The husband of a Wells resident has been missing from Esmeralda County for more than a week.
Trayce Kinkel last spoke to her husband, Charles Kinkel, July 24 and told him she was going to call early the next morning to wake him for work. Charles Kinkel was living in a man camp near Silver Peak, where he worked as a haul truck driver.
When she called to wake him the next morning, he never answered his phone.
Trayce Kinkel called repeatedly, thinking perhaps her husband was lying on top of his phone, muffling its ring.
“I kept trying 30 to 45 minutes trying to get a hold of my husband. Then all of a sudden the next call, it goes straight to voicemail,” she said.
She thought maybe the battery had died or he woke and shut it off. Trayce decided to call the volunteer fire chief — Charles Kinkel had joined the department — to see if her husband was home.
The fire chief said he and his car were gone. But he told Trayce he’d look for him around town.
“He went to all the locations where he could be, but no Charles,” Trayce Kinkel said. She called his boss, who confirmed her husband didn’t show up for work and didn’t call either.
“I was trying not to get flustered or panicked, but I got a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach,” she said.
She called all hospitals and police departments in the vicinity, checking to see if he was hurt or arrested, but no one had seen him.
Soon the Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office began searching, and eventually found his vehicle parked near the junction of State Route 265 and U.S. Highway 95.
“One of my officers found his car, abandoned. It was locked and secured,” said Esmeralda Sheriff Kenneth Elgan. “But there was no sign of him.”
Elgan said deputies searched a two-square mile area near the car that turned up no trace of the missing person.
Trayce Kinkel said the sheriff’s office told her the car was found. She said his phone was still in the car, but his wallet and debit card weren’t.
“My husband is not going to leave that car there,” Trayce Kinkel said. “The only way he is going to abandon that car is if it’s out of gas.”
Charles has a slim build and brown hair. His left ear is pierced and he has a small tattoo of a dragon on his lower left arm, Trayce Kinkel said.
Trayce Kinkel said he would be wearing a T-shirt, jeans, steel-toed boots and a silver wedding band.
Elgan said his department is continuing the investigation.
“We’ll cross our fingers and keep praying,” he said.
Call 911.
Respectfully,
Amy Kinney,
Distribution List Manager
LostNMissing, Inc.
Phone: 603.965.4621
Cell: 603.548.6548
LostNMissing, Inc. is an all volunteer state and federally recognized 501c(3) Non-Profit charitable organization to assist law enforcement and the families of missing. We never charge a fee for our services. All Support Members, Board of Directors, Officers and Owner are Volunteers.
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