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According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

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Hartanto Teguh Santoso




Santoso, date, approximate 2001; Santoso's car; Kim Heichel Mason
Date Missing 02/19/2001
Missing From
Kirkland, Washington
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Male
Race
Asian
Date of Birth 05/08/1969 (53)
Age 31 years old
Height and Weight 5'10, 170 pounds
Medical Conditions Santoso is HIV-positive.
Associated Vehicle(s) Dark green 1999 Ford Mustang convertible with the Washington state license plate number 146 KYB (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Asian male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Santoso's nicknames are Toto, Marko and Santos. He has a mole near his right eye. He is an Indonesian national.
Details of Disappearance Santoso was last seen at his apartment during the evening of February 19, 2001. The apartment is located at at the Four Cedars Apartments in the 10000 block of northeast 117th Court in Kirkland, Washington.
Other residents of the apartment complex reported hearing breaking glass, banging and thumping, and several screams at around 10:45 p.m. the day Santoso disappeared, followed by the sound of a car speeding away at approximately 11:00 p.m.
His car, a dark green 1999 Ford Mustang convertible with the Washington state license plate number 146 KYB, which is pictured with this summary, was later located at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport parking garage. The parking receipt was time-stamped 11:51 p.m.
The vehicle had a substantial amount of Santoso's blood inside and a bloody palm print on the outside. There is no indication that Santoso took a flight out of the airport, and his passport has not been used since his disappearance.
Later, a knife covered with Santoso's blood was found in Newcastle, Washington, off Interstate 405.
A month before his disappearance, Santoso filed an assault complaint with the police. He claimed he had been choked, bound with duct tape, and threatened with a gun and a syringe full of drain cleaner by Kim Heichel Mason, a professional kickboxer who had been his friend.
A photograph of Mason is posted with this summary. He is also known as Hiiro Takashi Riser and/or Brian Allen Mason. Santoso claimed Mason demanded he write a check for $700 to pay a drug dealer before he eventually released him.
Mason was charged with first-degree kidnapping and robbery in connection with the incident. He admitted to choking Santoso, but said it was to ward off unwanted sexual advances. Santoso, who is bisexual, told police that he and Mason had once had a sexual relationship. Two other witnesses confirmed it, but Mason denies it.
Santoso got a restraining order to keep Mason away from him after the assault. He was afraid for his life after reporting Mason to the police, and slept with a hammer in his bedroom and a knife under the couch. He told his friends that he wanted to move to Portland, Oregon to get away from Mason.
In April of 2001, two months after Santoso's disappearance, Mason was charged with first-degree murder in connection with his .
Authorities say Mason broke into Santoso's apartment, stabbed him to death, disposed of the body, and left Santoso's car at the airport to make it appear as if he had left the country. The motive was probably to prevent Santoso from testifying against him in connection with the assault and robbery.
Mason's girlfriend, Marina Madrid, says she picked Mason up from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport the night Santoso disappeared, and noticed that he had a bandage wrapped around his thigh. When she asked him about it, he answered, "Santos is no longer a problem." She witnessed him dispose of bloodstained clothing and a bloody knife.
Madrid claims Mason disappeared for three days after Santoso vanished, and when he returned, he confessed to her that he had killed Santoso and decapitated the body to make identification more difficult before he disposed of it in an unknown location. He said he had accidentally stabbed himself in the thigh during the attack.
Police had blood and DNA evidence they said proved Mason's guilt, including some of his blood in Santoso's car. Santoso's blood was also found in the passenger compartment Madrid's car. Madrid originally provided an alibi for Mason, and changed her story only after police offered her immunity from prosecution for any role she might have played in Santoso's murder.
Mason's blood and fingerprints were not found in Santoso's apartment, though they were in Santoso's Mustang. The bloody shoe prints inside the apartment were too big to be from his feet. In addition, the palm print in blood found on the outside of Santoso's car was not Mason's.
Nonetheless, Mason was convicted of Santoso's murder in June 2003. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He maintains his innocence in Santoso's disappearance.
Santoso remains missing. He is an Indonesian immigrant who moved to the United States about five years prior to his disappearance. He has no family members in the States, but was helping to support a large family back in Indonesia. He was employed as a nursing assistant in 2001.
Foul play is suspected in his due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Kirkland Police Department
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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.

Resources for Missing Persons

According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

Missing Person Photos