Arizona Police Seek Public Help In Case Of 24-Year-Old Man Missing Since June

Daniel Robinson has been missing for almost three months. Now his family is hoping that the The Gabby Petito case will bring renewed interest in the unresolved disappearance of their son.

The 24-year-old geologist was last seen leaving a construction site in the Sun Valley Parkway and Cactus Road area of ​​Buckeye, Ariz., Around 9:15 a.m. on June 23. He was reported missing the same day and authorities launched a massive search.

Local police, along with outside agencies, have covered more than 70 square miles using “UTVs, cadaver dogs and air support, including a drone and a helicopter,” police said in a statement. Press release Last week.

On July 19, a rancher found Robinson’s Jeep on his property, about four miles southwest of the construction site where Robinson was last seen, police said.

Investigators said the Jeep appeared to have overturned and landed on its side. The airbags were deployed and “the first evidence indicates that Daniel was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash,” police said in a statement. Press release at the time. Robinson’s cell phone, wallet and keys were all found in the Jeep.

Then, a little over a week later, “a human skull was located in an area south of where the Jeep was picked up,” police said.

But authorities determined it was not Robinson’s skull.

“No other human remains have been found, despite online reports claiming to the contrary,” police said last week. “Other remains recovered during the search were determined to be animal bones.”

Robinson’s father David Robinson told CBS affiliate KPHO-TV on Tuesday that although his son’s case is different from that of Petito – a 22-year-old woman who disappeared on a trip through the country with his fiance, Brian Laundrie, before his body was found in Wyoming on Sunday – he hopes national attention to Petito will renew interest in finding Robinson.

“I’ve been up all night, emailing, texting, contacting anyone,” said David Robinson. “Just seeing movement all of a sudden is a good feeling.”

David Robinson, from South Carolina, put his son’s things in storage on Monday.

“Going through his stuff, he’s not here to tell us what he wants or what he doesn’t want,” he told KPHO. “So this stuff is pretty difficult so far.”

Anyone with information is asked to call the Buckeye Police Department non-urgent number 623-349-6400.