Gary Walter Baylor was 30 years old when he was last known to have contact in Standish, Maine, on August 4, 1982. Public missing-person records identify him as a White/Caucasian male, 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 160 pounds, with blond or strawberry-colored hair and blue eyes. His NamUs case is listed as MP55186, and public summaries place his disappearance in Cumberland County, in the Standish area near Sebago Lake.
The case remains recorded in NamUs as a missing-person matter, with the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit Central identified in the available case information as the investigating agency.
The known circumstances center on a short but deeply consequential trip onto Sebago Lake. According to the public case information, Gary took his father’s boat out onto the lake during conditions described as dangerous: the wind was blowing hard, and the water was considerably rough. By the following day, the boat had been found, but Gary was not with it. The vessel was reportedly discovered half full of water, and a life jacket was found inside. That detail has remained one of the starkest pieces of the public account, because it shows that the boat was recovered but does not explain what happened to Gary after he went out onto the water.
The report was made on August 5, 1982, the day after Gary’s last known contact, and the case has carried forward for decades in missing-person records. Online public listings continue to associate the case with Standish, Maine, and with NamUs MP55186. Maine State Police notes that the state’s missing-person list is not a complete list of every missing person in Maine and directs the public to NamUs, which is used in Maine to help track and manage missing-person case files. NamUs itself describes the system as a national clearinghouse for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases, used by law enforcement, families, friends, medical examiners, and coroners to store, share, and compare case information.
What remains publicly known about Gary Baylor’s disappearance is limited, but the available information tells a clear and sorrowful story: a 30-year-old man went out on Sebago Lake from the Standish area in his father’s boat on a windy day when the water was rough, the boat was found the next day with water inside it and a life jacket aboard, and Gary himself was not recovered or accounted for in the public record. His case endures in NamUs and other public missing-person listings as MP55186, tied to Standish, Cumberland County, Maine, and investigated through Maine authorities. In overview, Gary Baylor’s case is a long-standing missing-person case built around a hazardous boating incident on Sebago Lake, a recovered boat, a life jacket left behind, and more than four decades of unanswered questions for those who knew and loved him.Last Seen: Aug 4, 1982
