A UAF student has been reported missing after visiting a bar Saturday.
Will Bergeson, 20, was last seen in the vicinity of the Midnight Mine between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Family members have posted fliers around campus asking for any information so they can locate him, but police say it might be too late.
"We're now treating it more as a recovery than a rescue," said Lt. Dusty Johnson of the Fairbanks Police Department. "Hopefully we'll be proven wrong."
Bergeson, who was been enrolled at UAF since 2004 and is listed as a maintence technology major, was last heard from at 2:46 a.m., when his girlfriend, Robin Mullican, made a call to him, Johnson said. He may have also received a call at 2:53 a.m., though police aren't sure yet, he said.
"It's like he's dropped off the face of the earth," Johnson said.
His vehicle is parked at a friend's house, the same place it was when he was last heard from. Johnson said he has detectives working on the case and dogs out looking for clues, but no word yet. They've also put in a request for phone records, he said.
Marvin Bergeson, Will's father, said he last saw his son at around 5 p.m. on Friday when he went to the movies with some friends.
Before that, Bergeson had dropped Mullican off at the gym around 4 p.m., she said.
Bergeson and his friends started at the Midnight Mine and then went to Kodiak Jack's, Mullican said. He had a fake ID, she said. They then returned to the Mine, but when his friends got in the cars, he didn't, she said.
Mullican, who had been dating Bergeson for 11 months on Saturday, arrived at Midnight Mine after he had left. She then received a cell phone call from Bergeson.
"He said, hey baby, where are you?" she said.
When she told him, he said, "I'll be right there."
He never showed.
"We were thinking he was with some friends and had wondered off, but then his friends said they hadn't seen him," Marvin Bergeson said.
Johnson said police are questioning his friends.
"We have talked to them, but we haven't gotten all the information," he said.
Mullican said it just doesn't make sense for Bergeson to not show up.
"If he calls me at the end of the night, then that means he wants to be with me," she said.
Bergeson's family reported him missing Sunday, Johnson said. Now, though, time may be running out.
"Unfortunately, it's been 50-plus hours since he's gone missing," Johnson said, noting that temperatures are dropping.
Bergeson was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt, faded jeans, a grey fleece North Face jacket, New Balance tennis shoes, and a blue winter hat. He's 6'2" and weighs 200 pounds. He has short trimmed brown hair, blue eyes, and a slight beard.
Police are requesting anyone with information call Detective Chris Nolan at the Fairbanks Police Department at 450-6551.
