The missing · two names the record still carries

1989 AND 1992

Sargent Micek, 22 — South Bend, May 4, 1989. Micek left his home that day and went out to a couple of bars with friends. He was never seen again. No remains have been found, and the case stands open in the appeals more than three and a half decades later — carried twice by Michiana Unsolved, with detectives, in the series' words, not giving up hope. What his family asks for is printed as the family states it: "Just tell us where his remains are." His mother kept the same telephone number for thirty-four years, in case the next call was her son. That is the whole of the public record: a young man went out for the evening in the spring of 1989, and the record has nothing after it.

Kimberly Coleman, 22 — South Bend, reported missing April 9, 1992. Coleman was living in the LaSalle Park area; her family had last been in touch with her some months before the report, on the southeast side of the city, and her not checking in — she was usually consistent about it — was itself the alarm. The South Bend Police Department investigated and learned that she was last seen a few months after the report was made, in the South Michigan Street area. Foul play is suspected, Michiana Crime Stoppers states, because at one point in the investigation some family members believed Kimberly had traveled to Chicago with a male; it is unknown, the appeal states, if she went willingly. She had several children. In February 2023, and again on the thirty-second anniversary of the report in April 2024, the appeal ran again: investigators want it known that they are not giving up.

Sources:

1. WNDU, Michiana Unsolved, Christine Karsten reporting: "What happened to Sargent Micek?" and "The Disappearance of Sargent Micek" — the date, the evening out, the family's plea as the family states it, and the mother's telephone number, as the segment reports it.
2. WNDU, Michiana Unsolved: "The Disappearance of Kimberly Coleman" (February 27, 2023) and the anniversary follow-up (April 2024) — the report date, the LaSalle Park address area, the South Michigan Street sighting as police learned it, the Chicago belief as Crime Stoppers states it, and the foul-play standing. The South Bend Tribune's missing-person notice of May 28, 1992, names her Kimberly Ann Coleman, missing since April 9.