# Hietpas, Nicholas

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-missing-since-09%2F08%2F" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px; border-style: none;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50%;"></col><col style="width: 50%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>[![hietpas_nicholas.jpg](https://www.wismissing.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-10/scaled-1680-/wFzrhU165yfcVzgC-hietpas-nicholas.jpg)](https://www.wismissing.com/uploads/images/gallery/2024-10/wFzrhU165yfcVzgC-hietpas-nicholas.jpg)</td><td>Missing Since: April 1, 2019  
Missing From: Doty, Oconto County

Age: 22 years old

DOB: 29 Aug 1996

Sex: Male  
Race: White  
Height and Weight: 5'10 - 6'0, 170 - 190 pounds  
Clothing: A black hooded sweatshirt with green lettering reading "Get Your Gooch On", blue American Eagle jeans, and brown or mustard-colored steel-toed work boots.  
Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Tattoo: on the inside of his left wrist; it resembles two squiggly uppercase letter Y's with one of the Y's inverted.

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<table border="1" id="bkmrk-details-of-disappear" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 50%;"></col><col style="width: 50%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>#### <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Details of Disappearance</span>

Hietpas was last seen in Doty on April 1, 2019. His dog, a white female 65-pound German Shepherd named Samantha, disappeared with him.

[Team MibSAR](http://www.mibsar.com/)recently completed a 5-day wilderness search for Nicholas Hietpas of Appleton in the 1.5-million-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Nicholas was last heard from on April 1, 2019. An ATV rider found his black, 2012 Ford Fusion along a forest road near the [junction of Highway 64 and Shadow Lake Road](https://maps.app.goo.gl/3UFEBZhUpBKBQaD3A), west of Mountain, in Oconto. A tarp and gear were found near the vehicle, and his dog’s unclasped collar was found a [half mile away](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Blue+Spruce+Rd,+Doty,+WI/@45.1929466,-88.5984531,14z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4d5344f922f7822b:0x725c6e6fbb000af9!8m2!3d45.1838809!4d-88.5900974!16s%2Fg%2F1thznjmr?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).

#### <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Actions</span>

Told detective about idea &amp; case 9/24, followed up with appleton pd via form submission 10/29/24

</td><td>#### <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">More Information</span>

[NaMus](https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/58278?nav)

[Charley Project](https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-jeffrey-hietpas)

[MIBSAR](http://www.mibsar.com/Cases/Hietpas/Hietpas.html)

[Websleuths](https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/wi-nicholas-hietpas-22-dog-vehicle-found-abandoned-in-oconto-co-appleton-1-apr-2019.439200/)

<div id="bkmrk-houston-police-depar"></div>#### <span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">Legal Issues</span>

<div>[Case 1- outstanding warrant](https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2021CF000251&countyNo=44&index=0&mode=details)</div><div>  
</div><div>Case Owner: Appleton PD</div><div>(920) 832-5947</div><div>Agency Case Number A19010228</div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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