18 Year Old Christopher Robin Coan Missing Since 9/3/07 … Body Found in Vehicle at Bottom of Canyon
The parents of Christopher Robin Coan finally know what happened to their son.
18 year old Christopher Robin Coan had been missing since September 3, 2007 when he was last seen leaving his job at a Subway sandwich shop in Enoch, Iron County, Monday evening.
Coan was reported missing by his girlfriend on Tuesday. There has been no bank activity and authorities are beginning to worry Coan may have met with foul play. Enoch police contacted the FBI for assistance in the case.
An airplane has been searching the high-country desert around Cedar City and Enoch for any sign of Coan’s SUV, a 1994 red and silver-colored Chevrolet S-10 Blazer with a temporary tag. Police said the SUV has three stickers in the back. One says “Jerry Bear,” another says “The Wizz cartoon,” and the third says “Beatles.”
An interesting story was written in March 2008, six months after Christopher Robin Coan had gone missing. Police believed that Coan did not want to be found and that he was living in another area.
But Enoch Police Chief Dave Browning thinks Coan does not want to be found. Browning says the best information is that Coan ran away from his friends and family in Iron County and is living somewhere else.
The last clue as to Coan’s whereabouts came in January when an animal control officer in Silver City, N.M., reported seeing Coan’s Chevy S-10 Blazer with its distinctive stickers, Browning said. The vehicle was going through a car wash.
However, the Enoch police were wrong. The body of missing Christopher Robin Coan was found Thursday, April 9, 2009 when they discovered that Coan’s vehicle had rolled off a remote mountain road and tumbled 1,500 feet down a canyon.
A body believed to be that of the missing Enoch man was pulled Thursday from a vehicle that had rolled off a remote mountain road and tumbled 1,500 feet down a canyon, about 7 miles from Cedar City, said Enoch Police Chief David Browning.
A Cedar City resident was looking for his dog along Right Hand Canyon Road when he spotted the vehicle Wednesday night.
David Coan said Thursday that as tragic as the news was, it was a relief to finally know what happened.
“In the past few months I began to have the feeling that he was no longer with us,” he said.
The remains were in the 1994 Chevy Blazer belonging to Christopher Coan, said Browning, who has been handling the investigation into the man’s disappearance.
The police have ruled the death of Christopher Robin Coan an accident and not a suicide. It appears that he lost control of his vehicle while driving.
UPDATE I: Family reacts to finding of son’s body
From fear and desperation to sadness and shock; the Coan family in Iron County has been through all those emotions and more in the past year and a half. Their missing son’s body was found Thursday at the bottom of a canyon near Cedar City.
For the past 19 months, the Coans have been searching everywhere for their son, 18-year-old Chris Coan. Turns out, he was less than 10 miles away.
My heart goes out to you and your family.
Comment by Viki Coan | July 6, 2009