Steven Kirchhoff
Steven Dick Kirchhoff
Age at Report: 22
DOB: August 16, 1955
Weight: 140 lbs.
Height: 5′ 11″
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Incident Type: Involuntary disappearance
Missing From: Waterloo, IA
Black Hawk County
Date Reported Missing: February 5, 1978
Black Hawk County in Iowa
Steven Kirchhoff was last seen in his hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, on February 5, 1978, and reported missing to the Waterloo Police Department.
He is missing under unusual circumstances and is believed to have been taken against his will. Authorities think his disappearance may have been drug-related.
Kirchhoff was employed as a lineman for the Chicago Northwestern Railroad but had been laid off weeks before his disappearance. Nonetheless, Kirchhoff had just purchased a new house and appeared to be in good spirits.
Steven Kirchhoff in 1978
In 2003, authorities acting on a tip began searching a rural 12-acre farmstead between Fairbank and Denver, Iowa, for evidence related to Kirchhoff’s case. The farmstead was once owned by a Waterloo man, Lonson “Lonnie” Luloff, who faced life in prison for federal methamphetamine and weapons charges in 1994 but was released in 2000 after cutting a deal with prosecutors.
Luloff is described by investigators as one of the biggest drug suppliers in the area. Authorities are not calling him a suspect in Kirchhoff’s disappearance, however, and nothing was found in the search of his farm.
Another missing Iowa man, Richard Forsyth, may have been connected in some way to Kirchoff’s disappearance. He paid cash for a Cadillac a week after Kirchhoff vanished, and disappeared himself in 1979. He is still missing and has not been officially linked to Kirchhoff’s case. Both men’s cases remain unsolved.
Kirchhoff has several fillings in his teeth and possibly other dental work as well. Some accounts spell his last name “Kirchoff.”
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Waterloo Police Department at 319-291-4345.
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