Name: Donald Edward Hunter
Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: August 11, 1999
Location Last Seen: Mojave, Kern County, California
Date of Birth: November 2, 1937
Age: 61 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Hair Color: Graying brown hair, that is thinning on top
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Not available
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown
Clothing: Brown corduroy pants, yellow shirt, brown sandals.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Donald was last seen August 11, 1999 when he set out on foot from Mojave to Boron, some 30 miles away. Donald Hunter was last seen about 16.00 August 11 after he was released from the Mojave sheriff's substation jail following a drunk driving arrest for which his car was impounded. He told a sheriff's employee he couldn't get a bus home and intended to walk.
Hunter is easily confused due to an head injury suffered when he was in his 20s.
When Hunter's brother reported him missing August 21, a Sheriff's Department helicopter was sent to scan the desert on both sides of Highway 58 between Mojave and Boron. Search and rescue unit personnel on horseback and in four-wheel-drive vehicles searched the area. Neither search turned up any sign of him.
Agency Name: Kern County Sheriffs Department
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: 661-391-7770
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: SR-99-23432
CA DOJ
Daily News of Los Angeles
Added: 10-25-2008; Last Updated: 11-13-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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