European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Agazine the puzzling disappearance of a 4.0 Sailor Byton Nauroth Start writer using the night of april 8, 1984, Petty officer 3.c. Robert Lane Lillefield led the United Seamans sen ice Center in Naples and walked out into tha night. He might As Well have stepped Oil the Earth he would have been 22 years old this year or perhaps he is no one is sure if he s dead or alive least of All naval investigative service special agent Paul Oral who has been tracking the Ittlefield Case. There s no telling what happened Gral said. There just Aren t any clues ,.and the Trail is gelling colder Ell the  no clues. But there Are ominous signs. The Seamans club is in the basemen of what once was the Royal Palace of the bourbons. The Only Bourbon there now comes out of Battles. Tull Enfield was drinking Hal night reports show his Mother Leah Hoffman of rogue River ore., says he does t drink much. He s a Good boy she says. The Navy says the same thing Graf compiled information that glows with High Quality reviews co workers family and the Navy give it Trefield. He s a 4.0 Sailor they say. Thai s Cream of the crop not the sort of Sailor who would jump ship and of a the Navy s equivalent of being absent without leave or awol this is what makes the Case so perplexing to Gral who has to file a report every 90 Days As Long As the Case is open. He says in a Fol remain open As per Navy regulations Unta Tutte fiend turns up or until his body is found. Gral does t like to talk about that second 1 Don t want to upset his Mother he said. Birth la doubtful about the outcome. Anduly efts Mother is upset. She thinks the Navy has gone about the Case Al wrong they re looking at this strictly Asen awol and Thal s the a Ronal Way to Kex at it she said we Are a very close family Andl know Bob would not just walk off like hat without a word to his family or his Fiancee. Ii seems like there s a lot of pass the Buck going on. They could be doing Riore than they be done up to  Ittlefield s Fiancee Tammi Brown also of rogue River agrees with Hoffman. She said Littlefield s Mother received a letter in March from the Navy declaring her son a deserter. Brown who works in the sheriff s office saw a teletype message instructing the sheriff to go to Littlefield s Home address and arrest him As a deserter. From what 1 understand the Navy was just going through its old files checking up on listed deserters she said the chief of police said it was ridiculous and Hie Navy eventually said it was a mistake. Thai whole thing really made me angry. It seems like they re just going through the motions in investigating Bob s disappearance like it s just another Guy going awol Brown said. But no one has seen or heard from him in two years. That does t seem Lite just another awol from what i  rap. Jim Weaver 0-ore.,  been acting As an information broker Between the Navy in Washington and Littlefield s family and Community in Oregon he asked the Navy about the letter and the teletype and he was told it was a mistake. The Navy apologized to Hoffman. There s a great Deal of Community interest in rogue River about Bob s disappearance a Weaver staff member said. A a a Small Community and Bob was Well known and Well  the staffer said Weaver s office is in touch with the Navy about once a month. Well the Navy has been very responsive he said. They be followed every Lead they be had. Someone thought they saw Bob in Spain and the Navy checked that out without Success. They also talked to the psychics that Bob s Mother went to see and followed up on information she gave them also without Success. Whenever we ask a direct question the Navy always answers. But the answer we usual in gel is thai they re following leads but the leads Are  some of those leads have taken the investigation to ominous places. Porno Park for example. It s where Utt Ftp do stat Mia Luis bag the Juanm Cha cwt few Tomt Fawn porno  Friday july 25, 1986 Robert Utt Efleta disappeared an april 8,1984. Seagoing men shop for drugs women and As Graf put it. Anything else you can  the Paik is ought across the Street from the Seamans club. He might have stumbled onto some drug transaction Graf said. You know Tho wrong place at the right time. Maybe they took him to the  the  it s about a seven Square mile Section of old Naples not Lar from the port. Its narrow cobbled streets run thick with garbage it s Blacker Nan the night is in the rest of the City one room apartments Loul Little cubicles open onto tha Street As if the Street were simply the main Hall of a seven Square mile tenement. Gral said the area is in constant criminal turmoil with two italian families struggling to gain control. I d say there s a killing every night up there he said. The via Roma a main shopping Street in Naples Marks the Boundary that parallels the Harbor Shore several blocks away. To walk those streets in Daylight is frightening. To walk them at night is to experience what Joseph Conrad wrote in his novel heart of darkness when he traced the Congo River through an Ever darkening and a triangulating Jungle the horror. The horror. The  the gut May be no Jungle but it is a picture of hell. The Navy s 6lh Fleet has put the gut permanently Oil limits for All sailors. Sim the Shore patrol does pull sailors out of there. Graf said. Some Are looking Lor dope others for adventure. And Many came out worse off than when they went in. Graf stressed thai he does not want to leave the impression that this is where Ittlefield went. He s stumped. There Are no leads but the location where he was last seen by a Friend just hours after calling his Mother to let her know he was coming Home disturbs the investigator. I m running out of things to report Graf said. The possibility that Lutle Field did stumble onto a drug Exchange intrigues Graf As a plausible Lead especially after Hoffman hired several psychics who fell vibes that claimed he was suffering from amnesia and May have been kidnapped. Graf said one psychic Dixie Lee Helerian of Bakersfield. Calif., has about a 50 percent Success rate in helping police departments locate missing persons. But the reasonable leads one of which placed Little eld bound and gagged in a warehouse either did not pan out or were Loo impractical to follow. One amnesiac turned up in Milan Italy claiming he was Ittlefield but he lacked the distinguishing Burn scars on his upper legs fell Arm and Torso As a result of a childhood Accident. One Lead look Graf to Spain on the Trail of a bar hostess and he is entertaining the possibility that Littlefield May be in another european country. Graf asks Hal anyone who has seen Littlefield or knows of his whereabouts Contact him at tha Naples naval investigative service Auto on 625-4502. Or to Contact local Law enforcement agencies sufi a attn Chut pm. Do 6lrt ind Rufen Luid of Abuwi id i Newt the stars and stripes Page 13