OK, this is kind of tenuous, but you could try going to your city/county records office and see what they have on the house in the year in question. Was it new construction, or a remodel? They may have the contractors info. which might give you another line of inquiry.
248 telephone listings on Switchboard.com.
I’d volunteer to do 10. Only 238 to go.
OK, did a paid search at another site, and found an address back in CA (Long Beach this time), that says was current as of 2001… so I’m going to mail out a letter to that address and see if I get a response. CA to CA should only be a day each way…
Also bugged the search site about the medicore results for a paid search. Like… no phone number??
Sounds like the guy doesn’t exist, maybe it’s an alias (ie: fake Id) for some criminal or perhaps the guy was subject to a crime and dissappeared back then. The cops may be looking for a tip to solve an old missing persons case. Inside a wall would have been a good place to “lose” evidence. At the very least, a pickpoket could’ve stashed it there.
Hey, I like drama…wtf? ya never know. 
Wouldn’t it be cool if he solved a cold case?
Not sure what search you’re using, but the one I’ve had the most luck with is intelius.com. It eventually costs money, obviously, but they’ll tell you name, age, city and relatives, as well if they have a phone number or address available, before you buy.
Edit: If you do get hit on their people search, it’s also pretty cheap. There’s hundreds of results for “john smith” in all 50 states but you can get one-time access to all of them for 8 bucks total.
If you had a dollar for everytime some noseybody Doper viewed this thread…
I’m hooked. This is a good one, and I LOVE doing searches. Found my long dead lost uncle a few years ago. Really was awful to have to be the one to tell my own mother that her brother had been dead for about 11 years.
When I poured the cement step up to the deck, I let the kids toss stuff into the mix for fun. They threw in small toys. I tossed in a dollar bill.
Of course, someone would have to break apart the huge casting- which is likely how it will be removed one day when someone decides they hate it.
Cartooniverse
He’s real. We found his birth record a while ago. And the Social Security number in his wallet agrees with external records matching the name and number. A little more is going on behind the scenes than we report here. 
By the way, the Long Beach address is from 2007, not 2001.
He appears to have had an unlisted telephone number since at least 1992, the oldest national telephone directory I have access to.
Keep up the good work - I’m hooked!
maybe all these inquiries will get some investigators attention and bring down some heat on those asking questions…
“yeah, we’ve been looking for you to pop up after hijacking that airplane” come on Walloon where’s the money? what’d ya do w/ the body? where’s your accomplice… what’s his name again filmyak? wtf kind of name is that anyway?
go ahead officer… take’m downtown til we get this straight. Now where’d you say you found that wallet again… in the wall? yeah right… :dubious:
ahh ta hell w/ it… just lock’em up… they’ll talk eventually
BTW… wtf is w/ that doper’s website and all those alias names? a bunch of freaks all talking in code … plus some of the topics seem to be pretty damned subversive. and just who in the hell is this Cecil character that nobody’s ever seen. The head doper!
Maybe we need to check him out too while we’re here.
yeah, y’all got a big ol’ can of worms here.
OK, letter has been written, stamped, and will be dropped in the mail tomorrow. And thanks for the date correction, Walloon. I have a newborn at home. Wonderful, but depriving me of any real sleep. Mistakes are frequent. =)
Anyway, I’m putting my efforts on hold until, oh, Thurs or so. Going to give the letter a day or two to wind its way down the coast and get into the resident’s hands. Wrote in the letter that if the subject isn’t there, to please give to the apartment management company so they can give me a call.
Gfactor sent me an email making a case for releasing his name. Made some competent points, that there’s nothing wrong with taking out a classified ad in a newspaper to look for someone, etc. I can’t find any flaws in that logic, and I’m not releasing any information that can be used to take advantage of him (social security #, etc.), so I think it’s safe to post. We can all have a big laugh when a reader realizes it’s their next door neighbor or something.
So, lacking any reason for a dramatic drumroll or such, ladies and gentlemen, we are searching for Donald Eugene Ivens. Yes, the “e” in his last name is the correct spelling, as verified by his drivers’ licence, soc security card, and some old paystubs.
Let’s hope he gets the letter and gives me a call this week!
Found an obituary for one, hope it’s not the same guy 
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Of course the first thing I did was a google search, as though there’s any possible way this hadn’t happened yet 
This Donald Eugene Ivens was born in 1931. Not likely the same person as in the obituary — I also combed through those, via a national obituary finder.
Just thought I’d mention that I put his name on Intelius.com and you’re right, no phone number for “Donald E Ivens”. However, one of the nice things about this site is that they mention relatives - and they list a guy named “Donald L Ivens” as his relative, who DOES have a phone number available.
Looks like a lead to me. Give the dude a call!
Can Armstrong repeat? Jesus, how long has Lance been winning that thing?
Hee hee hee… I thought that too!
For the puzzled or curious, the Armstrong in that cover blurb referred to boxer Henry Armstrong. He lost the welterweight championship to Fritzie Zivic on a 15-round decision on October 4, 1940.
Any more progress on this? It’s an interesting situation.