- Dates
- 2021-03-10 – 2021-05-13
- Kind
- Missing person search and community support
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitymutual-aidhealthcarefamilycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
After Kevin Gillespie was involved in a March 10, 2021 car accident near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, Beaver Island contacts helped circulate a missing-person appeal, a GoFundMe request, and successive family updates. The forum first relayed that he had been located, then that he was missing again, and later preserved a family report of reconnection in May.
Evidence limits
This record documents a community support and communication effort. Its medical, legal, police, and accident details come from family or forum relays and are not independently verified here. The changing updates should not be compressed into a single uninterrupted “missing” or “recovered” status.
Sources
- A family notice asked Beaver Island contacts to share a missing-person appeal after Kevin Gillespie’s March 10 Golden Gate Bridge car accident and last known contact in San Francisco. It gives family-supplied descriptions and reported circumstances, not an independent police report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016074
- The thread solicited financial help for medical, legal, and other expenses after the accident and repeated the family’s March 19 report that Kevin was missing again. It documents community fundraising and family claims, not verified medical diagnoses, legal outcomes, or funds raised.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016086
- Family updates first reported Kevin located and safe, then reported that he was missing again, described repeated contact with San Francisco authorities and medical or legal systems, and later reported a May reconnection. These are family/community updates with changing circumstances, not independent case documentation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016076
- Family updates first reported Kevin located and safe, then reported that he was missing again, described repeated contact with San Francisco authorities and medical or legal systems, and later reported a May reconnection. These are family/community updates with changing circumstances, not independent case documentation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016099
Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community supports search and recovery efforts for Kevin Gillespie, 2021”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-kevin-gillespie-search-and-community-support-2021/, accessed [date], citing Marie LaFreniere, “Help Us Find Kevin Gillespie,” Beaver Island Forum, March 12, 2021, topic 16074. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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