August 14, 1986 (aged 14) Myrtle Point, Oregon, U.S.[1]
Status
Missing for 37 years, 9 months and 23 days
Height
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[2]
Jeremy Doland Bright (born May 25, 1972 – disappeared August 14, 1986)[3] is an American teenager who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while attending the Coos County Fair in Myrtle Point, Oregon. At the time of his disappearance, Bright resided in Grants Pass and had been visiting family in Myrtle Point. On August 14, 1986, he attended the Coos County Fair with his younger sister. During the day, the pair separated, but Bright failed to meet her that afternoon, as arranged, at the carnival's ferris wheel. Several witnesses reported seeing Bright forcibly removed from the area by an unknown man, though these sightings were not confirmed.
Initially, local law enforcement suspected foul play in Bright's case; however, within the week following his disappearance, several reported sightings of him in the area led detectives to reverse this decision, and he was temporarily classified as a runaway. Numerous theories and rumors circulated in Myrtle Point following the boy's disappearance, which were detailed in a 1989 segment on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries. Among them were that Bright had overdosed on a drug at a party and his body had been disposed of by those present; another that he had been shot by local men while swimming in the Coquille River, and the men had attempted to nurse him back to health but had then buried Bright's body in a shallow grave after he succumbed to the wound. Law enforcement conducted searches of property in correspondence with these rumors, but found no evidence leading to Bright's discovery.
A local man who had babysat Bright during his childhood, Terry Lee Steinhoff, was considered a suspect in Bright's disappearance after being convicted of murdering a 32-year-old woman; there had been reports that Bright was seen in Steinhoff's truck the day he disappeared. Steinhoff died in prison in 2007. In August 2011, Bright's family stated that they presumed him dead and held a formal memorial service in his memory. As of 2023[update], his whereabouts remain unknown.
^"Missing Child/Adult Index". Oregon.gov. State of Oregon. Archived from the original on January 19, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
^"Jeremy Doland Bright". The Charley Project. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
^"What happened to Jeremy Bright? Oregon boy vanished in 1986". KVAL. Eugene, Oregon. November 11, 2016. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018.
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