Ralph A. Marsh was a 40-year-old white man from the Wiscasset, Maine, area whose life became the center of a long-unresolved missing person case in Lincoln County. Public case records describe him as approximately 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 165 to 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. His hair was described as a crew cut.
On the day he was last known to have contact, he was reportedly wearing tan chino pants and a denim jacket, ordinary clothing that now stands as one of the few remaining details tied to his final known movements. His case is listed in NamUs as missing person case MP55105, with the Maine State Police Major Crimes Unit Central identified as the investigating agency.
The day Ralph disappeared began with a traceable routine. He was known to have been at work at the Wiscasset Lumbar Company until noon on October 23, 1965. After that, the account becomes narrower and more fragile, dependent on what was later reported about his afternoon and evening. Ralph allegedly spent the afternoon with three friends, traveling from Rockland to Gardiner and then back toward Sheepscot. By around 8 p.m., he was reportedly dropped off at the Four Corners in Sheepscot. That location became the last known point in his story: after being left there, Ralph was not known to be seen again.
The geography of the case places Ralph’s disappearance within coastal and midcoast Maine, connected by the route described from Rockland to Gardiner and back toward Sheepscot, near Wiscasset in Lincoln County. Online case summaries consistently identify Wiscasset, Maine, as the area associated with his disappearance, while the more specific account states that the last reported drop-off occurred at Four Corners in Sheepscot. The available public information does not describe a confirmed destination after that drop-off, nor does it provide a verified explanation for why Ralph was left there or where he intended to go next. What remains is a quiet but painful gap: a man who had worked earlier that day, spent time with others afterward, and then vanished after an evening stop along a local crossroads.
Ralph’s case was reported to law enforcement on October 26, 1965, three days after his last known contact, and it remains documented through public missing-person systems decades later. The Maine State Police missing-person information explains that Maine’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner uses NamUs to help track and manage missing-person case files, and NamUs describes itself as a national information clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases. In Ralph’s case, that continued listing preserves his name, his identifying details, and the circumstances that are known, even though so many answers remain absent.
The passage of time has not lessened the human weight of Ralph Marsh’s disappearance. He was not only a case number or a set of measurements; he was a man whose ordinary Saturday in October 1965 ended in uncertainty for the people who knew him. The public record does not state that he has been found alive or deceased, and it does not provide a resolved explanation for what happened after he was dropped off around 8 p.m. at Four Corners in Sheepscot. The case, as publicly available records tell it, is the story of Ralph A. Marsh, age 40, last known to have worked in Wiscasset, traveled during the afternoon with three friends, returned to the Sheepscot area, and then disappeared from the known record after an evening drop-off, leaving behind a sparse but enduring trail that investigators and public databases continue to preserve.Last Seen: Oct 23, 1965
