Two New Disappearances Added to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Unsolved Cases Webpage
Last August, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department launched an online resource listing 57 unsolved cases from their area of responsibility from as far back as the 1950’s–today there are 69 total cases described on the page. A family member of Hans Lippuner let us know that he had been recently added. In addition, we learned from the Sheriff’s Department that a missing Southern Humboldt man, Mark Burleigh had also been recently added.
“Family members contacted our Major Crimes Division and requested that their loved one’s case be added,” Samantha Karges, spokesperson for the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department explained. “Our unsolved cases investigators looked over the cases and agreed that they should be added.”
The two Newest Additions to the HCSO Unsolved Cases Page:
- Hans Lippuner: On November 1, 2018, Hans Lippuner was reported missing to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. He was last seen by his housemates on October 16, 2018 in the Dows Prairie area. A white Ford Econoline van associated with Lippuner was located abandoned in Trinity County near Del Loma and was recovered by law enforcement in August of 2019. Lippuner has not been seen since his disappearance and is missing under suspicious circumstances.
Earlier Stories on Redheaded Blackbelt about Hans Lippuner:
- Mark Burleigh: On February 13, 2018, Mark Burleigh was reported missing to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. He was last seen by a family member on the morning of September 15, 2017, in the Alderpoint area. Burleigh has not been seen since his disappearance and is missing under suspicious circumstances.
Earlier Stories on Redheaded Blackbelt about Mark Burleigh:
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Redheaded Blackbelt has been delving chronologically into the newspaper accounts of and speaking to people who remember those who are described in a series of stories below. If you have information or memories you’d like to share about anyone on the Humboldt County Sheriff’s list, please contact us at [email protected].
Earlier Stories About Unsolved Cases in our Series Where We Explore all Those Listed by HCSO:
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- 72 Years Ago Two Humboldt County Lovers Went Out For a Date— One Was Found Shot Dead and the Other Never Seen Again
- A Married Woman, Alone in Eureka, Last Seen with a Logger, Turns Up Dead in a Ravine —An Unsettling 69-Year-Old Humboldt County Cold Case
- Korean War Veteran, Stanley Eugene Svendsen, Fatally Beaten in Phillipsville – The 54-Year-Old Cold Case Remains Unsolved
- 54 Years Ago, the Skeleton of an Unidentified Man Was Found in a Shallow Grave West of Willow Creek
- Cold Case – HSU Student Found Strangled and Raped in a Case That May Have Been the Work of a Serial Killer
- 46 Years Ago, Karen Fischer Sought Humboldt’s Beaches But Was Found Raped and Strangled at the Foot of the Cross on Trinidad Head
- A Night of Revelry Ended in Tragedy for 15-Year-Old Sherry Smith – A Cold Case Revisited
- 46 Years Ago, Victoria Schneider, Last Seen in Her Sundress on the Way to the Beach, Was Found Strangled to Death in the Samoa Dunes
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