First of all I want to thank everyone here for all the information you gathered. It was far more detailed than the bare bones Missing's Persons report I found online.
So where to start, first of all I knew Dell for a brief period of time while younger(probably 12-14) and I am now 26 almost 27. My connection to Dell was brought about by my mom almost dating him. We would go and visit his house on occasions, and he even was nice enough to take us on hikes once or twice. I even remember having a birthday party at his house where I got the Chrome Kawasaki BMX bike I asked my mom for. He was normally really nice person, I only got on his nerves so bad once that he firmly grabbed me by the arm and gave me a stern talking to. Which I probably needed, cause at this point in my life I believe my father was still alive but my mother had the majority of custody.
So anyways around the time of Dells mysterious disappearance a new dude came into my mothers life. This guy I can't remember every seeing him before this point in my life. And the strange thing was he even took me and my mom to Lake Quinault Resort to help look for him. We walked around the town a little bit and even walked the trails near where they found his truck. Don or my mother mentioned that they said he didn't bring his GPS like he normally would when on a hike.
So Don was an interesting character, very conservative and from what I could tell spent a lot of his free time alone. He once told me he did a stint in a mental hospital after smoking some laced Marijuana. Don't know many more details besides that, think it was in his childhood. So why do I think it could of been Donald Haerling, towards the end of his marriage to my mother they were at the beach. And when my mom came home she told me he threw a log at her from up on the rocks while she was down at the beach front. The location I didn't ask, she simply said she had a big bruise on her leg from the incident. And of course my immediate reaction was this sick ****er tried to kill my mom at the beach. We didn't really talk about it after this point in time.
Don came into my mothers life in a flash. Think they got married after knowing each other for about 3 months time. Despite the protest of each of my siblings and I. Even the church pastor refused to marry them due to their history of divorce.
Could my mother have been involved? Recently when asking her for details she said he went missing near Staircase, but her memory isn't as good as mine. However that is the opposite side of Olympic National Forest.
Anyways I am probably forgetting something, and plan on calling the detective shortly. But don't have my phone handy presently.
I hope this can give others closure on the matter.
On the lighter side, I once crawled inside Dells hide-a-bed couch and was able to hide there with the pull out bed retracted. We may have scared my mom a few times by hiding in the strangest of places. And I distinctly remember using the bird seed he had and the garage door to his house to trap a couple birds. He was a fan of bird watching and had an awesome clock that chirped different bird noises at the top of each hour. The blue Jay I caught was smart enough to hide from me in the rafters. Maybe it was his coin collection that got me interested in the hobby myself? I really enjoyed the hammock he had at his house, and even got to shoot a crossbow for the first time there. But I think one of us broke it eventually
I never got to use it but this stud had an indoor floor level Jacuzzi tub, think it was always dry when I was there.
*Me riding Dell's lawnmower at his house in Onalaska*
