WI WI - Robin Latham, 33, Eau Claire, 6 August 1998

[Mysteries1974]

Missing Since: August 6, 1998
Missing From: Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Age: 33 years old
Race: White/Caucasian, American Indian/Alaskan Native
Height and Weight: 5’9” and 190 lbs

Details of Disappearance:

On August 7th, 1998, officers and EMS responded to a structure fire at a multi-family residential apartment complex in the City of Eau Claire. The fire was quickly extinguished, and a search of the residence was completed. Robin's vehicle was located in the garage, but no one was at the residence. Robin was never located.

Investigating Agency

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

Eau Claire Police Department (715) 839-4972

NamUs Link:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I wonder why it took so long to add him to NamUs.
It's not clear whether he could have gone missing in the fire itself, is it?

Sometimes unfortunately people are missed. But it seems perhaps not if the fire was "quickly extinguished."

So otherwise I see three possibilities:

1) He started the fire and left. But he didn't take his vehicle. So he would have needed a different method of transportation, and why would he start a fire but not leave in his own vehicle? But it's possible.
2) Something bad happened to him in the apartment and an unknown person removed him from the apartment, burning the apartment to try to destroy evidence.
3) Something bad happened to him at a different location and an unknown person used his keys to enter the apartment and set it on fire for some reason.

I wonder what his family and LE think happened.