Found Deceased SD, Eugene Laverne Prins, 45, Forestburg, 26 March 2020

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• Missing Since 03/26/2020
• Missing From Forestburg, South Dakota
• Classification Missing
• Sex Male
• Race White
• Date of Birth 05/14/1974 (48)
• Age 45 years old
• Height and Weight 5'10, 190 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue plaid coat, light-colored khaki pants, sneakers and a gray stocking cap.
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Graying brown hair, brown eyes. Prins wears eyeglasses. His nickname is Beaner and he has that word tattooed on his arm. His ears are pierced and some of his teeth are missing.

Eugene Prins was last seen in Forestburg, South Dakota on March 26, 2020. He went out with friends to a local bar, then left at 7:30 p.m., presumably to home to Woonsocket, South Dakota. He never arrived home and has never been heard from again. He was reported missing at noon the next day.

Few details are available in Prins's case. His brother described him as a private person who had few close friends and enjoyed spending time at home.

Eugene Luverne Prins – The Charley Project

A year without Eugene Prins: Missing man’s family seeks closure

WOONSOCKET, S.D. (KELO) — On Friday, March 27, 45-year-old Eugene “Beaner” Prins of Woonsocket, South Dakota was reported missing. The last time anyone has reported seeing him was…

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‘A needle in a haystack’: DCI searching haybales for evidence of missing Woonsocket man

SANBORN COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) — The South Dakota Department of Criminal Investigation says they are still searching for a Forestburg man who went missing in March 2020.

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Let's find Eugene!

 

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EPISODE 357: Eugene Prins — The Vanished Podcast

On March 26, 2020, 45-year-old Eugene Prins planned a short road trip with a friend to drop off a wood splitter. They started out in Woonsocket, South Dakota, and drove about 25 miles east to the tiny town of Fedora. After that, Eugene and his friend were spotted at a bar in Forestburg, which was al

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This is a very lengthy article so I've summarized in an attempt to get as much of the information here as possible.

JAN 20, 2023

Eugene Prins still missing after 3 years, family fears 'We will never know what happened to him'

The strange disappearance of South Dakota man nicknamed 'Beaner' remains unsolved.

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1. On March 26, 2020, Prins went grocery shopping.
2. According to his mother, PS, he "bought hundreds of dollars" worth of groceries.
3. He stopped at the shop he and his brothers worked at to tell them he had an errand to run, that he needed to drop off some equipment he'd been lent, and that he was going with one of his closest friends, with whom they were all familiar.
4. He left his beloved dog locked in his house and his I.D. and wallet in his car.
5. He told his brothers that it was a short trip, but that he would be back that night.
6. Prins and his friend made it to their destination and stopped at bar in Forestburg, South Dakota, on their way back.
7. Bar-goers described Prins' behavior prior to his departure as slightly intoxicated.
8. One said they heard him saying he needed to get back as he had to work in the morning.
9. Prins was captured on video surveillance leaving at approximately 7:38 p.m.
10. The family said that the friend explained to them that they made a quick pit-stop at a mutual friend's farm, located a few miles east of Woonsocket.
11. The friend left Prins in the truck. When he returned about 20 minutes later, Prins was gone.
12. According to CH, Eugene's youngest brother, the friend arrived at the shop sometime before midnight without Prins. With a bag of pork rinds and beer in hand, the friend was seemingly unbothered as he explained that he didn't know Prin's whereabouts.
13. Prins' brothers both tried calling him. No answer. It wasn't like him to not let them know where he was, let alone not answer his phone.
14. Authorities immediately went to work searching the farm and the area surrounding it but quickly realized that the search was beyond their abilities.
15. By mid-morning the next day, Prins' mother said that the authorities arrived at her door to inform her this was no longer a search and rescue mission — it was a recovery.
16. No reason was given as to why the investigation went from a search and rescue to recovery.
17. According to Sanborn County Sheriff Tom Fridley, "it was fairly early on" that the search became a recovery, though he was unable to confirm dates.
18. "They told us they didn't have the resources, and then COVID hit," Scholtes said. Basically overnight, the search for Prins was called off.
19. Prin's eldest brother called every government agency for whom he could find contact information, from the state Division of Criminal Investigation to the FBI. He even went as far as renting two charter planes to perform aerial searches of the farm where he was last seen.
20. In the fall of 2022, a farmer found what looked like human remains a few miles away from the area where Prins was last seen. The farmer contacted authorities.
21. “Upon the following search (after they'd found the bones), they found a phone in the same area," Prin's stepfather said.
22. The Tracfone flip-phone was identified as belonging to Prins despite being exposed to the elements for over a year and a half.
23. “The bone fragments and phone were found in an area that had been searched over for the last two years,” CH said.
24. “Investigators said they couldn’t get any DNA off the bone fragments they found,” PS said.
25. The last they'd heard of the bone fragments and phone were that they'd been shipped to separate testing locations in Oct 2022, and any results would come in 6-9 months.
26. Prins was not a known drug user at the time of his disappearance.
27. According to the Prins’ family, the friend has had little-to-no contact with them after the first couple of days of Prins' disappearance.
28. “The first couple days, he went searching with us. Nothing after that,” PS said. “We had a lot of searches — he never came to any of them.”
29. The friend's only explanation was that he "was too drunk to remember anything."
30. The friend told JH that he'd passed a polygraph test which was later confirmed by the Sheriff.
31. “I told the DCI guy when they found those bone fragments, I said, ‘I’m not gonna settle for that and you [expletive] know it,’” PS\ said.
32. “I lost all of my son. I want all of him back.”

 

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His remains have been found.

Remains of missing Woonsocket man found, Sanborn County State’s Attorney announces

The Sanborn County State’s Attorney said DNA testing confirmed human skeletal remains found in August 2022 were Eugene Prins. Prins was reported missing on March 27, 2020, and the last time anyone …

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Remains offer chance at closure for family of Eugene Prins

Nearly three years to the day after Eugene Prins went missing near Woonsocket, authorities have announced that remains found in the area belonged to him.

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