Jarvis LeRoy Sayler, born with partial blindness and described as mentally handicapped, moved from Missouri to Vancouver, Washington, in the summer of 1988. He was 37 at the time, lived briefly with family and then in an apartment in the Hazel Dell area, and traveled primarily by bus. In October 1988 he told family he was traveling to Wichita, Kansas, to handle a personal matter and was never seen or heard from again. He had sent letters home between June and September 1988; those letters stopped after that.

A brother who lived in Washington, Chris Harvey Sayler, told authorities he last saw Jarvis when Jarvis moved out after an argument. In 2013 an individual applying for a Washington ID under Jarvis’s name triggered a facial recognition match to Chris’s photo. That led to a federal investigation which found Chris had been collecting Jarvis’s Social Security payments for years; he was later prosecuted for fraud and identity theft. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office still lists Jarvis as missing and asks anyone with information to come forward.

Does anyone have memories of Jarvis in Vancouver in 1988 or knowledge of his travel to Wichita that might help clarify what happened?