Kenneth Jack Leslie, 46, of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, disappeared during a boating accident on the Columbia River in June 2014. He was transporting camping and fishing gear by boat and had completed one trip to shore. While returning for a second load the boat began taking on water, the bow dipped and the vessel overturned. A woman in the boat, Colleen Gillogly, made it to shore wearing a life vest; Leslie was not wearing a life vest and could not swim. He was last seen clinging to the overturned boat before it sank and he disappeared beneath the water. One of two dogs in the boat drowned. Search and rescue efforts recovered the boat and some equipment about five miles downstream, but there was no sign of Leslie and he was never found.

The circumstances are sudden and tragic: cold, fast-moving river water, an overturned, sinking boat, and no life vest for the victim. If anyone on the Columbia River that day remembers the incident or has information about that stretch of river, please share what is known with the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office. Who saw Kenneth or his boat that day?