Kansas man still missing after 13 years
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May 20, 2018
JOHNSON CITY, Kan. (AP) — A city in southwest Kansas is reflecting on a man who is still missing more than a dozen years after his disappearance.
Michael Golub was 27 when he went missing 13 years ago. Golub was on his way to a weekend visitation with his 5-year-old son at the Stanton County home of Shannon Floyd, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child. He never returned, and his vehicle was discovered days later on an isolated county road, the Hutchinson News reported .
Floyd and her husband were accused of killing Golub, but charges were dismissed in 2008 after two juries couldn't reach verdicts.
"I think the community has been whipped up into such a frenzy — the rumor mill has spun the case to where it's hard to find people who haven't formed an opinion one way or another," Floyd's attorney Kurt Kerns said at the time.
Golub was 15 when his family moved to Johnson City in 1994 after his mother Deb married Jim Hines.
"I'm just waiting for the truth to be known," Hines said recently.
Hines said he experienced enormous loss when Golub disappeared, but his grief grew when Deb died in her sleep in 2011. The emotional stress of never knowing Golub's fate, along with two trials ending with hung juries weighed on her, he said.
Golub's son, Mikey, is now 18 and lives with Floyd. Hines hopes Mikey will one day return to Johnson City.
"I look for him to come back to find answers of what happened to his father," he said. "We haven't given up."
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Information from: The Hutchinson (Kan.) News, http://www.hutchnews.com
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