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Jack Irwin was a 71-year-old disabled Army veteran last seen September 13, 1999, in Upland, California. He had medical problems that made walking and speaking difficult and was described as a white male with gray hair and green eyes, 5 feet 10 inches and 138 pounds. When he vanished he was wearing a purple t-shirt and green jeans.

About nine months before his disappearance Irwin sold his Mt. Baldy cabin to Marcia Ann Johnson and Judy Gellert, who befriended him. In the month before he went missing he signed over about $250,000 in financial assets to them and agreed to leave his estate to them. Johnson and Gellert had been staying with Irwin in his Upland condominium but moved out before he disappeared. Johnson reported him missing on October 3, 1999, saying he had taken a train to Seattle with $5,000 and a change of clothes.

Investigators later found that Johnson had drained Irwin’s bank accounts, sold his Upland home, and burned the Mt. Baldy cabin for insurance proceeds. Johnson was arrested in 2001; she confessed during questioning to shooting Irwin in the back of the head, dismembering him with a chainsaw, and scattering remains in the Mt. Baldy area, then recanted.

Did anyone in Mt. Baldy or Upland at the time have information about Irwin’s movements in September 1999?