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08-29-2008, 09:50 AM
Sheriff wants help searching for missing man
Alamogordo Daily News
By Kandra Wells, News Editor
Article Launched: 08/29/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
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Phillip Bucklin, 41, is pictured with his wife, Shannon, at their wedding in 2005
Phillip Bucklin has a morning routine.
Early every workday, he dresses in jeans and his blue Western shirt, the one with his name over the pocket on one side and his workplace, Neudorf Diesel and Equipment, on the other. He bids his wife goodbye as he leaves their Boles Acres home, heads to the local market for a cup of coffee and a newspaper, and then makes his way to work. That's where his boss usually finds him waiting at the gate each morning.
A week ago, that routine was interrupted. Bucklin never showed up at work, and he hasn't been heard from since.
"It's so out of character," said Kim Neudorf, owner of the shop where Bucklin works. "Nothing makes sense."
Bucklin's wife, Shannon Brill, last saw her husband at 7 a.m. Aug. 20 when he left for work in their maroon Ford Taurus. The next morning, she reported him missing to the Otero County Sheriff's Department.
"I think something happened to him," Brill said. "Either he's walking around town with amnesia or somebody's got him."
Undersheriff Norbert Sanchez said that so far, descriptions of the man and his car that were broadcast to local and state police have yielded no results. He said officers are still trying to get a copy of a tape from a video camera
at the J and J convenience store where Bucklin typically stopped for coffee and a newspaper each morning.
"Apparently they've got to get a hold of the El Paso office," Sanchez said of the management at the store. "There's a process that they have to go through."
Bucklin, 41, is described as a white man, 6-feet, 1-inch tall and weighing about 225 pounds. He has brown hair cut in a short buzz cut, and brown eyes.
He was wearing his jeans and work shirt -- a long-sleeved blue chambray Western -- when he left the house for work last week, Brill said. He also had on a Snap-On or Cornwall ball cap and wears black and silver sunglasses. He was driving their only car, a 1994 four-door Taurus with license plate No. KBH383. The car has a silver bumper on the front.
The descriptions were broadcast in a BOLO -- Be On the Lookout For -- to police agencies in Tularosa, Alamogordo and State Police, and were listed on a national police database.
"He's been entered in the national NCIC (National Crime Information Center) computer as a missing person, and if we get any contact nationwide they're supposed to contact us," Sanchez said. "But as of this time, we haven't heard anything."
According to Sanchez, that's really all police have to go on at this point.
"We've searched the immediate area, the city and the county. Our deputies are on constant patrol, alert, to see if he's been spotted," the undersheriff said. "We also haven't been called by any citizens to report anything out of the ordinary."
Sanchez acknowledges that while the agency hears about two or three missing persons every month, most return within a couple of days.
"At this point, we can't find any evidence of foul play or anything," he said. "We haven't pinpointed a specific area to search. The areas that he went to have been checked.
"We're continuing our investigation to see if we can contact Mr. Bucklin, and hopefully he's okay."
Brill, meanwhile, has been in touch with his employers, friends and anyone else she can think of.
The couple met in Deming five years ago, where she was working in a restaurant and he was working with a local carnival. He came to the restaurant one night with friends, and they'd been together ever since.
"He would have said something," she said of speculation her husband does not want to be found. She notes that all his belongings -- including his clothes and tools worth thousands of dollars -- were all left behind. "What's going on here ... he would have said something. And everyone I've talked to says the same thing. This is just not him."
Brill said her husband was estranged from his parents and had little contact with his adult daughter. But she contacted friends of theirs in Deming -- they moved from there a few months before they were married in 2005 -- and one friend posted information about him on a Web site. She's even had a psychic offer information.
"She said 'He's thinking,'" Brill said. "I don't believe it."
The sheriff's department is asking that anyone with information call them at 437-2210. If Bucklin or his car has been seen, or if someone remembers seeing him the morning of Aug. 20, that information could provide the first lead in the case.
