What if this man lost a lot of weight and would grow a beard?
When People Go Missing, Legal Limitations Make It Hard for Friends, Family to Find Them
Part of the article written on November 2017:
Her younger brother, Karl Busch, a handyman by trade, wore his usual garb: frayed jeans, a baseball cap and goatee. He kept quiet, but seemed in good spirits despite a recent breakup.
That night, or sometime soon after—it’s unclear when, exactly—Busch took off with nothing but a knapsack and his white Ford Econoline. Few thought much of his departure at first, until a week passed. Then months.
But his sister wasn’t the only one trying to find him.
The Scaddens began getting calls from Aladdin Bail Bonds. Busch, who had two prior DUI convictions, got pinched with a third and sentenced to community service. But he stopped showing up, despite a $30,000 bounty to his name.
Over the next year, there were still some signs of life from Busch. Someone went back to his cottage a couple months after he went missing and took his computer and clothing. The following summer, in July of 2013, he closed the Bank of America account he shared with his father since his young adulthood.
“That was the last blip,” Scadden says. “After that, nothing.”
Hope Remains
Anneliese Scadden takes some measure of comfort knowing that her brother, who would be 51 years old by now, had the skills to survive on his own. He knew how to build things from scratch. He could repair cars, fix things around the house and had enough of a reputation in the South Bay to enjoy steady work by word-of-mouth referrals.
“He’s such a handyman,” Scadden says from a Campbell coffee shop on a recent fall morning. “He could live out in the mountains and get along just fine. One possibility we’ve considered is that he’s living on a ranch somewhere as a ranch hand.”
But there’s one detail about Busch’s disappearance that’s both agonizing and hopeful. Nobody ever found his van, which would have been flagged if it ever got towed or pulled over by police.
“That could mean he’s out there,” Scadden’s husband, Michael, suggests. “It at least means that he took the vehicle somewhere it wouldn’t be found, where nobody would report it as abandoned.”
Additional photo, no other info and I didn't find a missing persons file.
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Born: 02-02-1966
Brown Hair, Blue eyes, 5’ 11”
Works as an independent handyman and skilled in construction.
Grew up in Morgan Hill CA and lived in Manteca, San Jose and Florida
Graduated from Live Oak in 1984
Owns a white Ford Econoline Van
Huge Sharks fan, Giants fan and likes to watch games in sports bars
Frequented The Box Seat Bar and Grill in Morgan Hill, CA
