveillance video from a Morrilton tobacco store, where a man matching John Glasgow’s description bought cigarettes early last week. But Roger Glasgow said the family had not heard any results of that review, and neither Sheriff Mike Smith nor investigator Sonny Stover could be reached for comment Tuesday morning.

Communications Development Inc., a Maumelle advertising agency that works exclusively with transportation clients, was using its contacts in the trucking industry to spread flyers bearing Glasgow's photo around the country. Communications Development is also hosting a Web site, www.findjohnglasgow.com, according to founder Trish Groves, a longtime friend of Melinda and John Glasgow.

Glasgow, 45, has been chief financial officer for CDI Contractors of Little Rock for 12 years. He was last seen leaving home about 5:15 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 28.

More than 60 messages and tributes to John Glasgow and his family have been posted elsewhere on ArkansasBusiness.com.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=102827.60192.114969

[Grande]

www.findjohnglasgow.com

[LisaKay]

This does not look good. I am praying for his safe return home. I have lost to many friends this way. It's not always noticeable, what people are thinking even when your close to them.

[KittyMom]

http://www.eldoradonews.com/news/localnews/2008/02/06/brother-of-missing-man-spreading-word-ab-78.php

By: Jamie Davis - El Dorado News Times - Published: 02/06/2008

Gary Glasgow of El Dorado, the older brother of a man missing in the Petit Jean State Park since Jan. 28, said family and friends have continued searching for him and are spreading the word about his disappearance in hopes that new information will surface.
John W. Glasgow, 45, vice president and chief financial officer of CDI Contractors of Little Rock, was reported missing Jan. 28 by his wife, Melinda, after his co-workers contacted her to find out why he didn’t show up for work.
“He left his house around 5:15 last Monday morning, and it was probably 2:30 in the afternoon when people at work called his wife to find out why he hadn’t shown up for work. She thought he’d left home early to go to work, so that was really the first that anyone realized that there was something amiss,” said Gary Glasgow.
John Glasgow’s car was found the following day in the Mather Lodge parking lot on Petit Jean Mountain south of Morrilton.
“There are some unusual things about it,”...

[Grande]

$5,000 Reward Offered for Information on Missing John Glasgow
By Gwen Moritz
2/8/2008 7:10:01 AM

The family of missing Little Rock businessman John Glasgow has announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to his discovery, as volunteers continue searching in the Petit Jean area and law enforcement officials continue looking for clues.

Glasgow, 45, the chief financial officer for CDI Contractors of Little Rock, was last seen leaving his home on South Lookout Street about 5:15 a.m. on Jan. 28. His unlocked Volvo SUV was located the next day at Mather Lodge in Petit Jean State Park with his laptop computer and cell phone inside.

No solid clues to his whereabouts have turned up since, his brother Roger Glasgow told ArkansasBusiness.com on Thursday afternoon. Surveillance video from a tobacco store near Morrilton, where employees thought they remembered a man matching John Glasgow's description, turned out to be a false lead, but law enforcement officials have been gathering surveillance video from businesses as far away as Danville.

"Law enforcement is continuing to work the case very hard," Roger Glasgow said, referring to the Conway County Sheriff's Office, the Arkansas State Police, and the FBI, which is "looking at it now as John possibly being the victim of a crime."

There has been no activity on any of Glasgow's bank or credit card accounts since he vanished, and a check of passengers who flew out of Little Rock National Airport early last week "came up empty." Flyers bearing his picture and information on the search are being distributed along bus routes.

A team of about eight volunteers from Texas Equusearch arrived in Arkansas on Tuesday specifically to help in the search for Glasgow. But they first offered their assistance in search and rescue operations following the deadly tornadoes that struck north-central Arkansas that evening, a reprioritization that Roger Glasgow described as "appropriate." By Thursday they were searching mostly south of Petit Jean Mountain on all-terrain vehicles.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=102923.52045.115065

[lorettalockhorn]

Grande, glad to see this here, thanks for posting.

I hadn't noticed before that the weapon was missing; that doesn't sound good. Honestly, when I read that he had left behind an account number, I thought that maybe that was an indication that the account was secret or the Mrs. wasn't allowed access for whatever reason, and that might be an indication that he had abandoned his job and family and was/is alive and well somewhere at least leaving her some financial solace.

Godspeed to his family and searchers.

[Audie]

Apparently the .22 rifle was later found at the house in a different room. And John's volvo wasn't at the Mather lodge Monday or even early Tuesday. I see they checked with the Little Rock airport, but I'm wondering about that airstrip right there in the park. Small planes come and go from there. JMO, but I don't think he is in that state park. I think there is more to this story than we know.

[Grande]

Apparently the .22 rifle was later found at the house in a different room. And John's volvo wasn't at the Mather lodge Monday or even early Tuesday. I see they checked with the Little Rock airport, but I'm wondering about that airstrip right there in the park. Small planes come and go from there. JMO, but I don't think he is in that state park. I think there is more to this story than we know.

Interesting Audie, thanks.

[Grande]

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[Audie]

Thats the area. Thanks for the pics, Grande!

[Grande]

Thats the area. Thanks for the pics, Grande!

Good deal, your welcome.

[Grande]

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Workers from The Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, a volunteer horse-mounted search foundation for lost and missing persons, have volunteered their services in finding Glasgow since last week. Donna Jean Glasgow says EquuSearch workers are nearly certain her brother isn't on the mountain.

"That mountain has been searched so thoroughly, they say they're 99.99-percent confident that he is not up there," said Donna Jean, who commended CDI staff, her sister-in-law Melinda Glasgow and brother Roger Glasgow for directing the ceaseless search.

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/021208/loc_0212020001.shtml

[Grande]

Glasgow case: New details
-- David Koon

With the family of missing CDI Contractors chief financial officer John Glasgow looking on, Little Rock attorney Chip Welch addressed the media at Allsopp Park today, saying that the family now believes that "evidence points away from the mountain." He referred to Petit Jean, where Glasgow's car was found Jan. 29 and which has been searched extensively without turning up a trace of him.

Among the news from the event:

The reward for Glasgow has been increased to $70,000 -- $50,000 from the family, and and additional $20,000 from letsbringthemhome.org

Glasgow's Volvo has been forensically examined, and found to contain what Welch categorized as "no fingerprints," indicating that it may have been wiped down before being parked on Petit Jean.

Trained search dogs found no trace of Glasgow's scent leading away from his parked car, or anywhere else on the mountain.

In addition to Glasgow's cell phone and laptop computer, his bank card was found in the car. His wallet and car keys have not been found.

A park ranger at Mather Lodge on Petit Jean told police that Glasgow's car appeared in the parking lot there between noon and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. He'd last been seen leaving his home before 6 a.m. the day before, Monday, Jan. 28.

