Robinson had been last seen by a coworker driving west, further into the desert, at 9:15 a.m. local time, nearly a month before. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. A landowner found Robinson's Jeep in a ravine on July 19, the Buckeye Police Department said, adding that it had "significant damage" and had not been clearly visible to search crews because of the rough terrain. Family and friends told police that Robinson was acting not like himself in the days before his disappearance, but that there were no indications that we would harm himself or intended to leave the area. Of course, my hearts racing, because I think he's gonna tell me something else in the same sentence.. They have also set up a GoFundMe that has amassed nearly $130,000 to assist with search costs. However, they hope that once the remains are identified, it will bring "closure to another grieving family. While she exchanged phone numbers with Mr Robinson, she says nothing else happened between them. BUCKEYE, AZ Apparent human remains were found Saturday in the desert near Buckeye, where volunteer-led searches have been conducted for months in hopes of finding Daniel Robinson, a 24-year-old geologist who has been missing since June. David heard these stories and says they should not be taken as evidence of some kind of mental break. (Buckeye Police Department). And I'm advocating for that, too, for the police department. The day before he went missing, Daniel texted her these words: I'll either see you again or I'll never see you again.. Part of HuffPost News. And he's not where he's supposed to be. It's fall in much of America, but during the day it's still summer here. Jeff McGrath: What makes this such a mystery is that he just up and vanished., Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall: We're always thinking about, where could he be? The family has offered a $10,000 reward for information that helps to find Robinson. Chief Hall: We still go out there and do that job. Chief Hall: I mean, maybe I'll see you -- maybe I'll never see you again, that could be interpreted a lot of different ways.. Photos courtesy of David Robinson. So David Robinson did what any parent would do: He called police. He would not leave his family. Arizona Geologist Daniel Robinson Missing Update: Has He Been Found Yet Although the investigation is still underway, the Buckeye Police maintain that there is no evidence of wrongdoing at this time. As part of their missing persons investigation, police found and interviewed the woman who said she'd met Daniel after he made a delivery at her house. Police said the state of the mangled vehicle leads them to believe foul play is not suspected, which is why the case is not a criminal investigation. Still, that story of the last morning Daniel was seen provided David with important information. Uh, neither have I, at this point. Robinson II found this strange since his son "didn't appear to know anything about the woman.". What was his routine? Human remains found in search for missing geologist Daniel Robinson; family says remains are not his Buckeye Police Department Picture of missing geologist Robinson had made contact with a woman prior to his disappearance, according to a police report. And now almost every Saturday, he leads a group of volunteers who search around that desert spot. So, yeah, we have a very close, close family., Josh Mankiewicz: In other words, if something was going on in his life, you'd know about it.. What were you thinking on that drive?, David Robinson: I couldn't get here fast enough. Robinson has been missing since June 23 when he left a remote worksite near Buckeye and did not tell anyone where he was headed or going. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Since Jeff knew the ins and outs of car accidents, even ones as strange as this, he thought maybe he could help. You would never know the difference.. Mr Eliott told Mr Robinson he had work to get done, but the 24-year-old left without saying anything around 15 minutes after arriving. Robinson was her Instacart delivery person, and she invited him into her home when he arrived with her delivery because he seemed friendly, she told police. All rights reserved. On 19 July, a rancher found Mr Robinsons busted vehicle a 2017 Jeep Renegade in a ravine three miles away. David Robinson: I was busy with the volunteers, searching the area where my son was last seen.. Volunteer Coordinator: Morning, everybody.. It was found on its side with "significant damage", the airbags deployed and a worn seatbelt, cops said. Its been reported that he had just sent his last text to a woman he was supposedly romantically interested in. "Since his disappearance, the Buckeye Police Department has worked with outside agencies to search more than 70 square miles in an effort to locate Daniel. David Robinson: You know, when Daniel wanted to do something, uh, he's gonna make it happen.. Katelyns last name has been redacted in the police reports. Robinson's family has called for more attention from the public to help find their son. To honor the one-year mark, David will be hosting a commemorative event at the Arizona Capitol on June 25 to remember Daniel and others who are missing. The sunroof panel was kicked out, as if someone had used it as an emergency exit. "I think the quick action wasn't there quick enough," he said. