Jacob Tipton - missing since 23 April 2016

[Olivia]

https://www.facebook.com/jacob.tipton.98

It's been more than a year since a Madison County man left for a Saturday night out with friends and was never seen again.

Twenty-four-year-old Jacob Tipton left the Berea home he shared with his younger brother to meet up with friends on April 23, 2016. He has not been heard from since.

?A year later there are no answers. We never had any answers. We never had any leads,? said Tonja Grant, Tipton's mother. ?His vehicle had been found abandoned and there was no trace of Jacob.?

Tipton's GMC Envoy was discovered in a Hart County cemetery more than two hours away.

?He doesn't have any family or friends there. It's heartbreaking,? said Grant.

Grant believes that a critical delay in gathering evidence from the vehicle and poor communication between different agencies involved in the investigation caused the case to go cold. Grant told LEX 18 that the car sat for weeks in Hart County before being towed to a used car lot where it was reportedly set to be sold before investigators realized it was part of a missing person case.

?Police didn't even know where the vehicle was. Five weeks later, they get the vehicle and search through it. Well, obviously there isn't any evidence because everybody and his brother has been through the vehicle. I went through the vehicle,? said Grant.

She told LEX 18 she remembers her son as a caring family man.

?He was very loving. Very charismatic. Had a great smile. Very family oriented,? she said.

As the mystery around his disappearance grows, Grant tells us she fears the worst.

?Some of the family has hope that they'll find Jacob. I don't have any hope that I'm going to find Jacob alive. Jacob was always calling me. So, for him to just drop off the face of the earth with no contact, doesn?t give a person much hope. After a year now, I don?t have any hope that I'm even going to find his body,? she told LEX 18.

Berea Police say there are still no solid leads on the case, but that it is still an open investigation.

http://www.lex18.com/story/35296162/...-disappearance

The Vanished podcast did a good episode on him - http://www.thevanishedpodcast.com/ep...6-jacob-tipton

[Jezebelle]

How bizarre. His truck was abandoned in a cemetery (shudder) over two hours away in a town where he doesn't know anyone? They almost missed retrieving his truck (FIVE WEEKS?!), but maybe there's some evidence still in or on it. Hopefully they've talked to the friends he went out with, checked cell phone records, tracked his ATM card. The basic stuff. His loved ones must be sick with worry.

[Bewitchingstorm]

Having a lack of communication between agencies in this day and age is insane. I mean, clearly the agency who discovered his vehicle ran the tags.

[Jezebelle]

Having a lack of communication between agencies in this day and age is insane. I mean, clearly the agency who discovered his vehicle ran the tags.

THIS^^^^

[Olivia]

Apparently the same police department investigating this are also doing the Brookelyn Farthing case. Not a good track record so far

http://mydeathspace.com/vb/showthrea...ysterious-Fire

[Bewitchingstorm]

Sounds like we have some winners there.

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[Jezebelle]

Sounds like we have some winners there.

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[Bewitchingstorm]

His remains were found in 2020.

HARDYVILLE, Ky. – In February of 2020, a landowner found skeletal remains of man on his property. Now, Kentucky State Police have identified the subject.

The body of the Berea man has now been identified as Jacob Tipton, born in 1991.

Tipton was reported missing on May 6, 2016 and was not found for nearly four years.

Tipton’s car was found in a nearby cemetery within months of his disappearance just a short distance from where his body was eventually found.

The remains were identified using dental records, and the autopsy could not determine a cause of death.

https://www.wnky.com/human-remains-i...or-five-years/

Updated Charley Project page - resolved: https://charleyproject.org/case/jacob-lewis-tipton