Earston Lewis Shaw, known as Ernie, was 74 when he vanished from his Ketchikan, Alaska, home in the winter of 1989. He was last seen January 11, 1989, wearing a cotton plaid shirt, navy blue wool pants with a thin red line, red or orange long underwear, red suspenders, and Sorrel boots. He was a white man with graying hair, blue eyes, brown plastic bifocal glasses, missing upper teeth and a long scar on his chest. He was reported missing to the Alaska State Troopers on January 13, 1989.

Investigators later treated the disappearance as suspicious and developed evidence they said indicated foul play. Two men, John Wulf and John McClelland, were charged with his murder later that year, but accessible accounts do not clearly document the outcome of those cases. Ernie’s body has never been recovered.

Does anyone have information about Ernie’s last known movements or contacts in Ketchikan in January 1989?