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The original was posted on /r/unresolvedmysteries by /u/AlfredTheJones on 2024-01-16 18:43:07+00:00.
Original Title: Man goes to a "party" in a motel- his car is found abandoned and broken into in the parking lot of said motel and his remains are found in a wooded area two years later- What happened to Justin Scott Siwek? (2021)
Hello everyone! I took a short break from writing due to real life obligations, but I'm back! As always, thank you for your comments and votes on my last post about Mikayla Standridge-Martone- I hope that her case will be solved soon and that she will be reunited with her family.
Today I'm back with a case of a concerning disappearance and death.
BACKGROUND
Justin Scott Siwek was 32 when he went missing from Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Sadly, Justin had a criminal record that went back 14 years- he was charged with auto theft, theft, domestic battery (with priors), criminal damage and other lesser offenses.
Justin was a single father to his son, J, who was 7 years old. He's been raising J alone since his birth, with the help of his parents. It seems like Justin was a present father and had a good relationship with his son.
DISAPPEARANCE
On the 19th of June, Justin was said to be meeting up with a young woman he met through social media. It's been mentioned that Justin didn't know said woman well.
Justin was last seen at the Days Inn at 7721 Elizabeth Avenue in Kansas City, around 11 A.M at the 20th of June. Some sources report that a "party" took place in the hotel room he was in.
Said June 20th was father's day, and Justin, his father, Scott, and Justin's son were supposed to go fishing together to celebrate- but Justin never showed up. Scott took J fishing at Hillsdale Lake anyway, and when they were out in a boat, Scott got a call from Justin, which allegedly sounded like a "(...)distress call. By the sound of his voice (Scott) could tell something wasn’t right". Justin allegedly asked his father for help getting home, and said that he was at above mentioned Days Inn.
At some point in time later, Justin's family managed to track him to the Days Inn mentioned above. When they got there, they've found Justin's car, abandoned and seemingly vandalized, with the window pried open and glass shattered.
A few days after Justin's disappearance, his cellphone was put up online for sale by the woman he was allegedly with that night. The police planned a sting to get the cellphone, but it was cancelled at the last moment. At the end of October, that woman was in jail on unrelated charges.
On the 16th of April 2023, a hiker has stumbled upon human remains in a wooded area in Wyandotte County, close to Kansas City. The remains have been identified as belonging to Justin through familial DNA.
CONCLUSION
There is a poster on websleuths who claims to be someone who was working with Justin's family when his case was a disappearance, and not a murder/death case, but they never got verified, so take it with a grain of salt; Allegedly, Justin was supposed to meet the woman mentioned above for sex, but it was actually a planned robbery that went south. The people who are involved allegedly have killed before, and staged the murders to look like a suicide or an overdose.
I think that a robbery that went wrong is a likely motive- given that Justin's car was broken into and ransacked, and his phone was being sold online just a few days later. Since multiple sources say that Justin attended a "party", I wonder if drugs or alcohol might've played a part in what happened. I don't want to accuse Justin of anything, but something about a "party" in a motel room makes it sound like substances could've been involved.
I find it odd/concerning that, after the news of Justin's body being found and identified came out, it seems like the case is at a standstill, with no new information about it. It was never said how Justin died- I suppose there's a chance that maybe his death could've been something like an overdose? Like he overdosed at the "party", and people who were with him disposed of him because they figured that getting rid of him and stealing his things would give them an opportunity that calling an ambulance and chancing that they'll manage to save Justin won't. Again, there was no info about Justin taking drugs at the time of his disappearance, this is just speculation.
If you have any information about Justin's death, contact the Kansas City Police Department at 913-288-7248 (case number 2021-74606) (or at least that's the most recent contact info).
SOURCES:
Justin's websleuths.com thread