Updated Dossier Info August 21, 2009

*Other known email addresses evan@atavist.net news@atavist.net

*Personal Blog The Atavist

*Flickr Account: Atavist

*Drinks Red Wine. Usually Cheap Red Wine

*Masks the location of his computer usage using TOR. On two occasions, unmasked IPs were used. One IP linked to Los Angeles and the other to San Diego

*He has a residence in San Francisco and another one in Brooklyn.

#Vanish

Edit: Comment from Dave-O "IP address (69.232.75.175) used August 21, 2009 7:53pm tracks back to San Diego Ca This after suspected purchase of pair of swim trunks"

Updated Dossier Information on Evan Ratliff

Updated Thursday, August, 20, 2009

Wired Contributing Editor Evan Ratliff is on the lam. He's actually doing it on purpose.

Here's the background info from the Find Evan Ratliff Site

Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Evan Donald Ratliff
Hometown . . . . . . . . . . . .	Atlanta
DOB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	April 23, 1975
Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	5'11"
Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	175
Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	Blue
Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..	Brown
Build . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..	Medium
Medical condition . . . . . . .	Celiac disease
Twitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	@theatavist
Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	eratliff@atavist.net
Known online alias . . . . . .	Thrimp Johnson
Known to frequent . . . . . . .	Beaches, Wi-Fi-enabled coffee shops, soccer-watching bars, used bookstores, taco stands, dive bars, fishing holes
Last seen in . . . . . . . . . . . .	San Francisco

Here's a quick list of things gleamed from information on Wired and from Twitter searchers using the hash tag #Vanish and the Facebook Group, The Search for Evan Ratliff

• Evan is left-handed
• He sometimes wears glasses
• He's a night owl
• We think he is driving 1999 honda civic License Plate 4mun509 CA
• Plays Ultimate Frisbee
• Nickname from Duke Ultimate Frisbee club Ratty
• Degree from Duke University in Environmental Sciences
• Loves eating at fast food restaurant Chick-Fil-A
• Avid reader

I'm sure I've missed some "known" info. I'll post more later today.

#Vanish

Fed Ex Link to Evan's Previous Work History

In 2004 Evan was a Fellow with the International Reporting Project. They are located in Washington D.C. You can find Evan's bio from the IRP here.

There were other Fellows that year with Evan. Their bio's can be found here.

As we know from the Wired Data Dump site Evan had something delivered to a Washington, D.C. address just before he vanished. The package was signed for by D. Person. I wonder if the IRP has someone named D. Person who would have signed for the package? Or it's likely that D. Person (The Person) is a ruse as Nicholas mentioned in a tweet. I'll keep looking for a D. Person on the IRP's web site.

International Reporting Project
The Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
1619 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

Phone: (202) 663-7761

Fax: (202) 663-7762

Email: irp@jhu.edu

More Dossier Information on Evan Ratliff

Here are two photographs of Evan playing Ultimate Frisbee in 2005 in Northern California:

http://bit.ly/8jwa0

http://bit.ly/3wG79b

Evan was a photographer and writer for Duke University's student newspaper, the Duke Chronicle. Evan is a very knowledgeable fan of Jazz Music. The Duke University yearbook is The Chanticleer. I could only find online editions of the yearbook up to the year 1960.

On his Flickr account, the last photos posted from were taken with a Nikon D70. Other photos on his Flickr were taken with a Canon PowerShot SD600. I mention this because in Evan's article about Matthew Sheppard (Gone Forever: What Does it Take to Really Disappear?) he talked about how this type of information can be useful to investigators.

On a side note, you can follow me on Twitter: @evanoffgrid