Welch said that while Glasgow had left a bank account number and the combination to a safe on a notepad at his home -- which some have taken as a suggestion that Glasgow was preparing to end it all -- he added that the numbers were found written several sheets from the top sheet of a pad of paper, and there is no way of knowing when they were written.

He reiterated, in response to a question, that there was no indication of any financial irregularities at CDI, one of the state's largest construction companies, a venture owned in equal parts by the Dillard Department Store family and the family of the late William Clark. A deal reportedly was nearing completion for purchase of Clark's share of the company by his son and investors including Glasgow.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/02/glasgow_case_new_details.aspx

[lorettalockhorn]

Grande, thanks for posting. Doesn't it seem reasonable that he could have had someone else park the car at the park after thoroughly cleaning it? Maybe it's just wishful thinking that he hasn't fallen prey to foul play.

[Grande]

The Glasgow case

This week, David Koon's media column addressed a question many have raised about the scant Arkansas Democrat-Gazette coverage of the case of missing CDI construction executive John Glasgow. A spokesman for the paper indicated that it's related to a general caution about delving into cases of missing adults, absent evidence of foul play. He indicated, too, that there'd been no outside pressure to downplay coverage.

I know the dilemma. But this case strikes me as out of the ordinary, even absent foul play evidence so far. Glasgow disappeared as the top financial officer of a multi-million-dollar company going through an ownership transition following the death of its founder. Glasgow had told family and friends of a recent strained business relationship with the CDI construction company's equal partner, Dillard Department Stores. Dillard officials had questioned some of Glasgow's accounting practices as the company's annual bonuses and its value were being reviewed. Glasgow took one particular phone call from a Dillard executive as "threatening," friends said -- not in a physical sense, but in terms of business consequences. This call was followed not long before Glasgow's disappearance by a tense meeting with two top Dillard executives.

Glasgow was at the point of deciding whether to borrow money to purchase a portion of the company himself and was advising others on similar decisions. His disappearance brought a change in the chief financial officer of the company. At last report, no final resolution has been reached on future ownership of CDI founder Bill Clark's half share of the company, though it's expected that his sound will control most of the ownershp. All these are business issues of consequence going forward for a national department store chain and its long-time partner, a local construction firm that has grown a national reputation. Sounds like news to me.

There are few developments to report in the missing person case. A new dog team from Maine, said to be one of the best in the country, searched Petit Jean Mountain again last weekend without picking up a trail of Glasgow. No money has been reported missing. No sightings, or hints of sightings, have turned up in checks of many surveillance cameras in places Glasgow might have passed. CDI has a camera that covers a part of its parking lot. He does not appear on it the morning of Jan. 28, when he was last seen leaving home. The code he used to enter the building was not entered that morning.

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A reader asked for the photo above of Glasgow's car. Best version I can get on short notice.
Posted by Max Brantley on February 21, 2008 02:06 PM

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/02/the_glasgow_case.aspx

[Grande]

Tourist Photo Aids in John Glasgow Search
By Gwen Moritz
2/22/2008 3:24:01 PM

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A photo taken by a tourist shows John Glasgow's SUV, parked in front of the lodge on Monday afternoon, Jan. 28, the day he disappeared.

Little Rock executive John Glasgow's Volvo SUV was parked at Mather Lodge at Petit Jean State Park sometime before 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28, the day he disappeared, photos taken by a lodge guest show.

Two photographs taken by a Tennessee tourist refute earlier published reports that the vehicle wasn't in the parking lot until midday on Jan. 29, shortly before it was discovered.

Roger Glasgow, John Glasgow's older brother, said the family had contacted guests registered at the lodge on Jan. 28 and 29 in hopes of finding someone who had seen John or had photographs of the parking lot. One guest from Tennessee, whose name Roger didn't know, provided two date-stamped digital photos of the parking lot taken about 4:30 on that Monday afternoon, and the Volvo was in the same parking spot outside the lodge where it was discovered the next day.

Roger Glasgow provided a printed copy of one photo to ArkansasBusiness.com, but the copy did not include the date stamp.

Glasgow, 45, was chief financial officer of CDI Contractors in Little Rock. He was reported missing on the afternoon on Jan. 28 when he failed to show up for work. A neighbor saw his car leave his home on South Lookout Street at 5:15 that morning.

The Petit Jean Headlight newspaper, citing unnamed rangers, reported that Glasgow's car was not seen in the parking lot until midday on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Roger Glasgow also told ArkansasBusiness.com that John's wife, Melinda, had resigned her position as an event planner for Heifer International. She had not returned to work since her husband's disappearance, he said.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=103258.52562.115400

[Texas53]

I'm wondering if its something other then foul play. JMO

[Roenick]

Have any of the business deals he had worked on or was working on been questioned?
Just wondering if he was the financial guy at his work and someone wasn't happy if they did or had something done to him. Sounded like a buy out of some type was taking place - was everyone in the deal ok with it all?


Thoughts and prayers for his wife and family. I hope the answers are found soon and he comes home.

[lorettalockhorn]

Have any of the business deals he had worked on or was working on been questioned?
Just wondering if he was the financial guy at his work and someone wasn't happy if they did or had something done to him. Sounded like a buy out of some type was taking place - was everyone in the deal ok with it all?


Thoughts and prayers for his wife and family. I hope the answers are found soon and he comes home.

Roenick, there is some excellent commentary at the Arkansas Times website, including information about the necessary audits that would be taking place for the buyout to take place, as well as the difference in that and a forensic accounting.

I find it interesting that Glasgow's vehicle revealed no forensics, not even his own prints. Sounds to me like it was detailed extremely well, and I don't imagine that took place in the parking lot at the State park.

I honestly think that Glasgow has gone in the opposite direction that his vehicle was found in relation to his home, but the thing that bothers me is that if he really wanted to be out of his family's lives, he would have had the aides and abettors to his disappearance leave a blood sample on the scene. That fact may now be making me lean toward foul play.

Grande, thanks so much for the update. Godspeed to the Glasgow family.

[KittyMom]

Sounds like a Ray Garcia type of case. Just too much mystery.

[packy]

The car's absence of prints seems to show foul play doesn't it? If someone wanted to leave voluntarily what reason would they have to clean the car. If another person was asked to deliver it for him then wearing gloves would seem to be good enough to keep prints off of the car.

[ggbliss]

The weapon (a family heirloom) was found at home, where it had been all along. The latest update on the story can be seen at http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=103434.54928.115557&view=all&link=perm

[Pauli]

John Glasgow Letter Shows Strained Relationship Between Dillard's, CDI
By Gwen Moritz (gmoritz@abpg.com)
2/28/2008 5:06:01 PM
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The relationship between the management of CDI Contractors LLC of Little Rock and half-owner Dillard's Inc. was under tremendous stress in the days before CDI's chief financial officer disappeared on Jan. 28 (http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=102532).

