Account
Oct 22, 2013
Jun 13, 2023
Frank
Zuniga
61
49
65 inches
150 lbs
160 lbs
White / Caucasian
Male
In the spring of 2012, a then 49-year-old man named Frank Zuniga vanished under unsettling circumstances in Spokane, Washington. On May 22, 2012, his journey, which began in Ontario, California, took an unexpected turn. Frank, who also went by the names Pancho and Francisco, was known to travel by hitching rides with semi-truck drivers. This particular trip was cut short after a dispute with the driver of the semi-truck he was in. Following the disagreement, a Washington State Patrol trooper intervened and dropped Frank off at the Intermodal Center in Spokane. It was from this transportation hub, a place of arrivals and departures, that Frank Zuniga was last seen, leaving behind a void of information and a family searching for answers. At the time of his disappearance, Frank was described as a White/Caucasian male, standing at 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing between 150 and 160 pounds. He had brown hair and brown eyes. A notable characteristic was a limp he had due to a left knee injury. When he was last seen, he was wearing a t-shirt, Levi jeans, and a baseball cap. The report of his disappearance was filed three days after he was last seen, on May 25, 2012, with the Spokane Police Department. The Intermodal Center where he was left offered him the option of continuing his journey by Greyhound bus or Amtrak train, but it is unknown what his next steps were. The days turned into weeks, and the weeks into years, with no sign of Frank Zuniga. His case remains a quiet but persistent question in Spokane County. The circumstances of his disappearance, beginning with a fight and ending at a busy transit center, provide a starting point but no clear path to understanding what happened to him. He was a man in transit, left on his own in a city that was not his destination. The lack of any further contact or sightings has left his family and investigators with a painful and unresolved mystery. The overview of Frank's case is one of sudden silence, a journey interrupted, and a life that seemingly paused at a crossroads of bus and train lines, leaving only questions in its wake.
May 22, 2012
Spokane
Washington
Spokane County
99201
No
14417
Spokane Police Department
Spokane
Washington
Spokane County
99260
Jenna Ittner
Secretary
1100 West Mallon Ave, Washington
5096254100
Local
Law Enforcement
12-159779
2012-05-25
Spokane Police Department
Brown
Brown
Brown
06/17/2026
