Jeffrey Dean Gerald, 25, was last seen in San Francisco on February 24, 1985. He was 6 feet 3 inches, about 170 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Gerald told his roommate he was going to help someone with a moving job, a side gig he often did, and did not return.
Gerald had worked with Charles Ng at Dennis Moving Company. In the weeks before he vanished, Gerald’s roommate, Terry Kailer, received twelve calls over six weeks from someone identifying himself as Charlie or Charlie Ng, indicating persistent contact attempts. After Leonard Lake’s June 2, 1985 arrest and subsequent death by cyanide ingestion, investigators searched Lake’s Wilseyville property and found a bunker containing videotapes, journals, and personal effects. Items linked to Gerald were among that evidence. Gerald’s body was never recovered, but investigators tied his disappearance into the pattern of abductions and murders associated with Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.
Ng later fled to Canada, was apprehended and extradited to the United States, and was convicted in 1999 for multiple murders. No remains for Gerald have been found. Does anyone have information about Gerald’s last known movements, the moving job he mentioned, or contacts he kept in February 1985?