Jack Carr was a 52-year-old onion farmer from Pasco, Washington, who went missing from his 60-foot yacht on June 4, 1997. He was traveling up the Columbia River with his wife, child, and three friends, making the trip from Seattle to Pasco. As the vessel neared the McNary Dam locks in Benton County at about 9 a.m., the group discovered he was no longer on board and it is believed he fell overboard sometime before his absence was noticed.

Carr was not wearing a life jacket when he disappeared. Benton County search crews conducted extensive air, water, and ground searches downstream of the dam; a stray buoy believed to have come from the yacht was recovered but no other trace of him was found and his body was never recovered. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office concluded he had accidentally fallen into the river and drowned. Carr had recently donated a $1.3 million parcel of land to help establish a Roman Catholic preparatory school in Pasco.

Did anyone on the river that morning or living near the McNary Dam see anything that could shed light on what happened to Jack Carr?