His sisters learned that Bill had bought a car from one of his friends a couple weeks before he disappeared. No one knows what became of it and MN auto registration records don’t go back that far.
He was classified 1A for the Army draft and the Vietnamese War was at its height. Bill was at a party with friends, one of whom had just returned from combat. Bill had already taken 2 of his final exams. He stepped outside the party without his coat and disappeared. According to his sisters’ Facebook page for him, he was wearing that brown suede coat along with a sweater, jeans and a pair of suede shoes.
There was 19 inches of snow on the ground that night.
His friends say he was upset by someone or something and left the party abruptly.
Among his possessions was a Bulova watch with an inscription on the back reading “To Bill, Love, Peggy”. The sisters don’t know anyone by that name that he was dating.
William Campbell Underhill-Missing Person. 908 likes · 1 talking about this. Missing since March 10, 1969, from Minnesota.
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It’s tempting to think he might have gone to Canada to avoid the draft, but he disappeared with no coat and never withdrew money from his bank account.
He was a typical college student of the times, understandably worried about the draft. Leaving the party without a coat during a cold Minnesota night is concerning. It sounds like he wasn’t planning to leave that night.
I hope the sisters get some answers. It sounds like they’ve considered the possibility of him ending up in the nearby river that night. That seems the most probable scenario.
The foot found on the West Bank of the Mississippi is a possibility. I wonder if LE has considered it? The sisters have submitted their DNA.
