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Leonard Joseph Labarth, 50, of Yuba City, California, was last seen March 6, 2013, and has not been heard from since. He is described as a white male, 5 feet 6 inches, 160 pounds, with gray hair, hazel eyes, a tattoo of Chinese characters on his left forearm and visible veneers on his teeth. The Yuba City Police Department is the investigating agency.

Court documents filed by his wife, Sukhjit Purewal, in July 2013 say Labarth’s locked truck was found parked on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge and had been there since March 6, the day he was last seen. Notes written by Labarth on the back of a printout of directions from his home to the bridge were found in the truck, and additional notes and a journal discussing suicide were located at his residence. Purewal’s filing also stated he had experienced periods of mental disturbance and several hospitalizations.

Labarth was a former city editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel and had served as editor of the Marysville Appeal-Democrat; he was reportedly fired from the Marysville position in 2012. His wife and daughter last saw him on March 5, 2013. Does anyone have information about his movements around March 6, 2013, or about the truck at the Golden Gate Bridge that day?