Dane Tidwell vanished August 13, which was his 40th birthday and also the day he and his roommate were evicted from their apartment on Magnolia Street. Fearing for his life, friends notified the police. Tidwell was the creator and operator of the gay website Opus Chicago, and Gerald Farinas, who edited the site for him, told DNAinfo that Tidwell “faced an intensifying sense of hopelessness.”
On August 13 “everything came crashing down around me.”
(Schlageter says both names were on the lease.)
