Walked Out of the Hospital and Vanished: Where is Michael Bowcott?

Jennifer
2 min readJun 17, 2024

Michael Bowcott attended a party in Peoria, Illinois on June 17, 2001. At this party, Michael got into a physical altercation with someone and was injured quite severely.

His sister talked him into going to a local hospital to receive treatment for these injuries, and she offered to drive him there.

There is no public information on the party or the partygoer who Michael fought with, but Michael did agree to go to the hospital.

His sister dropped him off, and Michael went inside to be seen.

He was given a hospital gown to wear.

At some point during this visit, Michael walked out of the hospital- in his hospital clothing- and left the premises.

He has never been seen or heard from again.

Michael is described as a Caucasian male, standing 5'6" and weighing around 100 pounds when he was last seen. Michael was 47 years old then, and would today be 70.

Michael has greying black hair and brown eyes.

He has a tattoo of an Indian on his chest and a tattoo of his nickname “Mike” on his fingers. He had a mustache at the time of his disappearance, and his left ear was pierced. His nicknames are Frankie, Mike, and Tocwob, and he may use the names Michael Seacrest and/or Mark Wise.

Michael was last known to be wearing hospital clothing.

Anyone with any information about Michael is asked to contact the Peoria Police Department at 309–494–8368.

--

--

Jennifer

Jen is the host of the missing persons podcast: "Where are they?”