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1967 Iverson, Isaac Jan 1967; Anacortes
Topic Started: Jul 28 2012, 09:09 PM (270 Views)
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Posted: Friday, 20 July 2012 1:21PM


Police: Man Missing 45 Years May Be Under Garage Floor


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ANACORTES, Wash. (Metro) -- Cold case investigators think they may have found an Anacortes man reported missing by his wife 45 years ago under a concrete garage floor.

When Isaac Iverson's wife Helga reported her husband missing in January of 1967, their grandson, Art Iverson, tells Q13fox it was like he disappeared from the face of the earth.

Years later, Art's father told him his grandfather was buried in the garage.

It turns out that right after Isaac vanished, Helga had the dirt floor of the garage cemented.

Recently, ground-penetrating radar discovered a disruption in a four-by-four-foot section of ground beneath the concrete in the front of the garage.

Anacortes police have the current homeowner's permission to dig up the concrete next week to see if the disruption is Isaac Iverson's body.

Isaac and Helga Iverson moved here from Norway, where Helga had an interesting past.

As part of the Norwegian resistance during World War Two, her job was disposing of Nazi bodies.

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Police hoped to find the body of a man who disappeared 45 years ago under the garage floor of his former Anacortes property.



Isaac Iverson has been missing since 1967.



“It's really important for the family because they want closure. They've been doing this investigation for 45 years,” said Grant Lightfoot, with Anacortes police.



His second wife was the main person of interest in the case and had tried collecting his Social Security payments after he vanished, but police were unable to prove she was responsible for Iverson’s disappearance, investigators said.



A few months ago, Isaac Iverson’s grandson, Art Iverson, came forward and told police he had heard relatives talking about the case and the evidence pointed to the body being on the Anacortes property.



“It's just been one of those things that everybody thought he was in the garage, buried,” said Art Iverson.



“All his personal effects, his wallet, his keys, everything you would take with you when you left were still here. Art came back from Vietnam, where he was an MP, and said he saw evidence of blood splatter on the dresser,” said Lightfoot.



A local company volunteered to cut the concrete out of the garage floor and fix it afterward, and the current homeowner agreed to the search, but police came up empty.



They said they did find some other materials they are going to look at, but Art Iverson said he doesn’t want any more digging, even if his grandfather is on the property somewhere.



“They've done wonders with it, so I couldn't beat that if I paid somebody to put him someplace,” said Art Iverson.
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ANACORTES —
A woman reported her husband missing 45 years ago in Anacortes. Now, police investigators believe they may have found him — under a concrete garage floor.

"Our belief is that he never left this property," Anacortes Police Captain Grant Lightfoot said.

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On Jan. 7, 1967, Helga Iverson reported her husband, Isaac, as missing. At the time, Isaac's grandson Art was 25-years-old.

"I remember coming up with my brother and we searched the city of Anacortes, the decks, the beaches, the woods. It’s like he disappeared off the face of the earth," Art Iverson said.

Years later, in one of the last conversations Art had with his father, things took a shocking turn.

"We had gone for a walk and I don’t know how we ended up talking about grandpa, but I asked him and he said, 'Well, you know he’s buried in the garage'," Art said. "I said, 'What?' He said, 'Yeah he’s buried in the garage'."
It turns out that just days after Isaac went missing, she did a little home improvement in the garage.

"She had concrete poured in the garage," Art said. "Well, I always knew the garage we’re at today had a dirt floor. Because I grew up as a kid and he’d go and get fish or something out there for a meal so I remember it as a dirt floor."

But that's not all. Isaac and Helga had been married for about 14 years and had moved to Anacortes from Norway. It turns out that Helga had an interesting past.

"He went back to Norway, found Helga, brought her back and were married in the United States," Lightfoot said. "She, according to the family, was part of the Norwegian resistance during WWII and, oddly enough, one of her jobs was disposing of Nazi bodies.”

"It’s definitely some anomaly happening down there," Tim Edwards, of CNI Locates, said.

After years of wondering and waiting, it took only a few minutes for a ground-penetrating radar crew to detect something unusual beneath the garage's concrete floor.

"There’s an anomaly about 8 or 9 inches, but it continues to go deeper," Edwards said.

A 4x4 section in the front of the garage revealed that there was something beneath the concrete, and there's only one way to find out if it's Isaac Iverson.

"If you were in our position, would you have concrete cutters come?," Lightfoot asked Edwards.

"It really looks to me like there’s something down there," Edwards said.

The current homeowner gave detectives authorization to dig up the floor.

"I would think it would be important to anybody to help a family get closure," said Vickie, the homeowner.

While police aren't sure what lies beneath the concrete slab, the Iverson family is preparing for the worst, just in case.

"I don’t want to say I’m getting my hopes up, but I’d be nice to have closure," Art said.

Excavation of floor does not solve mystery of missing man

A week ago, on July 26, the Anacortes Police Department returned to the Iverson's former home to dig up the garage floor and see what, if anything, was underneath it.

"It's been a long, long, long time," Art said.

"After 45 years, it needs to be resolved or at least know for sure what you’ve heard over the years either is or is not true. Then I can put it to rest,” Art said.

Within a few hours, he got his wish. The remains of his grandfather were not found underneath the concrete floor.

"There was a hole here because that was all fill. But there could have been a tree removed, we don’t know," Lightfoot said. He led the effort in the digging and sifting of a 3-by-3-foot area marked off by the ground penetrating radar.

Police are convinced that Isaac never left the property, partly because neither he nor his wife drove at the time. While what happened to him remains a mystery, at least one of the questions surrounding his disappearance can finally be laid to rest.

"They’ve only got so many resources and when the captain says they’ve expended all of those resources, that’s it. I’ll live with it," Art said.

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Buried evidence: Anacortes man who went missing long ago may be underneath suspicious garage floor
Posted by Kimberly Jacobson | Jul 25, 2012 | 386 views




What lies beneath a slab of concrete could bring an end to the question of what happened to Art Iverson’s grandfather more than 45 years ago.

Isaac Iverson was reported missing Jan. 7, 1967. He was 71 then and hasn’t been seen since.

Family lore says he was buried in the detached garage of a home he built here in 1927. A search using ground-penetrating radar last week showed some anomalies under the concrete. Anacortes Police are expected to take up a square of concrete next week to see exactly what is there.

Art Iverson, Isaac’s grandson, was at the old family home last week. A retired Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office chief, he said finding his grandfather’s body would answer the question, which has been on his mind a long time.

“I’d just like to bring closure to my grandfather,” he said. “It’s my own personal cold case that sat for many years.”

Isaac Iverson was born in Norway on Feb. 27, 1890. He came to the U.S. through Blaine in December 1924 and later applied to become a citizen. He married fellow Norwegian Helga Bertine Anfinsen in September 1953.

He was reported missing Jan. 7, 1967, though police say he likely went missing days before that. The garage was where he kept commercial fishing gear.

“Between the time he went missing and the time he was reported missing this concrete slab showed up,” said Anacortes Police Capt. Grant Lightfoot.



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