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Stanley Galbreath










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Galbreath, approximately 1980; Sketches of unidentified suspect




Date reported missing : 11/01/1980

Missing location (approx) :
Winfield, Kansas
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 08/14/1943 (77)
Age at the time of disappearance: 37 years old
Height / Weight : 5'9, 160 - 190 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Black hair, blue eyes. Galbreath wore a short black beard at the time of his disappearance, and he had stitches in his head. He has a tattoo of the name "Beth" on his upper right arm. His nickname is Stan.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Galbreath left his Winfield, Kansas home sometime in November of 1980, and headed for work. He drove an 18-foot refrigerated meat truck for Prairieland Processors, a Winfield meat processing plant. The truck was bound for Hutchinson, Kansas.
Galbreath made scheduled stops and deliveries in Wichita and at the Valley Center High School, but never arrived in Hutchinson as planned.
Witnesses saw Galbreath's truck driving erratically and sideswiping parked cars that day. The next day it was found in a parking lot in Wichita, Kansas. There was no sign of Galbreath at the scene, but his sunglasses and his baseball cap were found in the cab and some of his blood was also found.
250 boxes containing 15,000 pounds of processed beef, valued at over $20,000, were Missing location (approx) : the truck. Galbreath is presumed murdered, but his body was never found. Posted with this case summary are two sketches of a suspect seen driving the truck and then leaving it in the parking lot.
Galbreath was declared legally dead in 1985. Police investigating his presumed homicide believe he was killed so someone could steal the meat, and Galbreath just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Investigators believe more than one person was involved in the crime.
Galbreath is a graduate of Winfield High School; he played football there. He left behind a wife and children when he vanished. His case remains unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Cowley County Sheriff's Office
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
785-296-4017



September 2021 updates and sources

Kansas Crime Stoppers
KSN News
The Doe Network
Kansas Bureau of Investigation




October 12, 2004. October 5, 2019; name corrected.