Missing
Todd Ripplinger
Ripplinger, approximately 2003
Date and time person was reported missing : 11/21/2003
Missing location (approx) :
Lahaina, Hawaii
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 05/04/1978 (43)
Age at the time of disappearance: 25 years old
Height / Weight : 6'0, 150 pounds
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, brown eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Ripplinger was last seen surfing near Lahaina, Hawaii on November 21, 2003. The surfing conditions that day were very rough. He never returned to shore.
Ripplinger's car was found parked in a parking lot near the 500 block of Front Street in Lahaina, and his white surfboard with three skegs washed up on shore. He has never been heard from again.
Ripplinger grew up in Illinois and performed magic shows as a youth, beginning at Age at the time of disappearance: eleven. He attended Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois, where he majored in video production and Japanese. After college he spent a year in Japan.
He moved in Hawaii in 2003 after being offered a job in Maui, and learned how to surf. Ripplinger proposed marriAge at the time of disappearance: to his Japanese girlfriend the month before his disappearance. He is believed to have drowned in an accident in the water.
Other information and links : ncy
Maui Police Department
808-244-6425
September 2021 updates and sources
Maui Police Department
Maui News
In Memory of Todd Ripplinger
October 12, 2004. July 25, 2008; picture and DOB : added, Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : updated.
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