Emilio Maturin, 36, vanished from Auburn, Washington, in July 2019 after leaving with a man identified as Richard Bradley Jr., who reportedly told him a story about buried gold. Maturin’s girlfriend says she overheard the exchange and later used his phone GPS to track him to the Game Farm Park wilderness area; she did not enter the woods and became alarmed when his unlicensed BMW was later seen parked there.

Police watched the BMW and arrested Bradley after a car and foot chase when he drove the vehicle away and fled. Maturin remained missing for almost two years until investigators recovered human rib bones near the shallow grave of another victim, Brandi Blake, in May 2021. DNA testing later confirmed the bones belonged to Maturin.

Prosecutors allege Bradley lured multiple victims to wooded areas with the same buried-gold story, then killed them and took their money and vehicles. After the DNA match, Bradley was charged with premeditated first-degree murder in Maturin’s death; he faces related charges in other deaths discovered in the same area.

If anyone knew Emilio, his movements in Auburn that July, or saw him with Bradley, please come forward with information.