THE MAN WHO SOLD HUMAN HAMBURGERS AND HIS QUEST TO FIND HIS RUNAWAY WIFE AND SON

Ironically known in the 90s as “Tiny”, as he was tall and overweight, Joe Metheny’ story began with the search for his runaway wife and son.
Joseph Roy Metheny was born on March 2, 1955 , in Baltimore, Maryland US. He had been spending time in bars, living with bands of homeless men in makeshift camps in South Baltimore, and spending nearly all of his money on crack cocaine, heroin, and liquor.
However, He held a steady job as a forklift driver and was described as intelligent, well-spoken, and very well-mannered.
Joe had been neglected as a child, his father was an alcoholic who was killed in a car accident when Joe was six years old, and his mother had neglected her six children while she worked double shifts outside the home.
Joe said his parents often sent him to live with other families in "foster-like" arrangements.
Joe Metheny falsely claimed that his mother was dead. His mother said they were somewhat poor and she had to work hard as a waitress, barmaid, and food truck driver, but she had provided her children with a normal family life, and the children had never gone hungry or been put into homes of other families as Metheny had claimed.
She said that Joe Metheny was an above-average student, always polite, and not mean as a child. He was smart and had a good childhood.
Joe Metheny joined the United States Army when he turned 18 in 1973. His mother said he had served in Germany, although he claimed he served a tour in Vietnam and became addicted to heroin while in an artillery unit there. His mother had no recollection of him serving in Vietnam, and the circumstances of his service were reported as unverified in press reports. American involvement in Vietnam had ended by that time.
Joe Metheny very rarely contacted his mother after he joined the Army. According to his mother, "He just kept drifting further and further away. The worst thing that ever happened to him was drugs. It's a sad, sad story."

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