US Air Force pilot Captain Charles Shelton was shot down over Laos in 1965. He survived the crash, and was in radio contact with American forces. But the weather turned bad and he couldn’t be found. Shelton reportedly hid for several days before he was captured. Eight years later, in 1973, POWs from Vietnam were repatriated, but Shelton was listed with those who died in captivity. Yet stories continued to come out from people who had met Shelton or had seen him, or had heard those stories to pass along. Some of the stonewalling and secrecy was assumed to be connected with the fact that American pilots should not have been over Laos in the first place. Shelton’s wife Marian worked for years to track down witnesses to those sightings, but never came upon concrete information of where he might be or what ultimately happened.
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The last rumor of Shelton in these stories was in 1985, twenty years after he was captured. Marian kept up the fight to find him until 1990, when she took her own life. It was only in 1994 that, at the request of his children, that Colonel Shelton (he was promoted in absentia) was officially listed as deceased. But we still don’t know what happened to him. Read the story of Colonel Shelton, the last Vietnam War POW, at Historic Mysteries. -via Strange Company
Source: neatorama