I encourage you to read the entire article as I had to snip
a lot to comply with WS rules. Also, "brother" is actually Matthew's father - see correction in the second link.
APR 16, 2019
Missing man's family desperate for word
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JB said Matthew was terminated from his job at the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Commodities Department on March 18. He drew his final paycheck, and his bank information showed a $250 withdrawal on March 19. He was last seen locally on March 20.
With no word from Matthew by March 22, his mother, C, who had a spare key to the vehicle he was driving, located his cell phone via GPS and with a companion followed the signal to its end where she found the 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup he had been driving parked on the Interstate 84 milepost 7 off-ramp at Snowville, UT, with the doors closed and locked.
Inside, his brother said, were his cell phone and his wallet containing all of his identification papers, but no money. His mother drove the vehicle to a gas station, fueled it up and drove it back to Fort Hall. JB said Matthew’s dog, a Dachshund, was found on March 27 by passersby at Exit 5. They took it to the nearby Flying J service station, where employees who had heard about the missing person called the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office.
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According to JB, an extensive two-day search was made for Matthew in the Snowville area by Box Elder Search and Rescue and by 30 family members from Fort Hall two days after the truck was found, so he believes no stone was left unturned in the effort. “They even brought in cadaver dogs, and the sheriff’s office launched a drone, but nothing turned up,” he said.
He said family members went back multiple times and covered every inch of ground on foot for eight miles on either side of the I-84 exit ramps where the pickup truck and dog were found.
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His mother saw Matthew at noon on March 30, JB said, and a former employee of Shoshone-Bannock High School reported seeing Matthew in a video store at Lava Hot Springs the evening of March 30. He said a police officer told him Matthew was seen on surveillance cameras at the Idaho Falls and Pocatello airports, and a woman reported seeing him in Snowville with his dog at 3 p.m. on March 21.
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“Our office, Search and Rescue and volunteers searched for two days on foot, horseback and with dogs and didn’t turn up a thing,” he said.
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Correction
JB is the missing man’s father. The Chronicle regrets the error.
(Names changed to initials by me)
If someone finds one of my dogs in that condition, there is definitely something very wrong. MOO
