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Denver Library Worker Missing
on Trip to Europe

Paul Michals, who has worked at the Denver Public Library for over two decades, disappeared July 25 on the island of Crete and has not been heard from since. Neither Greek authorities nor U.S. officials can explain what happened to him.

Michals had taken a leave of absence from his job as switchboard operator/receptionist to travel to France, Greece, and Australia, the Denver Rocky Mountain News reported August 27. On July 25 he traveled with a tour group into a gorge in central Crete. After a hike, he told companions he was going for a walk, but a friend who stopped by his room later found him missing, although his passport, computer, and clothes were still there.

Michals had been to Greece several times before as an amateur archeologist on a dig in Ithaca. G. Richard O’Connor, who worked on the same dig, said he did not believe Michals would have disappeared on his own. “I can’t believe that he wouldn’t have communicated with his mother,” he told reporters. “I’m not particularly optimistic about the outcome.”

Posted September 4, 2000.

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