LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The mission to find 35-year-old Tyler Goodrich of Lincoln continues with few leads, so those coordinating search efforts are getting creative in the hopes of finding him.

With both the public and the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office searching for Tyler, Sgt. Casey Dahlke with the criminal investigations division said they’re now focusing on looking off the beaten path, and expanding their search radius.

“The public’s help, and getting hundreds of people to show up at search parties to be looking through some of these thick wooded areas has just been a huge help to us, because it kind of opens us up to be doing other things,” Dahlke said.

On Monday, Dahlke searched a tree farm located less than a quarter mile west of Tyler’s house near Southwest 11th and West Burnham. Dahlke said while Tyler is an adult and is allowed to leave his home, the main concern is how he seems to have gone off the grid.


“We take missing persons reports all the time, adults leaving, even shutting their phone off,” Dahlke said. “But what’s abnormal about this case is he hasn’t resurfaced, he shut his phone off, left his phone off, and essentially has never been seen or heard of, since the night of (Nov. 3) when he left his house. So that would lead one to believe that something happened to Tyler. We just don’t know what what that is.”

On Monday morning, LSO Chief Deputy Ben Houchin shared more information on the status of the search.

Houchin said it remains a missing person’s investigation with no indication of criminal activity. He added that Tyler’s husband, Marshall Vogel, is considered a witness, and not a person of interest, as the last person that saw Tyler.

“Marshall is worried, as you can imagine, and so we had several questions that some of them like ‘how much money would he have in his wallet’ and things of that nature that he could help answer on those things,” Houchin said. “And at no time did we become suspicious of anything he has said.”


LSO said they’ve also received video surveillance showing Tyler running from his home the night he went missing, and continue to ask anyone in and around the area to check cameras for any sign of Tyler.