{"id":30711,"date":"2017-06-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/06\/24\/missing-airman-s-remains-identified-43-years-after-he-went-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:55:30","slug":"missing-airman-s-remains-identified-43-years-after-he-went-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2017\/06\/24\/missing-airman-s-remains-identified-43-years-after-he-went-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing airman&#8217;s remains identified \u2014 43 years after he went missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Airman 1st Class Rudy Redd Victor, who was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, went missing in 1974. <br\/><br\/>Now, Victor&#8217;s remains have been identified\u00a0\u2014\u00a0almost exactly 43 years after he vanished and decades after his remains were found in Wolf Creek Canyon in Montana.<br\/><br\/>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osi.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1225552\/montana-cold-case-remains-identified-as-an-af-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/www.osi.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1225552\/montana-cold-case-remains-identified-as-an-af-member\/\">Air Force<\/a>, Victor was on leave visiting family in Arizona and Colorado at the time of his disappearance. The 20-year-old was last seen on June 15, 1974, and was determined to be absent without leave six days later, when he did not return to duty.<br\/><br\/> The military classified Victor as a deserter on July 21, 1974, and four years later, the FBI closed Victor\u2019s missing person case with no leads.<br\/><br\/> While Victor\u2019s remains were identified in June 2017 through dental records, his skull was actually turned in to the Lewis and Clark County coroner in 1984 and found in the canyon two years prior to that by a brand inspector who kept it as a souvenir, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/crime-and-courts\/missing-airman-id-d-as-remains-found-in-wolf-creek\/article_8413a8db-8c6d-5c26-b1ca-c808bab6e6a9.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/crime-and-courts\/missing-airman-id-d-as-remains-found-in-wolf-creek\/article_8413a8db-8c6d-5c26-b1ca-c808bab6e6a9.html\">Independent Record<\/a>.<br\/><br\/><img decoding=\"async\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-object-id=\"0000015c-d32a-db8c-a37f-d7ea509d0000\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/snagfilms-a.akamaihd.net\/3f\/f0\/26fa86214defb0db48ca04394d24\/air-missing-airman-found.JPG\"\/><figcaption> <span>On June 8, 2017, investigators received a dental match on an unknown skull found in Montana in 1982. After 43 years, Airman First Class Rudy Victor Redd, who went missing on June 15, 1974, had been found. <\/span><\/figcaption><figcaption> <span>Photo Credit: Air Force<\/span><\/figcaption><br\/> Investigators returned to the site, where they found more remains, which were tested with identifiers pointing to Victor. However, the case went cold and the skull was unidentified after tests proved inconclusive, said the Independent Record.<br\/><br\/> Last year, an Air Force cold case unit reviewed the file and loaded Victor\u2019s information into the National Missing and Unidentified Person System. The Montana medical examiner had also entered the information for the unidentified skull in 2014, said Air Force officials.<br\/><br\/>On June 8 of this year, Victor\u2019s dental records confirmed the skull found in Wolf Creek Canyon belonged to him.\u00a0<br\/><br\/> &#8220;It&#8217;s never easy to lose a loved one, it&#8217;s even more difficult when that person&#8217;s whereabouts are unknown,&#8221; said Sheriff Leo Dutton of the Lewis and Clark Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Montana. &#8220;This is a case where the original investigation was conducted well with technology available, and our coroner&#8217;s office was able to take advantage of this new technology to identify the unknown remains they\u2019ve been holding for quite some time. Fortunately for all citizens, the U. S. Air Force does the same.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> According to the Air Force, Victor\u2019s military records have been fixed, and he is no longer listed as being AWOL, since it has been determined he was on leave during the time of his death.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after he disappeared, the FBI closed the case with no leads, and the military classified Airman 1st Class Rudy Redd Victor as a 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