On Friday, Jan. 18, Melinda Glasgow saw her husband, John, in tears for only the second time in 16 years, after a particularly difficult meeting with Dillard's executives; the first was when his mother died. "He told me, ‘Today has been the worst day of my life.'"

A week later, on Jan. 25, DJohn Glasgow completed a draft of a letter to Dillard's CEO William Dillard II (http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/images/photos/glasgow_letter_full.jpg) on behalf of William Clark, CEO of CDI since the death in May of his father, company founder Bill Clark (http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=97921). It referred to a meeting that had included Clark, Glasgow, William Dillard and Dillard's CFO James Freeman.

"For Freeman to come down here and say we are dishonest, and for you [Dillard] to sit there and not say anything, hurt us to the core. We have never been so offended in our lives," Glasgow wrote for Clark.


Draft of Letter


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[lorettalockhorn]

This story is curiouser and curiouser. I wonder what Kevin Wheeler's alibi is for 1/29/08?

Thanks for posting updates. The comments at Arkansas Business are great, lots of interesting theories out there.

[packy]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/business/without_a_trace_100654.htm
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Separately this week, a group of investors threatened a proxy contest against the company, saying it has ignored requests to discuss their allegations of poor management and corporate governance.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Glasgow had been supervising a redistribution of CDI's ownership following the death last spring of William Clark, an Arkansas entrepreneur who had been Dillard's 50-50 partner. About 20 percent of CDI's ownership was being transferred to top CDI executives including Glasgow, sources said.

In the days before his disappearance, sources said Glasgow was questioned by one Dillard executive who complained about the size of Glasgow's bonus of $300,000.

The Dillard executive also raised questions about CDI's accounting methods and fees that the firm had been charging Dillard's, and sent three independent auditors to comb through CDI documents for weeks, sources said.


In response to inquiries from Arkansas Business about Glasgow's disappearance, Dillard's issued a statement saying that "neither Dillard's nor CDI believe any money was misappropriated by John Glasgow or any other member of CDI's management," and denied that it was looking to replace Glasgow.

But Dillard's has said little else in public about the matter.

Glasgow's relatives say they haven't been contacted by anyone at Dillard's since his disappearance.

"Not one letter, not one note, not one phone call - nothing," Glasgow's wife Melinda said.

Meanwhile, the state's largest newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is being needled by the competition for its coverage of the situation.

Max Brantley, editor of the Arkansas Times, claimed that Dillard's is a big advertiser, and said the Democrat-Gazette treats the company with "kid gloves" - an allegation firmly denied by the newspaper.

"We cover events based on their news value and we judge news value by the elements of news," Democrat-Gazette Deputy Editor Frank Fallone responded.

[Grande]

March 14, 2008, 11:58AM
Exec's Vanishing Mystery Yields No Clues
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The stress of restructuring the construction company that built the Clinton Presidential Library gave John Glasgow every reason to run away.

A seven-figure salary, a chance to buy part of a firm jointly owned by department-store chain Dillard's Inc. and a life lived in good spirits gave him every reason to stay.

Glasgow has been missing since before sunup Jan. 28; his car was found abandoned the next day at a state park. Family and police say it's impossible to tell whether Glasgow killed himself, was abducted or left to start a new life elsewhere. His family said the easygoing 45-year-old felt overwhelmed and anxious about a company audit, but the company said it found no money missing. The police say there is no evidence of foul play, but no clues to his whereabouts, either.

"He may be under some kind of compulsion ... some kind of blackmail, that's a scenario you could dream up," his brother Roger Glasgow said. "We're not suggesting any of these scenarios because we just don't know. But it does open up a Pandora's box of possibilities."

John Glasgow was the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors LLC of Little Rock. The firm, owned by Dillard's and the estate of co-founder Bill Clark, built or remodeled many of Dillard's 300-plus department stores and put up some of Arkansas' signature projects, including Clinton's library and the headquarters of Heifer International. CDI last year had estimated sales last year of $432.9 million. Dillard's Inc. had 2007 sales of $7.81 billion.

With Clark's death last year, Dillard's has the option to buy his shares. The retailer, however, has discussed letting CDI employees buy Clark's shares instead. Glasgow was in charge of the redistribution and himself stood to buy a part of the company.

Glasgow's family and colleagues say the multimillion-dollar deal weighed heavily on him.

Weeks before his disappearance, his wife Melinda found him pacing in their kitchen as the end-of-the-year audit period approached. Dillard's, with its option pending, sent "absolutely relentless" auditors to review CDI's books, she said.

According to Roger Glasgow, John tapped his own phone line after perceiving a threat over how CDI depreciated its assets. Depreciation, a standard accounting practice, figures how business assets, such as equipment, lose value over time.

Roger Glasgow said one Dillard's official reminded his brother it was the CFO of Enron Corp. who went to jail when that company collapsed in an accounting scandal.

Recordings from the tapped phone line captured no further threats, he said.

Dillard's did not return telephone calls to The Associated Press seeking comment but in a joint statement with CDI told the weekly newspaper Arkansas Business nothing was wrong with the accounting.

"Neither Dillard's nor CDI believe any money was misappropriated by John Glasgow or any other member of CDI's management," the statement said.

The clean books fit John Glasgow's personality, his family says: After earning a $500 bonus for completing an anti-smoking program, the executive returned the money after he started to light up again.

William Clark, president and CEO of CDI Contractors and the son of its founder, said there had been "a meeting that did not go well" but that no one threatened or harassed Glasgow. He said Glasgow suffered from "pressure that was self-induced."

"The people buying in were obviously about ready to take a big financial step and John felt personally responsible to make sure that everything went well with the deal," Clark said.

Clark said the redistribution has slowed since Glasgow's disappearance. A former member of Dillard's financial office now oversees CDI's books, but the secretary still answers the telephone by saying "John Glasgow's office."

Roger Glasgow said his brother appeared happy in his marriage after recent family trips to the Galapagos Islands and skiing in Colorado. Another brother, Gary, said the family gathered New Year's Day at John's Little Rock home. Despite looking like he lost a little weight, Gary Glasgow said, his brother seemed to be in good spirits.

The family's bank accounts saw no unusual transactions, nor were there unfamiliar calls to their home or cellular phones in the three months before his disappearance.

The day after Glasgow disappeared in his dark gray 2005 Volvo SUV, police found the car atop Petit Jean Mountain, a state park an hour northwest of Little Rock _ doors unlocked, valuables inside. There was no hint of Glasgow.

