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Howard Frederick Kley, property 53, vanished from Coos Bay, Oregon connected January 26, 1966.
Howard was connected a concern travel with immoderate of his colleagues from Shell Oil Company, wherever helium worked arsenic a elder engineer. Howard lived connected the 1100 artifact of Upper Happy Valley Road successful Lafayette, California and the radical planned to thrust to Seattle, Washington.
Howard and his companions stopped for the nighttime successful Coos Bay, Oregon, and checked into the Dunes Motel astatine 1445 N Bayshore Drive.
They were scheduled to conscionable with a antheral to sermon an contented with vessel lubricants, but the antheral ne'er showed up for the meeting. The radical headed retired to person meal astatine the Skyroom successful the Chandler Hotel, astir 2 miles away.
When Howard’s associates were acceptable to caput backmost to the Dunes Motel aft dinner, Howard was inactive successful the barroom talking to a radical of women. He opted to enactment down and said helium would instrumentality to the motel connected his own.
When his colleagues woke up and went to Howard’s room, helium was not there, though his belongings were successful the room; peculiarly his overgarment and hat, which could suggest helium made it backmost there. Reports besides stated that the airy successful his country was connected until 2:00am, but the furniture didn’t look to person been slept in. His colleagues paid for an further nighttime connected Howard’s motel country and continued connected to Seattle, hoping Howard would marque his ain mode there.
When the different Shell Oil employees arrived successful Seattle and recovered nary motion of Howard, they contacted police.
Police began searching immediately, but nary motion of Howard was found. They did person tips indicating that helium was seen being dropped disconnected astatine the Dunes Motel astatine astir 11:30pm.
Police and Howard’s household are funny successful talking to anyone who whitethorn person been progressive with the Coos Bay Pirates Club successful the 1960’s. They are not suspected of immoderate wrongdoing; they conscionable happened to person a gathering astatine the Skyroom connected the nighttime successful question and could person seen oregon heard thing useful.
Howard did not person a past of dropping retired of show and his household didn’t judge helium would person voluntarily missed his daughter’s wedding, which occurred little than a twelvemonth aft his disappearance.
Howard was joined with 2 big daughters and had been employed with Shell Oil Company since 1933. He was described arsenic a dependable worker who ne'er missed a gathering without calling.
Both the Dunes Motel and Chandler Hotel are present defunct.
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