Frances B. Brewster, 75, was last seen around October 1, 1999, after moving to Sunriver, Oregon, to live with her adult son John Shipman. Shipman initially told family that Brewster had left to travel the country in a motor home with her brother-in-law, Walter Cierley. That explanation held until months passed with no contact; Cierley had himself been missing since July 1998.

A son reported Brewster missing in May 2000, prompting a Bend Police Department investigation. Detectives discovered Shipman had been cashing both his mother’s and his uncle’s Social Security checks during their absences, which raised serious concerns. Investigators came to suspect Shipman in the disappearances and believe both Brewster and Cierley were murdered and buried somewhere in central Oregon.

In September 2001 Shipman died by suicide when authorities attempted to arrest him on unrelated domestic violence charges. It was reported he had told an individual he had killed both relatives, though he never made that admission to law enforcement and neither body has been recovered.

Did anyone in central Oregon see Brewster, Cierley, or the motor home around 1999–2000?