Doug Korman is the maintenance man for Gwin’s Lodge in Cooper Landing but as of Monday his employer reported him as missing.
Gwin’s Owner Keith Mantey says Korman has always been a dependable employee and was last heard from Friday, January 29 in Anchorage before he was due to pick up a sound system.
Mantey: “He checked out of Home Depot at 3:40 [pm], I got an email, I guess it was 3 o’clock when he called the speaker guy and told him he was moving it until tomorrow, so that’d be Saturay, January 30th, at 4 o’clock he picked up some banners at a sign shop and then at 6 o’clock he called the lodge saying he was going to stay overnight and then at 9 o’clock that night Alaska State Troopers say his phone turned off.”
Korman had rescheduled picking up a set of expensive speakers in Wasilla and Mantey says he was concerned that Korman may have gotten mugged because of the cash he had.
Another possibility has to do with Korman’s diabetes.
Mantey: “Due to that he was found in the back of his sleeper cab in a semi in Michigan when he went missing one time, he was kind of delirious and didn’t really realize that people were looking for him. I’m not sure the number of days but it was long enough for them to search and put out posters and drive around the state.”
Mantey says they are worried about Korman. Anyone with information of the maintenance man’s whereabouts is encouraged to report it to the Alaska State Troopers.
The Soldotna AST Post can be reached at 262-4453.