Missing
Dennison Clark Stookesberry
Stookesberry, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 02/15/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Blakesburg, Iowa
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 10/15/1942 (78)
Age at the time of disappearance: 56 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6, 230 pounds
Medical conditions : Stookesberry suffers from diabetes and heart problems, and he needs a cane to walk. He is classified as disabled and needs medication.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Black hair, hazel eyes. Stookesberry may have a mustache. He wears eyeglasses. His nicknames are Dennis and Two Feathers. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies spell Stookesberry's name "Stokesberry."
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Stookesberry was last seen in Blakesburg, Iowa on February 15, 1999. He had been in Ottumwa, Iowa that day and made several stops at local taverns before returning to Blakesburg, where a friend, Brian Wignall, dropped him off at home. Stookesberry's stepbrother owned one of the bars he stopped at, and said he only had one drink at his bar that night and didn't appear to be intoxicated. He has never been heard from again.
When investigators searched Stookesberry's home after his disappearance, they found clothes still in their rinse water, laundry hanging on the clothesline, butter lying on the kitchen table, and a deer steak in the microwave.
Stookesberry did not drive in 1999. He left his medication and four pet dogs behind, he has not collected his disability check since he vanished, and he hasn't withdrawn any money from his bank account. He loved his dogs and it would be uncharacteristic of him to abandon them. Prior to his disappearance, he was sentenced to probation for an aggravated misdemeanor. His probation period ended in January 1999.
Police suspect foul play in Stookesberry's case and have drained a nearly-empty pond at a farm near Eddyville in Monroe County, Iowa, looking for his body. The farm was owned by the Wignall family at the time of Stookesberry's disappearance; another family owns it now and gave police permission to search the property. Nothing was located during the search, however.
Stookesberry had lived in Blakesburg for about thirteen years prior to his disappearance. Stookesberry remains missing and his case is unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Wappelo County Sheriff's Office
641-684-4350
September 2021 updates and sources
Iowa Missing Person Information Clearinghouse
KTO TV3
The Ottumwa Courier
WQAD-TV-DT
Iowa Cold Cases
The Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Gazette
October 12, 2004. July 1, 2015; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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