This news release just arrived from King County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. John Urquhart:
A “missing” SeaTac man has been found alive and well, living in another state.
The man, Nicholas Francisco, was last seen leaving his work on February 13, 2008. He was supposedly heading home to bake cookies with his children.
Francisco’s car was found a few days later abandoned in Federal Way.
The Sheriff’s Office did an extensive investigation to learn if he had been a victim of foul play. Nothing turned up.
Last week detectives developed information that he was in fact alive. He had changed his name and was living outside of Washington.
We have closed our investigation.
This was a WSB story for a while for two reasons: Francisco had attended Mars Hill-West Seattle, and West Seattle friends of Francisco posted flyers all over the area; one of our updates during the search remains the most-commented WSB story of all time – more than 300. We’ll be checking to see if the Sheriff’s Office has any more details. 1:41 PM: Sgt. Urquhart says nope, there’s nothing more they can say, since no crime was committed.
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