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Missing Tom John John 
John, approximately 2017 Date reported missing : 03/26/2017 Missing location (approx) : Newtok, Alaska Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing Gender : Male Ethnicity : Native American DOB : 06/20/1957 (64) Age at the time of disappearance: 59 years old Height / Weight : 5'6, 170 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A black jacket and black pants. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Native American male. Black hair, brown eyes. John is of Yupik descent. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : John was last seen in Newtok, a small villAge at the time of disappearance: on the Bering Sea in western Alaska, on March 26, 2017. He left the villAge at the time of disappearance: at 10:00 a.m. to go seal hunting in his red and yellow fiberglass single-person kayak, and never returned. He has never been heard from again. John had hunted seals regularly throughout his life, and learned the traditional method from his father. He preferred to use an old-fashioned canvas-covered wooden kayak. The day he disappeared was the first time he went hunting in his new fiberglass one. His Arctic Cat snow machine and equipment were found next to a seal carcass on the edge of the ice eighteen miles west of Newtok at 12:30 p.m. There was no sign of John or his kayak. He disappeared on a sunny day and the water was clear and warm, good hunting weather. An extensive search turned up no indication of his whereabouts and he is presumed lost at sea. Other information and links : ncy Alaska State Trooper 907-543-2294 September 2021 updates and sources Alaska State Troopers KYUK: Public Media for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta The AnchorAge at the time of disappearance: Daily News When the Water Took the Land October 12, 2004. June 8, 2018; middle name added. |