Missing Oregon Man Found Dead Near Starbuck

Updated June 16, 2015

STARBUCK – Authorities located the body of missing 88-year-old Oregon man Shirley Benjamin "Ben" Gano in a steep ravine not far from his vehicle just north of Starbuck off Fletcher Road on Monday.

Family members and law enforcement across the state had been searching southeastern Washington for Gano after he failed to return home to Rainier, Ore., from a trip to Colville at the end of May. During the next two weeks, Columbia County officials followed up on tips that Gano might be in the area.

"All we had to go on was that his cell phone registered on the cell tower in Sta...