A family outing to Deception Pass State Park on Whidbey Island ended in tragedy on June 7, 2000, when 12-year-old Jonathan Alexander Camacho of Draper, Utah, became separated from his family along the main beach trail at the park’s south end. Jonathan, a Hispanic boy with brown hair and brown eyes, was last seen near an 80-foot cliff overlooking turbulent water. He wore a short-sleeved blue and white checkered shirt over a t-shirt and jeans.

Nearly 100 searchers and 15 search dog teams searched the rugged terrain. Three days into the effort, searchers located a small trinket belonging to Jonathan and found disturbed earth and vegetation near the cliff; search dogs repeatedly returned to that area. Despite exhaustive searches, his body was never recovered. Authorities’ prevailing explanation is that Jonathan accidentally fell from the cliff into the ocean, a conclusion later accepted by his family, who held a memorial service and published an obituary.

Jonathan was remembered as a lively boy who enjoyed soccer and basketball, was learning viola, and participated in Boy Scouts and his church. Does anyone who visited Deception Pass around June 7, 2000, or knew Jonathan’s family have information that could shed more light on what happened that day?