Richard Harley West, an 81-year-old from Santa Clara County, California, was last seen on February 18, 2007. He was a Caucasian man with gray hair and brown eyes, about 5 feet 10 inches and 200 pounds, wore eyeglasses, had diabetes, and was reported to wear a Naval Academy class of 1949 ring. West had been driving a green 2006 Dodge Stratus with Arizona plate 5PKK659.

Reports conflict about his last movements: some accounts place him in Santa Clara County, others in Merced, where he was said to have been in a non-injury collision and to have rented the Stratus from Enterprise Rent-A-Car. After that he was not seen or heard from again. The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office investigated, and West’s family filed for a delayed registration of death on May 7, 2012 because he had not been located.

A vehicle was recovered in August 2023 from a levee along 8 Mile Road and Empire Tract Road in San Joaquin County and later identified as registered to the missing person from Santa Clara County. Human remains were subsequently confirmed as those of Richard Harley West. Does anyone have information about West’s movements in February 2007 or the Dodge Stratus before it was recovered?