Domingo Raul Ramirez, known as Mingo, was 21 when he left his home on Junction Avenue in Cave Junction, Oregon, the early morning of June 5, 2004, for a planned day trip to Kelly Lake in the Siskiyou Mountains. He drove a dark green 1997 Oldsmobile Bravada, Oregon plate VHW 491, and took his three-year-old pit bull Kandi. When he failed to return, family searches turned up no sign of him.

A week after his disappearance Kandi was found alive at Page Mountain Park with two .22 caliber gunshot wounds to the head and additional leg and paw injuries; some of Domingo’s personal items were recovered but his .22 Beretta was missing. In July 2004 the Bravada was recovered in Klamath Falls and the man driving it, Juan Miguel Ramon Soto, was arrested. Investigators publicly identified two persons of interest who were in the Happy Camp, California area at the time: Jose Luis Villegas-Cavada and Joel Brian Rico-Orozco, reportedly driving a white 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Oregon plates.

Authorities later reported finding evidence in a foreign country and items on northern California reservation land, and investigators have said Domingo may have been kidnapped and killed in California. Despite searches and a $10,000 family reward, Domingo Ramirez remains missing. If anyone knew Domingo’s movements that June or has information about the people, vehicles, or locations mentioned, please come forward.