Robert Michael Bobo, known as Bob, was 36 when he vanished from a remote campsite in Oregon’s Rogue River National Forest in the autumn of 1998. On the evening of October 2 a female friend dropped him at a camp in the Woodruff Meadows area near the 700 Road between Prospect and Union Creek. Two hunters spoke with him around 9:00 p.m., and they were the last known people to see him.

When a friend returned the next morning to pick him up, Bobo was gone. Everything at the camp was left behind — camping gear, clothing, two rifles and his favorite black Pape Cat baseball cap, which his brother said he would never have left without. He had no vehicle at the site and was not known to have money with him. Extensive searches of the rugged terrain turned up no trace. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office found no immediate signs of foul play but did not believe he left voluntarily; the family has long suspected foul play.

Did anyone in the area in late September or early October 1998 see Robert near Woodruff Meadows or recall unusual activity along the 700 Road?