OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — After a full day of traversing hiking trails here, search parties failed to locate a Stanford biology professor who failed to return from a hiking trip and missed an important court hearing in his domestic violence case.
According to a social media post by the sister of 44-year-old Hunter Bryan Fraser, searchers hiked 70 miles of trail Friday in a thus-far fruitless attempt to locate the missing professor. The search is expected to continue throughout the weekend or until Fraser is found, with dozens of volunteers walking through the national park from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
Fraser set out Monday on a two-day, 40-mile trek, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. He was due back in Seattle by midday Wednesday. On Wednesday around 6:15 p.m., park rangers notified the sheriff’s office that Fraser was overdue.
The sheriff’s office described Fraser as an “extremely experienced solo hiker” and noted he was equipped with a gray “well-supplied backpack” and a teal one-person tent.
Fraser was last seen Monday afternoon west of the Deer Park Campground and his family last heard from him via text Tuesday morning, according to the sheriff’s office. He was set to appear Friday morning in Santa Clara County Superior Court for a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors have charged him with inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Fraser is 6 feet 4 inches tall with a “trim build” and typically wears eyeglasses, the sheriff’s office said.
He is a biology professor at Stanford and the principal investigator at the Fraser Laboratory, according to a university profile. He is also a member of Bio-X, Stanford’s interdisciplinary biosciences institute; the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; the Stanford Cancer Institute; and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
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