Missing Spokane man found dead in Mineral County

The search for an elderly missing man from Washington ended Monday evening when his body was found.

Michael S. Frazer, 74, of Spokane, was reported missing from his home April 29.

According to Mineral County Sheriff Mike Boone, search teams began to mobilize on the morning of Saturday, May 2 after the Sheriff’s Office received a Silver Alert from Washington regarding Frazer, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Sheriff’s Office began the search and located Frazer’s vehicle and dog on Timber Creek Road near Packer Creek, about four miles west of Haugan.

Nearly three dozen individuals with the Mineral County Search and Rescue, Silver Valley Search and Rescue, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office and Search and Rescue, Superior Volunteer Fire Department, West End Fire, MCSO, and Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office based their three-day search from the Incident Command Center in the parking lot west of the $50,000 Silver Dollar Bar in Haugan.

Additional resources included Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks, three cadaver dogs from Spokane, Bonner County, ID K-9 Unit, a drone from Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, and helicopter support from Two Bear Air.

No other information was available and there was no word on a possible cause of death.