By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The (Longview) Daily News reports a police investigation suggests the man whose body was found three years ago on property near Toledo may have committed suicide, but the cause could remain officially undetermined because a key piece of evidence – his head – was missing.
Travis Seeber was 35 years old when he went missing in 2008 while he was a suspect in an attempted sexual assault of a teenage babysitter south of Winlock. His truck, with his driver’s license on the seat, was found by law enforcement soon after abandoned off Cougar Lane.
The identity of the remains was only finally confirmed this year by DNA. Seeber was described by the coroner as a resident of Toledo and by the sheriff’s office as living in Winlock.
News reporter Natalie St. John writes one of the interviewees told deputies he believed Seeber committed suicide to avoid going back to prison and others said he was an IV meth user who was “whacked” out the night of the incident with the 18-year-old girl.
Read about it here
Also if you read the article closely in the Longview News the gun was found at the scene. I don’t know how the conspiracy folks started talking about the gun not being there but it was.
Coyotes, part of the canine family, love to play ball. This may sound gross but the human head is only held on by skin, tissue and the brain stem. Once pulled off coyotes carry it off, roll it around. As far as any guns going missing no I do not think coyotes carry off guns. This is Lewis county so they probably already have their own he he
Bones and clothing, absolutely. All sorts of critters from mice to porcupines chew on the largest bones for calcium. Hard objects too heavy for a raven or crow to fly off with, no. If there was a gun involved, then it should be there unless it was either found by a person, or if a person shot themselves, then a young bear or cougar found the carcass and drug it from where it was to a safer (meaning more cover) place to eat it. A cougar will drag a deer quite a distance to both hide from other predators and put it somewhere safer to eat it.
Do they pack off fire arms and clothes and shoes and socks as well?
I’ve seen plenty of dead animal remains scattered by scavenger animals in the wild, but I’ve never seen any pack off the head/skull.
The skull is usually left because it contains little soft tissue. Most scavengers and predators favor the soft interior organs as a primary food source.
Animals from domestic dogs to wildlife like birds, coyotes and other carrion eating critter can and do scatter bones over many acres. That’s just how nature is.
@There’s coffee… you are asking all the right questions but sadly the lewis county crime division ran over all the evidence with their new Mobile Command vehicle while trying to park it 🙁
So where’d this guy stash his own head before killing himself? Was he telekinetic?
Just another covered-up homocide, a part of Lewis County daily life.
I understand it’s believed he commited suicide by self inflicted gun shot. Was a fire arm recovered from the scene? It sounds as if his remains were skeletanized. Were his clothes found in the area of the bones? Were his foot bones inside his shoes? Were skull fragments recovered in the area of the clothes?
If he literally blew his head off, I would think teeth and jaw bone fragments along with hair would be in the immediate area.