Ok this is a long shot but I think some of the details do match up except for his height. This young man is 5'10 - 130 lbs. Blue eyes, wavy brown hair.
Here is information on Chad Leo Eirikson from Missing People of Canada Facebook Page:
The Missing Children Society of Canada and family is making a last-ditch effort to locate a Canadian man who vanished shortly after passing through Costa Rica in the year 2000.
The man is Chad Leo Eirikson, then 21, who has not been heard
from since Jan. 12, 2000.
The Missing Children Society of Canada reports that it has created posters in Spanish and is distributing them to hostels, hospitals and tourist companies through Costa Rica, Panamá and French Guiana. The society also has set up a toll-free international number, 0800-015-0402, and a translator is available if non-English speakers call in Canada please call RCMP Innisfail Detachment (403-227-3341) or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS)
Chad Leo Eirikson is described as being 5 feet, 10 inches tall with weight about 130 pounds. He has blue eyes and wavy brown hair that may have been dyed another color.
The society also accepts information at this e-mail address:
tips@mcsc.ca.
Eirikson last had indirect contact with his family in Paso Canoas on the Panamá side of the Costa Rican-Panamá border. He picked up a $150 Western Union moneygram there, said the society.
The man had been traveling in Costa Rica and had plans to go to French Guiana Jan. 6, 2000, the society said, adding that the man called his mother and said that he was in Nicaragua and had run out of money. She wired $500, and a man believed to be Eirikson picked it up.
Jan. 10 2001 Chad called home three more times and said he had spent all the money getting out of Nicaragua and that he needed money sent to the Panamá border, said the society.
After he vanished, his parents reported him missing to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta. The society said that the Canadian Embassy in Panamá investigated and determined that the man had crossed the Costa Rican border into Panamá Jan. 9, 2000, and did pick up the money from his mother that Jan. 12.
The non-profit Missing Children Society of Canada has been on the case since 2001 and is making an effort now because the trail seems cold, said a statement.
The statement can be found here:
http://www.amcostarica.com/060105.htm
Also note the photos: This is from FB
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.p...37260093.27875.161197137319063&type=1&theater
and this is from the article and Missing Children Society of Canada
http://www.mcsc.ca/mc_cases/chad-leo-eirikson
Thoughts?