Tim Molnar Disappearance - What Happened?

[infinityluxe]

This case has always been interesting to me. UM had a running theme of people allegedly walking away from the only lives they have known to disappear without a trace. I guess it was a safe way to deny the cruel world we live in and that 80% of the time these people come into contact with foul play.

I watched this segment again today and then I found this on r3dd1t:

Warning long read but interesting---

Back in 1984, a body was found in Washington County, WI. It was a young boy found with clothes matching a missing case of a boy named Tim Molnar. Tim was a 19 year old boy from Daytona Beach, Florida. The morning he went missing, he dropped his 14 year old brother off at school before driving to class. He never arrived at school and later his car was found at a Greyhound bus station in Atlanta, Georgia. When his parents arrived to the car to inspect it, they found Tim's wallet, ID, and credit cards. What they didn't find however was the valuable items believed to have been in the car with Tim: the stereo that Tim had installed in the car himself, his bike, and his expensive tool set. As his ID and wallet were found, it seems that for years the most credible theory was that Tim had run away to start a new life, possibly having adopted a new identity when he left his car. However, Tim had taken no clothes from his home before leaving and there is no evidence that he packed anything at all.

Then the next information we have was his body was found in Wisconsin. Found by Steven Cull. Later this story was told by Steven on Unsolved Mysteries in 1995.

Now I have information that might be prudent to this story. In the 1980s, my family had a friend named Richard Jashinksy. He was friends with my uncle and spent a lot of time with him and my aunt. My parents would come down to Wisconsin from Minnesota and Richard would often be there. My parents never liked him and often found him odd. Speaking to my father, he told me that from the minute he met Richard, he knew something was off. Richard would often show up to my family property, only down the street from where Tim was found, uninvited. My dad says now that he thought that Richard was coming to scope out the land for something weird. Our property was remote farmland that had a long driveway leading up to the house. A perfect place for a body to be hidden.

Richard Jashinsky, now in his 80s, lived in Wisconsin and flew planes. He had a small plane that he would often fly between Florida and Wisconsin. I have been told that Richard had a young men staying in his small shack of a home who would be coming through town. Now that information isn’t confirmed but it seems to be true. Later in life, Richard was convicted of sexual assault of a child. He moved to Arizona and can still be found on the sexual offenders registry.

The thing that I find odd in these two people together is this.

-Even though Tim Molnar was technically of age, the fact that he was from Florida where Richard would often be, then found less than a mile away from where he would spend a lot of his time, AND for Richard to be arrested in 2001 for sexual assault of a child, seems too odd to be a coincidence.

-Steven Cull, the kid who found Tims body, lived across the street from my aunt and uncles house. His family has been their neighbors for many years. The fact that Richard would spend a lot of his time showing up to my families property uninvited, across the street from the man who found Tims body, also seems too odd to be a coincidence.

I will say, back in 2019, my brother and I put all this information on the internet. We posted on unsolved mysteries, my favorite murder, and other reddit pages. We contacted Milwaukee Homicide, sent the information to the FBI, but nothing was ever done about it.

Now I will include below the information that my brother provided on the internet and gave to law enforcement back in 2019:

Throwaway for obvious reasons, I just reported what I know to the FBI.

I have family in Wisconsin, when we are driving past a park area my father remarks how family friends found a skeleton known as the “Monches Skeleton” while looking for shed antlers. Later while watching Unsolved Mysteries covering the disappearance of Molnar he (the family friend) makes the connection to the unidentified body he found years before, tells LE, and low and behold its Molnar. My father remarks how he always suspected a former friend of his brother-in-law (my uncle) of committing the crime, because he was a creepy guy and was convicted of second degree sexual assault against a child in 2001 and lived in town. My sister and I are like wtf and ask him if he ever tipped off law enforcement, he’s like “well…no…” we can’t believe it, but the evidence isn’t really beyond he’s a peso at this point. But we are headed to my uncles who knew this man.

The man he knew was Richard J. Jashinsky.

And as we ask more and more questions of our uncle, the more damning the picture becomes. Dick as he was know, was a strange man who lived nearby in a barn like shack, where he would often let young male drifters crash, rotating through. From this shack he was also a poacher, killing animals illegally and surviving off them. My uncle remembers how he tried to burn the bones in a furnace to hide his poaching and failed, and began looking for other methods of disposal. He also would leave in the winter to Flora, where he had a plane and would often fly back and forth, but would often drive down and fly out. Tim disappeared in January 1984 from Flora. Leaving his car at a greyhound station, taking a bike with him that was found with his body all the way in Wisconsin. Like I said, he was later convicted of pedophilia in 2001 and had infiltrated a Christian boys and girls club. He would also take long unannounced walks on my families property, making me wonder what he was really up to.