"That would help us a bunch," Sanchez said. "We're not giving up on him."
http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_10330141
Alamogordo Daily News
By Kandra Wells, News Editor
Article Launched: 08/29/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
http://i37.tinypic.com/33usf4o.jpg
Phillip Bucklin, 41, is pictured with his wife, Shannon, at their wedding in 2005
Phillip Bucklin has a morning routine.
Early every workday, he dresses in jeans and his blue Western shirt, the one with his name over the pocket on one side and his workplace, Neudorf Diesel and Equipment, on the other. He bids his wife goodbye as he leaves their Boles Acres home, heads to the local market for a cup of coffee and a newspaper, and then makes his way to work. That's where his boss usually finds him waiting at the gate each morning.
A week ago, that routine was interrupted. Bucklin never showed up at work, and he hasn't been heard from since.
"It's so out of character," said Kim Neudorf, owner of the shop where Bucklin works. "Nothing makes sense."
Bucklin's wife, Shannon Brill, last saw her husband at 7 a.m. Aug. 20 when he left for work in their maroon Ford Taurus. The next morning, she reported him missing to the Otero County Sheriff's Department.
"I think something happened to him," Brill said. "Either he's walking around town with amnesia or somebody's got him."
Undersheriff Norbert Sanchez said that so far, descriptions of the man and his car that were broadcast to local and state police have yielded no results. He said officers are still trying to get a copy of a tape from a video camera
at the J and J convenience store where Bucklin typically stopped for coffee and a newspaper each morning.
"Apparently they've got to get a hold of the El Paso office," Sanchez said of the management at the store. "There's a process that they have to go through."
Bucklin, 41, is described as a white man, 6-feet, 1-inch tall and weighing about 225 pounds. He has brown hair cut in a short buzz cut, and brown eyes.
He was wearing his jeans and work shirt -- a long-sleeved blue chambray Western -- when he left the house for work last week, Brill said. He also had on a Snap-On or Cornwall ball cap and wears black and silver sunglasses. He was driving their only car, a 1994 four-door Taurus with license plate No. KBH383. The car has a silver bumper on the front.
The descriptions were broadcast in a BOLO -- Be On the Lookout For -- to police agencies in Tularosa, Alamogordo and State Police, and were listed on a national police database.
"He's been entered in the national NCIC (National Crime Information Center) computer as a missing person, and if we get any contact nationwide they're supposed to contact us," Sanchez said. "But as of this time, we haven't heard anything."
According to Sanchez, that's really all police have to go on at this point.
"We've searched the immediate area, the city and the county. Our deputies are on constant patrol, alert, to see if he's been spotted," the undersheriff said. "We also haven't been called by any citizens to report anything out of the ordinary."
Sanchez acknowledges that while the agency hears about two or three missing persons every month, most return within a couple of days.
"At this point, we can't find any evidence of foul play or anything," he said. "We haven't pinpointed a specific area to search. The areas that he went to have been checked.
"We're continuing our investigation to see if we can contact Mr. Bucklin, and hopefully he's okay."
Brill, meanwhile, has been in touch with his employers, friends and anyone else she can think of.
The couple met in Deming five years ago, where she was working in a restaurant and he was working with a local carnival. He came to the restaurant one night with friends, and they'd been together ever since.
"He would have said something," she said of speculation her husband does not want to be found. She notes that all his belongings -- including his clothes and tools worth thousands of dollars -- were all left behind. "What's going on here ... he would have said something. And everyone I've talked to says the same thing. This is just not him."
Brill said her husband was estranged from his parents and had little contact with his adult daughter. But she contacted friends of theirs in Deming -- they moved from there a few months before they were married in 2005 -- and one friend posted information about him on a Web site. She's even had a psychic offer information.
"She said 'He's thinking,'" Brill said. "I don't believe it."
The sheriff's department is asking that anyone with information call them at 437-2210. If Bucklin or his car has been seen, or if someone remembers seeing him the morning of Aug. 20, that information could provide the first lead in the case.
"That would help us a bunch," Sanchez said. "We're not giving up on him."
http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_10330141