Blake Slaughter, 56, disappeared on August 3, 2017, while camping in a national forest near Cottonwood Canyon, east of McGaffey and southwest of Thoreau, New Mexico. He was last seen walking away from his campsite and fellow campers. Blake knew the area well and often visited for solitude and relaxation.

At the time he went missing he wore a tan camouflage-print jacket, a blue long-sleeved Levi’s shirt, jeans, black cowboy boots and a black cowboy hat. He had gray hair, green eyes, sometimes wore a mustache, had a pierced left ear, and wore eyeglasses with brown metal frames. He also wore a large silver bracelet on his right wrist. An extensive search and rescue operation turned up no clues, and his whereabouts remain unknown.