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Thomas Hadwin Missing Person Case

Last seen in Ketchikan, Alaska on Feb 14, 1997

Victim Details

Mar 17, 2020

May 21, 2024

Thomas

Hadwin

76

47

70 inches

168 lbs

White / Caucasian

Male

Feb 14, 1997

Ketchikan

Alaska

Ketchikan Gateway Borough

No

77964

Alaska State Troopers

Anchorage

Alaska

Anchorage Borough

99507

Malia Miller

Missing Persons Clearinghouse Manager

5700 East Tudor Road, Alaska

9072695511

State

Law Enforcement

970040185

Alaska State Troopers

na

Brown

Blue

Blue

07/21/2026


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In the winter of 1997, a 47-year-old man named Thomas Grant Hadwin vanished while kayaking from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, towards Alaska. His last confirmed sighting was on February 14, 1997, about 25 miles north of Prince Rupert. Hadwin, a former forest engineer, was facing criminal charges for an act that had garnered widespread attention and outrage. In January of that year, he had deliberately cut down a unique and sacred 300-year-old Golden Spruce tree on the Haida Gwaii archipelago ...
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Last Seen: Feb 14, 1997

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