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. According to Robinson's family, he never went more than 6 hours without speaking to his family or without telling someone where he was going. BUCKEYE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) -- The father of Daniel Robinson, who went missing after leaving a Buckeye job site over a year ago, says the human remains found in the desert over the weekend dont belong to his son. David Robinson tweeted that the remains werent Daniels, citing Buckeye police and the Maricopa County Medical Examiners Office. So they waited for the storm to pass. February 25, 2023, Is A Public Search For Daniel! My family and I, we all feel the same way.". The families of Jelani Day and Daniel Robinson, who have been missing for weeks and months, respectively, are calling for more attention to be brought to those men's cases. He explained to me on the maps where the vehicle was found by that rancher. Octavio Jones/Getty Images Some provide valuable information. His father is still looking for him. The Bureau recently told us, they're still assessing the case. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Someone who was now in the wind. In July, Daniel's jeep was found two miles away from the worksite. Elliott checked the weather on his phone and stayed at the job site. He said it is his hope that another grieving family finds closure. Daniel's loved ones were "constantly calling, pleading with him to call us back," his father David Robinson said. Or did it just seem more significant because now Daniel was missing? This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Robinson, 24, was last seen in the area of Sun Valley Parkway and Cactus Road on June 23, police said. The 24-year-old's car was found abandoned a month later in a ravine. There were two curious things noted. Anyone with information relating to Robinson is urged to call Buckeye PD at 623-349-6400. BUCKEYE, Ariz. It's been nearly nine months since Daniel Robinson was last seen driving away from his worksite in the Buckeye desert. According to a police report released this week, Robinson had been acting oddly at the job site prior to his disappearance an observation echoed by family members. There were no traces of blood were found in the Jeep, police said. We don't have answers, don't have what happened to my son," says Daniel's father, David Robinson, who hasn't stopped searching. Katelyn said she believed Daniel was very nice and she and her female friend asked Daniel if he wanted to hang out with them, a police report stated. Daniel was the happy kid. Holding the phone to his ear, David listened as the detective explained how a Jeep had been spotted by a rancher who was out corralling his cattle. This is every day. We heard from worried children and frantic parents, even from some who were total strangers -- all of them seeking answers about someone who wasn't where they were supposed to be. I feel like it was dumped. Experts will tell you a person can only survive without water for about three days. After finding the car, they conducted two more ground searches on July 21, according to NBC 12 News. Bolden Day has spoken out on social media and in interviews about the differences between her son's case and that of Petito, noting at one point that Petito's face was "plastered everywhere" and the FBI got involved after she had been missing for two days, but Day didn't get that same attention after being missing for longer. The human remains is not Daniel. if you would like to attend the meet up place is in the coordinates Daniel's case is somewhat harder to understand. If you believe him, it makes a truth-teller out of Daniel's co-worker. Jeff couldn't say if Daniel was driving or if it was someone else. And I said, Well, when I get back into town, I'll take a look at what you've got. And so I met with him, he showed me a picture of the -- what the police took of the vehicle in the ravine. Human remains were found by a volunteer searching for missing Buckeye man, Daniel Robinson, on Nov. 6. And, uh, he often beat them in the games, you know, so --., Josh Mankiewicz: It sounds like not having a right hand didn't really hold him back., David Robinson: Oh, no, not at all. Um, as in, for instance, they played video games. Daniel had bagged a job with Matrix New World Engineering and was last seen by a co-worker leaving a well site behind the wheel of his Jeep Renegade. When they hadn't heard from him in at least that long, they knew something was wrong, Robinson's father, David Robinson II, told CNN. Chief Hall: This is what I've been living, you know, since last summer. It gave him a starting point to look for his son. Carissa Planalp, Buckeye PDs public information officer, said the case remains a "conversation every day" and a "priority". A spokesman for the police department told us they conduct thorough, unbiased investigations and that fair and impartial policing is at the heart of their service. Robinson was not. PHOENIX - It's been a year since Arizona geologist Daniel Robinson went missing in the Sonoran Desert. I should have been on a plane. It is possible that even he couldn't answer those questions. That call did not come. A human skull was then chillingly discovered near the site on July 31 - which was later found not to be Daniel's. Its been nearly 16 months since Daniel Robinson, then a 24-year-old geologist in Arizona, went missing. