70-year-old IL Hun Ro was reported missing in late August. He was last seen in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming on July 31, 2022. He is an Asian male, approximately 5’3″, 135 pounds with black eyes and black hair.
The Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation now says they believe he died after falling into a thermal pool in Yellowstone National Park.
On August 16th, a Yellowstone Park employee reportedly found human remains floating in one of the areas thermal features.
The park employee apparently spotted a shoe floating in Abyss Pool in the West Thumb Geyser Basin where water temperatures can reach over 140 degrees. The shoe was reported to still contain the partial remains of a foot.
The Park Service told reporters that they think the foot and shoe are related to an incident involving one individual that likely occurred at the end of July, but final identification of the remains has not been made. When it is, park officials will notify next of kin and then release information to the public.
IL is not the only unsolved missing person in Yellowstone. Kim H Crumbo, age 74, was last seen in the park on September 12, 2021. Crumbo and his brother Mark O’Neill, from Chimacum, Washington, were reported overdue by a family member Sunday, September 19th from their four-night backcountry trip to Shoshone Lake. Park search crews found O’Neill’s body on the east shore of Shoshone Lake on Monday, September 20th.
Nicholas Jeffrey Mostert, age 20, apparently committed suicide on June 16, 2009, by jumping into the Yellowstone River just above the 308-foot-high Lower Falls but his body was never found.
Bruce Parker Pike, age 47, was last seen on August 2, 2006, at the Indian Creek Campground, 13-year-old Boy Scout Luke Sanburg was last seen on June 24, 2005, when he fell into the Yellowstone River and was never found, Daren Newell Dixon, age 20, was last seen on July 4, 1993, and 42-year-old Dan Campbell was reported missing in April of 1991.
James Daniels Jr, age 43, was last seen in Teton County on August 21, 2021. He is a black male, approximately 5’11”, 185 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. Daniels has a tattoo on his back that says, “Daniels”. He is known to wear kilts frequently, and to drive a white box truck with no plates that says “Liberty Distribution” on the sides and “Got Milk” on the back.
DCI is also still seeking information on Cian John McLaughlin, age 27, a white male, approximately 6’0″, 180 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. McLaughlin was last seen Tuesday, June 8, 2021, hiking in Grand Teton National Park in the Lupine Meadows area.
In September of 2009, 53-year-old Katherine Schupp Major was last seen in Teton County. She is a white female, approximately 5’5″, with green eyes, brown hair, and a scar on her lower right abdomen. She was last seen at a hotel wearing an off-white Cloudveil hoodie with embroidery on the left arm.
In all, DCI has 80 missing persons in their database dating back to 1974 with 16 reported missing in Wyoming in 2022.
