John Curtis Adkins, 53, of Albany, Oregon, disappeared after a Fourth of July weekend trip in 2009. He and two other men sailed his 48-foot fishing vessel Tiger from Garibaldi, Oregon, bound for Ilwaco, Washington to have the boat dry-docked. John was last seen in the early morning hours of July 5 at a tavern near the Port of Ilwaco; he spoke with family earlier that day and then stopped communicating. He was reported missing on July 7 after failing to appear when the boat was to be pulled from the water.

Initially both crewmembers, Walter Bremmer and Erin Dean Rieman, said they waited for John and then returned the Tiger to Garibaldi without him. Nine days later Bremmer changed his account, telling police he had seen Rieman beat and strangle John on the boat, and that Rieman threatened Bremmer into helping clean the vessel and dump the body at sea. Investigators found a broken window and the presence of John’s and Rieman’s blood in the wheelhouse. Rieman was arrested in October 2009, charged with second-degree murder and first-degree theft, later pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter and receiving an eleven-year sentence.

Are there readers who knew John or were in the Port of Ilwaco area that weekend and can add details about his last known movements?