Curtis Austin Holmen, a 31-year-old teacher from Missoula, Montana, was last seen on July 22, 1984, after leaving home to change the battery in his truck. He phoned his girlfriend before leaving and confirmed plans to meet her at a movie theater the next day, but he never arrived and that call is the last confirmed contact.

Twelve days later Curtis’s 1976 Toyota pickup was found abandoned on a remote logging road near Placid Lake. His wallet, eyeglasses, and a forest map were inside the truck, but the keys were missing and there were no signs of a struggle. Tracks believed to be his were later found overlaid with grizzly bear prints in the rugged area near the truck, and there were unconfirmed reports of a man resembling Curtis at a Girl Scout camp about 20 miles away. Searches turned up no further evidence; a female grizzly was reported in the vicinity and authorities have discussed the possibility of an animal attack or a wilderness mishap.

Curtis’s brother has suggested a possible connection to a local priest who vanished around the same time. Curtis was eventually declared legally dead, but his fate remains unresolved. Does anyone have information about Curtis’s movements in late July 1984 or saw him in western Montana around that time?