Floyd Ival Dorsey was 19 when he disappeared on October 21, 1961, the opening day of deer season near Monument Peak in Cassia County, Idaho. A sudden, severe blizzard reduced visibility and temperatures. Dorsey had shot a deer with a borrowed rifle and was last seen at a camp near Pickett’s Corral about 500 yards from his own camp; witnesses saw him warm his hands by a fire before he walked back into the storm.

Search parties recovered the deer but found no sign of Dorsey or the rifle. Two other hunters in Cassia County died in the same storm, and several others were stranded. Decades later, an unverified report surfaced that a man named Pickett from Murtaugh may have given Dorsey a ride and let him out at the bottom of a hill; authorities never verified that lead and family efforts to find Pickett produced no results. The Cassia County Sheriff’s Office has asked hunters and others in the South Hills to report any aged clothing, human remains, or a rifle that might solve the case.

Did anyone in the area in 1961 or with family knowledge of Pickett ever hear more about that possible truck ride or have other information to help locate Floyd?