Thundercats writer Stephen Perry missing in Florida...

[Kuzeh]

Man, terrible news... and it's not looking good...



https://io9.com/5545676/thundercats-writer-stephen-perry-missing-in-florida

Stephen Perry, a writer for such 1980s cartoons as ThunderCats and SilverHawks, went missing last week. Perry's van was found last Sunday in Zephyrhills, Florida, and a man's severed arm was found inside. Police detained Perry's roommates this Friday.

Perry, 56, is best known for his work on Thundercats, Silverhawks, and the 1985 comic book series Time Spirits, which experienced a resurgence in media exposure last winter due to uncanny similarities it shared with James Cameron's Avatar. According to Fox 13 Tampa Bay:

Just one day after Zephyrhills Police announced they were searching for three roommates who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, two of them are now in jail.
Detectives say they arrested Roxanne and James Davis on probation and drug charges respectively Friday night.
Saturday authorities say the two are now persons of interest in the disappearance of their roommate, Stephen Perry.
"I never even seen the people that live there," explained neighbor Lynette Roberts.
Residents in the Zephyrhills neighborhood don't seem to know anyone living in the home on 8th Street, but did see the police there this week. Investigators say the home where the three lived appeared to be ransacked.
But perhaps the most gruesome detail was what led investigators to go check on Perry in the first place.
Last Sunday, outside the Quality Inn on Bearrs Avenue, detectives opened up a van registered to Perry after a guest smelled something foul. What they found inside, they say, was a severed arm.
Police also found Perry's home ransacked and further human remains in a dumpster near Perry's home. Perry suffered from bladder cancer and had been living in a van with his son Leo, 5, until he received financial assistance from the Hero Initiative, a charity which helps comic creators in need. In March, Perry thanked the Hero Initiative for its efforts in a letter on its blog:

The Initiative gave me the breathing room to get some Medicaid and food stamps, and while we are always in danger of losing our home, electricity and belongings at any moment, I will always be grateful from the depths of my heart for the past six months of fairly solid home life I have had with my little boy.
In an interview with the St. Peterburg Times, Krystal Carroll, Perry's ex-girlfriend and Leo's mother, referred to Perry in the past tense. Leo is presently staying with his mother. Police are considering this case a possible homicide investigation.

 

[Darth Cruel]

Yeah...seems to me that an assumption of the worst case scenario is not unreasonable. Man, this happens to so many people. A person gives their trust to another person and then they turn on you like this.

 

[Boba Ben]

If they found a severed arm in his van and human organs near his home, I'm pretty sure he's done, unfortunately.

It's really sad that he was in such a terrible situation living out of his van with his son and it looked like things might have started to turn around for him when something like this happened.

 

[plasmid303]

There's no way to mistake the gravity of a situation when a severed arm is involved. Just reading the title of this thread doesn't really put that point across. A severed arm! Human organs? That's terrible.

I hope he turns out okay, somehow.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I don't mean to sound insensitive to Mr. Perry, but I do have to say thank goodness his 5-year-old son was not harmed.

 

[Adoptedscot]

Geez, that doesn't sound good.
I hope he is okay but as people have mentioned when body parts are being found, it begins to look a little grim.
We can only hope for the best.
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[King Darkness]

Damn, that sounds like all manner of horrible stuff happened

Crazy that something like this would happen to him right when there is a major resurgence of Thundercats merchandise.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

bad new bears

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Woah that's literally right in my backyard. I live about 25 minutes away from Bearss Ave. Sad day indeed.

 

[Bamboota]

Omg!! I LIVE 2 STREETS AWAY FROM BEARSS!!!

I'M SCARED!

Edit: I just told my roommate and we're officially creeped the ____ out! This is WAY to close to home and I'm locking all my doors yo!

Somebody hold me.

 

[LV702Eldar]

That's just sad. A good man taken by souless people!

 

[CelticPredator]

Is this the same Steve Perry who wrote all those Alien and Predator books?

 

[Devil_666]

Mumm-Ra did it.

 

[Darth Caedus]

On a serious side, this is horrible news...I remember loving Thundercats and SilverHawks when I was younger; I hope he's okay.

 

[agen_kolar]

You know it's bad when they find your arm in a van and it's missing the rest of your body.

Never knew the guy's name, but I loved Thundercats as a kid. Sad news, to be sure.

 

[devilof76]

Somebody hold me.

I'll hold you if you get rid of all the damned exclamation points making the page four feet wide.

 

[Bamboota]

I'll hold you if you get rid of all the damned exclamation points making the page four feet wide.

Lol....ok..I'll edit it just for u....but I'm still creeped out yo.

 

[devilof76]

You're a doll.

But don't be creeped out. Whatever ate him is probably full now. I think you're safe for now.

 

[Master Wayne]

Is this the same Steve Perry who wrote all those Alien and Predator books?

This is my question also. Anyone?

 

[Adoptedscot]

I was just looking for this thread to see if anyone had any updates on this yet?? Has he been found?
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