Ronald Hoffman Missing Person Case

In the unforgiving maritime landscape of Alaska, 37-year-old Ronald V. Hoffman, a male from Seldovia, vanished on November 22, 1979, from the area of Dutch Harbor. He was the captain and owner of the F/V Hellion, a 60-foot crab fishing vessel. On that day, Hoffman and his two crewmembers, Walter Laughead, also of Seldovia, and 19-year-old Aaron Goin of Oregon, departed Dutch Harbor. Their mission was to retrieve crab pots from the sea and transport them to Beaver Inlet for winter storage. This r ...
Last Seen: Nov 22, 1979

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