Kerby Allen Bessey was 27 when he was last seen in Coos Bay, Oregon, on August 28, 1986. His final known location was the Blue Moon Café and Lounge on South Broadway Street. That morning he called his mother at 6 a.m., said he had things to do and would be back late, and then vanished.

Descriptions list him as a white male, 5 feet 11 inches to 6 feet tall, about 165 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes and a scar on his abdomen. He was reportedly wearing a t-shirt, a two-toned blue jacket and faded blue jeans. At the time he disappeared he was recovering from surgery and had worked on offshore oil rigs.

Reports link him to a group dealing large quantities of marijuana and cocaine and mention rumors of a drug debt, fear of someone from Jackson County and an alleged $5,000 contract on his life. The Coos Bay Police Department says they have investigated every tip; searches including cadaver dogs in Myrtle Point in 2010 produced no trace. Family and friends held a memorial in 2016.

If anyone knew Kerby’s routines, associates or movements in late August 1986, can you share information that might help resolve what happened to him?