Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 04/01/2019
- Missing From:
- Missing From Doty, Wisconsin
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race White
- Date of Birth:
- Age:
- Age 22 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’10 – 6’0, 170 – 190 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A black hooded sweatshirt with green lettering reading “Get Your Gooch On”, blue American Eagle jeans, and brown or mustard-colored steel-toed work boots.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Hietpas has a tattoo on the inside of his left wrist; it resembles two squiggly uppercase letter Y’s with one of the Y’s inverted.
- Details of Disappearance:
- James Hietpas vanished from Doty, Wisconsin on April 1st, 2019. His 65-pound white German Shepherd, Samantha, disappeared with him. Samantha wasn’t microchipped but had been spayed.
Three weeks later, on April 18th, his black 2012 Ford Fusion was discovered abandoned near a forest road in Oconto County, Wisconsin, close to the Nicolet National Forest. Some of his camping gear was found near the car, but Samantha’s collar was found half a mile away – it looked like someone took it off.
Hietpas liked the outdoors, but why he was in that remote area is a mystery. Nobody knows what happened to him, and his case is still unsolved.
- Agency:
- Appleton Police Department 920-832-5947
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This person was missing Missing Since 04/01/2019