The Disappearance of Richard Paul Holland Vs Evelyn Celeste Miller
Story Created: August 4, 2005
Richard Paul Holland, age seven years, pictured at the left, went missing on July 1, 2005 from his home in Williamston, Michigan. It has been one month and three days since his disappearance. Law enforcement seemed a bit reluctant to call him a “true” missing child because he apparently had a history of running away in the past according to his adoptive parents.Richard, or as he is called by his nickname “Ricky” also has according to his parents severe Bipolar Disorder and ADHD (Attention Deficiet Hyper-Activity Disorder). He is medicated for both of these disorders. My guess would be that after 24-48 hours being without his medication Ricky would be in great distress. He would be in great distress not only because he did not have his medication to control his symptoms, but also, sometimes there is a withdrawl syndrome that develops with some of these psychotropic medications soon after the first dose is missed.
I cannot imagine a 7-year-old in a withdrawl syndrome not drawing attention to himself if he were out in public.
The circumstances of the disappearance of Ricky Holland to me seems a bit suspicous. The coverage of his disappearance has been almost nonexistent. I am comparing the coverage of his disappearance to that of the disappearance of Evelyn Miller during the same week and in a small town in the state of Iowa.
Evelyn Miller’s coverage was extensive in both the media as well as on the Internet. A simple google search of Evelyn Miller’s name brought hits to many links to read about her disappearance and the progress of the search for her. Even today as I write this entry I had to include the words “missing child” to get any sort of hits on google while searching for information regarding Richard Holland. Even the links that were retrieved contained old information from approximately 3 weeks ago.
We have heard nothing from the parents. When Evelyn Miller went missing her parents were on the news pleading for her safe return. Even if Richard’s parents are of the belief that he did in fact run away from home I would think they would be on the news begging for him to come home or at the least letting him know it was safe for him to come home and that they still love him.
The differences between the disappearance of Evelyn Miller and Ricky Holland:
I cannot imagine a 7-year-old in a withdrawl syndrome not drawing attention to himself if he were out in public.
The circumstances of the disappearance of Ricky Holland to me seems a bit suspicous. The coverage of his disappearance has been almost nonexistent. I am comparing the coverage of his disappearance to that of the disappearance of Evelyn Miller during the same week and in a small town in the state of Iowa.
Evelyn Miller’s coverage was extensive in both the media as well as on the Internet. A simple google search of Evelyn Miller’s name brought hits to many links to read about her disappearance and the progress of the search for her. Even today as I write this entry I had to include the words “missing child” to get any sort of hits on google while searching for information regarding Richard Holland. Even the links that were retrieved contained old information from approximately 3 weeks ago.We have heard nothing from the parents. When Evelyn Miller went missing her parents were on the news pleading for her safe return. Even if Richard’s parents are of the belief that he did in fact run away from home I would think they would be on the news begging for him to come home or at the least letting him know it was safe for him to come home and that they still love him.
The differences between the disappearance of Evelyn Miller and Ricky Holland:
- Gender
- History of being a runaway
- History of a mental disorder
- History of being adopted
The similarities between the disappearance of Evelyn Miller and Ricky Holland:
- Age
- Disappearance in the middle of the night
I would hate to think that Evelyn’s disappearance was more worthy of being investigated because she was female and lacked the history of being a runaway, having a mental disorder, and being adopted.
In my estimation it should not matter if there is a past history of running away in a child as young as Richard Holland especially when there are significant safety factors involved such as a mental illness requiring medication.
We all know the outcome of Evelyn Miller’s disappearance, she was murdered.
It is still troubling to me that we have not heard more from Richard’s parents in the media. I don’t believe Richard ran away. I believe the answers to his disappearance lie within his own family. I believe his adoptive parents know where Richard is now and have known since July 1, 2005.
Evelyn’s murderer has not yet been named.
In my estimation it should not matter if there is a past history of running away in a child as young as Richard Holland especially when there are significant safety factors involved such as a mental illness requiring medication.
We all know the outcome of Evelyn Miller’s disappearance, she was murdered.
It is still troubling to me that we have not heard more from Richard’s parents in the media. I don’t believe Richard ran away. I believe the answers to his disappearance lie within his own family. I believe his adoptive parents know where Richard is now and have known since July 1, 2005.
Evelyn’s murderer has not yet been named.
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Evelyn did not get a lot of news coverage, in fact very little. The local news did cover her well but if you Google Ricky Holland, you too will receive a lot of returns all have to do with Richard Holland. That is just how the web is with returns, I remember Googleing Evelyn Miller and I got some lady with portraits of her from the forties in the top returns.
The thing that is amazing is his parents silence however Evelyn’s mom was seen speaking (on CNN) in the past tense of Evelyn before she was found. Maybe they are lawyered up.
Anonymous
20 Sep 05 at 8:04 pm
I learned from the Susan Smith case a few years ago that I can never determine a person’s guilt or innocence involving the murder of a child just based on a bucket of tears shed in the presence of the media or not one tear shed in the presence of the media. However, I do agree it is troubling that Ricky’s parents have been so quiet and have chosen an attorney that only comes out and says something when search warrants are served, trying to redirect the focus away from the Holland’s.
blogger among many
21 Sep 05 at 7:29 pm
Ricky’s parents have not been silent. Due to the situation of having a foster child in the residence (by law the child had to be shielded from any media coverage)and Tim’s job is VERY high security. He had to get permission from his employer just to be allowed to go on local news and speak to local media. He was not allowed to appear in the national media.
Tim and Lisa have been very active in the search for their son Ricky and Tim’s employer has printed up tens of thousands of flyers that they have travelled across the state to distribute.
Victim Advocate
23 Sep 05 at 4:20 pm