Conway County sheriff's investigator Sonny Stover said tracking dogs may have found something _ but the dog handlers couldn't tell if the scent came from Glasgow or just from his car. No one knows how the SUV came to be on the mountain.

"It looks like he's just walked off," Stover said.

A worker at a Waffle House 30 miles from Petit Jean offered one clue, telling deputies that, about the time of the disappearance, a man matching Glasgow's description dropped in to order breakfast. The traveler ate two eggs over medium, hash browns and bacon _ alone and untroubled.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5619910.html

[Pandabear]

This story has been in the local news since this Little Rock business man went missing on January 28, 2008.

http://www.findjohnglasgow.com/index.shtml

[Pandabear]

A few more links concerning Mr. Glasgow's disappearance.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=103418.56267.115557

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/business/without_a_trace_100654.htm

[Pandabear]

Sorry I started a new thread on this that had to be merged. Once again, I searched and apparently didn't look in the right place.:0doh:


Edit to add since one of John's brothers lives in my home town, I've been trying to follow this case as closely as possible. I have this nagging feeling that John wasn't alone when he left his home that morning. I believe it's possible that he and his car were taken when he went out to go to work that morning. I know that a neighbor says he saw what he believes was John's SUV leaving home, but he didn't see the driver. By the dogs not being able to find a scent of him leaving his car at Petit Jean, I don't believe he ever made it there.

JMO

[Pauli]

This is another one of those cases that just baffles a person..nothing, no information.... no clues....

[Pandabear]

In June 1995, John and Melinda bought their house on South Lookout Street, a little over a mile from CDI's offices at 3000 Cantrell Road, for $179,000 (and paid it off in 2003). Late in 1995, John would be named chief financial officer of CDI after he helped uncover a seven-figure embezzlement by the previous CFO, Kevin Wheeler.

(Wheeler, 32 at the time of his arrest, pleaded guilty in 1996 to stealing more than $1.3 million from CDI, drew a 10-year sentence in state prison and was out after six months. Ten years later he drew a 36-month sentence in federal prison for embezzling almost $300,000 from MCDR Contractors & Construction Managers of Memphis. He was released from the federal prison camp at Montgomery, Ala., in March 2007.)

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=103412.48591.115557&view=all



I just find this very strange, and I wonder if this person has been followed up on.

[Grande]

Clinton Library Builder's CFO Disappears Amid Audit
Sunday, March 16, 2008

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — John Glasgow had a healthy salary, with an opportunity to pick up stock in the construction company where he worked. He was the kind of guy who paid back a $500 bonus he got for completing an anti-smoking program because he started to light up again.

But now Glasgow has been missing since Jan. 28, with his car found abandoned the next day, and family and police say it's impossible to tell whether he killed himself, was abducted or left to start a new life elsewhere.

His family said the easygoing 45-year-old felt overwhelmed and anxious about a company audit, but the company says no money is missing.

Police say there is no evidence of foul play, and no clues to his whereabouts.

"He may be under some kind of compulsion ... some kind of blackmail, that's a scenario you could dream up," said his brother, Roger Glasgow. "We're not suggesting any of these scenarios because we just don't know. But it does open up a Pandora's box of possibilities."

John Glasgow was the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors LLC of Little Rock, owned by department-store chain Dillard's Inc. and the estate of co-founder Bill Clark. It has built or remodeled many of Dillard's 300-plus department stores and put up some of Arkansas' signature projects, including Bill Clinton's presidential library, and had estimated sales last year of $432.9 million. Dillard's Inc. had 2007 sales of $7.81 billion.

With Clark's death last year, Dillard's has the option to buy his shares, but it has discussed letting CDI employees buy Clark's shares instead. Glasgow was in charge of the redistribution and himself stood to buy a part of the company.

Glasgow's family and colleagues say that multimillion-dollar deal weighed heavily on him.

Weeks before his disappearance, his wife Melinda found him pacing in their kitchen as the end-of-the-year audit period approached. Dillard's had sent "absolutely relentless" auditors to review CDI's books, she said.

Roger Glasgow said John tapped his own phone after perceiving a threat over CDI's depreciation of its assets. Depreciation, a standard accounting practice, figures how business assets, such as equipment, lose value over time.

Recordings from the tapped phone line revealed no further threats, he said.

Dillard's representatives did not return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment. In a joint statement with CDI, Dillard's told the weekly newspaper Arkansas Business nothing was wrong with CDI's accounting.

William Clark, president and CEO of CDI and the son of its founder, said Glasgow suffered from "pressure that was self-induced."

"The people buying in were obviously about ready to take a big financial step and John felt personally responsible to make sure that everything went well with the deal," Clark said.

Roger Glasgow said his brother appeared happy in his marriage.

Glasgow's SUV was found at Petit Jean Mountain, a state park an hour northwest of Little Rock, with its doors unlocked and valuables inside.

Conway County sheriff's investigator Sonny Stover said tracking dogs may have found something — but the dog handlers couldn't tell if the scent came from Glasgow or just from his car.

"It looks like he's just walked off," Stover said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,338294,00.html

[Grande]

Plot thickens in Glasgow case

Talk Business catches a federal financial filing Wednesday evening by Dillard's Inc., that has a bearing on the case of John Glasgow (pictured), the missing chief financial officer of CDI Contractors, a construction firm half-owned by Dillard's.

Specifically, there's been a restating of Dillard financial reports back to 2005 because of what a Dillard's statement says was an "error" in CDI accounting. It says the change wasn't "material."

The Dillard’s statement reads: “The company owns a 50% interest in CDI Contractors LLC (CDI), a construction company which does construction work for the company and for third parties. The company accounts for its interest in CDI by the equity method. In connection with a potential transfer of the other 50% shareholder’s interest, the company performed a review of CDI’s internal financial records. During this review process, the company discovered that CDI had recorded profit on the company’s construction projects in excess of what CDI had previously reported to the company and which, therefore, were not properly eliminated.

“Because the cumulative effect of this error would be material to operating results for 2007, the company has elected to restate its opening retained earnings as of January 29, 2005 in order to eliminate the cumulative effect of this profit from its financial statements for all periods prior to the fiscal year ended January 28, 2006. Opening retained earnings was reduced by $7.1 million; the deferred income tax balances were reduced by $4.1 million and the carrying amount of property, plant & equipment was reduced by $11.2 million. The effects of this error on the company’s consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal years ended January 28, 2006 and February 3, 2007, respectively, were not material and were recorded in 2007.”