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. His cell phone -- which at first would ring and ring -- now went straight to voicemail. After that point, it goes straight to the voicemail," he toldThe Independent. I will continue my searches for my son.. Here are their stories. Also, theres some paint transfer from the vehicle. And he wants to visit all these countries, you know, that's his mindset.. They contacted Daniel's boss and started calling his friends and other family. Numbers were exchanged and the next day, texts. Critics swiftly pointed out how Petito, a young white woman, has been the subject of wall-to-wall news coverage, while people of color who go missing like Robinson, a Black man rarely receive the same kind of attention. "He is not a nobody, he is somebody and I want him to come back home. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies, Daniel Robinson has been missing since June when he left a worksite in the Arizona desert. The sun is just peeking above the horizon and the sky is blue with streaks of pink. "I am not going to stop. Daniel Robinson, a 24-year-old geologist, was last seen driving his Jeep near a job site in the Arizona desert on the morning of June 23. Robinsons family members say the Buckeye Police Department, which is handling his case, has had so little success that they have had to crowdfund search efforts themselves. So -- but I don't think it was something where he was depressed and to a point where he would go disappear or something on his own.. A South Carolina man hired a private investigator and started an online petition to help him find his missing son. Authorities conducted searches shortly after Robinson went missing, but since then, most of the ongoing searches have been led by volunteers, groups, and Robinson's family, according to social media updates. Daniel, 24, was last seen on June 23 driving away from his location of work in the Buckeye, Arizona desert - presumably heading to the main road. The Robinson family have since created an online petition to hold cops accountable for their efforts, which has gained a wealth of online support. Robinson has created a separate online fundraising page to raise money for other efforts to locate his son, such printing flyers, hiring a private investigator, enlisting a desert search-and-rescue team and covering the cost of his Arizona hotel stay. I'm Josh Mankiewicz and this is Missing in America -- a new podcast from Dateline and NBC News. Now that the milestone is sadly reached, they're continuing on, saying the desert is large and more of it needs to be searched. "We are committed to finding Daniel Robinson," said Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall. If Daniel Robinson had left the scene and walked out into the desert, he had done so with no money and no way to call for help. Police located Day's car in a wooded area near the Illinois Valley YMCA in Peru on Aug. 26, with the clothing he was last seen wearing left inside. And their task is like draining a reservoir with a spoon. He figured it out, you know? David Robinson is Daniel Robinson's father. That's not -- that's not what our company does. And uh, he explained that they found the vehicle. He is described as a 58 black man, weighing 165 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and is missing part of his right forearm, including his hand. In a video update posted to Twitter on Sunday afternoon, Robinson's dad and a private investigator said the remains do not appear to be that of Robinson. But there's still no trace of Daniel. Ill either see you again or never see you again.. And sometimes it's hard to tell them apart. Volunteer Coordinator: Welcome to, uh, our, uh, latest search for Daniel Robinson.. IE 11 is not supported. Daniel, he says, got into his Jeep Renegade and drove off without a word. Robinson's car was found abandoned in a desert ravine Im gonna bring my son home alive.. ", Saturday, November 6, my weekly searches for my son Geologist Daniel Robinson has again uncovered human remains out in the desert of Buckeye, AZ, hopefully bringing some closure to another grieving family. Most recently was this past Saturday. Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall: We started a missing persons investigation at that point.. And she just simply, Hey Dad, um, one of Daniel's coworkers came by the house saying that they don't know where Daniel is.. Carmen Bolden Day told member station WGLT that the discovery of the body has seemingly brought her son's case to a standstill. The job kept him moving around between sites in the desert heat, his father wrote on GoFundMe. "We ask that people refrain from speculation as the investigation remains ongoing and could take considerable time," they added. Chief Hall: Our phone number for the tip line is (623) 349-6411. Where else could we have searched? MSNBC host Joy Reid controversially slammed the coverage of Petito's case as "missing white woman syndrome" - insinuating there is an imbalance in resources, depending on the color of a missing person's skin. Fox News Flash top headlines are here. This is one of the things the families of the missing have to endure: people who inject themselves into the case. He learned the trumpet and the French horn. "More than 40 ignition cycles were recorded after the crash. Officials later determined the remains did not belong to Robinson and said in their Sept. 16 update that no additional human remains only animal bones have been found since. Jeff downloaded the vehicle's onboard information system, which he said held a cache of valuable information. The collision expert contacted a local Jeep dealership, and was told an 11-mile difference was not that unusual, because the vehicle has a number of sensors which are constantly feeding information to the car's internal systems and sometimes there can be a lag, like one large game of telephone. The Buckeye Police though say the investigation is ongoing, adding that foul play is not suspected at this time. "I started researching Arizona, and I realized theres a lot of missing cases here, he told the publication. Hes a happy guy., Josh Mankiewicz: He'd never done anything that made you think he needs to be in therapy or -- or -- or see a professional. "Something happened. Robinson had kept a rock collection growing up, and landed a job as a field geologist outside of Phoenix after graduating college in 2019. The Buckeye Police Department is asking anyone with information about Daniel's case to call them on their tip line. Market data provided by Factset. Time is of the essence and if you dont move fast enough, you may not ever find the person.". Dust-covered trucks and ATVs arrive using unpaved roads carved into the sand and stone. Once his vehicle was found it just didnt look right, David Robinson said. But Daniel's extensive catalog of experience in remote desert areas, where he often worked in extreme conditions, has his family questioning the curious circumstances of the case. On that June day, Daniel was scheduled to spend the morning doing field work at a development wellsite out in the desert. A GoFundMe page set up for Robinson, was born without a right hand, has raised more than three times its initial goal, funding private investigation services and supplies for volunteers willing to search the desert. And it gives David's volunteer army an area to more thoroughly search. The Buckeye Police Department has confirmed that the remains found by the volunteers searching for 24-year-old Daniel Robinson were human. According to the police report, Robinson was saying things that did not make sense, like asking Kenneth if he wanted to go home to Phoenix to rest. Most commonly, he was described as being "off.". Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Father of missing 24-year-old says he doesnt believe remains are those of his son and he will keep searching for him, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Related video: Father, search team continue looking for Daniel Robinson who went missing four months ago. And he said that, uh, Daniel went west, uh, which is concerning, because there's nothing out there.. Daniel had While we're watching this case unfold, please take 5 seconds to read about Daniel Robinson, a geologist who went missing in the desert outside Buckeye three months ago. His father reported him missing at 7 p.m. that day. Any sightings. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Buckeye is about 30 miles west of downtown Phoenix. Chief Hall: He said, Hey, let's -- why don't we just go over to Phoenix to relax, and that type of thing. It could be anything. hide caption. And no cash withdrawn from his bank account. However, he insisted that "the human remains is not Daniel" adding that hopefully the discovery will help "bring some closure to another grieving family.". The car was reportedly then driven another 11 miles after the initial crash, with the ignition turned on at least another 46 times, Mr Robinson said. Editor's note: On Thursday, authorities confirmed that a body found near Peru, Ill., belonged to Day. There are 13 species of rattlesnakes in Arizona, more than in any other state. Only feet from the car was an orange construction vest, work boots, and a pair of blue jeans, turned inside out. Not at all. 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