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5600DMVT - Richard Kirby Windsor

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Name: Richard Kirby Windsor
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: January 27, 1971
Location Last Seen: South Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont

Physical Description

Date of Birth: October 21, 1939
Age: 31 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11" - 6'2"
Weight: 160 - 170 lbs
Hair Color: Brown, full head of hair
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Kirby
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown

Identifiers

Dentals: Parial dental plate
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available

Clothing & Personal Items

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Gold Watch and Wedding Band
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance

Pilots Donald Myers and George Nikita along with passengers Richard Windsor, Robert Williams, and Frank Wilder boarded a private aircraft en route to Rhode Island, aircraft lost in Lake Champlain during heavy weather conditions and not recovered.

In May 2024, wreckage of a jet with the same custom paint scheme was found in the lake close to where the radio control tower had last tracked the plane before it disappeared.

Investigating Agency(s)

Agency Name: Vermont State Police - Williston
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: (802) 878-7111
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 14A103322

NamUs Case Number: 26480

Information Source(s)

NamUs
Burlington Free Press - Nov. 18, 2017
NBC News
Ancestry.com

Admin Notes

Added: 12/31/2021; Last Updated: 06/12/2024 - By: hb


Questions or comments? Please contact appropriate member of the Area Team

** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.

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