In its only previous statement on the matter, Dillard's told Arkansas Business in a prepared response to questions that Glasgow's job was not in jeopardy on account of any circumstances related to ownership transitions at CDI stemming from the death of founder Bill Clark. It also said it did not believe Glasgow or anyone else had misappropriated money. Glasgow was last seen Jan. 28. Searches for him have been fruitless and no clues have emerged suggesting his whereabouts. Glasgow had told friends and family about tensions with Dillard's officials in the days before his disappearance stemming from accounting disagreements.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/03/plot_thickens_in_glasgow_case.aspx

[packy]

Some things do seem very strange.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/printable.asp?aid=103520
"Fellone's recent comments - first to our new "Outtakes" writer, Mark Hengel, and later to a New York Post reporter - about the D-G's standoffish attitude toward the case of missing construction executive John Glasgow have sounded particularly professorial. He refers repeatedly to the "elements of news," as if anyone who understood those elements would naturally come to the same conclusion as the Democrat-Gazette, which was to virtually ignore the story for at least six weeks." (More at link)

[Faith]

Messages to John from his family

March 27, 2008

John, please know that whatever happened for whatever reason, that might have driven you to leave, your family and friends will always stand behind you. You have absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about, and It is now time for you to come home. Whatever battles await when you do, rest assured that your enemies will face a strong, united, and skillful foe. I guarantee you that there are many people from many professional specialties who stand ready to line up in your defense. All we need is you! We love you, and our love cannot be compromised.
Your brother, Roger.

Our dear John, it is your family's sincerest hope that you will find yourself reading these words, our message to you. We miss you and are waiting for the day when you feel you can come back home to us. We are understanding and accepting, and we will support you in every way we can. We love you more than words can say, and nothing would make us happier than to have you back with us again.

Melinda wants you to know that it is safe for you to come home. You are the love of her life, and she rests in the secure knowledge that you love her, too. She misses you and wants you by her side. She trusts you and believes in you; her heart's desire is to face the future hand in hand with you and resume your happy life together. More than anything, she needs to know that you are safe.

Your entire family is standing waiting with open arms to welcome you back into the shelter of our fold. Whatever there is to be faced, we can face together. We know that things happened that were not your fault, and we know you did nothing wrong. We've known you since the day you were born, and we know who you are. You have shown your vast love for us in so many ways over the years. Now it is time for us to return that love. Please come home.
Melinda, J.T., Martha, Roger, Dennis, Miriam, Gary, Donna Jean, Ramona, and Randy
http://findjohnglasgow.com/

[Nut44x4]

KATV to air 30 min special on John's disappearance
7 pm, Tuesday, April 22 2008, KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock will be preempting regular programming to air a 30 min special on the case. For more details, visit KATV's web site
http://cfc.katv.com/external.cfm?p=glasgow&menu=news

[Nut44x4]

Arkansas Blog

Is a missing person news?

No, I have little concrete to report on the case of John Glasgow, the construction company executive now missing more than a month. (I have been informed that a deep, forensic-style audit of the CDI's books only confirms what has been said repeatedly so far -- there are no signs of financial misdeeds.)

But I have received an opinion article by Roy Ockert Jr. of the Jonesboro Sun on how important it can be for news media to treat a missing person's case like news. The context is that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state's most powerful medium, has in the Glasgow case followed a general practice against giving broad attention to missing adults absent evidence of foul play. Read the veteran journalist's take on the jump.

By Roy Ockert Jr.
The Jonesboro Sun

Missing person — John Glasgow — 45 years old — Little Rock, Ark. — $70,000 reward offered for return.

So reads the flyer being distributed by friends and family members of a Little Rock business executive who left home on Monday, Jan. 28, and never returned. The next day his Volvo sport utility vehicle was found parked in front of Mather Lodge at Petit Jean State Park. A full-scale search on the rugged mountain turned up no other trace of Glasgow, and indeed authorities don’t know whether he was ever there. A tourist’s time-stamped photo of the lodge shows the Volvo was there by 4:30 p.m. that Monday.

At the time of his disappearance Glasgow was chief financial officer of Little Rock’s CDI Contractors. He was in the process of trying to become a part owner of the company, of which the Dillard family of Dillard’s Department Stores fame is half-owner.
Glasgow left his house about 5:30 a.m. that day, apparently on the way to his office, but he never arrived. According to information on a Web site established by his friends and family (www.findjohnglasgow.com <http://www.findjohnglasgow.com> ), a cell phone ping later that day indicated he was in the Petit Jean area, which led to the discovery of his vehicle. It was found unlocked with his laptop computer still inside.

After five days the search was called off, but an investigation continues.

Logs for users of several Little Rock media Web sites have drawn hundreds of comments from friends, family members, work colleagues and others concerned about Glasgow. Many of them tell a story of a happy man who was financially secure and express doubt that he would “run away from it all.”

But there is no evidence of foul play, at least not that the authorities have made public.

That, of course, creates a huge mystery, and his case has been followed closely by many news media outlets, including CNN. Let’s Bring Them Home, a national missing persons advocacy organization based in Northwest Arkansas, is providing the family with support services, adding $20,000 to the original $50,000 reward as well as a 24-hour toll-free “no cops” tip line.

This nonprofit organization is one of the few in the country that gets involved in missing persons cases involving adults and recently assisted in the recovery of four people across the United States.

Missing adults cases simply don’t get attention like those involving missing children, probably for good reason. Sometimes adults leave home and don’t come back.

That may be why the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state’s biggest newspaper, has offered little coverage of the Glasgow case, first running a story only on its Web site and then a couple of short stories later. The newspaper didn’t run a picture of the missing man until the family bought an ad seeking information about his disappearance. Curiously, Democrat-Gazette editors said the reason was that the newspaper has learned not every missing person case involves foul play or kidnapping.

That’s certainly within the rights of my friends at the statewide newspaper, but they are ignoring the news value of this particular case. Even if Glasgow did run away, it’s a news story.

I’m glad the old Arkansas Democrat and its sister newspaper, the Hot Springs Sentinel Record, didn’t take such a stance in August 1976 when my sister, Linda Edwards, similarly turned up missing. She was not a prominent business executive, but rather a Garland County deputy sheriff-dispatcher, off-duty when she disappeared one night.

She left her two children in the care of a friend at a Hot Springs movie theater and didn’t return to the theater as promised. The next day her car was found abandoned beside a rural road outside Hot Springs. A search turned up no trace of Linda or any indication that a crime had been committed.

Her case was front-page news for days in the Hot Springs and Little Rock newspapers, for weeks in the former. Some other factors perhaps made it more newsworthy, but the basic facts are awfully similar.

Hopefully, John Glasgow’s disappearance will turn out happier and the resolution vindicates the Democrat-Gazette’s decision. Unfortunately, Linda’s remains were found on a mountain in Hot Spring County almost six months later, and the state medical examiner ruled her death a homicide. The case is still unsolved nearly 32 years later.

