Missing
Dennis Frank Svoboda
Svoboda, approximately 1996
Date and time person was reported missing : 01/21/1996
Missing location (approx) :
Longview, Washington
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 10/15/1948 (72)
Age at the time of disappearance: 47 years old
Height / Weight : 6'0, 160 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A tan coat, blue jeans and work boots.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Svoboda had a close-cropped beard and mustache at the time of his disappearance. He wears eyeglasses. The tip of his left middle finger and half of his left index finger are missing.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Svoboda was last seen fishing with another man, Larry G. Mansur, on the Columbia River in Longview, Washington on January 21, 1996. Both men vanished along with their boat, a red and white fifteen-foot Slickcraft runabout WN6776MD with the hull identification number C70021.
On June 9, Mansur's body was found in the river near Willow Grove Park in Longview, about two miles downstream from where he and Svoboda were last seen. Svoboda and the boat were never located. He is presumed to have died in a fishing accident.
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Cowlitz County Sheriff's Department
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September 2021 updates and sources
Cowlitz County Sheriff's Department
Washington State Missing Persons Information
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