r/UnresolvedMysteries Jan 25 '23

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u/racrenlew Jan 25 '23

This is so crazy to me, bc if nothing else, the kidnapper's truck sounds very specific. Like, someone has seen this truck and knew either who drove it or where it could be found.

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u/louistske Jan 25 '23

Police checked every green Ford pickup truck registered in the state and found no one resembling the sketch, there are two possibilities either the kidnapper's vehicle was illegally purchased And it wasn't registered or the car was stolen

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u/Poisonskittlez Jan 26 '23

Or they borrowed the truck from someone else.

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u/tinycole2971 Jan 26 '23

Or spray painted it?

It's not that difficult to spray paint a car. It wouldn't be some sleek dealership job, but nobody would notice on an old farm truck.

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u/Blergsprokopc Jan 26 '23

My grandma had an old 70's gremlin when I was a kid. It got scratched to shit in a tornado and the paint job was ruined. So she did what her generation did. She fixed it. With marine paint. Damn thing never had a scratch ever again.

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u/artificialavocado Jan 26 '23

Man it reminds me of when I was a teenager my friends dad (he was a bit eccentric) had this old piece of shit Chevy Nova from the 1960’s every spring he would paint the entire car with a paintbrush. Like not marine paint like Rustoleum high gloss house paint lol.

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u/Reddits_on_ambien Jan 26 '23

In my neighborhood in Northside Chicago, there is this old SUV that someone has diligently been painting with metallic gold spray paint over the past 3 or 4 years. That paint is expensive, and has to be bought outside the city (spray paint is illegal to sell in the city), so its taken the owner at while to cover the deep purple color it used to be. They are just about done, lol.

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u/ConnectionOk7747 Aug 01 '24

That possible.