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David L. Porter

Case from Honolulu, HI dated Nov 12, 1976

Victim Details

David Porter

January 30, 2022

Male

White / Caucasian

Honolulu

HI

1976-11-12

1976-11-12

23

David

L. Porter

07/05/2026


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David Porter, 23, a White man, vanished from Honolulu, Hawaii in the first days of November 1976, slipping out of ordinary life so abruptly that the date most often attached to his “death” is really the day worry finally turned official. On November 12, 1976, after his family had gone several days without seeing or hearing from him, he was reported missing. Friends knew him by the nickname “Boogie,” and the pieces that surfaced later would paint him as someone drawn to the ocean and the ...
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