Walter Earl West was 42 when he was last seen on May 24, 1984, in Sandpoint, Idaho. A Bonner County resident, he was described as a white male, 5 feet 11 inches, 150 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office handled the case and listed the official circumstances of his disappearance as unknown.

Later reports identify West as an Aryan Nations member from Athol, Idaho, and say members of the white-supremacist group The Order picked him up from his home on May 27, 1984, drove him into the Kaniksu National Forest, and killed him because he had been talking about the group’s criminal activities. His body has never been found. The case remained open and unresolved, leaving family without closure.