Eighteen-year-old Farren Wade Stanberry left his home in John Day, Oregon, to travel the country on his eighteenth birthday in August 1979 and kept in regular contact with his family. His last confirmed contact was a phone call home from San Francisco on April 26, 1980, when he told his grandmother he loved her and told his mother he had lost his job and needed money. Bank records place him at the National Hotel, 1139 Market Street, where he was said to be staying with a group of other young men.

Weeks after that call, the hotel told family members that Stanberry had left suddenly, leaving personal belongings and identification behind and with an unpaid bill. His grandmother reported him missing to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office on June 16, 1980. Years later a hotel worker said Stanberry had been visiting a gay man, but the circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear and his family believes he is deceased.

Did anyone in or around San Francisco in April 1980 remember seeing Farren or know where he might have gone after leaving the hotel?