Missing
Richard Andrew Rader II
Rader, approximately 2001
Date and time person was reported missing : 08/13/2001
Missing location (approx) :
San Francisco, California
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 09/13/1950 (70)
Age at the time of disappearance: 50 years old
Height / Weight : 5'10, 180 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Blue jeans and a blue sweatshirt.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, green eyes. Rader has a scar on his left cheek.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Rader was last seen fishing for albacore or salmon in his forty-foot boat, the Robert Croll, in the Pacific Ocean south of the Golden Gate Bridge. He has never been heard from again.
Rader was reported missing by his family after he failed to return from his fishing trip. His boat was found empty and adrift two weeks later, over twenty-five miles west of Morro Bay. There was no sign of him. Investigators believe he drowned.
Other information and links : ncy
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department
707-565-2994
September 2021 updates and sources
California Attorney General's Office
The San Francisco Chronicle
October 12, 2004. July 10, 2006; Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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