MISSING PERSON
CASE #: 2021-133
James Eugene Sharpe
Also Known As:
Eugene Sharpe
Status:
Open
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Missing From:
Happy Camp, CA
Summary:
James Eugene Sharpe, 76, was last seen by his grandchildren just after midnight on October 10, 2021, leaving his trailer on China Grade Road in Happy Camp with a flashlight and walking west, possibly toward town. He never arrived. Tracking dogs, a plane, a helicopter and ground crews searched a two-mile radius around his home and ten miles of the Klamath River without finding him. He remains missing.
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Circumstances of Disappearance:
James Eugene Sharpe, 76, lived in a trailer on China Grade Road near Happy Camp, a small community on the Klamath River in western Siskiyou County. According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, he was last seen by his grandchildren just after midnight on Sunday, October 10, 2021. He left the trailer carrying a flashlight and was seen walking westbound on China Grade Road, possibly heading toward town. He never arrived in Happy Camp and has not been seen or heard from since. The sheriff's office reported him missing the same day and asked the public for help on October 12, 2021, describing him as 6 feet 2 inches tall and about 200 pounds, with gray hair and a beard, wearing glasses, a gray hat, a brown flannel shirt, a white T-shirt and blue jeans. Early reports described him as last seen on the evening of Saturday, October 9; the sheriff's office later put the time at about 12:30 a.m. on October 10, and its Unsolved Siskiyou page gives just after midnight on October 10. In the days after he disappeared, deputies searched with tracking dogs, a fixed-wing plane and a helicopter in addition to ground crews. The search covered a two-mile radius around his home and about ten miles down the Klamath River. By October 15, 2021 he had not been located, and no trace of him has been reported since. Mr. Sharpe is listed in the California Department of Justice missing persons database and in NamUs, and the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office carries his case on its Unsolved Siskiyou list. The case remains open and unsolved.
Additional Details:
Anyone with information is asked to call the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office at (530) 841-2900 (24-hour dispatch) or (530) 842-8300.
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NamUs case created for James Sharpe by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office.
The search of a two-mile radius around his home and ten miles down the Klamath River has found no sign of him.
The sheriff's office asks the public for help finding him; regional media publish his description.
Reported missing to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office; deputies begin searching with tracking dogs, a plane, a helicopter and ground crews.
James Sharpe leaves his trailer on China Grade Road, Happy Camp, with a flashlight and is seen by his grandchildren walking west toward town. He is not seen again.
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