He was described as 5 feet 9 inches, about 180 pounds, with gray hair, brown eyes, a full beard and eyeglasses; he also used the name Rich and suffered from bipolar disorder and may have been delusional when he vanished. Few details about the circumstances of his disappearance have been released, and he is classified as an endangered missing person.

NamUs lists a last contact of December 25, 1997, in Washington, D.C. under MP57026 while The Charley Project gives the December 31, 2000, Los Angeles County date. Later reports mention a Richard Llamas who went missing from Washington, D.C., in 2018 and an obituary for a Richard Douglas Llamas born in 1950 who died in Washington, D.C., on February 29, 2024. It is not clear whether those references concern the same person as the Los Angeles County case.

If anyone knew Richard, saw him around the late 1990s or 2000, or can help clarify the differing dates and locations, please share what is known.