Lost to the Breakers: The Unsolved Disappearance of Michael David Ewing at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Rock

A nineteen-year-old at the edge of the Pacific

On April 11, 1983, nineteen-year-old Michael David Ewing vanished along the rugged western edge of San Francisco. Official records describe him as a white male who disappeared that day from San Francisco, California, and has never been seen again. Though he was associated with nearby San Mateo, where he lived at the time, his last verified whereabouts were on the city’s oceanfront, at a spot that locals knew for its beauty—and its danger.

Who Michael was, as the records remember him

The surviving case files capture only a thin sketch of who Michael was. He was born on February 21, 1964, making him 19 years old when he disappeared. Descriptions from multiple databases agree that he was tall and slender—about 6 feet 3 inches and roughly 170 pounds—with blond hair and light-colored eyes described variously as hazel or brown. On the day he went missing, he was last known to be wearing a simple outfit: a pair of blue jeans. Little else about his personality, hobbies, or daily life has survived in the public record, which is one of the quiet tragedies of so many older missing-person cases—official forms preserve measurements and case numbers, but not the texture of a young man’s life....Read More

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