Richard Lee Frye, known as Rich and also using the name Richard Lee Catlin, was 34 when he disappeared from Stroud, Oklahoma. He had been staying at the Best Western and was reportedly working with a church to enter a treatment program. On April 1, 2002 he left the hotel and has not been seen or heard from since.

Richard was described as a white male, five feet nine or ten inches tall, 170 to 180 pounds, with brown hair (often in a short buzz-cut and a receding hairline), hazel eyes, glasses and sometimes a small mustache. Distinctive tattoos included Bartender with an ugly rabbit on his left upper arm; Jackie on the right side of his chest and Angela on the left (the Angela tattoo was later covered); a grim reaper on his left forearm; a red heart over a white skull with a black arrow through it on his right forearm; and another tattoo on his upper right shoulder. He also had a scar with a torn muscle on one of his legs.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office opened a report on October 28, 2011, and the case was entered into NamUs on April 13, 2015. Very few details are available about what happened after he left the hotel. Does anyone who knew Richard or saw him in Stroud around April 1, 2002 have information to share?