As requested: three more samples of Ron Tammen’s handwriting…
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that, after I learned that the notation “366 m hau” wasn’t in reference to Robert Maheu that I’d probably given up on a Robert Maheu connection to Ron...
View ArticleI’ve just learned that the FBI is actively trying to throw my Tammen research...
I need to tell you about my recent visit to the National Archives (aka NARA), the one in College Park, Maryland. The reason for my visit was to review old missing person files that the FBI had...
View ArticleSome guy using the alias of J.W. Harrison wired a hotel room for Robert Maheu...
Photo by David Vives on Unsplash One of the most difficult parts of figuring out what happened to Ronald Tammen is the inconvenient truth that he had to have reinvented himself. He no longer went by...
View ArticleBreaking news: I just learned something wild about Robert Maheu, the person...
Photo by Dulcey Lima on Unsplash I have a big announcement. Robert Maheu, the man who I believe was informant LV 366-PC for the FBI, and the man who I also believe informed them about Ron Tammen’s...
View ArticleThe deposing of yours truly: things I said and stuff I learned
For the past 2 ½ years, I’ve been involved in a public records lawsuit against Miami University. I can’t say much about it because we’re still in litigation. However, I thought I could at least write...
View ArticleThe FBI told me people’s lives would be in danger if they gave me the FOIA...
Can we talk a little more about FD-209 forms, the official forms that FBI agents submit every time they interact with a confidential informant? I love FD-209 forms. I’m probably the number one fangirl...
View Article‘This means something. This is important.’
Do you remember in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfuss was passionately sculpting his mashed potato rendition of Devil’s Tower at the dinner table as his family looked on in...
View ArticleThe informant: I think I know who squealed on Ron Tammen to the FBI in May 1973
This is going to be a quick one, since I really didn’t plan on writing anything today and I have other things I was hoping to do. However, what I’ve recently discovered is too big to sit on plus it’s...
View ArticleI think I know what ‘Hac’ means on Ron’s FBI records, and holy moly, how...
I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to write this blog post and, to be honest, I don’t think this is something that can be told in the usual way, not even through our beloved Q&A format....
View ArticleEpilogue: Ron Tammen 73rd Anniversary Quiz
NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE READING ON THEIR PHONES: IN ORDER FOR THE QUIZ TO APPEAR, YOU NEED TO CLICK THE LINK AT THE TOP OF THE EMAIL MESSAGE THAT SAYS “READ ON BLOG” TO THE RIGHT OF THE BLOG’S NAME....
View ArticlePart 4: The finale
Whew! This has been one enormous post, especially Part 3. Hopefully you’ve found some of this information to be useful. But we still haven’t answered the question that I led with in Part 1. Let’s...
View ArticlePart 3: Ron Tammen and the Watergate ‘burglars’
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that I tend to picture Ron Tammen as some kind of Forrest Gump–type character, living his mysterious life in the foreground of America’s most momentous...
View ArticlePart 2: The reappearance of Richard Cox
In Part 1, I cheekily claimed that I thought Ron Tammen was living in Miami, Florida, in the early 1970s, and possibly much earlier, and I based my claim on two scribbles on his records that, in my...
View ArticlePart 1: Who did Ron Tammen call ‘friend’?
Back in Ron Tammen’s day, long before social media forced us to remain in continuous contact with everyone we’ve ever met, even the bullies and mean girls, I think friendships came and went...
View Article73rd anniversary of Ron Tammen’s disappearance: Introduction
It’s April 19, 2026, which makes it 73 years since Ronald Tammen disappeared from Miami University at the age of 19. That would make him 92 if he’s still living, but I really don’t think the term...
View ArticlePerjury, more perjury, and the perjurious perjurers who perjure themselves
Lately, for some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about perjury. Or, more specifically, I’ve been thinking about people who, during a legal proceeding, hold their right hand up in the air and swear to...
View ArticleThe FBI said under oath that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t on the FBI’s Security...
I’d like to begin this post by saying that I would never think of lying to someone from the FBI. Not only would it be obvious to them that I was lying because I happen to be a terrible liar, but I’d...
View ArticleSecret lives: two teenage males who lived them and the clues they left behind
Although we’ll be talking a little about Ron Tammen, this post isn’t really about him. Instead, I’ll be using my research into Tammen as a way to tell you about someone else who was important to this...
View ArticleI just found another Las Vegas tie for Ron Tammen
I can’t believe I’m doing this right now, because I have to be dressed and ready to go somewhere in exactly T minus 20 minutes, but I feel like it’s big enough to stop everything and post this....
View ArticleTwo years after the massive fire at the National Personnel Records Center in...
Guess where the records originated from The last time you and I discussed the July 12, 1973, National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fire in St. Louis, we learned something curious. We learned that,...
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