Remains of Long Missing Body at Crater Lake
Herald and News
Klamath Falls, Oregon
August 29, 2007
By LEE JUILLERAT
CRATER LAKE — Skeletal remains of a body found in a remote
area of Crater Lake National Park last summer are being studied to determine if
they might be a person missing in the park since 1991.
Park ranger Dave Brennan said information about the discovery,
made by a firefighter last September in the remote Bybee Creek area of the park, was withheld pending further
investigations.
Winter snows prevented rangers from reaching the area until
this summer, when park rangers were began a joint investigation with FBI agents
and an FBI recovery team.
“From the condition of the remains it was evident they had
been there some number of years,” Brennan said.
Along with limited remains, a small number of personal effects
were found last year and again this summer. Not enough were found, however, to
make an identification. Remains include teeth with dental work, which Brennan
said “gives us the possibility of making an identification by dental records.”
Brennan said law enforcement officials have contacted the
family of Glenn Allen Mackie of Brea, Calif., whose vehicle was found at the Rim
Village parking lot in October 1991. His driver’s license, keys, passport, cash
and toiletries were in the car, but no trace of Mackie was ever found.
“We’re certainly looking at that possibility,” Brennan said.
“The challenge in 1991 was we did not know where he went to. Brennan described
Bybee Creek as very remote, heavily wooded and “not the kind of spot where
people would tend to go.” The cause of death remains unknown and Brennan said
there is no indication of criminal action.
In a related matter, Brennan said search efforts earlier this
summer for Sammie Boehlke, an 8-year-old who has been missing in the Cleetwood
Cove since last summer, have “come up absolutely empty.” Searchers spent five
days probing the region where Boehlke was last seen.
