Missing
Russell James Boyle
Boyle, approximately 2016
Date and time person was reported missing : 07/04/2016
Missing location (approx) :
Alton, Missouri
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 11/23/1951 (69)
Age at the time of disappearance: 64 years old
Height / Weight : 5'8, 130 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Possibly blue jeans or blue denim shorts.
Medical conditions : Boyle suffers from dementia.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Gray hair, hazel eyes. Boyle may have a beard and/or mustache.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : The exact date Boyle disappeared from his Alton, Missouri residence is unclear, but it is believed to have been sometime between July 4 and July 18, 2016. The last time he used electricity at his home was June 20, 2016, and he may have been sighted in Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, twenty miles south of Alton, on July 11.
Boyle had talked about traveling to Georgia or Mexico prior to his disappearance. His case remains unsolved.
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