That was a time when we didn’t have the instant communications of today, the multiplicity of media or even organizations ready to help the families of crime victims. When we offered a reward (a much smaller one, of course), we depended on newspapers and a few broadcast organizations to get the word out.

Although we’d just as soon never had the notoriety, I remain convinced that the extensive and continuing press coverage, especially by the newspapers, kept her case alive during the six months in which there was no crime, just a missing adult. Those stories made sure the authorities didn’t file her case away as unsolved, and indeed they brought out information that was helpful, just not helpful enough.


Her story was interesting and important; so is John Glasgow’s.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/02/is_a_missing_person_news.aspx
comments at the site

[Pauli]

Dillard's looks at options for construction company
LITTLE ROCK -- Department store chain Dillard's Inc. says it will use an outside financial firm to evaluate what to do with its partial ownership in a construction company that built the Clinton Presidential Library and other well-known Arkansas buildings.

Dillard's says it will not offer any other public statements on discussions it holds with investment banking firm Stephens Inc. about CDI Contractors LLC, in which it holds a 50 percent stake.

John Glasgow, chief financial officer for CDI, has been missing since Jan. 28. With the death last year of CDI's founder, William Edward Clark, Dillard's had the option to buy the other half of the company but also discussed allowing CDI employees buy the shares. Glasgow was in charge of the redistribution and himself stood to buy a part of the company.

Both companies say there were no signs of fiscal mismanagement by Glasgow.

http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=8195862

[Faith]

http://static.katv.com/glspecial/2c.jpg

The 30 minute special looks into the mysterious disappearance of John Glasgow, CFO of CDI Contractors, Inc. of Little Rock.

Glasgow was last seen on January 28, 2008.

Heather Crawford talks to family, friends, co-workers and investigators about the facts of this intriguing missing persons case.

To visit the Find John Glasgow website, set up by his family, please go to: www.FindJohnGlasgow.com

http://cfc.katv.com/external.cfm?p=glasgow&menu=news

[packy]

No recent update on John at this point. His family hopes someone will see his picture and read his story at their site for him. Keeping up hope that it will happen. He has a loving family who have openly stated they support him and are waiting to have him back in their fold. Keeping my prayers up for John and his family.

[Faith]

October 10-12, 2008
Nashville, Arkansas

A Message from the Glasgow Family

The Glasgow family gathered over the weekend in our home town of Nashville to re-group and share thoughts about how to go forward as a family now that John has been missing for more than nine months. This was our first opportunity to all be together in one place as a family since John went missing in January. There to support Melinda and J.T. were all John's seven siblings and each and every niece and nephew, with family members coming distances as far as New Jersey and California.

The family drew strength and comfort from one another through their shared experience of loss and not knowing what happened to John. John has always held his family as top priority and has had a close relationship with each of us, and through our personal knowledge of John, we were able to get a sense of what might have caused him to disappear, although there are some obvious missing pieces remaining to solve the puzzle.

A formal family meeting was held that began with a prayer and then a discussion of the investigation and where it stands at the present time. Through close scrutiny of the facts as we now know them, together with our logic, intuition and knowledge of John and the constants with which he has always led his life, we were able to come to some points of consensus of what may have caused him to disappear. We were able to eliminate several scenarios entirely and focus more narrowly on those that are more likely. With that focus in mind, we examined ways in which we can continue to gather facts and further our ongoing search for John.

We have strengthened our resolve and will leave no stone unturned until either John comes home or we find the answers we seek.

Melinda and the family are grateful for the love and emotional support shown by countless friends and even strangers. We have been buoyed by your prayers, love, and kindnesses. Prayers are needed as much now as ever, so please remember John in your thoughts and keep him on your prayer lists.

Also, please print off a poster from this site and post it prominently. Statistically, one in six missing persons is found because someone saw a poster. We have had no useful tips on our tip line since John went missing and no further sightings since the early reported sightings; therefore, it is even more critical for the posters to be distributed.

Finally, we know that miracles do happen and we have not given up hope that John will be found.

http://www.findjohnglasgow.com/

[Faith]

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[Nut44x4]

95 miles North east at 900 East Craig Street (Dead end street...very rural)
Batesville, AR Independence County, there was a white-male human skull found on 4/26/08

Case Information
Status: Unidentified
UDRS Number: 2873
Case Number: 433-08
NCIC Number: N/A
Date Found: 2008-04-26 00:00:00
Date Entered: 2008-12-10 13:32:00
Date Modified: 2008-12-11 04:21:00
GPS Found: N/A
Address Found: 900 East Craig Street
Batesville, AR
Independence County

Demographics and Circumstances
Estimated Age: Adult - Pre 50
Minimum Age: 25 years
Maximum Age: 45 years
Race: White
Ethnicity: N/A
Sex: Male
Weight (lbs.): 0, Cannot Estimate
Height (inch): 0, Cannot Estimate
Condition: Partial Skeleton
Probable Year of Death: 0
Est. Postmortem Interval: N/A N/A
DNA Profile Status: Samples submitted - tests not complete
Circumstances of Death: This skull was found by a resident of the above address while clearing brush on the property. At the time of discovery there was a missing persons report for a William Green DOB 9/15/78. This subject was reported missing on 2/11/04 and had been missing since 11/28/03. This subject was last seen at a halfway house where he was staying. This halfway house is approximately seven-tenths of a mile from where the skull was found.

Body Details
Skeletal Findings: The inferior surfaces of the petrous portion of both temporal bones shows bony response to extensive infection. This may have resulted from massive and chronic ear infections during life.
Body Parts Inventory: Torso Not Recovered, Limbs Not Recovered, Hands Not Recovered

Fingerprint Classification
RT N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
LT N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Fingerprint Comments
N/A

Clothing, Hair, Eyes
No Details Available

Dental
Dental Summary: One or More Teeth Present, Upper Jaw Present
Upper
Right 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Upper
Left

Lower
Right Lower
Left
32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17

Dental Comments: #15 and #16 present-severe attrition

Photos
There are currently no photos available for this case.

https://identifyus.org/report.php?p=individual&i=2873
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If this had been the person mentioned above (William Green) --(please take a look)
http://www.independencesheriff.org/missing/Green.htm -- it seems that they would know by now, which led me to believe it isn't Mr. Green.

