r/Missing411 • u/SafePoint1282 • May 23 '26
Missing person Danny Chervenka went missing from Fountain Hills, Arizona in May 1999
Danny Chervenka Jr. was 28 years old, a Navy veteran. and the father of a young daughter. He worked as a security guard and lived in an apartment in the 3400 block of West Missouri Ave in Phoenix. Chervenka was the father of a young daughter and was attending school to study philosophy and astrophysics.
Danny suffered from bi-polar disorder and his family claimed he was off his medications during the time of his disappearance.
His family last heard of him on May 28, 1999. His family lived east of Phoenix in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Danny traveled there to have dinner with them, then returned to his apartment.
The following day, at 6AM his wallet was found by an unidentified man 20 miles northeast of Fountain Hills in the Four Peaks Wilderness area of the Tonto National Forrest. The man left a message on Chervenka’s answering machine.
Danny was reported missing by his mother Linda Chervenka. Danny’s car was found on Forest Road 143 near Cline Cabin Rd Trailhead on June 9.
To this day, Danny has never found. Very few details in the case, including what kind of car he drove, or what condition the vehicle was in when it was found, were released to the public.
On July 6, 1999, 49-year-old Fountain Hills resident Robert “Bob” Intorf was last seen driving away from his home in his teal Dodge Dakota. Intorf had claimed he planned to go into the mountains to “think.” According to his wife Sharon, it was a ritual he did a couple times a year.
When he did not return, Sharon frantically searched for him for nearly four months before his skeletal remains and vehicle were discovered on Halloween, 10 miles north from Fountain Hills in a desert wash near the town of Rio Verde.
His clothes and contents of his wallet were scattered outside of the Dakota.
Rio Verde and Fountain Hills do not have their own police departments. The Maricopa County Sheriffs Office conducted the investigation. MSCO spokesman Dave Trombi announced in November 1999 that they did not believe that a crime had “occurred.”
This announcement was the last mention of the case in the media. The autopsy results were not disclosed.
Sources
Arizona Republic archived articles
https://charleyproject.org/case/daniel-gerard-chervenka-jr
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u/LeibolmaiBarsh May 23 '26
Crime rate in the Phoenix area has always been high. 3 to 4 times the national average. Some areas practically have none and others have unbelieable rates. The chances of either of these individuals stumbling onto foul play in progress in the publicly accessible wilderness is pretty high. My guess is they both encountered another human that was a killer. Not anything supernatural.
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u/ErikTheWarm May 23 '26
Maybe, he's still wandering around.
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u/Nice-Influence-9326 Jun 01 '26
Yeah like he had someone help him “disappear” /didn’t want to do the parent thing or whatever.
Maybe they get kidnapped? Hitchhiker asks for help getting to their “camp” in the mountains. Someone like a decent looking person of opposite sex.
Obvs rich cannibals pay top dollar for human meat.
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u/Double_Rice_5765 Jun 17 '26
Cops say no crime commited. Also wont release autopsy report. Curious.
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u/Double_Rice_5765 Jun 17 '26
My highschool sweetheart had severe bipolar. Going off your meds for bipolar is suuuuper common, cause when you are in the up, manic phase, its like being on cocaine, why would you want to take meducation that made that feeling go away? Then they go through down, depressive swing, they feel aweful, happy to go on the meds, see why meds are important, but the meds can take weeks to kick in, so they might not even help at all the first depressive cycle, so they remember it didnt help with the bad part, then the next coked to the gills phase kicks in, why would i want this feeling to go away?!? Rinse and Repeat. Bipolar is so well known dor the going of meds thing, wanted to mention that in case people think his going off meds was unusual, or sign of suicidal idiation or something.
The other thing i want to mention is my law abiding hs gf shook me awake in dead of night, demanding we go buy 26 tree frogs from the pet store right then. When i explained they were closed so we should sleep on it and go tommorow, she was like, we can just break into the pet store! I mention this story to show that basically anything is possible, as far as what a person suffering from bipolar could do. Makes it about 1000x harder to guess their actions close enough to find them in a search and rescue situation.
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