PALMDALE – Palmdale Sheriff’s Station detectives are seeking the public’s help to find a man who went missing nearly a year ago when he said he was going hiking in the Angeles National Forest.
Michael Patrick Flynn, 63, is white, 5-feet-4 inches tall, weighs 145 pounds, and has blond hair and blue eyes. He has a chipped front tooth.
“Mr. Flynn last spoke to family members on May 1, 2016, when he told them he would be hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains for a few days,” a sheriff’s statement said.
“Mr. Flynn was believed to have been hiking in the Devil’s Punchbowl Recreation Area, headed south towards Highway 2, in the Angeles National Forest,” the statement said.
Flynn was reported missing when he failed to return, and rescuers searched an area between Wrightwood and Dawson Saddle along Highway 2, and north to the Devil’s Punchbowl Recreation Area, but failed to find him.
“Rescuers have exhausted all leads and are seeking the public’s help,” the statement said.
Anyone with information on Flynn’s whereabouts is urged to call Detective Luis Nunez at 323-890-5500, or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS.
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TM says
Yeah the kidnapping thing is kinda bizarre, and it’s more realistic that he may have went off trail, as most people do when they go hiking, and get lost, happens all the time
He probably went in a deserted area where no one can find , or familiar to, or maybe fell down a cliff..There are many possibilities…hope they find him eventually, but it has already been almost a year
Tim Scott says
Went off a trail usually isn’t a problem. FELL off a trail is probably the most likely way to disappear hiking in the San Gabriels. Fall, slide however far breaking however many bones in the process, die of exposure. Pretty easy to land out of sight and not be found.
Realeyes says
You wouldn’t say that if you lived in that area. Things that are done that are not acknowledged, missing people that are not found until a loved one takes the exact route that the missing person,(let’s say, a missing boy and his car) took and within minutes discovers the obvious: A gate that has been knocked down by something large. And at the bottom of the aqueduct is the missing boy inside his missing car.
Tim Scott says
Very few people disappear while hiking in their car.
HEMi says
They found a body that hasn’t yet been identified in the side of a cliff in that area
Tim Scott says
I’d bet there are quite a few out there. A few years back they found a guy out there in some canyon along Angeles Crest who had been missing for five years…and he was in his wrecked car.
Tim Scott says
C’mon common sense…guy disappears hiking in the San Gabriels there are a whole lot of possible reasons, and leaping to “there’s a kidnapping ring operating out of Devil’s Punchbowl” is pretty wild.
Common Sense says
The kidnappings out there around Devils Punch Bowl. That’s not the first either.Another guy took a ride out there on his motorcycle and went missing also. They eventually found the motorcycle in a different county,cell phone was found at the Devils Punch Bowl site.The are other missing persons around that area….
Realeyes says
Definitely. I use to see a homeless lady walk all the time and she lived at the devils punchbowl. I dropped her off and she just started walking to no visible structure. After that one time, I decided not to ever give her a ride again. I have not seen her in at least 3 years. Before that, I saw her often for at least 6 months.
Tim Scott says
Have you considered the possibility that she may have found a better place to be homeless than out in the boondocks at the edge of the Angeles National Forest? Like, I dunno…ANYWHERE? If I were homeless and relying on strangers for rides I think I’d sleep somewhere near food.
Ruth says
She was hit by a car and killed quite a while ago.
Ruth says
https://theavtimes.com/2014/10/12/bicyclist-struck-killed-near-devils-punchbowl/