The Strange Disappearance of Roger Ellison
The 17-year-old vanished from his high school and detectives believe he was murdered.
Roger Ellison woke up early on the morning of Tuesday, February 10, 1981, and got himself ready for school. The 17-year-old, a senior at Cedaredge High School in Cedaredge, Colorado, rode the bus to school as usual, arriving in plenty of time to go to his locker before he had to head to his homeroom. Roger spoke briefly to one of his friends as he grabbed the books he needed for his first period class, but what happened to him after that is a mystery. He didn’t attend any of his classes that day and he was never seen again.
Roger’s parents, Ernest and Evelyn Ellison, grew concerned when he didn’t come home when school let out that afternoon. Roger, the youngest of their five children, was a dependable teenager who had no history of running away from home. He was a straight-A student and was looking forward to his high school graduation in a few months; he had been accepted at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, and had already picked out and paid for his dormitory room. He had no reason to disappear.
When they called Cedaredge High School, Roger’s parents were surprised to learn that he had missed all of his classes that day. He wasn’t the type of teenager anyone expected…
