Aaron Wilson: The Evanston Entry and the April 2023 Contact
A focused reading of a brief NamUs account, its reporting date and a case-created field one year after the listed contact.
Abstract
Aaron Wilson’s NamUs entry identifies April 1, 2023 as his last-contact date in Evanston, Illinois. The narrative repeats that date without describing an encounter. A separately labelled April 3 agency report and April 1, 2024 database creation date make it important to retain the year and purpose of each field.
The Evanston Record
NamUs MP119239 identifies Aaron Wilson, missing age 32, and gives Evanston, Illinois, ZIP code 60202, in Cook County as the location. Date of Last Contact is April 1, 2023; the circumstances statement says he was last seen that day.1
The source does not name an observer, provide an exact address or time, or describe a departure. A city and ZIP code locate the record broadly. They do not establish a route, destination or cause of disappearance.
Two April First Dates, Different Years
The agency Date Reported is April 3, 2023. NamUs Case Created is April 1, 2024, while the reader separately displays May 7, 2026 as a page-level Date Created.1
The contact and database dates share a month and day but are a year apart. Omitting the year would erase that distinction. Neither creation field supplies another observation or shows that the investigation began only when the digital record appeared.
The Agency Case Number
NamUs names Evanston Police Department, case 23-2917, and telephone (847) 866-5000. The department’s office address uses ZIP code 60201.1 That administrative address is separate from the case-location ZIP code.
The record provides no middle name. This paper preserves the name as supplied and uses the case number, date and city to define its subject. Same-name biographical material cannot be attached without a further identity match.
Sourced Accounts and Questions
The source gives April 1, 2023 for contact, April 3, 2023 for the police report and April 1, 2024 for NamUs case creation.1 The repeated month and day concern different years and functions, not an established disagreement between witnesses.
Can you find a dated agency statement explaining the recorded April 1, 2023 contact more precisely—its time, place and the basis of the account? Such a statement could turn a city-level reference into a better documented event. The department’s office address cannot supply that detail.
As you compare later sources, can you establish whether any reported contact occurred after April 1, 2023, rather than mistaking the 2024 database date for a sighting? An attributable account identifying the event date would be needed. Keep an update’s publication date separate from the event it describes.
Explore these questions in a Research File in Almost Solved. Match new material to MP119239 and Evanston case 23-2917, retaining the full year for every date. Keep same-name material separate until the source establishes an identity match.
Conclusion
Wilson’s entry has a clear sequence of labelled fields but very little narrative. Preserving the 2023 contact and reporting dates separately from the 2024 database date makes the record traceable. A fuller history would require an attributable account of the last encounter or subsequent events, which this source does not provide.
Scope and Method
The populated NamUs reader was reviewed November 1, 2026 and displayed a temporary processing and service-delay notice. This is a focused single-record study, not independent corroboration, a complete case history, or confirmation of present whereabouts. No new interviews, investigative file, verified case-specific podcast episode or portrait reuse is claimed. The existing canonical guide URL is preserved.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). “Missing Person / NamUs #MP119239,” Aaron Wilson. Case-created field April 1, 2024; reader page also displays May 7, 2026. Accessed November 1, 2026.