Nash Quinn: The Laramie Record
An artist and teacher, a last contact and an uncertain departure.
Abstract
NamUs MP137066 lists July 8, 2024 as Nash Quinn’s Date of Last Contact in Laramie, Wyoming, under police case 24-14606. He was thirty-nine.1
An Artist and Colleague
The University of Wyoming’s July 23, 2024 notice identifies Quinn as a visiting professor in its Department of Visual Arts and an avid cyclist.2
Jen Kocher’s April 2025 report describes him as a metalsmith and teacher. Colleague Doug Russell remembered his focus and dry humour. These are recollections of a colleague, rather than observations of a ride that day.3
Contact and Departure
NamUs’s circumstances place a bicycle departure on July 8. The entry does not show the underlying departure observation.1
The university notice says Quinn had not been seen or heard from since July 8. It names Pilot Hill and Happy Jack as places he frequently rode, rather than documenting where he went that day.2
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you identify a documented departure before treating a last-contact date as a confirmed ride start?1
Can you separate a familiar riding area from a place Quinn is documented to have visited on the relevant day?2
Can you distinguish a published account of text contact from a witnessed departure, retaining any uncertainty between them?3
Can you preserve a search appeal’s source and date without turning its listed areas into a verified route?4
Keep the contact, source and unanswered question in a Research File in Almost Solved. A mapped possibility should remain a possibility until documentation supports it.
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Later Search and Contact Accounts
Kocher’s report attributes a July 8 text response around 5:30 p.m. to Russell and gives a possible departure window of July 8–21. The messages were not inspected. Its discussion of searches and a possible Sheep Mountain trip does not establish Quinn’s final location.3
Doug Randall’s April 9, 2025 KGAB report relays a police appeal asking people to watch for Quinn and his bicycle. Its listed cycling areas are search context, rather than documented stages of a route.4
Original message records, location data and the complete investigative file were not inspected. No particular accident, personal motive or present outcome is established here.
Scope and Method
Original messages, location data and the complete investigative file were not inspected.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP137066; reviewed November 3, 2026.
- University of Wyoming, missing-professor notice, July 23, 2024.
- Jen Kocher, Cowboy State Daily, interview report, April 26, 2025.
- Doug Randall, KGAB, police-appeal report, April 9, 2025.