David Wayne Wallace was 36 when he was last seen on the evening of May 3, 1997, leaving his father’s home near Lake Shasta in Shasta County, California to walk his dog. His father reported hearing shouting shortly after Wallace left; Wallace never returned. The dog later came back to the house covered in blood, but it was not determined whether the blood belonged to Wallace, the dog, or someone else. Family searches around the lake turned up no sign of him and relatives say law enforcement treated the disappearance as possibly voluntary at the time.

Wallace was described as a white male, brown hair, hazel eyes, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 195 pounds, missing his front teeth, with tattoos reading Against on his left arm and The Law on his right arm. He was last seen wearing a tan shirt, blue jeans and carrying a red backpack. In October 2020 a partial human skull was found on Bollibokka Mountain near the northern part of Lake Shasta, and DNA testing in 2022 identified the skull as Wallace’s. The circumstances of his death have not been resolved.

If anyone has information about Wallace’s movements around Lake Shasta on May 3, 1997, please come forward.