Unlike most distraught mothers of missing children, Rudibaugh couldn’t remember the last time she’d had contact with her son. But there were several things that struck Rourke as odd about the conversation. The report caught the attention of The Gunnison Country Times reporter Chris Rourke, who reached out to Rudibaugh to learn more about the mysterious disappearance. It wasn’t until a few months later, when Rudibaugh felt her son had been gone “too long” that she finally filed a formal missing persons report in August of that year. Jake Millison's Mom Comes Under Suspicion “So, really didn't have anything to go with at that point,” Mykol said. She said he didn’t have his phone with him because it had fallen into an irrigation ditch and even showed officers the phone in a bag of rice, where it was drying out. The weeks went by without any sign of Millison, but then in June, Rudibaugh told authorities that Millison had come home one night to pick up a bunch of camping gear and supplies before leaving in a dark pickup truck with a friend. Millison’s dad also told authorities he had been known to “take off abruptly” in the past, once taking a job in Alaska on a fishing boat.īut his friends insisted it wasn’t like Millison to leave without telling anyone and their concern only grew when they learned he had left his beloved dog Elmo and that vintage bike behind. “Deb told us that he left with a friend and was going to the Reno, Nevada area,” Mykol said.īefore his disappearance, Millison was living with Rudibaugh at the ranch, where they worked together to care for the large property in the wake of his stepfather’s death in 2009. Gunnison County Undersheriff Mark Mykol agreed to look into the case, but he discovered that Millison’s mom, Deb Rudibaugh, wasn’t concerned at all and insisted he wasn’t missing. Who Killed Fashion Icon Gianni Versace? 'Dateline' Dives Into Tragic Story “I thought I had a little bit of credibility and so if I had red flags, it would translate to the deputy there,” Hooks said of agreeing to report the disappearance to the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office. Millison’s friends at the jiu jitsu gym were also getting concerned, including his friend Jared Hooks, who just happened to be a sergeant with the nearby Mount Crested Butte Police Department. “ I texted him to see what was up and never got a reply, which was really weird because I pretty much talked to him every day,” Martinez recalled. But the next morning, Millison never responded to Martinez’s texts and seemingly vanished into thin air.
When Martinez dropped him back off at his home around midnight, the pair made tentative plans to get together the next day.
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Friend Randy Martinez had been out to a movie and the bars with him just the night before. Which is why Millison’s friends were so concerned when he suddenly vanished on May 16, 2015. “He was there every night, four nights a week.” “Jake was the most consistent student that was ever in that gym,” gym buddy Derek Chodorowski recalled. RELATED: Who Killed A Popular Aspen Socialite Found Stuffed In A Closet? Millison, they said, was also a creature of habit, spending his days tirelessly working on his stepfather’s sprawling 7-11 ranch before heading into town on his beloved vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle to go to the jiu jitsu gym and then stop at the local Gunnison bars to play pool and visit with friends. He was always the responsible one, trying to do the smart thing in tricky situations,” friend Nate Lopez told Dateline reporter Josh Mankiewicz. “Even though he was only a couple years older than us, he always acted like an old man. To his friends, Millison was known as the “old man” of the group, choosing to drink Coke at the bar over beer. Jake Millison, featured on Dateline: Secrets Uncovered 1122
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