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Topaz Point - Maurice Dametz disappearance
USA

This view overlooks Topaz Point, a picnic area along Rampart Range Road near Devils Head, Colorado.  This area also marks where 84 year old (other sources say he was 75) Maurice Dametz disappeared on April 29, 1981 while rockhounding for topaz in the area.  At the time this location was known as the Virgin's Bath.  More info below:

 

Maurice Gordon Dametz went missing on April 29, 1981 near the Topaz Point picnic area, Devil's Head, Colorado in the Pike National Forest. Dametz was last seen approximately 50 yards west of Rampart Range Road. He and a friend were rock hunting, the friend being approximately 50 yards away from Dametz.


Dametz was in his 80s, had arthritis and a blood disorder. He often went rock hunting with a friend, who would assist him in moving around to his dig sites. Dametz could not walk well on his own.

At approximately 3pm, the witness went to check on Dametz, who had been digging for topaz in a fixed location, and told him they would probably head home soon. The witness returned to his own dig site, then approximately 15 minutes later, went back to check on Dametz, but Dametz was gone. Not even his tools remained. The witness, surprised that Dametz could make it up the hill on his own, checked back at their car, waited, honked the horn a few times, but there was no response; Dametz was nowhere to be found. The site where Dametz was last seen was not disturbed, other than the small pit Dametz was digging out of. No sign of a struggle in the dirt and no blood was present.

The witness flagged down a motorist on Rampart Range Road. Around 11pm that night the Douglas County Sheriff had been notified and SAR teams were at the scene. For the following week, the area was searched with no sign of Dametz. The search dogs could not even pick up a scent.

 

From: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/co-maurice-dametz-84-pike-national-forest-devils-head-29-apr-1981.480859/

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Copyright: William L
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Taken: 06/10/2013
Uploaded: 26/04/2014
Published: 26/04/2014
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Tags: topaz point; colorado; rampart range; front range; rock hammer; maurice dametz; disappearance; missing; vanished; cold case; unsolved; mystery; rockhounding
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