Lesley Allan Border Missing Person Case

The story of Lesley 'Les' Allan Border's disappearance is a quiet and unsettling mystery that began in the autumn of 2007. A former engineer who grew up in Montana, Lesley was known by his family as a bit of a loner. At 50 years old, he was described as a white male, standing at 6'1' and weighing around 160 pounds, with light brown hair and blue eyes. He wore prescription aviator-style eyeglasses with wire frames and transition lenses and had a slightly crushed fingernail on his left middle finger from an old football injury in high school. He was a smoker who rolled his own cigarettes and carried a silver Zippo lighter. It is believed he typically dressed in blue jeans, a t-shirt, a sweatshirt, and sneakers, and may have been carrying a backpack.

On November 1, 2007, Lesley Border was seen for the last time at the post office in Littleton, Colorado. After that day, he seemingly vanished. There were no further confirmed sightings or any communication from him. The silence became more profound as days turned into weeks. In the middle of November, a significant break in the case came, though it only deepened the mystery. His blue 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck was discovered abandoned in the vast expanse of the Rio Grande National Forest, near the Big Springs picnic area. The scene was puzzling; the keys were still in the ignition, but the truck's license plate was missing. There was no trace of Lesley himself in or around the vehicle.

The investigation into Lesley's disappearance revealed some unsettling details that suggested his vanishing was deliberate. Before he was last seen, he had canceled the lease on his rental home and returned the keys to his landlord. He also let the registration for his van expire. These actions, combined with his family's description of him as a private person who was not particularly close to his relatives, led them to fear that he may have driven to the national forest with the intention of harming himself. An extensive and thorough search of the forest was conducted, but it yielded no clues as to his whereabouts. The possibility remains that he may have left the area after abandoning his truck. The lack of any evidence has left his case unsolved, a lingering question in the quiet woods of Colorado for those who knew him and the investigators who searched for him.
Last Seen: Nov 1, 2007

Lesley Allan Border - The Charley Project