Dagmar Linton, 59, and her husband Robert left Stockton, California, in an RV after retiring and began a planned three-month trip in the late summer of 1986. They stayed in touch with family for about a month, but contact stopped when they reached Washington state. On August 22, 1986, they checked their travel trailer into Naco West campground in Brinnon on Hood Canal, unhitched it, and planned a day trip in their 1982 Dodge Ram pickup to Mount Baker. They were never seen again.

The couple’s pickup was found the same day at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport with blood and hair inside. The blood showed three different types; two matched the Lintons. After their disappearance someone used the Lintons’ credit cards across several states; one witness reported a large bearded man with a bandaged right hand buying a clarinet. Activity on the cards stopped after news reports.

In August 1990 investigators linked items purchased with the Lintons’ cards to Charles Thurman Sinclair and matched his handwriting to receipts. Sinclair died in jail two weeks after his arrest; he was never charged in the Lintons’ deaths and their remains have not been found.

Did anyone in the area in August 1986 notice unfamiliar camping guests or a man with a bandaged right hand?