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Incident

 
  Andrew Bliss, Pulaski, New York
Photo courtesy of The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
   
 
 

Andrew Bliss, Pulaski, New York
Photo courtesy of the Sawyer County Gazette (Winter, Wisconsin)

Andrew Bliss was last seen on June 20, 2003, on US Forest Service Road 162, north of its junction with Highway 70, just east of Draper, Wisconsin in Sawyer County.

His 2001 Chevrolet Impala was found abandoned, out of gas, with the doors open, and with the key in the ignition, in the Chequamegon National Forest.

Click on map to view high-resolution imagery of where the search area is located.
 

Andrew was subsequently reported missing by the New York State Police at the Troop D Pulaski Station.

  • Name: Andrew Robert Bliss
  • Age: 23
  • Race: White
  • Sex: Male
  • Height: 6' 3"
  • Weight: 180
  • Hair: Brown
  • Eyes: Brown

An extensive search effort by the following local agencies has not turned up any sign of Andrew:

  • Sawyer County Sheriff's Office
  • Sawyer County Search and Rescue
  • Nicolet Search and Rescue
  • Headwaters Search and Rescue K-9s
  • Winter Fire Department
  • Draper Fire Department
  • Sawyer County Fire Association
  • Civil Air Patrol aircraft
  • Civil Air Patrol SAR teams
  • United Search and Rescue K-9s

No trace of Andrew has ever been found. If you know anything about Andrew's whereabouts, or the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, please report it to the authorities.

 

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News media archive

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 
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National missing-person database

 
   

Learn more about this case on NamUs, The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

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Report a tip

Report a tip to the New York State Police (NYSP), Troop D, Pulaski Station at 315-298-1444.  
     

Report a tip anonymously via Crime Stoppers USA at 800.222.8477 or via their Internet-based E-tips program.

  
     

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Operational cartography

Geo-Magnetic Compass beta — The Quint-North Bush Compass Rose — for field operations

 
     

USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles for the Bliss search area

 

    
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss Northwest search sector   USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss Northeast search sector
     
 
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss West search sector   USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss East search sector
     
 
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss Southwest search sector   USGS 1:24,000 quadrangle for the Bliss Southeast search sector
     

2016 Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) for the Draper, Wisconsin area of the Great Divide Ranger District

View complete map here

 

  
     

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Team MibSAR

 
   
 

Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR),
Long Range Special
Operations Group (LRSOG)
www.MibSAR.com
Marquette, Michigan
United States

   
 
   
 

The founder of Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR), Michael Neiger of Marquette, Michigan is the lead investigator with MibSAR's Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG)

E-mail Michael Neiger

A 26-year veteran Detective/Sergeant with the Michigan State Police (MSP), Michael holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University, and is certified by the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR) as a SAR Tech I and SAR Tech Field Team Leader (FTL), the top two, field-deployable, search-and-rescue certifications offered by NASAR.
   
 

The design and hosting of this missing-person web site, and associated social-media-friendly graphics, are courtesy of Michael Neiger — Lead Investigator with Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR).

MibSAR is a small, Long Range Special Operations Group (LRSOG) based along the south shore of Lake Superior in Marquette, Michigan. LRSOG search-and-recovery operators are dedicated to investigating select unsolved missing-person cases and homicide cold cases in the remote bush between the Great Lakes in northern Michigan, USA, and the Arctic Ocean’s Lower Hudson Bay in Ontario, Canada.

 

MibSAR is a FEMA NIMS ICS document- compliant SAR Team

 

An independent, volunteer investigator, Michael Neiger holds, or has held, memberships in the following professional organizations:

National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR)
 
International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT)
 
International Association of Cold Case Investigators (IACCI)
 
International Crime Scene Investigators Association (ICSIA)
 
International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA)
 
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
 
International Association for Identification (IAI)
 
 
All of Michael Neiger's searches, investigations, work products, and other services
are provided free of charge to victims, their families, and law enforcement agencies.

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