Albert Moulton Hagen Jr. was 27 and an Alaska Native visiting his parents in Manley Hot Springs when he disappeared on May 17, 1984. That morning he helped clear brush around the family property, went down toward the river and the boat landing that afternoon, and never returned. Investigators later listed him as a missing person and a suspected homicide victim; his body was never recovered and is believed to have been put into the Tanana River near Manley Hot Springs.

Hagen’s disappearance was part of a series of killings and vanishings around the riverfront that day. Authorities tied those losses to Michael Silka, a transient hunter newly in the Interior that spring. Two days after Hagen vanished, troopers located Silka; an attempt to arrest him resulted in a gunfight in which Silka and Alaska State Trooper Troy Duncan were killed, so no arrest was ever made in Hagen’s case. Official listings and community memorials continue to record Hagen as a suspected homicide and unrecovered.

If anyone knew Albert, saw him in Manley Hot Springs on May 17, 1984, or has information about what happened at the landing, please come forward.