John Weeks Missing Person Case

Nov 05, 2013

Jan 12, 2024

John

Weeks

49

20

72 inches

205 lbs

White / Caucasian

Male

In the spring of 1997, a 20-year-old man named John G. Weeks from Morley, Michigan, vanished under unsettling circumstances. He was last seen on May 31, 1997, a date that marks the beginning of a long and painful period of uncertainty for his loved ones. At the time of his disappearance, John was described as a Caucasian male with brown hair and brown eyes, standing at 6 feet tall and weighing around 205 pounds. His hair was shoulder-length with the sides shaved, and he often wore it in a ponytail. He had distinctive tattoos on his arm and calf. When he was last seen, he was reportedly wearing black jeans, a white T-shirt, a long black cloth trench coat, and white and black Reebok tennis shoes. John was known to be doing odd jobs at the time and had mentioned plans to travel to Texas, but he was never seen or heard from again. John's disappearance is intricately linked with the dark and violent case of Marvin Gabrion. John was an acquaintance of Gabrion and a friend of Rachel Timmerman, a young woman who was a key witness in a rape case against Gabrion. In the weeks leading up to her own death, Rachel had been in contact with John. Investigators learned from John's girlfriend at the time that she had overheard him on the phone with Rachel and that he claimed Gabrion had asked him to make the call. It was later determined that John was the man Rachel had gone on a date with on the day she vanished. Shortly after Gabrion was released from jail, John himself disappeared. He had informed his girlfriend that he was going on a "dope run" to Texas with a friend. When his girlfriend later contacted Gabrion about John's whereabouts, Gabrion claimed to have left him in Arizona. The shadow of Marvin Gabrion looms large over John's case, as Gabrion was later convicted and sentenced to death for Rachel Timmerman's murder. Authorities believe Gabrion killed Rachel to prevent her from testifying against him. Several other individuals connected to Gabrion also went missing around the same time, fueling speculation that John may have met a similar fate. Witnesses reported seeing Gabrion with Rachel and another man, believed to be John, near a lake the day after she disappeared. Despite extensive investigations into Gabrion's horrific crimes, which led to his conviction for Rachel's murder and the discovery of another victim's body, John Weeks remains missing. His case is a haunting puzzle, a story of a young man who seemingly vanished after becoming entangled in a web of violence and fear. The official investigation into his disappearance is still open, leaving his family with unanswered questions and the faint hope that one day, the truth about what happened to John will come to light.

May 31, 1997

Morley

Michigan

Mecosta County

14478

Mecosta County Sheriff's Office

Big Rapids

Michigan

Mecosta County

49307

225 S Stewart Ave, Michigan

2315920150

County

Law Enforcement

1545942-97

Mecosta County Sheriff's Office

Brown

Brown

Brown

07/08/2026