On 4/23/2024 at about 9:30 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a residence on Shale Lane in Kneeland for a report of a robbery that had just occurred.
Scott Paul Hayes was last seen by a roommate on January 8, 1996. Hayes, who was 19 at the time, told his roommate he was leaving Humboldt County and traveling to Southern California to visit his girlfriend. Hayes reportedly loaded all of his personal property into his maroon Chevrolet Sonoma pickup truck and left.