Just when you think that you are done with twists and turns and loop the loops you crash headlong into new information. So here goes.
The Tip of the Iceberg
A while back I mentioned in an update that I had found Sean Moorehead. I did of I absolutely did but I made one small mistake. I assumed that he was still alive. Newsflash he is no longer living. The man the world knows as Sean Moorehead died at the age of 48 in 1996. He did come from an extremely large family and they were not incredibly well off but there were never 6 or 7 siblings parsed out as Agnes had said. As far as I can tell there were two parsed out Sean and a younger sister. I have found no evidence that Sean was frail, ill and hospitalized at the time he was parsed out. His family did have relatives in California though and that may be how this all came to pass. His father was a construction worker and the family often moved with him as he went from job to job. In 1963 Sean ran away from Agnes' home for 3 weeks. Everybody assumed he ran to San Francisco but what if he ran home. The family was living in the upper midwest at the time. What if he ran home?
A Ticket To Die For
I posit this what if he always ran home to his family. I say this because one of the things that often gets mentioned in biographies about Agnes is that in 1967 she had a massive blow out with Sean. Sean had a dismantled gun in a drawer in his room. Agnes found it and immediately demanded Sean leave her home. He obliged and that would be the end of that. Once Sean had departed Agnes learned that he had a warrant out for his arrest for failure to appear in traffic court and failure to have a driver's license. I found an article that correlates to this identifying him by his birth name because it happened where his family lived. He ran a red light then backed up through the red light and had no driver's license. He was charged with careless driving and assessed a fine of $166.00 in October of 1966. That's a steep fine for the time. Perhaps Sean went back to Beverly Hills to escape what had happened.
Enlistment
One of the things Sean wanted to do before graduating from high school was to enlist in the military. In 1968 he did just that under his birth name. He served in the Army for two years. His enlistment actually proves his lungs were fine despite what we were led to believe or he would not have made the medical cut. He also did not wear glasses and his eyes appeared to be just fine.
Tying Up Loose Ends
Sean died at the age of 48 of a cardiopulmonary arrest, pericarditis, and renal disease. He was a 2 pack a day smoker as well as a truck driver. He did reunite with his family. His heritage was Scottish and French Canadian. He married twice and I am unaware of any children. I have opted not to release his birth name because the majority of his siblings are still very much alive and it would be incredibly unfair to do so. His name wasn't Sean or Eric but he did travel under the name Sean Moorehead when he went abroad however he was never legally adopted nor does it appear he ever legally change his name so it was plainly long before you had to ante up mega identification in order to obtain a passport or to board a plane. Since he enlisted on July 24, 1968, we now know he remained in Europe until 1968.
Sean was troubled and when compared to his siblings he definitely lived a colorful life. In the end, it's enough for me to know he's no longer with us and to hope that by the time he left this planet he found peace.
