Missing
Jack Irwin
Irwin, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 09/13/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Upland, California
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 05/03/1928 (93)
Age at the time of disappearance: 71 years old
Height / Weight : 5'10, 138 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A purple t-shirt and green jeans.
Medical conditions : Irwin has numerous medical problems which make it difficult for him to walk and speak.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Gray hair, green eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Irwin was last seen in Upland, California on September 13, 1999. He has never been heard from again. He vanished a month after signing over his financial assets, worth about $250,000, to two women, Marcia Ann Johnson and Judy Gellert. Irwin also signed an agreement to turn his estate over to them when he died.
Johnson reported him missing and told police Irwin took a train to Seattle, Washington. After his disappearance, she emptied his bank accounts, sold his house, and burned down his cabin for the insurance money.
In 2001, Johnson confessed to shooting Irwin and dismembering his body because, she said, he exposed himself to her. She later recanted the confession, but was convicted of murder, burglary, grand theft and insurance fraud in November 2004 and sentenced to life in prison. Gellert pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and testified against Johnson at her trial.
Irwin's remains have never been found.
Other information and links : ncy
Upland Police Department
951-346-2624
September 2021 updates and sources
California Attorney General's Office
The Daily Bulletin
The San Jose Mercury News
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
October 12, 2004. February 13, 2005.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
