Louis Charles Ernst III, a 30-year-old man, has been missing since April 20, 2020, after he was last seen in Sausalito, California. The Sausalito Police Department is handling the investigation, but official reports offer few details and he has not been heard from since that day.

Ernst is described as a white male with brown hair and hazel eyes, 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 147 pounds. At the time he disappeared he had a goatee, wore a brown plaid hooded jacket, had a tattoo of a word on his left forearm and an earring in his left ear. A social media post from someone claiming to be a friend says Ernst may have gone on a night kayak trip and that a kayak was found washed ashore near Baker Beach two days later; those specifics have not been confirmed by the police.

If anyone saw Louis in Sausalito on or after April 20, 2020, or has information about the reported kayak sighting, please share what is known.