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Disappearance of Richard Colvin Cox

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Richard Colvin Cox was a second-year military cadet whose disappearance from the United States Military Academy (West Point) is still unsolved. He is the only West Point cadet to have disappeared.

A mysterious friend named George

Cadet Cox had a mysterious friend named George who had served with Cox in the U.S. Army's Sixth Constabulary Regiment in Coburg, Germany in 1947. Cox had served in the S-2 (intelligence) section of Headquarters Company within the constabulary. Around 6 p.m on January 14, 1950, after George paid Richard Cox a visit, the two men left the grounds of the academy and vanished without a trace. At the time, the American media considered it one of the most mysterious unsolved missing persons cases. Cox was declared legally dead in 1957.

Disappearance re-examined

In the 1980s, historian Marshall Jacobs re-opened the investigation and spent close to eight years conducting interviews and reviewing documents received under the Freedom of Information Act and other documents. Eventually, he worked with writer Harry Maihafer to write the book Oblivion, which proposes a solution.

See also

Bibliography

  • Maihafer, Harry, Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox, Potomac Books, 1999. ISBN 1-57488-224-4
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  1. Maihafer, Harry J. Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1996. p.42
  2. Maihafer, Harry J. Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1996. p.60
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