Missing Arizona realtor Sidney Cranston Jr. vanished on June 16th while showing prospective “buyers” a vacant home in Kingman, and relatives now fear he may be the victim of a violent crime.
The county sheriff is heading up the search for the 40-year-old real estate agent, last seen at the listed property getting into a vehicle with his now-questionable clients whose identities still remain a mystery.
Cranston’s brother reported him missing when he didn’t return from that business meeting, and worries his missing sibling may have been an easy target for someone with nefarious motives.
“I’m pretty certain my brother was too trusting of his fellow man,” Chris Cranston said. “I’m pretty certain he thought he was getting in a car to go show a property and then they did something horrible to him, and possibly just for the few dollars in his pocket.”
That fear isn’t unfounded either, since most realtors work solo and as such face a higher than normal risk for being victimized by strangers they routinely come in contact with.
Last autumn, for instance, a 49-year-old Arkansas real estate agent disappeared without a trace after she unknowingly agreed to show a foreclosure to a violent repeat-felon who robbed and killed her inside the empty property where she had met him alone.
Beverly Carter “was just a woman that worked alone -- a rich broker,” explained the man who murdered the wealthy agent and then buried her in a shallow grave not far from the scene of the crime.
“There’s bad, evil people in the world,” Chris Cranston acknowledged, adding he needs “all the good people to try to help” in the quest to find his brother now, dead or alive.
A former engineer and motorbike enthusiast, missing Arizona realtor Sidney Cranston Jr. is described as a Caucasian male about 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds with brown hair, blue eyes and some facial hair.
Anyone who knows what happened to him or of his present whereabouts is urged to call the Mohave County Sherriff’s Office without delay. A reward is also being offered in this missing-person case.
