Missing
Susan Lynn Ault
Ault, approximately 2001; Michael Braae
Date and time person was reported missing : 06/24/2001
Missing location (approx) :
Rosburg, Washington
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Female
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 09/25/1961 (59)
Age at the time of disappearance: 39 years old
Height / Weight : 5'8, 145 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A blue shirt and tan pants.
Medical conditions : Ault had a long-standing drug addiction at the time of her disappearance.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian female. Brown hair, green eyes. Ault has a tattoo on her left wrist.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Ault was last seen outside the trailer where she lived in Rosburg, Washington on June 24, 2001. She was employed as a waitress at the Hunter's Inn bar at the time. She had argued with her live-in boyfriend of two months, Michael John "Cowboy Mike" Braae, the day she went missing. A month after Ault vanished, some personal items of hers, including a credit card, were found at a rest stop off Interstate 5, near the Tuttle River and the city of Castle Rock, Washington. There was no sign of Ault, however, and she has never been heard from again.
Ault's sister reported her missing. At first police believed she had merely gone off on a drug binge without telling anyone, but Braae is now the prime suspect in her disappearance. He is a suspected serial killer. In 2008, he was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a Lacey, Washington woman and sentenced to 48 years in prison. He had also been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of another woman, but the victim, who was brain-damAge at the time of disappearance: d in the attack, was unable to testify and the jury deadlocked at eleven to one for conviction.
Braae is also considered a suspect in the death of Velina Larson and the disappearance of Debra Vanluven. Larson, like Ault, had argued with Brae shortly before her disappearance, and VanLuven had dated him. Braae was ruled out as a suspect in the disappearance of Phylis Lewellen. A photo of him is posted with this case summary.
Braae will not speak to police about Ault's disappearance, which remains unsolved. Nobody has been charged in connection with her case.
Other information and links : ncy
Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office
360-795-3242
September 2021 updates and sources
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Department
The Tacoma News Tribune
CrimeNews 2000
KOMO TV
Washington State Missing Persons
The Olympian
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October 12, 2004. April 7, 2021; Description, clothing, jewerly and more : added.
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