I understand that John's family want to believe he is alive, but if it were my family member missing, I would leave no stone unturned... I would check with http://www.independencesheriff.org/

[sarahhod]

A Year Later: Family Believes John Glasgow's Dead
By Gwen Moritz (gmoritz@abpg.com)
1/26/2009
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John Glasgow, front, has now been missing for a year, gathers with his siblings for a family photo.Change font size

A year has passed since John Glasgow, chief financial officer of CDI Contractors LLC, vanished – a year in which the most significant development in the case has been his family's painful conclusion that he is probably dead.
"All the brothers and sisters have come around to that point of view," Little Rock lawyer Roger Glasgow told Arkansas Business last week. Roger is the oldest of the eight siblings, John – 45 when he vanished – the youngest.
And John's wife, Melinda? "Same thing," he said. "She and I were the last ones to come around to that point of view."
What's changed, he said, is mainly just the passage of time.
"I think we've all looked at the year anniversary as being a turning point. If he's still gone and we still don't know what happened to him in a year, and we haven't come up with any leads, then we are going to have to accept the likelihood that we may never know what happened."
The little that is known about John Glasgow's mysterious disappearance was known within a matter of hours. His next-door neighbor, Little Rock attorney Brian Rosenthal, out of bed unusually early on Jan. 28, 2008, glanced out his window and saw his next-door neighbor's Volvo SUV driving east on South Lookout toward Point Circle.
Rosenthal couldn't see the driver and couldn't swear that the Volvo was the one that belonged next door, but the Glasgow family doesn't doubt that what Rosenthal saw at about 5:15 a.m. was John leaving his Hillcrest house for the last time.
There are other things the family doubts, like dog handlers who claimed their dogs had picked up Glasgow's scent at Russellville three weeks later. But Rosenthal's chance glimpse matched perfectly with the timing of a routine "ping" from Glasgow's company-provided cell phone, which bounced off an Alltel tower in downtown Little Rock when it was first turned on for the day.
Since the following day, when his car was found parked front-and-center at Mather Lodge in Petit Jean State Park, not one concrete clue to the fate of John Glasgow has been developed – despite police work that his brother acknowledges exceeded what the physical evidence demanded.
"I think they've done an incredible job on this case," Roger Glasgow said last week. "Probably well beyond what you would expect for just a missing hiker, which is basically what it's classified as."
Most of the investigative work has been done by Detective Joe Carter of the Arkansas State Police. A request for an interview with Carter was denied because, spokesman Bill Sadler said, the State Police was actually only assisting the Little Rock Police Department. Terry Hastings, LRPD spokesman, said the local police still have an open case as well, but nothing new has been developed since the first days of the investigation.
Developments
Lots of other things have happened since those early days, of course. As Arkansas Business reported on Feb. 28 (http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=103212), Glasgow disappeared during a bitter and unusually personal accounting dispute with James Freeman, the chief financial officer of Dillard's Inc., which owned half of CDI. In March, Dillard's restated its net income over the previous four years by a modest $7.1 million and officially blamed the restatement on an accounting "error" by CDI.
In August, Dillard's exercised its option to buy the other half of the construction company from the heirs of founder Bill Clark. Earlier this month, Bill Clark's son, William, resigned as CEO of CDI and told Arkansas Business that Dillard's had rejected his offer to buy the company.
On Dec. 1, Glasgow's wife, Melinda, took a new job as recycling program coordinator for the city of Little Rock. She declined to be interviewed for this story.
Despite Roger Glasgow's words, there have been a number of leads in the case. They just didn't go anywhere.
The Alltel records show, according to Roger, that Glasgow's cell phone bounced a ping off a tower that covers the area between Lake Conway and Wye Mountain at 7:22 a.m., more than two hours after he presumably left home.
"That's more than enough time to get all the way to Petit Jean," Roger noted. But no one has a clue where he was during that time.
A coworker at CDI tried to call Glasgow at 11:40 a.m. The call was not answered, but the signal bounced off the Bartlett Road tower on Petit Jean, so his phone was there by then. A tourist's photo, received a couple of weeks later, showed the Volvo was in the lodge parking lot by 4:30 p.m.; the cell phone was in the unlocked car when it was discovered the day after Glasgow left home.
Bloodhounds brought in by Arkansas State Parks and by the Arkansas Forestry Commission couldn't seem to pick up Glasgow's scent outside his car or in the parking lot. Surveillance videos from businesses between Little Rock and Russellville, including businesses all around Petit Jean, were collected and reviewed, to no avail.
About three weeks later, the Glasgow family paid the travel expenses for a dog handler from Maine and her associate from Virginia. The women claimed their dogs were trained to follow cold trails, even to the point of tracking people who were traveling by car. An employee of the Waffle House in Russellville claimed to have served a man who looked like John Glasgow, and the handlers believed the dogs picked up his scent there.
Roger Glasgow says he appreciates the effort but has no confidence in it.
"We don't believe that he was at that restaurant in Russellville, or any of these reports from people within about a month who thought they saw him," he said.
One of those reported sightings was at a Searcy motel, where a construction crew reported hiring a temporary laborer who resembled John. The man said he had experience in construction and that he couldn't go home.
"It sounded very promising," Roger Glasgow said. But a private investigator from New York, hired by the Glasgow family, waited at the motel until the man returned and talked with him. It wasn't John Glasgow.
A similar report from Bryant also failed to pan out.
"All of these leads that we had during the month or so following his disappearance," Roger said, "they all came up dry."
Fortunately, the lawyer in Roger Glasgow knew better than to let possible sightings raise his hopes too high.
"In my business, [eyewitnesses] are well-intentioned but they are the most unreliable," Roger said.
A Florida man who was run over by a train matched John Glasgow's description well enough that the State Police got a call. But DNA taken from John's toothbrush was not a match for the train victim, Roger Glasgow said.
A woman reported that the man seated next to her on a flight from Atlanta to Little Rock looked like John, but video of the passengers deplaning showed that she was mistaken.
Strange Vision
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The rewards offered when John first vanished have expired. But a tip still comes in every now and then, according to Roger, and the www.FindJohnGlasgow.com (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/ArkansasBusiness.com/AB_ArticlesBox;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?) Web site is still online. In December, he got an e-mail that was different from the rest.
It was from a Garland County man who claimed to have psychic ability and who claimed to have seen a vision of John Glasgow's body lying face down in a bed of oak leaves somewhere near a craggy outcropping of rock.
"I'm pretty scientific minded," Roger Glasgow said, and he had been unimpressed with various psychics who had contacted the family after John vanished. Still, this man's story gave him the creeps.
The man, who agreed to be interviewed only if his identity was not revealed, told Arkansas Business that he worked for Dillard's Inc. for several years. He was familiar with John Glasgow because of the work CDI did for Dillard's, but he had never had a conversation with him. He was working in Mississippi last winter when a former coworker from Dillard's called and told him the news of Glasgow's disappearance.
"At that point, I closed my eyes and I had this vision of what happened to him. I do this quite often. So I told her what I saw."
He didn't contact Roger Glasgow for many months. But he said he bought a good set of binoculars and, with his former Dillard's coworker and another man, spent time searching the back roads off Highway 10 between Pinnacle Mountain west of Little Rock and Petit Jean, looking for a spot that matched his vision.
The man believes Glasgow was killed by a blow to the head.

