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    Joseph Cripps - missing since 19 October 2016

    https://www.facebook.com/joe.cripps.33

    http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/...ps_joseph.html

    Percussionist Joe Cripps, who spent most of the 1990s playing with Brave Combo, is missing.
    Police in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday asked for the public's help in finding the Grammy Award-nominated musician last seen nearly two weeks ago.
    Cripps moved from Denton back to his hometown last year but regularly returns to North Texas.
    Word quickly spread via Facebook, where musicians, friends and fans begged for help ? and continued to hold out hope that something tragic hasn't happened to Cripps.
    "It's got me tied in knots," said Slobberbone and Drams frontman Brent Best. Best said the two spoke every few days but that he hasn't heard from him since Oct. 19, the last day anyone saw or spoke to Cripps.
    The two are close: Cripps played on the Drams' 2006 record Jubilee Dive and saw Best play in Little Rock earlier this year.
    "He was at the White Water, nothing out of the ordinary," Best said. "He said he'd just gotten paid and was gonna see a girl ? sounded like a set-up for a joke or something."
    James Cripps, who lives in Little Rock, said his brother was scheduled to perform Oct. 21 but never showed. That isn't like the musician, who never missed a gig ? even when he was drinking. James Cripps said he went to his brother's apartment, peered through the window and didn't see anything askew. Later, police conducted a welfare check but didn't find Joe Cripps ? or any sign he was missing.
    But friends and family say they have reason to believe something is wrong. His phone hasn't been on in days, he's been off social media ? he's a regular Facebook poster ? and he left his blood pressure medication in the apartment. Joe Cripps has done a few stints in rehab, Best and James Cripps said, for drinking. But every time, they said, he had his phone and stayed in touch.
    But now his drums are at home, and Joe Cripps isn't.
    "It's unlike him to be off his telephone and his social networking stuff," James Cripps said. "That's what's concerned all of us. His friend said Joe's off the grid. Well, this isn't like him, even when he's on his death bed. And if he's down to his last dollar, he still uses his phone to communicate."


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    Adding the updated Charley Project page for him: https://charleyproject.org/case/joseph-edward-cripps

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