I’m trying to remember more, I have a feeling I’ve forgotten a super creepy piece of the Florida connection but wanted to put this out there for my conscience and for Tim. If this guy had something to with it then I have to say something. But oddly, when I contacted my aunt, she said she wanted nothing to with it at all (my tip to the FBI) and my uncle had been sort of defensive when talking about it, but I think he’s dealing with guilt from being friends with Dick and not realizing who he was. And like I said, my father literally had all the info and never reported it.

Here’s to hoping something comes of this.

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Now all of this information comes from us trying to put two and two together for the sake of this unsolved case, but we hope that somehow this can get out there and be spread and maybe reopen the case of Tim to put an end to what would have happened to him.

[infinityluxe]

Also to note Tim was in school for aviation and this guy flew a plane.

[Zero]

I think Tim began suffering from some mental illness, like Jim Kimball and the girl who drove her car into the mud twice. I think he developed schizophrenia or a similar type of illness. His brother said he wasn't saying much and something seemed to be on his mind. I don't know what kind of thoughts or delusions or paranoia was haunting him, but he abandoned his car and wallet, got on a greyhound bus or, somehow made it to Wisconsin. He was not in his right mind. I think he wander up to where he was eventually found and froze to death.

[Gelatinous Goo]

Originally Posted by Zero

I think Tim began suffering from some mental illness, like Jim Kimball and the girl who drove her car into the mud twice. I think he developed schizophrenia or a similar type of illness. His brother said he wasn't saying much and something seemed to be on his mind. I don't know what kind of thoughts or delusions or paranoia was haunting him, but he abandoned his car and wallet, got on a greyhound bus or, somehow made it to Wisconsin. He was not in his right mind. I think he wander up to where he was eventually found and froze to death.

If nothing else, he was at the perfect age for schizophrenia to rear its head.

[lisabnelson]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

If nothing else, he was at the perfect age for schizophrenia to rear its head.

I think there’s a little too much correlation with the Richard character to be coincidence.

[MediaHoarder]

To me this feels like a spontaneous trip that ended in foul play, such cases are often extremely difficult to solve because you have a random perpetrator along with a victim who was not where they were expected to be.

I don't find the fact that the man who originally found the body remembered the clothing to be suspicious. Finding a body would be a noteworthy event and you would remember more detail from that then something mundane.

The $10 in the bank account is likely not a function of an ATM. Although ATMs did exist in the 80's, getting cash from a teller was also very common so its not particularly likely he used an ATM at all. Moreover, leaving $10 would imply he had an even balance to begin with, ie. no cents in the account. Odds of that are roughly 1 in 100.

More likely, the $10 left was because of some minimum to keep the account open. Today its often $25 required, but can be as little as $5 so $10 would be very reasonable for the 80's. This does seem to indicate some desire to return, as someone intent on completely leaving might go ahead and close the account. However it could also have been a desire to just get the bulk of the money without the hassle or suspicion of closing the account.

One other musing, in cases like this where it is dramatically reported that someone "emptied their bank account" the lack of context on the dollar amount makes drawing conclusions difficult. If someone empties their account and has $200 from it that is very different than emptying the account and having $200,000. The former could simply be (and other cases fit this as well) a young person with few assets taking a decent length trip with every intention to return. The fact that they emptied the account is meaningless, all it signifies is they didn't have a lot of money.

[MediaHoarder]

To me this feels like a spontaneous trip that ended in foul play, such cases are often extremely difficult to solve because you have a random perpetrator along with a victim who was not where they were expected to be.

I don't find the fact that the man who originally found the body remembered the clothing to be suspicious. Finding a body would be a noteworthy event and you would remember more detail from that then something mundane.

The $10 in the bank account is likely not a function of an ATM. Although ATMs did exist in the 80's, getting cash from a teller was also very common so its not particularly likely he used an ATM at all. Moreover, leaving $10 would imply he had an even balance to begin with, ie. no cents in the account. Odds of that are roughly 1 in 100.

More likely, the $10 left was because of some minimum to keep the account open. Today its often $25 required, but can be as little as $5 so $10 would be very reasonable for the 80's. This does seem to indicate some desire to return, as someone intent on completely leaving might go ahead and close the account. However it could also have been a desire to just get the bulk of the money without the hassle or suspicion of closing the account.

One other musing, in cases like this where it is dramatically reported that someone "emptied their bank account" the lack of context on the dollar amount makes drawing conclusions difficult. If someone empties their account and has $200 from it that is very different than emptying the account and having $200,000. The former could simply be (and other cases fit this as well) a young person with few assets taking a decent length trip with every intention to return. The fact that they emptied the account is meaningless, all it signifies is they didn't have a lot of money.