Jonathan Corey, a 20-year-old Evergreen State College student, was last seen leaving his waterfront home in Olympia, Washington, in the pre-dawn hours of January 30, 2002. He reportedly launched a canoe around 5:00 a.m. intending to cross Eld Inlet. Jonathan was described as having brown hair and brown eyes and was wearing baggy blue jeans, an off-white sweater, and a tan windbreaker.

Conditions that morning were described as hazardous, with a swift current and winds producing choppy water. Later in February, Jonathan’s canoe was found washed ashore near Gravelly Beach, about a mile from where he was last seen; searchers also recovered his boots and a life jacket in the same area. Extensive searches of the water and shoreline did not locate Jonathan, and his whereabouts remain unknown.

Jonathan enjoyed the outdoors and his early-morning outing was not said to be out of character. The presence of his canoe and personal items on the shore raises the central unanswered question about what happened to him on that January morning. If anyone knew Jonathan, saw him that day, or has information about his movements on Eld Inlet, please come forward.