Carlos Urruela

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Carlos Benjamin Urruela, property 26, disappeared from San Francisco, California connected July 16, 1987.

Carlos lived with his parent astatine the Women’s Hotel astatine the clip of his disappearance. His parent was the edifice manager, and Carlos helped retired with maintenance. His room, dissimilar most, featured achromatic walls with pinkish graffiti, with immoderate pictures of Marilyn Monroe scattered about.

Carlos had lived successful assorted parts of California portion increasing up, attending prestigious schools and moving arsenic a bouncer astatine Mabuhay Gardens, a punk stone nine that hosted The Go-Go’s and different fashionable acts. Eventually, Carlos decided to instrumentality up acting, and traveled to Los Angeles, arsenic galore young radical do, successful an effort to onshore immoderate roles. Carlos would usage the alias Ben Mann for this purpose.

Initially, Carlos recovered success, making appearances connected tv shows specified arsenic Love Boat, Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives. He had a girlfriend. He was surviving his dream.

However, the imagination was abbreviated lived; helium developed an addiction to cocaine, which sent him into a downward spiral. Once an antique enthusiast, helium began selling his prized possessions for lone a tiny fraction of their value, successful bid to get his adjacent fix.

As the conflict became much unbearable for Carlos, helium went to Guatemala to enactment with his begetter for a month, and helium got clean. However, upon returning to California, helium recovered himself close backmost successful it. His erstwhile woman said that he’d gone from looking similar the adjacent large movie prima to looking similar a bum, and helium became withdrawn.

Eventually, helium returned to San Francisco and stayed with his mother, but the wont continued, contempt his mother’s pleas for him to stop.

At astir 2:40am connected July 16, 1987, his mother’s car was recovered abandoned connected the Golden Gate Bridge, which intelligibly points to a apt suicide. However, determination are things that telephone this mentation into question.

According to a remark by Carlos’ parent connected the Charley Project blog, a radical of passersby did study seeing idiosyncratic exit the car arsenic it was stopped connected the bridge. However, this idiosyncratic did not spot oregon perceive anyone jump. His parent besides states that determination were moving cameras astatine the time, but they did not amusement anyone jumping disconnected the bridge.

I’m funny arsenic to wherever the witnesser and/or cameras were positioned. Unless the camera was beneath the bridge, angled successful a mode that would lone amusement thing making interaction with the water, I’d deliberation the camera could person shown him exiting the car, and with immoderate luck, provided a hint to which mode helium went erstwhile retired of the vehicle. Until now, I honestly hadn’t known determination were cameras astatine the span backmost successful the 1980’s.

Multiple searches were conducted some connected onshore and underwater successful the vicinity of the bridge, and thing astatine each was found.

Don’t get maine wrong, I inactive deliberation it’s precise imaginable that helium did so instrumentality his beingness that night, but we can’t adjacent beryllium definite that the idiosyncratic who exited the conveyance was Carlos.

Carlos’ parent inactive holds connected to immoderate of her son’s writings, a snippet of which she graciously shared with the newspaper:

I sold my integrity. I sold my self-respect. I sold my pride. I sold my soul. I sold my life. I request to bargain it back. I’d merchantability my psyche to the devil for a small cocaine.

In 2017, Carlos’ parent petitioned the tribunal to person Carlos declared legally dead; however, she continues to hunt for her son.