[url]http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=111575&page=1

[sarahhod]

Little Rock - It has been exactly one year since Little Rock executive John Glasgow vanished.

Glasgow was last seen driving away from his Hillcrest home around 5:30 a.m. one year ago. It was a Monday morning, and when John didn't show up for work at CDI, where he was the chief financial officer, his family panicked.

The next day, his car was found in a parking lot in front of a lodge on Petit Jean Mountain.

(Roger Glasgow, John's Brother) “That's very strange, in that there were no scent trails leading from the car. The door was unlocked. It was parked in an odd place. There were no fingerprints in the car--either John's or anyone else's.”

That was the last concrete clue. While investigators consider it an open missing person's case, John's family still doesn't have any answers.

(Glasgow) “All of us in the family have arrived at the very painful and reluctant conclusion that he probably, most likely is dead. After all this time, and all this effort, we're faced with the real possibility that he may have been the victim of foul play.”

Roger Glasgow is convinced John's disappearance is related to the pressures he was under at work, where he was overseeing the sale of part of the company. That deal has since fallen through, and Dillard's ended up buying the shares that were for sale.

We tried to talk to Dillard's and CDI, but both declined to comment.

While police wait for more leads, John's family urges anyone with information to come forward.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0109/589781.html

[nanabillie]

http://www.portfolio.com/executives/...e-Goes-Missing (http://www.portfolio.com/executives/...e-Goes-Missing)

March edition, it said.

[Faith]

Reward Total now $110,000

Glasgow Reward Increased by $100,000
By Arkansas Business Staff
5/18/2009


You may have heard that the reward for information in the case of John Glasgow, the CDI Contractors CFO who disappeared in January 2008, has been increased by $100,000.

You may not have heard why.

Amy Smith, executive director of the Bentonville nonprofit Let’s Bring Them Home, said, “There’s someone out there that knows what happened to John, and we just feel like money talks.” She added, “Maybe someone will step forward, if not out of guilt, then maybe out of greed.”

Let’s Bring Them Home, which works to help the families of missing adults and children and has been involved in the Glasgow case since the beginning, issued a press release last week announcing the $100,000 reward. It extends only until Aug. 20, Missing Adults Day in Arkansas.

It’s for “the recovery of Glasgow and the arrest and conviction of those involved in his disappearance.”

Asked why the group had decided to put a cut-off on the offer, Smith said: “We know that the information is out there. It’s not something that has to be learned, so we don’t think the window has to be opened too far for something to be learned.”

Smith said “we want to believe” that Glasgow is still alive, but “circumstances point to where that may not be the case, but, regardless, we want to get him home. “We do know that somebody knows something.”

http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1002780208047

http://www.findjohnglasgow.com/

[Pandabear]

I hope this reward brings some information on John so that his family can have some closure. I have thought in the past that possibly John chose to just disappear, but the more I've read the more I think there was foul play involved or that he decided to take his own life, JMO of course.

I know the lodge at Petit Jean where they found his car and it's no where close to any airport or other place that someone could easily get out of the area from. There being no evidence of fingerprints or scent just leaves me baffled. Again, I pray that this reward leads to information on what happened to John.

[Faith]

Glasgow’s Family Honors Missing Man With Tribute
By Jan Cottingham
6/26/2009 8:54:17 PM

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John Glasgow, front, who has been
missing for 17 months, with his siblings
for a family photo.



The family of John Glasgow, the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors LLC who disappeared on Jan. 28, 2008, honored the missing man with a tribute Friday evening in Little Rock's Allsopp Park.

Melinda Glasgow, John's wife, told about 70 friends, family members and co-workers that the family had decided to hold the event "not just to honor John but to help bring closure" to his anguished loved ones.

Roger Glasgow, a Little Rock lawyer and John's eldest brother, opened the ceremony by recounting the details of Glasgow's disappearance on that winter morning. A neighbor thought he saw Glasgow, then 45, leaving his house on South Lookout about 5:15 a.m. Glasgow's vehicle was found the next day parked at Mather Lodge in Petit Jean State Park.

"There's been no sign of him since," Roger said. The "not knowing" what happened to his brother is terrible, he said. "I don't think man's mind was built to deal with not knowing."

Roger said he'd come to realize the importance of funerals to help families cope with the death of a loved one and that the tribute was an effort to help Glasgow's family move forward. Roger told Arkansas Business in January (http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=111575&view=all) that the family had come to the conclusion that John was likely dead.

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=115676.54928.127818

[Faith]

Governor's Proclamation of Missing Adults Day on August 20, 2009

Video here

http://www.findjohnglasgow.com/

[Audie]

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I know the lodge at Petit Jean where they found his car and it's no where close to any airport or other place that someone could easily get out of the area from. There being no evidence of fingerprints or scent just leaves me baffled. Again, I pray that this reward leads to information on what happened to John.Petit Jean Park Airport is located there in the park. Very small one but one nevertheless. I estimate that if he stayed on the roads, it would be about a 4-5 miles to the airport from the lodge. Someone would have had to land and pick him up. I don't know if he could have gotten on the runway and a plane pick him up without being seen. The runway is about a mile long. I don't know how long a strip a small plane like a Cessna would need to land and take off. jmo

[Amusedtdth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_Aircraft_Field

maybe gives a general idea of runway length?

[Nut44x4]

Skeletal remains founds in remote area No details yet........
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:28 AM CST
http://www.vanburencountydem.com/articles/2009/11/25/news/nws02.txt

apx. 58 miles from the area near where they searched.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=Peyton%20Creek%2C%20Van%20Buren%2C%20Arkansas%20 to%20Morrilton%20AR&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[Audie]

How far north of Clinton, Nut? We helped search for tornado victims in Clinton, Feb 2008. I'm not for sure where else those tornados hit, but it looks pretty close.

[Faith]

America's Most Wanted to Broadcast John's Story

The television program "America's Most Wanted" (http://www.amw.com/) is set to broadcast on Saturday, November 28 a segment about the disappearance of John Glasgow. "America's Most Wanted" airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. (8 p.m. central) on the Fox network.


http://www.findjohnglasgow.com/

[Nut44x4]

Audie..... Clinton is just 16 miles south of the area where the remains were found.

[Audie]

Audie..... Clinton is just 16 miles south of the area where the remains were found.Thanks Nut. I was just wondering if this could have been a tornado victim. Probably not though. I guess for these remains to be John, imo, it would be foul play with him being killed and dumped there and his vehicle taken to Petit Jean Park.