Found Deceased WA - Young Hills, 22, Pierce County, 15 October 2016

[los2188]

22-year-old man missing after visiting brother at UW

Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives are looking for a man who was last seen driving away from his brother’s apartment Saturday morning on the University of Washington campus.
Detectives say 22-year-old Young Hills called his ex-girlfriend in South Korea and about 6:40 a.m. and told her he was lost but he did not provide any information on where he was.

http://q13fox.com/2016/10/20/22-year-old-man-missing-after-visiting-brother-at-uw/​

 

[flower_girl]

A friend's FB post said Young's facebook last pinged at Exit 161 in Georgetown in Seattle. Not sure if that's where he called his ex-girlfriend from. That area is pretty industrial but also highly populated? I'd think that around 6:40 AM a lot of factory/production workers would be showing up, plus I-5 would start to become trafficky. Someone has to have seen him. The high transient population in Seattle, esp south Seattle/more industrial neighborhoods makes me wary.......there were a couple recent shootings at homeless camps around that general area.

 

[tarabull]

Which way would Young have been travelling??? Where does he live???

Could this be him?

https://goo.gl/maps/6ZXHA9YdPY62

http://komonews.com/news/local/young-man-found-shot-to-death-in-capital-forest

 

[flower_girl]

Which way would Young have been travelling??? Where does he live???

Could this be him?

https://goo.gl/maps/6ZXHA9YdPY62

http://komonews.com/news/local/young-man-found-shot-to-death-in-capital-forest

I believe he was traveling to Tacoma, which is about the halfway marker between Seattle and Olympia.

 

[Darling136]

Another link for Young
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article109494277.html

 

[Wolf Dreamer]

https://www.facebook.com/DavidRoseQ13FOX/posts/1222873434402465 says he was returning to his residence in Parkland. Which really confuses me as looking at a map it would basically be a straight run down the I5 - I don't understand why he would even be contemplating exiting around 161, if that's where he was when he called his ex (and why call her, not his brother? Part of me wonders if there is a different spin on "lost" and "exit" here).

Where would sat nav take you? There is a lot of water

 

[Darling136]

Another news link
http://www.kiro7.com/news/south-sou...-22-year-old-man-from-pierce-county/459267194

and sheriff post on fb
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=806970919443007&id=606376336169134

 

[azure]

If you have a cell phone with which to call someone, then that phone has service, and therefore access to maps/directions, and you cannot be lost. Unless he was just chatting with her and complained he made a wrong turn, etc, this is highly suspicious. Was he under the influence of something?

 

[SleuthySleuther]

http://www.koreatimes.com/article/20161020/1018903

Here is an article in Korean. I'm thinking there are some slight mistranslations which could lead to confusion. The Korean article states that Young did not "call" his "ex-girlfriend," but rather "messaged" his "girlfriend" through a popular Korean messaging app called KakaoTalk (similar to Whatsapp). It was probably natural for him to text her at that time because of the time zone difference. Also, it states his message to her in Korean which translates to "I took a wrong turn" rather than "I got lost" or "I took a wrong exit."

If I do recall, the 15th was part of the coming storm to hit Seattle. It was terribly rainy that day. Texting and driving...through a rainstorm...on unknown roads...running on no sleep...juggling texting and probably GPS on the phone...sounds like a recipe for disaster... Sigh.

I agree with the poster with the idea that someone must have seen him. Main highways would have had enough people on the roads getting to work 6am and beyond. He must have taken a pretty isolated road for no one to have witnessed anything.

His car is a Nissan Pathfinder, an SUV. A scenario I drew up in my head was if this car is tall enough, with enough force, it could flip over one of the concrete railings on a bridge like 509 and leave no trace...could that happen??

Hope this helps....and I hope Young is found soon and reunited with his family.

 

[SassyBenton]

A couple of things stand out to me in this case (I’m from Seattle)

1. He left the U-District at approx. 6 am, then at 6:40 am communicated with his friend in Korea that he was lost, his phone apparently pinging in the Georgetown area. If he took I-5 from the U-District to the Georgetown area at 6 am on a weekend it would NOT take 40 minutes, probably only 20 minutes at most. If that is the route he took, what took him so long on the freeway? If he did not take the freeway I could see it taking around 40 minutes but not taking the freeway makes no sense. Was he intoxicated and avoiding the freeway?
2. He used an app on his phone to communicate with his friend in Korea right before he went missing, I’m assuming if he could use such an app he could certainly use an app such as Google maps to figure out how to get home/figure out where he was.
3. The GoFundMe page setup for him states his last facebook check-in was at approx. 12:54 pm in Georgetown the day he disappeared, yet news reports are stating it was at approx. 6:40 am. Which was it? And I’m interested in the high amount of money being asked for on the GoFundMe Account, why $17,500?
4. In my opinion (I once lived very close to Georgetown) that is not a safe area, even in the daytime. There are lots of homeless camps and it is very industrial, pretty desolate expect for the homeless people and the industrial workers. This would be an area that someone could easily get carjacked in and there would be no witnesses, especially early in the morning, if that was the actual time he was down there.
5. Probably not related but another man, Jeremiah Foco, also disappeared not far from Georgetown in 2015, no clues have ever been found regarding his disappearance, it’s like he vanished into thin air.

 

[JerseyGirl]

found deceased: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article114045593.html

 

[Stripehaven]

How sad! Gosh, he really went far astray to end up in the Duwamish. The surface streets are pretty confusing in that area and I can imagine having trouble figuring out how to get back to I-5, but he went way the wrong way. Poor fellow!

 

[cvaldez1975]

No, that ended up being Dakota tyree walker. I have been trying to follow that story, but not much has been posted sincere the two arrests.

Which way would Young have been travelling??? Where does he live???

Could this be him?

https://goo.gl/maps/6ZXHA9YdPY62

http://komonews.com/news/local/young-man-found-shot-to-death-in-capital-forest