Hello friends!
Steve Stockton here with you...
Welcome to our latest video.
Today we bring you another installment in our Land of the Lost series.
This time it's the disappearance of Adam Kellner.
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In every missing person’s case the tragedy far outreaches the victim
themselves and goes on to affect, at the very least the victim’s loved ones,
friends and family members and at most, it captivates and breaks the hearts,
stuns and utterly baffles the minds of anyone who comes across that case.
Be it nationwide or worldwide, with the use of social media and the internet
more and more these days, listening to the pain and earth
shattering heartbreak and ache that comes along with hearing a
loved one interviewed is truly horrific experience.
In fact, as human beings, all of us being someone’s son
or daughter and all of us having people, blood related or not that we love dearly
and fear ever having to live without, it’s almost impossible to wrap our heads
around the unending torment of having someone we care for and worry about turn up missing.
Looking from the outside, some of us may even find it easy to see that,
depending on the particular case being discussed,
the person is most likely deceased or had been abducted etc.
but think about that in terms of it being your own child or parent,
best friend or sibling - when would enough be enough?
When would YOU give up hope?
When would you give up the search and accept the
fact that you most likely will never know what became of your loved one?
Hopefully these are things we never have to contemplate for longer than it takes
to listen to a video about a particular or specific case.
Hopefully, these are questions that never have to personally touch or affect our lives.
The following is a case where it truly seems there is no other explanation except the person
evaporated into thin air, and that seems to be the general consensus on this one.
Is he still alive?
Did he take his own life?
Was he abducted or did an accident or incident occur much closer to home
than anyone in that home wants to look?
Let’s see what we can come up with.
Adam Christopher Kellner was born on May 3rd, 1973 and would be turning 50 years old soon.
He’s been missing since November 8th, 2007
and there really isn’t much to go by as far as the last time he was seen.
It started out as a basic and ordinary day for Adam,
he lived at home in Stevenson Ranch, California with his mom
Sherrille Britton and his step father.
Sherrill is an administrator at Loyola Marymount University
and is highly respected and regarded both professionally and personally in her community.
Adam was 34 years old at the time of his disappearance and was still living at home
due to the fact he had previously been diagnosed as schizophrenic.
According to family members,
like his mother Sherrill and his brother Doug, Adam wasn’t paranoid or violent in any way.
He never had been and in fact was quite kind and gentle in most of his dealings with people.
He was a homebody with no friends
and who barely left the house except to go to doctor’s appointments.
It’s said by those who knew him best that Adam spent most of his time in the garage
chain smoking cigarettes or in his own bedroom listening to music.
He was said to have been happy and content with this life and was pretty low maintenance.
The day Adam went missing, his mother was out of town
on a business trip and just he and his stepfather were
home at the house in Stevenson Ranch, near Los Angeles.
His step father was recovering from knee surgery and has since
stated that the day was very typical.
He said that Adam had helped
him up the stairs the night before to help him get to bed and that he
didn’t notice until approximately 3 the next afternoon that Adam was
missing because he always slept until very late in the day.
The family all agreed that Adam’s childhood,
he grew up in Miami, Florida, was fairly normal and he didn’t
start having any emotional or mental problems until he was a young adult.
He failed out of college at Stetson University and that’s when,
in 1994, he went to live permanently with his mother.
There was absolutely nothing in his history or even in the days leading up to the event
that could have foretold that one day Adam would just be gone.
Poof!
And not there anymore with no rhyme or reason as to why
and no answers at all as to where, he could have possibly ended up.
Adam basically left behind everything except the clothes on his back.
His identification, his keys, other clothing and personal items,
including his cigarettes
were all at the house when Adam was found to be gone.
Adam had no vehicle and no driver’s license.
He is said to only have had a couple of dollars on him,
if that and was in no way prepared for any sort of trip.
He made no mention to anyone of going anywhere and as previously stated,
he wouldn’t leave his house for months at a time and due to his mental problems,
And he was perfectly fine with this.
Try as they may, his family were never able to think of a
single instance that would account for Adam having just silently walked away.
His psychiatrist was interviewed and said he didn’t think Adam would take his own life.
Authorities even interviewed local bus drivers and asked if any of them
remembered picking Adam up that night and none of them remembered him at all.
So, what could have happened to Adam Kellner on that fateful and tragic day?
His mother and brother believe he is still alive somewhere and possibly has amnesia.
His mother stated she believes he hitched a ride out of the immediate area and is
either still in California or that he may have somehow made his way back to where he
spent his childhood and also where his brother still lives, in Miami Florida.
Both Sherrill and Adam's brother Doug believe that the stigma of Adam’s
mental illness stunted the investigation into his disappearance from the start.
All of the misconceptions about schizophrenia in the first place could have possibly caused
leads to not be called in and some have speculated that the authorities themselves
could have perhaps not taken the disappearance as such until it was far too late,
possibly even further hindering this already elusive case.
This was more than a shock for his loved ones as Sherrill stated he had been
“remarkably stable” for years leading up to his disappearance.
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Adam Kellner
or what could have possibly happened to him way back in November of 2007...
Please reach out to Detective Abraham with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
at 323-890-5500.
If you believe you have seen Adam or are aware of who or where he is now,
please try your best to take a photograph for the family members to confirm.
Think about how you would feel if this was someone you love.
You would want anyone to come forward with any little piece
or scrap of information that could possibly lead to them coming home.
One way or another, let’s help bring Adam home.
So what do you think of this strange disappearance?
I look forward to your comments but asking please be friendly and respectful.
Till we meet again...
Take care of yourselves and each other!
Stay safe out there!
As for me, I'll see you a little farther on down the trail.
I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time