Darrel was last seen at 8:45 p.m. on January 28, 2007. He left North Cove, Washington en route to his home in Graham, Washington, driving his blue Plymouth Voyager van. He never arrived home. He was reported missing the next day.
On the afternoon of January 29, the same day he was reported missing, his van was located at a remote beach on State Route 105 just north of the Shoalwater Indian Reservation in North Cove. The vehicle had run off the road, flipped over and landed on its roof. There was no indication of Darrel's whereabouts at the scene, and no sign that anyone had been injured in the accident, but a belt was found tied to the van's steering wheel. Dogs traced a short scent trail on the road above, but lost it quickly.
Darrel ran a used-car business, Triad Marketing, at the time of his disappearance. A few days after he went missing, his family received a letter. It had supposedly been mailed by a friend Darrel had met in the Army, who had agreed to mail it if Kempf ever disappeared. The letter explained Darrel's that business had run into financial trouble and he had borrowed money from loan sharks, he could not pay them, and he was afraid. The writer said if his family was reading the letter, he was probably deceased.
Darrel may be alive and well and simply fled the area to escape his financial troubles. He was born in Bolivia to missionary parents and grew up there. He may be in Bolivia or somewhere else in South America. He has gray hair and blue eyes, a tattoo on his left arm, and he had a mustache at the time of his disappearance. He speaks Spanish in addition to English. His disappearance is still considered a missing persons case and remains unsolved.
Darrel Wayne Kempf – The Charley Project
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On the afternoon of January 29, the same day he was reported missing, his van was located at a remote beach on State Route 105 just north of the Shoalwater Indian Reservation in North Cove. The vehicle had run off the road, flipped over and landed on its roof. There was no indication of Darrel's whereabouts at the scene, and no sign that anyone had been injured in the accident, but a belt was found tied to the van's steering wheel. Dogs traced a short scent trail on the road above, but lost it quickly.
Darrel ran a used-car business, Triad Marketing, at the time of his disappearance. A few days after he went missing, his family received a letter. It had supposedly been mailed by a friend Darrel had met in the Army, who had agreed to mail it if Kempf ever disappeared. The letter explained Darrel's that business had run into financial trouble and he had borrowed money from loan sharks, he could not pay them, and he was afraid. The writer said if his family was reading the letter, he was probably deceased.
Darrel may be alive and well and simply fled the area to escape his financial troubles. He was born in Bolivia to missionary parents and grew up there. He may be in Bolivia or somewhere else in South America. He has gray hair and blue eyes, a tattoo on his left arm, and he had a mustache at the time of his disappearance. He speaks Spanish in addition to English. His disappearance is still considered a missing persons case and remains unsolved.
Darrel Wayne Kempf – The Charley Project
Help sought finding missing man
