ANCHORAGE, Alaska (WXPR-Wheeler) — ANCHORAGE, Alaska (WXPR-Wheeler) — Alaska State Troopers say they have no record of a 72-year-old Wisconsin man leaving that state.
The agency is asking the public for information as it searches for Roger Yaeger of Eagle River. He had traveled to Alaska last summer to view wildlife. Alaska State Patrol spokesperson Beth Ipsen says family members last heard from him August 8th when he visited a relative in Wasilla. “…on August 18, staying with a family in Wasilla(Alaska), then he drove up to Fairbanks which is about 300 miles away and turned his rental car in somewhere around the 9th or 10th, and that’s where he drops off the radar.”
Relatives in Wisconsin reached out when they didn’t hear from Yaeger and he failed to answer e-mails. One relative says he had revealed plans to travel around Alaska, saying he would contact them at about Christmas time. Ipsen says he has failed to do that so far. “…family members called Troopers in the beginning of December. When nobody heard from him by Christmas they became concerned. Troopers tried tracking him down, we know he went to Juneau before Wasilla. Any record of him just drops off after August.”
Ipsen says if anyone has any information to contact the Alaska State Troopers at 907-451-5100. The also have a Facebook page.
