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Missing and unidentified need our help
BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Justice Department calls the plight of the missing and unidentified dead "the nation's silent mass disaster." Where are the missing, and who are the dead? In the hopes that someone will come forward with a tip, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office is releasing information on its cold missing-persons cases. "Someone may have a clue, and if so, we'd certainly like to hear from them," said Division Chief Phil West in a recent interview.



In a notebook in West's office are all the known facts about the disappearance of Jon Truscott Haynes. In 1981, the 18-year-old graduated from high school in Orinda, Calif. As a graduation present, his father gave him a brand new beige Subaru hatchback.

Haynes had been accepted at the University of Colorado and arrived in Boulder on July 22. He picked up a hitchhiker who was later interviewed by Sheriff's detectives, and he spent his first night at the KOA Kampground, then located in Boulder.

The next day, Haynes called home and asked his father for money and promising to keep in touch. On July 24, he called a friend from a pay phone in Nederland, in the mountains west of Boulder. That friend -- 28 years ago -- was the last person to talk with the missing man.

On July 26, a Sheriff's deputy and a Nederland deputy marshal saw Haynes' Subaru parked near the community. The following day, the Subaru was gone. Haynes was officially reported missing on August 10. According to Camera accounts from the time, Haynes' father was convinced that his son was murdered near Nederland. In 1983, Haynes was declared legally dead, and his car has never been found.

Another missing person still on the books is the Rev. Rex L. Douglas, former pastor of the Old Stone Congregational Church in Lyons. His wife last heard from her then-61-year-old husband in January 1984. He had called her while on a business trip to Missouri, explaining that he would be spending a few days in Kansas City, but he never boarded a return flight to Denver.Mark Allen Bonner, 24, disappeared under suspicious circumstances in 1978 while house-sitting at a residence on Neva Road, north of Boulder. Investigation at the time implicated him in drug trafficking; whether his disappearance was voluntary or involuntary has never been established.

In 2005, Alzheimer's patient Fred Dingler, 82, left his Boulder home in his car, without explanation or notification to his family. His vehicle was found several weeks later near Hanna, Wyoming, but Dingler, like the others, has never been found.

The Sheriff's Office also would appreciate any leads on the identities of the remains of three adult males, all thought to have been transients. In October 1993, hikers found a 30- to 35-year-old black male on the north side of the second Flatiron. The following month, the badly decomposed remains of a 26- to 30-year-old Caucasian male with a beard, brown shoulder-length hair, and a large hooked nose were found near Gregory Canyon. Then, in August 2002, skeletal remains of a 16- to 21-year-old Hispanic male were discovered behind the Silver Saddle Motel at the mouth of Boulder Canyon.

Anyone with information on these cases is asked to call West at 303-441-3621.

Silvia Pettem and Carol Taylor now alternate as authors of the history column. To reach Pettem, write her at the Camera, P.O. Box 591, Boulder 80306, or email pettem@earthlink.net
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Douglas, Rex
Date Missing: 1/30/1984
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Jurisdiction: Boulder County
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Case Status: Unresolved
Case Type: Missing Person
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