$10,000 MISSING PERSON REWARD
Posted by Max Cannon in $10,000+, Missing Persons, Nevada, tags: CrimePAY$, Missing Persons, Nevada, reward, RewardsTV, Steven Koecher
HENDERSON, Nev. — A $10,000 reward is now being offered for information that could lead to clues to the whereabouts of a St. George, Utah man last seen in Henderson in mid-December.
Steven Koecher’s car was found abandoned in a Sun City Anthem Cul-de-sac on December 13, 2009. The last known images of Koecher were captured by a home surveillance system in the Sun City neighborhood where his car was parked. On the video tape, he’s seen turning a corner, crossing the street and walking out of the frame.
Koecher moved to St. George in April of 2009. The 30-year-old was tired of the gloomy Salt Lake City winters and working the graveyard shift. He left a job at the Salt Lake Tribune to pursue employment in warmer climes. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Koecher found a community ready to take him in and help him stay on his feet. But finding work in a small town during the Great Recession proved tougher than he anticipated. “He had a hard time looking for a job. There were hundreds of people applying for the same jobs he was applying for,” said his mother.
Detectives don’t believe Koecher got on a plane or a bus and there was nothing unusual found on his laptop. His passport was originally thought to be missing, but was recently found in his belongings, so police don’t believe he left the country.
Koecher’s cell phone was last used in the Las Vegas area early on the morning of December 14, 2009 to call his voicemail box. No calls have been made since and there has been no activity on his bank accounts.
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Steven Koecher, call the Henderson Police Department at (702) 267-5000 or CrimeStoppers at (702) 385-5555.
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Because Steven’s cell phone was pinged in the northerly area of Henderson after he departed from his vehicle, I believe searchers need to be deployed to the drainage ditch system that drains past those three cell phone ping locales. This drainage channel flows 500-2000 feet from the ping locations and this may indicate that Steven has entered the ditch upstream and followed it downstream. Maybe he ended up getting wet, and since the temperatures dropped to mid 30′s during his first night missing, he might have sucummed to hypothermia. His remains may be located in the channel, or could have been washed down.