Missing at Fourteen

A fourteen-year-old boy. A summer fair. A meeting he never returned to keep.

On August 14, 1986, fourteen-year-old Jeremy Doland Bright was attending the Coos County Fair in Myrtle Point, Oregon. He had plans to meet his stepfather near the Ferris wheel later that afternoon.

Jeremy never arrived.

What followed was a disappearance that would haunt his family and the small Oregon community for decades. Jeremy had left belongings behind. There was no confirmed trail showing where he went, and as investigators searched for answers, conflicting accounts, reported sightings, rumors, and theories complicated an already bewildering case.

Missing at Fourteen: The Jeremy Bright Case examines Jeremy's final known movements, the investigation that followed, the people and accounts that became part of the case, and the difficult distinction between what the evidence establishes and what has only been alleged or repeated over the years.

More than forty years later, the central question remains unanswered:

What happened to Jeremy Bright?

Written with restraint and respect for the missing child at its center, this book separates documented fact from speculation while returning attention to the person too easily lost beneath the mystery-a fourteen-year-old boy who went to a county fair and never came home.