Missing
Tom John John
John, approximately 2017
Date and time person was reported missing : 03/26/2017
Missing location (approx) :
Newtok, Alaska
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Native American
DOB : 06/20/1957 (64)
Age at the time of disappearance: 59 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6, 170 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A black jacket and black pants.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Native American male. Black hair, brown eyes. John is of Yupik descent.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : John was last seen in Newtok, a small villAge at the time of disappearance: on the Bering Sea in western Alaska, on March 26, 2017. He left the villAge at the time of disappearance: at 10:00 a.m. to go seal hunting in his red and yellow fiberglass single-person kayak, and never returned. He has never been heard from again.
John had hunted seals regularly throughout his life, and learned the traditional method from his father. He preferred to use an old-fashioned canvas-covered wooden kayak. The day he disappeared was the first time he went hunting in his new fiberglass one.
His Arctic Cat snow machine and equipment were found next to a seal carcass on the edge of the ice eighteen miles west of Newtok at 12:30 p.m. There was no sign of John or his kayak. He disappeared on a sunny day and the water was clear and warm, good hunting weather. An extensive search turned up no indication of his whereabouts and he is presumed lost at sea.
Other information and links : ncy
Alaska State Trooper
907-543-2294
September 2021 updates and sources
Alaska State Troopers
KYUK: Public Media for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
The AnchorAge at the time of disappearance: Daily News
When the Water Took the Land
October 12, 2004. June 8, 2018; middle name added.
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
