Douglas DJ Becker was a 16-year-old boy last seen in Anacortes, Washington, on November 5, 1992. At the time he had been staying on a friend’s sofa after running away from his family home in Oak Harbor; the friend’s father asked him to leave and Douglas decided to hitchhike back to his family but never arrived. He left his wallet, identification, and other personal items at home.

Douglas was biracial, Native American and Caucasian, and had a large mole on his right shoulder, a scar on his right calf, and a healed stitched scar on the back of his head. Reports say he had been involved with drugs and faced a possible juvenile detention term after a burglary arrest, which led some investigators to consider he may have run away. His mother reported he had received threats and heard rumors he might have been killed in a drug deal gone wrong. Agencies have sometimes listed an alternate disappearance date of August 31, 1994, but November 5, 1992, is cited more often. The Island County Sheriff’s Office continues to list his case as unsolved.

Did anyone in Anacortes or Oak Harbor around November 1992 remember seeing Douglas or a young man trying to hitchhike toward Oak Harbor?