Steven J. Westlake was 19 years old when he was last known to be in Brunswick, Maine, on July 2, 1982. Public missing-person records identify him as a White/Caucasian male with blond or strawberry hair and blue eyes, estimated at 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall and about 120 to 130 pounds. NamUs lists his case as MP54386, with Brunswick as the place of last contact, and other public listings repeat the same core identifying details.
These basic descriptors are spare, but they are the details that have remained attached to Steven’s name across the decades, helping distinguish him as an individual rather than allowing him to become only a case number.
The known circumstances center on a day on the water with his friend Randall “Randy” Fuller. According to public case summaries, Steven and Randy took Randy’s 12-foot sailboat out and did not return as expected. The boat was later found capsized about one mile southwest of Seguin Island, leaving the painful central question unanswered: what happened after the sailboat overturned, and where were Steven and Randy? Randy is also listed in NamUs as missing from Brunswick, with his own case number, MP55092, and public summaries of Randy’s case connect the two young men in the same boating disappearance.
At the time he vanished, Steven was described in the provided public case information as wearing faded blue gym shorts, a tan sweater with orange stripes, and red-and-white Nike sneakers. The public record does not provide a detailed account of what searches were conducted, who last saw the two friends before they went out, or what weather and water conditions were documented at the time; the available online summaries remain brief and focused mainly on the capsized boat and the failure of both young men to return. That lack of detail can make the case feel especially stark, because the official narrative moves quickly from an ordinary outing to a lasting absence, with very little public information in between.
Steven’s name has continued to be remembered in his community. A newspaper account about the Westlake Memorial Wrestling Tournament described him as a former Morse student and wrestler, and said the tournament was named in his memory after he and Randy Fuller were lost at sea in July 1982. Another local article described the tournament as rooted in honoring Steven J. Westlake and his passion for wrestling. These memorial references add something important that missing-person summaries often cannot: they show that Steven was not only a young man last seen near Brunswick, but someone with a school community, a sport he loved, and people who kept his memory present long after the day he disappeared.
Maine State Police notes that its online missing-person list is not a complete list of all missing people in Maine and that the Office of Chief Medical Examiner is the official state clearinghouse, using NamUs to help track and manage missing-person case files. NamUs itself describes its system as a national clearinghouse and resource for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons cases. In the available public information, Steven’s case is not marked as resolved as alive or deceased, so the narrative remains one of an unresolved disappearance: 19-year-old Steven J. Westlake of Brunswick went out on a 12-foot sailboat with Randy Fuller in July 1982, the boat was found capsized near Seguin Island, both young men were missing afterward, and Steven’s case endures as a long-standing Maine missing-person case tied to the sea, to a friend who vanished with him, and to a community that has continued to remember who he was.Last Seen: Jul 2, 1982
