James F. Ehrgott, 73, was last seen on July 2, 2006, at the Sportsman Cafe on North Market Street in Spokane. In the days after his disappearance his mail and newspapers piled up at home, and his gold Pontiac Sunfire was recovered on July 12 being driven by John Wayne Thomson, a man with prior convictions who was unknown to Ehrgott’s family.

Thomson was arrested in Victorville, California, about a month later on an attempted carjacking and later confessed to several violent crimes, including saying he killed Ehrgott. He told investigators he met Ehrgott at High Bridge Park, then shot him in the head while driving around Spokane, stole Ehrgott’s car and credit cards, and disposed of the body under a bridge near a creek in a rural part of Idaho but could not give a precise location. Searches have failed to find Ehrgott’s remains.

Thomson was convicted and sentenced to death in California for the murder of Charles Ray Hedlund; he was not tried for Ehrgott’s death. Because Ehrgott’s body has never been recovered, many questions about his final whereabouts remain. Does anyone have information about High Bridge Park or the rural Idaho areas Thomson described that could help locate Ehrgott’s remains?