The skeletal remains of a West Seattle man, missing for the past 11 months have been positively identified by a Texas lab as that of Richard D. Arneson according to a story published in the Chinook Observer. The newspaper/website serves the Columbia River, Pacific County area of Washington State.

The West Seattle Herald reported him missing after sending a cryptic text, "My luck has run out." A Facebook page was set up seeking more information.

The Observer story said that "Wahkiakum County Prosecutor and Coroner Dan Bigelow called his relatives late last week to deliver bittersweet news: A Texas forensic lab had used DNA to confirm that Arneson was the man discovered on the bank of the Columbia River near Altoona in May 2016."

"According to an online missing persons database and several Seattle media accounts, Arneson was last seen at a Bank of America ATM in the Westwood shopping center in West Seattle on Feb. 4, 2016. Arneson’s friends and family got worried after he failed to show up for his job in Kent on Feb. 5. That day, a friend went to check on him at his West Seattle apartment, and discovered that he was gone, and the door was open. There were no signs of foul play, but police did open a missing persons case. Later that day, the same friend received the troubling text message."