Reward offered for info in old case

A man who went missing in April 2013 has still not been found, and a Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation leader is now offering $1,000 for information about his whereabouts.

Ken Blatt St. Marks, the suspended chair of the Rocky Boy tribal council, said he will give the money to anyone who comes forward with information about Robert Grant Alexander, also known as Robbie Alexander.

"I'm trying to find out where he's at," St. Marks said. "We searched all over and couldn't find him. ... Hopefully somebody will come forward and say where he's at."

St. Marks said Alexander knew the Bear Paw Mountains better than anyone, so it is unlikely the got lost there. There was a massive search in the Bear Paws when he first went missing.

"He was also using respiratory aids and could hardly walk from his house to his car," St. Marks said, so the theory that he parked the car and walked away is unlikely because he would not have gotten far, and the search parties would have found him.

"We think there was some foul play there," St. Marks said. He added he thinks someone took his car and took it to the Bear Paws to make it look like Alexander did it himself.

"They made it look like he parked it and walked away, but there's no way he could have done that," St. Marks said.

He said that he is accepting donations from people to supplement the $1,000 reward for information.

He added that he decided to offer the reward because, "it seemed like the investigation has kind of died out."

"Robbie was my cousin, so I kind of see it as my responsibility to get this thing going again," he said.

Alexander's vehicle was found in the Bear Paw Mountains after his wife requested that a welfare check be made on him April 29, 2013. His vehicle was found on Sandy Creek Road in the southern part of the reservation, but he was never located.

Alexander has brown hair and eyes, is 5 feet, nine inches tall, weighed 190 pounds at the time, wears corrective lenses and has a tattoo of a knife on his left forearm. He was born July 26, 1955.

"I think a lot of people care about what's going on there," St. Marks said. "I think a lot of people will chip in or if they have any clues, they'll come out with them."

If anybody has any information, St. Marks said, they can call him at his home at 395-4635.

Rocky Boy Tribal Police did not return calls this morning.