Missing Elter Loaners Deshotel Deshotel, approximately 1988 Date reported missing : 05/15/1988 Missing location (approx) : Oberlin, Louisiana Missing classification : Endangered Missing Gender : Male Ethnicity : White DOB : 01/11/1934 (87) Age at the time of disappearance: 54 years old Height / Weight : 5'7, 175 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A white t-shirt, blue jeans and tan leather work boots. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Gray hair, blue eyes. Deshotel's nickname is Jack. He has a one-inch scar on his right eyebrow. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Deshotel was last seen leaving his residence on south River Road outside Oberlin, Louisiana on May 15, 1988. At 11:00 a.m., he left to pick huckleberries in the southeastern part of the West Bay Game ManAge at the time of disappearance: ment Area, by Little Mill Creek, about two and a half miles from his home. He was carrying a white five-gallon bucket, a gallon jug of water and a yellow pocket knife, but no identification. Deshotel never returned and has never been heard from again. His vehicle was found parked on the roadside at the location where he planned to go berry-picking. The circumstances of his disappearance are unclear. Other information and links : ncy Allen Parish Sheriff's Office 337-639-4353 September 2021 updates and sources Louisiana Repository for Unidentified & Missing People The Kinder Courier News The Oakdale Journal The Town Talk October 12, 2004. December 12, 2019; middle name added. |